Daily Practice Sheet 28 December 2020

  • December 28, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet 28 December 2020

Daily Prelims Topic

  • PMSVANidhi scheme
  • NDPS act
  • Thoubal multipurpose project 
  • Sangeet Natak Academy
  • Governor’s role in calling assembly session
  • Zero Coupon Bond
  • CoWin app
  • Stocks versus Bond
  • PM JAY SEHAT
  • INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL (IISF)-2020

Daily Mapping

  • Kuttanad
  • Qatar
  • Sudan

Daily Facts

Gender comparison/gap

  • According to the 2018 edition of the All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), for the first time, there were as many women as men in BSc programmes — of 48.19 lakh students enrolled, 50.7 per cent were men and 49.3 per cent women.
  • Their presence at the Master’s level was the highest ever — in 2017-18, for every 100 men who enrolled for MSc, there were 171 women
  • The difference in choice of subjects comes into play at the school level. A greater proportion of the male toppers (96%) chose Science in Classes 11 and 12 as opposed to 71% for women.

Asia’s technological rise

  • Over the last decade, the region has accounted for 52% of global growth in tech-company revenues, 43% of start-up funding, 51% of spending on research and development, and 87% of patents filed, according to new research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI).

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Society

  1. Women have been rising up the ladder in education and career. Still, a lot of gender-based factors are holding them up. Discuss. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Geography

  1. What do you understand by religious tourism? Discuss the challenges faced and opportunities. [Reference: FICCI]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Indian prisons have been acting as the warehouses for the marginalised. In this context discuss need and strategy for prison reforms. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: IR

  1. Discuss how new Brexit deal offers an opportunity for India to deepen engagement with the Britain. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Asia’s rise in technological rise has been phenomenal. Elaborate. Also, discuss does it face challenge in face of isolationism ruling the world in current times. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Make a case for legalizing MSP. Do you agree it is very important for making farming viable and doubling farmer’s income? [Reference: Business Line]
  2. Delay in infrastructure projects has huge implications for Indian economy. Comment. Also bring out the major factors for such delay. [Reference: Economic Times]
  3. Discuss the role of four P’s (Product, Price, Place and Promotion) in revival of India’s tourism industry and what policy measures can support these 4 P’s. [Reference: Financial Express]
  4. There is a need to balance the state right to tax with a climate of certainty for investors. Critically discuss the experience of BITs in India. [Reference: Business Line]

Daily Ethics:

  1. Differentiate between to ‘politics of convenience’, ‘Politics of Conviction’ and ‘Politics of Consensus’ with examples. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. Discuss the causes for the erosion of values in public life.
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