Daily Practice Sheet 17 December 2020

  • December 17, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  • Cabinet committee on Parliamentary Affairs
  • Summoning a session
  • Wildlife Institute of India and T1C2 tigress
  • TRAI
  • Institutions of Excellence
  • CMS-01 communication satellite
  • George Everest House/ contribution to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
  • Collegium
  • Cabinet Committee on Security
  • NDB (new Development Bank)
  • Positive Pay
  • Amur Falcon sighted at Point Calimere

Daily Mapping

  • Palk Strait
  • Point Calimere
  • Haldibari-Chilahatiraillink

Daily Facts

  • As per the 2011 Census, there are 494.9 million (49.49 crore) landless individuals in villages, who are directly or indirectly de-pendent on cultivation for their livelihoods.
    As per Census 2011, around 1.2 crore or nearly 14 percent of the farming community are tenant farmers or sharecroppers, who work in fields owned by others    . 

Farm suicide:

  • The National Crime Records Bureau of India reported that a total of 296,438 farmers have committed suicide since 1995, of whom 60,750 were just in Maharashtra. The Census data reveal that from 1952 to 2011, occupation in agriculture reduced to 54.4 per cent from 69.9 per cent. But agriculture’s contribution to the country’s GDP disproportionately declined to 14.4 per cent from 51.9 per cent.

Child malnutrition:

  • India has the highest proportion of underweight children in the world: a full 36 per cent according to the National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4).

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 2: Polity

  1. Throw light on the summoning of session of Parliament in India. Also examine Parliament’s role as a highest law-making, deliberative body of India. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Tertiary education in regional language is a good idea, but it first needs a foundation first. Comment. [Reference: Financial Express]
  3. What do you understand by Collegium system of judicial appointments in India? Critically examine its pros and cons. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Governance

  1. Discuss the role of ICDS program in child development. Suggest measures to reform ICDS. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: IR

  1. India-Britain relations have not fully matured and need rethinking on part of two leadership and Britain’s Prime Minister as the Chief Guest at the Republic Day parade present oppurtunity for rethinking. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Environment

  1. What do you understand by decarbonization? Discuss the strategy for decarbonizing transport in India. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Science and Tech

  1. Discuss the role of digital technology in reforming Indian agriculture and wooing youngsters. [Reference: Financial Express]
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