UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Decline in pen exports
Q1. The massive sales campaign launched in 1973-74 to diversify the overseas markets for Indian pens was operationalised by which one of the following?
- A. An export trading house
- B. A statutory commodity board
- C. A producers' cooperative federation
- D. A state small-industries corporation
Q2. In which period did India's pen industry first enter world export markets with filler-tube fountain pens and ink-containing pens?
- A. Late 1940s
- B. Late 1950s
- C. Mid-1960s
- D. Early 1970s
Q3. India's early success in exporting filler-tube fountain pens and ink-containing pens to West Asia and Africa rested on the established manufacturing competence of which one of the following?
- A. Domestic Indian pen manufacturers
- B. Foreign licensed collaborators operating in India
- C. Public-sector defence production units
- D. Overseas assembly units of importing countries
Q4. The collapse of the Polish repeat order — the event most often cited in this export-promotion lesson — occurred in which financial year?
- A. 1972-73
- B. 1973-74
- C. 1974-75
- D. 1975-76