Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 31 July 2019

Q1. Which of the following statements regarding the recently released Sub-national Water Stress Index report stands true ?

1) The index measures the water consumption rates of households, industries and farm sectors and the available resources in rivers, lakes and streams.
2) As per the index,11 of India’s 20 largest cities face an ‘extreme risk’ of water stress and seven are in the ‘high risk’ category.
3) The study says that many major Indian cities are projected to experience a higher number of consecutive drought days when precipitation is less than 10mm.

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

Q2. Which of the following are the features of Tropical Deciduous Forests in India ?

1) Many large trees have massive ridges near the base that can rise 30 feet high before blending into the trunk.
2) Vegetation that make up the forest shed their leaves during the cold winter and re-grow new leaves in the next spring season.
3) Prop and stilt roots help give support and are characteristic of tropical palms growing in shallow, wet soils.
4) In India, Lion, tiger, pig, deer, and elephant are some of the animals that make these forests their homes.
5) This forest has a distinct ecosystem, understory growth as well as complex soil dynamics.

a) 1,2 & 3 only
b) 2,3 & 4 only
c) 2,4 & 5 only
d) all of the above

Q3. Consider the following statements regarding the recently passed Companies (Amendment) Bill2019 :

1) The Bill seeks to amend the Companies Act, 2013. It aims to tighten Corporate Social Responsibility-CSR compliance, transfer certain responsibilities to National Company Law Tribunal and re-categorise certain offences as civil offences.
2) The legislation has the provision that any unspent annual CSR funds must be transferred to one of the funds under Schedule 7 of the Act like Prime Minister’s Relief Fund within six months of the financial year.
3) The bill also seeks to empower Registrar of Companies to initiate action for removal of a company’s name if the latter is not carrying out business activities as per the Act.

Which of the above statements are true ?

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

Q4. Consider the following statements :

1) India is one of the world's largest shark fishing nations and Maharashtra and Gujarat together contribute more than 50% of the harvest.
2) A study done in 2014 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had pointed out that a quarter of all the sharks, rays and other cartilaginous fish have a high risk of extinction.
3) Various studies have pointed fingers at improved and modern fishing gear, use of trawlers and deep-sea fishing for the loss even though the Indian Wildlife Act of 1972 has given adequate protection to this species.

Which of the above statements are true ?

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

Q5. Indian economic census is the census of the Indian economy through counting all entrepreneurial units in the country involved in any economic activities of either agricultural or non-agricultural sector which engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and/or services not for the sole purpose of own consumption.

The economic census is carried out by which of the following ministries?

a) Ministry of Finance
b) Ministry of Corporate affairs
c) Ministry of Statistics and programme implementation
d) Ministry of Commerce

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Answer:

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