10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | June 8 2021

• Performance Grading Index (PGI) is a tool to provide insights on the status of school education in States and UTs. This includes key levers that drive their performance and critical areas for improvement. 
• Released by: Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education. 

 Source: Performance Grading Index  

• Interpol has launched a new global database named “I-Familia”. 
• I-Familia is a global database launched to identify missing persons through family DNA. It will help the police to solve cases in member countries. 

 Source: I-Familia 

• Statement 1 is correct: Post-independence, the Registration of Births and Death Act (RBD Act) was enacted in 1969 to promote uniformity and comparability in the registration of Births and Deaths across the country and compilation of vital statistics based thereon.

• With the enactment of the Act, registration of births, deaths and still births became mandatory in India.
• The Registrar General, India (RGI) at the Central Government level coordinates and unifies the activities of registration throughout the country. However, implementation of the statute is vested with the State Governments

• Statement 2 is correct: The Civil Registration System has been linked to the NPR.

Source: Article

Correct order from north to south is:

• Lake Edward
• Lake Kivu

• Lake Tanganyika

Source: Rwanda

Statement 1 is correct. The Code on Social Security provides definition of Platform Work as a work arrangement outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship in which organizations or individuals use an online platform to access other organizations or individuals to solve specific problems or to provide specific services.

Statement 2 is correct. The Code on Social Security, 2020 states that the central government will set up social security funds for unorganized workers, gig workers and platform workers.

Further, state governments will also set up and administer separate social security funds for unorganized workers. It also makes provisions for registration of all three categories of workers – unorganized workers, gig workers and platform workers.

Both statements are incorrect.

As per article 226(1) of the Constitution every High Court shall have power, throughout the territories in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction, to issue to any person or authority, including in appropriate cases, any Government, within those territories directions, orders or writs, including writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari, or any of them, for the enforcement of any of the rights conferred by Part III and for any other purpose.

Option1 is correctly matched. The Ratle Hydroelectric Plant is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station currently under construction on the Chenab River, in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir.

Option 2 is incorrectly matched. Dul Hasti is a 390 MW hydroelectric power plant in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir, India built by NHPC. The power plant is a run-of-the-river type on Chandra River, a tributary of Chenab River,

Option 3 is incorrectly matched. Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project is a run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab River in the Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan often accuses India of violation of Indus Water Treaty regarding construction of these power plants. India does have the right to build power plants on ‘western rivers’ under IWT provide it does not impede the water flow to Pakistan.

Blue Dot Network.

• Led by theUS’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the Blue

Dot network was jointly launched by the US, Japan (Japanese Bank for

International Cooperation) and Australia (Department of Foreign Affairs and

Trade) in November 2019 on the sidelines of the 34th ASEAN Summit in Thailand.

• It is meant to be a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to bring governments, the

private sector and civil society together to promote “high quality, trusted standards

for global infrastructure development”.

Superconductivity is a phenomenon displayed by some materials when they are cooled below a certain temperature, known as the superconducting critical temperature.

Below a certain “critical” temperature, materials undergo transition into the superconducting state, characterized by two basic properties: firstly, they offer no resistance to the passage of electrical current.

When resistance falls to zero, a current can circulate inside the material without any dissipation of energy. Secondly, provided they are sufficiently weak, external magnetic fields will not penetrate the superconductor, but remain at its surface. This field expulsion phenomenon is known as the Meissner effect, after the physicist who first observed it in 1933.

Calcium nitrate also known as Norwegian saltpeter is mainly produced as a fertilizer, used for plant nutrition purposes, and for wastewater treatment. It is a source of both calcium and nitrogen, for plants.

‘Calcium Nitrate’ & ‘Boronated Calcium Nitrate’ is now being manufactured for the first time in India by Gujrat State Fertilizers and Chemicals -GSFC India Ltd. GSFC launched these two products in the retail market for the first time from Solan in Himachal Pradesh and Bhavnagar in Gujarat.