Daily Practice Sheet 31 December 2020
- December 31, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPS
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Daily Practice Sheet 31 December 2020
Daily Prelims Topic
- Akash Missile
- Genome sequencing
- Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D)
- Kevadia Tourism Circuit
- What happens to property attached by the ED?
- Current Account Surplus
- AFSPA
- Super spreader
Daily facts
Digital gap
- ASER 2020 highlighted that access to smartphones has almost doubled since its 2018 survey—11% respondent households purchased a new phone to support children’s education.
- Another report published by Right To Education Forum shows points that the digital divide was wider for girls; only 26% of girls could access mobile phones as against 37% boys.
Agriculture subsidies:
- In 1950-51, agriculture’s share in the country’s GDP was 45%, the share of the workforce dependent on the sector was close to 70%.
- Today agriculture’s share in GDP is below 16%, but almost 50% of the country’s workforce depends on this sector.
- As per India’s latest notification, for 2018- 19 the subsidies provided were slightly more than $56 billion. In most of the recent years, the largest component of India’s subsidies ($24.2 billion, or 43% of the total) are provided to “low income or resource poor farmers”, a terminology that the AoA uses.
- India has notified that 99.43% of its farmers are low income or resource poor. According to the agricultural census conducted in 2015-16, these are the farmers whose holdings are 10 hectares or less
- America provided $131 billion in 2017 and the EU, nearly €80 billion (or $93 billion) in 2017-18.
- India’s farm subsidies in 2017 were 12.4% of agricultural value addition, while for the U.S. and the EU, the figures were 90.8% and 45.3%, respectively.
Daily mapping
- Estonia
- Paraguay
- Dominican Republic
(India created Indian missions in these countries to increase diplomatic footprint)
Daily Mains Mantra
NEWSPAPER
GS1: Society
- How digital divide is impacting education system in India in Post-Covid era and in times of digital revolution. [Reference: Financial Express]
GS2: Polity
- India in recent times has seen many largescale people-led movements led by civil society. In this context discuss importance of civil society and challenges Indian civil society faces in emerging as link between ruler and the ruled. [Reference: Indian Express]
GS 2: Welfare schemes
- Critically assess the role of Swachh Bharat Mission in achieving sanitation outcome? [Reference: Financial Express]
GS 3: Economy
- What do you understand by debt trap? Is Indian government facing a looming debt trap? [Reference: Business Line]
- Critically examine the farm subsidy regime in India. Compare this with developed world. [Reference: The Hindu]
- Erosion of farm incomes was triggered by growing inefficiencies, which, in turn, was caused by a lack of meaningful investment in agriculture. Discuss
GS 3: Science
- What do you understand by driverless cars? Discuss the concerns regarding it. [Reference: Business Line]
- What do you understand by genome sequencing? Discuss its in fighting corona pandemic. [Reference: The Hindu]
GS4: Ethics