Daily Practice Sheet 29 September 2020

  • September 29, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  • Bhagat Singh
  • India Denmark green strategic partnership
  • Defence procurement plan 2020
  • Chandra telescope
  • NIA
  • Arogyapath
  • Northeast monsoon
  • Marginal standing facility (MSF)
  • MPC Quorum
  • Offer for sale
  • 3D printing 

Daily Facts

  • The UN peacekeeping budget is around $8 billion which is a small fraction of the $1.9 trillion military expenditure governments made in 2019. 
  • UN Peacekeeping forces comprise 116,919 field forces from 123 countries.
  • There are 16 UN peacekeeping operation deployed on 4 continents

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS1: Society

  1. Discuss the challenges of urbanization in India. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Critically analyze the need for women reservation in elections of Parliament and state legislatures. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: IR

  1. Make a case of permanent seat for India at UNSC. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. How relevant UN remains in era of retreat of multi literalism? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

  1. One PSU is buying out another—have attracted adverse comments from the CAG recently. In this context critically examine India’s disinvestment policy and its outcome in last decade. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. Can privatization of PSBs help solve banking crisis? [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Science

  1. What do you understand by 3D printing? Discuss its applications. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. Establish relation between ethics in public and private life of a civil servant. [Reference: New Indian Express]
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