[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 12 October 2021

Solution: d)

Punjab accounts for a whopping 27% of all procurement, and Haryana for 11%, while only being allocated 2% and 1% of grains under PDS respectively.

Government procurement of wheat and paddy in Bihar and West Bengal each account for just 2% of the national total, despite the fact that the latter is the country’s largest rice producer. However, 10% of all foodgrains allocated under the National Food Security Act last year went to Bihar, while 7% went to West Bengal.

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Solution: d)

Coal deposits are primarily found in eastern and south-central India. Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh accounted for almost 70% of the total known coal reserves in India.

India is the world’s second largest coal producer.

The Karnataka Government, which has sought additional coal supply from the Centre in view of coal shortage, is also looking at operating the allocated mines in Maharashtra and Odisha.

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Solution: b)

Reservation in Indian law is a form of affirmative action whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units, union and state civil services, union and state government departments and in all public and private educational institutions, except in the religious/ linguistic minority edu­cational institutions, for the socially and educationally backward communities who are inadequately represented in these services and institutions.

Justice G. Rohini Committee was set up to examine the possibility of creating categories within OBCs for the reservation to ensure “equitable distribution” of representation among all OBC communities. Its objectives include working out a mechanism, criteria, norm and parameters through a scientific approach for sub-categorisation within the OBCs and identifying the respective castes or communities or sub-castes or synonyms in the Central List of OBCs and classifying them into their respective sub-categories.

1. Part XVI deals with reservation of SC and ST in Central and State legislatures.
2. Article 15(4) and 16(4) of the Constitution enabled the State and Central Governments to reserve seats in government services for the members of the SC and ST.

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Solution: d)

There are four reasons for the depletion of coal stocks at the power plant end-

• unprecedented increase in demand for electricity due to the revival of the economy;
• heavy rains in coal mine areas during September 2021 thereby adversely affecting the coal production as well as despatch of coal from mines;
• increase in prices of imported coal to unprecedented high level leading to a substantial reduction in power generation from imported coal-based power plants leading to more dependence on domestic coal;
• non-building of adequate coal stocks before the onset of Monsoon.

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Solution: d)

Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) has been constituted under Section 3(3) of the ‘Environment (Protection) Act, 1986’ for the purpose of regulation and control of ground water development and management in the Country.