Daily Practice Sheet 2 March 2021

  • March 2, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

2 March 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC)
  • FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India) scheme
  • Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
  • Swachh Survekshan
  • Reservation of seats in Local government
  • CERT (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team)
  • Contraindication
  • Gap between Vaccine doses
  • Uighur
  • WTO gets new Director General
  • Nuclear Enrichment

Daily Mapping

  • Gulf of Oman

Daily Data

Credit growth to Industry (RBI’s study – ‘Sectoral deployment of bank credit’)

  • Credit to industry contracted by 1.3 per cent in January 2021 as compared to 2.5 per cent growth in January 2020 mainly due to contraction in credit to large industries by 2.5 per cent (2.8 per cent growth in January 2020). The outstanding bank credit to large industries declined by Rs 59,610 crore on a year-on-year basis to Rs 22.78 lakh crore as on January 29, 2021, according to the latest RBI data.
  • Credit to medium industries registered a robust growth of 19.1 per cent in January 2021 as compared to 2.8 per cent a year ago and credit to micro & small industries registered a growth of 0.9 per cent in January 2021 as compared to 0.5 per cent a year ago.
  • Large industries constituted around 82 per cent of the credit offtake to the industrial sector, while the micro, small and medium together constituted the rest in November 2020.

Daily Debates

Is farm loan waiver good for the country and farmer? [Reference: The Hindu]

Daily Mains Mantra

IAS 2022

  1. What do you understand by equality? Discuss how constitution ensures equality.
  2. How does government implement equality guaranteed in the constitution?
  3. Why is public health care important
  4. Discuss the role played by women movement in India.

GS1: Geography

  1. Discuss the distribution of coal bed methane in India. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS1: Society

  1. What do you understand by feminism? Discuss nature of feminist movement in India in current times and challenges it faces. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Governance

  1. Do you think that National Food Security Act needs changes to be more efficient? Discuss the Niti Aayog’s proposed amendment and its implications. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Critically examine Aspirational Districts Programme implementation so far. Do you think this model can be extended for development of block or gram panchayat level? [Reference: Financial Express]

GS2: IR

  1. What is Iran nuclear deal? Why it is important for the world peace and security? [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. Pakistan has been on FATF grey list for terror financing for a long period of time. In this backdrop, discuss the role of FATF in curbing terror financing. What are the implications of getting blacklisted by FATF? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Economy

  1. What do you mean by defence indigenization? How defence indigenisation can contribute to Atmanirbhar Bharat and introduce much-needed procurement efficiency in defence? [Reference: Financial Express]

Daily Ethics

  1. What do you understand by wellbeing? How it related to Ethics?
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