Daily Current Affairs (MCQ) | Date 03.03.22

Q1. Consider the following statements

1. Bangladesh has more per capita GDP than India
2. In Bangladesh female labour force participation is nearly double that of India

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a. 1 only
b. 2 only
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer : c

Why is the Question ?

Examples in the neighbourhood: Bangladesh
1. We need not look too far to learn how. In 2020, Bangladesh overtook India in per capita GDP. Bangladesh has thrived by putting millions to work in manufacturing.
2. A booming garment sector employs 4.4 million. A large garment factory in Bangladesh employs 30,000-50,000 people — 10 times what you’d find in India.
3. As 80 per cent of those employed in garment factories are women, Bangladesh has twice the female labour force participation ratio of India.

4. In 2020, the government passed four labour laws that are a major step forward in helping balance flexibility with protection for labour, formal and informal.
5. These laws have since been left dormant. The budget should announce a time frame for implementation, notification by the Union government and then by the states.

Q2. Consider the following statements

1. Under 5% of the workforce in India is formally skilled
2. National Skill Development Corporation is a not-for-profit public limited company tasked with the promotion of skilling in India

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a. 1 only
b. 2 only
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer : c

Why is the Question ?

Social sector investment:
Skilling:
1. The budget must also look at investments in education and skilling. In the absence of massive employment in unskilled occupations, we must depend on education and skills.

2. India has among the least skilled workforces in the world. Under 5% of our workforce is formally skilled, compared to 96 per cent in South Korea, 75 per cent in Germany and 52 per cent in the US.
3. That is why the work of the National Skills Development Corporation is so important and must go much further and faster.
4. National Skill Development Corporation is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated on July 31, 2008, under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. NSDC was set up by the Ministry of Finance as a Public-Private Partnership model.
Education:
1. Education is even more important, especially primary education. Pratham’s education reports make for sobering reading. Their last comprehensive report says that just 44 per cent of children in Class V can read a text meant for Class II. And just 23 per cent of children in Class V can do division.
2. With schools closed for the last year and a half in most states, education outcomes have fallen further.
3. The New Education Policy has a proposal that every second standard child should be able to read and do arithmetic at the second standard level as a foundation for further education. This welcome initiative must receive greater dedication and focus from both government and industry.
4. School education is a state subject, so the Union budget can at best incentivise states to do the right things, say by linking the flow of additional funds to those that demonstrate improved second standard learning outcomes.

5. Industry can help too. As a part of CSR, many companies work actively with schools. Education is already the largest single area for CSR spending, accounting for one-third of the Rs 9,000 crore spent by the top 100 companies.

Q3. Recently in news, Houthi rebels belong to the country of

a. Yemen
b. Oman
c. Saudi Arabia
d. Israel

Answer : a

Why is the Question ?

Saudi Arabia hits back at Houthi rebels after UAE drone attack

Green coloured region is Marib
1. An airstrike killed about 14 persons in a building in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a during strikes across the city launched by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group.
2. The UAE has armed and trained Yemeni forces that recently joined fighting against the Houthis in Yemen’s energy-producing regions of Shabwa and Marib.
3. The Houthi-claimed attack on two sites in the UAE set off explosions in fuel trucks, killing three persons, including two Indians and a Pakistani.
4. In response, the UAE said it reserved the right to respond to “terrorist attacks and criminal escalation”.
Who are the Houthis?
1. Founded in the 1990s by Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Shia majority, the Houthi movement has a pretty straightforward slogan or sarkha: “God is great, death to America, death to Israel, the curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.” After Yemeni soldiers killed Hussein in 2004, his brother Abdul Malik took over.
2. After Yemen’s civil war in 1962-70, the once-powerful Zaidis first started to get sidelined. They were further alienated from the 1980s onwards when Sunni ideals were increasingly rising to prominence in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
3. At the time, several disgruntled Shia Yemenis, unhappy with their long-time authoritarian president and Saudi ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, joined Saudi militant groups who were fighting against Riyadh.

Q4. Which of the following is correctly matched?

Select the correct answer from the codes given Below

a. 1 and 2 only
b. 2 only
c. 3 only
d. 1, 2 and 3

Answer : b

Why is the Question ?

The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a strategic route for oil and natural gas shipments (It is near Houthi Affected/controlled areas in Yemen), Other significant geographical areas in the area, Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, countries bordering these

Q5. Consider the following statements

1. The Indus region (Mehrgarh) is one of the areas of the world where agriculture and animal domestication began very early
2. The Harappan phase saw the development of villages and towns in the entire region
3. In the Mature Harappan phase, urban centres developed

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a. 1 and 2 only

b. 2 and 3 only
c. 1 and 3 only
d. 1, 2 and 3

Answer : d

Why is the Question ?

The Early Beginnings
The Indus region (Mehrgarh) is one of the areas of the world where agriculture and animal domestication began very early. We do not know if there is any continuity between the Neolithic cultures of the Indus region and the later urban civilization. The early Harappan phase saw the development of villages and towns in the entire region. In the Mature Harappan phase, urban centres developed.