Monetary & Fiscal Policy MCQ — 588 अभ्यास प्रश्न उत्तर सहित

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The IMF mission's key findings highlighted that India's headline inflation had fallen sharply to 1.5% in September 2025, down from the FY2024-25 average of 4.6%, largely due to good harvests bringing down food prices.

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MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) Bank is a subsidiary of SIDBI. It was set up on April 8, 2015, under PM MUDRA Yojana. MUDRA provides refinance to banks and MFIs for lending to micro enterprises under Shishu, Kishor, and Tarun categories.

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Income Tax is levied by the Central Government under the Income Tax Act, 1961. It is a direct tax and falls under the Union List (Entry 82) of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution.

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SCORES is SEBI's online platform for investors to lodge complaints against listed companies, registered intermediaries, and market infrastructure institutions. The system tracks complaints end-to-end and has been upgraded to SCORES 2.0 with auto-routing and auto-escalation features for faster resolution.

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STT on futures was raised by 150% — from 0.02% to 0.05% — in Budget 2026-27, effective April 1, 2026. Options premium STT was raised 50% from 0.1% to 0.15%. This triggered a major market selloff on Budget Day.