[Mission 2023] QUIZ : Insights Current Affairs Quiz , 23 June 2022 – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: b)

India has objected to a report, called the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), 2022, that places India last in a list of 180 countries on managing climate change, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality. The report is prepared by researchers at the Yale and Columbia universities in the United States.

High-scoring countries exhibit longstanding and continuing investments in policies that protect environmental health, preserve biodiversity and habitat, conserve natural resources, and decouple greenhouse gas emissions from economic growth.

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Solution: d)

The use of coal as fuel in industrial, domestic units will be banned in the National Capital Region (NCR) from January 2023 but the ban wouldn’t apply thermal power plants — incidentally the largest users of coal, according to a notification by the Commission for Air Quality Management, that coordinates air pollution norms in Delhi and adjoining States.

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) is a statutory body formed under the Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas, Act 2021.

The CAQM has replaced the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) which was appointed by the Supreme Court.

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Solution: c)

Oil Palm is known to be the highest edible oil yielding perennial crop. Malaysia, Indonesia and Nigeria are the leading producers of oil palm.

Oil palm is a humid crop. Requires evenly distributed rainfall of 150mm/ month or 2500-4000mm/annum. Rainfall distribution in India is not even and adequate. Hence grow oil palm under assured irrigation conditions by adopting recommended practices. Crop comes up well between 29-33 degree C max. and 22-24 degree C min. temperatures and with bright sunlight for at least 5 hrs. per day. Humidity of more than 80% is required to come up well.

Best-suited soils are moist, well-drained, deep, loamy alluvial soils, rich in organic matter with good water permeability. At least one-meter depth of soil is required. Avoid highly alkaline, highly saline, waterlogged and coastal sandy soils.

Solution: c)

India and Vietnam recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on mutual logistics support.

India has signed several logistics agreements including all Quad countries, France, Singapore and South Korea beginning with the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. in 2016.

Logistics agreements are administrative arrangements facilitating access to military facilities for exchange of fuel and provisions on mutual agreement simplifying logistical support and increasing operational turnaround of the military when operating away from India.

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Solution: c)

The Chipko movement (1973) in Uttarakhand and the Silent Valley movement (the late 1970s) in Kerala are two of the most well-known modern-day people’s movements for environmental protection in India that inspired several other environmental movements during the last five decades.

The Chipko movement gave rise to many similar resistance groups in India, including Appiko in Karnataka.

The Jungle Bachao Andolan took shape in the early 1980s when the government proposed to replace the natural sal forest of Singhbhum District, Bihar, with commercial teak plantations.