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राष्ट्रीय आय से संबंधित समुच्चय—शुद्ध राष्ट्रीय उत्पाद (NNP)
This Class 12 Economics topic, part of the chapter “National Income and Related Aggregates,” explains Net National Product (NNP) as the value of final goods and services produced by a country’s normal residents after deducting depreciation. Students learn how NNP is related to Gross National Product (GNP), distinguish NNP at market price from NNP at factor cost, and understand the role of net indirect taxes and depreciation in national income calculations. The topic also helps them interpret NNP as an indicator of economic activity and income.
Practice questions
01 Which aggregate is generally measured as national income?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. NNP at factor cost
Explanation: National income is conventionally defined as NNP at factor cost, or NNP₍FC₎. It is national because it includes net factor income from abroad, and it is net because depreciation is deducted. Factor-cost valuation excludes the effect of net indirect taxes, so the income accruing to factors of production is measured more accurately.
02 If receipts from selling an old machine are treated as output in NNP, what problem will arise?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. It will overstate current production
Explanation: The sale of a used machine is a transfer of an existing capital asset, not the production of a new good during the current accounting period. Its full resale value should not be added again to current output. If it is counted as new output, national production and therefore NNP will be overstated. Only any current service or brokerage involved may represent current production.
03 If transfer payments are added to NNP at factor cost, what error will occur?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. National income will be overstated
Explanation: Transfer payments such as pensions, scholarships, and unemployment benefits are received without providing a current productive service in exchange. They are therefore not factor payments generated by current production and are excluded from national income. Adding them to NNP at factor cost would include non-factor receipts and make measured national income appear higher than the income earned from current production.
04 Why is a lottery prize generally not treated as factor income in NNP?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Because it is not earned against a productive service
Explanation: A lottery prize is generally a transfer receipt, not payment for supplying a factor of production such as labour, land, capital, or entrepreneurship. NNP measures the value of current final output and the factor incomes generated through production. Since the prize is received without providing a productive service in the relevant transaction, it is excluded from factor income. It may redistribute existing income, but it does not represent newly generated factor earnings.
05 Which statement correctly identifies net national product at market price (NNP_MP)?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. It is the market value of final goods and services produced by normal residents in a year after deducting depreciation.
Explanation: NNP_MP is obtained from GNP_MP by deducting consumption of fixed capital, commonly called depreciation. The word ‘national’ refers to production by normal residents, including their net factor income relationship with the rest of the world; ‘net’ means depreciation has been deducted; and ‘market price’ means valuation includes the effect of net indirect taxes. Hence option C gives the correct identity.
06 If NNP_FC rises from ₹9,000 crore to ₹9,900 crore and population rises from 300 crore to 330 crore, what happens to per capita NNP_FC?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. It will remain unchanged
Explanation: Initially, per capita NNP_FC = ₹9,000 crore ÷ 300 crore = ₹30 per person. Finally, per capita NNP_FC = ₹9,900 crore ÷ 330 crore = ₹30 per person. Total NNP increases by 10 percent, but population also increases by 10 percent, so the ratio remains constant. Therefore, average income measured by per capita NNP_FC is unchanged, and option A is correct.
07 If subsidies rise while indirect taxes remain unchanged, what happens to NNP at factor cost (NNP₍FC₎) when NNP at market price (NNP₍MP₎) remains unchanged?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. NNP₍FC₎ will rise
Explanation: Net indirect taxes (NIT) equal indirect taxes minus subsidies. When subsidies increase and indirect taxes remain unchanged, NIT decreases. The conversion formula is NNP₍FC₎ = NNP₍MP₎ − NIT. Since NNP₍MP₎ is fixed, a decrease in NIT increases NNP₍FC₎. Therefore, option A is correct. This also shows that factor cost may exceed market price when subsidies are sufficiently high.
09 In which situation can a national aggregate be lower than the corresponding domestic aggregate?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. When NFIA is negative
Explanation: The relationship between a national and a domestic aggregate at the same valuation is generally National = Domestic + NFIA. If NFIA is negative, factor income paid to foreigners exceeds factor income received from abroad. Subtracting this negative net amount makes the national aggregate lower than the domestic aggregate. NIT, depreciation, and current prices do not by themselves determine this national-domestic difference.
10 If GDP and GNP are equal, which conclusion related to NNP is correct?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. NFIA is zero
Explanation: The identity GNP = GDP + NFIA shows that the difference between GNP and GDP is NFIA. If GDP and GNP are equal, their difference is zero; therefore NFIA must be zero. This conclusion does not imply zero depreciation, zero NIT, or equality between NNP and GDP. In fact, NNP equals GNP minus depreciation, so depreciation may still be positive.
11 If NNP at market price and NNP at factor cost are equal, which conclusion is correct?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Net indirect taxes are zero
Explanation: The conversion relationship is NNP₍FC₎ = NNP₍MP₎ − NIT, where NIT means indirect taxes minus subsidies. If NNP₍MP₎ and NNP₍FC₎ are equal, their difference is zero. Therefore NIT must be zero, meaning indirect taxes equal subsidies. NFIA and depreciation affect other comparisons and are not implied by equality of the two NNP measures.
12 Why can NNP be considered a better measure of sustainable income than GNP?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Because it deducts capital depreciation
Explanation: GNP is a gross measure because it includes the value of capital goods used up or worn out during production. NNP is obtained by subtracting capital depreciation from GNP. The resulting figure represents the output or income remaining after maintaining the productive capital stock, so it gives a better indication of the income that can be sustained without reducing productive capacity. The other options are unrelated.
13 If (NNP_{MP}) is derived from (GDP_{FC}), what will be the treatment of NIT?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. NIT will be added
Explanation: When moving from factor cost to market price, net indirect taxes are added because market price includes indirect taxes but excludes subsidies. The complete relation is NNP_{MP} = GDP_{FC} + NFIA - depreciation + NIT. Thus, regardless of other adjustments, NIT is added; option A is correct.
14 If one has to move from (NNP_{FC}) to (GNP_{MP}), which adjustments are required?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Add depreciation and add NIT
Explanation: NNP_{FC} and GNP_{MP} are both national aggregates, so no NFIA adjustment is required. However, NNP must be changed to GNP by adding depreciation, and factor cost must be changed to market price by adding NIT. Therefore, both depreciation and NIT are added, so option A is correct.
15 If (NNP_{FC}=1250), depreciation = 140, and NIT = 60 crore, what is (GNP_{MP})?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. ₹1450 crore
Explanation: To convert NNP at factor cost into GNP at market price, add depreciation to change net into gross and add NIT to change factor cost into market price. Thus, GNP_{MP} = 1250 + 140 + 60 = ₹1450 crore. No NFIA is used because both aggregates are measured on the national basis.
16 Which item is eligible for inclusion in the current year's NNP?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The value of a newly produced machine
Explanation: A newly produced machine is a capital good created during the current accounting year. If it is a final good, its value represents current production and is included in the relevant gross national product before depreciation is deducted to obtain NNP. Resales, financial transactions and family gifts do not represent current production.
17 What is the appropriate basis for including self-consumed farm output in NNP?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Its imputed market value can be assigned
Explanation: Farm produce consumed by the farmer's own household is still the result of productive activity and could have been sold in the market. Since no actual sale price may be recorded, national accounting can use an imputed value, usually based on the prevailing market price. This helps capture output that would otherwise be missed.
18 If GNP at factor cost (GNPFC) rises but depreciation also rises by the same amount, what happens to NNP at factor cost (NNPFC)?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. It may remain unchanged
Explanation: The relationship is NNPFC = GNPFC − depreciation. If GNPFC increases by exactly the same amount as depreciation, the positive change in GNPFC is completely offset by the negative change caused by higher depreciation. Thus the change in NNPFC is zero, so it may remain unchanged, assuming all other components are constant.
19 If NNP at market price (NNPMP) remains unchanged while net indirect taxes (NIT) increase, what happens to NNP at factor cost (NNPFC)?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. It will decrease
Explanation: The conversion formula is NNPFC = NNPMP − NIT. When NNPMP is fixed, an increase in NIT must reduce the factor-cost measure by the same amount. Market price includes net indirect taxes, whereas factor cost excludes them. Hence higher NIT creates a lower NNPFC, not a higher one.
20 If NNP at factor cost (NNPFC) remains unchanged and net indirect taxes (NIT) decrease, what happens to NNP at market price (NNPMP)?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. It will decrease
Explanation: The conversion from factor cost to market price is NNPMP = NNPFC + NIT. Since NNPFC is unchanged, a decrease in NIT directly lowers NNPMP by the same amount. The market-price measure includes net indirect taxes, so reducing that component reduces the final market-price aggregate rather than increasing it.
21 Why is net indirect tax (NIT) not needed when deriving NNP₍MP₎ from GDP₍MP₎?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Because both aggregates are expressed at market prices
Explanation: GDP₍MP₎ and NNP₍MP₎ are both measured at market prices, so no conversion between market price and factor cost is required. NIT is used only when changing the price basis, such as converting market price to factor cost or factor cost to market price. To derive NNP₍MP₎ from GDP₍MP₎, the relevant adjustments are NFIA for domestic-to-national conversion and depreciation for gross-to-net conversion. Therefore, option A is correct.
22 If GDP₍MP₎ = ₹1,700 crore, GNP₍MP₎ = ₹1,640 crore, and depreciation = ₹120 crore, what is NNP₍MP₎?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. ₹1,520 crore
Explanation: NNP is obtained by subtracting depreciation from GNP because depreciation measures the loss of value of fixed capital during production. Since GNP₍MP₎ is already given, there is no need to calculate or add NFIA again. Thus, NNP₍MP₎ = GNP₍MP₎ − depreciation = ₹1,640 crore − ₹120 crore = ₹1,520 crore. Therefore, option A is the only numerically and conceptually correct answer.
23 If GNP₍MP₎ falls but depreciation falls by a larger amount, what may happen to NNP₍MP₎?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. NNP₍MP₎ may rise
Explanation: The identity is NNP₍MP₎ = GNP₍MP₎ − depreciation. Suppose GNP falls by ₹50 crore while depreciation falls by ₹80 crore. Subtracting a smaller depreciation loss increases NNP by ₹30 crore overall, so NNP can rise. The final result depends on the relative sizes of the two changes; therefore, it is incorrect to say that NNP must always fall or become zero. Option A expresses the possible outcome.
24 If NNP₍FC₎ rises but population rises faster, what may happen to per-capita national income?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. It may fall
Explanation: Per-capita national income is calculated as NNP₍FC₎ divided by population. A rise in total NNP does not automatically guarantee a rise in the per-capita figure. If population increases at a faster rate than NNP, the denominator grows proportionately more than the numerator, so the quotient may decline. Thus, option A is correct. Total national income and per-capita national income must be distinguished carefully.
25 If indirect taxes are ₹200 crore and subsidies are ₹75 crore, what is the difference between NNP at market price and NNP at factor cost?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. ₹125 crore
Explanation: The difference between NNP at market price and NNP at factor cost is net indirect tax. Net indirect tax = indirect taxes − subsidies = ₹200 crore − ₹75 crore = ₹125 crore. Therefore, NNPMP exceeds NNPFC by ₹125 crore, assuming the usual national-income accounting relationship and no other adjustment is involved.
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