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The farm laws were withdrawn on which festival?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