UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah to launch cooperation-based taxi service “Bharat Taxi” in Gujarat

Q1. Bharat Taxi, operated by the Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited (STCL), was promoted by how many national-level cooperative institutions?

  • A. 5
  • B. 6
  • C. 8
  • D. 11

Q2. Part IXB, containing provisions on the governance of cooperative societies, was inserted into the Constitution of India by which one of the following amendments?

  • A. 73rd Amendment Act, 1992
  • B. 74th Amendment Act, 1992
  • C. 97th Amendment Act, 2011
  • D. 100th Amendment Act, 2015

Q3. Under Part IXB of the Constitution, the maximum number of directors on the board of a cooperative society shall not exceed how many?

  • A. 11
  • B. 15
  • C. 21
  • D. 25

Q4. Which one of the following is a statutory corporation, established in 1963 under an Act of Parliament and now functioning under the Ministry of Cooperation, that provides finance and promotes cooperative-based economic development?

  • A. NABARD
  • B. NCDC
  • C. NCUI
  • D. NAFED

Q5. In the context of India's cooperative movement, the term 'Anand Pattern' refers to which one of the following?

  • A. A three-tier cooperative structure linking village-level societies, district unions and a state-level marketing federation
  • B. A single-tier model in which every dairy farmer deals exclusively and directly with a state government procurement board
  • C. A profit-sharing formula that distributes the entire surplus only among the office-bearers of the apex federation
  • D. A scheme under which only multi-state cooperatives, and no primary societies, may market milk

Q6. Consider the following statements about cooperative institutions associated with Gujarat: 1. GCMMF (Amul) is a Gujarat-based dairy cooperative marketing federation. 2. The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is headquartered at Anand, Gujarat. 3. Amul originated as the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union. 4. IFFCO, a fertiliser cooperative, has its registered office at Anand, Gujarat. Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. GCMMF (Amul) is a Gujarat-based dairy cooperative marketing federation.
  2. The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is headquartered at Anand, Gujarat.
  3. Amul originated as the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union.
  4. IFFCO, a fertiliser cooperative, has its registered office at Anand, Gujarat.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 1, 2 and 3 only
  • C. 2, 3 and 4 only
  • D. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q7. The National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), the apex body of the cooperative movement engaged in cooperative education, is registered under which one of the following statutes?

  • A. Societies Registration Act, 1860
  • B. Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002
  • C. Companies Act, 2013
  • D. Co-operative Societies Act, 1912

Q8. App-based taxi aggregators such as Ola and Uber are regulated through the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines, which were issued under the provisions of which one of the following statutes?

  • A. Competition Act, 2002
  • B. Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
  • C. Information Technology Act, 2000
  • D. Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002

Q9. Under the 'Sahkar se Samriddhi' vision, the centrally sponsored project for computerisation of PACS primarily entails which one of the following?

  • A. Bringing all functional PACS onto an ERP-based common national software linked to NABARD through State and District Central Cooperative Banks
  • B. Distributing free smartphones to every member of a Primary Agricultural Credit Society
  • C. Merging all PACS into nationalised commercial banks within five years
  • D. Converting every PACS into a multi-state cooperative society registered with the Centre

Q10. Consider the following pairs of cooperative institutions and their descriptions: 1. VAMNICOM, Pune — apex cooperative management/training institute functioning under the National Council for Cooperative Training. 2. NCDC — statutory corporation established in 1963 working under the Ministry of Cooperation. 3. NCUI — apex body for cooperative education registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002. 4. NABARD — the cooperative training institute named after Vaikunth Mehta and located at Pune. Which of the pairs given above is/are NOT correctly matched?

  1. VAMNICOM, Pune — apex cooperative management/training institute functioning under the National Council for Cooperative Training.
  2. NCDC — statutory corporation established in 1963 working under the Ministry of Cooperation.
  3. NCUI — apex body for cooperative education registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002.
  4. NABARD — the cooperative training institute named after Vaikunth Mehta and located at Pune.
  • A. 1 and 2
  • B. 3 only
  • C. 4 only
  • D. 2 and 4