Daily Practice Sheet 13 May 2022

Daily Practice Sheet

13 May 2022

Daily Prelims Topics

• Inflation in India cause and effect
• RBI Gold Acquisition 
• Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court
• SC refuses interim relief in LIC IPO
• On the question of notifying minorities
• Shallow and deep ecologism
• E- waste recycling
• A monsoon-friendly Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)wave is expected to transit the region from next week
• Indigenous Cattles
• SC and ST representation in Judiciary
• The India hypertension control initiative

Daily Facts

Climate Change impact on economy

• Climate change poses a systemic risk to the Indian economy. Estimates of the impact range from 3% of lost GDP per annum to lost economic potential of $35 trillion by 2070, with virtually no sector left untouched. 

E waste

• Only 22.7 per cent of the e-waste out of the total 10,14,961.21 tonnes generated in 2019-20 in India was collected, dismantled, and recycled or disposed off.
• In 2018-19, about 21.35 per cent of the total generated e-waste was handled, collected, dismantled, and recycled in India, while in 2017-18 this percentage was just 9.79 per cent. 

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 2: Polity

1. Make a case for deletion of sedition law. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2 IR

1. Discuss the need for reform in WHO. [Reference: Live Mint]

GS 3: Economy

1. Climate change poses a systemic risk to the Indian economy. Discuss. [Reference: Financial Express]
2. What do you understand by informal sector? Examine the structural changes taken place in informal sector in last 5 years. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Environment

1. Discuss the challenge of E waste management in India. [Reference: Business Line]
2. Differentiate between deep and shallow ecology.

GS 3: Science

1. What is VPN? What are its uses? [Reference: Business Line]