[Mission 2023] QUIZ : Insights Current Affairs Quiz , 6 August 2022

Solution: b)

There is a strong connection between the government’s tax revenue earnings and economic growth. The simple fact is that as the economy achieves faster growth, the tax revenue of the government also goes up.

Tax buoyancy explains this relationship between the changes in government’s tax revenue growth and the changes in GDP. It refers to the responsiveness of tax revenue growth to changes in GDP. When a tax is buoyant, its revenue increases without increasing the tax rate.

Solution: b)

Under the Constitution, the power to legislate in respect of personal laws rests with both Parliament and state Assemblies. Preservation of legal diversity seems to be the reason for inclusion of personal law in the Concurrent List (entry No. 5).

Once a legislative field is occupied by parliamentary legislation, states do not have much freedom to enact laws. Such laws would require Presidential assent under Article 254.

The Constitution itself protects local customs of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

Solution: a)

The National Tiger Conservation Authority is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has been fulfilling its mandate within the ambit of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 for strengthening tiger conservation in the country by retaining an oversight through advisories/normative guidelines, based on appraisal of tiger status, ongoing conservation initiatives and recommendations of specially constituted Committees.

Set up under the Chairmanship of the Minister for Environment and Forests.

Functions of NTCA are as follows:

• Ensuring normative standards in tiger reserve management.
• Preparation of reserve specific tiger conservation plan.
• Laying down annual/ audit report before Parliament.
• Instituting State level Steering Committees under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister and establishment of Tiger Conservation Foundation.
• According approval for declaring new Tiger Reserves.

Solution: c)

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

It occurs mainly in the northern hemisphere, where birds are funnelled on to specific routes by natural barriers such as the Mediterranean Sea or the Caribbean Sea.

The Arctic tern holds the long-distance migration record for birds, travelling between Arctic breeding grounds and the Antarctic each year.

The timing of migration seems to be controlled primarily by changes in day length. Migrating birds navigate using celestial cues from the sun and stars, the earth’s magnetic field, and mental maps.

Solution: c)