Daily Practice Sheet 2 July 2020

  • July 2, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  • Pradhan MantriGaribKalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)
  • Urban Forest
  • Udyam portal for MSME
  • Lightening phenomenon
  • Central Zoon Authority
  • Satellite cities
  • World investment report
  • UAPA
  • COVAXIN

Daily Mapping

  • Islands of Gujrat
  • Gujrat Coastline
  • Namdhapa National park

Daily Facts

FCI

  • FCI incurs an average cost of Rs 37.27 on procuring, bagging, transporting, handling, storing and distributing every kg of rice, and Rs 26.84 for wheat.
  • This carrying cost is estimated at Rs 5.40 per kg during 2020-21. 
  • Rice and wheat stocks in government granaries stood at 73.85 million tonnes (mt) as on April. It is 3.5 times the normative operational-cum-strategic reserve requirement for this date.

Source: Indian Express

Daily Supreme Court Judgements

  • Prakash Singh Case: Directions for Police Reform
  • D K Basu Case: protection against custodial Torture

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: Geography

  1. What are satellite cities? Discuss their relevance in urbanization process. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS:International Relations

  1. Discuss the potent threats to global order. Do you think UN is prepared to tackle them? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. What is economics of animal rearing? What are the challenges associated with economies of scale in animal rearing? [Reference: Business Line]
  2. The existing regime of open-ended minimum support price-based procurement for paddy and wheat is financially and environmentally unsustainable. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. Investments in research and development is key to self-reliance. Discuss in the context of Make in India. [Reference: Business Line]
  4. What do you understand by digital economy? Discuss measures which needs to be taken to achieve this goal. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Security

  1. Discuss the need for police reform in India. Analyze various Supreme Court ruling in this regard. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by stigma? [Reference: PIB]
  2. What do you understand by ethics in business? Discuss why it is important? [Reference: Indian Express]
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