General Awareness Questions

P J Nayak

The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announced the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas, on 25th September 2014. DDU-GKY is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.

DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families. Over 180 million or 69% of the country’s youth population between the ages of 18 and 34 years, live in its rural areas. Of these, the bottom of the pyramid youth from poor families with no or marginal employment number about 55 million.

Warren Edward Buffett(USA), chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is the world's richest investor, estimated to be worth $53.5 billion as of march 2013.

August 29, 1995 was for the first time declared National Sports Day, it being the 90th birthday of hockey wizard Dhyan Chand

China has been by far the biggest coal producing country over the last three decades. The country produced about 3.6 billion tonnes (Bt) of coal in 2012 accounting for over 47% of the world's total coal output.

CFS Scheme means Concessional Financing Scheme. 

Under the CFS, the Govt. of India has been supporting Indian Entities bidding for strategically important infrastructure projects abroad since 2015-16.

The Union Cabinet has recently approved Extension of Concessional Financing Scheme (CFS) to support Indian Entities bidding for strategically important infrastructure projects abroad.

India's first Indian Institute of Skills will get in 3 locations viz. Mumbai, Kanpur and Ahmedabad in the country. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has approved the proposal to set up Indian Institute of Skills (IISs) on Not-for-profit Public Private Partnership (N-PPP) basis.

The reason behind these institutes is to promote further growth of the Indian Skills sector overall, new measures have been initiated by the Government of India to establish state of the art training institutions called Indian Institutes of Skill (IISs).