[Mission 2022] Insta– QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 15 April 2022

Solution: b)

Acharya Hemachandra, a major Jain scholar, poet, mathematician and philosopher, produced his Desinamamala, a treatise on the importance of Prakrit words used in Gujarat of his times as against those from Sanskrit.

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Solution: c)

The Constitution states two things with utmost clarity. One, India, is ‘a union of states’; and two, the official language used for communication between the States shall be the language that has been in use at the time of adoption of the Constitution. 

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Solution: b)

Contempt of Court:

• The expression ‘contempt of court’ has not been defined by the Constitution.
• Contempt of Court refers to the offence of showing disrespect to the dignity or authority of a court.
• The objective for contempt is stated to be to safeguard the interests of the public if the authority of the Court is denigrated and public confidence in the administration of justice is weakened or eroded.
• The Supreme Court and High Courts derive their contempt powers from the Constitution.
• As per the Contempt of Courts Act 1971, contempt refers to the offence of showing disrespect to the dignity or authority of a court.

The act divides contempt into civil and criminal contempt.

• Civil contempt:It is willful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other processes of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to the court.
• Criminal contempt:It is any publication which may result in:
  • Scandalising the court by lowering its authority.
  • Interference in the due course of a judicial proceeding.
  • An obstruction in the administration of justice.

However, innocent publication and distribution of some matter, fair and reasonable criticism of judicial acts and comment on the administrative side of the judiciary do not amount to contempt of court.

Solution: c)

• The Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering Union and State election processes in India. The body administers elections to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies in India, and the offices of the President and Vice President in the country (Article 324).
• It is not concerned with the elections to panchayats and municipalities in the states. For this, the Constitution of India provides for a separate State Election Commission.
• The Election Commission shall consist of the chief election commissioner and such number of other election commissioners, if any, as the President may from time-to-time fix.
• Presently, it consists of the Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners.
• The Chief Election Commissioner can be removed from his office in the same manner and on same grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court.
• The Constitution has not prescribed the qualifications (legal, educational, administrative or judicial) of the members of the Election Commission.
• The Constitution has not specified the term of the members of the Election Commission.
• The Constitution has not debarred the retiring election commissioners from any further appointment by the government.

Solution: d)

In August 2020, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying reported a requirement of 2.02 lakh artificial insemination (AI) technicians in India whereas the availability is only 1.16 lakh. The nation-wide AI programme was scheduled to be completed by May 2021 and it is targeted to augment milk productivity from 1,860 kg/per animal/per year to 3,000 kg/per annum/per animal on completion of the insemination programme.

Dairy farmers have been included in the Kisan Credit Card programme.

Dairying was brought under MGNREGA to compensate farmers for the income loss due to Covid-19.