Inside the CTA: Department of Finance
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Questions
- 1Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What is the main job of the Department of Finance?
- ARaise revenue, prepare and control the CTA budget and issue the Green Book
- BGuard His Holiness
- CPublish newspapers
- DRun schools
- 2Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Before a Finance department existed, the Kalon of which department handled the CTA's money until 1966?
- AEducation
- BSecurity
- CHome
- DHealth
- 3Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does the Budget Section do?
- ARuns elections
- BSells stamps
- CBuilds roads
- DPlans the CTA budget and checks how each department spends its share
- 4Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What did the 12th Kashag do with all department-run businesses in 2001?
- APrivatised them
- BClosed them
- CDoubled them
- DMoved them to Nepal
- 5Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does "Chatrel" mean?
- AA tax on land
- BA school fee
- CA travel permit
- DA voluntary contribution to the CTA
- 6Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Tibetans in which town started the Chatrel movement?
- ASarnath, Varanasi
- BDarjeeling
- CKathmandu
- DBylakuppe
- 7Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
In which year was the Chatrel resolution passed?
- A1959
- B1965
- C1972
- D1991
- 8Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does paying Chatrel show?
- AThat you want a visa
- BThat you are rich
- CLoyalty to the CTA as the legitimate government and rejection of Chinese occupation
- DNothing
- 9Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
From what age does every Tibetan have the right to a Green Book?

- A12
- B16
- CAbove 6
- D18
- 10Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
How many characters does the new Green Book number have?
- A12
- B15
- C9
- D6
- 11Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Who can get a Blue Book?

- AAny friend of Tibet, of any nationality
- BOnly monks
- COnly Tibetans
- DOnly Indians
- 12Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
When was the Blue Book (Tibetan Solidarity Partnership) launched?
- A2008
- B2021
- C1972
- D1996
- 13Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
The His Holiness the Dalai Lama Charitable Trust was the first registered body (20 January 1964). In which city was it registered?
- ACalcutta (Kolkata)
- BShimla
- CMumbai
- DChennai
- 14Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does SARD stand for?
- ASouth Asian Relief Desk
- BSchool and Reading Department
- CSettlement and Rural Defence
- DSocial and Resource Development Fund
- 15Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
When did the CTA adopt its first Tibetan Women's Empowerment policy?
- A1990
- B2008
- C2024
- D2017
- 16Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What is Gang-Jong Development Finance?

- AA radio station
- BA monastery
- CA football club
- DA company that gives loans to small Tibetan businesses
- 17Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does Tibet Corps offer?

- AFree flights
- BVolunteer service for Tibetan professionals, students and retirees
- CArmy training
- DMountain rescue
- 18Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
What does TCRC (Tibetan Computer Resource Centre) do for the CTA?

- ARuns elections
- BCooks lunch
- CWorks as its IT department
- DPrints money
- 19Multiple choice · 30 s · 10 ptsNot played yet
Where does the CTA's money mainly come from?
- AChina
- BChatrel from Tibetans, Blue Book friends and donations
- CLottery tickets
- DSelling land
