10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 18 2021

Hydrogen is a clean fuel that, when consumed in a fuel cell, produces only water. Hydrogen is an energy carrier that can be used to store, move, and deliver energy produced from other sources. Hydrogen can be extracted from fossil fuels and biomass, from water, or from a mix of both.

— Thermal processes for hydrogen production typically involve steam reforming, a high-temperature process in which steam reacts with a hydrocarbon fuel to produce hydrogen.

— Water can be separated into oxygen and hydrogen through a process called electrolysis.

— In microbial biomass conversion, the microbes break down organic matter like biomass or wastewater to produce hydrogen, while in photobiological processes the microbes use sunlight as the energy source.

Statement 1 is correct. The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme intends to promote manufacture of Telecom and Networking Products in India and proposes a financial incentive to boost domestic manufacturing and attract investments in the target segments of telecom and networking products in order to encourage Make in India.

Support under the Scheme will be provided to companies/entities engaged in manufacturing of specified telecom and networking products in India. Eligibility will be further subject to achievement of a minimum threshold of cumulative incremental investment over a period of four years and incremental sales of manufactured goods net of taxes (as distinct from traded goods) over the Base Year 2019-2020. The cumulative investment can be made at one go, subject to annual cumulative threshold as prescribed for four years being met.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The scheme will also encourage exports of telecom and networking products ‘Made in India’.

Globally Telecom and Networking Products exports represent an US$100 billion market opportunity, which can be exploited by India. With support under the scheme, India will augment capacities by attracting large investments from global players and at the same time encourage promising domestic champion companies to seize the emerging opportunities and become big players in the export market.

The surveys being undertaken by Labour Bureau are:

–All India Survey on Domestic Workers is to estimate the proportion of DW in the workforce by major states and all-India and percentage distribution of these DWs / households that employ them by important socio-demographic key characteristics.

–All India Survey on Migrant Workers is to estimate the number of migrant workers in India and also to collect information on their living conditions, working conditions and other socio-economic conditions.

–All India Survey on Employment Generated by Professionals is to estimate the total number of active professionals in the country & (to capture the employment generated by these professionals.

–All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey is to measure relative change in employment situation over successive quarters in sizeable segment of Non-Farm economy covering 8 important sectors of the Indian economy.

# Labour Bureau is an attached office of Ministry of Labour & Employment.

Statement 1 is correct. The Mission COVID Suraksha was launched by the Government of India to accelerate Indian COVID-19 Vaccine Development. The COVID-19 Vaccine development Mission with end-to-end focus from preclinical development through clinical development and manufacturing and regulatory facilitation for deployment, would consolidate all available and funded resources towards an accelerated product development.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Led by Department of Biotechnology and implemented by a dedicated Mission Implementation Unit at Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), the existing

activities under National Bio Pharma Mission (NBM) and Ind-CEPI Mission provide complementary strengths to this Mission.

Statement 1 is correct. The grounds for reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech and expressions as provide under article 19(2) are: interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Defamation in India is both a civil and a criminal offence. In Civil Law, the punishment is in the form of damages awarded to the claimant. Under Criminal Law, Defamation is bailable, non-cognizable and compoundable offence. Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 defines what is defamation and its exceptions.

Statement 1 is correct. To streamline adoption procedures for orphan, abandoned and surrendered children, the earlier Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is given the status of a statutory body to enable it to perform its function more effectively.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Under Section 15, special provisions have been made to tackle child offenders committing heinous offences in the age group of 16-18 years. The Juvenile Justice Board is given the option to transfer cases of heinous offences by such children to a Children’s Court (Court of Session) after conducting preliminary assessment to be tried as adults.

# The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Women and Child Development to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 to introduce measures for strengthening Child Protection set-up to ensure best interest of children.

The amendments include authorizing District Magistrate including Additional District Magistrate to issue adoption orders under Section 61 of the JJ Act, in order to ensure speedy disposal of cases and enhance accountability.

Statement 1 is correct. With a coastline of nearly 7.5 thousand kilometers, India has a unique maritime position. Indian coastline touches nine states– Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal; and the nation’s geography includes 1,382

islands. There are nearly 199 ports, including 12 major ports that handle approximately 1,400 million tons of cargo each year.

Statement 2 is incorrect. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a region in which a has special rights in terms of marine resource exploration and use. These regions are adjacent and beyond a country’s territorial waters and do not extend beyond 200 nautical miles (nmi) from a nation’s coast.

India’s Exclusive Economic Zone of over 2 million square kilometers is 18th largest in the world. Due to its numerous overseas departments and territories scattered all over the oceans, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. It is followed by USA, Australia, Russia and UK.

# The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has rolled out the Draft Blue Economy policy for India in the public domain inviting suggestions and inputs.

Statement 1 is correct. India biggest FDI source countries are Singapore, Mauritius, Netherlands, Japan and USA.

Mauritius was the second top source of foreign direct investment (FDI) into India in 2018-19. India received USD 8 billion (about Rs 56,000 crore) foreign inflows from the country.

Statement 2 is correct. The Union Cabinet has approved signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) between India and Mauritius.

The Agreement is a limited agreement, which will cover Trade in Goods, Rules of Origin, Trade in Services, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, Dispute

Settlement, Movement of Natural Persons, Telecom, Financial services, Customs Procedures and Cooperation in other Areas.

Statement 1 is incorrect. The Charter of the United Nations is the foundation document for all the UN work. Peacekeeping, although not explicitly provided for in the Charter, has evolved into one of the main tools used by the United Nations to achieve this purpose. UN peace operations are deployed on the basis of mandates from the United Nations Security Council.

Statement 2 is correct. UN peacekeeping operations are deployed with the consent of the main parties to the conflict. This requires a commitment by the parties to a political process. Their acceptance of a peacekeeping operation provides the UN with the necessary freedom of action, both political and physical, to carry out its mandated tasks.

There are three basic principles that continue to set UN peacekeeping operations: Consent of the parties, Impartiality, Non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandate.

# India has announced that it will gift 2,00,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to United Nations peacekeepers.

The India Energy Outlook 2021 is a new special report from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook series.

–India is the world’s third-largest energy consuming country, thanks to rising incomes and improving standards of living.

–Energy use has doubled since 2000, with 80% of demand still being met by coal, oil and solid biomass.

–On a per capita basis, India’s energy use and emissions are less than half the world average, as are other key indicators such as vehicle ownership, steel and cement output.

— To meet growth in electricity demand over the next twenty years, India will need to add a power system the size of the European Union to what it has now.