Daily Practice Sheet 21 June 2022

Daily Practice Sheet

21 June 2022

Daily Prelims Topics

• Megaliths
• Crop holiday
• Sterlite plant Copper of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu
• Single-use plastic ban in India
• Bird strikes: common threats to aircraft safety
• Resurrecting a dead law
• Too many tourists in Himalayas; new report presses for pre-empting disasters
• ‘Black swan’ event may trigger around Rs 7.8-lakh-cr outflow

Daily Fact

Land reforms:

The 2011 census reported that nearly 69 per cent of agricultural workers in Punjab are from the Dalit community. Backward castes and other marginal sections also form a big chunk. As per the Agriculture Census of 2015-16, only 3.5 per cent of private farmland belongs to the Dalit community, which makes up 32 per cent of Punjab’s populace.

The average land given to the rural landless is small and falling, from 0.95 acres in 2002 to 0.88 acres in 2015—a 7.4% drop over 13 years–and a slowdown is evident in the process of taking land away from rich landlords

Five facts, gleaned from the 2011-12 agricultural census and 2011 socio-economic caste census and this correspondent’s data, summarise the failure of India’s land reforms:

• No more than 4.9% of farmers control 32% of India’s farmland.
• A “large” farmer in India has 45 times more land than the “marginal” farmer.
• Four million people, or 56.4% of rural households, own no land.
• Only 12.9% of land marked–the size of Gujarat–for takeover from landlords was taken over by December 2015.
• Five million acres—half the size of Haryana—was given to 5.78 million poor farmers by December 2015.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: Society

1. Green revolution led to disparities in rural India. Comment. [Reference: Niti]

GS 1: Geography

1. Critically examine the impact of tourism in Himalayan region. [Reference: DownToEarth]

GS 2: Polity

1. Is international treaty binding? Discuss in the context of Article 253.

GS 3: Economy

1. Why land reforms are still not complete in India? Explain with case study of Punjab. [Reference: Business Line]
2. Critically comment on the status of implementation of land reforms in India.

GS 3: Environment

1. What do you understand by single use plastic? Why it is so controversial? Discuss national and global effort to eliminate it. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Security

1. Discuss the need for a national security doctrine. [Reference: Indian Express]