Daily Practice Sheet 6 May 2021

  • May 6, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Daily Practice Sheet

6 May 2021

 

Daily Prelims Topic

  • Maratha Quota law:
  • The Election Commission (Conditions of Service of Election Commissioners and Transaction of Business) Act, 1991
  • SLTRO, Loan Recast Scheme
  • Affirmative actions
  • Ration Card (ONORC):
  • Antibody cocktail gets approval
  • Signal vs Facebook
  • CSR
  • Strategic disinvestment:
  • Stress resolution framework 2.0
  • Export of organic millet
  • Idbi
  • Index of economic freedom
  • Casirvimab and imdevimab
  • Term Liquid Facility

Daily Mapping

  1. Colombia (Huge violence started for tax reforms and transformed into opposition against the government)

Daily Data

Criminalization of politics

Informal sector

  • The informal sector accounts for about 50% of GVA and a major share in the export basket.
  • The informal sector employs more than 80% of India’s workforce. The informal sector accounts for about 50% of GVA and a major share in the export basket.

Daily Mains Mantra

GS 1: Society

  1. What are dominant castes? Why are they demanding reservation? [Reference: Business Standard]

GS2: Polity

  1. To change the 50% limit for reservation under Art 15 and 16 is to have a society which is not founded on equality but based on caste rule. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Recent elections point to bringing culture into the centre stage of politics, as the basis of perception and as the grounds for actions. In this context discuss cultural politics becoming most dominating agenda of electoral politics in India. [Reference: Indian Express]
  3. Analyze the Indra Sawhney In this context, discuss the legal history of affirmative action in India. [Reference: Cyrila March and Blogs]

GS3: Economy

  1. The draft NEP has ambitious goals for renewable power, but getting there rests on the shoulders of private sector. In this context critically examine the draft National Electricity Policy. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. Reconciling the hand-to-mouth existence of units in the informal sector with their stipulated globally competitive role in the Atmanirbhar Bharat is a Herculean task. Elaborate. [Reference: Financial Express]
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