[MISSION 2023] RTM(Revision through MCQs)- 06 Sep 2022

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• A new NEP usually comes along every few decades. India has had three to date. The first came in 1968 and the second in 1986, under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi respectively; the NEP of 1986 was revised in 1992 when P V Narasimha Rao was Prime Minister. The third is the NEP released under the Prime Ministership of Narendra Modi.
• The NEP only provides a broad direction and is not mandatory to follow. Since education is a concurrent subject (both the Centre and the state governments can make laws on it), the reforms proposed can only be implemented collaboratively by the Centre and the states.
• The new National Education Policy has been drafted by a committee headed by former ISRO chief Kasturirangan.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/funding-public-education/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) is a method of chemical-free agriculture drawing from traditional Indian practices.
• It was originally promoted by Maharashtrian agriculturist and Padma Shri recipient Subhash
• Palekar, who developed it in the mid-1990s as an alternative to the Green Revolution’s methods driven by chemical fertilizers and pesticides and intensive irrigation.
• The ZBNF method also promotes soil aeration, minimal watering, intercropping, bunds and topsoil mulching and discourages intensive irrigation and deep ploughing.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/natural-farming/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a farming system that can prevent losses of arable land while regenerating degraded lands. It promotes maintenance of a permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance, and diversification of plant species. It enhances biodiversity and natural biological processes above and below the ground surface, which contribute to increased water and nutrient use efficiency and to improved and sustained crop production.
• CA principles are universally applicable to all agricultural landscapes and land uses with locally adapted practices. Soil interventions such as mechanical soil disturbance are reduced to an absolute minimum or avoided, and external inputs such as agrochemicals and plant nutrients of mineral or organic origin are applied optimally and in ways and quantities that do not interfere with, or disrupt, the biological processes.
• Complemented by other known good practices, including the use of quality seeds, and integrated pest, nutrient, weed and water management, etc., CA is a base for sustainable agricultural production intensification. It opens increased options for integration of production sectors, such as crop-livestock integration and the integration of trees and pastures into agricultural landscapes.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/natural-farming/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The eighth-century Martand Temple is one of the oldest sun temples in India and a symbol of invaluable ancient spiritual heritage.
• Built by Lalitaditya Muktapidain the 8th Century AD, the Martand Sun Temple is said to have been an excellent specimen of Kashmiri architecture and one of the holiest shrines for the Kashmiri Pandit
  • Lalitaditya Muktapida was the third ruler of the Karkota Dynasty.
• The temple was destroyed by Sikandar Shah Miri in the 14th Century AD and the ruins are now marked as a “site of national importance” by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The art of bronze casting was practised on a wide scale by the Harappans. Their bronze statues were made using the ‘lost wax’ technique.
• DANCING GIRL
  • One of the best known artefacts from the Indus Valley is this approximately four inch high copper figure of a dancing girl. Found in Mohenjodaro, this exquisite casting depicts a girl whose long hair is tied in a bun. Bangles cover her left arm, a bracelet and an amulet or bangle adorn her right arm, and a cowry shell necklace is seen around her neck. Her right hand is on her hip and her left hand is clasped in a traditional Indian dance gesture. She has large eyes and flat nose. This figure is full of expression and bodily vigour and conveys a lot of information.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Also known as Kappalottiya Tamizhan (“Tamil Helmsman”),was an Indian freedom fighter and former leader of the Indian National Congress. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC).  Every product he used in his life was Swadeshi products.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/

Ans: (c)

Explanation: About Ramon Magsaysay Award:

• Launched in 1958, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, widely considered to be Asia’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize, recognises outstanding leadership and communitarian contributions in Asia.
• Who was Ramon Magsaysay
• Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Senior was the seventh president of the Philippines, from 1953 until his death in an air crash in 1957.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S1: Article 22 grants protection to persons who are arrested or detained. Detention is of two types, namely, punitive and preventive. Punitive detention is to punish a person for an offence committed by him after trial and conviction in a court. Preventive detention, on the other hand, means detention of a person without trial and conviction by a court.
• S2: The Constitution has divided the legislative power with regard to preventive detention between the Parliament and the state legislatures. The Parliament has exclusive authority to make a law of preventive detention for reasons connected with defense, foreign affairs and the security of India. Both the Parliament as well as the state legislatures can concurrently make a law of preventive detention for reasons connected with the security of a state, the maintenance of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• It is a centrally sponsored scheme for up gradation and development of more than 14500 Schools across the country.
• It aims at strengthening the selected existing schools from amongst schools managed by Central Government/ State/ UT Government/ local bodies.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable.
• TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel the TB germs into the air. A person needs to inhale only a few of these germs to become infected.

Refer: Facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/09/06/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-6-september-2022/