[Mission 2022] Insta– QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 25 January 2022 – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: d)

In 2015, WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS) to work closely with WHO collaborating centres and existing antimicrobial resistance surveillance networks.

It is the first global collaborative effort to standardize AMR surveillance.

As members of GLASS, countries are encouraged to implement the surveillance standards and indicators gradually based on their national priorities and available resources.

Solution: a)

The Constitution has not debarred the retiring election commissioners from any further appointment by the government.

They can resign anytime or can also be removed before the expiry of their term.

The CEC can be removed from office only through a process of removal similar to that of a SC judge by Parliament.

Solution: d)

Data from the Ministry of Education indicates that public spending on education had reached 4.3% of GDP in 2018-19, rising from 3.8% of GDP in 2011-12.

Expenditure on education by departments other than the Education Department. Including expenditure on education by, for example, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (on Anganwadis, scholarships, etc.), the Ministry of Science and Technology (for higher education) is of course legitimate.

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Solution: c)

Which banks are insured by the DICGC?

Commercial Banks: All commercial banks including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks are insured by the DICGC.

Cooperative Banks: All State, Central and Primary cooperative banks, also called urban cooperative banks, functioning in States / Union Territories which have amended the local Cooperative Societies Act empowering the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to order the Registrar of Cooperative Societies of the State / Union Territory to wind up a cooperative bank or to supersede its committee of management and requiring the Registrar not to take any action regarding winding up, amalgamation or reconstruction of a co-operative bank without prior sanction in writing from the RBI are covered under the Deposit Insurance Scheme. At present all co-operative banks are covered by the DICGC.

Primary cooperative societies are not insured by the DICGC.

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Solution: b)

The Mediterranean is positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south, and Asia to the east.

The Mediterranean Sea connects:

• to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar in the west
• to the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, by the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus respectively, in the east

The 163 km (101 mi) long artificial Suez Canal in the southeast connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.