Daily Practice Sheet 8 August 2020

  • August 8, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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On this Day

It was on August 8 in 1942 Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement. 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Loan restructuring
  • TRIFED
  • V. Kamath committee
  • TRAFFIC
  • DGCA
  • Gorge
  • GAVI
  • Reserves
  • Business Confidence Index
  • August Revolution/ Quit India

Daily Mapping

  • Araku region 
  • Kozhikode

Daily Mains Mantra

OPTIMA 2020

  1. Discuss the background in which Quit India movement was launched? Discuss its significance

Context: 8th Aug, 1942 QIM was launched

Source: Bipin Chandra

  1. Was the Quit India Movement spontaneous or planned? How did use of violence by the people in the struggle square with the overall Congress policy of nonviolent struggle.

Context: 8th Aug, 1942 QIM was launched

Source: Bipin Chandra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Geography

  1. Discuss about the factors which plays important role in location of pharmaceutical industries in India. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the reasons behind decline of handloom industries in India. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Governance

  1. What do you understand citizen charter? Discuss the need for citizens rights charter for tax payers. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: IR

  1. Division, distrust and a lack of dialogue threaten to return the world to unrestrained strategic nuclear competition. In the context, analyse the need for nuclear disarmament and its progress in world arena. [Reference: UN Org]

GS 3: Economy

  1. What is NPA? How does it impacts banking sector? Critically examine measures taken to resolve the issue of NPAs? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Critically examine the reasons responsible for slowdown in consumption. Suggest measures to revive consumption. [Reference: Economic Times]

GS 3: Agriculture

  1. Explain the need for reorienting agricultural priorities towards more nutrition-sensitive food. In the context, analyze the reforms needed in food production and PDS? [Reference: PIB]

GS 3: Internal security

  1. Analyze the link between poverty and extremism. What steps are taken by government in controlling left wing extremism? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What should be the core values of civil servants? Why? [Reference: PIB]
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