Daily Practice Sheet 26 February 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet
26 February 2021
By
Santosh Sir
All 6 Prelims qualified
4 CSE Mains qualified
If I can do it, you can too
Daily Prelims Topic
- Extradition
- Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, for social media platforms, OTT players & digital media
- Gelatin Sticks
- Section 377 of IPC
- Ancient Buddhist Monastery found in Jharkhand
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
- Section 69 of the IT Act
- Rise in bond yield
- Inscription on Vijayanagar king’s death discovered
- Osprey
- Pandemic generation
- Who controls Airspace?
- President’s rule
- Cess and Surcharges
Daily Mapping
- Hong Kong
- Gilgit–Baltistan
Daily Constitution
Article 293 (3): Centre’s control borrowings by the States.
Daily Data
Ceasefire violation
Pollution
- India’s air, water and land have become more polluted between 2009 and 2018.
- Of 88 major industrial clusters in the country, according to the Central Pollution Control Board, 35 showed overall environmental degradation, 33 pointed to worsening air quality, 45 had more polluted water and in 17, land pollution became worse.
- Tarapur in Maharashtra emerged as the most polluted cluster.
- Over11,000 hectares were diverted in 22 States in 2019. Eight coal projects granted clearance in ‘No-Go’ areas would divert 19,614 hectares of forestland, fell over 1 million trees, and evict over 10,000 families.
- Sixty-seven million Indians died due to air pollution in 2019. The economic cost was over $36,000 million, equivalent to 1.36 per cent of the country’s GDP.
Sustainable development
- India ranked 117 among 192 nations in terms of sustainable development and was now behind all South Asian nations except Pakistan.
- When ranked on the basis of achieving Sustainable Development Goals, the best performing States were Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. The worst performers were Bihar, Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Uttar Pradesh.
Cess:
- In 1980-81 the share of cess and surcharge, as a percentage of the gross tax revenue (GTR), was just 2.3 per cent. It rose to 7.53 per cent in 2000-01, 13.14 per cent in 2013-14 and in 2019-20, it stood at 15.3 per cent
- While States got 43.2 per cent of the divisible pool in 2019-20, their share as a proportion of the GTR was just 36.6 per cent due to cess and surcharges
Daily Mains Mantra
NEWSPAPER
GS 1: Society
- What do you understand by pandemic generation? Discuss its vulnerabilities in the context of sustainable development. [Reference: The Hindu]
- What do you understand by same sex -marriage? Should it be allowed in India? Discuss its implications on the family system. [Reference: Indian Express]
GS2: Polity
- Critically examine India’s constitutional arrangement of fiscal federalism. How cess and surcharges has impacted fiscal federalism? [Reference: Business Line]
- Discuss the evolution of fiscal federalism in India in the last one decade. [Reference: Business Line]
GS2: Governance
- National education Policy focuses on child-centric pedagogy as opposed to the exam-centered approach. Discuss. [Reference: Indian Express]
GS2: International Relations
- “No one is safe until everyone is safe”. In this context discuss challenges and way ahead for vaccine strategy for affordable and equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for the world. [Reference: Financial Express]
GS3: Security
- New IT Rules bring answerability in digital ecosystem. But they also increase political control. Comment: [Reference: Indian Express]
- New rules to regulate Social media and OTT platforms are to draw the line between the government and the big tech in India. Comment: [Reference: Indian Express, Indian Express]
GS3: Ethics