Daily Practice Sheet 1 June 2021

  • June 1, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

1 June 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

  • India’s GDP Fall: Important parameters
  • WHO assigns non-stigmatizing labels to covid variants
  • Earthquake zones of India
  • Drugs and Cosmetics Act
  • Delay as violation of Article 21
  • Marathas under EWS quota
  • First nano liquid urea by IFFCO
  • China’s new Space station
  • Litoria Mira
  • Nagaland Bamboo
  • International Nitrogen Initiative
  • WTO and G33
  • Fiscal Deficit

Daily Mapping

Bhasan Char Island:

It’s an island in Bangladesh. Several thousand Rohingya refugees have staged “unruly” protests against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland

Daily data

GDP

  • India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 7.3% in 2020-21.
  • At a level of Rs 99,700, India’s GDP per capita is now what it used to be in 2016-17 — the year when the slide started.

Unemployment

  • India’s unemployment rate, even according to the government’s own surveys, was at a 45-year high in 2017-18.
  • Between 2012 and 2018, the total number of employed people fell by 9 million — the first such instance of total employment declining in independent India’s history
  • As against the norm of an unemployment rate of 2%-3%, India started routinely witnessing unemployment rates close to 6%-7% in the years leading up to Covid-19.

Daily Mains Mantra

Mains 2021

Daily Mini Practice – 30 Minutes

Topic: Food Security and PDS, Buffer stock; Employment

  1. Analyze the causal linkage between food security and economic growth. Do you agree food insecurity is one of the major factor responsible poor economic performances?
  2. Unemployment in India is a complex problem with numerous overlapping and intertwined causes. Discuss the causes and suggest remedies.
  3. Discuss the need for reforms in the Public Distribution System

Mains 2022 (as per LAQSHYA 2022 timetable)

  1. Discuss the social and economic factors for the rise of Buddhism? How far it was influenced by Upanishads?
  2. Discuss the essence of Jainism.

NEWSPAPER

GS1: Society

  1. Discuss the impact of law on controlling population growth. What are other measures India must adopt to achieve a sustainable family planning strategy. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Polity

  1. Recently the Supreme Court observed that sedition laws need a relook particularly w.r.t media. Examine. [Reference: Indian Express, The Hindu]
  2. What do you understand by digital divide? How does it impact e- governance schemes and projects? [Reference: New Indian Express]

GS2: International Relations

  1. A stable neighborhood is always good from point of view security and economics. Discuss challenges for India due to an unstable Pakistan in its neighborhood. [Reference: Indian Express, BBC]

GS 3: Economy

  1. What do you understand by stagflation? Is Indian economy experiencing stagflation? Suggest strategies to overcome it. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. MSP and Buffer Stock are expected to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in India. Critically discuss various concerns it has generated in WTO regarding it. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Science

  1. What do you understand by encryption? How does it work? Discuss the controversy related to recent Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by behavior conditioning? How can it be used in implementation of public policy? [Reference: The Hindu]
Daily Practice Sheet