[Mission 2023] Current Affairs Quiz , 23 May 2023

Solution: c)

• Mangalagiri Sarees and Fabrics are produced by performing handicraft weavingin Mangalagiri, a town in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
• It was registered as one of the handicrafts in the geographical indication from Andhra Pradesh by Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. 
• The Mangalagiri fabric is produced by weaving with the help of pitlooms from combed yarn by warp and woof interlacing.
• The fabric then undergoes the process of dyeing.
• The Nizam design is another characteristic of the fabric.

Solution: c)

The onset of monsoon over the Kerala coast is just a marker of the official beginning of the four-month monsoon season that brings more than 75 per cent of India’s annual rainfall. An early or delayed onset over Kerala does not in any way dictate monsoon performance over the rest of the season.

In fact, the onset over the Kerala coast is not even the start of the monsoon rains over India. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands start getting the rains at least two weeks before Kerala does. Sometimes, even parts of Kerala get rains for a few days before the onset is officially announced.

The onset is just a declaration that a set of criteria defined by the IMD to identify the arrival of the monsoon over the Indian mainland has been met. For this purpose, the IMD tracks rains at 14 selected meteorological stations on the Kerala coast. If at least 60 per cent of these stations, that is at least nine of them, get at least 2.5 mm rainfall for two consecutive days anytime after May 10, the onset is said to have occurred. There are a few other accompanying criteria, relating to wind speed and pressure, which need to be satisfied.

The monsoon then moves northwards, the speed of its movement dictated by local atmospheric conditions and the development of low-pressure areas.

The normal arrival dates at different locations in the country are known, but the progression of monsoon does not always follow these dates. Late arrival over Kerala sometimes delays the arrival at some other locations as well, but not always.

In the past five years, only once has the onset over Kerala happened on the normal date, in 2020. In the past 11 years, it has happened once more. On other occasions, the onset was either a few days earlier or later. But this has no correlation with the amount of rainfall during the monsoon season.

In 2016, for example, the onset happened on June 8, the most delayed in the past 12 years. The rainfall that year was normal, 97.5 per cent of the long period average.

Recent forecasts suggest that El Nino, the warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that impacts weather events worldwide, is likely to develop earlier than expected. El Nino has the effect of suppressing the Indian monsoon rainfall.

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Solution: d)

For the purpose of census 2011, a person aged seven and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any language, is treated as literate. A person, who can only read but cannot write, is not literate. In the censuses prior to 1991, children below five years of age were necessarily treated as illiterates.

Solution: d)

Demand-pull inflation is a period of inflation which arises from rapid growth in aggregate demand. It occurs when economic growth is too fast. If aggregate demand (AD) rises faster than productive capacity (LRAS), then firms will respond by putting up prices, creating inflation.

Solution: b)

In India, the tropic of cancer passes through States of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.