Daily Practice Sheet 16 February 2021

  • February 16, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

16 February 2021

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • National Commission for Minorities:
  • State Advisory prices for Sugarcane
  • Karlapat Wildlife sanctuary (Odisha)
  • Share delusional Disorder
  • Sandes
  • Mandarin duck
  • Digital Intelligence Unit
  • New panel to strengthen Urban Cooperative banks by RBI
  • Maguri-Motapungbeel (or wetland) in Assam, Manipur’s Loktak Lake, SaatvoiniBeel in Manas National Park
  • BhimbedkaPaiting
  • Wholesale Price Index
  • West Texas Intermediate&Brent Crude
  • Leatherback Turtle
  • Fiscal Deficit

Daily Facts

Environment

  • According to a 2019 paper in the journal Science Advances, Himalayan glacial melting has doubled since 2000 compared to a 25-year period before the turn of the century.

Women Labour force

  • In India, while 85 per cent of rural women are engaged in agriculture, only about 13 per cent own land. The agricultural sector employs 80 per cent of all economically engaged women — with 33 per cent in the labour force and 48 per cent as self-employed farmers.

Taxation

  • Nearly 60 per cent of corporate taxes are paid by the 0.06 per cent of the companies belonging to the top income bracket.
  • Among individual taxpayers, only 0.17 per cent report taxable incomes above Rs 25 lakh

Daily Mapping

  • Maguri-Motapungbeel (or wetland) in Assam, Manipur’s Loktak Lake, SaatvoiniBeel in Manas National Park

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS1: Society

  1. Discuss the role of women as an agent of change through movements in Post-independence India. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Polity

  1. What do you understand by civil society? Discuss their role in Indian polity. Is a recent arrest of activists for involvement in farmer’s protest striking at the root of civil society? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Reigning in growing power of the digital behemoths is an essential reality. But we must ensure it must not translate into unlimited state in digital age. Critically examine. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Budget echo the need to shift focus to compliance and greater transparency in taxation than change in rates. In this context discuss the need of reforms in taxation in India and shape it must take. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. A legal guarantee for minimum support price is bound to benefit just the rich farmers and worsen rural inequality. Critically examine. [Reference: Business Line]

GS3: Environment

  1. The tragedy of ecological governance in most parts of the world is that it remains trapped in the environment-development binary. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is climate resilience? Discuss need of climate adaptation and climate resilience as most urgent policy response. [Reference: Financial Express]
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