QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 February 2021

Solution: c)

The Union Budget proposed to strengthen One Health surveillance, linking microbial migration pathways from wildlife to veterinary and human populations.

The World Organization of Animal Health, commonly known as OIE (an abbreviation of its French title),

summarises the One Health concept as “human health and animal health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems in which they exist”.

The philosophy of One Health recognises inter-connectivity among human health, the health of animals, and the environment.

Solution: a)

Government’s primary source of earning money is from taxes and non-tax revenues. Taxes are collected in the form of direct and indirect ways. Direct taxes include income tax, real property tax, personal property tax, or taxes on assets; while some of the indirect tax modes include GST, customs duty and tax deducted at source (TDS).

On the other hand, non-tax revenue is the recurring income earned by the government from sources other than taxes. The top receipts under this are interest and dividends and profits received from public sector companies.

After the new indirect tax regime was introduced in 2017, the Centre’s major source of indirect tax collection changed to GST.

In 2020-21, 28.5% of the revenue came from GST followed by corporate tax and personal income tax, 28.1% and 28.3% respectively.

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Solution: d)

Among the 75 listed PVTG’s the highest number are found in Odisha.

The Jarawas are an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands in India. They live in parts of South Andaman and Middle Andaman Islands.

Solution: d)

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes. FLR is more than just planting trees – it is restoring a whole landscape to meet present and future needs and to offer multiple benefits and land uses over time.

FLR manifests through different processes such as: new tree plantings, managed natural regeneration, agroforestry, or improved land management to accommodate a mosaic of land uses, including agriculture, protected wildlife reserves, managed plantations, riverside plantings and more.

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Solution: a)

Specialized Agencies are legally independent international organizations with their own rules, membership, organs and financial resources, were brought into relationship with the United Nations through negotiated agreements. Some of the agencies existed before the First World War, some were associated with the League of Nations, others were created almost simultaneously with the United Nations and yet others were created by the United Nations itself to meet emerging needs.