[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 15 November 2021 – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: c)

SVAMITVA, or Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas, is a central scheme of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj that aims to provide property rights to residents in rural areas.

The scheme seeks to achieve the following objectives:

• creation of accurate land records for rural planning and reduce property related disputes;
• bring financial stability to rural citizens by enabling them to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits;
• determination of property tax, which would accrue to the GPs directly in states where it is devolved or else, add to the state exchequer;
• creation of survey infrastructure and GIS maps that can be leveraged by any department; and,
• supporting preparation of better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) by making use of GIS maps.

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Solution: d)

The right to protest is the manifestation of three Fundamental Rights:

1. Right to Freedom of Assembly
2. Right to Freedom of Association and
3. Right to Freedom of Speech

Solution: b)

Carbon markets facilitate the trading of emission reductions. Such a market allows countries, or industries, to earn carbon credits for the emission reductions they make in excess of their targets. These carbon credits can be traded to the highest bidder in exchange of money. The buyers of carbon credits can show the emission reductions as their own and use them to meet their reduction targets. Carbon markets are considered a very important and effective instrument to reduce overall emissions.

A carbon market existed under Kyoto Protocol but is no longer there because the Protocol itself expired last year. A new market under Paris Agreement is yet to become functional.

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Solution: b)

Norovirus, which infects people across age groups, is a bug similar to the diarrhoea-inducing rotavirus. Disease outbreaks typically occur aboard cruise ships, in nursing homes, dormitories, and other closed spaces.

The initial symptoms of Norovirus are vomiting and/or diarrhoea, which show up one or two days after exposure to the virus.

Norovirus is highly contagious, and can be transmitted through contaminated food, water, and surfaces. The primary route is oral-faecal. One may get infected multiple times as the virus has different strains. Norovirus is resistant to many disinfectants and heat up to 60°C. Therefore, merely steaming food or chlorinating water does not kill the virus. The virus can also survive many common hand sanitisers.

It is the most common pathogen implicated in outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease (inflammation of the stomach and intestines), according to the World Health Organization.

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Solution: a)

Since India has partial capital account convertibility, this implies that private foreign denominated

debt also needs to be met by either private export earnings or India’s forex reserves.

There is no correlation between capital account convertibility and sovereign credit rating.

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