Daily Practice Sheet 19 December 2020

Daily Prelims Topic

• Fair and Remunerative Prices (FRP)
• Failure of Constitutional machinery (Art 356):
• Indian Maritime Situational Awareness System
• Solar Winds hack
• ACE2 enzyme:
• Depository Receipts
• Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
• China slips on Ease of Doing Business ranking:
• Technical textile and manmade fibre
• FAO food price Index
• Human freedom index
• US cyber attacks

Daily Mapping

• Palk Bay

Daily Facts

Renewable Energy

• According to the Ministry of power, during 2014-2020 there has been a 72 per cent increase in installed renewables capacity
• Rooftop solar power target of 40 GW has achieved only 6GW till 2020.

Logistics:

According to the Report ‘Reimagining India’s supply chain: A bold vision for 2030’:

• To bridge the current competitiveness gap of $180 billion, India needs to reduce logistics cost from 14 per cent of GDP to 7 per cent.
• High logistics cost of 14 per cent of GDP in India compared to 8-10 per cent of GDP in the US and Europe.

Immunisation:

India runs one of the largest immunisation programme in the world, catering to the vaccination needs of more than 26 million newborns and 29 million pregnant women.

MSP:

At all India level, those who sold paddy 1% were large farmers (owning over 10 hectares of land), small and farming farmers owing 2 hectares of land comprised 70%. The rest were medium farmers (Owning 2- 10 hectares)

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Arts and Culture

1. Indian dance forms have been traditionally a medium to express their love, hatred, their aspirations and their struggle for survival. Elaborate

GS 1: Society

1. India’s nutritional woes are not mere an issue of access to nutritional food. In this discuss factors responsible for nutritional shortfalls in Indian children and assess government’s strategy so far. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 1: Geography

1. What do you understand by deep sea fishing? Discuss its prospects, issues and challenges. [Reference: Press Reader]

GS 2: IR

1. What is Palk Bay Fishing conflict? Suggest measures to resolve the conflict. [Reference: Scroll In]

GS 3: Economy

1. Discuss the need to reduce logistics cost to bridge the competitiveness gap in the economy. [Reference: Business Line]
2. What do you understand by bad bank? Do you think it can resolve the issue of NPA in India? [Reference: Business Today]
3. Discuss the potential of proposal of Industrial heavyweights owning banks in India. [Reference: Financial Express]
4. Examine the role of APMCs in agriculture marketing over the years. Also comment on changes introduced in recent farm law will have on APMCs. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Environment

1. Critically assess India’s efforts to achieve Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) pledged in the Paris Climate deal. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Security

1. What is defence offsets clause? Examine the effectiveness of recently amended defence offsets criteria under Defence Acquisition Procedure-2020. [Reference: Financial Express]