UGC NET Paper1 Previous Year Solved Papers - 25th June 2019 Evening Shift
46. Generally, who is the visitor of central universities of India?
- Option : C
- Explanation : As per Central Universities Act, 2009, The President of India is the Visitor of the University. The Visitor have the right to cause an inspection to be made by such person or persons, as he may direct, of the University, its buildings, libraries, laboratories and equipment, and of any College or Institution maintained by the University; and also of the examinations, teaching and other work conducted or done by the University and to cause an inquiry to be made in like manner in respect of any matter connected with the administration or finances of the University, Colleges or Institutions.
- Option : B
- Explanation : To make the country a cashless economy, the Gov!. has launched a mobile payment app named BHIM (Bharat Interface for Mobile). This application will be common across all banks and financial institutions.
- Option : C
- Explanation : India wants to increase its installed renewable energy capacity from 78 GW to 175 GW by March 2022. Of that 175 GW, 100 GW is supposed to be solar power. Moreover, India wants to nearly double the share of renewable power in its total installed capacity to 40% by 2030.
- Option : C
- Explanation : The Paris Agreement is a landmark environmental accord that was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015 to address climate change and its negative impacts. The deal aims to substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, while pursuing means to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. The agreement includes commitments from all major emitting countries to cut their climate- altering pollution and to strengthen those commitments over time.
50. The long term effect of cutting down of trees in large areas of rain forests is
- Option : D
- Explanation : The rain forests are mainly found near the equatorial region. They are very dense forests and also known as 'Lungs of the World.' By cutting this area rapidly, we can face several long term effects which includes habitat destruction of biodiversity, losing out valuable potential herbs, forest produce and food etc, increase rate of soil erosion in those areas, increase the emission of Greenhouse gases, effect the climate change and enhance the possibility of natural calamities.
