Daily Practice Sheet 20 January 2022

  • January 20, 2022
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Daily Practice Sheet

20 January 2022

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Najafgarh Lake
  • Seed Money
  • Top Producers and Consumers of Oil
  • Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency(IREDA)
  • Contingency Fund of India
  • Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) report
  • Houthis and the war in Yemen
  • RBI’s Digital Payment Index
  • National Commission on Urbanization in India
  • Octroi Tax
  • Bishing Village
  • DGCA to probe

Daily Constitution

  • 73rd and 74th CAA

Daily Committee/ Reports

  • State Finances, Study of Budgets of 2021-22 observed that with the third-tier governments in India playing a frontline role in combating the pandemic by implementing containment strategies, healthcare, their finances have come under severe strain, forcing them to cut down expenditures and mobilise funding from various sources.

Daily Facts

Urban local bodies:

  • An RBI survey of 221 municipal corporations (2020-21) revealed that more than 70% saw a decline in revenues; in contrast, their expenditure rose by almost 71.2%

Food Insecurity and malnutrition:

  • According to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report 2021, India recorded the highest child wasting rate of any country at 17.3 per cent in 2020. Moreover, recent data from the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019- 21) show that roughly 35 per cent of children under five are affected by stunting.
  • The UN Policy 2018 reports that nearly four out of 10 children in India do not meet their full human potential owing to chronic malnutrition. Besides, with one in every three children malnourished, malnutrition is also thought to be the predominant risk factor for deaths in children under five, accounting for 68.2 per cent of the total under-five deaths.

CSE 2022

Day 72

Topic: Popular Movement

  1. The genesis of the problem of separatist movement in Punjab was communalism in Punjab. Discuss

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 2: Polity

  1. Child malnutrition is one of the most pressing public health issues currently in India. Examine the cause and critically assess government’s effort to tackle this problem. [Reference: Business Line] (Question of the day)
  2. The general approach towards urban empowerment, including financial capabilities, has remained piecemeal in India. Discuss. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Public sector banking system is no more the primary engine of India’s economic growth
  2. The formalization of Indian economy is ill-timed. Comment. [Reference: Financial Express, Bloombergquint]
  3. Can India’s demographic dividend become a demographic disaster? Give your arguments. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. Great leaders are risk takers. Comment. [Reference: Business Standard]
  2. What are values? How has religious values served humanity? Explain with example. [Reference: Business Standard]
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