Daily Practice Sheet 31 May 2021

  • May 31, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

31 May 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • National Museum makeover forG20 meet in 2023 in India
  • Centre-state tussle offer West Bengal’s chief secretary transfer
  • South West Monsoon delayed
  • All India Democratic Women Association
  • Is Test positivity a good indicator of Covid-19 caseload
  • Role of T-cells in helping cancer patient amidst Covid-19
  • Revising claims once resolution plan approved by NCLT under IBC not possible for government bodies
  • ESIC, EPFO-EDLI scheme
  • RBI may keep repo rate steady
  • On set of monsoon
  • Economy showing symptoms of stagflation
  • Tianzhou 2 cargo spacecraft
  • ECOWAS

Daily Mapping

  • Israel
  • Sahel

Daily data

Sustainable agriculture: Stress on water resources

  • Of 1,123 billion cubic metres (BCM) of usable water resources, 690 BCM is surface water. India’s reservoir capacity for surface water resources is only 258 BCM.
  • For paddy, for instance, shifting farming practices to the most efficient ones could reduce water use by 25% in Maharashtra and 73% in Andhra Pradesh. Overall, 20-47% of irrigation water could be saved between 2030 and 2050—and reallocated to other sectors— if farmers adopted water-saving irrigation practices.
  • As India grows, total water withdrawal will jump from 949 BCM in 2010 to 1,058 BCM in 2050. Agriculture’s share will rise from 77% in 2010 to 81% in 2050. Savings of just 1 BCM in agriculture could provide water to 4.2 million urban households annually.
  • Although India has the largest number of farmers practising natural farming (800,000), they account for only 0.7% of farmers. Organic farming covers just 2% of net sown area.
  • The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture gets only 0.8% of the agriculture ministry’s budget

Daily Mains Mantra

Mains 2021

Daily Mini Practice – 30 Minutes

Topic: Food Security and PDS, Buffer stock, Employment

1. What do you understand by informalisation of labour? Discuss the cause for this phenomenon in Indian economy.

I: Define and explain informalisation of labour. Give some data

B: Discuss the cause of informalisation like: LPG policy, etc.

C: Suggest recommendations to reverse

2. What do you understand by employment elasticity? Discuss the causes for falling employment elasticity in the post LPG 1991 period.

I: Define and explain employment elasticity. Give some data

B: Discuss the cause of falling employment elasticity.

C: Suggest recommendations to reverse

3. The purpose of National Food Security Act was to give nutritional security to the people; however the progress has been halting. Discuss the challenges in the implementation of the Act.

I: Explain the NFSA

B: Discuss the challenges of implementation of NFSA.

C: Suggest recommendations to improve the act

4. Critically examine FCI’s Buffer stock policy. Do you think it needs to change

I: Define buffer and explain buffer policy.

B: Discuss the drawbacks of huge buffer stock

C: Suggest recommendations

Mains 2022 (as per LAQSHYA 2022 timetable)

  1. Discuss the salient features of Indus Valley Civilization. Examine the cause of decline.
  2. Discuss the significance of Vedas as source of history

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Geography

  1. Discuss the resource base of Lakshadweep focusing on development of tourism. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS2: Polity

  1. Critically examine role of media as a fourth pillar of democracy. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Governance

  1. Make a case for making targeted PDS coverage must improve and become more inclusive. [Reference: Business Line]

GS3: Science and technology

  1. To avoid playing catch-up on the digital revolution in coming years India need an evolve a comprehensive framework and investment priority in technology like cryptocurrency and blockchain. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What is meant by sustainable agriculture? Suggest how Indian agriculture could be made more effectively. [Reference: Financial Express]
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