Daily Practice Sheet 9 October 2020

  • October 9, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  • Cannabis and NDPS Act
  • Fungi and stubble burning
  • What is TRP
  • Gst compensation cess
  • Registration of political parties
  • World Bank
  • Exchange rate
  • CAG
  • BAD Bank
  • Heavy metal pollution
  • Bio magnification
  • BIS Standards for drinking water- alkalinity level

Daily Mapping

  • Noyal
  • Chinnar river

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 2: Polity

  1. Discuss the significance of CAG in ensuring financial accountability of the government to the Parliament. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Governance

  1. Jan Dhan schemes starting from being an enabler of benefit transfer, the scheme has transformed into a holistic social security solution for rural populace. Comment. [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Economy

  1. What do you understand by informalisation of workforce? Explain the reasons for fall in organized sector employment. Why this trend I a cause of worry for us? [Reference: Business Line]
  2. In the view of the declining average size of land holdings in India which has made agriculture non – viable for a majority of farmers. Should contract farming and land leasing be promoted in agriculture? Critically evaluate the pros and cons.
  3. Discuss the concept of bad bank? Is it a good idea to have bad bank to resolve the banking crisis in India? [Reference: Business Line]

GS 3: Science

  1. What do you understand by assisted reproduction technology? Discuss constitutional, medico-legal, regulatory concerns raised by Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill. [Reference: Indian Express]
  2. Medicine is at a turning point, on the cusp of major change as disruptive technologies such as gene, RNA, and cell therapies enable scientists to approach diseases in new ways. Comment. [Reference: News Harvard]
  3. What do you understand by gene editing? Differentiate between Somatic Gene editing and Germline Gene editing. [Reference: News Harvard]

GS 4: Ethics

  1. What do you understand by bio ethics? In this context discuss the ethics of gene editing. [Reference: News Harvard]
  2. What do you mean by private and public life? How  does private morality  impacts our public life?
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