10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : September 22

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi inaugurates first urban poor canteen in the State, aimed at serving the poor, in Jayanagar.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that Indira Canteens was a continuation of the Congress’s commitment to a hunger-free Karnataka

In order to strengthen the public grievance redressal system, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered the setting up of a “CM Helpline” which will connect people to a call centre manned by 500 people. The helpline will be directly supervised by the chief minister’s office, with Adityanath himself collecting feedback.

The Law Commission of India is a non-statutory body and a non-constitutional body constituted by the Government of India from time to time.

The first commission in the post-independence India was constituted in 1955.

The Commission is established for a fixed tenure and works as an advisory body to the Ministry of Law and Justice.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Narmada is the largest west flowing river in India & the fifth largest river in the country.

Statement 2 is correct.  It rises near Amarkantak range of mountains in Madhya Pradesh

Statement 3 is correct. It traverses Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat and meets the Gulf of Cambay. It is considered as the dividing line between North India drained by the Gangetic basin, and Peninsular India.

Although entirely rain fed, the Narmada has a fairly heavy discharge because of moderately heavy annual average rainfall in the basin, particularly in the upper catchment area.

The Tax Administration Reform Commission or TARC is committee appointed by the Government of India for giving recommendations for reviewing the public Tax Administration system of India. The term of the Commission is 18 months and works as an advisory body to the Ministry of Finance.  Its primary objective is to review the existing organizational structure and recommend appropriate enhancements with special reference to deployment of workforce commensurate with functional requirements, capacity building, vigilance administration, responsibility and accountability of human resources, key performance indicators, staff assessment, grading and promotion systems, and structures to promote quality decision-making at high policy levels.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Stand up India’ scheme on 5 April 2016 as part of the government’s efforts to support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities. The scheme offers bank loans of between 10 lakh (US$16,000) and 1 crore (US$160,000) for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and women setting up new enterprises outside of the farm sector.

Ahmedabad is the first city to develop a heat wave response system in 2013 following its dreadful experience with heat in 2010, offered a model. This response system was created with support from public health institutions. Preparing the health system to identify symptoms of heat stress and providing treatment through urban health centres is one intervention it decided upon. The plan involved other relatively simple and straightforward measures like reviewing school timetables, rescheduling work timings to cooler hours, making water widely available and reserving religious sites and libraries as cooling centres.