Daily Practice Sheet 9 April 2021

  • April 9, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

9 April 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991
  • Fertilizer Pricing
  • Principle of Non-refoulment
  • SAGAR vision
  • Ad-hoc judges
  • Cryo-EM:
  • Depreciation of Rupee:
  • MUON G 2:
  • ADB
  • United Bengal Proposal
  • Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas
  • G-SAP

Daily Mapping

  1. Seychelles
  2. South China Sea

Daily Data

Access to safe and clean water

Answering a question in the Lok Sabha, the Ministry of Jal Shakti stated that around 3.27 crore rural households, of a total of 17.87 crore, get water through pipe connections—so, access to clean, treated and safe water is only available to 18% of India’s rural households.

Health Insurance coverage

Insurers settled only 54% of Covid claims, 1.41 lakh cases still hanging showing low insurance benefits to people.

Indian Agriculture

  • 86% of India’s farmers are ‘small and marginal’.
  • More than 300,000 farmers have committed suicide in the last 30 years.
  • Around 90% of India’s water is consumed in farming, and of this, 80% is used up by rice, wheat and sugarcane.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS1: Geography

  1. Why India is a water-stressed country in spite of plenty of rainfall during monsoon season? Critically asses India’s gain in ensuring inclusive access to clean water and sanitation facilities. What measures must be taken to address water scarcity in India. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS2: Polity

  1. What do you understand by “Rule of Law”? Does flagrant violation of institutional safeguards in laws like National Security act reflect arbitrariness of state action and violation of rule of law? [Reference: Financial Express]

GS2: IR

  1. Do you think India needs to have “feminist” foreign policy approach? Discuss with examples around the world. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the strategic and economic importance of South China Sea. Comment upon India’s position on the dispute. [Reference: Aljazeera]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Green Revolution also sowed the seeds of its own destruction. Comment. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Security

  1. Any strategy to counter left-wing extremism would need to have the dual objective of defeating the insurgents militarily and fully quelling insurgent impulses. Explain. [Reference: Indian Express]
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