QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 28 September 2018

Solution: d.

AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare. The AGMARK is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (and ammended in 1986).

Agritech.tnau; DMI;

Improvisation: PIB;

Solution: a.

PIB: The Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance and National Informatics Centre  (NIC) has jointly developed a mobile app called Jan Dhan Darshak as a part of financial inclusion (FI) initiative . As the name suggests, this app will act as a guide for the common people in locating a financial service touch point at a given location in the country.

While locator apps are a common feature for many individual banks and financial service providers, in this era of inter-operable banking services, Jan Dhan Darshak app will be in a unique position to provide a citizen centric platform for locating financial service touch points across all providers such as banks, post office, CSC, etc.

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Solution: b.

PIB: The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the Employment Outlook of the country covering the period September, 2017 to July, 2018.

This is the fourth in this series of employment statistics. The Ministry brought out the first release of employment related statistics in the formal sector in April, 2018 covering the period September 2017 to February, 2018, using information on the number of subscribers who have availed benefits under three major schemes, namely, the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPFO), Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIC) and the National Pension Scheme (NPS).

Solution: b.

The Indian Ocean Rim Association is an inter-governmental organisation which was established in 1997. IORA strengthens cooperation and dialogue with Member States by promoting sustained growth and balanced development within the Indian Ocean region.

REINVEST’s objective is to showcase the Government of India’s commitment to the development and scaling up of renewable energy in India to meet the national energy requirement in a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable manner.  RE-Invest will be the first major platform in India for investment promotion in this sector, and will connect the global investment community with renewable energy stakeholders in India.

ISA is the International Solar Alliance.

The Indian Ocean Naval Symposium, commonly known as IONS, is a forum to increase maritime cooperation among the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region.

PIB;

Solution: a.

PIB: National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA), an initiative by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, aims to make all the Legislatures of the country paperless by making the proceedings of the Houses digital. It is an attempt to provide the information about the functioning of House to the common citizen at the click of a button. The NeVA app along with the website, will act as a repository of data related to the business of all Legislatures in the country in a uniform manner.

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