QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 01 May 2017

Solution: c.

Basavanna lived in the 12^th Century, whereas the Government is commemorating Saint Ramanujacharya’s 1000^th birth anniversary with the release of a stamp today. You are left only with option ‘c’ as the correct option.

Improvisation: PIB: Mann ki baat address; PIB: Basava Jayanthi 2017;

Timeline, Page 167, Themes in Indian History Part III, Class 12, NCERT;

Solution: c.

• Anubhavamantapa, which was established by him  was a common forum for all, including downtrodden, untouchables  and women to discuss about  the prevailing problems of socio, economic and political strata including religious and spiritual  principles along with personal problems. Hence it was an open platform for all those activists who involved themselves in bringing a radical change in the contemporary society. Discussions here were written in the form of “Vachanas”.
• Basaveshwara gave two very important socio-economic principles. They are- “Kayaka” (Work: Divine work) and “Dasoha” (Distrubution: Equal distribution). According to this, every individual of the society should take up the job of his choice and perform it with all sincerity. All members of the society are labourers (Kayakajeevigalu). Kayaka is not mere a work, but it is the way of realising God. It teaches the concept of dignity of labour.
• Kayaka must be followed by an accurate income. The income should not be more or less. There must be an equal income for equal work. The worker (Kayakajeevi) may lead his day-today life by his hard earned income. But he should not preserve the money or property for tomorrow. He must utilise the surplus money for the society and poors. This concept is called –“Dasoha”. Thus by advocating this principle, Basaveshwara gave the concept of equal distribution of wealth to the society.

2015: PIB: Basaveshwara – A visionary of total revolution;

Improvisation: PIB: Mann ki baat address; PIB: Basava Jayanthi 2017;

Solution: b.

The same question was posted here a few months ago.

• In 2016, the EC, in an unprecedented step, was forced to cancel elections to two Tamil Nadu Assembly seats on the ground of voters being bribed with money during the recent campaign. The poll watchdog had to resort to Article 324 of the Constitution, which is the source of its extraordinary powers, to cancel elections in the two seats. The recent R.K. Nagar Assembly by-poll too was cancelled by the EC under its Constitutional powers for the same reason.
• Section 58A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, empowers the poll watchdog to adjourn or cancel elections on the ground of booth-capturing. Section 58A was introduced in the 1980s when booth-capturing was rampant during elections in many parts of the country.

The EC can use its constitutional powers under Article 324 to countermand a poll over use of money power, but it wants the power to be vested to it under law. The logic is that it does not want to use its constitutional powers too frequently.

TH: EC for 5-yr ban on those bribing voters;

Solution: d.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Within three months of the act coming into force, ongoing projects too must register themselves with the RERA. Statement 3 is correct, although THIS article dated 1^st May in the Hindu mentions that the account must be an escrow account – a mistake. An escrow account is a temporary pass through account held by a third party during the process of a transaction between two parties.

2016: PIB: Clarifications regarding the bill, Parliament clears Real Estate Bill;

Real Estate Act PDF;

Solution: c.

• MPs back Theresa May’s poll call: “With just 13 votes against the motion, this easily exceeded the two-thirds threshold needed for the government to be able to overrule legislation that had required elections to be held at regular five-year intervals, beginning in 2015.”
• There is no such requirement in India – constitutional or statutory – to seek the LS’s nod to hold early elections.

Improvisation: Venkaiah rules out mid-term elections;