Daily Practice Sheet 18 April 2021

  • April 18, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

18 April 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • PM-KISAN
  • Border Road Organization (BRO)
  • Starship
  • Russia-Ukraine tensions
  • CERT-In
  • Sanchi Stupa
  • The National climate vulnerability assessment report:
  • Aditya L1
  • Class effect
  • Covaxin
  • Stardust

Daily Mapping

1. Hot Spring Gogra and other India-China border conflict points in recent time

2. Mahanadi

3. Ukraine (Rising Russia-Ukraine tensions)

4. Cuba

5. Cholistan Desert

Daily Data

E-waste

  • 50 million tonnes of electronic waste discarded in 2019 (UN).
  • The World Economic Forum suggests that e-waste is now the fastest-growing waste stream in the world. It is estimated that the waste stream reached 48.5 million tonnes in 2018.
  • Globally, society only deals with 20% of e-waste appropriately and the rest ends up in a landfill or is disposed of by informal workers in poor conditions.
  • E-waste is worth at least $62.5 billion annually, which is more than the GDP of most countries.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS2: Polity

  1. Role of money and the widely-shared perception that the EC is no longer truly independent has put question mark over free and fair elections in India. Comment. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS3: Environment

  1. Discuss the challenge of growing e-Waste crisis. Discuss the potential role of various stakeholders in addressing it. [Reference: MSN]
  2. Assessing vulnerability was the first step towards assessing climate risk. Discuss the significance of vulnerability in climate change adaptation and mitigation. [Reference: Economic Times]
  3. What are extreme events? Why are they on rise?

G S 3: Science

  1. Discuss the science of vaccination.
Daily Practice Sheet