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Q1. Karpoori Thakur was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2024. On what occasion was it announced?
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Answer: A
Rashtrapati Bhavan announced the honour on 23 January 2024, the eve of his birth centenary; President Droupadi Murmu formally conferred it on 30 March 2024.
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Q2. What signature policy did Karpoori Thakur’s government enforce during his first term as Chief Minister (1970-71)?
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Answer: D
His government enforced total prohibition on alcohol in Bihar in 1970 — decades before the state’s better-known 2016 prohibition law.
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Q3. How did the 1980 Mandal Commission’s 27% national OBC quota relate to Thakur’s 1978 Bihar formula?
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Answer: C
The Mandal Commission cited Thakur’s Bihar formula as an early precedent, but its own 27% national quota stayed one undivided tier — it did not adopt his most-backward/OBC split.
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Q4. In what role did Karpoori Thakur remove English as a compulsory matriculation subject?
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Answer: A
He made this change as Bihar’s Education Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, from 1967 to 1968, well before his first term as Chief Minister.
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Q5. Karpoori Thakur’s 1978 order was significant because it did what for the first time in India?
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Answer: B
His order split Bihar’s backward-class quota into two tiers: 12% for the most backward classes, and 8% for the remaining OBCs, plus women’s and economically backward upper-caste quotas.
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Q6. Karpoori Thakur’s 1978 EBC quota is widely seen as a forerunner to which later national policy?
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Answer: B
Thakur’s EBC sub-categorization in Bihar predated and shaped the 1980 Mandal Commission’s national OBC reservation framework.
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Q7. As Chief Minister, Karpoori Thakur enforced total prohibition on alcohol in Bihar in which year?
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Answer: D
Thakur enforced total prohibition on alcohol in Bihar in 1970, during his first term as Chief Minister — decades before Bihar’s better-known 2016 prohibition law.
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Q8. Karpoori Thakur’s posthumous Bharat Ratna was announced on 23 January 2024. Which body announced it, and on what occasion?
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Answer: A
Rashtrapati Bhavan announced the Bharat Ratna for Thakur on 23 January 2024, on the eve of his birth centenary (24 January). President Droupadi Murmu conferred it on 30 March 2024.
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Q9. In 1978, as Chief Minister, Karpoori Thakur implemented the recommendations of which commission, creating a separate reservation quota for Extremely Backward Classes?
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Answer: C
Thakur implemented the Mungeri Lal Commission’s report in 1978, creating India’s first sub-categorized backward-class reservation.
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Q10. Karpoori Thakur, who served twice as Chief Minister of Bihar, was popularly known by which title?
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Answer: B
Karpoori Thakur was popularly called “Jan Nayak” (people’s hero), for his pro-poor policies and land reforms.
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