[Mission 2023] QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 11 November 2022

Solution: c)

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI):

The report produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).

The global MPI constructs a deprivation profile of each household and person through 10 indicators spanning health, education and standard of living. All indicators are equally weighted within each dimension. The global MPI identifies people as multidimensionally poor if their deprivation score is 1/3 or higher.

The MPI is calculated by multiplying the incidence of poverty and the average intensity of poverty. The MPI ranges from 0 to 1, and higher values imply higher poverty.

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Solution: a)

As part of the normal metabolic process, proteins produced in our body degrade, and in due course, new proteins are made to replace them. Usually, when the protein degradation exceeds protein synthesis, skeletal muscle atrophy or simply a decrease in muscle mass occurs.

Typically, the protein synthesis is high when the digestion of the food is taking place and is slower during the post-absorptive state when the digestion is completed.

Solution: b)

G20 is a major international grouping that brings together 19 of the world’s major economies and the European Union, with its members accounting for more than 80% of global GDP, 75% of global trade and 60% of global population.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been leading India’s representation at G20 Summits since 2014.

India has been a member of the G20 since its inception in 1999. India will be holding the G20 Presidency from December 2022 and will convene the G20 Leaders’ Summit in 2023 for the first time.

Solution: c)

The Preamble in the Constitution gives prominent importance to liberty of belief, faith and worship to all citizens.

The concepts of faith, belief and worship are the foundations of Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution of India. 

The Supreme Court under Article 142 of the Constitution can pass any order to carry out for doing complete justice being in the public interest, while upholding the Constitution of India.

Solution: b)

While India ramps up its solar power installation, it does not yet have a firm policy on managing waste that results from used solar panels or from the manufacturing process.

India currently considers solar waste a part of electronic waste and does not account for it separately.

Solar panels have an estimated life of 25 years, and given that India’s solar manufacturing industry took off around 2010 most of the installed systems were new and early in their calendar life cycle and therefore unlikely to generate a large quantity of solar waste.