[Mission 2023] QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 28 December 2022

Solution: c)

Digitally capturing the attendance of workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) has been made universal by the Centre from January 1, 2023. 

The Union government, arguing for transparency and accountability in May 2021, had started a pilot project to capture attendance via a mobile application, the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS). 

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Solution: c)

Maldives is an archipelagic state located in South Asia, situated in the Indian Ocean. 

Maldives became a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates the Little Andaman and Car Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal. Lakshadweep island group is separated from Maldives by the Eight Degree Channel.

Solution: d)

Constitution bench:

It is the name given to the benches of the Supreme Court of India which consist of at least five judges of the court which sit to decide any case:

• • Involving a substantial question of law as to the interpretation” of the Constitution of India
  • For the purpose of hearing any reference” made by the President of India under Article 143.

• This provision has been mandated by Article 145 (3) of the Constitutionof India.
• The Chief Justice of India has the power to constitute a Constitution Bench and refer cases to it.

Solution: b)

If external aid is a grant or coming without interest, no better way to finance the deficit, if we ignore their inflationary effects.

When the domestic market has limited amount of funds, and if the government desires to borrow a large share of it to finance the fiscal deficit, it tends to raise the demand for funds in the market. This shoots the market interest rate for the funds and causes problems to the domestic investors who now have to pay a higher interest rate to avail the same loan.

If the same money is borrowed from abroad, the crowing out effect doesn’t occur.

Solution: c)

The twinkling of a star is due to atmospheric refraction of starlight. The starlight, on entering the earth’s atmosphere, undergoes refraction continuously before it reaches the earth.