[MISSION 2023] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS (14 June 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Constitution allows the Parliament to make provisions in all matters relating to elections to the Parliament and State Legislatures.
• In accordance, the Parliament has enacted the following laws:
  • Representation of the People Act 1950.
  • Representation of the People Act 1951.
  • Delimitation Commission Act of 1952.
• Section 33(7) of RPA 1951:
  • Section 33(7) of the Representation of People’s Actpermits a candidate to contest any election (Parliamentary, State Assembly, Biennial Council, or bye-elections) from up to two constituencies.
  • The provision was introduced in 1996 prior to which there was no bar on the number of constituencies from which a candidate could contest.
  • Section 70bars candidates from representing two constituencies in the Lok Sabha/state.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/14/section-337-of-the-representation-of-peoples-act-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation: National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA):

• Constituted in 2019 by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG).
• It is a biennial studythat assesses States, Union Territories (UTs), and focuses on Central Ministries on the effectiveness of e-Governance service delivery.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/14/national-e-governance-service-delivery-assessment-2021-report/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S2: The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is an independent, quasi-judicial expert body established by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 by merging two bodies: the Permanent Central Narcotics Board, created by the 1925 International Opium Convention; and the Drug Supervisory Body, created by the 1931 Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs. Read more>>
• S1: The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 (Single Convention, 1961 Convention, or C61) is an international treaty that controls activities (production, supply, trade, use) of specific narcotic drugs and establishes a system of regulations (licenses, measures for treatment, research, etc.) for their medical and scientific uses.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/14/the-war-on-drugs/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• TDS is a liability enforced against the exchanges that deposit tax on behalf of sellers on the platform. It will be calculated at 1% of the transaction value.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/14/what-are-virtual-digital-assets-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation: About Enforcement Directorate:

• The origin of this Directorate goes back to 1st May, 1956, when an ‘Enforcement Unit’was formed, in the Department of Economic Affairs, for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 (FERA ’47).
• In the year 1957, this Unit was renamed as ‘Enforcement Directorate’.
• Presently, it is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
• The Organization is mandated with the task of enforcing the provisions of two special fiscal laws – Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) and Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/06/14/enforcement-directorate-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• See table below from http://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/reports_and_publication/statistical_manual/Chapter%2012.pdf

Refer: UPSC CSE 2020

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S1: About 29% are such, not 26%. Out of the 5723 assessment units assessed jointly by State Ground Water Departments and CGWB in the country, 4078 are safe (71%), 550 are semi critical (10%), 226 are critical (4%) and 839 are over exploited (15%). See https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/genrep/rep_grndwat.pdf
• S2: Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) constituted under Section 3(3) of ‘The Environment (Protection) Act, (1986)’ regulates extraction of ground water through guidelines which are updated regularly.
• S3: At 39 million hectares (67% of its total irrigation), India has the world’s largest groundwater well equipped irrigation system (China with 19 mha is second, USA with 17 mha is third).

Refer: UPSC CSE 2020

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S1: This is obviously incorrect, they occur in upper atmospheres of both hemispheres.
• S2: Correct. Extra-tropical cyclones may not always have an eye, whereas mostly mature storms have well developed eye. Rapidly intensifying storms may develop an extremely small, clear, and circular eye, sometimes referred to as a pinhole eye.
• S3: It is warmer and not colder for a tropical cyclone. The warmer temperature is what drives the storm.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2020

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• They can be used to run them all. The most common pump mechanics in Solar power pumps used are centrifugal pumps, multistage pumps, borehole pumps, and helical pumps.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2020

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Conventional method of sugarcane planting requires 7 to 8 tonnes of seed cane per hectare and this is the main reason for slow rate of seed and varietal replacement. Sugarcane being a long duration crop and heavy biomass producer requires about 1500 to 2500 mm water.
• Keeping in mind the likely to be faced situations in future, the ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute (ICAR-SBI) has developed an integrated sugarcane cultivation model called Settling Transplanting Technology (STT). Components of the model are listed below:
• High yielding and better quality varieties
• Raising and transplanting of settlings derived from single bud setts/ bud chips
  • Sub-surface drip irrigation and fertigation
  • Wider row planting
  • Intercropping
  • Trash mulching
  • Multiple ratooning
  • Mechanization
• S1: Transplanting sugarcane single-bud/ bud-chip settlings can save seed cane requirement up to 80 per cent besides providing healthy plants and good field establishment. It is less expensive and labour saving in comparison with conventional sett planting.
• Other options are spaced transplanting (STP) and polybag / pro-tray nursery.
• S2 and S3: Reverse is true. See here http://www.iisr.nic.in/download/publications/ijst-December-2011.pdf
• S4: Yes, tissue culture or vegetative propagation (a subset of TC), can be used to germinate and grow these settlings which can be transplanted in the field later.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2020