Daily Practice Sheet 16 December 2020

  • December 16, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  • Adverse Event Following Immunisation (AEFI):
  • Basic Structure of the Constitution
  • Separation of Power
  • G7 summit
  • Public utility Service under Industrial Disputes Act:
  • Vivad se Vishwas scheme, 2020
  • La Lina
  • Select committee of the Parliament
  • Himalayan Serow
  • Financial Stability and Development Council
  • TLTRO scheme
  • Dak Pay app

Daily Mapping

  • Tunisia
  • Ghana

Daily Facts

Economy

  • The growth rate in credit offtake has steeply declined to 5.8 per cent in November 2020, as against 14.2percentin2013. (RBI)
  • 96% fall in loan disbursement by NBFC-MFI in quarter ended June 2020 from 15,865 crore in corresponding quarter in previous year to Rs 570 crore.
  • Private consumption demands contribute 55-60% of GDP (Contracted 24.1% in Q1 and 7.7% in Q2 this year)

Digital Access

  • From 2015 to June of 2020, India grew from 302 million internet subscribers to 750 million

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 2: Polity

  1. Access to speedy justice still remains a long fetched dream for many ordinary Indians. Discuss reasons for reasons and suggest reform. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Governance

  1. Critically examine the role of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna in achieving a skill ready India. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. What do you understand by digital divide? Discuss how PM-WANI can fast-track the India’s Digital India programme and bridge the digital divide between Digital India and Digital Bharat? [Reference: Indian Express, The Hindu]
  3. The mismatch between our economic potential and the dissipation of human capital as brought out by the recent NFHS-5 must be addressed immediately. Discuss. [Reference: Business Line]
  4. Analyze the salient features of POSCO Act. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Discuss how a decentralized bio-entrepreneurship revolution can help address piracy of community’s traditional knowledge. [Reference: Financial Express, The Hindu]
  2. Examine how disinvestment emerging as the preferential mode of resource mobilization has many implicit issues in government strategy to achieve it. Suggest remedial measures for it. [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. What is total factor productivity? Discuss how it can be improved in India’s case. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Security

  1. 21st century security challenges necessitate overhaul of the India’s armed forces. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]

Daily Ethics:

  1. What is corporate nationalism? Critically examine role of corporate nationalism for India’s self-reliance goals. [Reference: Indian Express]
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