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Daily Practice Sheet 5 April 2021

  • April 5, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

5 April 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

  • COBRA unit
  • Plasma
  • Forest fires
  • Excise duty
  • Covid passport
  • PRAAPTI
  • Gene-transfer between insects & plants
  • National Policy on Rare Diseases

Daily Mapping

  • Jordan

Daily Data

Maoist violence

  • 175 personnel were killed (excluding civilian deaths) in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in Maoist attacks.

Bonded labour

  • According to International Labour Organization(ILO) there are 1.17 crores bonded labourers in India (2014).

Capital expenditure by states falling

States Finances

Fuel pricing and taxation

  • The Union and state levies put together account for roughly 55 per cent and 52 per cent of the retail price of petrol and diesel respectively
  • The Centre and the states is expected to earn around Rs 5.5 lakh crore by way of revenue from petrol and diesel during the current fiscal year
  • The central levy on petrol and diesel works out to around 36 per cent of the retail price while the state component is around 20 per cent (diesel) to 28 per cent (petrol).

Daily Mains Mantra

GS2: Polity

  1. The Election Commission has a job both delicate and difficult: To be scrupulous and visibly so about following processes and protocols for fairness of election. In this context examine the challenges in functioning of the ECI in recent times. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Governance

  1. What do you understand by rare diseases? Discuss the National Policy on Rare Diseases. [Reference: Hindustan Times]

GS2: Security

  1. In the context of increased adoption of digital technology investigate into nature of threats arising out of it. Is India ready to address these threats: [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. Naxalism as India’s greatest internal security challenge. Critically examine India’s strategy to counter naxalism. [Reference: The Print, IDSA]

GS3: Economy

  1. Bringing petrol and diesel under GST will not lower fuel oil prices by itself. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS3: Environment

  1. Forest fires have emerged as major threat to ecology. What are major causes of forest fires? Also discuss the implications of forest fire. How vulnerable India is to forest fire. [Reference: Indian Express]
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