AP ICET 2018 Question Paper Shift-1 (2nd May)

Read the following paragraph and answer the following questions.

When I first visited Bangalore in the sixties it was a garden city. With its parks, one a forest in the centre of the city, its lakes, its avenues covered with a green canopy of rain trees, its altitude of three thousand feet above sea-level and the temperate climate that goes with the height. it became a victim of its own natural assets. At the beginning of the twentieth century the Indian Institute of Science was founded there and just before independence came the Raman ResearchInstitute. They gave Bangalore a reputation for excellence in science which attracted nationalized hi-tech industries like Hindustan Aeronautics as well as the private sector. Then followed the IT wallahs. To add all those
pressures post-independence Bangalore also became the capital of one of India’s largest and progressive states. Bangaloreans who once boasted of their garden city nowdo not use that term for obvious reasons. Their homes for the future, fuelled by the city’s readiness to move on to the national, even international platform. have been belied, at least for the moment, by their innumerable travails like environmental pollution,
haphazard expansion and piece-meal planning.

Read the following paragraphand answerthe following questions.

Union Budget 2018 has been on expected lines. aimed at appeasing farmers and others in rural areas, as well as small industry. When it comes to most tare proposals, it has disappointed everybody except senior citizens and Micro. Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Inits last full budget before the next general elections. the BJP-led NDA governmenttargets its vote banks in rural areas and the agriculture sector, promising them a lot. In direct taxes, however, where it was expected bring in a lot of reforms and exemptions. it has done precious little.

If all classes of tax payers, the salaried employee has been left almost high and dry with the finance minister announcing there would be no change in the personal income-tax rates. There was a lot of expectation that the personal income tax exemption limit would be raised. That has not happened with GST becoming a reality, most citizens are being made to pay taxes on almost every purchase and in most cases, the taxes are
higher than before. That is why there were expectations that the finance ministers would put more money into the taxpayer’s hands by lowering personal taxes. None of these has happened.