QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 26 March 2018

Solution: d.

All three statements are correct.

• Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country
• A beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public and/or private empanelled hospitals across the country.
• To control costs, the payments for treatment will be done on package rate (to be defined by the Government in advance) basis. The package rates will include all the costs associated with treatment. For beneficiaries, it will be a cashless, paper less transaction. Keeping in view the State specific requirements, States/ UTs will have the flexibility to modify these rates within a limited bandwidth.

http://pib.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1525683

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Solution: d.

Apart from the above four, there is a ‘Transport Incentive’, an ‘Employment Incentive’ and a ‘Central Capital Investment Incentive for Access to Credit’.

In order to promote employment in the North East States, Government is incentivizing primarily the MSME Sector through NEIDS.

To understand what these incentives mean, click HERE;

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Solution: a.

The “First Indian Sign Language Dictionary of 3000 words” was launched by the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment recently.

• The Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre was commissioned by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to compile representations of words of everyday use in different parts of the country.
• As per the census 2011, there are around 50 lakh deaf people and 20 lakh people with speech disability in India.
• Experts have shown how in a diverse country like India, not only does sign language vary as per region, certain villages such as those in the Naga hills and Alipur in Karnataka, with a history of high incidence of congenital deafness, have their own variant of rural sign languages.

• The ISLD contains videos to show some of the signs and explain the meaning of words they represent.

• The ISLD consists of words of five categories: 1) Everyday terms, 2) Legal terms, 3) Academic terms, 4) Medical terms and 5) Technical terms.

From 2016: IE: Coming Soon – first-of-its-kind Indian sign language dictionary;

From 2016: IE: Signs of change;

In the news: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177900;

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Solution: d.

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has intimated that they have appointed Teachers of Indian Culture (TICs) to Indian Missions & Posts abroad to teach Yoga, Sanskrit and Vedas. The ICCR has been promoting the teaching of Yoga overseas through its Cultural Centres since 1980 by deploying yoga teachers in Indian Cultural Centres.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177960

Solution: a.

WWF is the parent organisation of earth hour and started earth hour with teams and partners in Sydney, Australia back in 2007.

On the occasion of Earth Hour 2018, WWF-India is launching the ‘Give Up to Give Back’ initiative to inspire organisations, institutions and individuals to make the choice to curb some habits, practices and lifestyles that burden our lives and the environment.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177909;

https://www.earthhour.org/about-us;

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Solution: c.

The WEF publishes the ‘Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report’. India has improved its position from 65th to 40th position in this index in four years.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177969;

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