10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | June 6 2021

The Local Sheet in astronomy is a nearby extragalactic region of space where the Milky Way, the members of the Local Group and other galaxies share a similar peculiar velocity. 

Source: The Hindu (30th May 2021)

• Kabasura Kudineer: It is a Siddha medicine for the treatment of fevers. It is now being used to treat asymptomatic, mild, and moderate COVID-19 infection cases.

• It increases immunity and acts as an immune-modulator as this virus adversely affects the immune response.
• Siddha is a traditional medicine originating in South India. It is one of the oldest systems of medicine in India.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: In 1925, a Mid-Day Meal Programme was introduced for disadvantaged children in Madras Municipal Corporation. By the mid 1980s three States viz. Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the UT of Pondicherry had universalized a cooked Mid-Day Meal Programme with their own resources for children studying at the primary stage
• Statement 2 is correct: As per guidelines issued by Government of India, schools are to procure AGMARK quality and branded items for preparation of mid-day meals.

• AGMARK is a certification mark for agricultural produce, assuring that they conform to a grade standard notified by Directorate of Marketing & Inspection (DMI), Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare under Agricultural Produce (Grading Marking) Act, 1937

Source: Mid-Day Meal Scheme

• The GDI measures differences in male and female achievements in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education and command over economic resources.

• The health dimension is captured by female and male life expectancy at birth.
• Education is measured using two indicators—female and male expected years of schooling for children and female and male mean years of schooling for adults ages 25 and older.
• Command over economic resources is measured by female and male estimated earned income.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: In response to the “WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020”, India is the first country to adopt such a National Action Plan to reduce premature deaths due to NCDs.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: Indian action plan is aimed at reducing (not eliminating) the number of global premature deaths from NCDs by 25% by 2025.
• Statement 3 is correct: The global action plan has suggested 9 targets for countries to set. But India has taken the unprecedented step of setting a tenth target to address household air pollution. India’s National Monitoring Framework for Prevention and Control of NCDs has committed for a 50% relative reduction in household use of solid fuel and a 30% relative reduction in prevalence of current tobacco use by 2025.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is incorrect: Government had initiated the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme in 1988 to rehabilitate working children in 12 child labour endemic districts of the country
• Statement 2 is incorrect: It is a central sector scheme

Note: Read more about the project here

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: The Commission’s Mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies, Programmes, and Administrative Mechanisms are in consonance with the Child Rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Child is defined as a person in the 0 to 18 years age group.
• Statement 2 is correct: NCPCR was set up in March 2007 under the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005. It is under administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: The state is a people organized for law within a definite territory while the nation is a group of people psychologically bound together while sharing common joys and sorrows. A nation may not be always a state; India was not a state before August, 1947.

• Statement 2 is correct: A state may be larger than a nation. The former USSR had, within it, more than a hundred nationalities.

• Conversely, a nation may be larger than a state; a nationality may spread over two states. The Korean nationality is spread over two states: North Korea and South Korea.

Source: Article

• Rent seeking is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity.
• The term rent in rent seeking is based on the economic definition of “rent,” which is defined as economic wealth obtained through shrewd or potentially manipulative use of resources.
• An example of rent seeking is when a company lobbies the government for grants, subsidies, or tariff protection.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: The pension of government servants is already subject to their conduct after retirement.

• Rule 8 of the CCS Pension Rules says: “Future good conduct shall be an implied condition of every grant of pension and its continuance… The appointing authority may, by order in writing, withhold or withdraw a pension or a part thereof, whether permanently or for a specified period, if the pensioner is convicted of a serious crime or is found guilty of grave misconduct

• Statement 2 is incorrect: There is no rule to stop government servants from joining politics after their retirement. In 2013, the Election Commission had written to the DoPT and Law Ministry, suggesting a cooling-off period for bureaucrats joining politics after retirement, but it was rejected

Source: Article