QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 October 2019

Solution: d)

Ministry of Commerce & Industry through Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) has introduced a new Export Credit Insurance Scheme (ECIS) called NIRVIK to enhance loan availability and ease the lending process.

• The Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC) is a fully government-owned company that was established in 1957 to promote exports by providing credit insurance services.
• The ECGC provides Export Credit Insurance to Banks (ECIB) to protect the banks from losses on account of export credit at the Pre and Post-Shipment stage given to exporters due to the risks of insolvency or protracted default of the exporter borrower.

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Solution: d)

• It is Indian Navy’s state of the art Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) which was inaugurated recently at INS Shivaji, Lonavala.
• The new facility is expected to help train personnel of naval ships fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical detection and protection systems.
• The nuclear training facility will help Indian Navy in providing realistic simulation of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological warfare to its personnel during their NBC damage control training, which was till now largely limited to theoretical training.

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Solution: c)

IEA is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.

In March 2017, India joined the IEA as an Association country.

Reports:

• Global Energy & CO2 Status Report 2017.
• World Energy Outlook.
• World Energy Statistics 2017.
• World Energy Balances 2017.
• Energy Technology Perspectives.

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Solution: d)

National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT).

It is developed by IIT Kharagpur.

Objective: The objective of NDL is to make digital educational resources available to all citizens of the country to empower, inspire and encourage learning.

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Solution: c)

The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report (APDR) is a biennial publication of the Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

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