[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz , 05 April 2022

Solution: c)

The World Meteorological Organisation is publishing the report since 1993. The report mainly documents indicators of climate system such as increasing land and ocean temperatures, greenhouse gas concentrations, melting ice, sea-level increase, glacier retreat and extreme weather.

The report also highlights the impacts of climate change on socio-economic development, food security, migration and marine ecosystems.

Solution: d)

• TRIFED was established in August 1987 under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 by the Government of India as a National level Cooperative body.  

• TRIFED is mandated to ringing about socio-economic development of tribals of the country by institutionalising the trade of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) & Surplus Agricultural Produce (SAP) collected/ cultivated by them. 

• TRIFED plays the dual role of both a market developer and a service provider, empowering them with knowledge and tools to better their operations in a systematic, scientific manner and also assist them in developing their marketing approach.
• TRIFED is involved actively in capacity building of the tribal people through sensitization and the formation of Self-Help Groups (SHGs). TRIFED is engaged in training the tribals in several activities, so that they can effectively carry them out.
• The organisation also assists them in exploring and creating opportunities to market the developed products in national and international markets on a sustainable basis. TRIBES India is the brand under which the sourced handcrafted products from the tribal people are sold.

Solution: c)

Karnataka distribution companies (discoms) have become the top seller of renewable energy under the Green Term Ahead Market (GTAM) at the Indian Energy Exchange Limited (IEX).

On 21 August 2020, the green term–ahead market (GTAM), a power trading platform, was launched to enable bulk electricity buyers (discoms; corporates with a contracted load of 1 MW or above) to procure renewable energy (RE) on a short-term basis from sellers (merchant RE projects or discoms having surplus RE beyond their renewable purchase obligations or RPOs).

Typically, discoms and open-access consumers procure electricity by signing long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for seven years or above. But, with GTAM’s launch, a new platform has emerged through from which these buyers can procure RE. In addition, it has also created opportunities for project developers to develop merchant RE capacity without getting tied down by long-term PPAs. In addition, the platform is expected to encourage RE-rich states to expand their renewable capacities beyond their RPO requirements and sell the surplus to RE-deficient states or corporate open-access consumers.

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Solution: b)

‘Abraham Accords’ entered with the UAE and Bahrain are ‘peace-for-peace’ deals without any physical quid pro quo by Israel.

Solution: d)

Antibiotics are under the purview of the Central Drugs Standard and Control Organization (CDSCO) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). In the Drugs and Cosmetics (D&C) Act, 1940, antibiotics are typically placed under Schedule H which makes it mandatory that they be sold only under prescription.