10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | May 22 2021

• Statement 1 is incorrect: A geographical indication is a public property belonging to the producers of the concerned goods.
• Statement 2 is correct: Under Articles 1 (2) and 10 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, geographical indications are covered as an element of IPRs. They are also covered under Articles 22 to 24 of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement

• It is a Covid-19 antibody detection kit. It is developed by the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

• The Dipcovan kit can detect both spike as well as nucleocapsid (S&N) proteins of SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high sensitivity of 97 % and specificity of 99%.
• The kit has a shelf life of 18 months.

National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) application

• NMMS App permits taking real-time attendance of workers at Mahatma Gandhi NREGA worksites along with geotagged photographs.
• Impact: This will increase citizen oversight of the programme. It also enables the potential processing of payments faster.

About Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana(PMSSY)

• Type: Central Sector Scheme
• Nodal Ministry: The scheme was announced in 2003 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• Objective: To correct regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services. Moreover, It will also augment facilities for quality medical education in the country.

• Components: The scheme has two components:
• Setting up of new AIIMS-like Institutions and
• Up-gradation of existing Government Medical Colleges /Institutions in a phased manner.

Total AIIMS established: Total of 22 new AIIMS have been announced so far the scheme

• 6 AIIMS are already functional at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, and Rishikesh.

• 16 more AIIMS are approved by the Cabinet. Among them, 7 AIIMS, have started OPD facility and MBBS classes while in 5 AIIMS only MBBS classes have started.

• Statement 1 is correct: The mandate given to RCI is to regulate and monitor services given to persons with disability, to standardise syllabi and to maintain a Central Rehabilitation Register of all qualified professionals and personnel working in the field of Rehabilitation and Special Education. The Act also prescribes punitive action against unqualified persons delivering services to persons with disability.
• Statement 2 is correct: The Rehabilitation Council of India has been set up as a Statutory Body under an Act of Parliament

• Statement 3 is incorrect: It works under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Countries bordering Afghanistan

• India
• China

• Tajikistan
• Uzbekistan
• Turkmenistan
• Iran
• Pakistan

• Farzad-B is an offshore natural gas field located on the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf.
• The gas field was discovered in 2008 by a consortium of three Indian companies led by the state-owned ONGC Videsh, Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India.
• The gas field holds 23 trillion cubic feet of in-place reserves. Of these about 60% is recoverable. It also holds gas condensates of about 5,000 barrels per billion cubic feet of gas.

• Recently, Iran has given the Farzad B gas field to a domestic gas producer. This is a setback for India’s energy ties with Iran. As ONGC has been part of the ongoing cooperation of the Gas field.

Read More: Farzad B gas field

Recently, Indian Navy has decommissioned the INS Rajput at Naval Dockyard at Visakhapatnam after 41 years of service.

The destroyer ship participated in several important missions over the years including:

• Operation Aman off the coast of Sri Lanka to assist the Indian Peace Keeping Force during Srilankan Civil War
• Operation Pawan for patrolling duties off the coast of Sri Lanka
• Operation Cactus to resolve hostage situation of the Maldives and
• Operation Crowsnest off Lakshadweep.

Read more: INS Rajput

RBI, in consultation with the Government of India, had constituted an Expert Committee to Review the Extant Economic Capital Framework of the Reserve Bank of India (Chairman: Dr. Bimal Jalan) 

All of the above are features of a Federal Polity

• Written Constitution: It specifies the structure, organisation, powers and functions of both the Central and state governments and prescribes the limits within which they must operate. Thus, it avoids the misunderstandings and disagreements between the two
• Rigid Constitution & supremacy of Constitution: The division of powers established by the Constitution as well as the supremacy of the Constitution can be maintained only if the method of its amendment is rigid. Hence, the Constitution is rigid to the extent that those provisions which are concerned with the federal structure (i.e., Centre-state relations and judicial organisation) can be amended only by the joint action of the Central and state governments.