Daily Practice Sheet 8 December 2021
- December 8, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPS
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Daily Practice Sheet
8 December 2021
Daily Prelims Topic
- NASA’s new communications system LCRD
- Kasturirangan Committee on Western Ghats
- Micro Labs for Genomic Sequencing
- Green-Ag project
- EU Regulators give Approval to Mix Vaccines
- US-Mexico Border
- Employment vs Unemployment Rate
- Hydrogen sulphide suppresses HIV
Daily Facts
Solid waste management
- As per the SBM 2.0 guidelines, the total quantity of waste generated by urban areas in India is about 1.32 lakh tonnes daily. This adds up to 4.8 crore tonnes per annum. Of this only about 25% is being processed; the rest is disposed of in landfills every year.
- Given that the waste dumpsites have been operational since the early 2000s, more than 72 crore tonnes of waste need to be processed
Health
- The National Health Accounts (NHA) report for 2017-18 is being celebrated widely as it shows that total public spending on health as a percentage of GDP has increased to a historic high of 1.35% of GDP, finally breaking through the 1%-1.2% mark of GDP. Out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of total health expenditure has come down to less than 50%.
CSE 2021
Day 31
Daily Mains Mantra
GS 2: Polity
- Populism plunges democratic societies into an endless series of moralized zero-sum conflicts. In this context, critically examine the threat of populism for democracy. [Reference: Indian Express]
- What do you understand by mediation? Analyze the Draft Mediation Bill 2021.
GS 2: IR
GS 3: Environment
GS 3: Security