Daily Practice Sheet 31 December 2021

Inverted Duty Structure
Flex-Fuel Vehicles
R-value
Delta vs Omicron
Clinical Trial Terminology
Consumer Protection (Jurisdiction of the District Commission, the State Commission and the National Commission) Rules, 2021
E-Daakhil portal
Sahitya Akademi Award
Pope Francis’s visit to India
Goa Liberation Day
‘Operation Vijay’
SMILE (Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise)
Electoral Bonds
GST Compensation
The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)
Cropland Expansion
China inventing names for places in Arunachal Pradesh
Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana (READY)
Subprime Borrower

NFHS data

The Total Fertility Rate — the average number of children born per woman — has declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level. A total of 31 States and Union Territories (constituting 69.7% of the country’s population) have achieved fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1. The main reasons for decline in fertility include: Increase in adoption of modern family planning methods (from 47.8% in 2015-16 to 56.5% in 2019-21) and a reduction in unmet need for family planning by 4% points over the same period.
Significant improvements in female literacy, with 41% women having received 10 or more years of schooling (compared to 36% in 2015-16)
Increased reach of the health system to more non-user couples with information about family planning (from 18% in 2015-16 to 24% in 2019-21). Further, 62% of current users have received information about the side-effects of contraceptives — a crucial indicator of the improved quality of family planning services. Significant improvements in female literacy, with 41% women having received 10 or more years of schooling (compared to 36% in 2015-16)
The prevalence of child marriage has gone down marginally from 26.8% in 2015-16 to 23.3% in 2019-21. Similarly, sex ratio at birth has shown slight improvement (from 919 to 929 over the same time period).

MAINS OPTIMA 2021

CSE 2021

Day 54

Topic: Security

CSE 2022

Day 52

Topic: Vulnerable sections