Daily Practice Sheet 22 January 2021

  • January 22, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet 22 January 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  1. Pausing farm laws for 18 months:
  2. NGT
  3. Pardoning Power of governor
  4. Demarche
  5. Sensex
  6. Green Bond (RBI says Cost of green bonds issuance high in India)
  7. V –Shaped Recovery
  8. Geo hazard management
  9. Tax –Free bond
  10. Horizontal Reservation

Daily Mapping

  • Ratle hydroelectric project – River Chenab
  • Venezuela
  • Iran

Daily Facts

Household savings

  • Household savings constitute as much as 58% of the gross capital formation while that of corporates is only 32%. It is a 20-year high witnessed during lockdown with majority saving rising in cash.

Green bond

  • It is 0.7% of total bonds issued in India since 2018.

Daily Constitution

  • Art 270 (3): Parliament may by law formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase of or consignment of goods takes place in the course of inter State or commerce 270 Taxes levied and collected by the Union and distributed between the Union and the States.
  • This article gives power to the Parliament to make laws on the items in state list as if they were in concurrent list in course of inter-state trade.

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Society

  1. Discuss the reasons for child marriages in India. Do you think there is a need to amend the Prevention of child Marriage Act? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Discuss the implications of three farm laws on federal structure in India. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Discuss how the recent changes in Essential Commodities Act will help deregulating agriculture sector. Also bring out the concerns with the changes brought. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. What do you understand by resource mobilization? How effective tax free bonds in mobilizing revenues in covid hit scenario? [Reference: Business Line]
  3. Examine the functioning of Competition Commission of India in ensuring a fair competition in market in India. [Reference: Financial Express]
  4. What is industrial Revolution 4.0? What should be India’s strategy to adopt and gain advantage out of Industrial revolution 4.0? [Reference: Financial Express]
  5. What is inflation targeting? Should we tinker with it? [Reference: Business Line]

Daily Ethics:

  1. What is misinformation? How it is leading to vaccine hesitancy? [Reference: Business Line]
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