International Organisations And Their Headquarters

1.uno -- New York 2.unicef -- Us 3.unrwa -- New York 4.unesco -- Paris 5.upu -- Berne 6.who -- Geneva 7.wipo -- Geneva 8.wmo -- Geneva 9.unido -- Vienna 10.fao -- Rome 11.wto -- Geneva 12.imo -- London 13.iaea -- Vienna 14.ibrd(world Bank)-- Washington 15.icao -- Montreal 16.ida -- Washington 17.ifc -- Washington 18.ifad -- Rome 19.ilo -- Geneva 20.imf -- Washington 21.itu -- Geneva 22.intelsat -- Washington 23.unhcr -- Geneva 24.unctad -- Geneva 25.unitar -- New York 26.unfpa -- New York 27.undp -- New York 28.unep -- Kenya 29.gatt -- Geneva 30.opec -- Vienna 31.saarc -- Kathmand(nepal) 32.oecd -- Paris 33.asean -- Indonesea 34.adb -- Manila 35.commenwealth -- London 36.eec -- Belgium

UPPCS 2012 GENERAL STUDIES QUESTION PAPER-II

http://www.scribd.com/9290010274/d/98004080-Uppcs-General-Studies-Question-Paper-II-2012

Latest WHO`S WHO

• P. L. Punia —Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes
• U. K. Sinha —Chairman, SEBI.
• Laxman Das —Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
• S. P. Gaur —Chairman, Island Waterways Authority of India.
• Sanjeev Batra —Chairman and Managing Director, Mineral and Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC).
• M. Ramadoss —Chairman, Oriental Insurance Company.
• R. K. Upadhyay —Chairman and CMD Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
• R. V. Verma —Chairman, Asia Pacific Union for Housing Finance.
• Reeta Menon —CMD, India Trade Promotion Organisation.
• M. Rafeeq Ahmed —President, Federation of Indian Exporters Organisation (FIEO).
• Mangoo Singh —MD, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
• Jim Yong Kim —President, World Bank.
• Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili —Vice-President, Africa World Bank.
• Christine Lagarde (France) —Managing-Director, IMF.
• Ban Ki-Moon —General -Secretary, UNO.
• Haruhiko Kuroda —President, Asian Development Bank.
• Prema Cariappa —Chairperson, Central Social Welfare Board.
• Nimish C. Tolia —President, Hindustan Chamber of Commerce.
• Vijai L. Kelkar —Chairman, 13th Finance Commission
• Amartya Sen —Human Development Advisor, UNDP.
• A. K. Upadhyay —Chairman, National Highway Authority of India.
• K. J. Udeshi —First Lady Deputy Governor of RBI.
• S. K. Goel —Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Custom (CBEC).
• Sushil Muhnot —Chairman, SIDBI.2
• Prakash Bakshi —CMD, NABARD.
• N. P. Patel —Chairman, IFFCO (Indian Farmer’s Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd.)
• Yogesh Agrawal —Chairman PFRDA
• Rajendra Pawar —Chairman, NASSCOM (2011-12).
• Lalit K. Panwar —CMD, Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC)
• Sriraj Hussain —CMD, Food Corporation of India
• Chandra Shekhar Verma —Chairman, SAIL
• Mamta Sharma — Chairperson, National Women Commission.
• C. Rangrajan —Chairman, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Committee.
• D. K. Mehrotra —Chairman, LIC.
• Yogesh Lohia — Chairman, General Insurance Company.
• N. S. R. Chandra Prasad —CMD, National Insurance Company.
• G. Srinivasan —Chairman, United India Insurance Company.
• V. P. Baligar —Chairman and M.D., HUDCO.
• Herman Van Rompuy —President, European Union
• Pascal Lamy —Director-General, WTO.
• K. M. Chandra Shekhar —Indian Ambassador to WTO.
• Dr. D. Subbarao —Governor RBI.
• Nagesh Alai —President, Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI).
• J. Harinarayan —Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
• Arup Rai Chaudhary —Chairman and CMD National Thermal Power Corporation
• Sushma Nath —First Indian Lady Finance Secretary.
• Satyanand Mishra —Chief Information Commissioner.
• Ms. Shanta Sinha —Chairman, National Child Rights Commission.
• B. C. Tripathi —Chairman, GAIL.
• S. Roy Choudhury —Chairman and CMD, HPCL.
• A. B. L. Srivastava —CMD, National Hydro Power Corporation.
• Vinay Mittal —Chairman, Railway Board
• S. Narasing Rao — Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Coal India Ltd.
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning Commission.
• V. P. Agrawal —Chairman, Indian Airports Authority (IAA).
• P. V. Narsimgham —President, Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI).
• Arvind Virmani —Executive-Director in World Bank (from India)
• Siddharth Tiwari —Secretary IMF.
• M. D. Malya — President, Indian Banks Association.
• Rohit Nandan —Chairman and Managing-Director, Air India Ltd.
• Pratip Chowdhary —CMD, State Bank Group.
• Ajit Parsayat —Chairman, Competition Appellate Tribunal.
• Ashok Chawla —Chairman, Competition Commission of India (CCI).
• Dr. Bijendra Singh — Chairman, National Agricultural Federation Cooperative Marketing (NAFED).
• Rahul Khullar —Chairman, TRAI
• R. V. Kanoria —President, FICCI
• Rajeev Kumar —General-Secretary, FICCI.
• Jacques Diouf —Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
• S. Krishnan —Chairman, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulation Board.
• Sandid Somany —President, PHDCCI
• Nandan Nilekani —Chairman Unique Identification Authority of India.
• Srivardhan Goyanka — President, Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) 2011-12.
• Hari S. Bharatia —Chairman, C.I.I.
• Arvind Pradhan —Director-General, Indian Merchant Chamber (IMC)
• Rajesh Lilothia —Chairman, SC/ST Welfare Board.
• Pramod Dev —President Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
• Aditya Puri —MD, HDFC.
• Raj Kumar Dhoot —President, ASSOCHAM

Viceroy / Governor general of India

Lord Dalhousie -------- Railway started in India, Post and Telegraph, Doctrine of Lapse


Lord William Bentick ---- Abolition of Sati, English Eduction in India, Simon Commission


Lord wellesley ------- Subsidary Alliance


Lord linlithgow ------- Quit India Movement, Cripps Mission (1942)


Lord Rippon ------- Local Self Government, Factory Act, Repeal of Vernacular Press Act


Lord Lytton -------- Vernacular Press Act, Arms Act


Lord Munro---- Ryotwari


Lord Curzon ------ Partition of Bengal


Lord Mountbatten ------- Partition of India, Indian independence Act (1947),

IMPORTANT COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES

1. Palekar Tribunal:-Journalists’ Pay reforms

2. U.C. Banerjee Commission:- Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways)

3. Sarkaria Commission: Centre-State relations

4. Srikrishna Commission: 1992 Bombay riots

5. Thakkar Commission: Indira Gandhi assassination case

6. Phukan Commission & Saharya Committee: Tehelka tapes

7. Malimath Commission: Criminal Justice

8. Upendra Commission: Inquiry on rape and murder Thangjam Manorama Devi

9. Malhotra Committee: Insurance Reforms

10. Janaki Ram Committee: Security scam

11. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee: Faster promotions in army

12. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1}: Companies and MRPT Act

13. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2}: Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India

14. Jyoti Basu Committee: Report on Octroi abolition

15 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee:Recommendations on decentralization system

16. Sawant Committee: Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare

17. Chelliah Committee: Eradicating black money

18. Kothari Commission: Educational reforms

19. Wanchoo Committee: Tax enquiry

20. Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee: Agriculture

21. Aggarwal Committee: Nepotism in granting petrol pump, LPG connections

22. Rangarajan Committee: Reforms in private sector

23. Naresh Chandra Committee: Corporate governance

24. Chakravarti Committee: Banking sector reforms

25. Rekhi Committee: Structure of indirect taxation

26. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee: Disinvestment in PSU shares

27. Kelkar Committee: First committee on backward castes

28. P.C.Hotha Committee: Restructuring of civil services

29. Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee: 1st chairman National Forest Commission

30. Godbole Committee :Enron Power Project

31. J.C.Kumarappa Committee: Congress agrarian Reforms Committee

32. Swaminathan Committee: Population policy

33. Rangarajan Committee: Statistics

34. Wardha Committee: Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines

35. N.N. Vohra Committee: Criminalization of politics

36. Kelkar Committee {2}: Direct-Indirect Taxes

37. Alagh Committee: Civil Service Examinations

38. Abid Hussain Committee: Recommendations on Small scale industries

39. Narasimham Committee: Banking sector reforms

40. Chelliah Committee:Tax reforms

41. Mashelkar Committee: National Auto Fuel Policy

42. Boothalingam Committee : Recommendations on integrated wages, income and price policy

43. Omkar Goswami Committee: Industrial sickness

44. Yashpal Committee: Review of School Education system

45. Ram Nandan Prasad Committee: Constitution of creamy layers among Backward Castes

46. Kelkar Committee{3} :Enquiry on Kargil defense deals.

47. M.M. Punchhi Commission: Centre-State Relations [note- this committee has been set up recently- after the sad demise of Justice (Retd.) Sarkaria]

48. Thorat Committee: Caste-based discrimination against students in AIIMS

49. R.K.Raghavan Committee: Ragging in colleges

51. James Lyngdoh Committee- Student politics and student-body elections in colleges.

52. E.M.S. Nachiappan Committee: Reforms in the higher judiciary

53. Soli Sorabjee Committee: Police Reforms [it was constituted after the Judgement of the Supreme Court in Parkash Singh vs Union of India (2006)]

54. Ganguli Committee: Review of health facility planning and healthcare engineering and management

55. Percy Mistry Committee: Making Mumbai an IFC (International Financial Centre)

56. K.T. Thomas Committee- to look into ways of enhancing the effectives of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act

57. Fali S. Nariman Committee- Accountability and damages with regard to destruction of public property

58. Satwant Reddy Committee- review of laws relating to registration of pharmaceutical drugs and clinical trials

59. Raghuram C. Rajan Committee- financial sector reforms

60. Shah Commission (1966)- reorganisation of States

61. Tarkunde Committee- composition of the Election Commission and other electoral reforms

62. Dinesh Goswami Committee- electoral reforms

63. G.V.K. Rao Committee (1985) - set up by the planning commission in 1985, to look into the Administrative Arrangement for Rural Development and poverty Alleviation Programmes.

64. Butler Committee: Relation between Indian states & paramount power (the Queen of Britain)

65. Hurtog Committee: Growth of British India education-its effects

66. Muddiman Committee: Working of Diarchy as in Montague Chelmsford reforms