TGPSC Group III flashcards

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Article 32

The Right to Constitutional Remedies allows a citizen to move the Supreme Court directly for enforcement of Fundamental Rights. Dr. Ambedkar called it the heart and soul of the Constitution.

Repo rate

The interest rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends short-term funds to commercial banks against government securities. Raising it generally reduces liquidity and helps control inflation.

Fiscal deficit

The gap between total government expenditure and total receipts excluding borrowings. It is expressed as a percentage of GDP and indicates the extent of government borrowing needs.

Biodiversity hotspots in India

Four regions of high endemism and habitat loss: the Western Ghats, the Eastern Himalayas, Indo-Burma, and Sundaland covering the Nicobar Islands. They are global conservation priorities.

NDMA

The National Disaster Management Authority, constituted under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, is chaired by the Prime Minister and lays down policies and guidelines for disaster management in India.

Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014

Parliamentary legislation that created Telangana as the 29th state with effect from 2 June 2014. It also provided for Hyderabad as common capital for a transitional period.

Gentlemen's Agreement 1956

An agreement between leaders of Andhra and Telangana that merged Telangana with Andhra State to form Andhra Pradesh, containing safeguards on education, employment and revenue surplus.

Telangana Praja Samithi

A political party formed in 1969 during the first Telangana statehood agitation, demanding a separate state. It mobilised students and government employees before later merging with the Congress.

Mission Kakatiya

A Telangana government programme launched in 2014 to restore and rejuvenate minor irrigation tanks and lakes, improving groundwater recharge and supporting tank-based agriculture across the state.

Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project

A large multi-stage lift irrigation scheme on the Godavari river in Telangana, designed to lift water to serve irrigation and drinking water needs across several districts.

TS-iPASS

Telangana's single-window industrial approval system that provides time-bound clearances for new industrial units and grants deemed approval if timelines are not met.

Kakatiya dynasty

A South Indian dynasty that ruled from Warangal between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, known for irrigation tanks, temple architecture and the Ramappa Temple at Palampet.

Qutb Shahi dynasty

A dynasty that ruled the Golconda Sultanate from 1518 to 1687. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah founded Hyderabad and built the Charminar in 1591.

Constituent Assembly

The body that drafted the Indian Constitution. It first met on 9 December 1946, adopted the Constitution on 26 November 1949, and it came into force on 26 January 1950.

Government of India Act 1935

British legislation that introduced provincial autonomy and a federal framework in India. It became a major source for the Indian Constitution, especially federal and emergency provisions.

Bathukamma festival

A floral festival celebrated mainly in Telangana by women, who arrange seasonal flowers in conical stacks and worship them. It is promoted as a symbol of Telangana cultural identity.

Sammakka-Saralakka Jatara

A major tribal festival held at Medaram in Mulugu district of Telangana, attracting large numbers of devotees. It commemorates the sacrifice of Sammakka and her daughter Saralakka.

MGNREGA

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, guarantees 100 days of unskilled wage employment per rural household per financial year, with unemployment allowance if work is not provided.

GST

The Goods and Services Tax, implemented on 1 July 2017, is a destination-based indirect tax subsuming central excise, service tax and state VAT into CGST, SGST and IGST.

NITI Aayog

The National Institution for Transforming India replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015. It is a policy think tank chaired by the Prime Minister.

PM-KISAN

A central scheme providing income support of six thousand rupees per year to eligible farmer families, paid in three equal instalments directly to bank accounts.

Priority Sector Lending

A Reserve Bank of India mandate requiring scheduled commercial banks to lend at least forty percent of adjusted net bank credit to priority sectors, including agriculture, MSMEs and weaker sections.

Semi-conservative replication

The process by which DNA duplicates so that each daughter double helix contains one parental strand and one newly synthesised strand, ensuring faithful genetic transmission.

Montreal Protocol

An international treaty adopted in 1987 to phase out ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons. The Kigali Amendment later added phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons.

Richter scale

A logarithmic scale used to express the magnitude of an earthquake based on seismic wave amplitude. Each whole number increase represents roughly a thirtyfold rise in released energy.

Disaster management cycle

The sequence of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery phases used to plan for and respond to disasters, reducing loss of life and damage.

Universal Immunisation Programme

India's national programme providing free vaccines to pregnant women and children against tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B, measles and other diseases.

IT Act 2000

India's law governing electronic commerce, digital signatures and cybercrime. It defines offences such as identity theft and cheating by personation, with penalties.

Active to passive voice

A transformation in which the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, the verb becomes a form of be plus past participle, and the original subject is introduced by 'by'.

Direct to indirect speech

Reported speech conversion where present tenses shift to past, pronouns adjust to the reporting subject, and time words change, for example today becomes that day.

Telugu script origin

The Telugu script descends from the ancient Brahmi script through intermediate southern scripts such as Kadamba and Chalukya, and is written left to right.

Urdu language

An Indo-Aryan language written in the Perso-Arabic script from right to left. It shares grammatical structure with Hindi while drawing vocabulary from Persian, Arabic and Turkish.