ibps-so 2016 · Question 267 of 394

The lead district manager has to open the agricultural chapter of the district credit plan with a paragraph on the apex body that co-ordinates, guides and manages research and education in agriculture, horticulture, sheries and animal sciences in the country, and that runs the national network of institutes, national research centres, project directorates and Krishi Vigyan Kendras from which the district's extension advice ultimately comes. The paragraph has to carry the date on which that body was set up, since the plan is being released in the year of an anniversary celebration. The draftsman is reminded that the body was constituted as a registered society on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Agriculture, under a name it carried for the next twenty years before it was renamed. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research was established on

1. A1 April 1905
2. B16 July 1919
3. C2 October 1935
4. D16 July 1947
5. E16 July 1929Correct