10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: December 15, 2020

NITI Aayog recently released a white paper Vision 2035 – Public Health Surveillance in India. The white paper lays out India’s vision for public health surveillance through the integration of the three-tiered public health system into Ayushman Bharat.
It also spells out the need for expanded referral networks and enhanced laboratory capacity. The building blocks for this vision are an interdependent federated system of governance between the Centre and states.

Both statements are correct.
IN-SPACe is to act as an autonomous body, under Department of Space, as a single window nodal agency for enabling and regulating space activities and usage of ISRO facilities by NGPEs.
It will permit and oversee the following activities of Non-Government-Private-Entities (NGPEs).
–Space activities including building of launch vehicles and satellites and providing space based services as per the definition of space activities.
Sharing of space infrastructure and premises under the control of ISRO with due considerations to on-going activities.
–Establishment of new space infrastructure and facilities, by NGPEs, in pursuance of space activities based on safety norms and other statutory guidelines and necessary clearances.
Initiation of launch campaign and launch, based on readiness of launch vehicle and spacecraft systems, ground and user segment.
Building, operation and control of spacecraft for registration as Indian Satellite by NGPEs and all the associated infrastructure for the same.

Both statements are correct.
The eSanjeevani is Government of India’s flagship telemedicine technology developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Mohali).
eSanjeevani is a platform independent, browser-based application facilitating both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor tele-consultations. It is being deployed nationally for the Miinistry of Health & Family Welfare at 155,000 Health and Wellness Centres under Ayushman Bharat Scheme of Government of India.

Statement 1 is correct. The Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) aimed to develop river Ganges as a safe mode of navigation and is being implemented with the technical and financial assistance of the World Bank. ‘Project Arth Ganga’ envisages to re-engineer the JMVP by involving the local community with a focus on economic activities in and around the Ganga river.
Apart from providing benefits in terms of trade and access to markets, local community’s economic enhancement and passenger facilitation, the ‘Arth Ganga’ project will also ensure large scale skills enhancement and public/private sector capability development.
Statement 2 is incorrect. Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies (cGanga) is a think tank formed under the aegis of NMCG. The Centre is headquartered at IIT Kanpur and has representation from most leading science and technological institutes of the country.
cGanga’s mandate is to serve as think-tank in implementation and dynamic evolution of Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP) prepared by the Consortium of 7 IITs.
# The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), has signed an MOU for development of sludge management framework in India, in collaboration with cGanga.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Under the Project 17A program, a total of seven ships, four at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) and three ships at Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd., GRSE are being built with enhanced stealth features, advanced indigenous weapon and sensor fit along with several other improvements.
‘Himgiri’, the first of the three Project 17A ships being built at M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata was launched on 14 December 2020.
Statement 2 is correct. P17A ships are the first gas turbine propulsion and largest combat platforms ever built at GRSE.

In order to review the Income-tax Act, 1961 and to draft a new direct tax law in consonance with the economic needs of the country, a Task Force was constituted by the Government of India in November, 2017.
The Government has appointed Akhilesh Ranjan, then Member (Legislation), CBDT as Convenor of the Task Force. The report is with the government but has not yet been made public.
Previously Kelkar Committee had submitted a report and then the draft new Direct Tax Code in 2008, that was also not implemented by the government.

E-kuber is the core banking solution of the RBI that gives high degree of access to commercial banks and other institutions to their current account with the RBI. Several financial engagements like the auction of Government securities are done through e-kuber system.
Core Banking Solutions (CBS) is a facility or arrangement that helps banks to offer large number of customer-centric services on a 24×7 basis from a single location. The core banking solution can support retail as well as corporate banking activities.
It enables banks access with their current account at any time, everywhere across the coutnry. The e-kuber is used by the RBI to execute various transactions with banks. Utility of e-kuber is that it is used to conduct exercises like auctioning of government securities.

Statement 1 is incorrect. A Government Security (G-Sec) is a tradeable instrument issued by the Central Government or the State Governments.
It acknowledges the Government’s debt obligation. Such securities are short term (usually called treasury bills, with original maturities of less than one year) or long term (usually called Government bonds or dated securities with original maturity of one year or more).
In India, the Central Government issues both, treasury bills and bonds or dated securities while the State Governments issue only bonds or dated securities.
Statement 2 is correct. State Governments also raise loans from the market which are called State Development Loans (SDLs). SDLs are dated securities issued through normal auction similar to the auctions conducted for dated securities issued by the Central Government.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) is a system where there is continuous and real-time settlement of fund-transfers, individually on a transaction-by-transaction basis (without netting). ‘Real Time’ means the processing of instructions at the time they are received; ‘Gross Settlement’ means that the settlement of funds transfer instructions occurs individually.
National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) System is an electronic fund transfer system in which the transactions received up to a particular time are processed in batches.
Statement 2 is incorrect. The Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for high-value transactions has been made available round-the-clock recently, making India one of the few countries in the world to operate the system 24X7.
# In December 2019, RBI had made the national electronic funds transfer (NEFT) available 24X7.

The UNEP Emissions Gap Report provides a yearly review of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
–despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century – far beyond the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C.
–a low-carbon pandemic recovery could cut 25 per cent off the greenhouse emissions expected in 2030, based on policies in place before COVID-19. Such a recovery would far outstrip savings foreseen with the implementation of unconditional Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement, and put the world close to the 2°C pathway.