Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 06 July 2020

Q1. Which of the following statements regarding the newly launched GaribKalyanRojgarAbhiyaan starts true ?

1) The scheme aims to start extensive public works to provide livelihood opportunities and create local employment to returnee migrants and affected rural citizens due to COVID pandemic.
2) There is a huge potential to provide household connections to remaining households in villages belonging to poor and marginalized people by retro-fitting of existing piped water supply systems.
3) As part of this Abhiyan, JalJeevan Mission is aiming to provide household tap connections to every rural household and offers a huge opportunity to engage skilled, semi-skilled and migrant returnees in drinking water supply related works.

Options :

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

Q2. Consider the following hill stations of India with their location states :

1) Panchgani : Madhya Pradesh
2) Chailhills : Himachal pradesh
3) Horsley hills : Maharashtra
4) Patnitop : Jammu & Kashmir
5) Almora :Uttarakhand

Which of the above pairs are correctly matched ?

Options :

a) 1,2 & 3 only
b) 2,4& 5 only
c) 1 & 3 only
d) 2,3& 4 only

Q3. The commerce ministry has recently requested the finance ministry to introduce stringent provisions related to rules of origin, to empower customs officers for checking the abuse of FTAs. Which of the following statements with respect to ‘certificate of origin’ clause stands true ?

1) A certificate of origin(CO) is a document declaring in which country a commodity or good was manufactured. It contains information regarding the product, its destination and the country of export.
2) This platform will be a single access point for all exporters, except for FTAs/PTAs and the agencies concerned.
3) Certificate of Origin will be issued electronically which can be in paperless format if agreed to by the partner countries. Authorities of partner countries will be able to verify the authenticity of certificates from the website.

Options :

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

Q4. With respect to the process of apoptosis, which of the following statements stands true ?

1) The term apoptosis can be defined as a natural biological process of programmed cell death in which the cells destroy themselves for maintaining the smooth functioning of the body.
2) Apoptosis is a biological process which occurs only in unicellular organisms including plants and animals.
3) During this biological process, infected cells, pre-cancerous cells and other cancer cells are eliminated successfully and maintain the balance of cells in the human body.

Options :

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

Q5. Which of the following countries recently became the first major economy in the world to phase out coal as an energy source ?

Options :

a) France
b) Germany
c) Spain
d) Brazil

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