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Q641.

The Central Govt. has decided to scale up the financial assistance for grid connected rooftop and small solar power plants programme from Rs 600 crore to  Rs.---------- crore for implementation of Grid Connected Rooftops systems over a period of five years upto 2019-20 under National Solar Mission (NSM) which aim is to increase the use of clean energy .

1)	Rs 1,000 crore	2)	Rs 2,000 crore
3)	Rs 5,000 crore	4)	Rs 10,000 crore
5)	None of these

Q642.

The Central Government has approved an Amended Technology Up-gradation Fund Scheme (A-TUFS) replacing the existing Revised Restructured TUFS for technology up-gradation of the textiles industry. It expected to attract investment to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore and create over how many jobs in India ?

1)	20 lakh jobs	2)	30 lakh jobs
3)	40 lakh jobs	4)	50 lakh jobs
5)	None of these

Q643.

Which committee viewed the public-private partnership (PPP) model for infrastructure and has recommended several measures for easy financing of issuance of zero coupon bonds by banks to developers, equity divestment by the government from completed projects and removing bars on demonetization of viable projects after the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work is finished ?

1)	Kelkar committee	2)	Rangarajan Committee
3)	Naresh Chandra Committee	4)	Narasimham Committee
5)	None of these

Q644.

Which state government has observed December 29 as the Vishwamanava Day on the memory of the legendary poet Kuvempu 's birthday ?

1)	Kerala	2)	Karnataka
3)	Tamil Nadu	4)	Maharashtra
5)	Andhra Pradesh

Q645.

The Union Government has set up Rs 40,000 crore National Investment and Infrastructure fund (NIIF) and the chief executive of the NIIF will be finalised by January end ,2016. Who is present is the Chairman of the Council ?

1)	Financial Services Secretary, Anjuly Chib Duggal	2)	SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya
3)	Finance Minister Arun Jaitley	4)	Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das
5)	None of these

Q646.

The Central government has appointed  whom as disinvestment secretary replacing Neeraj Kumar Gupta will be the chairperson of the National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention ?

1)	Amitabh Kant	2)	Aradhana Johri
3)	Rashmi Verma	4)	Sanjay Mitra
5)	None of these

Q647.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has named the Indo-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis as the 2015 ITF women's doubles World Champions. Who were named the women's and men's singles World Champions, respectively ?

1)	Maria Sarapova and Novak Djokovic	2)	Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic
3)	Lee Na and Rafel Nadal	4)	Serena Williams and Roger Federer
5)	None of these

Q648.

Recently, which is looking to take the proposal of  FTA with the India government to increase current bilateral trade with India from $1.5 billion to $2 billion ?

1)	Peru	2)	Vietnam
3)	Malaysia	4)	China
5)	None of these

Q649.

Renowned science-fiction writer George Clayton Johnson passed away at the age of 86. He was best known for dystopian novel Logan’s Run, which adapted into a 1976 film starring Michael York and was nominated for two Oscars. He belongs to  ------ .

1)	Canada	2)	UK
3)	Germany	4)	USA
5)	None o these

Q650.

The new Parliament complex which was built by India, recently inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi providing financial and technical assistance from India and has cost approximately Rs. 710 crore. What is name of that country ?

1)	Nepal	2)	Maldives
3)	Afghanistan	4)	Bhutan
5)	None of these