QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 27 October 2016

Solution: b.
“The Galilee Basin is a 247,000 square kilometre thermal coal basin in the central region of the Australian state of Queensland (Red coloured block in image). It is one of the largest untapped coal reserves on the planet.”

“India’s Adani Enterprises is preparing to start construction of a $7 billion coal mine in Australia in 2017 despite years of legal delays and rollercoaster coal prices, the conglomerate said. Progress on the project comes as Australia looks to potentially curb legal challenges to new mining developments following an onslaught of environmental suits aimed at delaying the Adani mine and others proposed in the Galilee Basin in the country’s northeast.”

http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/adani-readies-mine-as-australia-looks-to-curb-green-challenges/article9272381.ece

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Solution: c.

“Dr. Jitendra Singh has proposed “Mobile Air Dispensary” service for remote and far-flung areas of Northeast, which would envisage a mobile dispensary in a Helicopter with a doctor, necessary equipment and medicines that can fly to remote and far-flung on regular basis and also, as and when required. He said, particularly in areas from where patients find it difficult to reach a dispensary, a doctor with dispensary can reach them. The same experiment, which would possibly be the first of its kind in the country, can also be replicated in other hill States and remote areas having poor connectivity like Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh etc, he added.”

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151915

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Solution: b.

A question posted here earlier. “The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today chaired his sixteenth interaction through PRAGATI – the ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.”

• PRAGATI is an ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.
• The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology. It offers a unique combination in the direction of cooperative federalism since it brings on one stage the Secretaries of Government of India and the Chief Secretaries of the States.
• The platform is aimed at addressing common man’s grievances, and simultaneously monitoring and reviewing important programmes and projects of the Government of India as well as projects flagged by State Governments.
• The PM gives suitable directions for redressal of grievances and compliance on the projects and programmes and motivated all officers to work in coordinated manner for outcome; A built-in feature of PRAGATI is that these directions will remain in the system for further follow up and review till the finality of the matter.

What is PRAGATI?

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Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=152006

Solution: b.

• The Bill lays down the definition of sexual harassment and seeks to provide a mechanism for redressing complaints. It provides for the constitution of an ‘Internal Complaints Committee’ at the workplace and a ‘Local Complaints Committee’ at the district and block levels. A District Officer (District Collector or Deputy Collector), shall be responsible for facilitating and monitoring the activities under the Act.
• Every employer is required to constitute an ‘Internal Complaints Committee’ at all offices and branches with staff strength of 10 or more employees (and not ’10 or more women employees’).
• An additional ‘Local Complaints Committee’ shall also be constituted at the block/ward level to address complaints (i) where the complainant does not have recourse to an Internal Complaints Committee (applicable in cases where the workplace employees less than 10 people); (ii) where the complaint is against the employer himself.
• The Committee shall provide for conciliation before initiating an inquiry if requested by the complainant. If a settlement is reached, no further inquiry shall be conducted. If conciliation is not desired, or when settlement fails, the Committee shall initiate an inquiry into the complaint. The inquiry must be completed within 90 days.

Primary Source: http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Sexual%20Harassment/Bill%20Summary.%20Sexual%20Harassment.pdf

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Improvisation: “Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi expresses concern at the inadequate implementation of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013”

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Solution: d.

• Most of these disruptions are being carried out by state government agencies, often under the terms of broad legal powers — such as Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure — derived from 19th century British Raj era provisions meant to empower police units and district administration officials to enforce curfew and confiscate property.
• The Telegraph Act — via Section 5(2) — provides for a more specific legal power to restrict or otherwise interfere with the transmission of messages on the direction of the Union or state governments. But this provision lacks defined procedure when it comes to internet shutdowns.
• The Information Technology Act, India’s principal information technology sector law, has provided for another tool, even if not a perfect one. Instead of a larger suspension of the internet itself, it provides for a proportional, limited power in favour of the Central government — and state government officials in emergency cases — to issue individual web content blocking orders when certain grounds are met.

http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/internet-access-government-restriction-shutdown-3102734/

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Solution: c.

• RI World Congress is staged every four years, in the name of the parent organisation – Rehabilitation International (also known as RI Global) – and hosted by a trusted member.
• RI Global is the world’s leading network for the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities. This network includes people with disabilities, service providers, government agencies, academics, researchers and advocates. Comprising an assembly of 100+ member organisations, it uses advocacy, habilitation and rehabilitation to achieve an inclusive world where all people can enjoy active participation and full human rights.

Primary Source: http://riworldcongress.com/about-us/

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Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151998

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Solution: d.

“For its part, the government has argued that the Bank only focusses on two big cities while reforms are happening across States. But that, in fact, frames a larger problem because with an eye on the index officials had focussed on simpler procedures in Mumbai and Delhi. By May this year, an e-biz platform allowed investors to apply for 20 Central government services online, along with two services in Delhi and 14 each in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. In Maharashtra, a $5-billion investment announced by Foxconn remains on paper. Other BJP-run States had, in fact, not signed up. Certainly, investment (and job creation) are not driven by rankings alone.”

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/running-to-stand-still/article9272269.ece