Daily Practice Sheet 2 June 2021

  • June 2, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

2 June 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • DCGI, apex drug regulator, relaxes norms for clearing vaccines
  • Nomination of member for Rajya Sabha seat
  • BRICS foreign ministers hold virtual meet
  • Gojri language
  • Cross-reactive coronavirus antibody
  • Acquisition and termination of citizenship
  • Purchasing Managers Index lowest in 10 months
  • Variable Capital Company
  • Satat
  • One nation one standard
  • Sionovac
  • FDI inflows
  • PLI

Daily Mapping

  • Antigua: It has been in news for repatriation of Mehul Choksi

Daily Data

Children during pandemic

  • A total of 1,742 children were orphaned, 140 abandoned and 7,464 children have lost one parent because of the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020, as per National Commission for Child Rights (NCPCR).
  • 9,346 in total — are in need of care and that 3,711 children are in the 8-13 age group

Child Labour:

  • 152 million children around the world are still in child labour, 73 million of them in hazardous work.
  • A Government of India survey (NSS Report No. 585, 2017-18, Statement 3.12, p.35) suggests that 95% of the children in the age group of 6-13 years are attending educational institutions (formal and informal) while the corresponding figures for those in the age group of 14-17 years is 79.6%.
  • The Census of India 2011 reports 10.1 million working children in the age group of 5-14 years, out of whom 8.1 million are in rural areas mainly engaged as cultivators (26%) and agricultural labourers (32.9%)
  • UNESCO estimates based on the 2011 Census record 38.1 million children as “out of school” (18.3% of total children in the age group of 6-13 years).

Daily Mains Mantra

Mains 2021

Daily Mini Practice – 30 Minutes

Topics: Economic growth and economic development, Indian Economy, planning in India

  1. Is GDP an accurate measurement of growth? Argue your case with relevant case studies. In this context, can you think of other way of measuring growth and development?
  2. Economic reforms have created sectoral and regional inequality in India. Do you agree? Argue your case with relevant data.
  3. Is planning needed in a market economy? Critically examine the role of NITI Aayog in this regard.

Mains 2022 (as per LAQSHYA 2022 timetable)

  1. Why Gupta period is called the golden age of ancient India.
  2. Discuss the development of science in ancient India.

NEWSPAPER

GS1: History

  1. What do you understand by Operation flood? Evaluate its impact.
  2. Discuss the evolution of cooperative movement in India.

GS1: Society

  1. Should begging be banned, and if yes, then will if be sufficient to address problem of begging in India. [Reference: India Times]
  2. Discuss the causes and nature of child labour in India. In recent times, there has been shift in pattern of child labour. Discuss the challenges ending child labour in India. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS2: Polity

  1. What is cooperative federalism? Discuss various strains in cooperative federalism emerging in recent times. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Governance

  1. Digitization in agriculture is an important element of self-reliant as well as Digital India. Elaborate. [Reference: PIB]
  2. What is the mandate of Competition Commission of India? Examine its effectiveness in regulating competition in India. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS2: Ethics

  1. Discuss the moral issues involved in begging?
  2. Examine the problem of child labour from ethical stand point.
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