[Mission 2024] Current Affairs Quiz , 28 August 2023

Solution: d)

End of a half-month stand-off between the National Medical Commission (NMC), India’s regulatory body guiding medical professionals and the Indian Medical Association (IMA), a national voluntary organisation of physicians with over three lakh members.

The two had locked-horns over one of the provisions of the NMC’s notification on August 2 asking registered medical practitioners (RMP) to prescribe generic medicines only.

Source

Solution: c)

Shigellosis is an infection of the intestines caused by Shigella bacteria. Shigellosis, which causes dysentery.

“Controlled human infection study” (CHIS), also called a human challenge study.

A CHIS is a relatively quick and efficient way to assess if a vaccine might work, and they have been used for decades in research for dozens of diseases.

Source

Solution: b)

Statement 1 is incorrect.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a new Central Sector Scheme “PM Vishwakarma” for a period of five years (FY 2023-24 to FY 2027-28). The scheme aims to strengthen and nurture the Guru-Shishya parampara or family-based practice of traditional skills by artisans and craftspeople working with their hands and tools. The scheme also aims at improving the quality, as well as the reach of products and services of artisans and craftspeople and to ensure that the Vishwakarmas are integrated with the domestic and global value chains.

Under PM Vishwakarma scheme, the artisans and craftspeople will be provided recognition through PM Vishwakarma certificate and ID card, Credit Support upto Rs.1 lakh (First Tranche) and Rs.2 lakh (Second Tranche) with a concessional interest rate of 5%.  The Scheme will further provide Skill Upgradation, Toolkit Incentive, Incentive for Digital Transactions and Marketing Support.

The scheme will provide support to artisans and craftspeople of rural and urban areas across India. Eighteen traditional trades will be covered in the first instance under PM Vishwakarma.

Source

Solution: c)

PM Gati Shakti seeks to revolutionize infrastructure development through a ‘whole of the government’ approach: a digital Geographic Information System (GIS)-based platform and an institutional arrangement. This initiative aims to develop plans for integrated multimodal infrastructure for the efficient transportation of goods and people. Its national master plan has integrated over 1,460 GIS data layers representing infrastructure assets, with topographical as well as geographical features, and data related to 15 social sectors. By bringing together various ministries and departments on a single digital platform, PM Gati Shakti enables data-driven decision-making for project planning and implementation. More than 38 ministries/departments of the central government, 28 states and eight Union territories are already part of it.

PM Gati Shakti also emphasizes multimodal connectivity to economic nodes and cargo hubs. This enhances the commercial viability of network projects as well as the infrastructure or manufacturing units connected to it.

Source

Solution: b)

Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Procedures (PIC) that entered into force on 24th February, 2004, is a legally binding instrument, which was adopted on 10th September 1998 by a Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rotterdam. India acceded to the Convention on 24.05.2006.

The Convention seeks to promote shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among State Parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm.