Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 20 September 2020

Q1. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has formulated and is implementing a National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) for 2018-2025. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) The Plan aims at reduction of adverse consequences of drug abuse through a multi-pronged strategy. The activities include awareness generation programmes in schools/colleges/Universities, workshops/seminars/ with parents, community based peer led interactions intervention programmes for vulnerable adolescent and youth in the community, provisioning of treatment facilities and capacity building of service providers.
2) The Ministry has launched NashaMukt Bharat Abhiyaan in 272 most affected districts with focus on institutional support, community outreach and awareness generation.
3) These districts are identified based on inputs from Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and findings of Comprehensive National Survey done by Ministry.

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) all the above
d) 1 & 3 only

Q2. India ranks first in milk production, accounting for 20 per cent of world production.But there exists wide inter-state variability in milk production. The per capita availability of milk is determined by the production of milk in the State.

Which of the following factors include the key drivers of increasing milk demand in the country ?

1) Increased Urbanisation.
2) Income growth leading to high price of milk.
3) Population growth.

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) all the above
d) 1 & 3 only

Q3. The outbreak of Scrub typhus, a bacterial disease, has claimed the lives of five people in Nagaland’s Noklak district bordering Myanmar, officials said. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) Scrub typhus, also known as bush typhus, spreads to people through bites of larval mites. The symptoms include fever, headache and body ache.
2) Scrub typhus is endemic to a part of the world known as the tsutsugamushi triangle. This extends from northern Japan and far-eastern Russia in the north, to the territories around the Solomon Sea into northern Australia in the south, and to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the west.
3) It is absent in the South American continent.

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) all the above
d) 1 & 3 only

Q4. The Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) in its report for 2020-21 has recommended grants for Rural Local Bodies (RLBs) in 28 States. Which of the following statements with respect to grants to rural local bodies stands true ?

1) The grants have been recommended for all tiers of the Panchayati Raj excluding the Fifth and Sixth schedule areas.
2) The grants are provided in two parts, namely, (i) Basic (Untied) Grants and (ii) Tied Grants in the ratio of 50:50. The basic grants are untied and can be used by RLBs for location-specific felt needs, except for salary or other establishment expenditure.
3) The tied grants can be used for the basic services of (a) sanitation and maintenance of Open-Defecation Free (ODF) status and (b) supply of drinking water, rain water harvesting and water recycling. The RLBs shall, as far as possible, earmark one half of these Tied Grants each to these two critical services.

Options :

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 2 & 3 only
c) all the above
d) 1 & 3 only

Q5. The world's longest high-altitude tunnel-Atal Tunnelon Manali-Lehnational highway is fully ready open in which of the following Indian states ?

a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Sikkim
d) Arunachal Pradesh

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