Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – September 14, 2018

The Incheon Strategy provides Asian and Pacific region and world with first set of regionally agreed disability-inclusive development goals. It has been developed over more than two years of consultations with governments and civil society stakeholders.

The Incheon Strategy builds on UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (BMF) and Biwako Millennium Framework for Action (BMF) and Biwako Plus Five towards an Inclusive, Barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and Pacific. It comprises 10 goals, 27 targets and 62 indicators. The incheion Strategy enables Asian and Pacific region to track progress towards improving quality of life, and fulfilment of rights of region’s 650 million persons with disabilities, most of whom live in poverty. The UNESCAP secretariat is mandated to report progress in implementation of Incheon Strategy every three years until end of Decade in 2022.

Incheon is located in Republic of Korea (South Korea).

The Union Ministry of Power had launched Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana – “Saubhagya” in September 2017 with an aim to achieve universal household electrification in all parts of country by providing last mile electricity connectivity to all rural and urban households.

Under the scheme, government will provide free electricity to all households identified under Socio- Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data 2011.

The Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) is the nodal agency for operationalisation of scheme throughout the country. For easy and accelerated implementation of Scheme, modern technology will be used for household survey by using Mobile App.

Both the statements are correct.

The 8th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2017) is held in Hyderabad, Telangana. It was co-hosted by National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog and US Government and partnership with Telangana Government.

Key Highlights GES 2017 GES is preeminent annual entrepreneurship gathering that convenes over one thousand emerging entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters from around the world. It is organized annually since 2010. This is the first time GES is being held in South Asia.

The theme for 2017 GES is “Women First, Prosperity for All” to celebrate entrepreneurship in all its strength, diversity and entirety.

GES 2017 aims to empower Indian entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, build partnerships, secure funding, and create innovative products and services that will transform societies for better future. The four primary focus areas of GES 2017 are Digital Economy and Financial Technology, Health Care and Life Sciences, Energy and Infrastructure, and Media and Entertainment.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

Asian Development Bank is not a regional arm of the World Bank. ADB is regional development bank which aims to promote social and economic development in Asia. It was established in 1966.

Statement 2 is correct.

ADB has its headquartered in Manila, Philippines. Now it has 67 members, of which 48 are from within Asia and the Pacific and 19 outside.

The ADB has been modelled closely on World Bank. It has similar weighted voting system where votes are distributed in proportion with members’ capital subscriptions. As of 2014, Japan was largest shareholder (capital subscription) of ADB having 15.7% shares followed by US (15.6%), China (6.5%), India (6.4%), and Australia (5.8%).

The UNiTE Campaign seeks to end Violence against Women. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (IDEVAW) is observed every year across the world on 25 November. of this day seeks to raise awareness about violence against women and girls, end violence against women. It also seeks to show that prevention is possible against violence of women.

The theme for the year 2017 is ‘Leave no one behind: end violence against and girls.’ It aims to reinforce UNiTE Campaign’s commitment to create world free from violence for all women and girls and reaching out to most marginalized people including refugees, migrants, indigenous peoples, minorities and populations affected by natural disasters and conflicts.

All the statements are correct.

Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) is chaired by the Union Finance Minister and its members are Governor, Reserve Bank of India; Finance Secretary and/or Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs; Secretary, Department of Financial Services; Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance; Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India; Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority and Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority.

The Council deals, inter-alia, with issues relating to financial stability, financial sector development, inter–regulatory coordination, financial literacy, financial inclusion and macro prudential supervision of the economy including the functioning of large financial conglomerates.

No funds are separately allocated to the Council for undertaking its activities.

The Union Government launched new all-in-one mobile application called UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) with an aim to make Government services accessible on mobile phone of the of the citizens. Hence, option b is correct.

The UMANG app provides access to over 1200 services of various government organisations in states and at the centre.

It was launched to promote Digital India program and to drive mobile e-governance in India. The app was developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e- Governance Division (NeGD).