Daily Practice Sheet 23 July 2020

  • July 23, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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On this Day

  • Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India’s independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. He is famous for his statement “Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have it!”. Read More: News 18
  • Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionary and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh. He was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Army(HSRA) after the death of its founder, Ram Prasad Bismil, and three other prominent party leaders, Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri and Ashfaqulla Khan. He was involved in the Kakori Train Robbery of 1925, in the attempt to blow up the Viceroy of India‘s train in 1926, and at last, the shooting of J. P. Saunders at Lahore in 1928 to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai. Read More: DNA India

Daily Prelims Topic

  1. Contempt of Court
  2. Nuclear Plan attains criticality
  3. Article 212
  4. Kihoto Hollohan Case
  5. Bio Medical Waste Rules
  6. Citizenship rights and obligations

Daily Mapping

  • Kakrapar

Daily Facts

Plastic Waste:India generates close to 26,000 tonnes of plastic a day, according to a CPCB estimate from 2012. Worse, a little over 10,000 tonnes a day of plastic waste remains uncollected

Daily Constitution

  • Cooperative societies come under state list
  • Third Schedule:The third Schedule contains the Forms of Oaths or Affirmations
  • Article 172:Every Legislative Assembly of every State, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer and the expiration of the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the Assembly
  • Article 188:Oath or affirmation by members Every member of the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council of a State shall, before taking his seat, make and subscribe before the Governor, or some person appointed in that behalf by him, an oath or affirmation according to the form set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule
  • Article 191 :Disqualifications for membership of legislative assembly and council

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 2: Polity

  1. Speaker of the house is a constitutional authority with immense responsibility. Discuss [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Critically examine the roles and responsibility of elected legislatures under our constitution. [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. What do you understand by the concept of citizenship? What makes a citizen different from a subject? [Reference: The Hindu, The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Public Private Partnership (PPP) are the only way out in present tight fiscal situation. Discuss the challenges in PPP.

GS 3: Environment

  1. Discuss the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. COVID bio medical waste poses an environmental challenge. Analyze Bio Medical Waste Management Rules – 2016 in this context. [Reference: vikaspedia, Times Of India, TribuneIndia]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. Can legally correction decision turn out be ethically wrong ones? Give example [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What do you understand by constitutional morality? [Reference: Indian Express]

 

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