Daily Practice Sheet 18 February 2021

  • February 18, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

18 February 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Defamation
  • PLI scheme for telecom
  • Changes to Juvenile Justice Act
  • Clause 6 of the Assam accord
  • Chardham Highway project
  • Anticipatory transit Bail
  • Cess and Surcharge
  • Inflation and Rising oil prices
  • Crude oil pricing
  • Money bill

Daily Constitution

  1. Art 21: Right to life and Right to live with dignity
  2. Art 14: Equality before law and equal protection of laws

Daily Facts

MNREGS

  • 7.17 cr. households (10.51 cr.) individuals have already have already availed of MNREGS in current year (highest ever.)

Higher education

  • India has 3.8 crore students in 1,000-plus universities and 50,000-plus colleges.

Informal sector

  • According to Oxfam’s latest global report, The Inequality Virus, out of the total 122 million who lost their jobs in 2020, 75 per cent, which translates to 92 million jobs, were lost in the informal sector.

Import dependence

  • India imported 85% of its oil need and 53% of its gas requirement in 2019-20.

Falling investments

 

Oil Prices:

  • The pricing of petrol and diesel in India is based on the sour grade (Oman and Dubai average) and sweet grade (Brent Dated) crude oil processed in Indian refineries in the ratio of 75.62: 24.38. This basic value of crude accounts for around 36 per cent of the final cost of petrol (in Delhi). Freight charges and dealer commissions account for around 4 percent. The remaining 60 percent of the retail price of petrol and 54 per cent of diesel goes to the Centre and States as taxes.

Road Accidents:

  • According to the just-released World Bank-commissioned report, Traffic Crash Injuries and Disabilities, 1% of the world’s vehicles but 11% of all road accident deaths; the Union Transport Ministry put the number of dead in 2019 at 1, 51,113, and injured at 4, 51,361. 

Health:

  • Accounts 2017, 66% of spending on health care in India is done by State

Daily Mapping

  • Rechin La
  • Rezang La

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 2: Polity

  1. What is defamation and what is Indian legal position on it. Discuss the significance of a Delhi court judgement which held right of reputation cannot be protected at the cost of the right of life and dignity of woman. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is money bill? Discuss how the controversy over certain bills passed as money bill impacts Rajya Sabha as well as quality of legislation. [Reference: The Hindu]
  3. Learning-while-earning is a feature of today’s society, but India must address its regulatory concerns in education to provide for it effectively. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Governance

  1. India had the dubious distinction of leading the nations having maximum road accidents. Discuss the reasons and examine steps taken by government in this regard. [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. The National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 highlights the close links between health water and sanitation. Comment. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Discuss the need of labour codes reforms with inclusion of informal workers to address widening inequality gap. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. The Vodafone and Cairns award by the Permanent Court of Arbitration brings forth the issues of jurisdiction being a contentious issue in international tax laws. Discuss. Also bring out its implications for India. [Reference: Financial Express]
  3. The setback in East Container Terminal (ECT) deal with the Colombo should be channelized to develop India’s capacity in handling transshipment cargo. Discuss the opportunity and challenges for India in this regard. [Reference: Financial Express]
  4. Privatization (of CPSEs) is best done when the economy is booming…privatization in a recession time is a horrible idea. Comment. [Reference: Economic Times]

GS3: Science and Technology

  1. Hydrogen as energy source has potential to alter transport sector. In this context discuss how hydrogen fuel cell works and make a case for green hydrogen. Also bring out the concerns in developing hydrogen-based technologies and using it. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS3: Ethics

  1. What is solidarity? How it forms one of the foundational values for us as a human being?
  2. Discuss on the sense of service as key to the human relationship as a learning from current pandemic which needs to be preserved. [Reference: Indian Express]
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