DAY – 12 ( INSTA REVISION TEST)INSTA REVISION PLAN 2.0, 2020

Solution: D

National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), is an inter-operable transport card conceived by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of the Government of India.

It was launched on 4 March 2019. The transport card enables the user to pay for travel, toll duties (toll tax), retail shopping, and withdraw money.

It is enabled through the RuPay card mechanism. The NCMC card is issuable as a prepaid, debit, or credit RuPay card from partnered banks such as the State Bank of India, Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, and others.

Solution: A

AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India. It assures that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency under Ministry of Agriculture &Farmers welfare.

The AGMARK is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act Of 1937 (and amended in 1986). The AGMARK Head Office at Faridabad (Haryana).

The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 222 different commodities spanning a variety Of Pulses, Cereals, Essential Oils, Vegetable Oils, Fruits &Vegetables and semi-processed products like Vermicelli.

Solution: D

India has urged the Commonwealth to expedite readmission of the Maldives as a member country. The

Maldives withdrew from the Commonwealth during 2016.  The Commonwealth is a voluntary association Of 53 independent and equal sovereign states.

Member countries are supported by a network of more than 80 intergovernmental, civil society,

cultural and professional organisations.  Leaders of Commonwealth member countries meet every two years to discuss issues of mutual concern and interest.

The Commonwealth Secretariat, established in 1965, supports Commonwealth member countries to achieve development, democracy and peace.  The last country to join the Commonwealth was Rwanda in 2009.

Solution: C

The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, collectively The World Bank Group, have provided this Global Solar Atlas in addition to a series of global, regional and country GIS data layers and poster maps, to support the scale-up of solar power in our client countries.

This work is funded by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), a multi-donor trust fund administered by The World Bank and supported by 13 official bilateral donors. It is part of a global ESMAP initiative on Renewable Energy Resource Mapping that includes biomass, small hydro, solar and wind.

The World Bank Group has selected Solargis as its global provider of solar data and related solar energy assessment services.

This Global Solar Atlas has been prepared by Solargis under a contract to The World Bank, based on a solar resource database that they own and maintain. For commercial enquiries, please contact Solargis directly.

The primary aim of this Global Solar Atlas is to provide quick and easy access to solar resource data globally.

https://olc.worldbank.org/content/global-solar-atlas

Solution:  A

The European Commission is the EU’s executive arm. It takes decisions on the Union’s political and strategic direction. Every year the Commission produces a report on the results achieved with the EU budget and how the previous year’s budget was managed.

The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU.

The Parliament is composed of 751 members, who represent the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375 million eligible voters in 2009). It has been directly elected every five years by universal suffrage since 1979.

Solution: C

Internet Saathi:

• It is joint initiative of Google India and Tata Trusts.
• It aims to facilitate digital literacy among women in rural India.
• The programme aims to train Saathis in villages that can in turn help educate other women from their village in the use of the internet.
• Women trained under this initiative have started their own micro-business such as stitching, honeybee farming, and beauty parlours. Many under programme are also driving awareness for issues like girl child education, menstrual hygiene and more within their communities.

Solution: C

The Incredible India “Find the Incredible You” campaign released globally by the Ministry of Tourism during 2018-19 has been declared winner of the PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association) Gold Award 2019 in the “Marketing – Primary Government Destination” category.

To take the Campaigns to the next level, the ‘Incredible India 2.0’ Campaign was launched in September 2017, which marks a shift from generic promotions undertaken across the world to market specific promotional plans and content creation. The campaign focuses on digital and social media and the promotion of Niche Tourism products of the country.

Solution: b

National Commission for SafaiKaramcharis

• National Commission for SafaiKaramcharis is an Indian statutory body was established through National Commission for SafaiKaramcharis Act, 1993.
• It aims to promote and safeguard the interests and rights of SafaiKaramcharis.
• The National Commission for SafaiKaramcharis seeks to study, evaluate and monitor the implementation of various schemes for SafaiKaramcharis as an autonomous organisation and also to provide redressal of their grievances.
• It has important role to ensure rehabilitation of all identified manual scavengers on time-bound basis.

Solution: C

Core Investment Companies (CICs):

• CICs are non-banking financial companies with asset size of ₹100 crore and above which carry on the business of acquisition of shares and securities, subject to certain conditions.
• CICs, which are allowed to accept public funds, hold not less than 90% of their net assets in the form of investment in equity shares, preference shares, bonds, debentures, debt or loans in group companies.
• Investments of CIC in the equity shares (including instruments compulsorily convertible into equity shares within a period not exceeding 10 years from the date of issue) in group companies constitutes not less than 60% of its net assets as mentioned in clause.
• Exemption: CICs having asset size of below Rs 100 crore are exempted from registration and regulation from the RBI, except if they wish to make overseas investments in the financial sector.

Solution: B

Van Dhan Scheme:

• The Van Dhan Scheme is an initiative of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED).
• The initiative aims to promote MFPs-centric livelihood development of tribal gatherers and artisans.
• It mainstreams the tribal community by promoting primary level value addition to MFP at grassroots level.
• Significance: Through this initiative, the share of tribals in the value chain of Non-Timber Forest Produce is expected to rise from the present 20% to around 60%.

Solution: B

Project Manav:

• It has been launched by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
• It aims at creating a database network of all tissues in the human body from the available scientific literature.
• It is a project that involves scientific skill development for annotation, science outreach along with handling big data.
• The programme will involve gaining better biological insights through physiological and molecular mapping, develop disease models through predictive computing and have a wholistic analysis and finally drug discovery.
• The project can be signed up by students who are in their final year graduation and above. Students from the fields of biochemistry, biotechnology, microbiology, botany, zoology, bioinformatics, health sciences, systems biologists, pharmacologists and data sciences can associate with this project.
• Even participants having a science background but not necessarily involved in active scientific research can be part of this network.

Solution: D

World Press Freedom Index:

• Published annually by Reporters without Borders since 2002, the World Press Freedom Index measures the level of media freedom in 180 countries.
• It is based on an evaluation of media freedom that measures pluralism, media independence, and the quality of the legal framework and the safety of journalists.
• It also includes indicators of the level of media freedom violations in each region.
• It is compiled by means of a questionnaire in 20 languages that is completed by experts all over the world. This qualitative analysis is combined with quantitative data on abuses and acts of violence against journalists during the period evaluated.

Solution: B

Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN)

• Nagaland government has decided to set up a Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland (RIIN) with the aim of preventing fake indigenous inhabitants’ certificates.
• The RIIN will be the master list of all indigenous inhabitants of the state.
• The RIIN list will be based on “an extensive survey”.
• It will involve official records of indigenous residents from rural and (urban) wards and would be prepared under the supervision of the district administration.
• This provisional list will then be published in all villages, wards and on government websites by September 11, 2019.
• All indigenous inhabitants of the state would be issued a barcoded and numbered Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate.
• The RIIN cannot grant nor deny citizenship to any person.

Solution: B

Common Service Centres (CSC):

• It is an initiative of Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
• Common Services Centers (CSCs) are a strategic cornerstone of the Digital India programme.
• They are the access points for delivery of various electronic services to villages in India, thereby contributing to a digitally and financially inclusive society.
• They are multiple-services-single-point model for providing facilities for multiple transactions at a single geographical location. They are the access points for delivery of essential public utility services, social welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, education and agriculture services, apart from host of B2C services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the country.

Solution: C

UNESCO together with UNICEF, the World Bank, UNFPA, UNDP, UN Women and UNHCR organized the World Education Forum 2015 in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 – 22 May 2015, hosted by the Republic of Korea.

Over 1,600 participants from 160 countries, including over 120 Ministers, heads and members of delegations, heads of agencies and officials of multilateral and bilateral organizations, and representatives of civil society, the teaching profession, youth and the private sector, adopted the Incheon Declaration for Education 2030, which sets out a new vision for education for the next fifteen years.

The Incheon Declaration constitutes the commitment of the education community to Education 2030 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, recognizing the important role of education as a main driver of development.

http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/education-2030-incheon-framework-for-action-implementation-of-sdg4-2016-en_2.pdf