• ASEAN Economic Community would make ASEAN a single market with a free flow of goods, capital, and skilled labor in the region.
• It would thus integrate Southeast Asia's diverse 10 economies which have a combined population of 620 million people and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.4 trillion US dollars.
• To achieve this, it would abolish tariffs on imports within the bloc member countries and promote the liberalization of service industries such as retailing and tourism.
• So, it calls for more free movement of and skilled labor within the region including doctors, architects and others with special skills. Statement 2 and 3 are not valid for ASEAN, but valid for EU.

Technology Acquisition and Development Fund (TADF) will be implemented by GITA. The Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA) is a joint venture company of CII and the Department of Science & Technology. GITA was launched in 2007-08 to stimulate the private sector's investment in Research and Development.

• The most widely accepted explanation of how dams cause earthquakes is related to the extra water pressure created in the micro-cracks and fissures in the ground under and near a reservoir. When the pressure of the water in the rocks increases, it acts to lubricate faults that are already under tectonic strain but are prevented from slipping by the friction of the rock surfaces. Sichuan earthquake can be one such example. So, statement 1 is correct.
• All rivers contain sediments. When a river is stilled behind a dam, the sediments it contains sink to the bottom of the reservoir. As the sediments accumulate in the reservoir, so the dam gradually loses its ability to store water for the purposes for which it was built. It results in rockier stream beds and poorer habitats for the rivers' aquatic life. If sedimentation continues, it increases the water level and can even cause floods. So, statement 2 is correct.
• The construction of a dam on a river can block or delay upstream fish migration and thus contribute to the decline and even the extinction of species that depend on longitudinal movements along the stream continuum during certain phases of their life cycle. Mortality resulting from fish passage through hydraulic turbines or over spillways during their downstream migration can be significant. So, statement 3 is correct.

The Act provides for the protection of wild animals, birds, and plants; and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto. It has six schedules that give varying degrees of protection. Schedule I and part II of Schedule II provide absolute protection - offenses under these are prescribed the highest penalties. Species listed in Schedule III and Schedule IV are also protected, but the penalties are much lower. Schedule V includes the animals which may be hunted. The plants in Schedule VI are prohibited from cultivation and planting.

An IFSC enables bringing back the financial services and transactions that are currently carried out in offshore financial centers by Indian corporate entities and overseas branches/subsidiaries of financial institutions (FIs) to India. These institutions do this by offering business and regulatory environment that is comparable to other leading international financial centers in the world like London and Singapore. It would provide Indian corporates easier access to global financial markets.
The services an IFSC can provide:

• Fund-raising services for individuals, corporations and governments.
• Asset management and global portfolio diversification undertaken by pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds.
• Wealth management.
• Global tax management and cross-border tax liability optimization, which provides a business
• opportunity for financial intermediaries, accountants and law firms.
• Global and regional corporate treasury management operations that involve fund-raising, liquidity
• investment and management and asset-liability matching.
• Risk management operations such as insurance and reinsurance.
• Merger and acquisition activities among trans-national corporations.

​The Supreme Court has sought a response from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), to its request to eight States for the immediate repatriation of children living in care homes with their families. NCPCR is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development. So, statement 1 is correct. The Commission's mandate is to ensure that all laws, policies, programs, and administrative mechanisms are in consonance with the child rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It inquires into complaints relating to a child's right to free and compulsory education under the Right to Education Act, 2009. So, statement 2 is correct.

When ethyne is burnt with air, it gives a yellow sooty flame which has much lower temperatures. This is because ethyne is not burnt completely. So, statement 1 is correct.

When pure oxygen is used, the flame is cleaner, the combustion of ethyne is complete, and much higher temperatures can be used with lesser quantities of ethyne. So, statement 2 is correct.

India has three cropping seasons - Rabi, Kharif, and Zaid. Rabi crops are sown in winter from October to December and harvested in summer from April to June. Some of the important rabi crops are wheat, barley, peas, gram, and mustard. Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in different parts of the country and these are harvested in September-October. Important crops grown during this season are paddy, maize, jawar, bajra, tur (arhar), moong, urad, cotton, jute, groundnut, and soybean. Groundnut and maize are Kharif crops. So, statements 2 and 4 are not correct.

The Lepchas are the aboriginal inhabitants of Sikkim and they are mostly settled in North Sikkim. Some populations can also be found in WB, Nepal, Bhutan, etc. So, statement 1 is not correct.

The Lepcha have their own language, also called Lepcha. It belongs to the Bodish- Himalayish group of Tibeto-Burman languages. The Lepcha write their language in their own script, called Rng or Lepcha script, which is derived from the Tibetan script. It was developed between the 17th and 18th centuries. So, statement 2 is correct.

Khaddar is a shawl woven in Punjab. So, statement 3 is not correct. 

The initial objective of the movement started by Vinoba Bhave was to secure voluntary donations of land and distribute it to the landless, but the movement soon came out with a demand of 1/6 share of land from all landowners. In 1952, the movement had widened the concept of gram dan (a village in gift) and had started advocating commercial ownership of land. The first village to come under gram dan was Mangroth in Hamirpur Dist of U.P. However, many land-owners chose to provide some part of their land to the poor farmers due to the fear of the land ceiling act. This Bhoodan-Gramdan movement initiated by Vinobha Bhave is also known as the Bloodless Revolution.