Daily Practice Sheet 12 May 2021

  • May 12, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

12 May 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Prevention of Money Laundering Act:
  • NMCG
  • NCC
  • Cloudburst
  • Thunderstorm:
  • Zero-rated Supplies
  • OSIRIS-REX
  • World Food Prize
  • Competition Commission of India
  • NHRC
  • Sebi proposal regarding promoter definition
  • BRSR
  • Sheikh Zayed book award
  • WHO declares Indian variant as a concern

Daily Mapping

  • Devprayag

Daily Data

Children:

  • According to UNICEF, India has over 30 million orphan and abandoned children

Achievements in welfare schemes since 2014

  • 11.35 crore household toilets got built under the Swachh Bharat Mission after October 2, 2014. Likewise, 42.31 crore bank accounts were opened under Jan DhanYojana (launched in August 2014), 8.03 crore free LPG connections released under Ujjwala (May 2016) and 2.63 crore households electrified under Saubhagya (October 2017). Besides, 2.11 crore rural houses were constructed between 2014-15 and 2020-21 under Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana (PMAY) and 2.82 lakh km of road length completed under Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY).
  • Only 18,734 out of the country’s total 21.45 crore rural households are still to be electrified; LPG penetration has risen from 56 per cent in 2015 to 99.5 per cent in 2020; and 100 per cent of village homes now have toilets, as against 38.7 per cent in October 2014.

Daily Mains Mantra

  1. The number of cloudbursts is definitely increasing and their time pattern has also changed. Is climate change responsible for it? [Reference: DownToEarth]

GS2: Governance

  1. Critically examine the effectiveness of flagship welfare schemes particularly in context of Covid-19 generated hardships. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the benefit and the challenges of the UGC’s proposal to the universities to integrate NCC in curricula. [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. What do you understand by public good? Can covid vaccine be called public good? [Reference: The Hindu]
  4. Discuss the law relating to child adoption in India. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Security

  1. What is militarization of Artificial Intelligence? How the threat has increased in recent times and discuss role of major economies to address the problem in initial stage only. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS2: Ethics

  1. There is a 70-year-old man and a 30-year-old needing ventilator support. Dr X has only one ventilator available.
    1. What is the ethical dilemma in this case?
    2. Who should get priority, given the limited resources?
    3. What are the merits and demerits of each option?
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