Daily Practice Sheet 6 March 2021

  • March 6, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet

6 March 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Combined Commanders’ Conference (CCC)
  • High level national Committee to commemorate 75 years of independence
  • T1C2 tiger
  • Inert waste
  • 1st Quad leaders’ meeting likely this month
  • No confidence Motion
  • Private members’ bill
  • Overseas Citizen of India (OCI)
  • National Emergency
  • Cryptocurrency bill and challenges
  • GVA vs GDP
  • Bridging trial

Daily Mapping

  1. Satpura range
  2. Chabahar

Daily Data

Income tax filing

  • The latest data on Income tax returns show a 6.6% contraction in the number of returns filed by individuals earning up to Rs 50 lakh for fiscal 2019-20.
  • The overall filing of ITR including individuals, corporates and businesses shrank 6.5%.

Effectiveness of facial recognition technology

  • The Delhi Police counsel had told the Delhi High Court that FRT’s success rate was a mere 2%.
  • The ministry of women and child development pegged this at below 1% and said it could not even distinguish between a boy and a girl

Cryptocurrency in India

  • India has more than 10 million buyers and sellers of cryptocurrency (mostly in bitcoins) constituting 10-15% of the global user base.

Daily Mains Mantra

IAS 2022

  1. What do you understand by democracy? Why it is important?

GS1: Society

  1. Examine how the Swachh Bharat Mission by putting women at the Centre can be driver of gender equality in India. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS2: Polity

  1. The separation of power in policing is violated when police officers are appointed as the head of prisons. Comment the issues arising out of it. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Is banning crypto currency constitutional? Discuss multiple constitutional rights associated with crypto currencies. [Reference: Economic Times]

GS2: Economy

  1. Is India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan is a form of isolationism? What care must be taken so that while making India self-reliant it should not impact security and investment flow? [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. Is GVA a better GDP? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Environment

  1. Mitigation and adaptation both need to go simultaneously as climate change consequences is already here. In this context discuss focus on mitigation as in Paris climate deal is good, but not significant progress has been made on adaptation. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS3: Security

  1. Doctrinal clarity and institutional coherence are essential for a robust cybersecurity posture. Discuss. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS4: Ethics

  1. An oversight mechanism for ethical AI is urgent today. Elaborate. In this context discuss NITI Aayog’s 2020 draft on Responsible AI. [Reference: Financial Express]
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