1. With respect to Forest Rights Act, consider the following statements:

1. The Act grants legal recognition to the rights of traditional forest dwelling communities, partially correcting the injustice caused by the forest laws.
2. Farmers have to minor forest produce including ownership, to grazing areas, to pastoralist routes, etc.
3. Eligibility to get rights under the Act is claimant must be a member of the Scheduled Tribes scheduled in that area or must have been residing in the forest for 100 years.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are not correct?

2. Which of the following are the committees related to de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes?

1. Criminal Tribes Inquiry Committee, 1947.
2. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar Committee.
3. Butler Committee.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

3. In the context to the Minimum Support Price or the Minor Forest Produce, consider the following statements:

1. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs will be the nodal Ministry for implementation and monitoring of the scheme.
2. The scheme supports primary value addition as well as provides for supply chain infrastructure like cold storage, warehouses etc.
3. It ensures that the tribal population gets a remunerative price for the produce they collect from the forest and provide alternative employment avenues to them.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

4. With respect to the de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, consider the following statements:

1. They are communities that were ‘notified’ as being ‘born criminals’ during the British regime under a series of laws starting with the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871.
2. The Renke commission estimated their population at around 10.74 crore based on Census 2001.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

5. Consider the following statements: 

1. Measles is a highly contagious bacterial infection.
2. Measles can lead to serious adverse outcomes such as blindness, pneumonia and encephalitis.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

6. In context to  Genetically Modified (GM) mustard Dhara Mustard Hybrid (DMH-11), consider the following statements:

1. They are derived from plants whose genes are artificially modified.
2. The only GM crop to be approved for commercial use in India is BT cotton.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

7. Which of the following statements is/are correct? 

1. The Supreme Court has a sanctioned strength of 34 judges, including the Chief Justice of India (CJI).
2. There have been no women CJI till date.
3. There is no procedure laid down for the appointment of the CJI in the Constitution.

8. With respect to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), which of the following statements is/are correct? 

1. It is a centrally-sponsored scheme and is part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM).
2. The focus of the scheme is on rural poor youth between the ages of 9 and 18.
3. The scheme is under the Ministry of Rural Development.

9. Consider the following statements regarding ‘Purse seine fishing’ in India:

1. This technique has been widely deployed on India’s western coasts.
2. It is banned in territorial waters of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry up to 24 nautical miles.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

10. In context to the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), consider the following statements:

1. Common Services Centres (CSCs) is an initiative to promote the National e-governance plan.
2. Unified Farmer Service Platform (UFSP) platform helps in seamless interoperability of various public and private IT systems in the agriculture domain under the NeGP.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?