JANUARY 2020 CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 17

JANUARY 2020 CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 17

1.  Vikram Sarabhai Children Innovation Center (VSCIC) is to be set up in which of the following Indian State ?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) West Bengal
4) Gujarat
Answer:-4) Gujarat
2. Name the scheme, under which nearly eight crore farmer families have benefited by receiving Rs.6000 per year .
1) Prime Minister Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)
2) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM Kisan) scheme
3) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)
4) Prime Minister Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojna (PMJJBY)
Answer:-2) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM Kisan) scheme
3.  Which Indian state, has launched the 2nd phase of vaccination drive under Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0 ?
1) West Bengal (WB)
2) Gujarat
3) Uttar Pradesh (UP)
4) Assam
Answer:-3) Uttar Pradesh (UP)
4.  Name the organization that has released the 1st Advance estimates of the national income at both constant(2011-12) and current prices for FY(Financial Year) 2019-20 .
1) National Statistical Office (NSO)
2) Statistical Office of India (SOI)
3) Economic and Statistical Organisation (ESO)
4) International Statistical Office (ISO)
Answer:-1) National Statistical Office (NSO)
5.  What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India for the year 2019-20 as per the National Statistical Office (NSO) ?
1) 6.2%
2) 6%
3) 5.5%
4) 5%
Answer:-4) 5%
6.  Which organization has revised India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projection to 4.6% for FY 20 ?
1) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
2) State Bank of India (SBI)
3) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
4) World Bank (WB)
Answer:-2) State Bank of India (SBI)
7.  Who chaired the Group of Ministers (GoM), that has approved the Expressions of Interest (EOI) and Share Purchase Agreement for privatization of Air India ?
1) Piyush Goyal
2) Nirmala Sitharaman
3) Amit Shah
4) Narendra Modi
Answer:-3) Amit Shah
8. Name the Indian, who was ranked 12th in the Forbes India’s prestigious list of ‘20 people to watch in the 2020s’.
1) Kanhaiya Kumar
2) Aditya Mittal
3) Prashant Kishor
4) Dushyant Chautala
Answer:-1) Kanhaiya Kumar
9.  Who won the Presidential election of Croatia on January 6, 2020 ?
1) Miroslav Škoro
2) Andrej Plenković
3) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
4) Zoran Milanovic
Answer:-4) Zoran Milanovic
10.  Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon was re-elected as the Prime Minister (PM) of which country on January 8, 2020 ?
1) United Kingdom (UK)
2) Spain
3) Italy
4) France
Answer:-2) Spain