QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 02 March 2018

• Solution: c.

  As the Services sector contributes significantly to India’s GDP, exports and job creation, increased productivity and competitiveness of the Champion Services Sectors will further boost exports of various services from India. Embedded services are substantial part of ‘Goods’ as well. Thus, competitive services sector will add to the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector as well.

   

  The share of India’s services sector in global services exports was 3.3% in 2015 compared to 3.1% in 2014. Based on this initiative, a goal of 4.2 % has been envisaged for 2022.

   

  http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=176883;

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Solution: c.

The Group of Secretaries in their recommendations to the Prime Minister, had identified ten Champion Sectors, including seven manufacturing related sectors and three services sectors, for promoting their development and achieving their potential It was subsequently decided that Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, the nodal department for ‘Make in India’, would spearhead the initiative for the Champion Sectors in manufacturing and Department of Commerce would coordinate the proposed initiative for the Champion Sectors in Services.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=176883;

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Solution: d.

• Rehabilitation Fund created for the first time. To be used for the physical, psychological and social well-being of the victim including education, skill development, health care/psychological support, legal aid, safe accommodation, etc.
• Designated courts in each district for the speedy trial of the cases.
• The Bill comprehensively addresses the transnational nature of the crime. The National Anti-Trafficking Bureau will perform the functions of international coordination with authorities in foreign countries and international organisations; international assistance in investigation; facilitate inter-State and trans-border transfer of evidence and materials, witnesses and others for expediting prosecution, etc.

For the other salient features, refer: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=176878;

Solution: c.

“It is argued that in the thirty years before Independence, there had been a slow and incremental development of representative institutions in India…”

On August 20, 1917, the British Government declared, for the first time, that its objective was the gradual introduction of responsible government in India. The Government of India Act of 1919 was thus enacted, which came into force in 1921.

Improvisation: TH: The 1947 Singularity;

Solution: a.

Sounding rockets are one or two stage solid propellant rockets used for probing the upper atmospheric regions and for space research. They also serve as easily affordable platforms to test or prove prototypes of new components or subsystems intended for use in launch vehicles and satellites. With the establishment of the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in 1963 at Thumba, a location close to the magnetic equator (THIS image shows the magnetic equator in green), there was a quantum jump in the scope for aeronomy and atmospheric sciences in India.

ISRO has developed a series of sounding rockets called Rohini series, important among them being RH-200, RH-300 and RH-560, number in the name indicating the diameter of the rocket in mm.

Improvisation: 50 years of TERLS;

https://www.isro.gov.in/launchers/sounding-rockets;

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