Daily Practice Sheet 4 October 2021

  • October 4, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

4 October 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985
  • Capital Expenditures and Revenue Expenditures
  • Tech Repository For Digital Services
  • Optimum Water in Reservoirs
  • Amazon’s Astro ‘robot on wheels’
  • Marine heatwaves during winter
  • Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)
  • Foreign Portfolio Investment
  • Sardine Run
  • Eat Right campaign
  • Legal Guarantee of MSP
  • Pandora Papers
  • Round Tripping –
  • Shell Companies
  • e-SHRAM portal
  • Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES)
  • Tax Havens –
  • Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
  • Brahmaputra Heritage Centre
  • Linking cess with govt borrowing
  • Landslip Warning System
  • Higher the central bank gold reserves, lower the sovereign credit risk

Daily Facts

Informal Sector:

  • The informal/unorganized sector in India accounts for roughly half of the total value added in the economy (52.4 per cent in 2017-18), and employs around 90 per cent of the labour force. 

Farmers:

  • The last Agriculture Census for 2015-16 placed the total “operational holdings” in India at 146.45 million. 
  • National Statistical Office’s Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households (SAAH) report for 2018-19. It pegs the country’s “agricultural households” at 93.09 million. In short, India officially has anywhere from 90 million-plus to almost 150 million farmers.

Food Security

  • Food wastage in India exceeds ₹ 1-lakh crore
  • The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’ report, estimates that around a tenth of the global population was undernourished last year.
  • But the proportion of the undernourished population declined from 21.6% during 2004-06to 15.4% during 2018-20.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 2: Polity

  1. Who is a farmer? Has agriculture failed to take into account changing nature of Indian agriculture? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: IR

  1. Discuss the mandate of World Food Program.

GS 3: Economy

  1. Trace India’s long journey from chronic food shortage to surplus food producer. What lessons it has for other developing nations? [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. There is a need to re-imagine food systems in the wake of climate change and declining biodiversity.
  3. Discuss the dichotomy between informal and formal informal parts of the economy. [Reference: Indian Express]
  4. Distinguish between tax avoidance and tax evasion. Explain round tripping in this context.

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by conflict? How can education help to avoid conflict? [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. What is value based education? [Reference: The Hindu]
  3. Education can impart the skills and values needed to prevent potential conflicts. [Reference: The Hindu]
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