QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,15 May 2018

Solution: a.

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional income-based poverty measures by capturing the severe deprivations that each person faces at the same time with respect to education, health and living standards.

The global MPI was developed by OPHI (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative) with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for inclusion in UNDP’s flagship Human Development Report in 2010. It has been published in the HDR ever since.

MPI;

OPHI: Why is income not included?;

Source: TH;

Solution: c.

Improvisation: TH;

Image Source: https://www.britannica.com/place/Lebanon;

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Solution: b.

The IISS was founded in the UK in 1958 with a focus on nuclear deterrence and arms control. Today, it is also renowned for The Military Balance, its annual assessment of countries’ armed forces and for its high-powered security summits, including the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and IISS Manama Dialogue.

In the news: TH;

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Solution: a.

Hydrazine: In its anhydrous form, it damages the central nervous system, producing symptoms as extreme as tumours and seizures. It is so powerful a reducing agent that it is highly explosive.

• The most common use of hydrazine is to make foaming agents like azodicarbonamide that are used in production of foamy plastics.
• Hydrazine is also used to make pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Although it is toxic to us directly, hydrazine rapidly breaks down in oxygen, making release into the environment low risk.
• Hydrazine can even be found in fossil fuels and nuclear power stations. As a powerful reducing agent, it acts as an oxygen scavenger, reducing metal oxides back into metals, and literally turning the chemical clock back on corrosion processes.

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Solution: b.

• On technology front the policy provides for integration of both the energy sources i.e. wind and solar at AC as well as DC level.
• It also provides for flexibility in share of wind and solar components in hybrid project, subject to the condition that, rated power capacity of one resource be at least 25% of the rated power capacity of other resource for it to be recognised hybrid project.
• It seeks to promote new hybrid projects as well as hybridisation of existing wind/solar projects.
• It permits use of battery storage in the hybrid project for optimising the output and further reduce the variability.
• It mandates the regulatory authorities to formulate necessary standards and regulations for wind-solar hybrid systems.

PIB;

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Solution: a.

Map Source: Britannica;

Improvisation: PIb;

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Solution: b.

The key stakeholder of the CSC scheme is the Village Level Entrepreneur (VLE), as the CSC operators are known. A network of 2.70 lakh VLEs, of which 1.63 lakh are in Gram Panchayats, are actively providing various online public utility and financial services to citizens, quality healthcare, apart from boosting entrepreneurship and employment in villages and smaller towns across the country.

About CSC Scheme: These are access points for delivery of various electronic services to villages in India, thereby contributing to a digitally and financially inclusive society.

Key Features of CSC 2.0 Scheme:

• A self-sustaining network of 2.5 lakh CSCs in Gram Panchayats
• Large bouquet of e-services through a single delivery platform
• Standardization of services and capacity building of stakeholders
• Localised Help Desk support
• Sustainability of VLEs through maximum commission sharing
• Encouraging more women as VLEs

Improvisation: PIB;

Solution: d.

The image below provides information regarding both, the ENVIS platform and GSDP.

In the news: Launch of Mobile App of GSDP;

Image Source: ENVIS Brochure;

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