10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | May 30 2021

• Statement 1 is incorrect: The Convention was signed at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. It is a legally binding treaty dedicated to promoting sustainable development.

• Objectives:

• conservation of biological diversity,
• sustainable use of the components of biological diversity
• fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.

• Statement 2 is correct: It is a legally binding treaty.

Source of the MCQ: Article

• Released by: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
• Purpose: The report takes stock of measures taken to fulfil the aims of Aichi Target 11. Aichi Target 11 called for protecting 17% of Earth’s land and 10% of its marine environments by 2020.
• Key Findings:

• Increase in Protected Areas and other effective area-based conservation measures(OECM): As many as 82% of countries and territories register an increase in the share of protected areas and OECM since 2010.
• Since 2010, protected areas covering almost a million square kilometers have been added to the global network. This area is greater than the land area of the Russian Federation.

• Over the 10-year period, the greatest growth in protected areas and OECMs has been in marine and coastal areas. Around 68% of the current network’s area is less than 10 years old.

Read more: Protected Planet Report

• Statement 1 is correct: The Act prescribes a maximum punishment of life imprisonment or the death penalty. The Act provides a mandatory minimum punishment of three years.

• Statement 2 is correct: POCSO is gender neutral, meaning that crimes of this nature committed against children will be handled by this act regardless of the gender of the child.
• Statement 3 is incorrect: Usually, in criminal cases, the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, and the guilt must be proved beyond reasonable doubt. Under POCSO, however, there is a presumption that a person who is prosecuted for an offence has actually committed the offence, unless the contrary is proved (Section 29). Instead of “innocent until proven guilty”, the court assumes that the accused is guilty once the prosecution lays the foundation of the case.

Source of the MCQ: Article

• A Bantustan was a territory that the National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa, as part of its policy of apartheid

Source: Article

• The 17+1 cooperation forum is a China-led initiative founded in the year 2012.

• Aim: To expand cooperation between China and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) member countries. This is done through investments and trade for the development of the CEE region.
• The initiative also focuses on infrastructure projects such as bridges, motorways, railway lines and the modernisation of ports in the member states.
• Significance: The initiative is largely seen as an extension of China’s flagship Belt and Road initiative (BRI).

Source: 17+1

Refer this link for a detailed representation of above islands on a map. 

• Statement 1 is correct: The Mission will establish National Cultural Work Place (NCWP). The NCWP shall be a fully equipped cultural portal which will serve as common interaction work place for all stake holders including artistes, institutions, NGOs and Ministry of Culture.
• Statement 2 is correct: Mission aims at setting up e-commerce facility to provide various opportunities to artists for direct marketing, cutting out the middleman – empowering traditional occupational communities.

Source: Article

• Statement 1 is correct: Under NFSA, Centre is responsible for allocation of required foodgrains to States/UTs, transportation of foodgrains up to designated depots in each State/UT and providing central assistance to States/UTs for delivery of foodgrains from designated Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to the doorstep of the Fair Price Shops (FPSs)
• Statement 2 is correct: Under NFSA, social audit is mandatory to ensure transparency and accountability under TPDS.
• Statement 3 is incorrect: The Act legally entitles up to 75% of the rural population and 50% of the urban population to receive subsidized foodgrains under Targeted Public Distribution System. About two thirds of the population therefore is covered under the Act to receive highly subsidised foodgrains.

Source: Article

Please refer to this link 

Sanskritik Pratibha Khoj Abhiyan is a part of National Mission on Cultural Mapping

About National Mission on Cultural Mapping:

• The mission was proposed in 2015 but was officially approved in 2017.

• It seeks to envision and address the necessity of preserving the threads of rich Indian Art and Cultural Heritage. It also aims to convert the vast and widespread cultural canvass of India into an objective cultural mapping.
• Under this Mission, there are three important objectives as follows:
• To undertake the cultural mapping (i.e. database of cultural assets and resources) via running a nationwide cultural awareness programme called Hamari Sanskriti Hamari Pahchan Abhiyan (National Cultural Awareness Abhiyan).
• To run a Nationwide Artist Talent Hunt/Scouting Programme called Sanskritik Pratibha Khoj Abhiyan
• Lastly, to establish a National Cultural Working Place (NCWP) portal. It would be a Centralised Transactional Web Portal with a database and demography of cultural assets and resources including all art forms and artists.