Daily Practice Sheet 29 July 2020

  • July 29, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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On this Day

  • International Tiger Day

Daily Prelims Topic

  1. Election timing and Election Commission
  2. Delimitation Exercise
  3. Business Advisory Committee
  4. NGT Compensation order on Baghjan Oil well disaster:
  5. Status of Tiger
  6. What is a public good?
  7. Australian bush fire

 Daily Mapping

  • Baghjan site
  • Nagarhole-Bandipur-Wayanad-Mudumalai- Satyamangalam-BRT block.

Daily Facts

Tiger

  • According to Status of Tigers Report 2018 tigers were observed to be increasing at a rate of 6 per cent per annum in India from 2006 to 2018.
  • There were nine tiger reserves when Project Tiger started in 1973. Now, India has 50 tiger reserves.
  • Seventy per cent of the world’s tigers are in India and the conservation effort has been a huge success

Australian bush fire

  • Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced during Australia’s devastating bushfires of the past year, scientists say.

Daily Constitution

  • Article 163
  • Article 174

Daily Mains Mantra

LAQSHYA-2021

  1. What are ocean currents? Discuss factors which cause ocean currents. Also examine impact of ocean currents on climate and economy.

Source: NCERT

OPTIMA-2020

  1. The 1921 Moplah rebellion was in essence an expression of long standing agrarian discontent which was intensified by religious identity. Comment.

Source: Bipin Chandra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Geography

  1. What caused unprecedented Australian bush fire? [Reference: BBC, The Guardian]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Governor’s position has become politicized. Discuss various provisions of constitution and conventions responsible for this. Can we do away with this office? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Governance

  1. What do you understand by digital deprivation? How does it affects access to services? [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Economy

  1. The lives of Indians will not be improved, and the Indian economy will not be able to compete with the rest of the world, they say, until this vast informal sector is formalized. Do you agree with this? Give your arguments. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by non-partition ship? Why it is important in civil services? [Reference: First Post]
  2. What do you understand by patience and persistence? [Reference: Indian Express]
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