Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 14 October 2018

Q1. Consider the following statements about silk industry in India :

1) India has the unique distinction of being the only country producing all the five known commercial silks, namely, mulberry, tropical tasar, oak tasar, eri and muga.
2) Sericulture is included as agriculture allied activity under RKVY. This enables the sericulturists to avail the benefits of the scheme for the entire sericulture activities up to reeling.
3) Forest Conservation Act has been amended to treat non mulberry sericulture as forest based activity enabling the farmers to undertake Vanya silkworm rearing in the natural host plantation in the forests.

Which of the above statements are true ?

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

Q2. Which of the following are the problems faced by sea turtles in the Indian coastline leading to their destruction of nesting sites :

1) Poaching by humans for eggs.
2) Artificial illumination from development activities near nesting beaches.
3) Near-shore mechanized fishing within 5 km from the shoreline.

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

Q3. Which of the following statements regarding The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 are true :

1) Any company with over 10 employees is mandated to constitute an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) that provides a channel for addressing sexual harassment at the workplace.
2) The disciplinary authority can dismiss an employee from the services only when the sexual harassment charges are proven
3) A major drawback of the act is that it covers only those women employed in organised sector.

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

Q4. The National Health Resource Repository (NHRR) serves which of the following purposes :

1)) It is the country’s first ever national healthcare facility registry of authentic, standardized and updated geo-spatial data of all public & private healthcare establishments.
2) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is technology partner for this project mainly for data security.
3) It will decentralize decision making in healthcare sector at district and state level for effective implementation government policies.

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

Q5. The “Sendai framework” a major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, deals with which of the following :

a) Climate change
b) Ozone depletion
c) Disaster risk reduction
d) Zero malnutrition

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ANSWER:

1(d), 2(c), 3(a), 4(d), 5(c)