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Past Questions — 2025

Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

On foreign service/deputation beyond the _________ limit admissible under the orders of the Government issued from time to time.

A) maximum
B) minimum
C) optimum
Option A is correct: maximum.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

Government servant shall have the option, to be exercised within _________ from the date of promotion or appointment.

A) 1 month
B) 2 months
C) 3 months
Option A is correct: 1 month.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

Sanctions or orders shall come into _________ from the date of issue unless any other date from which they shall come into force is specified therein.

A) effect
B) contract
C) force
Option C is correct: force.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

The savings as well as provisions that cannot be profitably utilised shall be _________ to Government immediately

A) appropriated
B) credited
C) surrendered.
Option C is correct: surrendered..
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

Re-appropriation means transfer of funds from one primary unit of appropriation to:

A) Government account
B) Public account
C) Another.
Option C is correct: Another..
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

When appointment to the new post is made on his own request under sub-rule (a) of Rule 15 of the said rules, and the maximum pay in the timescale of that post is lower than his pay in respect of the old post held regularly, he shall draw that maximum as his _________.

A) salary
B) initial pay
C) emolument
Option B is correct: initial pay.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

All drawing and disbursing officers shall maintain separate _________ in Form GFR 5, physically or electronically for allocation under each minor or sub-head of account with which they are concerned.

A) cashbook
B) account
C) register
Option C is correct: register.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

All powers to incur expenditure out of public funds (Consolidated Fund of India) vest with the:

A) Concern Minister
B) Government in the Ministry of Finance
C) Reserve Bank of India
Option B is correct: Government in the Ministry of Finance.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

DFP Rules provide that the powers cannot be delegated to a:

A) Retired Officer
B) Non-Gazetted Officer
C) Junior Officer
Option B is correct: Non-Gazetted Officer.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

The financial powers not specifically delegated to any authority vest in the:

A) Government
B) Finance Ministry
C) Finance Minister
Option B is correct: Finance Ministry.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

All leave except extraordinary leave taken otherwise than on medical certificate and the period of deputation out of India shall count for _________.

A) duty
B) promotion
C) increment.
Option C is correct: increment..
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

No expenditure shall be incurred during a financial year on a “_________” not contemplated in the Annual Budget for the year except after obtaining a supplementary grant or appropriation or an advance from the Contingency Fund during that year.

A) New Service
B) allocation
C) appropriation.
Option A is correct: New Service.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

It is the duty of the Department of the Central Government concerned to ensure that the receipts and dues of the Government are correctly and promptly ____________.

A) entered
B) registered
C) assessed.
Option C is correct: assessed..
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

“Re-appropriation” means the _________of funds from one primary unit of appropriation to another such unit;

A) allocation
B) diversion
C) transfer
Option C is correct: transfer.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

The date from which a person recruited overseas shall commence to draw pay on first appointment shall be determined by the general or special orders of the authority by whom he is _________.

A) appointed
B) recruited
C) recommended
Option B is correct: recruited.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

If a Government servant is reduced as a measure of _________ to a lower stage in his time-scale, the authority ordering such reduction shall state the period for which it shall be effective.

A) reduction;
B) penalty
C) preventive.
Option B is correct: penalty.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

The holder of a post, the pay of which is changed, shall be treated as if he were transferred, to a new post on the_________.

A) Permanent Basis
B) Temporary Basis
C) New Pay
Option B is correct: Temporary Basis.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

“_________” means an authority legally entitled or specially empowered by Government to administer a local fund.

A) Autonomous Body
B) Local Body
C) Statutory Body
Option B is correct: Local Body.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

The expenditure which is incurred at periodical intervals is a:

A) Contingent expenditure
B) Recurring expenditure
C) Office expenditure
Option B is correct: Recurring expenditure.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

All expenditure other than expenditure falling under the category of pay and allowances of Government servants, leave salary pensions, Contingencies, grants-in-aid, contributions, works, tools and plant and the like are called:

A) Miscellaneous expenditure
B) Contingent expenditure
C) Recurring expenditure.
Option A is correct: Miscellaneous expenditure.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

All proposals for sanction to _________, shall indicate whether such expenditure can be met by valid appropriation or re- appropriation.

A) expenditure
B) claim
C) budget.
Option A is correct: expenditure.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

Unless specially authorized by any rule or order made by competent authority, no sums shall be _________ as revenue by debit to a suspense head.

A) deducted
B) adjusted
C) credited.
Option C is correct: credited..
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

An increment shall ordinarily be drawn as a matter of course unless it is_________.

A) withdrawn
B) barred
C) withheld
Option C is correct: withheld.
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

A Government servant may be required to subscribe to a provident fund, a family pension fund or other similar fund in accordance with such rules as the _________ may by order prescribe

A) government
B) department
C) president.
Option C is correct: president..
Departmental (other) • 2025 • Paper-II

The Central Government may _________ the pay of an officiating Government servant at an amount less than that admissible under these rules.

A) fix
B) credit
C) decide
Option A is correct: fix.
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