Daily Practice Sheet 4 November 2021

  • November 4, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

4 November 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • After govt reduces excise duty, states slash VAT on fuel
  • Blockchain Technology: Layer-1 and Layer-2 Networks
  • Roadkill and extinction risk for leopards in North India
  • The significance of US putting NSO Group on its Entity List
  • Where tech giants stand on use of controversial facial recognition tech
  • Who are the Vanniyars, and why did Madras HC quash TN govt’s quota to them?
  • Har Ghar Dastak
  • Cybersecurity Awareness Must Extend Beyond The “Month”

Daily Facts

Climate Change:

  • It is a wake-up call for us a nation to change our energy mix, which is currently made up of coal (44 per cent), oil (32 per cent) and traditional biomass (20 per cent).
  • Globally, cities account for 50 per cent of world population and 80 per cent of global emissions and are the epicentre of environmental stress

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: Polity

  1. What do you understand by Environmental Social and Corporate Governance(ESG). In this context, analyze SEBI’s ESG framework. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. MNREGA is one of the most important pillars of every government’s social protection strategy. Discuss various challenges and possible strategies to counter them. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. What do you understand by informal economy? Is it bad? In this context analyze the advantages of formalization. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Environment

  1. Cities and are the epicenter of environmental stress. In this context, discuss urban centric strategies to counter climate change. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. Discuss strategies to achieve India’s COP 26 commitments.
  3. What do you understand by carbon intensity of the economy? Discuss strategies to reduce it.

GS 3: Security

  1. As the country embarks upon the next phase of growth riding on digital technologies cyber security and privacy considerations become inevitable. Discuss. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Science and Technology

  1. What do you understand by Face Recognition System? How do they work? Discuss potential drawbacks of the technology with examples. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What are values? Why do we need values in society? Is Indian society suffering from value deficit? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Do privileged sections of society have responsibility to help under privileges ones? Argue with arguments.
  3. What do you understand by misinformation? How does it affect us? [Reference: Indian Express]
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