[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 11 December 2021 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Launched in January 2015 with the aim to address sex-selective abortion and the declining child sex ratio, which was at 918 girls for every 1,000 boys in 2011.
• The programme is being implemented across 640 districts.
• It is a tri-ministerial effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/beti-bachao-beti-padhao-scheme/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S1: The Sixth Schedule consists of provisions for the administration of tribal areas in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, according to Article 244 of the Indian Constitution.
  • Passed by the Constituent Assembly in 1949, it seeks to safeguard the rights of tribal population through the formation of Autonomous District Councils (ADC). ADCs are bodies representing a district to which the Constitution has given varying degrees of autonomy within the state legislature.
• S2: Along with ADCs, the Sixth Schedule also provides for separate Regional Councils for each area constituted as an autonomous region. In all, there are 10 areas in the Northeast that are registered as autonomous districts – three in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram and one in Tripura. These regions are named as district council of (name of district) and regional council of (name of region).

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/6th-schedule-of-the-indian-constitution/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• The Belt and Road Initiative, reminiscent of the Silk Road,is a massive infrastructure project that would stretch from East Asia to Europe.
• It was launched in 2013.
  • The plan is two-pronged: the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road-The two were collectively referred to first as the One Belt, One Road initiative but eventually became the Belt and Road Initiative.
  • The project involves creating a vast network of railways, energy pipelines, highways, and streamlined border crossings.
• Pakistan and BRI:
  • To date, more than sixty countries—accounting for two-thirds of the world’s population—have signed on to projects or indicated an interest in doing so.
  • Analysts estimate the largest so far to be the estimated $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a collection of projects connecting China to Pakistan’s Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/chinese-project-at-balochistan-port/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Xinjiang is technically an autonomous region within China — its largest region, rich in minerals, and sharing borders with many countries, including India, Russia and Afghanistan.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/chinese-project-at-balochistan-port/

Ans: (a)

Explanation: Chenab Bridge: World’s highest Railway Bridge:

• The Chenab Rail Bridge is an Indian railway steel and concrete arch bridge between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
• The Chenab bridge is part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project (USBRL).
• The length of the Chenab bridge will be 1,315 metres.
• It is 359m above the river bed level. The bridge is 35-metre higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/chinese-project-at-balochistan-port/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: Where is Gilgit Baltistan located?

• It borders China in the North, Afghanistan in the west and Kashmir in the south east.
• It shares a geographical boundary with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and India considers it as part of the undivided Jammu and Kashmir, while Pakistan sees it as a separate from PoK.
• It has a regional Assembly and an elected Chief Minister.
• Key points:
• China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through this region.
• The region is home to five of the “eight-thousanders” and to more than fifty peaks above 7,000 metres (23,000 ft).
• Three of the world’s longest glaciers outside the polar regions are found in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/chinese-project-at-balochistan-port/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• S3: The ISA is headquartered in Gurugram, India
• The ISA was conceived as a joint effort by India and Franceto mobilise efforts against climate change through the deployment of solar energy solutions.
• It was presented by the leaders of the two countries at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21)to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Paris in 2015.
• S1: It is an alliance of more than 122 countries initiated by India.
• ISA is a coalition of solar resource rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricornto specifically address energy needs by harnessing solar energy.
• The Paris Declarationestablishes ISA as an alliance dedicated to the promotion of solar energy among its member countries.
• S2: ISA brings together countries with rich solar potential to aggregate global demand, thereby reducing prices through bulk purchase.
• It facilitates the deployment of existing solar technologies at scale, and promoting collaborative solar R&D and capacity building.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/11/un-observer-status-to-solar-alliance/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Astronomers study Blackholes by watching for their effects on nearby stars and gas. Stars are disrupted when the black hole’s tidal gravity exceeds the star’s self-gravity, and this phenomenon is called tidal disruption events (TDE).
• The tidal disruption events are crucial and useful phenomena to detect and predict the mass of supermassive black holes in quiescent galaxies.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2020/09/18/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-18-september-2020/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Option A and C: Any increase in a reserve ratio prevents the banks from lending more money, and reduces the money multiplier.
• Option B: Promoting the use of credit cards, taking more loans etc. can lead to lending and re-lending of the same money supply several times increasing the money multiplier.
• Option D: Even if this increases, and the banks reduce their lending, there may be no increase in the money multiplier.

Source: UPSC CSE 2019

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• As per Article 142, “The Supreme Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction may pass such decree or make such order as is necessary for doing complete justice in any cause or matter pending before it, and any decree so passed or orders so made shall be enforceable throughout the territory of India in such manner as may be prescribed by or under any law made by Parliament and, until provision in that behalf is so made, in such manner as the President may by order prescribe”.

Source: UPSC CSE 2019