10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: May 21, 2020

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY aims at providing a health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. The households included are based on the deprivation and occupational criteria of Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011).

Statement 1 is incorrect. National Health Authority (NHA) is the apex body responsible for implementing India’s flagship public health insurance/assurance scheme “Ayushman Bharat PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojana.” The NHA is governed by a Governing Board chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare

Statement 2 is correct. In view of current pandemic, National Health Authority notified the testing and treatment of eligiblebeneficiaries under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.

Several prospective reforms were announced for defence sector under Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan:

‘Make in India’ for Self-Reliance in Defence Production will be promoted by notifying a list of weapons/platforms for ban on import with year wise timelines, Indigenisation of imported spares, and separate budget provisioning for domestic capital procurement.

Improve autonomy, accountability and efficiency in Ordnance Supplies by Corporatisation of Ordnance Factory Board.

FDI limit in the Defence manufacturing under automatic route will be raised from 49% to 74%.

There will be time-bound defence procurement process and faster decision making will be ushered in by setting up of a Project Management Unit (PMU) to support contract management; Realistic setting of General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQRs) of weapons/platforms and overhauling Trial and Testing procedures.

All statements are correct.

The clause 3 of the act states that any person disobeying any regulation or order made under this Act shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.

The clause 4 of the act states that no suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything done or in good faith intended to be done under this Act.

The act empowers the State government (clause 2) to take measures and prescribe regulations for the inspection of persons travelling by railway or otherwise suspected of being infected with any such disease.

Statement 1 is correct. List of strategic sectors requiring presence of PSEs in public interest will be notified and in strategic sectors, at least one enterprise will remain in the public sector.

Statement 2 is incorrect. No such announcement has been made. The Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises administers central public sector enterprises (PSEs) and assists them in their effort to improve capacity utilisation and increase profitability, generate resources and re-orient strategies to become more competitive.

Statement 3 is correct. To minimise wasteful administrative costs, number of enterprises in strategic sectors will ordinarily be only one to four; others will be privatised/ merged/ brought under holding companies.

Statement 1 is incorrect. National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Ltd (NCGTC) is acompany incorporated under the Companies Act, established by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, as a wholly owned company of the Government of India, to act as a common trustee company for multiple credit guarantee funds.

Statement 2 is correct. Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS)to provide a credit guarantee of Rs 3 lakh crore to MSME sector in view of financial crisis due to COVID-19 was announced recently. Under the scheme 100% guarantee coverage will be provided by National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Limited (NCGTC) to eligible MSMEs and interested borrowers of the MUDRA scheme, in the form of a Guaranteed Emergency Credit Line (GECL) facility.

Kalapani in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand borders Nepal.

Susta is in West Champaran district of Bihar bordering Nepal.

Naku La pass in Sikkim is at India-China border.

Both statements are correct.

Chhattisgarh government has launched Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyaya Yojana to provide direct benefit income support for farmers.

It is based on registered area and area under cultivation, rice and maize farmers would get Rs 10,000 an acre while sugarcane farmers would get Rs13,000 in four installments.

The Shekatkar Committee was set up by the Government of India in 2016 to recommend measures on enhancing Combat Capability and Rebalancing Defence Expenditure. Recently government implemented three recommendations of Committee of Experts (CoE) under the Chairmanship of Lt General D B Shekatkar (Retd) relating to border Infrastructure.

– outsource road construction work beyond optimal capacity of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and mandatory adoption of Engineering Procurement Contract (EPC) mode for execution of all works costing more than Rs 100 crore.

– introduction of modern construction plants, equipment and machinery has been implemented by delegating enhanced procurement powers from Rs 7.5 crore to Rs 100 crore to BRO.

– land acquisition and all statutory clearances like forest and environmental clearance are also made part of approval of Detailed Project Report (DPR).

Mi-17 is a Soviet/Russian transport helicopter, also used by Indian Air Force.

INS Vikramaditya is a modified Kiev-class aircraft carrier, it was originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with the Soviet Navy and later with the Russian Navy. The carrier was purchased by India and got inducted into the Indian Navy in 2014.

Astra is an all-weather beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

Statement 1 is incorrect. ‘One Health‘ is an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.

Statement 2 is correct. It recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment.Therefore, successful public health interventions require the cooperation of human, animal, and environmental health partners.

One Health issues include zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and food security, vector-borne diseases, environmental contamination, and other health threats shared by people, animals, and the environment.