Daily Practice Sheet 25 February 2021

  • February 25, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

25 February 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Rajasthan Model of Public Health
  • World’s largest cricket arena
  • Testing sewage to Map Covid spread
  • Sub-categorization of OBCs
  • Tribal’s forest right vs Critical Wildlife Habitat/Tiger Reserve
  • Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvIT)
  • Offence of criminal conspiracy
  • Californian variant of Sars-Cov-2
  • Corruption Perception Index and Pygmalian effect
  • Mount Etna (Italy)
  • India-South Africa IPR waiver proposal
  • Ghana first to receive vaccine supply from COVAX facility
  • G-Sec and Open Market Operation

Daily Mapping

  1. Mt Etna
  2. Ghana (1st to get Covid vaccine under Covax initiative)

Daily Constitution

  • Art 190 (Vacation of seats in legislature)
  • Art 239 (Administration of UTs)
  • Art 239 A (Creation of legislature in UT of Pondicherry)
  • Art 239 AA (Legislative assembly in Delhi)

Daily Data

Agriculture

  • 75 Crore farmers have been added to PM-KISAN so far.

Food Grain

Suicides in India

  • NCRB data shows that in 2019, a person died of suicide every four minutes in the country. One in every three took the step due to family problems.

Ease of Doing Business

  • India’s 63 million enterprises translate into only a million formal employers. More than 98% of Indian employers stay dwarf with no access to institutional capital, talent, technology and supply chains.
  • On an average Indian business ecosystem sees a universe of 1,536 Acts and 69,233 compliances, which change over 3,000 times a year.

Patents/Innovation in India

  • 52% of patents filed in last three years from three states of Maharashtra (top with 24%), Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
  • North-eastern states were laggard in filing application, while state like Bihar filed just 160 applications.
  • India ranks 8th in patents filed by resident scientists/ innovators from the respective country according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
  • According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020, India’s GII ranking has improved significantly to 48 in 2020 from 81 in 2015. India made it to the top 50 in GII ranking for the first time in 2020.
  • In terms of scientific publications, India ranked third in 2018 compared to sixth in 2014, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF) USA 2020
  • According to the Ministry data 99 per cent of funds allocated by the government to various departments for encouraging innovations, scientific activities and infrastructure were utilized.
  • The number of researchers per million increased to 255 in 2017 compared to 110 in 2000.
  • “The gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) in the country has been consistently increasing over the years and has nearly tripled from ₹39,437.77 crore in 2007- 08 to ₹1,13,825.03 crore in 2017- 18. It is estimated to be ₹1,23,847.70 crore in 2018-19
  • Current budget allocated ₹50,000 crore over five years for the National Research Foundation (NRF), an autonomous body envisaged supporting researchers working across several streams of science and technology, especially in universities.
  • A total of 3,683 patent applications were filed by the Indian start-ups during 2016-17 to 2019-20

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS2: Society

  1. Mental health has emerged as one of the biggest health issues plaguing individuals at all age. In this context discuss the causes and need for a new approach to address mental health. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS2: Polity

  1. The prime responsibility of judiciary in a constitutional state is to protect freedom of expression of the citizens against arbitrary state action. Discuss in context of recent judgement of granting bail to activist Disha Ravi. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the constitutional position of UTs in the Indian federation? Why few UTs were provided assembly. [Reference: The Hindu]
  3. Discuss the constitutional relationship between Lt. Governor and Chief Minister in UT. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS2: Governance

  1. Discuss the need for domain expertise in IAS.
  2. What do you understand by social capital? How does SHG help in empowerment of women? [Reference: Business Line]

GS2: International Relations

  1. Examine the bilateral and regional issues in India-Sri Lanka relations. Also, suggest what should be India’s approach. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS3: Economy

  1. Discuss the impact on new Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules on India’s solar programme. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. India has leapfrogged in Ease of Doing Business in recent years. Mention reasons for such improvement. Also discuss what key issues remain and measures to improve those for a 5 trillion-dollar economy. [Reference: Financial Express]
  3. The Economy survey of 2019 observed higher levels of job creation in small firms co-exist with job destruction, thereby leading to lower levels of net job creation. In this context discuss the recent focus of the government on big firms under PLI scheme. [Reference: Financial Express]
  4. There is no need for government to be in business. Do you agree? In this context, discuss the role of PSU. [Reference: Economic Times]

GS4: Ethics

  1. Corruption is the manifestation of failure of ethics. In this context discuss types of corruption and various causes associated with it.
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