10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : December 12, 2018

There are several provident fund accounts available in India

Employee Provident Fund Account – Available for organised sector employee and the account is mandatory for a certain salary class employed with the government. Employees working with private companies are not eligible for the account.

Public Provident Fund Account – It is a savings cum tax savings account offered in India. The account holder should deposit a minimum of Rs.500 is in order to open and maintain PPF account and the maximum that can be deposited is Rs.1.5 lakh

Non-Resident Indians and Hindu Undivided Family individuals are not eligible for a PPF account.

General Provident Fund Account – GPF is available only for government employees while PPF is available for the self-employed and other income sectors of the society

GPF is managed by the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

Agricultural Technology Management Agency shortly termed as ATMA is a Farmer Oriented Programme to Improvise various skills not only in Agricultural Field but also in different other allied Departments like Animal Husbandry , Horticulture, Fisheries and Sericulture.

The main aim of this agency is to impart technical knowledge on a broad based scale to the farmers in getting fruitful results and better per unit Income. The ATMA was established in the year 2005 in Krishna District

Farmer Training Programmes are scheduled within the District, within the State and outside the State, either in the extension Education Institutes or in the research stations for benefit of the farmers. ATMA provides an amount of Rs.1000/- per farmer for 10 days outside the State & Rs.750/- per farmer within the State. Rs.400/- is provided to each farmer within the district for 5 days training Programme.

According to government data, renewable energy contributes to one-fifth of India’s total energy capacity. As of October 2018, renewable energy accounted for 21.12 % (73.35 GW) of the total installed energy capacity of 347.37 GW.

Of the 73.35 GW of renewable capacity, wind had the largest share of 34.98 GW, followed by solar at 24.33 GW, bio-power at 9.54 GW and small hydro power at 4.5 GW

In wind power, India ranks fourth with a total installed capacity of 34.98 GW.

Therefore, only statement 2 is correct.

Located at a height of nearly 5,000m in eastern Nepal, Imja lake is a glacial lake. The lake is fed primarily by the Imja glacier. In the 1960s, melt water began collecting at the foot of the glacier, creating Imja. The Imja glacial lake is the fastest growing lake in the Himalaya and has been identified as one of the potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya.

Additional Information:

Glacial Lake:

Glacial lakes generally form at the foot of a glacier. As glaciers move and flow, they erode the soil and sediment around them, leaving depressions and grooves on the land. Meltwater from the glacier fills up the hole, making a lake.

FTAs are arrangements between two or more countries or trading blocs that primarily agree to reduce or eliminate customs tariff and non-tariff barriers on substantial trade between them. In an FTA there is a negative list on which duty is not reduced or eliminated.

Early harvest scheme is a precursor to a free trade agreement (FTA) between two trading partners. This is to help the two trading countries to identify certain products for tariff liberalisation pending the conclusion of FTA negotiation. It is primarily a confidence building measure.

Therefore, statements 1 and 3 are correct. Statement 2 is incorrect.

Statement 1 and 3 is incorrect

The Global Compact for Migration is the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. The global compact is non-legally binding. It is grounded in values of state sovereignty, responsibility-sharing, non-discrimination, and human rights, and recognizes that a cooperative approach is needed to optimize the overall benefits of migration, while addressing its risks and challenges for individuals and communities in countries of origin, transit and destination.

The global compact comprises 23 objectives for better managing migration at local, national, regional and global levels. The compact:

– aims to mitigate the adverse drivers and structural factors that hinder people from building and maintaining sustainable livelihoods in their countries of origin;

– intends to reduce the risks and vulnerabilities migrants face at different stages of migration by respecting, protecting and fulfilling their human rights and providing them with care and assistance;

– seeks to address the legitimate concerns of states and communities, while recognizing that societies are undergoing demographic, economic, social and environmental changes at different scales that may have implications for and result from migration;

– strives to create conducive conditions that enable all migrants to enrich our societies through their human, economic and social capacities, and thus facilitate their contributions to sustainable development at the local, national, regional and global levels.