10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: August 9, 2020

Both statements are correct.

The IFSCA is a statutory authority established under the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019.

The Authority will regulate financial products (such as securities, deposits or contracts of insurance), financial services, and financial institutions which have been previously approved by any appropriate regulator (such as RBI or SEBI), in an IFSC.

The appropriate regulators are listed in a Schedule to the Bill, and include the RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, and PFRDA.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Article 239AA provides for special provisions with respect to Delhi which mentions that from the date of commencement of the Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991, the Union territory of Delhi is called the National Capital Territory of Delhi (further referred to as the National Capital Territory).

Statement 2 is incorrect. First Schedule of the Constitution provides: Names of the States and their territorial jurisdiction as well as names of the Union Territories and their extent.

It does not mention capital cities of the states.

Both statements are correct.

India’s rich cultural, historical, religious and natural heritage provides a huge potential for development of tourism and job creation in the country.

In due recognition to this the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) launched the Swadesh Darshan Scheme (Central Sector Scheme)– for integrated development of theme-based tourist circuits.

This scheme is envisioned to synergize with other Government of India schemes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Skill India, Make in India etc. with the idea of positioning the tourism sector as a major engine for job creation, driving force for economic growth, building synergy with various sectors to enable tourism to realize its potential.

Recently “Thenzawl Golf Resort” Project implemented under the under Swadesh Darshan Scheme- North East Circuit of Ministry of Tourism has been inaugurated in Mizoram.

Global Education Coalition (GEC) is an initiative of UNESCO to facilitate inclusive learning opportunities for children and youth during this period of sudden and unprecedented educational disruption by COVID-19 pandemic.

It is an open partnership that includes international organizations (ILO, UNICEF, WB among others), private sector partners (Facebook, Google) and Philanthropic and non-profit organizations (Khan Academy among others).

Around 1 billion students and youth across the planet are affected by school and university closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Investment in remote learning should both mitigate the immediate disruption caused by COVID-19 and establish approaches to develop more open and flexible education systems for the future.

Option 1 is incorrect. Armement Air-Sol Modulaire (AASM) HAMMER (Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range) is a medium-range modular air-to-ground weapon designed and manufactured by Sagem (Safran group), for the French Air Force and Navy.

Option 2 is incorrect. The T-90 is a third-generation Russian battle tank that entered service in 1993 and are also operated by India.

Option 3 is correct. Pinaka is a multi-barrel rocket launcher developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian Army.

Other products of Indian defence industry include Agni and Prithvi series of missiles; Tejas-light combat aircraft; Pinaka-multi-barrel rocket launcher; Akash-air defence system; Dhanush-artillery gun; Arjun-main battle tank etc.

The Bharat Air Fibre services are introduced by BSNL as part of digital India initiates by the Government of India. It aims for providing Wireless Connectivity in the range of 20 KMs from the BSNL Locations and thus customers at remote places also will be benefitted as BSNL comes with cheapest services with support of Telecom Infrastructure Partners.

BSNL Bharat AirFibre enables homes in rural areas with broadband services, which is different from the company’s Bharat Fiber FTTH (fiber to the home) service that users wired technology and is targeted at urban homes.

Both statements are correct.

As per the National Education Policy 2020 document; presently, quality ECCE is not available to crores of young children, particularly children from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

-To prepare an initial cadre of high-quality quality Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) teachers in Anganwadis, current Anganwadi workers/teachers will be trained in accordance with the curricular/pedagogical framework developed by NCERT.

-Those with qualifications of 10+2 and above shall be given a 6-month certificate programme in ECCE; and those with lower educational qualifications shall be given a one-year diploma programme covering early literacy, numeracy, and other relevant aspects of ECCE.

As per the National Education Policy 2020 document; we are currently in a learning crisis: a large proportion of students currently in elementary school – estimated to be over 5 crore – have not attained foundational literacy and numeracy, i.e., the ability to read and comprehend basic text and the ability to carry out basic addition and subtraction with Indian numerals.

-To this end, a National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy will be set up on priority. Accordingly, all State/UT governments will immediately prepare an implementation plan for attaining universal foundational literacy and numeracy in all primary schools.

Both statements are correct.

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has initiated Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHCs), a sub-scheme under Pradhan Mantri AWAS Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U). This will provide ease of living to urban migrants/ poor in Industrial Sector as well as in non-formal urban economy to get access to dignified affordable rental housing close to their workplace.

The ARHC scheme will be implemented through two models:

-Utilizing existing Government funded vacant houses to convert into ARHCs through Public Private Partnership or by Public Agencies

-Construction, Operation and Maintenance of ARHCs by Public/ Private Entities on their own vacant land

All of the above fabric/handloom styles are correctly matched.

Tanchois are a very fine weave banarasi sarees that use an extra weft thread to create delicate patterns.

Kotpad Handloom is a vegetable-dyed fabric woven by the tribal weavers of the Mirgan community of Kotpad village in Koraput district, Odisha.

Pochampally ikat derives its name from the area in where it is woven – Pochampally in Telangana. The technique involves tying and dyeing of pattern in the yarn.

The four main byproducts of the sugarcane industry are cane tops/leaves, bagasse, filter muds and molasses.

Bagasse is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane or sorgum stalks are crushed to extract their juice. For each 10 tonnes of sugarcane crushed, a sugar factory produces nearly 3 tonnes of wet bagasse. Bagasse is used as bio fuel and in the manufacture of pulp and paper products.

Molasses is sugar byproduct. It is used as a raw material to produce alcohol. The main products of molasses fermentation are rum, ethyl alcohol, acetic acid, butanol/acetone, citric acid, yeast and monosodium glutamate.

Press mud or Filter mud is a residue left over from sugarcane after extraction of juice. Sugar mills use spent wash which is an affluent with press mud to produce bio-compost as manure.