[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz ,04 December 2021

Solution: a)

• The Parliamentary committees are established to study and deal with various matters that cannot be directly handled by the legislature due to their volume.
• These committees act as a mini-parliament, as they have MPs representing different parties are elected into them through a system of the single transferable vote, in roughly the same proportion as their strength in Parliament.
• They monitor the functioning of the executive branch and provide legislature with various policy input, playing an important role in Indian democracy.
• It scrutinises the accounts and the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, thereby ensuring accountability of any misspending.
• Parliamentary committees ensure executive accountability through scrutiny of public spending and various laws.
• The Public Accounts Committee is concerned with the manner and results of spending public funds.
• Although committee recommendations are not binding on the government, their reports create a public record of the consultations that took place and put pressure on the government to reconsider its stand on debatable provisions.

Solution: b)

Credit-deposit ratio shows how much a bank lends out of its deposits or how much of its core funds are used for lending. A high credit-deposit ratio suggests an overstretched balance sheet, and may also hint at capital adequacy issues.

RBI does not stipulate a minimum or maximum level for the ratio.

Solution: c)

Precision agriculture is basically the ‘right-input’ at the ‘right-time’ in the ‘right-amount’ at the ‘right-place’ and in the ‘right-manner’ for improving productivity, conserving natural resources and avoiding any ecological or social tribulations.

Today, precision agriculture is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI). IoT, satellite imagery, drones, Web-GIS frameworks, Big Data, cloud and machine learning are expected to improve global agricultural productivity in the near future.

But to arrive at these desired results, huge amounts of data collation is required. Environmental data, through technological intervention, has already fuelled better farming techniques in developed countries.

Sensors and analysis tools can boost crop yield. In order to do this, environmental data is collected in the geospatial format to measure quantifiable variables like weather, soil moisture, volumetric soil temperature, fertiliser rates, water run-off, agrochemicals movement and rain.

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Solution: a)

• Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). IPCC reports are also a key input into international climate change negotiations.
• The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or WMO. Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. The IPCC does not conduct its own research.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations to provide the public scientific information on climate change.

Solution: d)

Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it.

All messaging services like WhatsApp, Viber, Google Chat, Yahoo messenger use encrypted services. Banks (payment gateways) and e-commerce sites also use encryption to protect financial and private data including passwords.

Encryption is also used to protect data in transit, for example data being transferred via networks (e.g. the Internet, e-commerce), mobile telephones, wireless microphones, wireless intercom systems, Bluetooth devices and bank automatic teller machines.