sst exam

Belgium borders

Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg

Flemish region

59% live and speak Dutch

Wallonia region

40% live and speak French

Language demographics in Brussels

80% speak French, 20% speak Dutch

Sinhala speakers in Sri Lanka

74%

Tamil speakers in Sri Lanka

18%

Sri Lankan Tamils

13%

Indian Tamils

87%

Sri Lanka became independent

1948

Act passed to recognise Sinhala as the only official language

1956

Sri Lankan civil war ended

2009

No. of times Belgian constitution was amended between 1970 and 1993

4

No. of countries with federal system of government

25

Federal countries

India, Pakistan, Russia, United States, Canada, Australia

Unitary countries

China, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Myanmar

Coming together federations

United States, Australia, Switzerland

Holding together federations

India, Spain, Belgium

Union List

defence, foreign affairs, banking, communications, currency

State List

police, trade, commerce, agriculture, irrigation

Concurrent List

education, forest, trade unions, marriage, adoption, succession

Residuary subjects

union government has power over them

Percent of Indians with Hindi as mother tongue

44%

Scheduled Languages in Indian Constitution

21 (apart from Hindi)

Major languages in India

121

SRC

States Reorganisation Commission

SRC Report

November 1, 1956

Constitutional amendment to make third tier more powerful

1992

Group of gram panchayats

panchayat samiti or mandal or block

Group of panchayat samitis

Zilla parishad

Head of municipal corporation

Mayor

Literacy rate among women

54%

Literacy rate among men

76%

Equal Remuneration Act

1976

Child sex ratio in India

919

Percentage of elected women in Lok Sabha

12%

Percentage of elected women in state assemblies

5%

Elected women representatives in local governments

10 lakh

Region with highest percentage of women in national parliaments

Nordic Countries

Region with lowest percentage of women in national parliaments

India

World average percentage of women in national parliaments

24%

Sachar Committee

PM’s High Level Committee

Percentage of SCs

16.6%

Percentage of STs

8.6%

Percentage of OBCs

41%

Percentage of Hindus

79.8%

Percentage of Muslims

14.2%

Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit

June 1992

UNCED

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

Club of Rome advocated for resource conservation

1968

Small is Beautiful

by Schumacher in 1974, included Gandhian philosophy

Brundtland Commission Report

1987

Percent of land in India that is plain

43%

Percent of land in India that is mountains

30%

Percent of land in India that is plateau

27%

Total geographical area of India

3.28 million sq km

Percent of land area for which land use data is available

93%

Percentage of net sown area in India

54%

NSA

Net Sown Area

NSA in Punjab and Haryana

80%

NSA in south-eastern states

10%

National Forest Policy

1952

Percent of culturable waste land

4.0%

Percent of fallow other than current fallow land

23.3%

Percent of current fallow land

4.9%

Percent of basic needs obtained from land

95%

Types of soil in India

alluvial, black, red and yellow, laterite, arid, forest (six types)

Old alluvial soil

Bangar

New alluvial soil

Khadar

Regur soil

Black soil

Black cotton soil

Black soil

Red and Yellow soil

crystalline igneous rocks

Hydrated red soil

appears yellow

Laterite

derived from latin word ‘later’ meaning brick

Acidic soil

laterite