[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 10 November 2021) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (a)

Explanation: About the Mid-Day meal scheme:

• The scheme guarantees one meal to all children in government and aided schools and madarsas supported under Samagra Shiksha.
• Students up to Class VIII are guaranteed one nutritional cooked meal at least 200 days in a year.
• The Scheme comes under the Ministry of HRD.
• It was launched in the year 1995 as the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP – NSPE), a centrally sponsored scheme. In 2004, the scheme was relaunched as the Mid Day Meal Scheme.
• The Scheme is also covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/midday-meal-scheme/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: The MDM rules 2015, provide that:

• The place of serving meals to the children shall be school only.
• If the Mid-Day Meal is not provided in school on any school day due to non-availability of food grains or any other reason, the State Government shall pay food security allowance by 15th of the succeeding month.
• The School Management Committee mandated under the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 shall also monitor implementation of the Mid-day meal Scheme.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/midday-meal-scheme/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has formulated this scheme for Support for Marginalized Individuals.
• About the scheme:
  • “SMILE stands for Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise”.
  • Focus of the scheme is on rehabilitation, provision of medical facilities, counseling, basic documentation, education, skill development, economic linkages etc.
  • It includes sub scheme – ‘Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of persons engaged in the act of Begging’.
  • The scheme would be implemented with the support of State/UT Governments/Local Urban Bodies, Voluntary Organizations, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) , institutions and others.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/smile-scheme-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: What is UNAMA?

• UNAMA was established on 28 March 2002 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1401.
• It was basically established to assist the state and the people of Afghanistan in laying the foundations for sustainable peace and development.
• Its original mandate was to support the implementation of the Bonn Agreement (December 2001).
• Reviewed annually, this mandate has been altered over time to reflect the needs of the country.
• UNAMA is an integrated mission. This means that the Special Political Mission, all UN agencies, funds and programmes, work in a multidimensional and integrated manner to better assist Afghanistan according to nationally defined priorities.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/un-assistance-mission-in-afghanistan-unama-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: About CPEC:

• Launched in 2015, the CPEC is the flagship project of the multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping, aimed at enhancing Beijing’s influence around the world through China-funded infrastructure projects.
• The 3,000 km-long China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) consists of highways, railways, and pipelines.
• CPEC eventually aims at linking the city of Gwadar in South Western Pakistan to China’s North Western region Xinjiang through a vast network of highways and railways.
• The proposed project will be financed by heavily-subsidised loans that will be disbursed to the Government of Pakistan by Chinese banks.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/china-pakistan-economic-corridor-cpec-7/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S1: India currently has 19 military commands with 17 of them service-oriented. While both the Army and the Air Force have seven commands each, the Navy has three.
• S2: The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is the first and only tri-service theater command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/integrated-theatre-commands-2/

Ans: (a)

Explanation: Yuktdhara:

• It is a Geospatial Planning Portal for facilitating Gram Panchayat level planning of MGNREGA. It is a new portal under ‘Bhuvan’.
• Launched by the Ministry of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.
• The platform will serve as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes i.e. MGNREGA, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, Per Drop More Crop and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, etc.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-10-november-2021/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Diego Garcia, an atoll of the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory, is located 7 degrees south of the equator.
• The Portuguese were the first Europeans to find it and it was then settled by the French in the 1790s and transferred to British rule after the Napoleonic Wars.
• In 1965, Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius and set up a joint military base with the United States on Diego Garcia.
• Britain insists the islands belong to London and has renewed a lease agreement with the United States to use Diego Garcia until 2036.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/11/10/mission-2022-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-10-november-2021/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• The economic cost of food grains procured by the FCI is a total of MSP and bonus (if any) paid to the farmers plus the procurement incidentals and distribution cost. See https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/es2004-05/chapt2005/chap513.pdf
• The procurement incidentals are the initial costs incurred during procurement of foodgrains. The distribution costs include freight, handling charges, storage costs in godowns, losses during transit etc.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2019

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Option A and C are examples of human capital and option B is physical capital.
• Straight from Wikipedia: “Social capital broadly refers to those factors of effectively functioning social groups that include such things as interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity.” Option D is the correct answer.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2019