Daily Banking Awareness Quiz | 1, 2 and 3 September 2022

As per NSO, unemployment rate in urban areas for persons of age 15 years and above declined from 12.6% during April-June 2021 to ______ during April-June 2022.

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding inflation and CPI-IW?

1. Retail inflation for industrial workers eased marginally from 6.16% in June 2022 to 5.78% in July 2022.

2. Food inflation also eased marginally from 6.73% in June 2022 to 5.96% in July 2022.  

3. All-India Consumer Price Index- Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) for July 2022 stood at 129.9.

Select correct answer using the following codes.

Which of the following core sectors recorded output contraction in July 2022?

Central government’s fiscal deficit reached ______ of the annual target in April-July 2022.

Consider following statements about direct tax collection.

1. Direct tax collection in the April-August period reached ₹5.80 lakh crore.

2. This is about 33% growth over the ₹3.60 lakh crore collected during the corresponding period in the last fiscal.

3. The budget target for direct taxes this year is ₹14.20 lakh crore.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

What is the name of agricultural economist who recently passed away and wrote a thesis titled "The agrarian constraint to economic development: the case of India"?

Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for August declined marginally from __________ in July to 56.2.

India’s services exports have grown by 20.2% year-on-year to ________ in July 2022 as per RBI data.