CURRENT AFFAIRS

2021

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who has been appointed as the new Director-General of the policy think tank “National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)”?
A
Ravi Sinha
B
Poonam Gupta
C
Radhey Shyam
D
Harish Dubey
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Poonam Gupta is the Director General of NCAER, and a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.

Detailed explanation-2: -National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) is India’s oldest and largest independent, non-profit, economic policy research think tank.

Detailed explanation-3: -The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) was founded in 1956 as an independent, board-run body to give support to both the government and the private sector in empirical economic research.

Detailed explanation-4: -NCAER’s first Governing Body included the entire Cabinet of Economics Ministers and the leading lights of the private sector, including names like C.D. Deshmukh, J.R.D. Tata, John Mathai, and Asoka Mehta.

Detailed explanation-5: -NCAER’s current definition identifies the middle class as comprising of two sub-groups: “seekers” with annual household income between Rs. 200, 000 and Rs. 500, 000, and “strivers” with annual household income between Rs.

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