Daily Practice Sheet 29 April 2021

Daily Practice Sheet

29 April 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

• Anti-microbial resistance
• SCRI
• Vehicle scrappage policy
• Vaccine wastage
• NCT AMENDMENT BILL 2021
• GENERIC MEDICINE
• REFORM LINKED BORROWING
• HIMALAYAN FRONTAL THRUST

Daily Constitution

• Article 25(2) grants power to the State to enact law on two distinct aspects.
• Article 25(2) (a) empowers the state to regulate “economic, financial, political or other secular activities which may be associated with religious practice”.
• Article 25(2)(b) enables the state to enact law to prohibit the exclusion of ‘classes and sections’ of Hindu society to enter into Hindu temples of a public character and also make law for social welfare and reform.

Daily Facts

Anti-Microbial Resistance

• AMR is already responsible for up to 7, 00,000 deaths a year. Unless urgent measures are taken to address this threat, we could soon face an unprecedented health and economic crisis of 10 million annual deaths and costs of up to $100 trillion by 2050

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 2: Polity

1. Should state regulate temples? Discuss the position of constitution on this. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Governance

1. Discuss the need for universal social security in India. [Reference: The Hindu, Hindustan Times]
2. Can digitization solve the education crisis? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Science

1. “Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is a slow tsunami that threatens to undo a century of medical progress” What do you understand by Anti-Microbial resistance? Discuss its implications for the human society and possible strategies to overcome it. [Reference: The Hindu]