Past Questions
Discuss the development and importance of rail transport in India.
Critically evaluate Lewis Theory of Economic development with unlimited supply of labour.
Highlight the merits and demerits of Multinational Companies in India’s economic growth and development.
Why there is need to manage the resistance to the changes that occur in organisations? What strategy would you suggest to implement the change successfully in organisations.
What is Human Resource Planning? Review its benefits and limitations. Discuss the steps involved in the manpower planning of an industry.
What is ‘Management by Objectives (MBO)’? What are its main features? Describe the guidelines to be followed in order to make MBO more effective in an organisation.
Critically review the government scheme of workers’ participation in management and suggest the prerequisites to make them effective?
“Job evaluation is the ranking of job and not the job holder.” Comment. What makes a Job evaluation programme successful?
Highlight the incomes relating to business, which do not come under the heading ‘Profits and Gains from Business and Profession’. Also list out the incomes (as per section 10) that are to be exempted while computing ‘Income from House Property’.
The ordinates of a 4-hour unit hydrograph for a particular basin are given below. Determine the ordinates of the S-curve hydrograph and the ordinates of 6-hr unit hydrograph. (Time in hrs: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24; 4-hr UHO in cumec: 0, 25, 100, 160, 190, 170, 110, 70, 30, 20, 6, 1.5, 0)
A rectangular sedimentation basin is to handle 10 million litres/ day of raw water. A detention basin of width to length ratio of 1/3 is proposed to trap all particles larger than 0.04 mm in size. Assuming a relative density of 2.65 for the particles and 20C as the average temperature, compute the basin dimensions. If the depth of tank is 3.5 m. Calculate the detention time.
In a truss girder of a bridge, a diagonal consists of a 16 mm thick flat carries a pull of 750 kN and is connected to a gusset plate by double cover butt joint. The thickness of each cover plate is 8 mm. Determine the number of rivets necessary and the width of the flat required. What is the efficiency of the joint? Sketch the joint. Given: Working stress in shear in rivet = 100 N/mm2, Working stress in bearing in rivet = 300 N/mm2, Working stress in tension in plate = 0.6 x 260 MPa.
Discuss the types of problems in pipeline designs. A liquid of specific gravity 0.88 and absolute viscosity 6.533x10-4 N.s./m2 flows through a pipe of diameter 0.15m at the rate of 60 lit/s. If the loss of head in 100m length of pipe is 4.56m, determine whether the pipe is rough or smooth.
A prismatic beam of I section ABC is simply supported at A and B, where AB = 20 m and BC = 1 m, C is free end. A uniformly distributed load of 10 kN/m is acting on the beam. The cross section I beam particulars are: Flanges width = 150 mm, Thickness = 10 mm, Web thickness = 10 mm, Overall depth of beam = 300 mm. Determine the maximum value and the location of principal stress occurring anywhere in the beam.
The pressure difference in pipe of diameter D and length L due to turbulent flow depends upon the velocity V, viscosity µ, density ρ, and roughness k. Using Buckingham’s pi theorem obtain an expression for pressure difference.
Identify the reagents in the following reactions and show the mechanism: (a) reaction involving Br, (b) O2N-CHO to O2N-CH2-OH, (c) reaction involving CO2CH3, (e) reaction involving HO-CH2OH.
What is chromosomal aberration? Describe various types of chromosomal structural variations in plant cell.
Give an account on Geological Time Scale. Discuss the dominant Jurassic flora.
Define ethnobotany. Elaborate on the importance of ethnobotany in Indian context with suitable examples.
What is anomalous secondary growth? With the help of suitable diagram discuss the anomalous secondary growth in a dicotyledonous plant.
What do you mean by natural and phylogenetic system of plant classification? Give the outline of Bentham and Hooker’s plant classification. Mention its merit and demerits.
What is Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM)? What are the different types of PEM? What are the determinants of PEM? How PEM affecting our under five children?
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)? What are the five steps of IPM? Deliberate the IPM in rice?
Describe different types of mutations? Discuss the role of mutation in crop improvement with suitable examples.
Define the term transgenic? What are the different products of transgenic? What are the pros & cons of transgenic crops? How transgenic crop is going to impact the Indian agriculture?