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Income tax was introduced for the first time in India by Sir James Wilson in 1860 to meet the losses for the Government because of the sepoy mutiny of 1857.

Indian tax system adheres to Canon of Certainty Government of India announce in advance the tax system so that every tax payer is able to calculate how much tax they have to pay.

Taxes is levied in three ways 

1. Progressive taxation 

2. Proportionate taxation 

3. Regressive taxation

Taxes are of two types

1. Direct taxes 

2. Indirect taxes

Direct taxes are levied on the income of the persons and the indirect taxes are levied on goods and services.

1. SIT – Special Investigation Team on black money under Chairman and (Vice – Chairman of two former judges of the Supreme Court.) 

2. The black money (undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of,tax Act – 2015. 

3. MAG – Constitution of Multi Agency Group.

4. DTAAS – Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. 

5. FATCA – Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. 

6. Money Laundering Act.

 7. Enactment of the Benami Transaction Amendment Act. 

8. Launching of Operation clean money. 

9. Lokpal and Lokayukta Act. 

10. The Real Estate Regulation and Development Act of 2016

We pay tax to the Government because the country have to carryout many functions like building infrastructure like transportation, sanitation, public , safety, education, healthcare, military, public works etc.,

1. Kishore is involved in four different production activities. 

2. With his buffalo and wooden cart he transports various items. 

3. Once in a week, he goes to Ganges to bring clay for the potter to prepare pots. 

4. Sometimes he goes to Jahangirabad with a load of jaggery or other commodities. 

5. Every month he gets some work in transport.

1. Kishore has definitely benefited from the better roads in Rampur. 

2. Because of them he is able to transport various items and people. 

3. He is able to earn more than what he used to do some years back.

Wrong pair: 

JDY – Literacy

(iv) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Yes, there is a thick line of rural-urban economic divide in India because of around 65% population lives in a rural area but do not have proper road access for vehicles, lack of health facilities, lack of employment opportunities, lack of technology, a rural economy based on subsistence strategies, the population is spread thinly, due to slow economic growth people migrating from rural to the urban area, etc.

In an urban economy around 35% population lives with good road access, many health facilities, employment opportunities, advanced technology, the thick density of population, high economic growth rate, etc.

Wrong pair: 

Average Calories – 4500 Calories

1. Poverty Line

2. The vicious circle of poverty

3. Urban poverty

4. Prof Amartya Sen

5. ‘Garibi Hatao’

6. Rural Poverty

7. Urban Poverty

8. Inflation

A small circle drawn above the floral diagram represents the mother axis. Position of all the floral parts are drawn in relation to mother axis.

(c) The potential falls back towards the resting potentia

Wrong pair: 

Urban Poor – Industrialization

The medulla oblongata, pons varolii and mid brain are collectively called the brain stem.

(i) The membrane is in resting potential (−80mV). 

(ii) There is more Na⁺ ions on outside of axon membrane of ECF then inside of axon membrane. 

(iii) K⁺ ions move out and the membrane is positively charged outside and negatively charged inside. 

(iv) When stimulus is applied, the axon membrane becomes negatively charged outside and positively charged inside. 

(v) Depolarized points becomes repolarized and Na⁺ ions move to outside while K⁺ ions inside. 

(vi) The process involves expelling out Na⁺ ions and drawing in K⁺ ions concentration.

"Pia meter" is the innermost membrane in meningitis.

Wrong pair: 

Cause of Poverty – Equal Distribution of Income

Wrong pair: 

Rural Poverty – More in the U.S.A

Girdles are the bones that connect limbs to the axial skeleton.

Parietal bones form the roof of cranium.

The average body contain 5 L of blood.

Also, the number of red blood cells per cubic millimetre of blood is approximately 5.5 million.

Blood contained by body = 5 L = 5 x 100000 mm³

Red blood cells = 5 x 100000 mm³

Blood = 5.5 x 1000000 x 5 x 100000

= 55 x 5 x 10^{5 + 5}

= 275 x 10¹⁰ 

= 2.75 x 10¹⁰ x 10² 

= 2.75 x 10¹²

Germany – Austria – Hungary  Vs  Britain – France – Russia.

1. Aggressive nationalism 

2. Imperialism 

3. Secret alliances and militarism.

The First World War was truly a world war as virtually no country was left untouched by it from Japan and China in the East to the US in the West.

The Axis powers were led by Germany and the Allies led by Britain, the US and the USSR.

The First World War ended in the defeat of Germany and its allies and in the victory of Britain and France in 1918.

By the end of the 19th century, different nations of Europe entered into alliances with each other against other blocks. 

Two main blocks emerged – the Centre and the Entente or Allies.

Correct option is A) Japan

The second fact about the world during this period is the division of the world into nation-states and grouping of these nations of the world into power blocks and the degeneration of these alliances into war camps.

The Second World War ended in the defeat of Germany and its allies but before it ended it had ravaged all the warring countries.

The U.S. attacked on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Most of the farmers practice aquaculture and grow flowers, vegetables, millets, tobacco and fruits.

Farmers grow paddy, sugarcane and cotton crops in black soils.

The following are the components of soil. 

1) Water , 

2) air , 

3) organic matter, 

4) inorganic matter, 

5) living organisms.

1. The sequence of horizontal and various components, layers of soil at a place is called soil profile. 

2. Each layer has a distinct colour, texture, depth and chemical composition. These layers are called horizons.

1. The science dealing with the influence of soil on organisms, especially on plants is called Edophology. 

2. The factors that contribute to soil composition are called edaphic factors.

(b) all cultivated varieties and wild relatives of a particular crop

Correct answer is (d) Black rot of crucifer

Imports: 

1. Goods and services are bought from overseas producers. 

2. Local currency is involved. 

3. Improves the internal economy. 

4. Main imports are Machineries, Newsprint and Fertilisers

Exports: 

1. Goods and services arc sold to other countries. 

2. Earns foreign exchange (Foreign currency). 

3. Improves the standard of living of the people.

4. Main exports are agricultural products and leather goods.

Personal Communication: 

1. Communication is only between two persons. 

2. Telephone, letter and e-mail are some form of personal communication. 

3. Personal messages and informations are shared.

Mass Communication: 

1. Communication is shared with large number of people. 

2. Mass medias like radio, television and news papers are the medium of communication, 

3. Awareness, entertainment, news and weather report are shared.

Harbour: 

1. An extensive stretch of deep water near the sea shore where vessels can anchor securely. 

2. It may be natural or artificial. 

3. Vishakapattinam (Natural harbour) Chennai (artificial harbour).

Port: 

1. The commercial part of a harbour with the facility of loading and unloading of goods and space for storage of goods. 

2. It is man made feature. 

3. Chennai, Ennore and Tuticorin are the major ports of Tamil Nadu.

Tobacco mosaic disease

The commercial port of a harbour with the facility of loading and unloading of goods and space for the storage of cargo.

Different methods of plant breeding are introduction, selection, hybridization, mutation breeding, polyploidy breeding, tissue culture, r-DNA technology and SCP (Single cell protein).

Human Geography refers to the study of ways of development of human societies and their operation in relation to their physical environment.

Ganga-3 (maize), CO-12 (Jowar), Niphad (Bajra)

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