Daily Practice Sheet 4 January 2021

  • January 4, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet 4 January 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Lithium triangle
  • Western Disturbance
  • Conjugate vaccine
  • OPEC
  • What is efficacy rate in vaccine?
  • What are DFI? Why were they closed?
  • What is compulsory licensing?

Daily Facts

  • Bharat Biotech has earlier developed vaccines for H1N1, Rotavirus, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies, Chikungunya, Zika and the world’s first tetanus-toxoid conjugated vaccine for Typhoid.

Investments vs Subsidy debate:

Daily Mains Mantra

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GS 1: Society

  1. Discuss the structural causes for pervasive violence targeted against certain groups in rural society in India. Also, suggest measures. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Discuss the invisibility of gender in Indian Agriculture. How will the recent farm acts impact women involved in agriculture? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Polity

  1. What is democratic decentralisation? Elaborate the positive trends of empowerment coming through elections and representations all over India with implications for whole democracy. [Reference: Indian Express, The Hindu, Indian Express]

GS 2: Governance

  1. What matters is not the quantity of governments but the quality. In this context discuss Good Governance and its impact through examples during Covid-19 pandemic and areas to improve for India in this regard. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. What do you understand by e-governance? Bring out how technology can redefine e-governance by revolutionising public service delivery in India. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. What do you understand by Development Financial Institutions (DFIs)? Examine their contribution to the economy? Why they become unviable after liberalization? Critically examine the need to resurrect them again. [Reference: Business Line]

Approach:

Explain what DFI are in the introduction with emphasis on how they are different from banks.

Then in the body explain their contribution in building the infrastructure.

Then explain why they became unviable using two Narasimham Committee on Financial Sector Reforms in the 1990s. The committee noted that the DFIs may not be viable, since these institutions were raising funds at the current market rates and lending to businesses with long gestation and often high risk of failure with high credit cost.

The last part of the answer examines why the needs to resurrect them in backdrop of banks failing to meet the demand of infrastructure finance and huge NPAs pilling.

  1. “American roads are not good because America is rich. But America is rich because American roads are good”. In the context of the statement comment on status of the road infrastructure development in India and strategies to make it enabler of AtmaNirbhar Bharat. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 3: Science

  1. Covaxin is a giant leap for innovation in India. Comment
  2. Why India’s approval of homegrown COVAXIN is being criticized? [Reference: Economic Times]
  3. Discuss how 5G can help in powering Digital India? [Reference: Financial Express]
  4. What do you understand by compulsory licensing? Why it is needed? Critically examine Patent Rules (Amendment) 2020 in this regard.

GS 3: Security

  1. What is theatre command? What aims Indian policy makers seeks to achieve through theatre command? Bring out some challenges in effective functioning of theatre command in Indian context. [Reference: Indian Express]

Daily Ethics

  1. Discuss the ethical issues in approval of vaccine.
  2. Can science and spirituality come together?
  3. What do you understand by vaccine hesitancy? Discuss the psychology behind it. [Reference: The Hindu]
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