Daily Practice Sheet 22 September 2021

  • September 22, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

22 September 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)
  • Kharif Crops
  • Fertilisers
  • Religious Structures Bill
  • Appointment of HC Chief Justice
  • India’s religious mix stable since partition
  • Hampi
  • Thalassemia
  • Cosmos Malabaricus Project
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Daily Facts

Food Processing and Food exports:

  • The Ministry of Food Processing Industries shows that the contribution of agricultural and processed food products in India’s total exports is 11%.From 2015-16 to 2019-20, the value of agricultural and processed food increased significantly from $17.8bn to $20.65bn.
  • In 2020-21, India exported 13.09 million tonnes of non-basmati rice ($4.8bn), up from an average 6.9 million tonnes ($2.7bn) in the previous five years.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 2: Polity

  1. Discuss the signifance of census data in developmental planning. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: IR

  1. Do you agree that China’s economic and military capacities as well as its belligerence have led to a shift in regional security paradigms? Give your arguments in the light of AUKUS. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

  1. For a long time the export-led growth model was considered an essential pillar of economic development. Can export become the same for the Indian Economy? Discuss measures needed to boost India’s export. [Reference: Business Line, Financial Express, Dandc]
  2. It is not enough just for a country to export; it also needs to export the right products. Discuss the need for export of high end product from India.
  3. Discuss the challenges in harnessing solar energy in India.
  4. Can India become leader in food processing sector? Discuss favorable factors.
  5. The Indian agricultural economy is shifting from primary to secondary agriculture. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Security

  1. Enumerate various police reforms directed by Supreme Court in the Prakash Singh Case 2006. Critically examine the progress of the implementation of SC directions. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by food ethics?
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