[MISSION 2023] RTM(Revision through MCQs)- 4 Nov 2022

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• Context: Rahul Gandhi joins Telangana’s traditional Bonalu festival and picked up a heavy rope and whipped himself as he donned the avatar of ‘potharaju”.
• It is a traditional Hindu festival centred on the Goddess Mahakali from Telangana.
• Potharaju, a key figure in the Bonalu festival, is the fearsome brother of the goddess Mahankali, who wields a whip to protect the goddess.
• Bonalu involves the worship of the Mother Goddess in regional forms like Maisamma,
• Pochamma, Yellamma, Peddhamma, Dokkalamma, Ankalamma, Poleramma, Maremma, Nookalamma.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Wangala is also called the festival of “The Hundred Drums”, a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who live in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh. In this post-harvest festival, they give thanks to Misi Saljong the sun god, for blessing the people with a rich harvest.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Kalidasa’s epic Sanskrit work Kumarasambhavam may have influenced Malayalam art and literature, and Kathakali dance.
• Kumārasaṃbhavam is an epic poem by Kālidāsa. It is widely regarded as the finest work of Kālidāsa as well as the greatest kāvya poem in Classical Sanskrit.
• The work describes the courting of the ascetic Shiva, who is meditating in the mountains, by Parvati, the daughter of the Himalayas.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• S3: Punjab Police has recently proposed that the birth anniversary (Gurpurab) of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev be declared as ‘World Pedestrian Day’.
• A written proposal in this regard may be sent to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways soon.
• This year Guru Nanak’s 552nd Gurpurab will be celebrated on November 19.
• S1 and 2: He was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi (‘full-moon of Kattak’), i.e. October–November.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR):
• Set up in March 2007 under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005.
• It works under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
• Definition: The Child is defined as a person in the 0 to 18 years age group.
• The Commission’s Mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies, Programmes, and Administrative Mechanisms are in consonance with the Child Rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Composition:
  • This commission has a chairperson and six members of which at least two should be women.
  • All of them are appointed by Central Government for three years.
  • The maximum age to serve in commission is 65 years for Chairman and 60 years for members.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• The Juvenile Justice Board is an institutional body constituted under Section 4 of the JJ Act, 2015. According to the division of powers, the subject of administration of criminal justice has been included in the State List (List II, Schedule VII) of the Indian Constitution. Therefore, one or more than one Juvenile Justice Board(s) are established by the State Government for each district. The Board exercises its powers and discharges functions relating to the ‘child in conflict with law’ as has been defined under Section 2(13) of this Act.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Department of School Education and Literacy (DOSE & L) of the Ministry of Education (MOE) has released the Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States/UTs for 2020-21 (4th edition since 2017), an index for evidence-based analysis of the school education system.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Bada Dev: A revered deity for Gond-Pardhan tribes, he is believed to reside in the Saja tree. The Gond are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group and are one of the largest tribal groups in India.
• Warli paintings: Warli painting is a type of tribal art that is predominantly done by tribal people from Maharashtra’s North Sahyadri Range. This tribal art originated in Maharashtra and is still practised today.
• Madhubani painting: It is a well-known form of art famous in the state of Bihar in India. This exceptional art form has five different styles (Bharni, Kachni, Tantrik, Godna, Kohbar) with distinct features.
• The Cheriyal paintings represent a distinct local invention, based mainly on local traditions. The Nakashis are the artists of Telangana and the scrolls constitute a key element of the social and cultural setting of Telangana. These paintings were mostly confined to Cheriyal village, and hence called Cheriyal scrolls.

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Data from the Steel Ministry, show that 84 per cent of Pig Iron came from Russia. This is significant amid calls by countries to limit trade with Russia.
• Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate product of the iron industry in the production of steel which is obtained by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. It has a very high carbon content and is brittle and therefore needs further refining.
• Low-grade ores comprised 92% of India’s total iron ore exports (mostly to China). India ranks seventh in the iron ore resources, in the world

Refer: facts for prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2022/11/04/mission-2023-insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-summary-03-november-2022-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S1: the 2nd FYP was influenced by the Nehru-Mahalanobis plan leaning towards heavy industries. So, there was no substitution (rather emphasis) of capital goods and basic industries. S1 is incorrect.
• S2: The preface to the 4th FYP says :A sense of involvement, of participation by the people as a whole, is vital for the success of any plan of rapid economic growth. This can only be evoked by securing social justice, by reducing disparities of income and wealth, and by redessing regional imbalances.”……” The Fourth Plan thus provides a necessary corrective to the earlier trend which helped particularly the stronger sections in agriculture as well as in industry to enable them rapidly to enlarge and diversify the production base. In the long run, the full potential of growth cannot be realised unless the energies of all our people are put to profitable use.” Clearly, S2 is correct. See http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/4th/4ppre.htm
• S3: This is an ambiguous statement but seems to be incorrect based on our research.
• The First Five Year Plan document (1950) stated that:
• “Central banking in a planned economy can hardly be confined to the regulation of overall supply of credit or to a somewhat negative regulation of the flow of bank credit. It would have to take on a direct and active role, firstly in creating or helping to create the machinery needed for financing developmental activities all over the country and secondly ensuring that the finance available flows in the directions intended.” See https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/860/8/08_chapter%203.pdf Pg. 168. This implies that the financial sector was not at the backburner even from the first FYP.
• The second five-year plan envisaged setting up of industrial estates by State Governments through special corporations or agencies for assistance and financing of promotion/establishment of MSMEs. These agencies form the backbone of the financial sector for MSMEs.
• Also see this to review the highlights of each plan: http://mospi.nic.in/sites/default/files/Statistical_year_book_india_chapters/Five%20Year%20Plan%20writeup_0.pdf , page 2 and see the foreword of the fifth plan at http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/5th/5vfore.htm . Both these official documents nowhere mention that the fifth FYP was the first to focus on financial reforms or that the financial sector was integral to the fifth FYP. The Fifth Plan, instead, gave top priority to cutting down inflation and poverty alleviation. Also, having referred various other sources (not possible to include them all here), we can say that S3 is incorrect.

Refer: UPSC CSE 2019