Daily Practice Sheet 25 March 2021

  • March 25, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

25 March 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Double mutant variant
  • Appointment of the CJI
  • Thallium
  • Pandaram land
  • National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill6. UNHRC vote on Sri Lanka’s Human right records
  • PakalDul and Lower Kalnai project
  • SARS-CoV-2 in animals and Myocarditis
  • Suez canal
  • Digital Tax

Daily Constitution

  • Art 226

Daily Mapping

  • Lakshadweep
  • Suez Canal

Daily Data

Job losses/Unemployment rate for women

  • In 2019-20, female labour participation rate (FLPR) among urban women was 9.7 per cent against 11.3 per cent among rural women.
  • In April 2020, the urban FLPR, according to CMIE, fell to 7.35 per cent — over 200 basis points lower than its average of 9.7 per cent in 2019-20.
  • In October 2020, female labour participation in urban India dropped to 7.2 per cent — the lowest since CMIE began measuring this indicator in 2016. In November 2020, it fell further to 6.9 per cent.
  • Aging of India’s workforce post-lockdown: With the share of those over 40 years of age — which was 56% in 2019-20 — increasing to 60% by December 2020.

Female Labour Participation Rate and greater unemployment rate by groups

Road

Construction Per Day

Daily Mains Mantra

GS2: Polity

  1. What do you understand by cooperative federalism? Do you think Indian federal tilt towards the Union pushes it towards coercive federalism? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is electoral bond? How far it has made election financing transparent? Also discuss possible misuse of funds received through electoral fund in the wake of Supreme Court observations. [Reference: New Indian Express]

GS3: Economy

  1. Banks already facing NPA and credit slowdown issues are also facing interference and encroachment on freedom from govt, judiciary and the Central Bank. Comment. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. What do you understand by unfair trade practices? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Environment

  1. Critically examine the impact of inter-linking of river. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the problem of water pollution in India. [Reference: The Hindu]

Daily Ethics:

  1. What do you understand by hypocrisy?
Daily Practice Sheet