QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,06 June 2018

Solution: d.

In the news (TH): Starting this year (2018), the government will begin a five-year exercise to compute district-level data of the country’s environmental wealth. The numbers will eventually be used to calculate every State’s ‘green’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The metric will help with a range of policy decisions, such as compensation to be paid during land acquisition, calculation of funds required for climate mitigation, and so on.

The government has also launched a ‘green skilling’ programme (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change) under which youth, particularly school dropouts, would be trained in a range of ‘green jobs’— as operators of scientific instruments used to measure environmental quality, as field staff in nature parks, and as tourist guides. Some of the labour required for the survey would also be sourced from the green-skilled workforce.

For more information regarding Green Skill Development Programme, refer solution to Q8, 15th May Quiz;

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Solution: b.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

Statement 2: ICAN was awarded the Peace Prize (in 2017) “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.

In the news (TH): “ICAN offered to pay for next week’s historic summit between the U.S. and North Korea, including Kim Jong-un’s bill. One of many reported logistical and protocol headaches surrounding the meet concerns the issue of payment for Mr. Kim’s stay at the five-star Fullerton Hotel.”

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Solution: c.

Improvisation: TH;

Solution: b.

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TH; TH;

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Solution: b.

Statement 1: The trade union movement was led by All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) founded in 1920. Lala Lajpat Rai was its first president and Dewan Chaman Lal its general secretary. Tilak was also one of the moving spirits. Lala Lajpat Rai was the first President.

Statement 2: Lajpat Rai was the first to link capitalism with imperialism. He stated that “imperialism and militarism are the twin children of capitalism”.

Statement 3: The prominent Congress and swarajist leader C.R. Das  presided over the third and the fourth sessions of the AITUC. The Gaya session of  the. Congress (1922) welcomed the  formation of the AITUC and a committee was formed to assist  it. C.R. Das advocated that the Congress should take up the  workers’ and peasants’ cause and incorporate them in the  struggle for swaraj or else they would get isolated from  the  movement. Other leaders who kept close contacts with the AITUC included Nehru, Sabhas Bose, C.F. Andrews, J.M.  Sengupta, Satyamurthy, V.V. Giri and Sarojini Naidu. In the  beginning, the AITUC was influenced by social democratic  ideas of the British Labour Party. The Gandhian philosophy  of non-violence, trusteeship and class-collaboration had great  influence on the movement. Gandhiji helped Anasuya Sarabai organise the  Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (1918).

Improvisation: TH;

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