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Jan 12th, 2022 - Daily Quiz
1. Which article of the Constitution deals with 'Annual Financial Statement'?
(a) Article 110
(b) Article 112
(c) Article 111
(d) Article 113
2. Which of the following are treated as Revenue expenditure of the Centre?
1. Making interest payments on debt
2. Subsidies
3. Grants in aid
4. All grants given to the State Governments/UTs
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 4
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
3.'Prabuddha Bharata', a monthly journal was started by -
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Dr. B R Ambedkar
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
4.The community volunteer programme Himal Sanrakshak aims to protect
(a) Red Panda
(b) Alpine Musk Deer
(c) Snow Leopard
(d) Himalayan brown Bear
5. Which of the following pairs is/are correctly paired?.
State Animal/Bird Associated State
1. Black-necked crane : Ladakh
2. Great hornbill : Kerala
3. Blackbuck : Punjab
4. Elephant : Karnataka
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answers
1. (b)
Article 110 of Constitution of India deals with 'Definition of Money Bill'.
Article 111 of Constitution of India deals with 'Assent to Bills passed by the Parliament'.
Article 112 of Constitution of India deals with 'Annual Financial Statement'.
Article 113 of Constitution of India deals with 'Procedure in Parliament with respect to estimates'.
2. (d)
Revenue expenditure includes expenses incurred in the normal running of Government departments and for rendering of various services, making interest payments on debt,
subsidies, grants in aid, etc. All grants given to the State Governments/UTs and others are also treated as revenue expenditure.
3.(a)
https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1693702
4. (c)
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/ladakh-adopts-state-animal-and-bird/article36239008.ece
Snow Leopard
- It acts as an indicator of the health of the mountain ecosystem in which they live.
- Habitat:
- Higher Himalayan and trans-Himalayan landscape in Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh.
- Hemis, Ladakh is known as the Snow Leopard’s capital of the world.
- Threats:
- Reduction in prey populations, illegal poaching and increased human population infiltration into the species habitat and illegal trade of wildlife parts and products
- Conservation Efforts by India:
- Himal Sanrakshak: It is a community volunteer programme, to protect snow leopards, launched on 23rd October 2020
- In 2019, First National Protocol was also launched on Snow Leopard Population Assessment
- SECURE Himalaya: Global Environment Facility (GEF)-UNDP funded project on conservation of high altitude biodiversity
- Project Snow Leopard launched in 2009
- Snow Leopard is in the list of 21 critically endangered species for the recovery programme of the Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change.
- Snow leopards have been categorized as “vulnerable” in the IUCN Red List.
- It is also listed in:
- Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES)
- Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972.
- Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
Black-necked Crane
- The black-necked crane is found in eastern Ladakh’s high-altitude wetlands and marshes.
- The bird is revered by the community of Monpas (major Buddhist ethnic group of Arunachal Pradesh) as an embodiment of the sixth Dalai Lama (Tsangyang Gyatso).
- Habitat and Breeding Grounds :
- The high altitude wetlands of the Tibetan plateau , Sichuan (China), and eastern Ladakh (India)
- In Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, it only comes during the winters.
- Threats:
- Damage to the eggs and chicks; loss of habitat due to development projects; increased grazing pressure on the limited pastures near the wetlands.
- Steps for their Conservation:
- World Wide Fund for Nature-India in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife Protection, Jammu & Kashmir, has been working towards conservation of high altitude wetlands, with black-necked cranes as a priority species in Ladakh region.
- Protection Status:
- IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
- CITES: Appendix I
- Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule I
5. (d)
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