10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : January 15, 2019

Statement 1 is correct:- The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP-24) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held at Katowice in Poland ,with the passage of the so-called “rulebook” for the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the developed countries have largely succeeded in establishing a global climate regime that gives them the strategic advantage and assuages some of their core concerns.

Statement 2 incorrect:-the Katowice package also includes guidelines that relate to the process for establishing new targets on finance from 2025 onwards to follow-on from the current target of mobilizing $100 billion per year from 2020 to support developing countries.

Statement 1 Incorrect-  India won global acclaim for its “Beat Plastic Pollution” resolve declared on World Environment Day last year, under which it pledged to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022. So far, 22 States and Union Territories have joined the fight, announcing a ban on single-use plastics such as carry bags, cups, plates, cutlery, straws and thermocol products.

Statement 2 Incorrect –The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2018.  The amended Rules lay down that the phasing out of Multilayered Plastic (MLP) is now applicable to MLP, which are “non-recyclable, or non-energy recoverable, or with no alternate use.The Multi-layered Plastic (MLP)  is most widely used in food packing Industries

Statement 1 Incorrect- Water Desalination plants produce highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals.

Almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide produce bigger-than-expected flows of highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals that are damaging the environment. About 55% of the brine is produced in desalination plants processing seawater in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to the study by the U.N. University’s Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).

Statement 2 Incorrect– Brine, water comprising about 5% salt, often includes toxins such as chlorine and copper used in desalination, it said. By contrast, global seawater is about 3.5% salt.

Statement 1 Incorrect – An open-air lab to study effects of climate change will be in patagonian region of chile.

Statement 2 Correct- In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, the southernmost part of Chile’s Patagonia region, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world’s oceans.

Statement 1 is correct – Origin of Devadasi tradition goes as back as sixth century when the young girls, often from wealthy family backgrounds were dedicated to the local temples. After they would have gone through the dedication ceremony, they would be ‘married’ to the deity. They would then act as temple care-takers and performed rituals, dancing and music in the honor of the deity.

Statement 2 is correct – Meanwhile the practice of dedicating young girls to temples as an offering to appease the gods persists not just in Karnataka, but has also spread to neighbouring Goa.

Statement 3 is incorrect – Despite sufficient evidence of the prevalence of the practice and its link to sexual exploitation, recent legislations such as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012, and Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act of 2015 have not made any reference to it as a form of sexual exploitation of children, the NLSIU’s Centre for Child and the Law noted in its report.

Statement 1 is correct – To accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation, the Prime Minister of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on 2nd October, 2014. The Mission Coordinator for SBM is Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) with two Sub-Missions, the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).

Statement 2 is correct –

• To bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas, by promoting cleanliness, hygiene and eliminating open defecation.
• To accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Swachh Bharat by 2nd October 2019.
• To motivate communities to adopt sustainable sanitation practices and facilities through awareness creation and health education.
• To encourage cost effective and appropriate technologies for ecologically safe and sustainable sanitation.
• To develop, wherever required, community managed sanitation systems focusing on scientific Solid & Liquid Waste Management systems for overall cleanliness in the rural areas.
• To create significant positive impact on gender and promote social inclusion by improving sanitation especially in marginalized communities

Statement 3 is correct –

The key elements of the Strategy include

• Augmenting the institutional capacity of districts for undertaking intensive behaviour change activities at the grassroots level
• Strengthening the capacities of implementing agencies to roll out the programme in a time-bound manner and to measure collective outcomes
• Incentivizing the performance of State-level institutions to implement behavioural change activities in communities

Statement 1 is correct – A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had in 2017 upheld privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21 (right to dignified life) of the Constitution.

Statement 2 is correct – Nine Judge bench in Puttaswamy case has turned the previous decision on MP Sharma case of 1954.

Statement 1 is incorrect – The Government of India has launched Samagra Shiksha – An Integrated Scheme for school education, w.e.f. 2018-19, which is an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class XII and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels of school education.

Statement 2 is correct

Statement 3 is correct – The Samagra Shiksha scheme supports States for strengthening of school infrastructure including in rural areas.  The scheme provides for infrastructural strengthening of existing government schools based on the gaps determined by Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) and proposals received from respective States/UTs.

Statement 1 is correct – The Mission will be implemented during 2015-2022 and will provide central assistance to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and other implementing agencies through States/UTs

Statement 2 is incorrect – It seeks in-situ Rehabilitation of existing slum dwellers using land as a resource through private participation.

Statement 3 is correct – Global Housing construction technology challenge has been proposed to attract the best available global construction technologies which could ensure delivery of houses at a minimum cost, in minimum time while ensuring maximum number of houses in a given area. This will help in technology transfer to our country so that ultimately these globally best available construction technologies and designs get adopted in the country benefiting the construction industry at large.

Statement 1 is correct:- Theme was Future India: Science and Technology

Statement 2 is incorrect – It was hosted in Jalandhar in 2019.

Statement 3 is correct – The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) owes its origin to the foresight and initiative of two British Chemists, namely, Professor J. L. Simonsen and Professor P.S. MacMahon. It occurred to them that scientific research in India might be stimulated if an annual meeting of research workers somewhat on the lines of the British Association for the Advancement of Science could be arranged.