UPSC Prelims Paper-2017 -Tough Game
UPSC aspirants found the paper of 2017 prelims tougher.
NDA Government Initiatives and its effect on UPSC Paper
There were questions on Benami transactions, Goods and Services Tax (GST), and schemes run by the central government were asked in the UPSC exam and its first stage ie preliminary examination.
There were also questions in UPSC Prelims paper, related to ‘Vidyanjali Yojana’ , ‘Smart India Hackathon’ and National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF), all of which are the NDA government’s initiatives.
Lakhs of aspirants appeared in the preliminary examination held across the country. “What is/are the most likely advantages of implementing Goods and Services Tax?” reads a question.
The option for students to choose the correct answers included “it will enormously increase the row and size of economy of India and will enable it to overtake China in the near future”.
The second option was “It will drastically reduce the Current Account Deficit (CAD) of India and will enable it to increase its foreign exchange reserve”.
The third option given in the first paper of the test was “It will replace multiple taxes collected by multiple authorities and will thus create a single market in India”.
The candidates were also asked questions with reference to Benami Property Transaction Act, 1988.
With a view to providing effective regime to check the benami transactions, the 1988 Act was last year changed through the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amended Act, 2016.
The amended law of Benami transactions give powers to the specified authorities to attach benami properties provisionally, which can eventually be confiscated. It has penal provisions for the defaulters.
There were questions on the NSQF, a competency-based framework that organises all qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude to ultimately help an individual to get a job or start his own work, asked in the exam.
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