Daily Practice Sheet 31 December 2021

  • December 31, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

31 December 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Inverted Duty Structure
  • Flex-Fuel Vehicles
  • R-value
  • Delta vs Omicron
  • Clinical Trial Terminology
  • Consumer Protection (Jurisdiction of the District Commission, the State Commission and the National Commission) Rules, 2021
  • E-Daakhil portal
  • Sahitya Akademi Award
  • Pope Francis’s visit to India
  • Goa Liberation Day
  • ‘Operation Vijay’
  • SMILE (Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise)
  • Electoral Bonds
  • GST Compensation
  • The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)
  • Cropland Expansion
  • China inventing names for places in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana (READY)
  • Subprime Borrower

Daily Mapping

  • Parambikulam Tiger Reserve

Daily Constitution

  • 73rd CAA

Daily Facts

NFHS data

  • The Total Fertility Rate — the average number of children born per woman — has declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level. A total of 31 States and Union Territories (constituting 69.7% of the country’s population) have achieved fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1. The main reasons for decline in fertility include: Increase in adoption of modern family planning methods (from 47.8% in 2015-16 to 56.5% in 2019-21) and a reduction in unmet need for family planning by 4% points over the same period.
  • Significant improvements in female literacy, with 41% women having received 10 or more years of schooling (compared to 36% in 2015-16)
  • Increased reach of the health system to more non-user couples with information about family planning (from 18% in 2015-16 to 24% in 2019-21). Further, 62% of current users have received information about the side-effects of contraceptives — a crucial indicator of the improved quality of family planning services. Significant improvements in female literacy, with 41% women having received 10 or more years of schooling (compared to 36% in 2015-16)
  • The prevalence of child marriage has gone down marginally from 26.8% in 2015-16 to 23.3% in 2019-21. Similarly, sex ratio at birth has shown slight improvement (from 919 to 929 over the same time period).

MAINS OPTIMA 2021

CSE 2021

Day 54

Topic: Security

  1. Discuss the role played by central armed forces in maintenance of internal security. Analyze the organizational and functional challenges faced by them.
  2. Discuss the challenge of drug trafficking. Examine India’s effort to counter this threat.

CSE 2022

Day 52

Topic: Vulnerable sections

  1. Discuss the challenge of ageing population in India. In this context analyze The National Policy on Older Persons.
  2. Does criminalization curb drug consumption? Argue with critically examining NDPS Act. 

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: Society

  1. Women and girls having agency and bodily autonomy is not only the foundation for a better future; it is a fundamental human right. Discuss in the context of NFHS-5 Survey. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Although India is politically decentralized fiscal decentralization remains lopsided. Discuss. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. What do you understand by structural reforms? Assess their effectiveness of checking corruption. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Make a case of legalizing MSP. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Science and Technology

  1. What advantages 5G has over previous generations? Discuss how it can transform our day to day life? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by norms? How do they affect women?
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