Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 25 February 2020

Q1. Which of the following statements regarding the global MICS programme stands true ?

1) The Global MICS Programme was developed by UNICEF in the 1990s. It collects internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators on the situation of children and women for use in policies, programmes, and national development plans.
2) The survey also records improvement in access to and use of toilets, birth registration, ante-natal care coverage, institutional deliveries and similar other parameters indicating an overall improvement in child and mother health in the country.
3) As per the report, the child malnutrition rate in India has declined sharply over the last six years.

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

Q2. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) was established as the specialised agency in 1945 which leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Which of the following are its objectives ?

1) Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
2) Reduce urban poverty.
3) Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable.
4) Promotion of village cooperatives.

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

Q3. Consider the following statements regarding current status of Indian banking sector :

1) Capital position of banks had improved on account of recapitalisation of public sector banks by the government and capital raising efforts by private sector banks.
2) At the same time, proper due diligence and risk pricing in lending is of prime importance so that the health of the banking sector is not compromised while ensuring adequate flow of credit to productive sectors of the economy.
3) As far as regulation of banks was concerned, the RBI was focussing on a sharper and more forward-looking off-site surveillance framework, apart from on-site supervision.

Which of the above statements stands true ?

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

Q4. Which of the following statements regarding Indian demography stands true ?

1) India’s population is among the youngest in an ageing world. By 2022, the median age in India will be 28 years; in comparison, it will be 37 in China and the United States.
2) However India’s non –working age population has numerically outstripped its working age population.
3) There is consensus now that among other factors, it was the demographic dividend that powered respectively the Asian economies of Japan, China, and South Korea to spectacular growth.

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

Q5. ‘Yodhavu’ (Warrior), a mobile application for curbing drug menace was recently launched by which of the following Indian states ?

a) Telangana
b) Karnataka
c) Kerala
d) Tamilnadu

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Answer :

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