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Devaluation of a currency means

In India rural incomes are generally lower than the urban incomes, which of the following reasons account for this
            1. a large number of farmers are illiterate and know little about scientific agriculture
            2. prices of primary products are lower than those of manufactured products
            3. Investments in agriculture has been low when compared to investment in industry

Which of the following programmes aims at the promotion of savings among rural women

What is Net National Product

National income is the 

Chelliah Committee of 1992 deals with the overhauling of our

During which Five Year Plan was the annual growth rate of National Income the lowest

Which of the following taxes is a progressive tax

Which of the following estimates the National Income in India

India changed over to the decimal system, coinage in

11^th Five Year Plan aim at achieving 10% rural tele density in India from the present 1.9% by the year

Which one of the following statements Monitorable Socio Economic Target of the 11^th Five Year Plan under the head Environment is not correct

Who is the ex-officio chairman of Planning commission and National Development Council

Persons below the poverty line in Indian are classified as such based on wheather

Which of the following Committee’s recommendations are being followed for estimating proverty line in India

In which year India adopeted liberal and free market principles

Consider the following statements
1. There is persistent investment over time only in select locals
2. some areas are agro climatically less conductive to development
3. some areas continue to face little or no agrarian transformation and the consequent lack of social and
4. some areas have faced continous political instability
            Which of the above statements are correct

When was first human development report of India issued

How many censuses have been carried out since independence

For which year the latest census is being conducted in India

Which of the following are the features of 12^th Five Year Plan -
        1. Average growth target has been set up 8.2%
        2. Areas of main thrust are infrastructure, health  and education
        3. it seeks to achieve 4% agriculture sector growth during five year period

The period of 12^th Five Year Plan 

A closed economy is an economy in which

What was the real name of Amir Khusro?

Who is considered the founder of the Sufi movement in India?

Education has given consciousness.

The name of the sitar magician is known all over the world for his music.

When was the Constituent Assembly of India formed?

Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution?

The idea of the Constituent Assembly was first put forward by:

The Cabinet Mission Plan for India was proposed in:

The Constitution of India was adopted on:

Who is known as the "Missile Man of India"?

Which organization is responsible for India's space exploration programs?

In which year did India successfully launch its first satellite, Aryabhata?

What is the name of India's first indigenously developed satellite launched by ISRO?

What is the name of India's first nuclear reactor?

On what date did India celebrate the 9th anniversary of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) implementation?

Which global event is India participating in with Sweden as a partner?

Who became India's 97th Chess Grandmaster in late June 2026?

What major merger was approved by the boards of PFC and REC Limited on June 30, 2026?

Which initiative was launched at the Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Sammelan 2026 for rural women SHGs?

What significant political change occurred in South Korea on July 1, 2026?

What was the rainfall deficit in India for June 2026, described as the driest in over a century?

Where was the GCC Conclave on Innovation 2026 held?

Which health initiative's operational guidelines were unveiled by the Union Health Ministry around July 1, 2026?

What reform was implemented in GST 2.0 (effective from September 2025)?

Which of the following is the unit of kinematic viscosity _________________?

Consider the following processes:
1. Extension of a spring
2. Plastic deformation of a material
3. Magnetization of a material exhibiting hysteresis
Which of the above process are irreversible?

Which of the following statements are correct for a throttling process?
1. It is an adiabatic steady flow process
2. The enthalpy before and after throttling is same
3. In the processes, due to fall in pressure, the fluid velocity at outlet is always more than inlet velocity

A Reversed Carnot Engine removes 50 kW from a heat sink. The temperature of the heat sink is 250 K and the temperature of the heat reservoir is 300 K. The power required of the engine is

A heat engine receives heat at the rate of 2500 kJ/min and gives an output of 12.4 kW. Its thermal efficiency is, nearly

One reversible heat engine operates between 1000 K and T₂ K and another reversible heat engine operates between T₂K and 400 K. If both the engines have the same heat input and output, then the temperature T₂ must be equal to

Consider the following statements for isothermal process:
1. Change in internal energy is zero
2. Heat transfer is zero
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

A system of 100 kg mass undergoes a process in which its specific entropy increases from 0.3 kJ/kg K to 0.4 kJ/kg K. At the same time, the entropy of the surroundings decreases from 80 kJ/K to 75 kJ/K. The process is:

Which one of the following statements is correct during adiabatic charging of an ideal gas into an empty cylinder from a supply main?

Consider the following systems :
1. An electric heater
2. A gas turbine
3. A reciprocating compressor
The steady flow energy equation can be applied to which of the above systems?

Consider the following conditions for the reversibility of a cycle:
1. The P and T of the working substance must not differ appreciably, from those of the surroundings at any state in the process.
2. All the processes, taking place in the cycle, must be extremely slow.
3. The working parts of the engine must be friction-free.
Which of the following conditions are correct?

A Carnot engine operates between 300 K and 600 K. If the entropy change during heat addition is 1 kJ/K, the work produced by the engine is:

1000 kJ/s of heat is transferred from a constant temperature heat reservoir maintained at 1000 K to a system at a constant temperature of 500 K. The temperature of the surroundings is 300 K. The net loss of available energy as a result of this heat transfer is:

The effects of heat transfer from a high temperature body to a low temperature body are:
1. The energy is conserved
2. The entropy is not conserved
3. The availability is not conserved
Which of the above statements are correct?

Which of the following statements pertaining to entropy are correct?
1. The entropy of a system reaches its minimum value when it is in a state of equilibrium with its surroundings
2. Entropy is conserved in all reversible processes
3. Entropy of a substance is least in solid phase
4. Entropy of a solid solution is not zero at absolute zero temperature

Consider the following motions :
1. Piston reciprocating inside an engine cylinder
2. Motion of a shaft between foot-step bearings
Which of the above can rightly be considered as successfully constrained motion?

A rotor weighing 2 kN is supported on bearings A and B which are 1 m apart. The centre of mass of the rotor is at a distance 0.4 m from bearing A. It is observed that there is an unbalanced couple of magnitude 300 N-m which leaves the shaft balanced statically.The dynamic reactions at the supports will be

A cam is a mechanical member used to impart a desired motion to a follower by direct contact. Which one of the under-listed follower motion types will produce the least jerk to the system?

In a circular are cam with a roller follower, acceleration of the follower depends on
1. cam speed and location of centre of circular arc
2. roller diameter and radius of circular arc
Which of the above is/are correct?

A manufacturing company is selling a product for 15 per unit with variable cost of  10 per unit. The fixed cost of the asset is 50,000. How many units should be produced to breakeven?

Hot wire anemometer is used to measure_______________?

A gear of 28 cm pitch circle diameter has 40 teeth. The circular pitch will nearly be

Consider the following statements regarding gear tooth designing for gear drive :
1. Tooth profiles not designed as per ‘law of gearing’ will cause vibration and impact problems even at low speed.
2. As the gears go through their mesh, the pitch point must remain stationary on the line of centres.
3. In a correctly designed tooth profile, the line of action of successive instantaneous points of contact will pass through the stationary pitch point.
Which of the above statements are correct?

The flywheel of a steam engine has a radius of gyration of 1 m and mass 2000 kg. The starting torque of the engine is 2000 N-m. The kinetic energy of the flywheel after 10 seconds from start is

Consider two shafts connected with two gears as per the following options :
1. One on each shaft.
2. Through an intermediate gear mounted on an intermediate shaft, and every shaft having one gear only.
3. Through an intermediate gear mounted on an intermediate shaft having two gears, whereas the other shafts have one gear each
Which of the above represent(s) a simple gear train?

A riveting machine is driven by a constant-torque 3 kW motor. The moving parts including the flywheel are equivalent to 150 kg at 0.6 m radius. One riveting operation takes 1 second and absorbs 10000 N-m of energy. The speed of the flywheel is 300 r.p.m. before riveting. What is the speed (to nearest 10 r.p.m.) after riveting and what is the number of rivets that can be closed per minute?

Which one of the following statements is correct?

The thickness of the continuous weld used for connecting a horizontal square bar of 150 mm size and of cantilevered length 500 mm to a vertical plate, with the bar carrying a 25 kN vertical load at its outer tip, given that the permissible direct shear stress of the weld is 20 N/mm², is

A shaft of 50 mm diameter transmits a torque of 800 N-m. The width of the rectangular key used is 10 mm. The allowable shear stress of the material of the key being 40 MPa, the required length of the key would be

A governor is said to be hunting if the speed of the engine

A spherical waterdrop of 1 mm in diameter splits up in air into 64 smaller drops of equal size. The surface tension coefficient of water in air is 0.073 N/m. The work required in splitting up the drop is

Consider the following statements pertaining to stability of floating bodies:
1. A floating body will be stable when the centre of gravity is above the centre of buoyancy.
2. The position of metacentres corresponding to different axes of rotation are generally different for the same floating object.
3. For cargo ships, the metacentric height varies with loading.
Which of the above statements are correct?

Water is coming out from a tap and falls vertically downwards. At the tap opening, the stream diameter is 20 mm with uniform velocity of 2 m/s. Assuming steady inviscid flow, constant pressure atmosphere everywhere, and neglecting curvature and surface tension effects, the diameter of the stream 0.5 m below the tap opening is nearly

Consider the following statements:
1. At low Reynolds numbers of any flow, viscous forces dominate over inertial forces.
2. Transition from laminar to turbulent flow occurs over a range of Reynolds numbers depending on the surface presented to the flow.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

In a steady laminar flow of a given discharge through a circular pipe of diameter D, the head loss is proportional to

The centre-line velocity in a pipe flow is 2m/s. What is the average flow velocity in the pipe if the Reynolds number of the flow is 800?

During a constant pressure expansion of a gas, 33.3% heat is converted into work while the temperature rises by 20 K. The specific heat of the gas at constant pressure as a proportion of work, W is

A system of 100 kg mass undergoes a process in which its specific entropy increases from 0.3 kJ/kg K to 0.4 kJ/kg K. At the same time, the entropy of the surroundings decreases from 80 kJ/kg K to 75 kJ/kg K. The process is

A reversible heat engine rejects 80% of the heat supplied during a cycle of operation. If the engine is reversed and operates as a refrigerator, then its coefficient of performance shall be

For the same efficiency of the Brayton cycle and the Carnot cycle working between temperature limits of T_max and T_min, the power contribution of the Brayton cycle will be

A fin will be more effective when Bio number is

A tank of length, breadth and height in the ratio of 2:1:2 is full of water. The ratio of hydrostatic force at the bottom to that at any larger vertical surface is

Which of the following fluids exhibit a certain shear stress at zero shear strain rate followed by a straight line relationship between shear stress and shear strain rate?

What is the specific gravity of a marble stone, which weighs 400N in air, and 200N in water? (g=10m/s²)

What is the intensity of pressure in the following SI units, when specific gravity of mercury is 13.6 and the intensity of pressure is 400KPa ?

Consider the following statements:
1.If a small upward displacement is given to a floating body, it results in the reduction of the buoyant force acting on the body
2.A slight horizontal displacement does not change either the magnitude or the location of the buoyant force 
Which of the above statements is/are correct? 

State whether following flow field is physically possible? 

In a differential manometer, a head of 0.5 m of fluid A in limb 1 is found to balance a head of 0.3 m of fluid B in limb 2. The atmospheric pressure is 760 mm of mercury. The ratio of specific gravities of A to B is

On which of the following just in time manufacturing philosophy emphasizes ?

If a submerged body displaced from its equilibrium position, returns to its original position, it is called __________.

In a flow measurement, a venturi meter is preferred over an orifice plate because _____.

Pitot tube measures ______.

Which of the following is not a property of an ideal fluid ?

Nozzle used in steam turbines convert ________.

Which of the following assumptions is the most relevant in air-standard cycle analysis ?

The modern Francis turbine is a ___________flow turbine .

Variation of stress with strain rate for a Newtonian fluid is ______ .

Which of the following is NOT a part of refrigeration systems ?

Which of the following is NOT an intensive property ?

Which of the following does NOT represent a unit of viscosity ?

__________ in the fuel is oxidised during knocking .

_________ is defined as the ability of a material to resist deformation under action of an external load .

Draught is produced in locomotive boilers by which of the following components ?

For a steady flow, the value of all fluid properties at any fixed point _________ .

For a floating body, if the metacentre is below the centre of gravity, then the body is said to be __________ equilibrium .

________ is useful for measuring flow of a conducting fluid .

A two- stroke engine consists of ________ port (s)

Air Cooling is mostly preferred for _________ .

_______ valves are provided in reciprocating compressors .

Benson boiler have ______ water drum (s)

_________ is used for pumping water into a boilers .

The function of a carburetor in internal combustion engines is :

The device which transfers energy from the ______ to _____ the is known as hydraulic turbine .

The flash chamber in the single stage VCR cycle serves to ________ .

Define thermodynamics .

Which of the following statements is correct about a Benson boiler ?

Within a refrigeration system, the expansion valve is incorporated between the ________ .

The reversed ______ cycle employed for passenger aircraft systems . 

Fusible plug in a steam boiler is placed ______ .

Aqua ammonia solution used in a vapour absorption refrigeration system is a solution of ammonia in ________ .

Coated electrodes are used in ______ .

Where is air cycle refrigeration commonly used ?

________, is not a water tube boiler .

Stoke is another unit of -

For a refrigerating machine, capacity is expressed as ______ .

The value of quality or dryness fraction of a substance in saturated liquid-vapor mixture is ________ .

Uniform flow is the type of flow where in velocity at any given time ________- with respect to space .

______ falls under the category of a water tube boiler .

Chaplets are used in ________ .

Which of the following is NOT a unit of pressure ?

What was the first refrigerant used in continuous refrigeration system ?

For a 2 m deep swimming pool, pressure difference between the top and the bottom of the pool is ________ kPa .

Pressure measurement is done by ____. by measuring heat loss from a heated wire .

In the Rankine cycle, the fluid which enters the boiler is :

Percentage elongating measured during tensile testing indicates _____ .

For a given centrifugal pump, discharge varies _______ with speed .

Foaming is a phenomenon that occurs in the boiler feed water due to _____ .

Compounding of a steam turbine is done to ______ .

Any change in entropy could be achieved by changing______ .