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The Correct answer is 2014.

Key Points

• Remember Bhopal Museum honors the survivors and victims of the 1984 gas tragedy.
• Opened on December 2, 2014 (the disaster’s 30th anniversary), it is the first Indian museum curated by survivors and activists to document an ongoing social-justice movement.
• Housed in a rented building 2.5 km from the former Union Carbide plant, its exhibits—personal artifacts, oral histories, photographs, protest songs, and posters—are donated directly by those affected, ensuring the narrative remains their own.
• Survivors oppose any government-led memorial at the factory site, accusing authorities of years of complicity.
• To preserve its independence and the community’s voice, the museum declines state or corporate funds, relying instead on small individual donations and support from environmental and activist groups.

The Correct answer is A, B, C, and D.

Key Points

• National Museum of Natural History (NMNH):
  • Founded during India’s 25th Independence anniversary, NMNH raises awareness of the nation’s natural heritage through themed galleries, hands-on zones like the Discovery and Activity Rooms, and extensive outreach programs.
  • Covering geology, botany, and zoology, it serves as a hub for environmental education and public engagement.
• Regional Museums:
  • To broaden its reach in environmental education, NMNH established Regional Museums of Natural History in phases under the Seventh Five-Year Plan:
    • Southern Region: Mysore (Karnataka), 1995
    • Central Region: Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), 1997
    • Eastern Region: Bhubaneswar (Odisha), 2004
    • Western Region: Sawai Madhopur (Rajasthan), 2008 (coming online soon)
    • North-Eastern Region: Planned for Gangtok (Sikkim)
  • ​​Each branch adapts NMNH’s exhibitions and outreach programs to regional flora, fauna, and geological themes, ensuring nationwide conservation awareness and education.

The Correct answer is A, B, and D.

Key Points

• Regional Science Centre, Bhopal:
  • Inaugurated on January 12, 1995, by President Shankar Dayal Sharma, the Centre is one of 26 units under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), an autonomous body within India’s Ministry of Culture.
  • Its mission is to ignite public interest in science and technology, especially among students, through interactive exhibits, workshops, and research.
• Key Objectives
  • Showcase scientific and technological advances in industry and society to foster curiosity and a scientific mindset.
  • Extend science outreach into urban and rural areas, supplementing formal education and encouraging innovation.
  • Preserve historic scientific artifacts and conduct research that bridges traditional practices with modern techniques.
  • Design and develop hands-on exhibits and demonstration aids.
  • Support other institutions—universities, schools, museums—in planning science centers and training museum professionals.

The Correct answer is A, B and C.

Key Points

• Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum, designed by Revathi Kamath and opened by President Pranab Mukherjee on June 6, 2013, sits near Bhopal’s Museum of Man.
• It celebrates the living traditions, crafts, and beliefs of local tribes—Gond, Bhil, Bharia, Sahariya, Korku, Kol, and Baiga—across six themed galleries:
  • Jeevan Shaili: Life-sized mud, bamboo, and thatch houses, complete with tools and pottery, illustrating how tribes built homes from natural materials.
  • Sanskritik Vaividhya: Displays of weddings, festivals, and other rites.
  • Kalabodh: Tribal art and graphic expression.
  • Devlok: Shrines and deity-dedicated structures reflecting earth-and-nature worship.
  • Chhattisgarh Dirgha: Tribal art traditions of Chhattisgarh.
  • Rakku Dirgha: Traditional children’s games and pastimes.

The Correct answer is 1979.

Key Points

• The IGRMS in Bhopal—India’s largest ethnographic museum—spans 200 acres on Shyamla Hills beside the Upper Lake.
• Established in 1979 (land granted after a 1970 Indian Science Congress proposal), it chronicles humanity’s journey through time and space via:
  • Open-Air Exhibits: Tribal Habitat, Coastal Village, Desert Village, Himalayan Village, Rock Art Heritage, Mythological Trail, River Valley Culture, Aiyyanar Shrine Complex, Traditional Technology Park.
  • Indoor Galleries: Veethi-Sankul and Bhopal Gallery.
  • Rotating Shows: Temporary, travelling, special, and online exhibitions.
  • Regional Centre: Serves South India from Mysore, Karnataka.
• Beyond ethnography, IGRMS pursues scientific research—ethno‐sciences, traditional architecture, rural and urban planning, germplasm preservation, resource‐sharing patterns, and ecological conservation—integrating traditional knowledge with contemporary challenges.

The correct answer is Reference:

Key Points

•  Norms of UGC:
  • The University Grants Commission (India), appointed in 1957 a committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan to advise the UGC about the development of university and college libraries and their organization.
  • Reference Section: One person for every 50 readers (other than the users of the textbook collection) in a day.
  • Book Section: One person for every 6000 volumes added in a year.
  • Periodical Publications Section: One person for every 500 current periodicals taken.
  • Documentation Section: One person for every 1000 entries prepared in a year.
  • Technical Section: One person for every 2000 volumes added in a year.
  • Maintenance Section: One person for every 6000 volumes added in a year, one person for every 500 volumes to be replaced daily, and one person for every 1,00,000 volumes in the library.
  • Administrative Section: Minimum of one library accountant, one steno-typist, and one correspondence clerk.
  • Circulation Section: 'One person for every 1500 hours for which one library gate has to be kept open in a year.
  • Supervisory Section: One Librarian and one Assistant or Deputy Librarian.
  • Unskilled Staff: One Cleaner for every 30,000 volumes in the library, one Attendant each for every 6,000 volumes added in a year, for every 500 current periodicals taken, and for each of the shifts in the Circulation Section, besides unskilled and semi-skilled workers normal to any institution

Additional Information

• Norms of AICTE
  • AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) is a statutory body established to properly plan and coordinate the development of technical education systems throughout the country.
  • The AICTE recommends the following as norms for the library of a technical institution which has an initial stock of 4000 volumes of books and 36 journals (18 national, and 18 international (desirable):
    a) Librarian - 1
    b)  Assistant Librarian- 1
    c)  Assistants - 4

The correct answer is Touchscreen.

Key Points

• The touchscreen is not an output device.
• The mobile touchscreens generally contain 2 modules. One is touch and the other is the screen which displays the content on the mobile. So Touch is basically embedded with the sensors and the screen of the device. So in this manner touchscreen combined is an input and output device both.
• Plotter, printer, and monitor are output devices but a touch screen is not an output device.
•  An output device is any piece of computer hardware equipment that converts information into human-readable form. 
•  It can be text, graphics, tactile, audio, and video.
• Some of the output devices are Visual Display Units i.e. a Monitor, Printer graphic Output devices, Plotters, Speakers.
• An output device is any hardware device used to send data from a computer to another device or user. 

Additional Information

• An input device is a piece of equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system such as a computer or information appliance.
  • Examples of input devices include keyboards, mouse, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones. 
• Language and memory, Data and instructions, Text and graphics, Storage and commandsFeedbackCorrect.
• These are the two categories of input.
• Data can be unprocessed text or numbers, images, etc.

The correct answer is Phishing.

Key Points 

• Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
• The first recorded use of the term "phishing" was in the cracking toolkit AOHell created by Koceilah Rekouche in 1995.
• Types of phishing:
  • Email phishing
  • Spear pishing
  • Whaling and CEO Fraud
  • Clone phishing
  • Voice phishing
  • SMS phishing
  • Calendar phishing
  • Page hijacking.

The correct answer is Mahar.

Key Points

• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, politician, and social reformer.
• He is considered the father of the Indian constitution.
• He was born on 14^th April 1891 at Mhow in the Central Provinces (now in Madhya Pradesh).
• He is popularly known as the 'Modern Manu'.
• He participated in all three round table conferences held in London.
• He served as the first law minister of the government of India from 1947 to 1951.
• He was appointed as the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution.
• He was posthumously honored with the Bharat Ratna in 1990.
• Chaitya Bhoomi in Mumbai is the cremation place of B. R. Ambedkar.​

Additional Information

• Notable works:
  • Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development.
  • The Untouchables.
  • The Annihilation of Caste.
  • The Buddha and his Dhamma.
• Image of Dr B.R. Ambedkar:-

The correct answer is Recording once done is irreversible:

Key Points

• In computer media, write once, read many, or WORM, is a data storage technology that allows data to be written to a storage medium a single time and prevents the data from being erased or modified.
• Storage media that support WORM storage are purposely non-rewritable to prevent anyone from intentionally or accidentally erasing or modifying the data after it is initially stored.
• WORM media was developed in the late 1970s using optical disks. Over the years, these disks have varied from 5.25 to 14 inches in diameter.
• The CD-R, DVD-R, and BD-R optical discs for computers are common WORM devices.

Additional Information

• Optical media refers to any data storage device or equipment that uses optical data storage and retrieval techniques to read and write data.
• The first recorded historical use of an optical disc was in 1884 when Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter recorded sound on a glass disc using a beam of light.
• There are three main types of optical media: CD, DVD, and Blu-ray.

The correct answer is Ustad Bismillah Khan

Key Points 

• Ustad Bismillah Khan was born on 21 March 1916 in Dumraon village, Bihar.
• He settled in Varanasi with his father Prophet Bakhsh Khan at a very young age.
• Bismillah Khan was awarded the "Bharat Ratna" in 2001 by the Government of India.
• Ustad Bismillah Khan played the clarinet from the Red Fort when the country became independent in 1947.
• He died on 21 August 2006 at the age of 90.

Additional Information

•  Pandit Ravi Shankar, mentioned in option 1, was a sitar player and composer who also received Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his contribution to Indian classical music.
• Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, mentioned in option 2, is a santoor player who received Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan awards for his contribution to Indian classical music.
•  Ustad Zakir Hussain, mentioned in option 3, is a tabla player who received Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan awards for his contribution to Indian classical music.

The correct answer is Developing Library Network.

Key Points 

• DELNET
  • ​DELNET (Delhi Library Network) was established in 1988 with the initial support of NISSAT.
  • It was also supported by NIC and at the start of it, 30 Libraries in Delhi were added to this network.
  • Later on, Its Name is changed to Developing Library Network.
  • It is the Oldest and Largest Library Network in India.
  • Presently in India, there are 250 libraries and in the world, 8 libraries are its member.
  • It was registered as a society in 1992.

The Correct Answer is "Dr. S.R. Ranganthan"

• Dr. S.R. Rangathan is known as father of Indian Library System. Dr. S.R. Ranganathan was initially a mathematician who in his later stage of career turned into a Librarian and turned over the whole Indian Library System. 
• Initially, he was Reluctant to join as Librarian, but after he accepted his position, he reached epitome in this profession.

The correct answer is "Providing access to published works for visually impaired persons".

Key Points

• Marrakesh Treaty 2013-
  • The Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, and entered into force on September 30, 2016.
  • It was administered by "World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)" providing access to published works for visually impaired persons.
  • The treaty allows for copyright exceptions to facilitate the creation of accessible versions of books and other copyrighted works for visually impaired persons.
  • India was the first country to ratify the treaty on June 24, 2014.
  • It sets a norm for countries ratifying the treaty to have a domestic copyright exception and allow for the import and export of such materials.

• The objective of the Marrakesh VIP Treaty - 
  • The primary goal of the Marrakesh Treaty is to create a set of mandatory limitations and exceptions for the benefit of the blind, visually impaired, and otherwise print-disabled (VIPs).
  • It Permits “Authorized entities” and “Beneficiaries” themselves to make accessible copies without the owner's permission or license.
  • It makes provision to permit cross-border sharing of these accessible format works.

The correct answer is 2009

Key Points

• The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed the Arunachal Pradesh Public Libraries Act (Act No. 6 of 2009) which received the assent of the Governor on 31 August 2009 and came into existence.
• Some Salient Features of the act are:
  • There shall be a ‘Library Planning Committee’ with the Minister in charge as Chairman.
  • Make compulsory enrolment of every student in the public libraries on reaching standard eight.
  • Creation of the Department of Public Libraries with a full-time Director.
  • No provision for cess.

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