[MISSION 2022] INSIGHTS CURRENT AFFAIRS ( 9 December 2021 ) REVISION THROUGH MCQS – INSIGHTSIAS

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• The 2022 World Inequality Report (WIR)has been released.
• What you need to know about the WIR?
  • Released by the World Inequality Lab,a research center at the Paris School of Economics.
  • The WIR studies different kinds of financial data to find out how a country’s (and the world’s) income and wealth are distributed.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/world-inequality-report/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S1: It is an executive body established by an order of the Government of India.
• S3: Originally formed in 1955,the commission is reconstituted every three years and so far, 277 reports have been submitted to the government.
• The last Law Commission, under Justice B.S. Chauhan (retd.),had submitted reports and working papers on key issues such as simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies and a uniform civil code.
• S2: Composition:
  • Apart from having a full-time chairperson, the commission will have four full-time members, including a member-secretary.
  • Law and Legislative Secretaries in the Law Ministry will be the ex-officio members of the commission.
  • It will also have not more than five part-time members.
  • A retired Supreme Court judge or Chief Justice of a High Court will head the Commission.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/law-commission-of-india-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S2: About the Project:
  • The project involves transferring of water from the Ken river to the Betwa river through the construction of Daudhan dam and a canal linking the two rivers, the Lower Orr Project, Kotha Barrage and the Bina Complex Multipurpose Project.
• S1: Key facts:
  • Ken and Betwa rivers originate in MP and are the tributaries of Yamuna.
  • Ken meets with Yamuna in Banda district of UP and with Betwa in Hamirpur district of UP.
  • Rajghat, Paricha and Matatila dams are over Betwa river.
  • Ken River passes through Panna tiger reserve.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/nod-for-ken-betwa-link-project/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• S1: Panna National Park is a national park located in Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh in India.
• S2: Kanha tiger reserveis now the first in India to have an official mascot – ‘Bhoorsingh the barasingha’. The barasingha or swamp deer is the state animal of Madhya Pradesh and is found only in the Kanha tiger reserve, across Mandla and Balaghat districts.
• S3: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has written to Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar, asking him not to implement the Ken-Betwa river linking project. It is because Panna Tiger reservewill be damaged by the river linking project. The state government’s open estimate is that around 40 per cent of the area of the tiger reserve will be irretrievably damaged.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/nod-for-ken-betwa-link-project/

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• S1: The Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment (POSHAN Abhiyaan), or the National Nutrition Mission, is the Government of India’s flagship programme to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. Launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2018, the POSHAN Abhiyaan directs the attention of the country towards the problem of malnutrition and addresses it in a mission-mode.
• S2: The initiative seeks to reduce the level of stunting, undernutrition and low birth weight by 2% each, and anaemia by 3%. It aims to reduce stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/poshan-abhiyaan-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S1: Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an instant real-time payment system developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) facilitating inter-bank peer-to-peer (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions.
• S2 And S3: The interface is regulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and works by instantly transferring funds between two bank accounts on a mobile platform.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/unified-payments-interface-upi-2/

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• S1: Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is an initiative to enable fast, secure, reliable cashless payments through your mobile phone. BHIM is based on Unified Payment Interface (UPI) to facilitate e-payments directly through bank.
  • BHIM is developed by the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI).
• S2: Under the Referral bonus scheme both the existing user who refers BHIM and the new user who adopts BHIM would get a cash bonus credited directly to their account. Hence, the bonus will be paid to both the referrer and the new user of BHIM (referee) and the referral will be considered successful only after 3 successful financial transactions (to any valid UPI user – “valid receiver”) performed by the referee.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/unified-payments-interface-upi-2/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• S2: Article 3(j) of the India’s patent Act excludes from patentability “plants and animals in whole or in any part thereof other than microorganisms but including seeds, varieties, and species, and essentially biological processes for production or propagation of plants and animals”.
• S1: Article 3(J) of Indian Patent Act, excludes from patentability “plants and animals in whole or in any part thereof other than microorganisms, including seeds, varieties, and species, and essentially biological processes for production or propagation of plants and animals”

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/pepsico-patents-issue/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• He will be the single-point military adviser to the government as suggested by the Kargil Review Committee in 1999.
• S1: He will be a Four-star General.
• CDS acts as the permanent Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committeewhich will also have three service chiefs as members.
• S2: The CDS heads the Department of Military Affairs under the Ministry of Defence, as its secretary.
• S3: His core function will be to foster greater operational synergy between the three service branches of the Indian military and keep inter-service frictions to a minimum.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2021/12/09/chief-of-defence-staff-4/