Daily Practice Sheet 29 December 2020

  • December 29, 2020
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Daily Practice Sheet 29 December 2020

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Sethusamudram ship channel project set to be beached:
  • Stage set for Bank Investment Company as recommended by P J Nayak Committee
  • First indigenous vaccine against pneumonia : ‘Pneumosil’
  • Vivad Se Vishwas scheme and Sabka Vishvas
  • Everything about 5G
  • Technology behind DRS
  • Kisan Rails: PM FLAGS OFF 100TH TRAIN OF SERVICE
  • Namami Gange
  • Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative
  • Sitabani Wildlife Reserve and Maharaja Martand Singh Judeo White Tiger Safari and Zoo
  • Inflation targeting

Daily Mapping

  • Sitabani Wildlife Reserve and Maharaja Martand Singh Judeo White Tiger Safari and Zoo

Daily Facts:

Standing Committee Report on tax disputes:

According to the Standing Committee on Finance, there were 4,83,000 direct tax disputes pending before the Commissioner (Appeals), the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, High Courts and the Supreme Court with the disputed amount of ₹9.32-lakh crore towards the end of November 2019.

If the amount not under dispute is added, the value of outstanding demands increases to almost ₹13-lakh crore.

But 95 per cent of the total outstanding demands valued at ₹12.4-lakh crore is ‘difficult to recover’.

Farm Incomes:

  • The gap between the agri-income of a farmer and that of a non-agriculture worker increased from ₹25,398 in 1993–94 to ₹1.42 lakh in 2011-12. There is widespread feeling of agrarian distress. 

Women/Marginalised empowerment through MGNREGS

  • According to official data from the MGNREGS State Mission of Kerala, of the 15,961 recently elected village panchayats members, 2,007 are MGNREGS workers

Covid-19 shaping offices

  • ‘WFH on the rise, net office space leasing dips 44%’

MSP

  • According to the PRS, 43% of wheat, 36% of rice, 12% of cereals and 1% of coarse grains are procured at MSP.

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Society

  1. Discuss the role of foreign architects on Indian cities. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Geography

  1. What do you understand by religious tourism? Discuss the challenges faced and opportunities. [Reference: FICCI]

GS 2: IR

  1. What is gated globalization? How is it shaping current world order? What strategies India should follow in such a world order? [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is commonwealth? Can common wealth and other groupings of English-speaking world can provide a good opportunity for India post-Brexit? [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. Technology offers huge benefits to world but comes with the threat of Great Games in geopolitics once again. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. The present farmers protest confuses contract farming with corporate farming. In this context differentiate between them? Enumerate provisions in agri reform act pertaining to both. [Reference: The Hindu]
  2. Telecom sector is not a vertical industry in itself, rather an enabler of horizontal growth across industries. Elaborate. Also bring out the challenges faced by telecom industry in India. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Science

  1. What do you understand by indigenization of technology? Discuss India’s achievement in the field of biotechnology. [Reference: Hindustan Times]
  2. What do you understand by 5G? How it is a huge improvement over 4G? Discuss its applications. [Reference: Business Line]
  3. Discuss India’s two front challenges? Is India prepared? [Reference: The Hindu]
  4. Explain technology behind DRS? [Reference: Indian Express]

Daily Ethics:

  1. Differentiate between to ‘politics of convenience’, ‘Politics of Conviction’ and ‘Politics of Consensus’ with examples. [Reference: Business Line]
  2. Discuss the causes for the erosion of values in public life.
  3. Discuss ethical dilemma with respect to use of Artificial intelligence through examples and ways to overcome it. [Reference: Financial Express]
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