[MISSION 2023] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS (5 July 2022 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS

Ans: (b)

Explanation: About Poshan Abhiyaan:

• The programme seeks to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
• Launched in 2018 with specific targets to be achieved by 2022.
• It aims to reduce:
  • Stunting and wasting by 2% a year (total 6% until 2022) among children.
  • Anaemia by 3% a year (total 9%) among children, adolescent girls and pregnant women and lactating mothers.
  • The target of the mission is to bring down stunting among children in the age group 0-6 years from 38.4% to 25% by 2022.
• NITI Aayog has played a critical role in shaping the POSHAN Abhiyaan. NITI Aayog has been entrusted with the task of closely monitoring the POSHAN Abhiyaan and undertaking periodic evaluations.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/india-needs-to-scale-up-direct-nutrition-interventions/

Ans: (a)

Explanation: About the Mid-Day meal scheme:

• The scheme guarantees one meal to all children in government and aided schools and madarsas supported under Samagra Shiksha.
• Students up to Class VIII are guaranteed one nutritional cooked meal at least 200 days in a year.
• The Scheme comes under the Ministry of HRD.
• It was launched in the year 1995 as the National Programme of Nutritional Support toPrimary Education (NP – NSPE), a centrally sponsored scheme. In 2004, the scheme was relaunched as the Mid Day Meal Scheme.
• The Scheme is also covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/india-needs-to-scale-up-direct-nutrition-interventions/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Thicknessof plastic carry bags to be increased from 50 microns –
  • to 75 microns from 30th September, 2021
  • to 120 microns from the 31st December, 2022
• The waste management infrastructure in the States/UTs is being strengthened through the Swachh Bharat Mission.
• Refer: Government notifies the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, prohibiting identified single use plastic items by 2022.
• https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1745433

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/niti-aayog-report-on-alternatives-to-plastics/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: What is the LHC?

• The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.
• The beams inside the LHC are made to collide at four locations around the accelerator ring, corresponding to the positions of four particle detectors – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
• ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector dedicated to heavy-ion physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where a phase of matter called quark-gluon plasma forms.
• The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment specializes in investigating the slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type of particle called the “beauty quark”, or “b quark”.
• The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design.
• ATLAS is one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It investigates a wide range of physics, from the search for the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the CMS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/large-hadron-collider/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• N. sends soil samples for a project relating to the new Parliament building
  • They pertain to the 5 ecological regions mentioned in ancient Tamil Sangam literature
  • Soil samples from five ecological regions mentioned in ancient Tamil Sangam literature — Kurinji, Mullai, Marutham, Neithal and Paalai — have been collected and sent to the capital recently.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-05-july-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Donetsk and Luhansk are the two areas that together make up the Donbas region on the Ukraine-Russia border.
• Donbas is a key industrial hub and important from a resource perspective having the largest coal reserves in Ukraine.
• These two areas broke away from the Ukrainian government’s control back in 2014 and proclaimed themselves independent “people’s republics”. Donbas region also offers strategic advantages for Russia. By controlling the region, Russia intends to create a ‘land bridge’ to Crimea, a territory it annexed in 2014.
• Access to the Black Sea and warm water ports in Crimea such as Sevastopol allows it to access important trade routes throughout the year.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-05-july-2022/

Ans: (d)

Explanation: Saving Chenkurinji from climate change

• The Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary derives its name from Gluta travancorica, a species endemic to the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve known as ‘Chenkurinji’ in local parlance.
• Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Western Ghats, India, located in Kollam district of Kerala and comes under the control of Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/07/05/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-05-july-2022/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The phrase ‘critical wildlife habitat’ is defined only in the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, and NOT in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
• Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs officially decides and declares Habitat Rights for Primitive and Vulnerable Tribal Groups in any part of India.
• Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=69806
• Source: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/baiga-tribals-become-india-s-first-community-to-get-habitat-rights52452

Refer: UPSC CSE 2018

Ans: (c)

Explanation: A110. Definition of Money Bill

• (1) For the purposes of this Chapter, a Bill shall be deemed to be a Money Bill if it contains only provisions dealing with all or any of the following matters, namely
• (a) the imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax;
• (b) the regulation of the borrowing of money or the giving of any guarantee by the Government of India, or the amendment of the law with respect to any financial obligations undertaken or to be undertaken by the Government of India;
• (c) the custody of the consolidated Fund or the Contingency Fund of India, the payment of moneys into or the withdrawal of moneys from any such Fund;
• (d) the appropriation of moneys out of the consolidated Fund of India (not Contingency Fund of India). So, C is incorrect.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2018

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Usually, the speaker remains in office during the life of the assembly. However, he vacates his office earlier in any of the following cases:
  • If he ceases to be a member of the assembly
  • If he resigns by writing to the deputy speaker and;
  • If he is removed by a resolution passed by a majority of all the then members of the assembly. Such a resolution can be moved only after giving 14 days advance notice
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the Speaker holds office from the date of her election till immediately before the first meeting of the Legislative assembly after the dissolution of the one to which she was elected. She is eligible for re-election. On the dissolution of the Legislative assembly, although the Speaker ceases to be a member of the House, she does not vacate her office.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2018