[Mission 2024] Current Affairs Quiz , 24 August 2023

Solution: a)

Only statement 1 is correct.

Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) launched in September 2018 has taken the country closer to Sustainable Development Goal 3.8, which envisions universal health coverage.

The scheme provides a health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation to more than 12 crore families (bottom 40 per cent of the population), making it the world’s largest health assurance scheme.

Eleven states/UTs have pushed for 100 per cent coverage of their respective population.

The scheme caters to the poor and underprivileged sections of society. Its design ensures that the difficulties of people from this section in accessing healthcare services should be mitigated. Every hospital is mandated to have dedicated Pradhan Mantri Arogya Mitras (PMAMs) who guide the beneficiaries.

An important feature of AB-PMJAY is interstate portability. This means a patient registered in one state is entitled to receive care in any other state that has an AB-PMJAY programme. This has proved helpful to migrants, especially in emergencies.

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Solution: a)

Only statement 1 is correct.

The index is based on the methodology used by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to construct the Global MPI. OPHI and UNDP are technical partners in the formulation of the national index.

But India’s MPI is not exactly the same as the Global MPI. For instance, India’s MPI has 12 variables, while the Global MPI has 10. The two additional variables in India’s MPI are maternal health and bank account.

It must be noted that this is a multidimensional poverty index and, as such, is not comparable to India’s traditional and official way of estimating poverty.

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Solution: b)

Options 1, 3 and 4 are correct.

The national MPI measures deprivations across the three dimensions of health and nutrition, education, and standard of living.

Within health, it tracks three variables: nutrition, child and adolescent mortality, and maternal health. In education, it tracks two variables: years of schooling, and school attendance. And in standard of living, it tracks seven variables such as sanitation, drinking water, bank account, etc.

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Solution: b)

Statement 3 is incorrect.

While studying in London, Dhingra came in contact with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Shyamji Krishna Varma, both active in revolutionary circles in the city.

Later, he became a member of the secretive Abhinav Bharat Mandal founded by Vinayak Savarkar and his brother Ganesh.

While studying in England, he assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official.

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Solution: a)

The Government reviews the price situation regularly and has taken number of measures from time to time to stabilize prices of food items. These include:

1. Banning the export of inflated food item.
2. Imposition of stock limit to prevent hoarding.
3. Easing of restrictions on imports, facilitating imports at integrated check-posts, issuance of licenses for imports and reduction in import duties. This has resulted in cooling of prices.