QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 04 March 2017

Solution: a.

• Rotary International is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
• Rotary India will support clean Ganga mission through their ‘WASH in Schools’ program in various schools. The program includes the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene services in the targeted government schools and sensitizing all the stakeholders including school children, teachers, school management communities and communities etc. on practicing positive health behaviors for improving awareness on sanitation.
• This will be achieved through an integrated learning environment and enabling children to serve as agents of change for their siblings and communities at large. Rotary India has planned to undertake WASH in Schools programme in 20,000 Government Schools.

PIB;

Solution: c.

Panchgavya includes milk, curd, ghee, dung and urine. The use of Panchgavya in food, medicine, agriculture, etc. is already in practice in various parts of rural India.

IE: Chewing the cud;

Solution: c.

This question has been posted here before.

“In the recent years A1 and A2 type milk has emerged as one of the hot debating topic among the consumers worldwide. Studies suggest that milk from cows with A2 type is for healthier than their A1 counterparts. Milk from desi (indigenous) cows naturally contains A2 type milk protein. A2 type milk protein is known to protect us from various chronic health problems such as Cardio Vascular Diseases, Diabetes and neurological disorders besides providing several other health benefits.”

Primary Source: PIB;

IE: Chewing the cud;

Solution: d.

• Merchant Discount Rate or MDR is a charge that merchants pay every time a debit card or credit card is swiped at their end for a transaction by a customer.
• This charge, typically 1% of the transaction, is divided among three parties – to the company that has installed the Point of Sale (PoS) machine (usually a ‘sponsoring bank’), the network provider (or, ‘settlement provider’) such as MasterCard, Visa or RuPay, and the card-issuing bank (the issuer).

IE: MDR Explained;

IE: Conditions for a less-cash India;

Solution: c.

• The West Bengal Assembly on Friday passed a Bill aimed at overhauling private healthcare and taking stringent measures against health institutions indulging in medical negligence and corrupt practices, The West Bengal Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency Bill) Bill 2017 was passed by voice vote.
• Participating in the discussion on the Bill, Ms. Banerjee said the law was aimed at bringing transparency, ending harassment of patients and checking medical negligence in private hospitals and nursing homes.
• The law also covers clinics, dispensaries and polyclinics.

TH: WB passes Bill to rein in private hospitals;

Solution: b.

Improvisation: TH: Crossing a bridge;

Solution: a.

About the PIC:

• It is intended to act as a first-tier bilateral review platform for the two signatories to monitor its implementation, exchange and evaluate data on water usage, works impinging on the water flows, drainage, storage, etc. of the Indus system and deliberate on issues which may arise incidental to the Treaty’s functioning.
• India and Pakistan each nominate a senior technical expert in the realm of hydrology and water usage as the Indus Commissioner. The Indus Commissioners constitute the PIC. The PIC meets at least once a year.
• There is a basic purpose for which this mechanism was built into the Treaty. It is the first tier where hydrological engineers are expected use their techno-economic acumen in a cooperative spirit to arrive at an agreed view or give their analyses on the differing views on interpretation of water flow and usage data, incidental structures constructed or planned in the Indus basin, etc., and submit a report annually… to the two governments.
• In the event it is unable to proceed because of differences between the Indus Commissioners or if there is a delay in arriving at decisions by a Commissioner or both, there is a provision for attempting a political solution. However, the idea of the initial negotiators of the Treaty was that mutual cooperation and understanding should be feasible at the PIC level itself.

IDSA; Article VIII, IWT;

Improvisation: TH: Crossing a bridge;