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

Solution: b)

The Supreme Court recently said it would hear arguments on the issue of whether the landmark 1992 judgement in the Indra Sawhney case should be re-looked at and referred to a larger bench.

The verdict in the case of the Indra Sawhney vs Union of India— also known as the Mandal verdict — capped reservations at 50 percent.

The judgment also laid down that the extent of reservation should not cross the 50 percent limit, unless a special case was made out for extraordinary situations and peculiar conditions to relax the rule. 

Article 16 of the Constitution deals with equality of opportunity in public employment, and Clause 4 under it reads, “Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from making any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favor of any backward class of citizens which, in the opinion of the State, is not adequately represented in the services under the State.”

Article 342A introduced by the 102nd Constitution Amendment Act (2018), which requires presidential (Centre’s) assent for states notifying changes to OBC categories. 

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Solution: d)

TrueNat

This is a privately designed test that works on the same principle as RT-PCR, but with a smaller kit and with faster results. TrueNat, designed by MolBio Diagnostics Pvt Ltd, Goa, is commonly used for tuberculosis and HIV testing. The ICMR approved TrueNat for screening and confirmation for Covid-19.

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Solution: c)

Operation ‘Clean Art’:

It is first pan India operation to crackdown on the smuggling of mongoose hair.

Conceived by WCCB.

Aim: To ensure that the mongoose hair brush trade should be closed down across the country.

Solution: d)

The “bare necessities” of housing, water, sanitation, electricity and clean cooking fuel are jointly consumed by all the members of a household.

In order to improve access to “the bare necessities,” successive governments have made constant efforts. The network of schemes designed to deliver these necessities include inter-alia the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY), Saubhagya, and Ujjwala Yojana.

Solution: c)

The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) is the apex financing organization of Union Agriculture Ministry.

About NCDC:

It is a statutory corporation set up under the National Cooperative Development Corporation Act, 1962.

The objectives of NCDC are planning and promoting programmes for production, processing, marketing, storage, export and import of agricultural produce, foodstuffs, industrial goods, livestock and certain other notified commodities and services on cooperative principles.