Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 20 January 2020

Q1. Central government is set to create a National database of workers in informal sector, consider the following statements regarding the same :

1) Nearly 90% of the country’s workforce is in the informal sector with no minimum wages or any kind of social security.
2) It will help in the identification of beneficiaries for minimum wages proposed under wage code.
3) As part of this survey, informal sector workers would be asked about their occupation, monthly incomes and days of employment, and their profiles would be seeded with Aadhaar to deliver the benefits.

Which of the above statements are true ?

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

Q2. Which of the following countries possess submarine-launched ballistic missile technology with around 3500km range ?

1) Unite States
2) Russia
3) India
4) China

a) 1 & 2 only
b) 3 & 4 only
c) all of the above
d) 1 & 3 only

Q3. The government is likely to fix nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) rate for urea before rolling out the direct cash transfer (DCT) of urea subsidy to farmers’ accounts. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) In 2010, the government had launched the NBS under which a fixed amount of subsidy is provided on each grade of subsidised phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers.
2) The subsidy will be universal for farmers across the country and will be based on soil health and size of the landholding.
3) Government spends around Rs.55,000crore on urea subsidy. By capping the urea consumption as per land size, we will be able to save 10-15% of the subsidy amount.

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

Q4. The Supreme Court has set up a panel to firm up a draft legislation to give legal sanctity to disputes settled through mediation. Which of the following statements regarding the same stands true ?

1) There is already a provision in the LokAdalat Act where a settlement before a LokAdalat is enforceable as a court decree. This agreement between the two parties arrived at the stage of pre-mediation litigation could have the force of a decree
2) Enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency are two parameters used for calculating the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business Rank.
3) India already has provisions for the use of conciliation in legislation like the Industrial Dispute Act, 1947, and the Real Estate Regulatory Authority Act, 2016, but discrepancies such as the confusion between mediation and conciliation impede these provisions from being successful.

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

Q5. The Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) deep seaport project will link the land locked Yunnan province of China directly to the Indian Ocean allowing China to bypass the strait of Malacca through which it imports a sizeable amount of oil and gas. China signed an agreement with which of the following countries to take forward the project ?

a) Bangladesh
b) Myanmar
c) India
d) Pakistan

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Answer :

1. (d) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5.(b)