November 2021 Flashcards
The farm laws were withdrawn on which festival?
Guru Purab
Name the three farm laws
- Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020.
- Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020.
- Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020
What are the features of the
Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020?
- Expands scope of trade areas of farm produce.
- Allows e-trading and e-commerce for farm produce.
- Prohibits state governments from levying a fee or tax on agri transactions in an ‘outside area’.
What are the features of the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020?
- Provides a legal framework for farmers to enter to contracts with corporates.
- Provides a dispute resolution mechanism.
What are the features of the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020?
– Removes cereals, pulses, potato, onions, edible oilseeds, and oils, from the list of essential commodities.
When were the Farm Laws passed?
September 2020
Name the SC case in which it stayed the implementation of the farm laws and appointed a committee to look into the same.
Rakesh Vaishnav v. Union of India
____ is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India.
National Agriculture Market or eNAM
APMCs are regulated by states through their adoption of a ___.
Agriculture Produce Marketing Regulation (APMR) Act
A total of ___ commodities are covered by MSP mechanism.
23
The National Commission on Farmers was chaired by ___.
Prof. M. S. Swaminathan
____ is known as the father of the green revolution in India. ____ is the father of the green revolution worldwide.
M.S. Swaminathan, Norman Borlaug
Article ___ of the Constitution gives Parliament the power to make laws for the whole or any part of India, and state legislatures the power to make laws for the state.
Article 245
The ___ Schedule deals with the three lists.
Seventh Schedule
The Union List has ___ items.
The Concurrent List has ___ items.
The State List has ___ items.
97
52
61
Agriculture is in item ___ in the ___ list. However, item ___ of the union list allows the Parliament to ___, including agriculture.
14, state list
33, regulate trade and any industry
Name the centrally sponsored scheme that was recently resumed after being suspended in April 2020.
Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS)
MPLADS has been resumed with the MPs getting ₹___ instead of the annual approved ₹___.
2 crore, 5 crore
When was MPLADS introduced?
1993
What is the full form of the NIPUN Bharat Scheme?
National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy
The Minister of Education is ___.
The first Minister was ___.
Dharmendra Pradhan, Abul Kalam
NIPUN Bharat was launched under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of ___.
Samagra Shiksha
The objective of NIPUN Bharat Scheme is to create an environment to ensure ___, so that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy by the end of ___ level, by ___.
Universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, Grade 3, 2026-27
The ___ in ___ made education an enforceable right (Right to Education) under Article ___.
86th Amendment, 2002
Article 21A
National Education Day
International Day of Education
November 11th
January 24th
Recently, the President awarded the respective cities in the __th Edition of ___ for their performance in maintaining cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation.
6th Edition of the Swachh Survekshan (SS), 2021
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) is a country-wide campaign initiated by in ___.
2014
SBM is being implemented by the ___ (Minister?) and by the ___ (Minister?) for urban and rural areas respectively.
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (Hardeep Singh Puri)
Ministry of Jal Shakti (Gajendra Singh Shekhawat)
Motto of Swachh Bharat Mission
One step towards cleanliness (Ek kadam swachhata ki or)
Logo of Swachh Bharat Mission
Mahatma Gandhi’s Spectacles
The cleanliness survey in Swachh Bharat is called ___. The first edition was launched in ___. They surveys are conducted by the ___.
Swachh Survekshan
2016
Quality Council of India
As per Swachh Survekshan 2021, Cleanest City with >1 Lakh Population? Fastest Mover?
Indore, Madhya Pradesh (5th Consecutive Time)
Fastest Mover: Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh
As per Swachh Survekshan 2021, Cleanest City with <1 Lakh Population?
Vita, Maharashtra
As per Swachh Survekshan 2021, Cleanest Ganga Town?
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
As per Swachh Survekshan 2021, Cleanest Cantonment?
Ahmedabad Cantonment (Gujarat)
As per Swachh Survekshan 2021, Cleanest State with >100 Urban Local Bodies? Fastest Mover?
Chhattisgarh (3rd Consecutive Time)
Fastest Mover: Karnataka
As per Swachh Survekshan 2021, Cleanest State with <100 ULBs? Fastest Mover?
Jharkhand
Fastest Mover: Mizoram
Name the five cities categorised as ‘Divya’ (Platinum) under the Prerak Daaur Samman, a new performance category under the SS 2021.
Indore, Surat, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi Municipal Council and Tirupati
Name the top performer cities under the Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge.
Indore, Navi Mumbai, Nellore, and Dewas
Name the top performer states under the Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge.
Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh
Under the Star Rating Protocol of Garbage Free Cities, ___ cities were certified as 5-star cities.
9 cities
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan deals with which SDG?
SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
World Toilet Day
19th November
The central government is preparing to give a fresh push to the establishment of an ___ on the lines of the central civil services.
It is a reform push to centralise the recruitment of judges at the level of additional district judges and district judges for all states.
All India Judicial Service (AIJS)
Recently, India was re-elected to the executive board of which specialised agency of the UN? What term?
UNESCO
2021-25
The UNESCO is headquartered at the ___ in ___.
World Heritage Centre in Paris, France
Director-General of the UNESCO
Audrey Azoulay (France)
UNESCO was founded on ___ as the successor to ___.
16th November 1945
League of Nations’ International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.
Name the three constitutional organs of the UNESCO.
The General Conference, the Executive Board, and the Secretariat.
Which body selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
World Heritage Committee?
What is the full name of the Heritage Convention? When was it signed? When did it come into force?
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
It was signed in 1972.
It came into effect in 1975.
Name the country with the most World Heritage Sites.
Italy, 58 sites
How many World Heritage Sites in India? What is the number of each type?
40 sites:
32 cultural, 7 natural and 1 mixed
Name the only Mixed Heritage Site of India.
Kanchenjunga National Park, Sikkim
First Heritage Sites of India. When were they added?
Agra Fort, Taj Mahal, Ajanta Caves and Ellora Caves in 1983
Latest Heritage Site to be added from India.
Dholavira, Gujarat
Recently, ___ was removed from the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Liverpool
Minister of Culture
G. Kishan Reddy
World Heritage Day
What is this day also called?
18th April
International Day for Monuments and Sites
International Day of Tolerance
Why is it celebrated on this day?
16th November
Founding of the UNESCO in 1945, signing of the World Heritage Convention in 1972.
On the Intl. Day of Tolerance, the ___ prize is given by the UNESCO. The latest winner of this prize was ___.
UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence
CRC (Centre Resolution Conflicts)
(Intl. Day of Tolerance is on 16th November)
Name the new variant of COVID-19.
Omicron (B.1.1.529)
The Omicron variant was first detected in
South Africa
The WHO’s ___ has declared Omicron to be a ___.
Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), Variant of Concern
Name the two current naming systems used for COVID-19 variants.
- WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE): after Greek alphabets
- PANGOLIN software, uses dynamic nomenclature