Today’s Current Affairs Quiz | Current Affairs Quiz Jan. 2021-Part-III
Current Affairs Quiz Jan. 2021-Part-III
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
Q. Consider the following:
1. Cotton requires high temperature, light rainfall or irrigation, and bright sunshine for its growth.
2. Cotton is a Kharif crop and requires 6 to 8 months to mature.
3. India is the world’s largest cotton producer.
4. Gujarat is the highest cotton-producing state in India.Which of the statements given above are correct?
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
Q.Consider the following statements:
1. NPA is a loan or advance for which the principal or interest payment remained overdue for a period of 90 days.
2. NPA plays an important role in every economic condition and also the main cause of the increase in the current account deficit.
3. A bad bank is a bank set up to buy the bad loans of a bank with significant nonperforming assets at market price.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
Q. Consider the following statements:
1. Universal Immunisation Programme is a vaccination program launched by the Government of India in 1985.
2. UIP is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions and largely responsible for the reduction of vaccine-preventable under-5 mortality rate.
3. Under UIP, immunization is providing free of cost against 7 vaccine-preventable diseases.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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The expanded Programme on Immunization was launched in 1978. It was renamed as Universal Immunization Programme in 1985 when its reach was expanded beyond urban areas. In 1992, it became part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme and in 1997 it was included in the ambit of National Reproductive and Child Health Programme. Since the launch of National Rural Health Mission in 2005, Universal Immunization Programme has always been an integral part of it.
Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) is one of the largest public health programmes targeting close of 2.67 crore newborns and 2.9 crore pregnant women annually.
It is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions and largely responsible for reduction of vaccine preventable under-5 mortality rate.
Under UIP, immunization is providing free of cost against 12 vaccine preventable diseases:
Nationally against 9 diseases – Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Rubella, severe form of Childhood Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and Meningitis & Pneumonia caused by Hemophilus Influenza type B
Sub-nationally against 3 diseases – Rotavirus diarrhoea, Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Japanese Encephalitis; of which Rotavirus vaccine and Pneumococcal Conjugate vaccine are in process of expansion while JE vaccine is provided only in endemic districts.
A child is said to be fully immunized if child receives all due vaccine as per national immunization schedule within 1st year age of child.
The two major milestones of UIP have been the elimination of polio in 2014 and maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in 2015.Incorrect
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The expanded Programme on Immunization was launched in 1978. It was renamed as Universal Immunization Programme in 1985 when its reach was expanded beyond urban areas. In 1992, it became part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme and in 1997 it was included in the ambit of National Reproductive and Child Health Programme. Since the launch of National Rural Health Mission in 2005, Universal Immunization Programme has always been an integral part of it.
Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) is one of the largest public health programmes targeting close of 2.67 crore newborns and 2.9 crore pregnant women annually.
It is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions and largely responsible for reduction of vaccine preventable under-5 mortality rate.
Under UIP, immunization is providing free of cost against 12 vaccine preventable diseases:
Nationally against 9 diseases – Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Rubella, severe form of Childhood Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and Meningitis & Pneumonia caused by Hemophilus Influenza type B
Sub-nationally against 3 diseases – Rotavirus diarrhoea, Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Japanese Encephalitis; of which Rotavirus vaccine and Pneumococcal Conjugate vaccine are in process of expansion while JE vaccine is provided only in endemic districts.
A child is said to be fully immunized if child receives all due vaccine as per national immunization schedule within 1st year age of child.
The two major milestones of UIP have been the elimination of polio in 2014 and maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in 2015. -
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4. Question
Q. Consider the following statements:
1. Drugs Controller General of India, comes under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
2. DCGI heads the Indian drug regulatory body the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).
3. The central government have established 12 zonal offices of CDSCO.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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The central government have established 6 zonal offices of CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad.Incorrect
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The central government have established 6 zonal offices of CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad. -
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Q. Consider the following statements:
1. Malaria is a disease caused by bacteria.
2. According to the WHO, in 2019, there were an estimated 229 million cases of malaria worldwide.
3. India was certified as malaria-free in June 2019.Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?
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Malaria is not caused by a virus or bacteria. Malaria is caused by a parasite known as Plasmodium, which is normally spread through infected mosquitoes. A mosquito takes a blood meal from an infected human, taking in Plasmodia which are in the blood.
Since 2000, India cut malaria cases by more than half and the number of malaria deaths by more than two-thirds. According to the WHO World Malaria Report 2019, as one of only two top 11 highest malaria burden countries to reduce malaria cases between 2017 and 2018, India registered a remarkable 28% decrease in malaria cases and a 41% decrease in malaria-related deaths. This is in addition to a 24% decline in malaria cases between 2016 and 2017.Ending Malaria remains a top government priority in India. In 2016, India introduced its first National Framework for Malaria Elimination (2016-2030). In 2019, the Government of India increased funding by more than 25% for the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme and increased support as a donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Malaria is not caused by a virus or bacteria. Malaria is caused by a parasite known as Plasmodium, which is normally spread through infected mosquitoes. A mosquito takes a blood meal from an infected human, taking in Plasmodia which are in the blood.
Since 2000, India cut malaria cases by more than half and the number of malaria deaths by more than two-thirds. According to the WHO World Malaria Report 2019, as one of only two top 11 highest malaria burden countries to reduce malaria cases between 2017 and 2018, India registered a remarkable 28% decrease in malaria cases and a 41% decrease in malaria-related deaths. This is in addition to a 24% decline in malaria cases between 2016 and 2017.Ending Malaria remains a top government priority in India. In 2016, India introduced its first National Framework for Malaria Elimination (2016-2030). In 2019, the Government of India increased funding by more than 25% for the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme and increased support as a donor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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