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- Napoleon Bonaparte Dear Aspirants, We feel delighted to present to you the "February 2020" edition of "Master In Current Affairs". MICA is a comprehensive magazine focused on both the intellectual and competitive nature of learning. Apart from the competitive edge, MICA is intended to provide you with a vision of self-enhancement. MICA includes highly acclaimed sections such as, Newsletters, News Diary, One Liner, World of English, which are directly related to your preparation for competitive examinations. Chalte - Chalte is one of the most steering elements of MICA on the go, which is mentioned below every page. This edition creates a forum where all candidates and guidance personnel can meet the important issues of this month which may play a vital role in the forthcoming examination. The important topics covered in this edition are: “Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019” – The Act seeks to amend the definition of illegal immigrant for Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who have been living in India without documentation. The next article is “Impeachment of Donald Trump” - Donald Trump, now the former American President became the third President in American history to be impeached with a majority of Representatives voting in favour of the two articles of impeachment drawn up by House Democrats. Then there is another topic “International Financial Services Authority Bill 2019” - The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved establishment of a unified authority for regulating all financial services in International Financial Services Centres (IFSCs) in India through International Financial Srvices Centres Authority Bill, 2019. The next topic “COP25 Climate Summit” - The 25th edition of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or COP25 held in Madrid (Spain). In this edition as a wish for your bright and prosperous future we are providing “SSC CHSL: Previous Paper 2019 “and “CRP Clerk Mains : Model Paper 2019” for your self-assessment. You can also test your Current Affairs by visiting the Quiz Time section for self-assessment, which includes all possible multiple-choice questions from the current affairs of this month. To serve you better we will diligently serve you our level best with various new topics and news that is important from the examination point of view

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Sridhar Patra appointed CMD of NALCO. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 5 CURRENT AFFAIRS One Liner Liner ONEPERSONS IN NEWS ## Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan was recently re- ## Justice Muhammad Raffiq took oath as the Chief elected as the President of which country? Justice of which state? - Meghalaya - UAE ## Which South Asian country tops the list of TRACE # # Which Hindi writer has been selected for the Vyas Bribery Risk Matrix with highest bribery risk? Samman-2019 for outstanding literary work? - Somalia - Nasira Sharma ## Justice SA Bobde took oath as the Chief Justice ## Whose Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status was of India on November 18, 2019. By whome he was withdrawn by the Home Ministry? administered the oath of office? - Aatish Taseer - President ## Which Indian batsman has recently set a record of playing 100th T20 International match? ## Who has been recently elected as the President of Sri - Rohit Sharma Lanka? - Gotabaya Rajapaksa ## Who has inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor check ## The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir had post on 9th November 2019? constituted an administrative council to fulfill all the - Narendra Modi government functions. Who had chair the council? ## Who has become the fastest Indian cricketer to take 50 - GC Murmu T20I wickets? - Yuzvendra Chahal ## Who had announced that the NRC process would be ## Who resigned as the Union Minister of Heavy Industries carried out across India and cover all citizens? and Public Enterprises citing moral reasons? - Home Minister Amit - Arvind Sawant Shah ## What is the name of the former Election Commissioner, who has passed away recently, who had strongly AWARDS advocated electoral reforms in India? # - TN Seshan # Which actor has got ‘Icon of Golden Jubilee of IFFI’ award? - Rajinikanth ## Who has become the first Indian to be elected to the board of Metropolitan Museum of Art? ## Who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement - Nita Ambani award at the Golden Jubilee of International Film Festival of India? - Isabelle Hupert ## Which country has granted asylum to former Bolivian president Evo Morales? - Mexico ## Who has won the Infosys Prize 2019 in the Engineering ## Who has been recently given the additional charge of and Computer Science category? Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises? - Sunita Sarawagi ## - Prakash Javdekar ## India’s Ravi Prakash won the BRICS-Young Innovator ## Which first female officer will be posted abroad as Prize for inventing which inventions? 'Naval Attache' by Navy? - Karabi Gogoi - Milk chilling unit ## Which famous mathematician from Bihar died ## Who has been conferred with Indira Gandhi Prize for recently? - Vashishtha Narayan Peace, Disarmament and Development 2019? Singh - David Attenborough

6 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Suniel Shetty has been selected as the brand ambassador of NADA. One Liner SCHEMES AND LAUNCHES ## The BJP had won how many seats in Maharashtra assembly elections? - 105 ## The Government Employees of which Union Territory # are getting all 7th CPC Allowances from 31st October # Which district became the first kerosene-free district 2019? - Jammu & Kashmir of Gujarat? - Gandhinagar ## India has issued a travel advisory for Indians traveling ## Which party won the maximum seats in Haryana to which nation? - Turkey elections ? - BJP ## The Colonel Chewang Rinchen Setu was recently ## J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik has been transferred inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at and appointed as the new Governor of which state? which place? - Ladakh - Goa ## What is the name of the ad campaign that UNWFP has ## Who has been appointed as the first Lieutenant launched in India to eradicate hunger? Governor of Jammu and Kashmir? - Feed our Future - Girish Chandra ## Which Minister launched the first national protocol to Murmu specify snow leopard population in India? ## Who has been appointed as the first Lieutenant - Prakash Javadekar Governor of Ladakh? ## The Union Government recently relaxed the norms - Radha Krishna Mathur for setting up Petrol Pumps. As per the norms, which ## How many members of the European Union delegation companies are allowed to run Petrol Pumps? arrived in India to visit Jammu and Kashmir? - Non-oil companies - 27 ## Which state/UT government has announced to provide ## Which state has hosted the 7th edition of Tawang free travel facility for women in public bus service? festival? - Arunachal Pradesh - Delhi ## Which former Prime Minister's death anniversary is ## Women soldiers will be inducted into the Indian Army observed on October 31? by which year? - 2021 - Indira Gandhi ## Which state has launched e-ganna app for sugarcane ## Which party has got the maximum seats in Jharkhand farmers? - Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2019? - JMM NATIONAL & STATE ## Public Health Emergency has been declared in which state? - Delhi ## Haryana Assembly Election 2019 was held in how many constituencies? - 90 INTERNATIONAL ## The Ayurveda Palliative Care Unit was inaugurated recently in which city? - New Delhi ## Joko Widodo has been re-elected as the President of ## Which State Government recently agreed to implement which nation? - Indonesia the Central scheme PM-KISAN? ## World’s oldest known natural pearl was discovered off - Delhi which city’s coast? - Abu Dhabi ## The Defence Acquisition Council has approved capital ## Which city has hosted the 18th Summit of Heads of procurement worth how many crores? State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement - Rs 3300 (NAM) ? - Baku ## Which state has topped the list of crimes against ## Which party is set to form a minority government in women as per the latest report released by NCRB? Canada? - Liberal Party - Uttar Pradesh ## Which country has stopped the postal services with ## Which state government has decided to impose India? - Pakistan spot fines for storage, sale and purchase of banned ## Naruhito formally ascended to the throne as the Emperor firecrackers? - West Bengal of which country? - Japan ## Kanya Sumangala Yojana was launched in which ## Who is stated to be the kingmaker in the Canada state? - Uttar Pradesh Elections 2019? - Jagmeet Singh

Prithvirajsing Roopun, elected as new President of Mauritius. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 7 CURRENT AFFAIRS One Liner ## Which country won the ownership of the North Korean FINANCIAL AWARENESS vessel that was seized for violating the sanctions? - USA ## India has been ranked at which position in the 2019 ## Who was nominated by the US President Donald Ease of Doing Business rankings? Trump for the post of Energy Minister? - 63rd - Dan Brouillette ## Which organization recently revealed that 3 million ## The US House of Representatives recently recognized Indian payment cards are up for sale on the Dark the mass extermination of which people, conducted Web? - ZDNet between 1915-1917 as genocide. ## India recently committed to tackling money-laundering - Armenians along with which nation? ## Which city has hosted the 2nd Assembly of - US International Solar Alliance (ISA) ? ## Which country has opted out of the RCEP agreement? - New Delhi - India # # Which country has recently signed an agreement to ## Which international oil and gas company announced establish a high level strategic partnership council with to float its initial public offering (IPO) ? India? - Saudi Arabia - Saudi Aramco ## Which country’s PM recently resigned after nationwide ## Which country has hosted the conference 'No Money protests against tax provisions on using WhatsApp and for Terror 2020'? Facebook? - Lebanon - India ## Which is the third gulf country to witness the launch of # the RuPAY card? # How much amount of fund has been pledged by India - Saudi Arabia towards UN development activities for 2020? - USD 15 million ## Who was recently appointed as the Indian Ambassador to UAE? - Pavan Kapoor ## Which country has introduced visa exemptions for foreigners seeking medical treatment? ## Which city has hosted the 35th ASEAN Summit? - India - Bangkok ## Which country had cancelled hosting of COP25 and SPORTS APEC Summits? - Chile ## Who among the following world leaders was on a visit ## Which Indian cricketer broke Don Bradman's record to India from October 31- November 2? of highest average in Test cricket on home soil? - Angela Merkel - Rohit Sharma ## India recently signed an MoU with which country in ## Which Indian cricketer has created a new record of the field of prevention of marine litter? hitting the most number of sixes in a bilateral Test - Germany series? - Rohit Sharma ## Which country was offered to host the COP 25 climate ## Which badminton player recently supported the 'Bharat summit? - Spain Ki Laxmi' campaign of Prime Minister Narendra ## Which country has officially launched 5G Service? Modi? - PV Sindhu - China ## Who has become the third Indian batsman to enter the ## Which neighbouring country of India is suffering from top list in all formats of cricket? outbreak of ‘African Swine Fever’? - Rohit Sharma - China ## The ICC has imposed a two-year ban on which ## Which country had notified the UN about its withdrawal cricketer for failing to report a corrupt approach? from the Paris Climate Agreement? - USA - Shakib Al Hasan ## Which country has approved the sale of a home-grown ## The first day-night Test match had been played between drug that is expected to cure Alzheimer's? India and Bangladesh on which ground? - China - Eden Gardens Stadium ## Which country had hosted the BRICS Summit 2019? ## Which country has won the Rugby World Cup 2019? - Brazil - South Africa

8 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Military Literature Festival held in Chandigarh. One Liner ## What was India’s rank in the recently concluded World ## ISRO has selected 12 potential astronauts for which Para Athletics Championship-2019? mission? - Gaganyaan Mission - 24th ## Google has launched a new cloud-based game ## Which country will host 2023 Men's Hockey World streaming service. What is the name of the gaming Cup? - India service? - Google Stadia ## Recently which cricketer was dropped by the ICC from its latest ODI and T20I rankings? MISCELLANEOUS - Shakib al Hasan ## When is the National Unity Day celebrated in India? ## Who won the gold medal in the javelin- - 31st October throw competition at the World Para-Athletics ## Former Parliamentarian, Gurudas Dasgupta passed Championships? - Sundar Singh Gurjar away at the age of 83. He had served as the Deputy ## Which Indian player has been named in TIME 100 General Secretary for which political party? Next list? - Dutee Chand - CPI ## Which Bangladeshi cricketer has been banned from ## Which veteran CPI leader and former Member of the sport for five years? - Shahadat Hossain Parliament has passed away recently? - Gurudas Dasgupta SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ## When is the World Tsunami Awareness Day observed every year? - 5th November ## Which institution fired two BrahMos missiles at Trak Island in Andaman Nicobar on October 23, 2019? ## When was the International Day for preventing - IAF environmental exploitation during armed conflict ## Which country has shown an interest in purchasing of observed? - November 6th BrahMos missile? - Philippines ## Which body has recommended the central government ## Which social media platform has decided to ban to pay compensation to the daily-wage labourers after political advertising? - Twitter construction ban in Delhi? - NGT ## The Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 had conducted ## A group of students from which city created a Guinness in how many phases? - Five World Record for the largest astrophysics lesson? ## Which Indian Institute has recently prepared Indian - Kolkatta Brain Atlas for first time in the country? ## Which nation was ranked as the world’s worst abuser - IIT Hyderabad of internet freedom by Freedom of the Net report ## Which tech giant recently acquired Fitbit wearable? 2019? - China - Google ## Joint Naval Exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ was held ## Which Union Minister co-chaired the India-Russia Inter- between India and which country at Visakhapatnam? Governmental Commission on Military and Military- - Indonesia Technical Cooperation? - Rajnath Singh ## Which country was attacked with over 200 rockets on # # China launched which country’s first-ever satellite November 12, 2019? - Israel recently? - Sudan ## Over 1,000 migratory birds of different species were ## Which educational institutes has created India's first found dead in which lake of Rajasthan? 'standing wheelchair'? - IIT Madras - Sambhar Lake ## Which satellite had ISRO launched on November 25? - Cartosat-3 ## As per the report of the Parliamentary Committee, what percentage of people die every year in India due # # Which country recently test-fired surface-to-surface to cancer? - 68% Shaheen-1 missile? - Pakistan # ## Which country's satellite Hayabusa-2 has started # Bilateral Maritime Exercise Za’ir-Al-Bahr 2019 began a journey to return to Earth from an asteroid named between India and which country recently? Ryugu? - Japan - Qatar

Culture Ministry launched a portal to showcase Indian culture. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 9 SPOTLIGHT ALL THAT MATTERS ABBREVIATIONS IMPORTANT DAYS AND DATES APEDA : Agricultural and Processed Food Products February 4 World Cancer Day Export Development Authority February 5 Safer Internet Day WCCB : Wildlife Crime Control Bureau February 12 National Productivity Day RCEP : The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership February 13 World Radio Day & National Women’s Day PETA : People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals February 20 World Day of Social Justice IFFI : The International Film Festival of India February 21 International Mother Language Day CLSS : The Credit-linked Subsidy Services February 24 Central Excice Day CKIC : Chennai- Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor February 27 World NGO Day NMCG : The National Mission for Clean Ganga February 28 National Science Day ECONOMIC GLOSSARY BOOKS & AUTHORS Black Friday Black Friday is an informal name for the The Big Reverse: How Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the 01 Demonetization United States, which is celebrated on the Knocked India Out fourth Thursday of November. The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded :- Meera Sanyal as the beginning of the United States Christmas shopping season since 1952, although the term "Black Friday" did not become widely used until more recent decades. Memories of Many stores offer highly promoted sales on Tomorrow 02 Black Friday and open very early, such as at midnight, or may even start their sales at some :- Dean Koontz time on Thanksgiving. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but California and some other states observe "The Day After Thanksgiving" as a holiday for state Partitions of The government employees, sometimes in lieu of 03 Heart: Unmaking The another federal holiday, such as Columbus Idea of India Day. Black Friday has routinely been the busiest :- Harsh Mander shopping day of the year in the United States since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a Dark Circles much longer period of time. 04 Origin of the term: For centuries, the adjective "black" has :- Udayan Mukherjee been applied to days upon which calamities occurred. Many events have been described as "Black Friday", although the most significant such event in American History was the Panic Hemant Karkare: A of 1869, which occurred when financiers Jay 05 Daughter’s Memoir Gould and James Fisk took advantage of their connections with the Grant Administration in an attempt to corner the gold market. :- Jui Karkare

10 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 CBI officer B. P. Raju won India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019 award. APPOINTMENTS THE PEOPLE Soma Roy Burman The CGA is also responsible for the preparation and submission of the accounts oma Roy Burman took of the Union Government and exchequer charge as the 24th Controller S control and internal audits. General of Accounts (CGA) in the Finance Ministry’s Department Masatsugu Asakawa of Expenditure. asatsugu Asakawa has Soma Roy Burman is the Mbeen unanimously 7th woman to hold the post. elected President of the Asian The 1986-batch Indian Civil Development Bank (ADB) by its Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer Board of Governors. succeeded JPS Chawla. Mr. Asakawa, 61, currently In her 33-year-long career, Special Advisor to Japan’s Prime Burman has held several positions at different levels in the Minister and Minister of Finance, Union Ministries. will assume office as ADB's 10th About Soma Roy Burman: President on 17 January 2020. He will succeed Takehiko Nakao, # # Soma Roy Burman is a 1986-batch Indian Civil who will leave office on 16 January 2020. Mr. Asakawa Accounts Service officer. will finish the unexpired term of President Nakao, which ## During her three-decade-long career, she has held cadre ends on 23 November 2021. positions in different government ministries including According to one of the ADB Board of Governors Mr. Hong Finance, Information & Broadcasting, Home Affairs, Nam-Ki “The ADB Board of Governors looks forward to Human Resource Development, Shipping, Industry working with Mr. Asakawa." and Road Transport & Highways. Masatsugu Asakawa: ## Burman previously served as the Additional Controller General of Accounts in the CGA office. ## In a career spanning close to four decades, Mr. Asakawa has held a range of senior positions at the # # In the position, she took care of crucial aspects of Ministry of Finance of Japan, including Vice Minister accounting such as financial reporting, accounting of Finance for International Affairs, and gained diverse rules, policy and reforms, data analytics, cash and professional experience in development policy, foreign budget management. exchange markets, and international tax policy. # # She has also headed the Central Pension Accounting ## He served as Finance Deputy for the 2019 G20 Osaka Office (CPAO) as the Chief Controller of Pension. Summit and the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank She also served as the Director of the Institute of Governors meeting in Fukuoka, Japan. Furthermore, in Government Accounts and Finance (INGAF) in New the immediate aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, Delhi. he took part in the first G20 Leaders’ Summit Meeting ## Soma Roy Burman has also held important portfolios in his capacity as Executive Assistant to the then Prime in the central government such as Deputy Secretary/ Minister Taro Aso. Mr. Asakawa has had frequent Director in the budget division of the Economic engagement with the Organisation for Economic Co- Affairs Department and Joint Secretary and Financial operation and Development, including as Chair of the Adviser in Home Ministry’s National Intelligence Committee on Fiscal Affairs from 2011 to 2016. Grid. ## Mr. Asakawa served as a Visiting Professor at the ## She has also been active in formulating wide-ranging University of Tokyo from 2012 to 2015 and at Saitama reforms to strengthen Public Financial Management in University from 2006 to 2009. the Union Government. ## He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the University About Controller General of Accounts: of Tokyo in 1981 and MPA from Princeton University The Controller General of Accounts is the principal advisor in 1985. to the Union Government on accounting matters. The About Asian Development Bank: CGA is responsible for establishing and managing a sound ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, management accounting system. resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while

Chief Minister of Odisha has launched a smart learning phone application ‘MadhuApp’ for FEBRUARY 2020 MICA school children. 11 THE PEOPLE APPOINTMENTS sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme youngest-ever prime minister poverty. In 2018, it made commitments in the world. The 34-year-old of new loans and grants amounting to was selected to head Finland’s $21.6 billion. Established in 1966, it coalition government after she is owned by 68 members—49 from the was elected as the leader of the region. Social Democratic Party, the Girish Chandra Chaturvedi largest party in the coalition. he National Stock Exchange The former transport minister T(NSE) has appointed Girish will not only become the world’s Chandra Chaturvedi as its new youngest head of government but chairman. His appointment she will also be the third female comes following the approval of head of the government in Finland’s political history. markets regulator Securities and Coincidently, the leaders of all parties in the five-member Exchange Board of India (SEBI). coalition government are now women, making it the first- The NSE chairman was lying ever women-led coalition government in Finland. vacant since January 2019 when then incumbent Chairman of Finland’s new generation coalition NSE Ashok Chawla resigned in Finland’s coalition government comprises the Social the middle of charges of corruption in Aircel-Maxis case. Democratic Party, Left Alliance, Green League, Centre The Aircel-Maxis is a case of alleged corruption in grant of Party and the Swedish People’s party. Besides Social Foreign Investment and Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance Democrats, the other four parties are also being led by in Aircel-Maxis deal. women, three of whom are aged below 35 years. About National Stock Exchange: About Sanna Marin: The National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) is the leading stock exchange of India. It is located in ## Sanna Marin beat her rival Antti Lindtman with 32-29 Mumbai. The NSE was established in 1992 as the first votes at the Social Democratic Party council meeting dematerialized electronic exchange in the country. NSE was on December 8, 2019 to replace incumbent Antti Rinne the first exchange in the country to provide a modern, fully as the new Prime Minister of Finland. automated screen-based electronic trading system which ## The Social Democratic Party had emerged as the largest offered easy trading facility to the investors spread across party in Finland's national elections, which were held the length and breadth of the country. Vikram Limaye is in April 2019. Being the largest party in the coalition, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of NSE. the Social Democrats can appoint their member to the About Girish Chandra Chaturvedi: post of the prime minister. He is a former bureaucrat who retired from Indian ## Sanna Marin, a lawmaker since 2015, has been the Administrative Services (IAS) in January 2013 as Secretary, vice chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He is currently on She was also serving as the minister for transport and board of ICICI Bank and member of government appointed communications until this week. board of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS). In past, he has also served as Director (Government ## She will now become the world’s youngest prime Nominee) on Boards of Canara Bank, IDBI Bank Ltd, minister and Finland’s third female head of the Bank of Baroda, IDFC Ltd, GIC Re of India, United India government. Insurance Co. Ltd, Agriculture Insurance Co. of India, New India Assurance Co. Ltd, Background National Insurance Academy and Institute Finland currently holds the presidency of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). of the European Union till the end of Sanna Marin 2019. Sanna Marin is likely to take over soon so that she can represent Finland at anna Marin is set to take over as the European Union leaders’ summit in Sthe new Prime Minister of Finland, becoming the Brussels from December 12-13, 2019.

12 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Cabinet approves Aircraft (amendment) bill, 2019. AWARDS National Florence Nightingale The Right Livelihood Award Awards ctivists Davi Kopenawa, Greta he President of A Thunberg, Guo Jianmei India Shri Ram T and Aminatou Haidar Nath Kovind presented received the Right the National Florence Livelihood Award Nightingale Awards 2019, also known as to nursing personnel the ‘Alternative Nobel in New Delhi on 5 Prize’. The award December 2019. The ceremony took place in event was held from 5-6 Stockholm, Sweden at the end of a Final event of ten day- December 2019. long programs held in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden. The nurses play a vital role in delivering quality and cost- Key Points: effective healthcare, addressing multiple health challenges i. Davi Kopenawa Yanomami from Brazil also called the and responding to the health needs of individuals, families, ‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’ received the award for his and communities. effort taken in the protection of the Amazon Rainforest, The nurses are a symbol of seva, karuna, and shushrusha. he has led a 20-year campaign to protect their amazon Nurses are the face of healthcare services for the patients territory and has always fought for the people of and their families. Yanomami and Yakwana and the Yanomami territory in Venezuela, which is the largest area of rainforest in the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced 2020 as world under the control of indigenous people in Spite of the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. receiving threat from gold miners and politicians. India: There is an increasing number of elderly people ii. Guo Jianmei, a lawyer from China has been honoured who deserve and require proper geriatric care. In India, the with the award for her efforts taken in protecting Women’s elders are taken care of their old age parents. Professional rights in China, and for helping in the establishment of caregivers are in demand to take care of the elderly. It new laws against domestic violence in her country. should be noted that the nursing training institutions can iii. Aminatou Haidar, from Western Sahara, a Human consider developing short training programs for such care- Rights Activist for fighting to attain justice and self- givers too. determination for the people of Western Sahara in a Florence Nightingale: campaign for more than 30 years, she is also known as the ‘Gandhi of Western Sahara’. ## Florence Nightingale, was an English social reformer iv. Greta Thunberg, from Sweden, a climate activist was and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. selected for inspiring “Fridays for Future”, a global Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a youth-led movement protesting climate change. manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. About the award : The Right Livelihood Award is awarded to honour people who have answered the urgent ## Florence Nightingale developed the first organized challenges faced by today’s world. The prize was training school for nurses in 1860 in London. The established in the year 1980 and is presented annually University Of Cincinnati College Of Nursing, founded in early December. The prize money is 2,00,000 Euros in 1889 as the Cincinnati Training School for Nurses, which is shared among the four winners. The award is was modeled after the design of the Nightingale also called as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ but it does Training School for Nurses in London. not have any ties with the organization awarding the About The Florence Nightingale Awards: Nobel prize nor it is similar to the Nobel prize in any way. The Florence Nightingale Awards About Sweden: for Excellence in Nursing recognize outstanding nurses in the Greater Cincinnati Capital- Stockholm region who go above and beyond to provide Monarch- Carl XVI Gustaf exceptional patient care. Prime Minister- Stefan Löfven

Parliament has passed the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 13 THE PEOPLE AWARDS FICCI India Sports Awards 2019 Lifetime Achievement: Pankaj Advani (cue sport) he coveted FICCI TIndia Sports Awards Best State Promoting Sports: Odisha 2019, an attempt by Best Sports Journalist: Kamesh Srinivasan FICCI to acknowledge and recognize the 2020 Crystal Awards: contribution of sports he World Economic persons and various Forum (WEF) stakeholders who T announced the Winners deliver excellent results of 26th Annual Crystal during the year, has Award for the year 2020. been awarded to Railway Sports Promotion Board under The Crystal Awards the category of Best Company Promoting Sports (Public recognises celebrates as Sector) on 11th December, 2019 at New Delhi. well as the achievements Railway Sports Promotion Board has been awarded for of leading artists and its immense contribution in the field of providing sports cultural figures whose eco-system within the organization for the budding sports leadership inspires inclusive and sustainable change. The athletes to nurture and expose themselves to their optimum annual awards are hosted by World Economic Forum’s World limits and bring laurels to the nation. Arts Forum. It is important for any Sports entity to bring a friendly WEF’s 2019 Crystal Award Recipients policy for developing the sports infrastructure and give all Jin Xing– China’s media personality. She was recognized possible support to fulfil the needs of athletes so that they for her leadership in shaping inclusive cultural norms. may be able to compete internationally and achieve greater success and performance in sports. Indian Railways, apart Theaster Gates– Chicago-based artist. He was recognized from serving the nation in terms of traffic transportation, for his leadership in creating sustainable communities. has also been contributing in the field of Indian Sports as a Lynette Wallworth­- Australian artist. She won for her social initiative. leadership in creating inclusive narratives The FICCI India Sports Awards 2019 have been conferred Deepika Padukone- Indian actress. She won the award by a jury headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal, Retired Chief for her remarkable leadership in raising mental health Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court. The event awareness. She is the only Indian actress who has won was graced by Hon’ble Minister of Sports, Government 26th Annual Crystal Award for spreading mental health of Odisha Shri Tusharkanti Behera and Industry awareness. representatives. The three awardees will be honoured at opening session of Winners: FICCI India Sports Awards 2019 World Economic Forum’s 2020 Annual Meeting in Davos- Klosters, Switzerland, on 21-24 January. The 2020 annual Best National Sports Federation: National Rifle meeting will take place from 22-25 January under under Association of India the theme, ‘Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable Sports Person (Female): Rani Rampal (hockey) World’. Sports Person (Male): Saurabh Chaudhary (shooting) The World Economic Forum: Para-Athlete: Sandeep Chaudhary (javelin) The WEF Annual Meeting brings together leaders from Special Recognition Para-Athlete: Manasi Joshi (badminton) international organisations, government, civil society, culture and media, business, foremost experts and Breakthrough Sports Person: Amit Panghal young generation from all over the world, at highest Special Recognition Breakthrough Sports Person: Esow level and in representative ways. It engages some 50 Alben (cycling) heads of state and government, more than 300 ministerial-level government Coach or Support Staff: Satyanarayana participants, and business representation Lifetime Achievement (administrator): Govindaraj at the chief executive officer and chair Kempareddy level.

14 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 GoI to regulate Vintage Vehicles with new policy. AWARDS DSC Prize 2019 This year the award received 90 entries and the submissions came from 22 publishers, uthor Amitabha pointing to an increased interest and variety ABagchi has won in South Asian writing. The entries served DSC Prize for South as a timely marker of trends in South Asian Asian Literature 2019, fiction writing. for his novel ‘Half the Night is Gone’. It is Sahitya Akademi Awards Bagchi’s third novel. ahitya Akademi A major part of Half has announced its The Night Is Gone, is S awardees for this year. It based in old-forgotten announced seven books world of scheming zamindars, dubious morals and a of poetry, six short man lamenting lost opportunities. His attention to detail stories, four novels, ensures the readers are transported to that time, smelling three non-fiction books the grime and listening to creaking sound made by rusted and three essays. doors. Shashi Tharoor, the Key Highlights former external affairs The winner for this year’s DSC Prize was announced at the minister among the 23 writers named for the Award has IME Nepal Literature Festival in Nepal. Author Amitabha won the award for his book “An Era of Darkness: The Bagchi was handed over the prize by Nepal’s Foreign British Empire in India in the creative non-fiction in Minister Pradeep Gyawali. This year’s international jury English category”. panel was chaired by Harish Trivedi. A masterful weaver of words that have won him One of the major takeaways from this years award was innumerable accolades, Tharoor is the author of bestsellers the fact that among 90 entries received, 37 were by first- like Why I Am A Hindu, The Paradoxical Prime Minister time authors. At the same time, there was also a significant and Inglorious Empire etc. presence of women writers, with 42 novels penned by them The other awardees include Chinmoy Guha, a Bengali and 6 women involved as translators. Professor who has won for his essay “Ghumer Darja Apart from Bagchi’s, 6 other books were shortlisted, Thele”, Tamil writer Dharman for his novel “Sool”. The these included: awards are to be presented on February 25, 2020. The winners will be honored with a copper plaque and prize The Far Field- by Madhuri Vijay (which also won JCB money of Rs 1 lakh. Prize for Literature) A Santhali Novel “Marom” written by Shyam Besra also The City and the Sea- by Raj Kamal Jha won the award. It is to be noted Santhali language was used There’s Gunpowder in the Air- by Manoranjan Byapari in Rajya Sabha for the first time in the recent winter session (Translated by Arunava Sinha) of Parliament. The Empty Room- by Sadia Abbas About Sahitya Akademi: 99 Nights in Logar- by Jamil Jan Kochi The academy was constituted by Government of India through a resolution passed in 1952. According to its About DSC Prize for South Asian Literature constitution the academy is run by three authorities namely It is a prestigious international literary prize. It is awarded a general council, finance committee and an executive annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality board. writing about South Asia themes such as culture, history, The proposal of forming the academy was people or politics. It defines ‘South Asia’ as Bangladesh, put forth in 1944 to the British Government Bhutan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives, by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. The Myanmar and Sri Lanka. The awards are in its ninth academy till date holds the largest library of edition. multi-lingual books in India.

ADB issues $250 million loan to India to expand energy efficiency investments. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 15 THE PEOPLE OBITUARY George Laurer Sinha was also regarded as a fearless woman, who spoke her eorge Laurer, the US mind and never hesitated to take engineer who helped to G tough decisions. Her career saw develop the barcode, has passed her travel places and acquire away at the age of 94. Mr. Laurer skills across the advertising, has been recognized as the co- marketing, and research inventor of the Universal Product spectrum, working with some of Code (UPC) or barcode. It is the best brands in fast-moving found on millions of products, consumer goods. Tara Sinha services, and other items for Associates, in fact, was formed identification. When he was after she was controversially fired from Clarion in 1985. working as an electrical engineer with IBM, he developed UPC or barcode. He developed a This pushed her to set up Tara Sinha Associates much the scanner that could digitally read codes. He used stripes to way she had Clarion with clients (Nestlé and Gillette) and print the codes. The first product that was scanned was a staff from the agency she was exiting. The agency became packet of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum. It took place Tara Sinha McCann Erickson (now McCann) in the later in June 1974 in Ohio. years. About George Laurer: George Laurer was born on Having completed her advertising diploma in the early September 23, 1925, in New York City. His family moved 1950s from London, Sinha joined D J Keymer, Kolkata, the to Baltimore, Maryland, so his father, an electrical engineer, Indian subsidiary of S H Benson that later became Ogilvy could work for the United States Navy. Laurer recovered & Mather. from polio in 11th grade, he was drafted into the U.S. In 1955, Benson closed its Kolkata office, pushing Sinha Army during World War II. After being discharged from and others to form Clarion. She became its first director the military, he attended technical school where he studied at 23. radio and television repair. She worked in Delhi as well, joining Coca-Cola in 1973, About Barcode: A barcode (also spelled bar code) is a overseeing its marketing operations in India and then method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable working at the Atlanta office, after the company quit the form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the country in 1977. In 1984, she returned to head Clarion for widths and spacings of parallel lines. These barcodes, now a year and never looked back when the agency closed its commonly referred to as linear or one-dimensional (1D), doors on her. can be scanned by special optical scanners, called barcode readers. Barcodes became commercially successful when Ishwar Dayal Swami they were used to automate supermarket checkout systems, ormer Union Minister of a task for which they have become almost universal. The FState for Home and two-time Uniform Grocery Product Code Council had chosen, in Karnal Lok Sabha MP Ishwar 1973, the barcode design developed by George Laurer. Dayal Swami died at a private Laurer's barcode, with vertical bars, printed better than the hospital in Faridabad. He was 90 circular barcode developed by Woodland and Silver. Their years old. use has spread to many other tasks that are generically His wife Padma Swami had referred to as automatic identification and data capture. died six days ago at their Sector Tara Sinha 13 residence in Karnal due to prolonged illness. ara Sinha, best known as the founder of ad agencies TClarion and Tara Sinha Associates, passed away on at Suffering from heart ailment, Swami underwent a bypass her Gurugram residence. She was 88. surgery a week ago. He was admitted to the Metro Hospital on Saturday after he complained of breathlessness. He is Sinha, who had both agency and client experience having survived by son, three daughters and grandchildren. worked at Coca-Cola in the 1970s and early 1980s, was the first woman to set up a national advertising agency. While A bureaucrat-turned-politician, Swami contested and won Tara Sinha Associates was launched in 1985, Clarion was his first Lok Sabha election in 1996. He was re-elected launched way back in 1955 at the start of her career. in 1999 and made Union Minister of State for Home in

16 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 BEE organized International workshop on Energy Efficient Cooling. OBITUARY Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s National Democratic Alliance Yasuhiro Nakasone government. Cutting across party lines, political leaders in ormer Japanese Prime Haryana expressed their deepest condolences on his death. Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that he F passed away. He was 101 years was hurt by the news of Swami’s death and prayed for the old. He was one of Japan's peace of the departed soul. longest-reigning premiers. Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, in a He is known for his friendship tweet, described the death of Mr. Swami as “his personal with the 40th U.S. President loss”. He said that Haryana had lost a true social worker Ronald Reagan. He was one in his death. of Japan's longest-reigning State mourning premiers. Haryana government had announced one-day state Yasuhiro Nakasone served as the Prime Minister of Japan mourning for Swami. Flags on all government buildings from 1982 to 1987. His reign boosted Japan's global profile. put at half-mast. He was on 27 May 1918 in Takasaki, northwest of Tokyo. Brad Gobright He was graduated from Tokyo University. He entered the Home Ministry in 1941. obright, American climber He broke the unwritten rule on limiting the annual defence known for free solo G budget to 1% of gross national product (GNP). Nakasone climbing fell about 300 meters was the first Japanese premier to officially visit South (980 ft) to his death on the El Korea in 1983. Sendero Luminoso climb at El Potrero Chico in Nuevo León, Yasuhiro Nakasone pursued domestic reforms by privatizing Mexico. The accident happened Japan's state-run railway, tobacco, and telecommunications while rappelling down the face monopolies. He won a rare fifth year in office after leading of El Sendero Luminoso with his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1986 elections. In his partner Aidan Jacobson, 2003, he was forced to retire when he was 85 along with after the pair had completed a other elder statesmen by then-prime minister Junichiro quick climb of the face. Jacobson fell a shorter distance Koizumi along with the elderly politicians. and survived with injuries. It was reported that the two Shriram Lagoo men were simul-rappelling, a technique in which two climbers descend opposite strands of an anchored rope, eteran actor Shriram with their bodies acting as counterweights to each VLagoo passed away on 17 other. December. Lagoo died of cardiac arrest in Pune. He was 92 years About Brad Gobright: old. Brad Gobright (June 16, 1988 – November 27, 2019) was Shriram Lagoo was born in an American climber known for free solo climbing. 1927 in Satara, Maharashtra. He Gobright was born in Orange County, California, and began was trained as an ENT surgeon climbing when he was six. He dropped out of college in by profession. He played an 2009, working odd jobs during winter and climbing during important role in the growth of the rest of the year. theatre movement in Maharashtra along with Vijay Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta, and Arvind Gobright and Mason Earle made the first free ascent of The Deshpande. Heart Route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 2015. In 2016, he and Scott Bennett climbed three routes Shriram Lagoo essayed memorable roles in Bollywood on El Capitan in 24 hours – Zodiac, The Nose and Lurking films like Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Ek Din Achanak, Fear. In 2017, he and Jim Reynolds set a speed record of Gharonda, and Laawaris. He played Gopal Krishna two hours 19 minutes and 44 seconds for The Nose on El Gokhale in the movie Gandhi. He has also been a part of Capitan. With Alex Honnold in June 2019, he made the various TV shows. Gulmohar West, Karamati, Thhoda Sa second free ascent of El Niño on El Capitan in fourteen- Aasman, Waqt Ki Raftar, Lokmanya, Jugal Bandhi, and and-a-half hours. Uppanyas are some of his notable works on television.

Cabinet approves Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 17 NEWS BITES NATIONAL Burning Topics of the Month

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Chit Funds (Amendment) Act, 2019 ## Chit fund schemes may be organized by financial institutions, or informally among friends, relatives, or 21 Nov' 19 neighbours. he Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha has passed the Chit How it works- Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019 by voice vote. The The fund starts at an announced date and continues Tbill seeks to amend the Chit Funds Act, 1982, which for the number of months equal to the number of regulates chit funds and prohibits a fund from being created subscribers. Each month, the subscribers put in their without the prior sanction of a State Government. monthly installments into the pot. Then, an open auction The amendments have been made to facilitate the orderly is conducted to determine the lowest sum a subscriber is growth of the chit fund sector to remove bottlenecks and willing to take that month. For example, if the monthly enable greater financial access to people. installment is `1000 and there are 50 members, the pot ` Under the legislation, the prescribed ceiling of aggregate in the first month will contain 50,000. If the auction ` chit fund amount for individuals has been raised from one determines a winner who is willing to accept 45,000 for ` lakh rupees to three lakh rupees and in case of firms, the that month, the surplus 5,000 is distributed to the other limit has been raised from 6 lakh to 18 lakh rupees. 49 members, after subtracting fees paid to the organizer. The subscriber who won the auction was able to access Besides, words chit amount, dividend and prize amount `45,000 in the first month and the others benefited in their have been substituted with terms gross chit amount, the share of the `5,000 surplus. The process share of discount and net chit amount. The legislation repeats, distributing the auction amount to also increases the maximum commission of a foreman one member each month. All of the other from five per cent to seven per cent and also allows the subscribers, including the ones who took foreman a right to lien against the credit balance from their share in a previous month, continue subscribers. paying the monthly installments. Accoding to Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur the bill has been brought with an intention of protecting The International Film Festival of India the interests of investors belonging to the poor and (IFFI) 21 Nov' 19 marginalized section of the society. he Golden The government also wants that the invested money should J u b i l e e be returned on time to those investors who have been edition of cheated in such schemes. T the International The government has also conducted financial literacy Film Festival of programmes in different parts of the country to create India (IFFI) held at awareness among the people for such schemes. Panaji in Goa in the About Chit funds- presence of galaxy of stars from the Indian ## It is a type of rotating savings and credit association and world film industry. system practiced in India.

18 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 India signed MoU with Qatar to set up University campus. NATIONAL ## Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash The Government has Javadekar inaugurated the mega event and expressed made city specific that the government has opened a single window plans. 80% vehicular through which all the permissions required to shoot a emissions reduction film in the country will be granted. It will attract more was registered after international filmmakers to shoot their films in India the adoption of BS- and the initiative will benefit Goa, Leh-Ladakh and IV fuel standards in Andaman-Nicobar as well. heavy-duty diesel ## At the event, renowned Super star Rajinikanth was vehicles. bestowed with the Icon of the Jubilee Award at the Saying planting saplings can be a good initiative, the Union hands of the Information and Broadcasting Minister Minister for Environment suggested that every citizen Prakash Javadekar in the presence of Mega star should plant at least seven trees. Amitabh Bachchan. Renowned French film actor Central Government has notified a Graded Response Action Isabelle Huppert was honoured with the Lifetime Plan for Delhi and NCR for different levels of pollution. Achievement Award at the event. ## IFFI features a Country of Focus that brings out Mr Javadekar informed that India has already reduced its the cinematic excellence and contributions of that carbon emissions intensity by 22 per cent, and now the particular country every year and this year, the country target is to go beyond 35 per cent. of focus is Russia. The Minister told that the number of initiatives have ## The Golden Peacock Retrospective section showcased been taken for the abatement and control of air pollution eight movies from eight different countries. These are including, operationalization of Eastern Peripheral the films which won the Golden Peacock Awards in the Expressway and Western peripheral Expressway in 2018. previous years. Introduced in its 3rd edition, Golden The government is ready to adopt any new technology that Peacock is the most prestigious award by IFFI for the helps in reducing pollution. best film in the international competition section. Sri New Delhi will take less time than Beijing to improve its Lankan film ‘Gamperaliya’ was awarded for the very air quality. first time in 1965 for its style and content. Some easy ways to reduce carbon emissions About The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) ## Switch to a renewable energy option through your utility or # # It was founded in 1952. It is one of the most significant a certified renewable energy provider (U.S. and Canada). film festivals in Asia. It is held annually. ## Recycle as much as possible, even when travelling, and ## The festival aims at providing a common platform buy products with recycle-able/minimal packaging. for the cinemas of the world to project the excellence Search online for ways to recycle hard-to-recycle of the film art; contributing to the understanding items in your local community. and appreciation of film cultures of different nations in the context of their social and cultural ethos; and ## Minimize purchases of new products, especially promoting friendship and cooperation resource-intensive, heavy or heavily-packaged products. among people of the world. ## Compost your food waste. # # The festival is conducted jointly ## Support climate action organizations. Research the by the Ministry of Information and companies you buy from (especially Broadcasting, Directorate of Film ongoing purchases). If they aren't Festivals and the Government of Goa. reducing greenhouse gases themselves Government to reduce carbon and supporting action on climate emission intensity by 35% 22 Nov' 19 change, switch to a company that is. nion Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Govt approved setting up of six Change Prakash Javadekar stressed the need to plastic parks 22 Nov' 19 Uwork daily to fight the menace of air pollution. The government has clamped down coal-based thermal overnment has approved setting up of six plastic power plants to check air pollution. Pollution is being parks in different parts of the country. These monitored in 355 cities. Gparks will have an ecosystem with state of the art Particles drama won the Golden Peacock Award at the 50th IFFI. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 19 NEWS BITES NATIONAL infrastructure building and enabling the common facility E-Cigarette Act 2019 22 Nov' 19 to consolidate and synergize the capacities of the domestic downstream plastic processing industry. ealth Minister These parks are located in Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Dr. Harsh Odisha, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu. HV a r d h a n firstly introduced Odisha was the first state to start working on developing a a bill to prohibit ‘Plastic Park’, located in Jagatsinghpur district. the production, Under the scheme, the government provides grant funding manufacture, import, up to 50 per cent of the project cost. The remaining project export, transport, sale, cost is to be funded by State Government beneficiary distribution, storage industries and by a loan from financial institutions. and advertisement of electronic cigarettes. It is done to Four new plastic parks have also been given in-principle protect the people from harmful effects of e-cigarettes. After approval for establishment in West Bengal, Haryana, that the bill was passed by the both houses. In Rajya Sabha it Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. was passed through voice note. Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo informed Background : that the environment Ministry has issued Standard Home Ministry has previously issued an order to all Guidelines on Single-use plastics to all Ministries and states and UTs, enabling law enforcement officials to States for its extensive implementation. conduct searches on-premises for the product without a What is Plastic Park? warrant. A plastic park is an industrial zone devoted to plastic The Union Cabinet in September had approved an enterprises and its allies industries. It includes a whole ordinance to ban production, import, distribution and sale range of companies required by the plastics processing of electronic cigarettes. The decision was taken considering community from material and machinery suppliers, impact of e-cigarettes on the youth. plastics processing companies, plastic recycling companies A punishment of one-year imprisonment and a fine of one including waste management system. These plastic parks lakh rupees have been proposed for first-time offenders. The are being developed by State Governments with the storage of e-cigarettes is punishable with imprisonment of support of Department of Chemicals & Petrochemical of up to six months or a fine of up to 50 thousand rupees or Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers. These parks have both. great potential for attracting investments and generating About E-Cigarette more employment opportunities for the local population. AIPMA has been instrumental in setting up these plastic An electronic cigarette, also known as e-cigarette among parks. other names. E-cigarettes are the most common form of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems. About AIPMA: It is a handheld battery-powered vaporizer that The All India Plastics Manufacturers' Association (AIPMA) simulates smoking and provides some of the behavioral was founded by Industry visionaries 73 years ago making aspects of smoking, including the hand-to-mouth it one of the oldest & largest Apex bodies of the Plastic action of smoking, but without burning tobacco. Industry in India. Through the years AIPMA has expanded Using an e-cigarette is known as "vaping" and the user and progressed by leaps and bounds in all fields of Plastics. is referred to as a "vaper." Instead of cigarette smoke, It,s Head Offices are located in prime locations such as the user inhales an aerosol, commonly called vapor. Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata. E-cigarettes typically have a heating element that ## It work towards making India an International sourcing atomizes a liquid solution called e-liquid. E-cigarettes base for plastics. are automatically activated by taking ## It fights against any national or international challenges a puff; others turn on manually by confronting the growth of the Indian pressing a button. Some e-cigarettes Plastic Industry. look like traditional cigarettes, but they come in many variations. Most # # It remains alert on various versions are reusable, though some are environmental issues & anti-plastic disposable. campaign.

20 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 India announced Rs.4,900 crore to support Butans 5 year plan. NATIONAL Government launches Credit-linked 4. Beneficiary-led individual house construction/enhancements (BLC). Subsidy Services Awas Portal At present, among the 4 verticals of PMAY 25 Nov' 19 (Urban), the government has managed to n i o n reach more than 8 lakh beneficiaries under M i n i s t e r CLSS. U of Housing Parliament passes Transgender and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill launched the Credit 26 Nov' 19 Link Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) arliament has passed the Transgender Persons Awas Portal (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, with the Rajya (CLAP). Along with PSabha approving by a voice vote. portal, the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs The Lok Sabha had already passed the bill. It defines a (MHUA) also launched Global Housing Technology transgender person as one whose gender does not match Challenge (GHTC)-India to accomplish ‘Housing For the gender assigned at birth. All Mission’. Some more agreements were signed Key Highlights: with certain state governments for the construction of Lighthouse projects under GHTC-India. GHTC-India ## It provides every transgender person a right to reside seeks to get globally acclaimed, proven and alternate and be included in his household. construction technologies for speedier as well as cost- ## The Bill prohibits discrimination against a transgender effective construction of affordable housing. person including denial of service, unfair treatment in About CLSS Awas Portal (CLAP): education, employment, healthcare, and enjoyment of goods, facilities, and opportunities available to the The CLAP aims to provide a transparent and robust real- public, right to movement and right to reside. time web-based monitoring system for the beneficiaries of the Credit-linked Subsidy Services (CLSS) as through ## As per the legislation, no government or private the portal people seeking to avail housing subsidy under entity can discriminate against a transgender person Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY)-Urban will be able to in employment matters including recruitment and track their applications. promotion. The CLSS Awas Portal also seeks to address grievances ## The bill will take forward transgenders and bring of beneficiaries in a much comprehensive and organised them into the mainstream. And a grievance redressal manner as well as to help other stakeholders to work in mechanism has been set up for the issues related to synergy for release of subsidy to beneficiaries on time. transgender. Under CLSS, the Centre provides interest subsidy of up to ## The government has implemented several welfare around Rs.2.67 lakh on home loans to individuals, which schemes for the upliftment of transgenders, like reduces principal outstanding amount of loan. scholarships in education and provision for a credit Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban): facility. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) for ensuring housing Before passing the bill, the House negated with voting for all in urban areas was launched on 25th June 2015 for DMK member Tiruchi Siva's demand to send the bill to a implementation during 2015-2022. The Mission provides Select Committee. central assistance to implementing agencies through Earlier, participating in the discussion, Tiruchi Siva said States/Union Territories (UTs) and Central Nodal Agencies only passing the bill will not serve the purpose. He said it (CNAs) for providing houses under following verticals of must be passed in a comprehensive and wholesome manner. the Scheme: He said this bill requires more deliberations as some of the clauses are ambiguous in nature. 1. “In-situ” Slum Redevelopment (ISSR) He suggested that the Statutory Commission like SC-ST 2. Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) Commission may be set up to resolve the grievances of the 3. Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) transgender. He also appealed that punishment prescribed

Indian Navy successfully testfired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 21 NEWS BITES NATIONAL under the bill for sexual abuse of transgenders must be re- from 16th December for the registration fixed on the lines of punishment clauses set process. Mr Puri also said, more than 50 for other rape cases. help centres will be started by the DDA in Mr. Siva urged that reservation must be these colonies to address the grievances of provided in the employment and education the residents. to transgenders. PIB establishes a fact-checking unit Unauthorised colonies Act 2019 30 Nov' 19 29 Nov' 19 he Centre’s nodal agency for issuing releases to ok Sabha and the public, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Rajya Sabha Thas created a fact checking unit in order to tackle has passed the fake news on social media targeting the government L and the work being done by it, reported a tweet from the National Capital Territory of Delhi PIB. (Recognition of The fact check unit will have officials from the PIB as well Property Rights as employees hired on contract to monitor platforms such of Residents in as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube to flag news that is fake Unauthorised Colonies) and has the potential for creating social unrest. Bill, 2019. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting urged The bill provides for a legal framework to grant ownership people to email snapshots of any dubious material they rights to nearly 40 lakh people living in unauthorised come across on any platform including social media and colonies in Delhi. get it verified. The bill will allow registration of properties and provide Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar certain relief to the residents of 1731 unauthorised colonies has again called for combating fake news and even said that in the city from registration charges and stamp duty. it is more dangerous than paid news. The Bill also has provisions for recognising the property About PIB: rights in unauthorised colonies by securing the rights The Press Information Bureau was established in 1919 as a of ownership or transfer or mortgage in favour of the small cell, which has now grown into a nationwide network residents who are possessing properties on the basis of of 8 regional offices and 34 branch offices. Power of Attorney, Agreement to Sale and possession letter. The Press Information Bureau (PIB) is the nodal agency of the Government of India to disseminate information The government took the decision to confer the ownership to the print and electronic media on government rights to residents living in these unauthorised colonies and policies, programmes, initiatives and achievements. termed it a revolutionary step. It functions as an interface between the Government After regularisation of these colonies, Delhi's picture will and the media and also serves to provide feedback to be completely changed and it will ensure ease of living in the Government on people’s reaction as reflected in the these colonies. Once these colonies are regularised, MPs media. will also be able to carry out development programmes PIB disseminates information through different modes of under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development communication viz. press releases, press notes, feature Scheme (MPLAD) fund. articles, backgrounders, photographs, database available 65 affluent colonies in the national capital have been on Bureau’s website. Information disseminated is released excluded from the purview of the Bill and their case will be in English, Hindi and Urdu and subsequently translated dealt with separately at subsequent stages. in other Indian languages to reach out to about 8,400 The work of digital mapping of these colonies will be newspapers and media organizations in different parts of completed before 31st December and will be uploaded country. on the portal. So far mapping of 600 colonies have been In addition PIB organizes Press Conferences, Press Briefing, completed. Hardeep Singh Puri, Union minister for housing Interviews of the Minister’s /Secretary’s and other senior and urban affairs had told that another portal will be opened officers for sensitizing media persons on important policy

22 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Akkitham Namboodiri to be awarded the 55th Jnanpith Award. NATIONAL initiatives of the Government. The Bureau ## The head of the UTs i.e. Lieutenant Governor or also conducts Press Tours to successful administrator is the representative of the President project sites to enable media to have first of India in the respective Union Territory. The hand account of developmental activities head of the UTs is appointed by the President of going on in the country. India. ## In India three Union Territories namely Complaint box to be placed in every Delhi, Puducherry and Andaman and panchayat of J&K 04 Dec' 19 Nicobar Island are governed by the Lieutenant Governor while rest of the ammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Girish UTs are governed by the Administrator. Chandra Murmu has directed to place a Complaint JBox in every Panchayat in the Union Territory to Cabinet approves Personal Data enable citizens to register their complaints and grievances with the government. These directions were issued in the Protection Bill, 2019 04 Dec' 19 first meeting of the Administrative Council in Jammu he Personal during which functioning of public grievances redressal Data Protection mechanism was reviewed. T(PDP) Bill, Principal Secretary to Government, Planning, Development 2019 is inspired and Monitoring and Grievances Department Rohit Kansal from a previous draft made a detailed presentation explaining the process of version prepared by registering and handling the grievances and complaints. a committee headed The council was informed that grievances are received by retired Justice B N through different means including by post and also can be Srikrishna. However, brought to the Lieutenant Governor’s Grievance Cell by the present bill differs the complainant personally. from what was recommended by Justice B N Srikrishna committee. LG directed that the disposal of grievances and in particular the time taken for disposal should be rigorously monitored. What is Data? He also directed that the Awaz-e-Awaam portal of Jammu ## Data is the large collection of information that is stored & Kashmir should include a mechanism for registering in a computer or on a network. and monitoring grievances received during public outreach ## Data collected and handled by entities is called data meetings by the Advisers. fiduciaries. A Dashboard should be prepared on the portal in order ## Although the fiduciary controls how and why data is to monitor the disposal of grievances on a real time processed, yet the processing itself may be by a third basis. The grievances received in Public Durbars should party, the data processor. also be entered in the Awaz-e-Awam system. After the ## Now a days Companies, governments, and political integration of Centralized Public Grievance Redress and parties find it valuable because they can use it to find Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) with Awaz-e-Awaam, the most convincing ways to advertise online. the grievances received on CPGRAMS from across What is the propose of PDP Bill? the Country will automatically get directed to Awaz-e- Awaam and thus resolution of such grievances will also The B N Srikrishna committee draft had required all be expedited. fiduciaries to store a copy of all personal data in India, which was criticised by foreign technology companies that Girish Chandra Murmu (born 21 November 1959) is the store most of Indians’ data abroad. first lieutenant governor of the Union territory of Jammu Salient provisions of the bill and Kashmir. ## The Bill calls for the creation of an independent Lieutenant Governors: regulator Data Protection Authority, which will ## As of now India has 29 states and 7 Union Territories. All oversee assessments and audits and definition making. the 29 sates of India are headed by the governor of the ## Each company will have a Data Protection Officer respective state but the Union Territories are governed (DPO) who will liaison with the DPA for auditing, by the Lieutenant Governors or administrators. grievance redressal, recording maintenance and more.

The 18th World Wind Energy Conference was held in Brazil. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 23 NEWS BITES NATIONAL ## It also grants individuals the right to data portability About Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM- and the ability to access and transfer one’s own Kisan) Yojana: data. ## Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) ## The Bill stated the penalties as: Rs 5 crore or 2 percent is a Central Sector scheme with 100% funding from of worldwide turnover for minor violations and Rs 15 Government of India. crore or 4 percent of total worldwide turnover for more serious violations. ## The Scheme is effective from 1.12.2018. ## Also, the company’s executive-in-charge can also face ## Under the Scheme an income support of Rs.6000/- jail terms of up to three years. per year is provided to all farmer families across the Advantages: country in three equal installments of Rs.2000/- each every four months. ## Data localisation can help law-enforcement agencies access data for investigations and enforcement. ## Definition of family for the Scheme is husband, wife ## Instances of cyber-attacks and surveillance will be checked. and minor children. ## Recently, many WhatsApp accounts were hacked by ## The entire responsibility of identification of beneficiary an Israeli software called Pegasus. farmer families rests with the State / UT Governments. ## Social media is being used to spread ## The fund is directly transferred to the bank accounts of fake news, which has resulted in the beneficiaries. lynchings, national security threats, which can now be monitored, checked ## For enrollment, the farmer is required to approach the and prevented in time. local patwari / revenue officer / Nodal Officer (PM-Kisan) nominated by the State Government. Only Aadhar authenticated bank ## The Common Service Centres (CSCs) accounts to get PM-Kisan payments have also been authorized to do 09 Dec' 19 registration of the farmers for the Scheme upon payment of fees. he Government of India has notified that the fourth instalment of the PM-KISAN (Pradhan 'Samagra Shiksha'– an integrated TMantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) income support scheme for school education 12 Dec' 19 scheme due in December 2019 will be transferred only to Aadhar-authenticated bank accounts of more than 50 inistry of million beneficiaries. This will be the first time since H u m a n the launch of this scheme on 24 February 2019 that MResource the government is insisting on mandatory condition of D e v e l o p m e n t Aadhar seeding. has implemented Highlights: the Scheme of Vocationalisation of The instalment for December 2019 to March 2020 will be School Education. transferred to Aadhar-authenticated bank accounts at one Under the scheme, go this month. The department has authenticated over 50 a vocational million bank accounts. subject is offered for Classes IX to XII along with the Government has not yet decided the date and venue for general education to provide necessary employability and disbursement of the instalment but is expected to disburse vocational skills for a variety of occupations. over Rs.10,000 crore to farmers in a one day. This will The above scheme is being implemented under the also be the largest disbursal in one day so far under PM- umbrella of ‘Samagra Shiksha – an integrated scheme for KISAN, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi during school education’. the launch on February 24 distributed first instalment of Rs.2,000 each for December 2018-March 2019 period to Important Provisions: over 10 million farmers. The step is expected to boost ## Samagra Shiksha is an integrated scheme for school sagging rural economy at a time when GDP growth has education extending from pre-school to class XII to hit bottom.

24 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 India Japan Foreign and Defence Ministerial Dialogue held in New Delhi. NATIONAL ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all Indo Sri Lanka joint exercise MITRA levels of school education. SHAKTI 14 Dec' 19 ## It subsumes the three Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha he seventh edition of Exercise MITRA SHAKTI- Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). 2019 aimed at enhancing interoperability and operational efficiency amongst the armies of both ## The scheme treats school education holistically as a T India and Sri Lanka when deployed as part of United Nations continuum from Pre-school to Class 12. peace keeping forces was commenced on 01 December at ## The main emphasis of the Scheme is on improving the Aundh Military Station, Pune and it was concluded on 14 quality of school education by focusing on the two T’s December. The objective of the exercise is to build and – Teacher and Technology. promote positive relations between armies of India and Sri Lanka through focus on sub unit level training on counter Objective: insurgency and counter terrorism operations in urban and The Objective of the Scheme is to ensure inclusive and rural environment under United Nations mandate. The equitable quality education from pre-school to senior joint training exercise also signifies the strength of India- secondary stage in accordance with the Sustainable Sri Lanka relations in the field of military cooperation and Development Goal (SDG) for Education. engagement, which is vital for refining the interoperability SDG 4.1: Aims to ensure that all boys and girls complete and operational preparedness. free, equitable and quality primary and secondary The joint exercise is designed for incorporating the current education leading to relevant and effective learning dynamics of United Nations peace keeping operations outcomes. through practical and comprehensive discussions and tactical exercises. The primary focus of the joint training exercise SDG 4.5: Aims to eliminate gender disparities in education will remain on field craft, battle drills and procedures as also and ensure equal access to all levels of education. the ability to operate jointly with seamless interoperability. The scheme mainly aims to support States in the Mitra Shakti exercise: implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. The Mitra Shakti exercise was started in 2013 and is conducted annually as a part of military diplomacy and Right to Education Act (RTE) is a fundamental right under interaction between the armies of India and Sri Lanka. It Article 21-A of the Constitution of India. is important for India to maintain good relations with its Fund Resources: neighbours in political, economic, social ways. This will also help India in implementing its Neighbourhood first ## The Scheme is being implemented as a Centrally Policy. With China increasing its presence in Sri Lanka Sponsored Scheme. (Hambantota port), it becomes vital for India to revive and ## At present the fund sharing pattern for the scheme boost historical ties. between Centre and States is in the ratio of 60:40 and As member nations of the United Nations, the participating for the North-Eastern, the Himalayan States and for all contingents will gain immensely through joint operability other States and Union Territories with Legislature is and enhanced military and diplomatic association. in the ratio of 90:10. About Srilanka: # # It is 100% centrally sponsored for Union Territories Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri without Legislature. Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian ## The scheme also proposes to give Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal flexibility to the States and UTs to and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. plan and prioritize their interventions ## It’s Capital is Colombo and administrative within the scheme norms and the capital is Jayawardenepura Kotte. overall resource envelope available to # them. # It’s Currency is Sri Lankan rupee.

Government forms a 13 member committee to review National Sports Code. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 25 NEWS BITES STATE Burning Topics of the Month

The first Pashu Kisan UP Government to set up Andhra Pradesh Assembly credit cards distributed 218 fast-track courts passed the Disha bill

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Gujarat Government announced relief landslide, avalanche, cloud burst, pest attack, and frost and cold wave. Besides, for providing immediate relief package for farmers 23 Nov' 19 to the victims of State-specific disaster within the local context, which are not included in the list of the above ujarat Govt. notified natural calamities, Ministry of Home Affairs has announced has authorized the State Governments to incur an a relief G expenditure of 10% of funds available under SDRF, package 3,795 crore subject to the procedures laid down therein. rupees for farmers who suffered crop loss due ## This flexibility is applicable only after to unseasonal rains. the state has listed the natural disasters for inclusion and has notified clear and The massive relief transparent guidelines for relief, in package is expected to case such disasters occur. benefit as many as 56.36 lakh farmers from State's 18,369 villages. It should be noted that this marks the first instance Centre has extended ban on NDFB of State's farmers from all villages being given a relief by the state government. for 5 years 24 Nov' 19 It should be noted that only three of the Talukas covering he Centre Ahmedabad, Surat and Junagadh cities have been kept has extended out of the package. Meanwhile, to ensure that only true a ban on beneficiaries receive the relief funds, the money will be T Assam-based Bodo paid only through RTGS, directly to the farmer's bank insurgent group accounts. National Democratic Out of the total package, 1,641 crore rupees will be given Front of Bodoland through a budgetary provision and 2,145 crore under the (NDFB) citing that State Disaster Response Fund. Farmers will get assistance the terrorist outfit has in the range of 4,000 rupees to 13,000 rupees. This relief continued to indulge its involvement in violent activities package is in addition to 700 crore rupees announced by which includes killings, extortion and joining hands with the state government earlier. anti-India forces. The NDFB was declared an outlawed outfit in 1990s, the ban has been extended every five years About SDRF: since then. ## The State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) is the What is the reason banning NDFB? primary fund available with States for disaster response and is constituted under Section 48 of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has extended ban Disaster Management Act, 2005 (DM Act). on NDBF under provisions of sub-section (1) of section 3 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. MHA ## The SDRF is used for meeting expenditures for has also notified that NDFB was indulging in illegal and providing immediate relief to the victims of cyclone, violent activities intended to disrupt sovereignty and drought, earthquake, fire, flood, tsunami, hailstorm,

26 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Parliament passes The Recycling of Ships Bill, 2019. STATE territorial integrity of India. This is in furtherance of groups afflicted with poverty organized themselves NDBF’s objective of achieving a separate Bodoland. The and created support structures that are sensitive to their notification also pointed out that since January 2015, NDFB needs/demands. was involved in 62 violent incidents which resulted in The Rural Livelihoods Mission UMEED puts greater thrust killings of 19 civilians and 55 extremists, besides arresting on continuous training of the community in the form of of 450 ultras and confiscation of 444 arms and weapons. exposure visits, participation in workshops, and conducting About NDBF: training programs round the year for the community cadre. The NDFB was formed in 1986 to obtain a sovereign Diverse training programmes on core requirements under Boroland for the Bodo people. Since then NDFB has the mission are conducted focusing on the mobilization of been engaging in unlawful and violent activities thereby poor, organizing the poor to focus on financial inclusion, undermining the authority of Union Government as well enhancing the livelihood, etc. as Government of Assam. It has also been spreading UMEED encompasses the spirit of universal social terror and panic among people and continues to indulge in mobilization wherein it enables poor to build their extortion of money from various sections of society with a organizations by themselves, take tangible decisions that view to financing and executing its plans for the creation have an impact on their lives by debating and discussing of a separate Bodoland resulting in killings and destruction among themselves in a transparent manner. To ensure of properties of non-Bodos, inhabiting universal mobilization, at least one member from each the Bodo-dominated areas in Assam. rural poor and vulnerable household, Moreover, it still continues to embark on preferably a woman, remains part of a systematic drive for recruitment of fresh Self Help Group (SHG). UMEED has an cadres with a view to continue its terrorist objective to be a people-led and people- and insurgency activities. centred initiative for providing space, voice and resources for the poor in an open UMEED Mission aims to reduce and transparent manner. poverty in J&K 27 Nov' 19 Shipping Ministry approves Loktak ammu and Inland Water ways project in Manipur Kashmir Rural 28 Nov' 19 JL i v e l i h o o d s Mission popularly h i p p i n g known as UMEED Ministry gave aims to reduce approval for poverty in the S the development of union territory. The Loktak Inland Water Mission aims that ways improvement every poor household comes out of poverty with immense project in Manipur confidence and belief in them and reap benefits ofthe under the central central government programme. sector scheme. The The Rural Livelihoods Mission works on seven steps to estimated cost of the project is over 25 crore rupees. The poverty reduction that includes identification of the poor, Loktak Lake is the largest fresh water lake in North east organizing the poor, creating favorable environment to located at Moirang in Manipur. harness their potential, showing them the path to capital, In a statement, Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya showing them the path to right livelihood, social awareness said that North-East is a beautiful region with stunning and safety nets around the poor and converging welfare landscapes and holds a lot of opportunity for tourism schemes as their entitlements. purposes. He said that the project will develop the Inland UMEED launched in 2011, is continuing in extension water transport connectivity in North East States and give mode in Jammu & Kashmir. The Mission was rolled out boost to the tourism sector also. and implemented in a phased manner that lays emphasis Chairman of Loktak Development Authority and MLA on sustainable institution-building approach. Such of Khurai in Manipur L Susindro Meitei had met Mr initiatives have been successful wherever the target Mandaviya in this regard in New Delhi.

NDTV won International Press Institute India award. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 27 NEWS BITES STATE Inland waterways: of Rs.20,000 Crore. It seeks to accomplish twin objectives Inland waterways is a network in the form of rivers, canals, of effective abatement of pollution, conservation as well as backwaters and creeks that can be used for transportation in rejuvenation of National River Ganga. place of or in addition to roads and rails. Key Points: Through the ages, rivers have served as effective waterways, ## Unique feature of this HAM project is that after its carrying people and goods over long distances. Even today, commissioning, this plant will also be maintained and many countries depend heavily on inland water transport, perated for a period of 15 years by same developer especially for large and bulky cargo, as it is cheaper, more for efficient performance and for meeting output reliable and less polluting than transporting goods by road parameters. or rail. ## This Sarai 14 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant is based on Until about a hundred years ago, the Ganga river, too, was advanced aerobic biological process, Sequential Batch a busy waterway. Reactor (SBR) process. Thus it is capable of removing Manipur is a state in northeastern India, with the city of nutrients during treatment and is a 100% eco-friendly Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by Nagaland to the north, project. The plant will meet the highest standards of Mizoram to the south, and Assam to the west; Myanmar output parameters and has been completed before its (Sagaing Region and Chin State) lies to its east. The state scheduled timeline. covers an area of 22,327 square kilometres ## Municipal sewage is considered as the main source (8,621 sq mi) and has a population of of pollution in Ganga. It is being tackled through 150 almost 3 million. Manipur has been at the Sewerage projects at a cost of more than Rs.23,000 crossroads of Asian economic and cultural crores (over 3 billion USD), in addition to various exchange for more than 2,500 years. interventions for checking industrial and other sources of pollution in Ganga Inauguration of Sarai Sewage basin. Namami Gange interventions Treatment Plant in Uttarakhand extends to urban as well as rural areas 06 Dec' 19 covering diverse sectors.

ing Carl The first Pashu Kisan credit cards XVI Gustaf distributed 07 Dec' 19 and Queen K he first Pashu Kisan credit cards (Animal husbandry Silvia of Sweden inaugurated Sarai Credit Card) in India were distributed to 101 animal Sewage Treatment Tfarmers in Bhiwani district of Haryana. These credit Plant (STP) in cards were launched to promote animal husbandry and Uttarakhand. The agriculture business. The haryana govt has also set a target Swedish King and to issue 10 lakh Pashu Kisan Credit cards by March 2021. Queen were on a five-day visit to India to strengthen The agriculture and animal husbandry business will be bilateral ties. "Bilateral relations between India and made job-oriented, for this, youth will be given training Sweden are friendly and based on principles of democracy in skill development in horticulture as well as animal and transparency, right to freedom, and rule of law. husbandry. This will also help the youth of the state get About Sarai Sewage Treatment Plant: employment in developed countries. It is the first Sewage Treatment Plant to be completed under The central and state government is trying to double the income Hybrid Annuity (HAM) Based Public Private Partnership of farmers in Haryana. For this, various schemes and programs Model (PPPM). The 14 million litres per day (MLD) for farmers and livestock farmers are being effectively Sarai STP has been constructed at a cost of Rs.41.40 crore implemented. Dairy farming and horticulture training will be under Centre government’s Namami Gange Programme. imparted to more than five lakh farmers in the state to make Namami Gange – National Mission for Clean Ganga is animal husbandry and agriculture business profitable. an Integrated Conservation Mission (ICM) , approved as Highlights of Pashu Kisan credit cards: ‘Flagship Programme’ approved as ‘Flagship Programme’ ## Under the Scheme, banks will provide Rs 40,783 for a by the Union Government in June 2014 with budget outlay cow and Rs 60,249 for a buffalo.

28 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 UNDP launched Accelerator Lab in New Delhi. STATE ## The credit amount for goat and sheep each will be Rs 4,063. of sexual crimes against women and children. The decision ## In the case of a pig, the credit amount will be Rs was taken by the State Cabinet, a day after the last rites of 16,337 per pig. the Unnao victim were performed in her native village. ## For Hens, the credit amount will be Rs 720 per layer The State at present has 42,389 pending cases of sexual and Rs 161 per broiler hen. offences against children and 25,749 pending cases of rape and sexual crimes against women. Key Points: These special courts will be part of the total i. These 101 livestock owners can now use these cards 1,023 Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) to pay for animal feed, etc. They can repay within a which were proposed to be set up under stipulated period. The scheme is expected to help the the Protection of Children from Sexual livestock owners in improving their dairy business. Offences (POCSO) Act earlier this year. ii. Dairy production in Haryana: Haryana, with 107.26 lakh tonne milk production, has the second highest per Hornbill Festival celebrated in capita milk availability in India. Nagaland 09 Dec' 19 iii. Members present: Animal Husbandry & Dairy very year the processing Minister of Haryana, Jayprakash Dalal; “ H o r n b i l l Chairman of Haryana Animal Husbandry Development Festival” is Board, Somvir Sangwaan were present on this occasion E celebrated between and other officials were present during the event. December 1 and About Haryana: December 10 in Capital- Chandigarh. Nagaland. It is also called Festival Chief Minister- Manohar Lal Kattar. of Festivals. The Governor- Satyadev Narayan Arya. festival is organized by the State Tourism and art and National Parks(NP)- Sultanpur NP, culture department in Kohima. Kalesar NP. Highlights of the festival: Formation- Haryana as a state came into The festival is held every year in the state capital Kohima existence on 1 November 1966, under the near the Kisama village. The aim of the festival is to protect Punjab Reorganisation Act (1966). and revive the rich culture of Nagaland. All the tribes of Nagaland take part in the festival. Traditional arts of the UP Government to set up 218 fast- state such as wood carvings, paintings and sculptures are track courts 09 Dec' 19 displayed in the festival. Tourism: he Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up 218 fast track courts to hear rape cases and crimes against Till December 8, 2019, around 2,39,901 visitors have children. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting. visited the festival.It includes 2,799 foreigners as well. The T festival contributes a major share in boosting the economy Talking to media after the meeting, Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed concern over crimes against women. It is decided to of the state. set up 144 fast track courts to hear rape cases and 74 POCSO Naga Morungs: courts for matters related to crimes against children. The Naga Morung is one of the major highlights of the For these fast-track courts, 218 posts of additional sessions festival. The Morung is a self-governing body that aims judges have been created. Besides this, staff posts for the to protect the village men. Morungs were the community court will also be created. 60 per cent of expenditure on the spaces in Nagaland where the young boys were trained. courts will be borne by the Centre. The boys are taught history and culture of the tribes in the The state government will spend 40 per cent. An estimated land. They also learnt folk songs and tales during their stay. 63 lakh rupees will be incurred on each of the new fast- The boys were made Naga warriors in these Morungs. track courts. Amid the outrage over the death of the Unnao At the Hornbill festival, the culture of the Morung tribes rape victim, the Uttar Pradesh government announced that is exhibited. Their arts, paintings, lifestyle are displayed. it would set up 218 fast track courts for the speedy disposal Tourists stay at Morung cottages during the festival.

Centre approved the development of Loktak Inland Waterways. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 29 NEWS BITES STATE The name: This act was enacted during the British era to protect the Hornbill is a revered bird that is featured British interests from the hill tribals who used to invade the widely in the songs of Nagaland tribes. British subjects. Hornbills are birds that are found in tropical An imaginary line known as the inner- and sub-tropical Asia, Africa and Melanesia. line was created to divide between the two communities so that neither party could go Nagaland government has extended beyond the line without a permit from the the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system appropriate authorities. 11 Dec' 19 Andhra Pradesh Assembly passed the efore it, Dimapur was the only place in Nagaland Disha bill 13 Dec' 19 which was not under the ILP system because the district is a commercial hub and has a mixed he Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on December 11, 2019 has B passed the Disha Bill that proposed harsh punishment population (often referred to as ‘Mini India’). for crimes against women. Disha bill is also known as Recently Manipur has also been brought under the purview T the Andhra Pradesh Criminal Law (Amendment) bill. of ILP System. Thus, the entire northeast India has been exempted from CAB except for Sikkim and non-tribal Key Features: areas in Assam and Tripura. The main objective of the ILP The act provides harsh punishments to those who did system is to prevent the settlement of other Indian nationals heinous crimes against women. The cabinet also approved in these states to protect the indigenous population. establishment of special courts for offences against women Key Points: and children under Women and Children Act, 2019. The courts will also deal with cases under POCSO (Protection The extension of ILP to Dimapur has been issued under of Children against Sexual Offence) act. section 2 of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 by the governor of Nagaland. The act specifies that judgement for every case registered should be pronounced within 21 days. Special attention The extension of the ILP regime makes it mandatory for should be given to cases such as rape, acid attacks. “every non-indigenous person” who entered the district after November 21, 1979, to obtain an ILP within 90 days. The Andhra Pradesh government will now establish, operate and maintain a register in electronic form, to be Any non-indigenous person passing through the district as called ‘Women & Children Offenders Registry’. This a transit passenger and having a valid ticket will not be registry will be made public and will also be available to required to obtain Inner Line Permit, the notification said. country’s law enforcement agencies. Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 and North-East India Punishment: Protected by the ILP System: Nagaland, Arunachal Under the act, those found guilty under the act will be Pradesh, Manipur and Mizoram have been exempted from tried under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. Accused the provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), with proven charges of sexual attack on children will be 2019. imprisoned for 10 to 14 years. Sixth Schedule Areas: The whole of Meghalaya (except a The act also includes strict actions against persons part of Shillong), Mizoram and the tribal areas of Tripura uploading degrading posts against women on social media. and Assam are also exempted from the CAB. In this case, the first-time offenders will be punished with The Sixth Schedule contains special provisions for the 2 years of jail term and the second term offenders will be administration of tribal areas in the four north-eastern punished with four years of jail term. states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. The Act also prescribes, death penalty for rape crimes What is Inner Line Permit? where there is adequate conclusive evidence, and this Inner Line Permit is an official travel document issued by provision is given by amending Section the Government of India to allow inward travel of an Indian 376 of Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860. citizen into a protected/restricted area for a limited period. Disha is the name given to the veterinarian who was raped and murdered in Hyderabad It is a special permit required by “outsiders” from other on 27 November and sparked an outrage regions of the country to enter the notified states. across country.

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DTAA and Protocol between Republic of Agreement and Protocol into force after the Cabinet approval. Implementation would be watched and reported India and Republic of Chile approved by Union Ministry of Finance. 28 Nov' 19 About Chile: n i o n Chile is a long, narrow country stretching along South Cabinet has America's western edge, with more than 6,000km of Uapproved the Pacific Ocean coastline. Santiago, its capital, sits ina signing of Double valley surrounded by the Andes and Chilean Coast Range Taxation Avoidance mountains. The city's palm-lined Plaza de Armas contains A g r e e m e n t the neoclassical cathedral and the National History Museum. (DTAA) and Protocol The massive Parque Metropolitano offers swimming pools, between Republic of a botanical garden and zoo. India and Republic Capital: Santiago Trending of Chile. This will help in elimination of double taxation as well as prevention of fiscal evasion and avoidance with Currency: Chilean peso respect to taxes on income. Official language: Spanish Major impact of DTAA Agreement and Protocol India to set up 12 hi-tech parks in It will facilitate elimination of double taxation between 29 Nov' 19 two nations. Moreover, a clear allocation of taxing rights Bangladesh between Contracting States by Agreement will provide tax ndian High certainty to investors and businesses of both countries. This C o m m i s s i o n , will also augment the flow of investment through fixing of Dhaka India will fees for technical services, royalties and the tax rates in I set up 12 hi-tech source State on interest. parks in Bangladesh The Agreement and Protocol implements minimum at a cost of $193 standards and other recommendations of G-20 OECD Base million. Speaking at Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project (or BEPS Project). a business meeting The Agreement includes provisions such as a Principal in Rangpur organised Purpose Test, Preamble Text, a General Anti-Abuse by the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry, High provision along with a Simplified Limitation of Benefits Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das Clause (SLBC) as per BEPS Project. This will result in said that these hi-tech parks will provide training to 30,000 curbing of tax planning strategies which exploit gaps and youth of Bangladesh as skilled IT professionals. mismatches in tax rules. Responding to the issue of the trade imbalance between Way Forward the two countries, according to Riva Ganguly Das that The Implementation Strategy and Targets includes diversification of the product basket of Bangladesh will completing necessary formalities for bringing the help reduce the gap by increasing exports to India.

China topped with the most diplomatic posts across the world. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 31 NEWS BITES INTERNATIONAL Bangladesh, to the east of India on the Bay of Bengal, is President Bouterse a South Asian country marked by lush greenery and many ## After playing an active role in a 1980 coup d'etat waterways. Its Padma (Ganges), Meghna and Jamuna against Prime Minister Henck Arron, Bouterse was rivers create fertile plains, and travel by boat is common. promoted to head of the army and made de facto leader On the southern coast, the Sundarbans, an enormous of Suriname until 1987. mangrove forest shared with Eastern India, is home to the royal Bengal tiger. ## He later left the army to lead the National Democratic Party (NDP), which came to power in 2010. Capital: Dhaka ## The party has repeatedly tried to halt this trial and six Currency: Bangladeshi taka people accused of being involved have already died Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina since it began 12 years ago. ## In 2012, the National Assembly passed an amnesty law Suriname president sentenced to 20 granting Bouterse immunity, which years in prison 30 Nov' 19 was later invalidated by a court ruling. ## In 1999, Bouterse was convicted in u r i n a m e ' s absentia for drug trafficking by a court President Desi in the Netherlands - allegations he Bouterse has S denies. been sentenced to 20 years in prison over UNDP 2019 human development the execution of 15 political opponents index: India ranked 129th 08 Dec' 19 in 1982. ecently, the United Nations Development He was found guilty Programme (UNDP) released its report titled of planning and ordering the extrajudicial execution of 15 R“Human Development Report 2019– Beyond political prisoners. income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in The president has previously denied the allegations. human developmen in the 21st century”. The report was based on the human development of a changing world. As He claimed the victims, who included lawyers, union per the report India ranked 129th out of 189 countries in leaders and journalists, were shot while trying to escape a the list which is up by 1 rank of 130 from 2018. The list colonial-era fortress in Paramaribo, the capital of the South was topped by Norway. The report in detail are as follows: American country. Human development index UNDP Report on India: Bourtese led Suriname during the 1980s as head of a i. 27.1 crore people in India were lifted out of poverty military government and de facto leader. from 2005-06 to 2015-16. The improvement was due He took office as president in 2010, following a democratic to reduction in poverty along with improvement in life election and was elected for another term in 2015. expectancy, education and access to healthcare. The court ruled that the president had overseen an operation According to HDI (Human Development Index), no which involved soldiers under his command kidnapping other region experienced such rapid development 16 government critics, including lawyers, journalists and progress. However, Despite India’s significant university professors. progress, it accounts for 28% of the total 1.3 billion Only one of the detainees - a union leader - survived the multidimensional poor. killings and was able to testify against Bouterse. ii. Index Score: India scored 0.647 in 2018, as against 0.643 in 2017. The score is calculated in the range of 0 About Suriname: to 1. ## Suriname is a small country on the northeastern coast India’s HDI value increased by 50% (from 0.431 of South America. to 0.647), in 2018 as against 2017, which placed it ## Paramaribo is the capital city of Suriname on the banks above the average for countries in the medium human of the Suriname River. It’s known for ornate wooden development group (0.634) and above the average for Dutch colonial buildings in its center. other South Asian countries (0.642).

32 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 India, Vietnam signed MoU for cooperation in the field of education. INTERNATIONAL iii. Life expectancy: In India, between 1990 and 2018, and the first to do so life expectancy at birth increased by 11.6 years, mean with afro-textured years of schooling increased by 3.5 years and expected hair. years of schooling increased by 4.7 years. Per capita Indian contestant incomes rose by over 250%. Vartika Singh iv. Rank improvement factor: Some of the factors that crashed out of the lead to India’s improvement in the rankings were world's biggest due to govt. initiatives like Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan beauty pageant after Yojana (financial inclusion scheme), Ayushman Bharat securing a place in (universal health care scheme) etc. the top 20. Miss Puerto Rico Madison Anderson was named v. Inequality & gender bias: UNDP, however, warned the first runner-up. Miss Puerto Rico Madison Anderson of inequalities that persist in India. The report found was named the first runner-up, followed by Mexican that despite progress, inequalities persist in the country contestant Ashley Alvidrez as the second runner-up. Also affecting women and girls. Indians showed biases in part of the top 5 were Colombia and Thailand. gender social norms, indicating a backlash to women’s About the Final Round: empowerment. In the final three, Tunzi was asked about what she believes General report: young girls today should be taught most, answering that i. Rank indicators: the countries were ranked based on she said, I think the most important thing we should be indicators such as life expectancy at birth, expected teaching young girls today is leadership. It's something that years of schooling, mean years of schooling, GNI has been lacking in young girls and women for a very long (Gross national income) per capita and HDI (Human time – not because we don't want to, but because of what Development Index) value society has labelled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings on the world, and that we should be given ii. South Asia: fastest growing region: South Asia was every opportunity, and that is what we should be teaching the fastest growing region witnessing 46% growth these young girls – to take up space. Nothing is as important during 1990-2018, followed by East Asia and the as taking up space in society and cementing yourself. Pacific at 43%. No region, other than South Asia, has experienced such rapid human development progress. Zozibini Tunzi: iii. Poverty: Of the 1.3 billion multidimensional poor, As Miss Universe, Tunzi will reside in New York City, 661 million are in Asia and the Pacific. This is nearly and will take part in a number of events and appearances half of multi-dimensional poor living in 101 countries throughout the world. around the world. Tunzi began her pageantry career in 2017, when she was accepted as one of the top 26 semifinalists of Ranking Miss South Africa 2017, although she was Rank Country not selected as one of the twelve finalists. 129 India. She returned to pageantry to compete in 1 Norway. Miss South Africa 2019. 2 Switzerland. India has the 2nd -highest population 189 Niger (last rank) of unvaccinated children for measles South Africa's Zozibini Tunzi crowned 10 Dec' 19 Miss Universe 2019 09 Dec' 19 ccording to the joint report of World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF (United Nations outh Africa's Zozibini Tunzi has been crowned Miss Children’s Fund) published in Morbidity and Universe for the year 2019, beating more than 90 A Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), India has the 2nd highest contestants. The 26-year-old Tunzi was declared S number of children who are not vaccinated against measles the winner at a televised event at Atlanta in United States with 2.3 million in 2018 (2.9 million in 2017) . Nigeria, an yesterday. Tunzi's win is South Africa's third Miss Universe African country tops the list with 2.4 million unvaccinated crown; she is the first black woman to win the Miss Universe children (4 million unvaccinated children in 2017). title since Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011,

Saudi Arabia elected to UNESCOs World Heritage Committee. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 33 NEWS BITES INTERNATIONAL Key Points: Bougainville i. After Nigeria & India, the other 4 countries with the It is the largest island of the Solomon Islands most number of unvaccinated children are Pakistan Archipelago. The island has the world’s largest copper (1.4 million), Ethiopia (1.3 million), Indonesia (1.2 deposits. The most widely spoken language in the million) and the Philippines (0.7 million). country is Halia. ii. As per the report, globally in 2018, there were at least The country is yet to prove its recognition in the United 10 million cases of measles and 140,000 deaths. The Nations. In India, Godman Nithyananda is said to have major casualties from measles are children under the built a new country called “Kailassa” near Ecuador. age of 5. Kailassa is also yet to prove its recognition in United iii. Despite being preventable by two doses of vaccination Nations. (first dose is given at nine-12 months of age and the Diplomatic Recognition 2nd dose is given at 16-24 months of age), which is part of India’s routine immunisation programme, there By international law, a country should recognize the were nearly 70,000 cases of measles reported in India other for the later to become an independent country. The in 2018, the third highest in the world. But in 2019 it recognition can be proved by the new country through was reduced to over 29,000 cases, which have been United Nation Resolution. If majority of the countries vote reported to the WHO. in favour of membership of the country, then the country iv. Failing to immunize: Globally 19.2 million children did enters world map and begins to exist legally. ‘There are not receive the first dose through routine immunisation 195 countries in the world today that are recognized by the services. United Nations. v. Effective strategy: Nearly 163 million children in India Apart from Diplomatic recognition, the countries of received have been been given the measles vaccine. North America and South America assent on Montevideo The 1st dose of measles vaccine was initiated as part Convention. of the national immunisation programme in the 1990s. Montevideo Convention A second dose was initiated based on the WHO’s recommendation to prevent infection and death. India The Montevideo Convention is a treaty that was signed in introduced the second dose from 2010. 1933. The convention defines rights and duties of statehood. About Measles: It lists the criteria for a country to become independent and declare its sovereignty. The most important factor of the It is a highly infectious illness caused by convention is that it prohibited the use of military force to the rubeola virus. Its symptoms can range gain sovereignity. from rashes to pneumonia and can cause blindness and death. China’s interests The prevailing situation in the Pacific is advantageous Bougainville gains independence to China. China seeks to influence an independent from Papua New Guinea 12 Dec' 19 Bougainville. The political and economic presence of china in the country has increased already. China’s support to the he South island will increase its support among the Pacific islands P a c i f i c against Taiwan. It is important to note that Taiwan recently TArchipelago of lost two of its Pacific allies this year. Australia, UK and Bougainville voted to US believe that there are possibilities of China bringing become independent Bougainville into its debt trap diplomacy. of Papua New Guinea. China is also interested in Bougainville Around 98% of for its rich fisheries, copper, gold and 1,81,067 voters voted other resources. Building strong ties with to get independent the country will help China increase its from Papua New presence in the Pacific. Guinea.

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Tax department launches web portal for Act, 1924. Initially the Board was in charge of both direct and indirect taxes. However, when the administration of exchange of information 22 Nov' 19 taxes became too unwieldy for one Board to handle, the Board was split up into two, namely the Central Board of he Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes Direct Taxes and Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBDT), P C Mody inaugurated the Web Portal for with effect from 1.1.1964. This bifurcation was brought Exchange of Information on Income Tax Website in T about by constitution of two Boards u/s 3 of the Central New Delhi. Board of Revenue Act, 1963. The Web Portal consolidates all the relevant Automatic Composition of CBDT: Exchange of Information related information at one place for financial institutions, officers and public. The posrtal The Central Board of Direct Taxes consists of a Chairman would not only be useful for the domestic financial and following six Members: - institutions but will also help the foreign tax authorities and Chairman financial institutions to get information about the Indian laws, rules and procedures. Member (Income-tax) India is committed to exchange financial account Member (Legislation & Computerisation) information automatically from 2017 under the Common Member (Personnel & Vigilance) Reporting Standard on Automatic Exchange of Information Member (Investigation) (AEOI). Member (Revenue) About the Central Board of Direct Taxes: Member (Audit & Judicial) The Central Board of Direct Taxes is a statutory authority functioning under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963. Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, The officials of the Board in their ex-officio capacity also 2019 passed in parliament function as a Division of the Ministry dealing with matters relating to levy and collection of direct taxes. 25 Nov' 19 Functions and Organisation: axation Laws Its functions include formulation of policies, dealing with (Amendment) Bill natters relating to levy and collection of direct taxes, and Tpassed in both the supervision of the functioning of the entire Income Tax houses. Department. CBDT also proposes legislative changes in Highlights of the direct tax enactments and changes in rates and structure of Ordinance and the Bill taxation in tune with the policies of the Government. Currently, domestic Historical Background of C.B.D.T. companies with annual The Central Board of Revenue as the apex body of the turnover of up to Rs 400 Department, charged with the administration of taxes, came crore pay income tax at the rate of 25%. For other domestic into existence as a result of the Central Board of Revenue companies, the tax rate is 30%. The Bill provides domestic

Lok Sabha passed Special Protection Group Amendment Bill. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 35 NEWS BITES ECONOMY companies with an option to pay tax at the rate of 22%, first Indian firm to hit the Rs.10 lakh crore market valuation provided they do not claim certain deductions under the mark. Income Tax Act. About Forbes List: The Bill provides an option to new domestic manufacturing Forbes is an American business magazine. Published bi- companies to pay income tax at the rate of 15%, provided weekly, it features original articles on finance, industry, they do not claim certain deductions. These new domestic investing, and marketing topics. Forbes also reports on manufacturing companies must be set up and registered related subjects such as technology, communications, after September 30, 2019, and start manufacturing before science, politics, and law. Its headquarters is located in April 1, 2023. Jersey City, New Jersey. A company can opt the new tax rates in the financial year The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, 2019-20 (i.e. assessment year 2020-21) or in any other including of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400), of financial year in the future. Once a company exercises this the America’s Wealthiest Celebrities, of the world's top option, the chosen provision will apply for all subsequent companies (the Forbes Global 2000), 30 Under 30 and years. The World's Billionaires. The motto of Forbes magazine is Key Issues and Analysis "The Capitalist Tool". Its chair and editor-in-chief is Steve In 2017-18, 29% of the 8.4 lakh companies paid tax at Forbes, and its CEO is Mike Federle. an effective rate higher than 25%. The Bill allows these Top 5 in the list: companies a lower statutory tax rate option of 25.17%. ## The list was topped by Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff These companies contributed 69% of the total income tax Bezos with a net worth of $113 billion paid by all companies in 2017-18. ## Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ranked second with a In case of the manufacturing sector, the effective tax rate net worth of $107.4 billion after deductions was 28% in 2017-18. This is much higher than the 17.16% statutory tax rate option provided under ## Bernard Arnault & family Chairman and CEO, LVMH the Bill for new domestic manufacturing companies. Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton ranked third with a net worth of $107.2 billion The Ministry of Finance has estimated the revenue impact of new tax rates and other measures under the Ordinance ## CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren (includes exemptions to capital gains of Buffett stands fourth with a net worth certain investors from increased surcharge of $86.9 billion rates) at Rs 1.45 lakh crore. This could ## CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg increase the fiscal deficit for the year 2019- was ranked fifth with a net worth of 20 from 3.3% of GDP to 4% of GDP. $74.9 billion Mukesh Ambani, the 9th richest ADB approves $206 million loans person in the world 01 Dec' 19 to develop water supply, sewerage ith a net infrastructure in Tamil Nadu w o r t h 02 Dec' 19 of USD W sian Development Bank (ADB), a regional 60 billion, Reliance Industries chief development bank has signed $206 million loan Mukesh Ambani Aagreement with Government of India (GoI) to has been ranked the develop water supply, sewerage infrastructure in 5 cities 9th richest person (Ambur,Tiruchirappalli, Tiruppur, Madurai and Vellore) globally, according of Tamil Nadu (TN) and also enhances capacities of urban to 'The Real-Time Billionaires List' of Forbes, that was local bodies (ULBs) for improved service delivery. topped by Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Highlights: Ambani made it to the daily list of the top 10 richest people i. It was the 2nd project loan for the ADB-assisted in the world because of the increase in the share price of $500 million multi-tranche financing for TN Urban his flagship firm Reliance Industries. Also, he became the Flagship Investment Program, granted in earlier

36 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Researchers discovered a massive black hole in the Milky Way. ECONOMY September 2018, that will develop climate-resilient repo rate at 4.90 per cent and the marginal standing facility water supply, sewerage, and drainage infrastructure in rate and Bank Rate at 5.40 per cent. at least 10 cities in Tamil Nadu. The first project under The real GDP growth for 2019-20 has been revised the program amounting to $169 million targeting downwards from 6.1 per cent in the October policy to 5.0 the cities of Chennai, Coimbatore, Rajapalayam, per cent. Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, and Vellore is currently under implementation. Interacting with Media, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the decisions are in consonance with the objective of ii. Sewage collection & treatment will be done in 4 cities achieving the medium-term target for consumer price index (Ambur, Tiruchirappalli, Tiruppur, and Vellore) by inflation of 4 per cent while supporting growth. installing sewage treatment plants, pumping stations. Water supply systems improvement will be achieved About RBI: in 2 cities (Madurai and Tiruppur) through 1,260 km The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 of new distribution lines that linked to nearly 190,000 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of households with metered water supply. India Act, 1934. iii. The agreement was signed by Mr. Sameer Kumar The Central Office of the Reserve Bank was initially Khare, Additional Secretary (Fund Bank and ADB) established in Calcutta but was permanently moved to of the Department of Economic Affairs in India’s Mumbai in 1937. The Central Office is where the Governor Ministry of Finance and Mr. Kenichi Yokoyama, ADB sits and where policies are formulated. Country Director for India. Though originally privately owned, since nationalisation in About ADB: 1949, the Reserve Bank is fully owned by the Government ## It,s Motto is “Fighting Poverty in Asia and the Pacific”. of India. ## It was Formed on 19 December, 1966. Repo Rate: ## It Headquarters in Manila, Philippines. Repo rate is the rate at which the central bank of a country (Reserve Bank of India in case of India) lends money to # # Membership - 68 countries commercial banks in the event of any shortfall of funds. ## Recently in September 2019, ADB’s president Repo rate is used by monetary authorities to control Takehiko Nakao has announced his resignation which inflation. will be effective from January 16, 2020 Description: In the event of inflation, central banks increase About Tamil Nadu: repo rate as this acts as a disincentive for banks to borrow Capital- Chennai. from the central bank. This ultimately reduces the money supply in the economy and thus helps in Chief minister- Edappadi K. Palaniswami. arresting inflation. Governor- Banwarilal Purohit. The central bank takes the contrary position in the event of a fall in inflationary Reserve Bank keeps repo rate pressures. Repo and reverse repo rates form unchanged at 5.15 % 05 Dec' 19 a part of the liquidity adjustment facility. he Reserve 7 December: GST Stakeholder Bank of India Feedback Diwas 08 Dec' 19 T(RBI) in its fifth bi-monthly he central and Monetary Policy has state authorities kept the policy repo organised GST rate unchanged at T (Goods and Services 5.15 per cent. Tax) Stakeholder The six-member Feedback Diwas on 7 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by Governor December 2019. The Shaktikanta Das unanimously voted for a status quo policy. aim of organizing this The reverse credit policy has also maintained the reverse event was to get an

Neha Dixit was awarded the 2019 International Press Freedom Award. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 37 NEWS BITES ECONOMY on-the-spot response and suggestion to the new system for Highlights filing GST Returns to be introduced from next fiscal year. As the census is The new return form will be made mandatory from 1 April being conducted 2020. The programme was organised on the new system for digitally, the filing returns across 125 cities to get on-the-spot response Ministry of Statistics and suggestion. and Programme About GST Stakeholder Feedback Diwas I m p l e m e n t a t i o n As per Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs conducting the (CBIC) about 7,500 trade associations/stakeholders census has tied participated in the programme. Besides them a large up with CSC number of taxpayers, all prominent chambers of commerce e-governance services for the 7th census. Currently the and industry, compliance managers and tax practitioners census is being held in Delhi. Delhi is the 26th place where also participated. the census is launched. The process is long and will take minimum of three months to complete the census in Delhi The participants were encouraged to upload GST returns region alone. Already the census is on in 20 states and 5 (ANX-1 and 2) and give feedback in regard to ease of union territories. compliance, deficiencies, improvements and uploading. There was overwhelming response from GST stakeholders Initially the economic census process will take minimum and several useful suggestions were received. of 2 years to complete. With digital processes implemented in the census, it is being completed in less than 6 months The focus was on assessing ease of compliance and according to the Ministry. Around 1.5 lakh trained uploading of these new returns so that taxpayers as well enumerators have been employed in the census. They will as traders do not face any difficulty when returns are made visit 35 crore households and establishments to carry out legally mandatory. the census. Background: Economic Census Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman directed The Indian Economic Census is counting entrepreneurial CGST (Centre Goods and Services Tax) and SGST units in the country. It involves both agricultural and non- (State Goods and Services Tax) authorities to organise a agricultural activities. It provides information such as nationwide interaction with stakeholders in order to get a number of persons employed, number of establishments, first-hand feedback on new GST returns that are proposed type of ownership, source of finance, etc. The information to be rolled out from next fiscal year (April 2020). provided by the census is used to plan and assess The finance minister then on November 16, held a meet contribution of various sectors towards GDP of the country. with select taxpayers, Chartered Accountants and tax Indian Economic Census practitioners on the same subject. Later, during first National Conference on GST (held on 25 November), In 1976, Government of India launched a plan scheme Revenue Secretary had also urged states called Economic Census and Surveys. In 1977 Central GST authorities to hold similar stakeholder Statistical Organisation conducted First economic census in consultations in their jurisdictions as well collaboration with the Directorate of Economics & Statistics as to all GST stakeholders to actively (DES) in the States/Union Territories. So participated in these feedback sessions in far 6 census have been conducted in the their nearest CGST or SGST Office cross years 1977, 1980, 1990, 1998, 2005, 2013. the country. The economic census 1980 and 1990 were integrated with population census. 7th Economic Census: First time World Economic Forum Report: India digital 14 Dec' 19 slips to rank 112 in Gender Gap he Seventh Economic Census is being conducted 17 Dec' 19 nationwide through Common Service Centres T(CSC) and is expected to be completed by March ecently, the World Economic Forum released its 2020. This is the first time the census is being conducted report according to which India ranked 112th digitally. Rin terms of gender gap. The report said that the

38 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Assam imposed a complete ban on gutka and pan masala. ECONOMY India was ranked in bottom-five in terms of survival and through NEFT system which are initiated online (internet economic participation. banking and/ or mobile apps of the banks). Highlights: India Key Points: ## India was in 108th position in 2018. Its performance ## Through this move, the RBI has joined an elite club weakened in the year 2019 according to the report. of countries having payment systems which enable India’s performance was lagging in three out of four round-the-clock fund transfer and settlement of any metrics used for ranking the countries. India slipped to value. 150th rank in health and survival, 149th in economic ## Benefit to Customers: Customers can now transfer participation, 112th in educational attainment. money through NEFT without paying any charges any India improved to 18th place in terms of political time of the day whereas banks charge a fee for fund empowerment. transfer through cheques and Demand Draft (DD). ## The report also said that opportunities for women in Background: India is very low. India was ranked below countries like ## The NEFT system, introduced in 2005, has seen Bangladesh (50th), Indonesia (85th), Brazil (92nd), exponential growth in recent years reflecting its Nepal (101st), Sri Lanka (102nd), China (106th). popularity as well as increasing customer acceptance. ## The World Economic Forum published its first Despite such growth, many banks continued to levy report in 2006. Since then performance of India has the maximum permissible charges to their customers. deteriorated. In 2006, India was ranked at 98th place. ## It was desirable that the benefits accruing on account Opportunities for women in the country is 35.4%. Sex of increasing volume of transactions are passed on to ratio of India was low as compared to other countries the customers so as to incentivise greater use of the (91 girls for every 100 boys). electronic payment system in place of cumbersome Highlights: World paper-based mechanism like cheques/DDs. Iceland was the topmost gender-neutral country. Next to About National Electronic Fund Transfer: Iceland, other Nordic Countries like Norway, Finland and National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) is a nation- Sweden were the top performers. At the top 10, countries wide payment system facilitating one-to-one funds transfer. like Nicaragua (5th), New Zealand (6th), Ireland (7th), Under this Scheme, individuals, firms and corporates can Spain (8th), Rwanda (9th) and Germany (10th). United electronically transfer funds from any bank branch to States continued to decline falling to 53rd any individual, firm or corporate having an account with place. any other bank branch in the country participating in the Though there are several hinderance for Scheme. the situation to get improved, role model NEFT is different from Real Time Gross Settlement effect will start to have impact in terms of (RTGS). RTGS can be explained as a system where leadership. For instance, eight out of top there is continuous and real-time settlement of fund- 10 countries had high political empowerment with greater transfers, individually on a transaction by transaction participation from women. basis. Now National Electronic Fund NEFT settlements happen in batches, so there might Transfer (NEFT) 24×7 17 Dec' 19 be a slight delay for the actual transfer to take place RTGS transactions, on the other hand, happen in real rom 16 time. Dec,2019 the There is no limit – either minimum or maximum – on the Reserve Bank F amount of funds that could be transferred using NEFT. of India (RBI) has However, the maximum amount per transaction is limited operationalised round- to 50,000/- for cash-based remittances within India and the-clock (24×7) also for remittances to Nepal under the availability of the Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility Scheme. National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT). The minimum amount to be remitted through RTGS is 2,00,000/- with no upper The RBI has also asked banks not to levy any charges or maximum ceiling. from savings bank account holders for funds transfers done

Constitution Day was observed on 26 November. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 39 NEWS BITES SPORTS Burning Topics of the Month

WADA Executive Wasim Jaffer becomes 13th South Asian Games Committee bans Russia the first Indian Cricketer held in Nepal from Olympics and World to play 150 Ranji Championships Matches & Many More...

Lakshya Sen wins Scottish Open title Lakshya Sen is now scheduled to play at the Syed Modi International Super 300 tournament in Lucknow, which 25 Nov' 19 starts from November 26. ndian shuttler Background: He was born into a badminton family. His Lakshya Sen father is DK Sen, an Indian badminton coach and his brother Iwon the men’s is Chirag Sen, who is also an international badminton player. singles final at the In February 2017, Lakshya Sen became the Scottish Open at world no. 1 in BWF World Junior rankings. Glasgow, Scotland He had participated in the 2018 Summer on November 24, Youth Olympics and won the silver medal 2019. This is his in the boys’ singles. fourth title within the span of three months. Steve Smith become the fastest man to Lakshya Sen beat Brazil's Ygor Coelho in three sets of 18- score 7,000 30 Nov' 19 21, 21-18, 21-19 to win the acclaimed Scottish Open title. The total match duration was 56 minutes. teve Smith on Saturday Sen has now won four titles out of the five tournaments that became the he participated in since September 2019- Scottish Open, S fastest man to score SaarLorLux Open, Dutch Open and Belgian International. 7,000 Test runs, He had lost in the second round of the Irish Open. shattering a record Lakshya in Scottish Open that had stood since Lakshya Sen had begun his campaign at the Scottish Open 1946, while moving with a win over Austria's Luka Wraber in straight sets. He past Donald Bradman then went on to defeat India’s Kiran George to reach the to become Australia's 11th highest scorer. quarterfinals. The 30-year-old took a single off Muhammad Musa during In the quarterfinals, Sen pulled off another straight-set win the second Test against Pakistan in Adelaide to reach the over world no. 6 Brian Yang to face-off against France's milestone and take possession of a record held for 73 years Christo Popov in the semifinals. by English great Wally Hammond. During the men’s singles final, though Lakshya was lagging Hammond reached the mark in 131 innings, while Smith, behind in the opening game, he came back with greater who played his first Test nine years ago, made the grade in momentum to seal off the match with a win. The win will his 126th. assist Lakshya to break into the top-40 in the BWF rankings. India's Virender Sehwag is the third fastest in 134 He has become the fourth Indian to win the Scottish Open innings. title. The others include Pullela Gopichand (1999), Arvind Fewest inns to 7000 Test runs: 126 - Steve Smith, 131 - Bhatt (2004) and Anand Pawar who won it twice in 2010 Walter Hammond, 134 - Virender Sehwag, 136 - Sachin as well as 2012. Tendulkar

40 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Ramesh Pokhriyal launched Kartavya Portal. SPORTS Smith also passed the legendary Bradman's 6,996 Test runs. 3 months and 26 days. With this, he has become the It took Smith 70 Tests to do so, while Bradman needed only youngest Indian ever to cross 2600 ratings and the 52. 2nd youngest in the world (youngest to ever reach the 2600-rating mark is John Burke of US (United The 30-year-old's heroics at the Ashes in England this States),who reached 2601 ratings in September 2015 year saw him widely labelled the best since Bradman, when he was 14 years and 2 months old). considered Test cricket's greatest ever, when he scored a mammoth 774 runs in just seven innings. ii. Praggnanandhaa drew his 9th and final round with Sahaj Grover of India in the final round of the He had the opportunity to pass both Bradman and Hammond competition. India’s top seed Aravindh Chithambaram in the first Test against Pakistan in Brisbane, but fell for just came 3rd with 7 points. four in a rare failure. iii. This is Praggnanandhaa third tournament victory In an insight into Smith's determination to be the best, in the year 2019. Already, he had won the Xtracon Smith said after missing out in Brisbane that he punishes Open 2019 in Denmark in July 2019 & World Youth himself when the runs do not flow. championships 2019 in Mumbai in October 2019. "I always punish myself when I get no runs, just like I iv. RB Ramesh was the long-time coach of Praggnanandhaa. reward myself when I score runs with a chocolate bar at the end of the night, if I get a hundred," he said. Chess: "So yeah, if I get no runs, I always like to have a run or go Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a to the gym or do something just to give myself a bit of a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. punishment." The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga Smith still has 10 other Australian players above him in sometime before the 7th century. total Test runs scored. The United Kingdom: Greg Chappell (7,110) is his next target, but The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he has a mountain to climb to reach Ricky commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK or U.K.) Ponting, who amassed 13,378 runs in his or Britain, is a sovereign country located 168 Tests. off the north­western coast of the European India’s Praggnanandhaa won London mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north­eastern Chess Classic 2019 08 Dec' 19 part of the island of Ireland, and many ndian young smaller islands. g r a n d m a s t e r, WADA Executive Committee bans R a m e s h b a b u I Russia from Olympics and World P r a g g n a n a n d h a a (14) was crowned Championships 09 Dec' 19 the winner of the London chess classic ADA’s (World Anti-Doping Agency) Executive 2019 in the FIDE Committee has banned Russia from the Open category with WOlympics and World Championships for 4 years. 7.5 points from 9 Russia has been banned, after its capital Moscow trying to rounds & shared the title with Anton Smirnov of Australia, manipulate laboratory data by deleting and planting fake who also scored 7.5 points. The tournament, organized by evidence to help them in their drug test. The WADA has the World Chess Federation (FIDE), was held at Olympia first commissioned a report after finding evidence on mass London in London, United Kingdom (UK) from 29 doping in Russian athletics in the year 2015 and banned November 2019. the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) which was reinstated in the year 2018. Key Points: Key Points: i. Praggnanandhaa has also crossed the ELO rating (a method for calculating the relative skill levels of i. Russia has been banned from 2020 Summer Olympics players) of 2600 to reach 2601 at the age of 14 years, to be held in Tokyo, Japan, 2022 Winter Olympics in

India ranked 5th in the Global Climate Risk Index. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 41 NEWS BITES SPORTS Beijing, China, and Major International Competition 145 and 136 matches like 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Youth Olympic respectively. Jaffer Games, Paralympics, World Championships and other played his 150th games subject to the Anti-Doping Code. Similar to the Ranji Game for case of Winter Olympics 2018 held in PyeongChang, Vidarbha against South Korea Andhra Pradesh ii. In the Winter Olympics 2018, 168 Russian Athletes (AP) the match was participated as ‘Olympic Athletes from Russia’. held in Devineni Russians who have not been incriminated in Russia’s Venkata Ramana State-sponsored doping scheme will be allowed to Praneetha Ground, Northern side of ACA-KDCA (Andhra participate in the Tokyo and Beijing games to be held Cricket Association–Krishna District Cricket Association) in 2020. Ground in AP. iii. The country will also be banned from hosting Key Points: matches in the UEFA (Union of European Football ## Jaffer has played 253 First-Class games with a score Associations) Euro Football Championships and to of 19,147 runs and an average of 51.19, he has scored host any major championships during the four year 57 hundred’s, 88 fifties and with a high score of 314 ban which extends to include the 2032 Olympics. runs. iv. The Russian Government Officials and Representatives ## He has represented India in 31 test matches between have also been banned from attending major events or 2000-2008 with a score of 1944 runs including 5 from serving as the board members of any organization hundred’s and 11 fifties, and a high score of 212 in a that has signed the anti-doping code. match played against West Indies at St. John’s. About WADA: ## He has also played 2 ODI (One Day International) for The World Anti-Doping Agency is a foundation initiated India. by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada About Ranji Trophy: to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs ## The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket in sports. The agency's key activities include scientific championship played in India between multiple teams research, education, development of anti-doping capacities, representing regional and state cricket associations. and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code, whose The competition currently consists of 38 teams, with provisions are enforced by the UNESCO International all 29 states in India and two of the seven union Convention against Doping in Sport. It was set up on 10 territories having at least one representation. November 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 2002, the organization's headquarters have been located in Montreal, ## The competition is named after the first Indian cricketer Quebec, Canada. who played international cricket, Ranjitsinhji, who was also known as 'Ranji'. About Russia: ## The competition was launched in following a meeting Capital- Moscow in July 1934, with the first fixtures taking place in President- Vladimir Putin 1934–35. The trophy was donated by Ranji Prime Minister- Dmitry Medvedev ## The current Ranji Trophy championship is held by Vidarbha, which won against Wasim Jaffer becomes the first Indian Saurashtra by 78 runs in the final match Cricketer to play 150 Ranji Matches of the 2018–19 season held at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur. 09 Dec' 19

asim Jaffer, (41) from Mumbai, Maharashtra 13th South Asian Games held in and former Indian Cricketer becomes the first Nepal 11 Dec' 19 Indian to play 150 Ranji Matches. Jaffer is W he 13th edition of the South Asian Games (SAG), only 853 runs away from completing 20,000 runs in 150 matches, followed by Devendra Bundela, Madhya Pradesh officially known as XIII South Asian Games held and Amol Muzumdar, Maharashtra who have played in Tin Kathmandu and Pokhara in Nepal. These were organized by the South Asia Olympic Council (SAOC).

42 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Madhya Pradesh approved Rs.156 crore for development of Omkareshwar. SPORTS India topped the India won the gold medal in the women’s football game medal tally winning after defeating Nepal for 2-0. Both the goals from the a total of 311 medals Indian side was scored by MG Baladevi. Maldives won the comprising 173 gold, bronze medal in the women’s football game. 93 silver, and 45 Vikas, Pinki win gold as India finish boxing campaign bronze medals. India with 16 medals was followed by Nepal and Sri Lanka India’s Vikas Krishan Yadav (69kg) and Pinki Rani Jangra in the second and (51kg) both from Haryana, won gold medals each in the third rank respectively. Men and women’s boxing events respectively. With this the Indian boxing team won a total of 16 medals. Game highlights: Mascot: Blackbuck (Krishnashar), is the official mascot Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total medal for the 13th South Asian Games. 1 India 173 93 45 311 Participants: A total of 7 nations namely India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Srilanka 2 Nepal 51 60 95 206 participated in the South Asian Games. 3 Sri Lanka 40 83 128 251 Medal record by India: India’s 311 medals surpassed About Nepal: the medal count of 309, it obtained in the previous(12th) edition of the South Asian games held in Guwahati(Assam) Capital- Kathmandu. and Shillong(Meghalaya) in 2016. Currency- Nepalese rupee. It is also to be noted that India has topped the medal tally President- Bidhya Devi Bhandari. of every South Asian Games since its inception in 1984. Prime Minister- Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli. Indian men, women’s kho kho teams won gold medals in South Asian Games: Mirabai Chanu bags Gold in 6th The Indian men and women’s kho kho teams won gold Qatar International Cup 20 Dec' 19 medals after defeating Bangladesh and Nepal respectively at the 13th South Asian Games. In the men’s team India’s ormer world Deepak Madhav was the top scorer. c h a m p i o n , weightlifter Runners: In the men’s Kho kho finals, Bangladesh F Saikhom Mirabai emerged as runners while in the women’s kho kho finals, Chanu won the Nepal emerged as runners. women's 49kg Amalraj, Sutirtha win TT singles titles in South Asian category gold medal Games: to open India's i. Men’s TT winner: Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj account at the 6th (Tamil Nadu) defeated India’s Harmeet Desai(Gujarat) Qatar International to win the Men’s singles title in the Table Tennis(TT) Cup in Doha. event. Anthony won the gold medal while Harmeet Chanu bagged gold with an effort of 194kg in the Olympic settled with silver medal. qualifying event, with the points which will come in handy ii. Women’s TT winner: In the women’s singles TT when the final rankings for Tokyo 2020 cut are done. The match, India’s Sutirtha Mukherjee (West Bengal) won 24-year-old Manipuri lifted 83kg in snatch gold medal by defeating India’s Ayhika Mukherjee and 111kg in clean and jerk to finish on top who settled with Silver medal of the podium. Indian women’s football team clinches third successive However, it was a performance way below SAG gold, beats Nepal 2-0 her personal best of 201 kg.

Ganga has become one of 10 cleanest rivers in the world. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 43 NEWS BITES SCIENCE Burning Topics of the Month

PSLV-C47 / Cartosat-3 Indian scientists identify a Trakea: A Unique bar- Mission successfully protein that helps regulate coding software launched blood sugar levels

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Indian scientists identify a protein Diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease are often linked with each other. that helps in regulating blood sugar SCGN is found in lower quantities in the brains of levels 22 Nov' 19 Alzheimer's patients. The Researchers said that SCGN cientists at the would soon become a diagnostic marker, and one should CSIR-Centre check its potential in diabetes management. Sfor Cellular The Centre for Cellular and Molecular and Molecular Biology or CCMB is an Indian Biology (CCMB) biotechnology research establishment in Hyderabad have located in Hyderabad that operates under demonstrated the the aegis of the Council of Scientific and role of a protein Industrial Research. secretagogin (SCGN) in increasing insulin action in obesity-induced diabetes. PSLV-C47 / Cartosat-3 Mission They show that SCGN binds to insulin and protects it from successfully launched 27 Nov' 19 various stresses, increases its stability and adds to its action. SRO has It said various kinds of cellular stresses can result in loss s u c c e s s f u l l y of structure and function of insulin, ultimately leading to launched its third- diabetes. I generation earth- At present, the processes regulating insulin synthesis, imaging satellite maturation, secretion and signalling in diabetes were not into space from the completely understood. Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota Yogendra Sharma from CCMB and his colleagues Anand in Andhra Pradesh. Sharma, Radhika Khandelwal and Amrutha Chidananda have demonstrated the role of a protein secretagogin Key Points: (SCGN) in increasing insulin action in obesity-induced The launch will enhance India's ability in high-resolution diabetes. imaging and also reinforce India as a global launch The scientists have shown injection of SCGN (found at destination for small satellites using its workhorse rocket lower levels in diabetic patients) in obese diabetic mice Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. clears excess insulin from circulation and reduces fat mass. Besides the CARTOSAT 3 satellite, the PSLV C-47 rocket According to CCMB, SCGN treated animals also had carried 13 nano satellites from the US, roped in through the lower levels of harmful new commercial arm New Space India. LDL-cholesterol and lower lipid accumulation in liver “This would have the most advanced spatial resolution cells. These findings were published in the latest issue of capability in our observation satellites,” an official the journal iScience. associated with the launch had told ET earlier.

44 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Rajnath Singh flagged off massive campaign against single-use plastic. SCIENCE The Cartosat 3 follows similar launches in an earlier series This solution will also provide an easy accessible platform deployed for cartography (map-making applications), that will cater to different stakeholders such as food infrastructure planning, coastal land use and regulation, businesses, hoteliers, caterers, individuals etc and will road-network monitoring and more importantly, change facilitate food donations in any part of country. detection in bringing out geographical and man-made About FSSAI: features. The mission life of these satellites were five years. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is an According to the ISRO 2018-19 annual report, the autonomous body established under the Ministry of Health CARTOSAT 3 is a 3-axis agile satellite with a spatial & Family Welfare, Government of India. The FSSAI has resolution parameter of 0.25 m, an advancement from the been established under the Food Safety and Standards previous series, which had the parameter at less than 1 m. Act, 2006 which is a consolidating statute ISRO: related to food safety and regulation in India. FSSAI is responsible for protecting The Indian Space Research Organisation is and promoting public health through the the space agency of the Government of India regulation and supervision of food safety. headquartered in the city of Bengaluru. Trakea: A Unique bar-coding FSSAI, Nasscom Foundation partners software 14 Dec' 19 to develop app to prevent food wastage 13 Dec' 19 he Haryana Police Department has adopted a unique barcoding software. The software is used to ensure ood regulator that 1000s of digital forensic reports are stored safe FSSAI (Food T and secure. It offers a foolproof security to the samples FSafety and collected from the crime scene. Standards Authority Conventional Forensic Management of India) and Nasscom Foundation, a trade In conventional methods, the crime exhibits like parcels or association of Indian samples are labeled with details like FIR number, names IT and Business and addresses of victim, medical officers and accused. The Process Outsourcing industry, have signed a Memorandum of crime exhibits include documents, DNA samples, serology, Understanding (MoU) to jointly build a technology platform toxicology or biology examinations, lie detections, etc. to prevent food wastage and encouraging food donation by These exhibits are easy to track and trace as they are stored developing an app for the purpose. The collaboration is a on FIR number and are available to be tracked virtually by significant step in the direction of leveraging technology for anyone. solutions of social problems. About the Software Key Highlights: The Software features two stages of bar coding to maintain FSSAI and Nasscom (National Association of Software the secrecy of the samples. The samples and reports are and Services Companies) Foundation will develop a sent through biometrically authorized chain. The cases are common 24×7 helpline number and a mobile application allocated to the biotechnology experts through automated ‘Food Donation in India’ to donate food to the needy. The case allocation. Therefore, the experts will not know about helpline number will connect donors with surplus edibles the details of the case or the names associated with case. to food distribution organisations. Similarly, the police department or the other officials associated with the case will not know about the details of This platform will help in facilitating registration of surplus the professional performing the examination. food distribution organisations. Initially, the network of 81 such organizations across India, known as Indian Food Benefits Sharing Alliance (IFSA) will be a part of the platform. The software is android based and has been prepared in Significance: an application format. Therefore, usage becomes simple. It can be well integrated The collaboration would provide a recognition to with the judicial system and doing so will organisations involved in surplus food distribution and help reduce time lags. Above all, the system would help in reducing the wastage of food in country helps in reducing malpractices greatly. through food donation. Karnataka conducted a Human Library event in Mysuru. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 45 NEWS BITES MISCELLANEOUS Burning Topics of the Month

Angela Merkel became the Toni-Ann Singh crowned ‘World Habitat Award’ to most-powerful women of Miss World 2019 Odisha 2019

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‘World Habitat Award’ to Odisha Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission (OLHM)- JAGA is a society under the Housing & Urban Development 11 Dec' 19 Department, Government of Odisha. ecently, Odisha has won the 'World Habitat Award' The slum land titling mission was being executed in for its ambitious initiative- Jaga Mission. It aims collaboration with Tata Trusts and Norman Foster Rat transforming the slums into liveable habitat with Foundation. all necessary civic infrastructure and services at par with Odisha government rolled out this first of its kind project the better off areas within the same urban local body and to on May 7, 2018. continuously improve the standard of the infrastructure and services and access to livelihood opportunities. This mission was also awarded the 'India Geospatial Excellence Award' for technological innovation in World Habitat Award transforming the lives of urban poor. This award is given by World Habitat, in partnership with India Geospatial Excellence Award United Nations Habitat, every year, in recognition of innovative, outstanding, and revolutionary ideas, projects, This award is given by GeoSmart India and programmes from across the world in the field of which is an interactive platform that housing. demonstrates the collective and shared vision of the Indian geospatial community United Nations Habitat or United Nations Human and is the most prominent stakeholder event Settlements Programme of the Indian geospatial ecosystem. It is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially Greta Thunberg named TIME’s 2019 and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the Person of the Year 13 Dec' 19 goal of providing adequate shelter for all. he Swedish It was established in 1978 as an outcome of the first UN teenager Greta Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban T h u n b e r g , Development (Habitat I) held in Vancouver, Canada, in T who became voice of 1976. a generation facing UN-Habitat is headquartered at the United Nations Office climate change at Nairobi, Kenya. emergency was named World Habitat as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the It is an international not-for-profit organisation/foundation Year. The magazine announced 16-year old Thunberg as its established in the United Kingdom. choice among other 2019 finalists, which included The Hong It works internationally to help bring the best housing to Kong Protesters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President the people who need it the most. Donald Trump, and anonymous whistleblower whose memo on Jaga Mission Trump’s dealings with Ukraine triggered impeachment inquiry.

46 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Japan to invest Rs.13,000 crore to North Eastern state project of India. MISCELLANEOUS Others honoured by TIME for year 2019: Other Winners: Athlete of the Year: US Women’s Soccer Team Every year Forbes’ magazine annually compiles a list Guardians of the Year: the US Public Servants of influential women leaders from around the world in politics, business and entertainment. Entertainer of the Year: Singer Lizzo Top 5: Business Person of the Year: Disney CEO Bob Iger In this year’s list, Angela Merkel was followed by Christine About Greta Thunberg Lagarde, president of European Central Bank (ECB) and She is a Swedish environmental activist on climate has earlier served as MD of International Monetary Fund change whose campaigning movement, which became (IMF). known as “Fridays for Future,” prompted millions Christine rose to the second spot in the list after standing at of people in about 150 countries “to act on behalf of number 22 last year on same list. the planet. Thunberg is known for her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, and assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to stood at number 3 as the highest-ranking and most powerful address what she describes as the climate crisis. She had female elected official in American political history. been nominated for a Nobel peace prize, recognised for Ursula Von Der Leyen, President of European Commission her mobilisation of students in her ‘Fridays for Future’ stood at number No. 4 weekly school strikes. And Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors stood at number 5. Time magazine Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, too, found Time is an American weekly news magazine and news a spot on 2019 Forbes’ list. She was ranked 34, ahead website published in New York City. It was founded in of Queen Elizabeth II, who is at number 40, and Ivanka 1923 and for many years it was run by its influential co- Trump, who stood at number 42. founder Henry Luce. A European edition (Time Europe, Swedish teen environmentalist Greta Thunberg, who was formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published in London recently named Time’s Person of the Year, stood at 100th and also covers the Middle East, Africa, spot on 2019 Forbes’ list. and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. Forbes’ magazine The South Pacific edition, which covers Forbes is an American business magazine. Published bi- Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific weekly, it features original articles on finance, industry, Islands, is based in Sydney. investing, and marketing topics. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, Angela Merkel became the most- science, politics, and law. Its headquarters is located powerful women of 2019 14 Dec' 19 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the national business e r m a n magazine category include Fortune and Chancellor Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Forbes has GA n g e l a international editions in Asia and Europe. Merkel has topped the Forbes’ 2019 edition Toni-Ann Singh crowned Miss World of 100 World’s Most 2019 16 Dec' 19 Powerful Women for the ninth consecutive amaica’s Toni- year. She was joined Ann Singh was in top spots by fellow prominent female political leaders. crowned as Miss The 65-year-old German leader has made 14 appearances in J World 2019 at a list’s 16-year history of Forbes magazine which releases a beauty pageant held wide-ranging list intended to celebrate 100 most influential in London, UK. She females. She was praised for standing up to US President won the coveted Miss Donald Trump and for allowing over a million Syrian World title for the year refugees into Germany. 2019 after beating her contenders, Ophely Mezino from

India successfully test fired Prithvi II missile. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 47 NEWS BITES MISCELLANEOUS France and Suman Rao from India. She received her crown reinforcing the importance of a ‘Ganga-centric’ approach in from Mexico’s Vanessa Ponce de Leon, the winner of Miss all departments of the concerned states as well as relevant World 2018. The event was hosted by British television Central Ministries. personality Piers Morgan, who was also the head judge of The National Ganga Council, also known as the National the event. Council for Rejuvenation, Protection, and Management of Key Highlights: River Ganga was set up in 2016. It replaced the National ## France’s Ophely Mezino was adjudged first runners- River Ganga Basin Authority (NRGBA). up. India was represented at the annual beauty pageant Key Points: by Suman Rao India. She was declared second runners- ## The 'Namami Gange' should holistically evolve to up (3rd) while. 'Arth Ganga' i.e. a sustainable development model ## Suman Rao, who is from Rajasthan, had earlier won with a focus on economic activities related to Femina Miss India World 2019 title in June. She is a Ganga. Chartered Accountant student hailing from Rajasthan, # was crowned Miss India World 2019 in June this year. # Setting up of a digital dashboard where data from villages and urban bodies to be monitored on a daily ## India had won the last Miss World title was in 2017, basis by NITI Ayog and Ministry of Jal Shakti. when Manushi Chillar represented the country. This # 2017 win had come in 17 years after Bollywood actor # The need to increase the efficiency of district Ganga Priyanka Chopra had bagged the title in year 2000. committees for effective implementation of the Namami Gange Programme. About Toni-Ann Singh: ## The potential of religious and adventure tourism in the The 23-year-old Toni-Ann Singh is born to Indo-Caribbean Ganga river basin area to be explored in future. As the father Bradshaw Singh and African-Caribbean mother income generated from tourism activities would help Jahrine Bailey. She is a student of women’s studies and to generate sustainable income for cleaning the Ganga. psychology at US’s Florida State University and aspires to be a medical doctor. She has previously served as National Ganga Council the president of Caribbean students association at the The National Ganga Council is chaired by Prime Minister. university. She is the fourth Jamaican woman to win the coveted beauty pageant. The Caribbean island nation has The National Ganga Council is formed under the previously won Miss World titles in 1963, 1976 and 1993 Environment (Protection) Act (EPA),1986. (when Lisa Hanna had represented). It has been given overall responsibility for the About Jamaica: superintendence of pollution prevention and rejuvenation of River Ganga Basin, including Ganga and its Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. tributaries. Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG) acts as an Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and implementation arm of the National Ganga Council. Hispaniola). NMCG was established in the year 2011 as a registered It's capital is Kingston. society. It's currency is Jamaican dollar. It has a two-tier management structure and comprises of Governing Council and Executive Committee. First Meeting of National Ganga The aims and objectives of NMCG are: Council 16 Dec' 19 To ensure effective control of pollution and rejuvenation ecently, the of the river Ganga by adopting a river basin approach to Prime Minister promote inter-sectoral coordination for Rchaired the first comprehensive planning and management. meeting of the National Ganga Council at To maintain minimum ecological flows in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. the river Ganga with the aim of ensuring water quality and environmentally The first meeting of the sustainable development. Council was aimed at

48 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Government to establish first maritime museum at Lothal. Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019

The Act seeks to amend the definition of illegal immigrant ## A person of Indian origin who is a resident of any for Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian immigrants country outside undivided India. from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who have ## A person who is married to an Indian citizen and is been living in India without documentation. They will be ordinarily resident for 7 years before applying for granted fast track Indian citizenship in six years. registration. At the first hearing on petitions challenging the CAA, the Supreme Court declined to stay the contentious law but Citizenship by Naturalization asked the Centre to file its reply against the petitions that ## Under The Citizenship Act, 1955, one of the say it violates the Constitution. The petitioners say the Bill requirements for citizenship by naturalisation is that discriminates against Muslims and violates the right to the applicant must have resided in India during the last equality enshrined in the Constitution. 12 months, as well as for 11 of the previous 14 years. Consequently, Protests have broken out across India, a ## The amendment relaxes the second requirement from few of them violent, against the Citizenship (Amendment) 11 years to 5 years as a specific condition for applicants Act 2019. In response, the government had turned off the belonging to the specified six religions, and the above internet and issued Section 144 in some areas, that prohibits mentioned three countries. a gathering of four or more people in a place. Citizenship by incorporation of Background Territory ## In India, citizenship is regulated by the Citizenship ## If any new territory becomes a part of Government of Act, 1955. The Act specifies that citizenship may India shall specifies the person who among the people be acquired in India through five methods – by of the territory shall be the citizen of India. Such persons birth in India, by descent, through registration, by become the citizen of India from the notified date. naturalisation (extended residence in India), and by ## However, illegal migrants cannot become Indian incorporation of territory into India. citizens. Under the Act, an illegal migrant is a foreigner Citizenship by Birth who: # Any person born in India on or after 26 January 1950, but # Enters the country without valid travel documents like prior to the commencement of the 1986 Act on 1 July 1987, a passport and visa, or enters with valid documents, is a citizen of India by birth. A person born in India on or but stays beyond the permitted time period. after 1 July 1987 but before 3 December 2004 is a citizen ## In 2015 and 2016, the government exempted specified of India if one of parents was a citizen of India at the time groups of illegal migrants from provisions of the 1946 of the birth. and 1920 Acts. They were Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Citizenship by Descent Bangladesh and Pakistan, who reached India on or A person born outside India on or after January 26, 1950 is before December 31, 2014. a citizen of India by descent if his/her father was a citizen ## The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was of India by birth. introduced in Parliament to amend the Citizenship Act, Citizenship by Registration 1955, so that these people could be made eligible for citizenship of India. Citizenship can also be acquired by registration. Some # of the mandatory rules are: # The Bill was lapsed with the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha. Subsequently, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, # # A person of Indian origin who has been a resident of 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha in December 2019. India for 7 years before applying for registration.

Lok Sabha passed the 2019 Sanskrit Central Universities Bill. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 49 Key Features The National Register of Citizens or NRC that we saw in ## Citizenship on the basis of religion: The Act amends Assam targeted illegal immigrants. A person had to prove the Citizenship Act, 1955, and for the first time, will that either they, or their ancestors were in Assam on or grant citizenship on the basis of religion to non- before March 24, 1971. NRC, which may be extended to Muslim communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh the rest of the country, is not based on religion unlike CAB. and Pakistan, who entered India on or before December Arguments in Favour 31, 2014. ## The government has clarified that Pakistan, ## Non - Muslim Communities Included: Hindu, Sikh, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are Islamic republics Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian. This implies that where Muslims are in majority hence they cannot be migrants, who identify themselves with any group or treated as persecuted minorities. It has assured that community other than those mentioned here, from the government will examine the application from any the above mentioned countries won't be eligible for other community on a case to case basis. citizenship. ## This Act will come as a big boon to all those people ## Exceptions: The provisions on citizenship for illegal who have been the victims of Partition and the migrants will not apply to two categories - states subsequent conversion of the three countries into protected by the ‘Inner Line’, and areas covered under theocratic Islamic republics. the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. ## The constitutions of Pakistan, Afghanistan and ## Inner Line Permit (ILP): This is a special permit that Bangladesh provide for a specific state religion. As a citizens from other parts of India require to enter a state result, many persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, protected by the ILP regime. Without an ILP granted Jain, Parsi and Christian communities have faced by the state government, an Indian from another state persecution on grounds of religion in those countries. cannot visit a state that is under the ILP regime. ## Many such persons have fled to India to seek shelter ## CAB won't apply to areas under the sixth schedule of and continued to stay in India even if their travel the Constitution – which deals with autonomous tribal- documents have expired or they have incomplete or dominated regions in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and no documents. Mizoram. The bill will also not apply to states that have the inner-line permit regime (Arunachal Pradesh, Arguments in Against Nagaland and Mizoram). ## The fundamental criticism of the Act is that it Why Assam is protesting against specifically targets Muslims. Critics argue that it is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution (which the act? guarantees the right to equality) and the principle of Among the states in the Northeast, the outrage against secularism. CAA has been the most intense in Assam. While a part of ## India has several other refugees that include Tamils these states have been exempted from the legislation, CAA from Sri Lanka and Hindu Rohingya from Myanmar. overs a large part of Assam. The protests stem from the fear They are not covered under the Act. that illegal Bengali Hindu migrants from Bangladesh, if ## Despite exemption granted to some regions in the regularised under CAA, will threaten cultural and linguistic Northeastern states, the prospect of citizenship for identities of the state. massive numbers of illegal Bangladeshi migrants has Is NRC and CAA are same? triggered deep anxieties in the states. The National Register of Citizens, 1951 is a register ## It will be difficult for the government to differentiate prepared after the conduct of the Census of 1951 in respect between illegal migrants and those persecuted. of each village, showing the houses or holdings in a serial What will be the government’s order and indicating against each house or holding the number and names of persons staying therein. move after protests? The NRC was published only once in 1951. The petitions against the Act are listed for hearing on January 22. Many experts say that the rules can be The NRC of 1951 and the Electoral Roll of 1971 (up to challenged on legal grounds, the government will wait till midnight of 24 March 1971) are together called Legacy January 22. Since the Supreme Court did not clamp a stay Data. on CAA, the home ministry could notify rules about who Persons and their descendants whose names appeared in all can apply for citizenship, notify the authority and state these documents are certified as Indian citizens. minimum requirements and cut-off date.

50 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Ravi Mittal is appointed as the new Information and Broadcasting Secretary. IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP

Donald Trump, now the former American President trial is carried out in the Senate, with the Chief Justice of became the third President in American history to be the Supreme Court presiding if the impeachment involves impeached with a majority of Representatives voting the President. in favour of the two articles of impeachment drawn up by House Democrats. The first was Andrew Johnson in Why Trump was impeached? 1868 after a showdown with Congress over his dismissal Both articles of impeachment are related to the Ukraine of the Secretary of War and the second was Bill Clinton scandal, which means the House did not consider the in 1998-99 over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Both Robert Mueller report on Russia’s alleged interference in were acquitted in the Senate. The articles, essentially the 2016 election and Mr. Trump’s handling of the issue. the charges against the President, accuse him of abuse of The first article, on abuse of power, is about Mr. Trump’s power and obstruction of Congress, both related to the conduct in the Ukraine scandal. The Democrats alleged Ukraine scandal. that the President abused his power by putting pressure How the House members voted? on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch a probe against Joe Biden, the former Vice-President and a It was certain before the vote that the impeachment Democratic presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential resolution would go through the House of Representatives, election, and his son Hunter Biden. The President is accused which is controlled by the Democrats. In the 435-member of withholding both a White House meeting and military House, the Democrats have 233 members, while aid to Ukraine. The article states that Mr. Trump “corruptly the Republicans have 197. The House voted on the solicited the government of Ukraine to publicly announce impeachment articles largely along party lines. The first investigations” into Mr. Biden and into “a discredited article got 230 votes. The tally on the second article was theory” that Ukraine interfered with the 2016 presidential 229-198. Two Democrats — Reps. Jeff Van Drew of election. New Jersey and Collin Peterson of Minnesota, both from The second article, on obstruction of Congress, alleges districts that backed Mr. Trump in the 2016 presidential that Mr. Trump obstructed the Congressional impeachment election — voted against both articles. Rep. Jared Golden inquiry by refusing to cooperate with it. The President, of Maine, whose district was also carried by Mr. Trump who has denied all charges, urged several witnesses not to in 2016, voted for the first article but against the second. testify before the House panel. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D) of Hawaii voted “present” on both votes. Is Trump out of office? Articles of impeachment No. Impeachment by the House doesn’t remove an American President from office immediately. In the United States, the articles of impeachment are Impeachment means a majority of House Representatives drafted by the House of Representatives for cases have approved the articles raised against the President, involving federal officials. Once drafted, a supermajority setting the stage for his trial in the Senate. After the trial, of the United States Senate is required to hold a trial based the Senators will vote on his conviction. A President can on the articles. be convicted and removed from office with the support If a person of a high office is convicted of having of at least two-thirds of the Senate (that is 67 Senators committed "Treason, Bribery, or other High Crime in the 100-member U.S. Senate). In the current Senate, or Misdemeanor," then they will be removed upon the Republicans have a majority with 53 seats, while the impeachment in accordance with the law. An impeachment Democrats have 47 (including two Independents). This

Salman Khan appointed as brand ambassador of PepsiCo India. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 51 means, for Mr. Trump to be convicted, the Democrats or allegations. Upon passage, the defendant has been have to make sure that none of their Senators crosses "impeached". the party line and at least 20 Republicans do that and ## Third, the Senate tries the accused. In the case of the vote for the conviction — an impossibility given the impeachment of a president, the Chief Justice of the partisan mood in the Capitol. So far, the Republicans United States presides over the proceedings. For the have rejected the charges against the President. So it’s impeachment of any other official, the Constitution almost certain that Mr. Trump will be acquitted in the is silent on who shall preside, suggesting that this Senate. role falls to the Senate's usual presiding officer, Then why the impeachment? the President of the Senate, who is also the Vice President of the United States. Conviction in the ## Democrats say it is their constitutional duty to start Senate requires a two-thirds supermajority vote of the impeachment proceedings as the President’s those present. The result of conviction is removal actions threaten the Constitution. The underlying from office. message is that as the next election is less than a year away, the voters can decide whether they want to Constitutional provisions re-elect a President who has been impeached by the There are several provisions in the United States House. Constitution relating to impeachment: ## It’s also about bad legacy for Mr. Trump. He’s gone down in history as the third President to be impeached Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 provides: in the U.S. — the first was Andrew Johnson in 1868 The House of Representatives shall have the sole Power of after a showdown with Congress over his dismissal of Impeachment. the Secretary of War and the second was Bill Clinton in 1998-99 over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Both Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6 and were acquitted in the Senate. 7 provide: ## Former President Richard Nixon, embroiled in the The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. Watergate scandal, resigned in 1974 before the When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or impeachment proceedings could begin. Affirmation. When the President of the United States is ## So, the impeachment has put Mr. Trump in rare tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall company. It is not clear how the impeachment would be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds of the impact the 2020 election. Members present. Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further Procedure of Impeachment in than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold America and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States; but the Party convicted shall nevertheless At the federal level, the impeachment process is a three- be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and step procedure. Punishment, according to Law. ## First, the Congress investigates. This investigation typically begins in the House Judiciary Committee, Article II, Section 2 provides: but may begin elsewhere. For example, the Nixon The President shall have power to grant reprieves and impeachment inquiry began in the Senate Judiciary pardons for offenses against the United States, except in Committee. The facts that led to impeachment of cases of impeachment. Bill Clinton were first discovered in the course of an investigation by Independent Counsel Kenneth Article II, Section 4 provides: Starr. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of ## Second, the House of Representatives must pass, by a the United States, shall be removed from Office on simple majority of those present and voting, articles of Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or impeachment, which constitute the formal allegation other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

52 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 SBI reduced MCLR by 10bps. International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra ## The Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, was passed Modi has approved establishment of a unified authority for by Parliament in May, 2005 and came into effect in regulating all financial services in International Financial 2006. Services Centres (IFSCs) in India through International ## SEZs addresses the issue of multiplicity of controls Financial Srvices Centres Authority Bill, 2019. and clearances, have world-class infrastructure, and a International Financial Service stable fiscal regime. Centre (IFSC) ## SEZs focus on economic growth supported by quality An IFSC caters to customers outside the jurisdiction of the infrastructure complemented by an attractive fiscal domestic economy. Such centres deal with flows of finance, package, both at the Centre and the State level, with financial products and services across borders. the minimum possible regulations. An expert panel headed by former World Bank economist ## GIFT (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City), located Percy Mistry submitted a report on making Mumbai an in Gandhinagar is India’s first International Financial international financial centre in 2007. However, the global Services Centre. financial crisis in 2008 made countries including India cautious about rapidly opening up their financial sectors. Background Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, had announced in the Union ## The bill was introduced in the lower house by Union Budget 2015 that India's first IFSC's would be set up in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on November GIFT City in Gujarat. 25, 2019. It was passed amid various objections by the opposition. In India, IFSC has been defined in SEZ Act, 2005. As per the act: ## The bill was earlier withdrawn from the Rajya Sabha, as a finance bill is usually only tabled in the Lok Sabha. ## The Central Government may approve the setting up of The bill had received approval from the Union Cabinet an International Financial Service Centre in a Special in February 2019. Economic Zone and may prescribe the requirements for setting up and operation of such centre. ## Currently, the banking, capital markets and insurance sectors in IFSC are regulated by multiple regulators, # # The Central Government shall approve only one i.e. RBI, SEBI and IRDAI. International Financial Services Centre in a Special Economic Zone. ## The dynamic nature of business in the IFSCs necessitates a high degree of inter-regulatory ## Since India has many restrictions on the financial coordination. It also requires regular clarifications sector, such as partial capital account convertibility, and frequent amendments in the existing regulations high SLR (statutory liquidity ratio) requirements and governing financial activities in IFSCs. foreign investment restrictions, an SEZ can serve as a testing ground for financial sector reforms before they ## The development of financial services and products are rolled out in the entire nation. in IFSCs would require focussed and dedicated Special Economic Zone (SEZ) regulatory interventions. Hence, a need for a unified financial regulator for IFSCs in India to provide world ## In India, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy class regulatory environment to financial market was announced in April 2000. participants.

Climate emergency has been named as the 2019 Word of the Year. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 53 ## IFSCs are set-up to bring back the financial services ## Processes and procedures of the Authority: The and transactions that are currently carried out in processes and procedures to be followed by the offshore financial centres by Indian corporate entities Authority shall be governed in accordance with the and overseas branches or subsidiaries of financial provisions of the respective Acts of Parliament of institutions (FIs) to India. India applicable to such financial products, services or institutions, as the case may be. ## In order to ensure this, the business and regulatory environment must be comparable to other leading ## Grants by the Central Government: The Central international financial centres in the world like Govt. may, after due appropriation made by Parliament London and Singapore. Currently, the banking, capital by law in this behalf, make to the Authority grants of markets and insurance sectors in IFSCs are regulated such sums of money as the Central Government may by multiple regulators like the RBI, SEBI and IRDAI think fit for being utilized for the purposes of the respectively. Authority. ## For IFSCs to attain its objectives there is a need for ## Transactions in foreign currency: The transactions inter-regulatory coordination. The establishment of of financial services in the IFSCs shall be done in a unified financial regulator for IFSCs will result in the foreign currency as specified by the Authority in providing a world-class regulatory environment to consultation with the Central Govt. market participants from the ease of doing business ## Performance Review Committee: The Authority will perspective. constitute a Performance Review Committee to review Taking into account the regulatory requirements of IFSCs its functioning. The Review Committee will consist of and the provisions of the existing laws of financial sector, at least two members of the Authority. It will review the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of whether: Finance (MoF) has prepared a draft Bill to set up a separate (i) the Authority has adhered to the provisions of the unified regulator for IFSCs. Following are the main features applicable laws while exercising powers or performing of the Bill: functions, Salient Features of the Authority (ii) the regulations made by the Authority promote transparency and best practices of governance, and ## Management of the Authority: The Authority shall consist of a Chairperson, one Member each to (iii) the Authority is managing risks to its functioning be nominated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a reasonable manner. The Committee must submit the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the a report of its findings to the Authority at least once Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority every year. of India (IRDAI) and the Pension Fund Regulatory The International Financial Services Centres Authority and Development Authority (PFRDA), two members Bill, 2019 has also proposed setting up of the International nominated by the Central Government and two other Financial Services Centres Authority Fund. whole-time or full-time or part-time members. International Financial Services ## Functions of the Authority: The Authority shall regulate all such financial services, financial Centres Authority Fund products and Financial Institutions in an IFSC. It ## All grants, fees, charges and sums received by the may also recommend to the Central Government authority from different sources, as decided by the such other financial products, financial services and centre, will be credited to the fund. financial institutions which may be permitted in the ## The fund will be utilized to give salaries, allowances IFSCs. and other remuneration to the members and employees ## Powers of the Authority: All powers exercisable by of the Authority and for other expenses incurred by the the respective financial sector regulatory (viz. RBI, Authority. SEBI, IRDAI, and PFRDA etc.) under the respective ## The centre may provide grants to the authority for Acts shall be solely exercised by the Authority in the the regulation of IFSCs. Besides this, all transactions IFSCs in so far as the regulation of financial products, of financial services in the IFSCs will be done in financial services and FIs that are permitted inthe the foreign currency specified by the Authority, in IFSC are concerned. consultation with the central government.

54 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 GS Lakshmi has become the first woman match referee to oversee a mens ODI. COP25 Climate Summit

The 25th edition of the Conference of the Parties to the Agenda for COP25 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or COP25 held from December 2 to December The prime objective of the conference is to complete the 13 in Madrid (Spain). rule-book to the 2015 Paris Agreement that will become effective in 2020 to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol Originally, the Summit was scheduled to be held at Chile (comes to an end in 2020). (South America) but violent mass movement across the country made Chile reluctant from hosting the event. The issues like the creation of new carbon markets, emission reduction targets, country’s individual targets, etc. The location of this conference is rotated every year in remained unresolved during COP24 at Katowice (Poland) different regions of the world. This year it was the turn of 2019. Thus the rulebook under the Paris Agreement could South America to host the event. not be finalized. The previous UN climate conference, COP24 in Katowice Poland, focused on completing work on the Background Paris Agreement Work Programme, a set of decisions The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan in 1997 meant to operationalize the treaty. Parties adopted a and entered into force in 2005. Climate Package, which includes decisions on nearly all of the issues mandated as part of the Paris Work Kyoto Protocol Programme. ## The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement Why all the UN attention on the linked to the UNFCCC, which commits its parties climate by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets. There is more evidence of the impacts of climate change, ## It recognized that developed countries are principally especially in extreme weather events, and these impacts are responsible for the current high levels of GHG taking a greater toll. The science shows that emissions are emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than still going up, not down. 150 years of industrial activity. According to the 2019 WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, # levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere # The detailed rules for the implementation of the have reached another new record high. This continuing Protocol were adopted at COP-7 in Marrakesh, in long-term trend means that future generations will be 2001 and are referred to as the Marrakesh Accords. confronted with increasingly severe impacts of climate ## Kyoto Protocol Phase-1 (2005-12) gave the target of change, including rising temperatures, more extreme cutting down emissions by 5%. weather, water stress, sea level rise and disruption to marine and land ecosystems. ## Phase- 2 (2013-20) gave the target of reducing emissions by at least 18% by the industrialized WMO countries. It stands for World Meteorological Office, the UN agency ## The summit also discussed the functioning of for international cooperation in areas such as weather international emissions trading systems, compensation forecasting, observing changes in the climate, and studying for poor countries to deal with rising sea levels and water resources. other consequences of climate change.

Assam launched anti Depredation Squads of Forest Department. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 55 ## It considered the Annual Emissions Gap Report, ## The buyers of carbon credits can show the emission produced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reductions as their own and use them to meet their own and a series of reports from the Intergovernmental emission reduction targets. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). ## A carbon market already existed under the 1997 Kyoto ## Both the reports summarise that the goal of Protocol but several countries walked out of the Kyoto keeping average temperatures within 1.5°C from Protocol and thus the demand for carbon credits had pre-industrial times is “on the brink of becoming waned. impossible.'' As the overall emissions are still ## As a result, developing countries like India, China increasing worldwide. and Brazil had accumulated huge amounts of carbon ## The processes and methods of reporting information credits. These credits are now in danger of getting about climate change have fixed during the summit. redundant. Specifically, the developing countries have tried to ensure that there are greater appreciation and WHO's involvement in COP25 recognition of the issue of loss and damage due to As the UN's Health Agency, WHO has a strong involvement climate change. in the UNFCCC process? At COP23 in Bonn in 2018, WHO ## There is a demand to institute a mechanism to and the COP23 Presidency launched a Special Initiative on compensate countries that suffer major losses due Climate change and Health in Small Island Developing to climate change-induced events like cyclones or States. At COP24 in Poland in 2019, WHO and the global floods. health community delivered the COP24 Special Report on Health and Climate Change. ## It puts into efforts for committing to a long-term action At COP25, WHO has presented the Health Commitments plan to fight climate change. from governments and financial actors that have come out ## So far only 73 countries, most of them small emitters, of the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in New York. Over have committed themselves to achieve net-zero 73 national governments and 87 sub-national governments, emissions by 2050. together covering more than 1 billion people, have signed into the commitment, thereby vowing to provide their India’s Agenda citizens with clean air. Financial commitments to scale up ## India has unlikely announced any enhanced targets finance for climate-resilient health systems and air quality, during the summit. as well as the creation of the Clean Air Fund, are beginning to provide the necessary financial backing to make these ## India’s current efforts are already much more compared commitments a reality. to even rich and developed countries. Thus, India has WHO have also launched a new series of Climate & Health reiterated its stand for “Common but Differentiated Country Profiles at COP25, as well as a Health and Climate Responsibilities”. Change Global Survey Report, tracking the progress of key ## Developed countries are major contributors to climate health and climate change indicators for more than 100 change and they are doing proportionately less, governments. especially when it comes to providing finance and The global health community, together with WHO, have also technology to the less developed world. hold a Climate Change & Health Summit on the sidelines of Carbon Market COP25, bringing together a broad range of actors in the field to discuss the global state of climate and health. ## A carbon market allows countries, or industries, to earn carbon credits for emission reductions they make Conclusion in excess of what is required of them. Because the clock is ticking on climate change, the world ## These credits can be traded to the highest bidder in cannot afford to waste more time, and a bold, decisive, exchange for money. ambitious way forward needs to be agreed.

56 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 OPEC countries to cut oil production. ETYMOLOGY WORD OF ENGLISH Concur (Verb) - UK ​ / DEFINITIONS -rr- formal a : something done or said that may serve as an example or 1. to agree or have the same opinion. rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind a verdict that had no precedent The new report concurs with previous findings. b : the convention established by such a precedent or by 2. The board concurred that the editor should have full long practice control over editorial matters. c : a person or thing that serves as a model "I think you're absolutely right," concurred Piyush. ORIGIN : Late Middle English (also in the senses ‘collide’ OTHER DEFINITIONS and ‘act in combination’): from Latin concurrere ‘run together, 1. If two or more events concur, they happen at the same time. assemble in crowds’, from con- ‘together with’ + currere ‘to run’. 2. to agree or have the same opinion as someone else: Related forms He said the mayor should not be re-elected, and the con·cur·ring·ly, adverb voters concurred. pre·con·cur, verb (used without object), pre·con·curred, 3. to agree with someone or something: pre·con·cur·ring. concur with sb/sth- The new report concurs with un·con·curred, adjective previous findings. un·con·cur·ring, adjective concur that The board members concurred that the DERIVED FORMS offer should be accepted. concurringly (con' curringly) adverb PRONUNCIATION : Let us deal with the pronunciation Synonyms : agree, coincide with this magical word i.e., concur, so first of all break it into ANTONYMS : differ, disagree two parts i.e., con+ cur so ‘con’ sounds as ‘done’ or ‘ton’ with EXAMPLES OF CONCUR IN A SENTENCE more focus on the syllable ‘c’, while ‘cur’ sounds exactly like I have sought second opinions, which concur that it is the latter part of the word ‘occur’ this hence; con like ton and outrageous that the cost of these repairs has been set so high. cur like latter part of ‘occur’, hence becomes concur. Times, Sunday Times (2016) MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES Lord Judge delivered a concurring opinion. I concurred with the programme. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He concurred wholly that the heat and humidity were awful. I entirely concur in that view. The standing joint committee concurred with him. Forrest, Ray & Murie, Alan & Williams, Peter Home- More example sentences ownership - differentiation and fragmentation (1990)  ‘Furthermore, this is a case of general importance and The Master of the Rolls delivered a concurring judgment. it may well set a precedent.’ Times, Sunday Times (2015)  ‘Critics say that the judges should have let the 1963 FIRST KNOWN USE OF PERCOLATE precedent stand, even if it was bad.’ 15th century NEW AND TRICKY SUFFIX DESCRIPTION PART OF SPEECH MADE FROM EXAMPLES ATE doing something Verb Root Interrogate, prevaricate, mutate, ignite, expedite Origin of the word concur : The Latin word currere, meaning 2- Such is her burgeoning popularity Toomey is looking to “to run,” and its form cursus give us the roots curr and curs. employ more instructors to lead her highly personalized Words from the Latin currere have something to do with running. exercise classes. A current is the direction in which a river runs or flows. When two (How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New people concur, their ideas or opinions run together in agreement. York’s Latest Fitness Craze) A course is the path over which something moves or runs. 3- The other justices joined his opinion or concurred in Contemporary Examples part; none dissented. 1. Reminded of that revving motor down in Dixie, I have (Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, "How the U.S. Supreme to concur. Court's partisan gerrymandering non-decisions (A History of American Fun) affect Pa.," 18 June 2018)

Worlds first fully electric commercial aircraft was successfully tested in Canada. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 57 OUR PRESENCE BRANCH MOBILE NO.

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Rajaram is appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Ghana. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 59

DESIGNATION WHO'S WHO WHO’S WHO S.No. DESIGNATION NAME 1. Chairman, Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu 2. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla 3. Chairman of Niti Ayog Narendra D. Modi 4. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad 5. Leader of House in Lok Sabha Narendra D. Modi 6. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha - 7. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora 8. Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, Sushil Chandra 9. Director General, ITBP S S Deshwal 10. Chief Vigilance Commissioner Sharad Kumar 11. Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale 12. Comptroller & Auditor General of India Rajiv Mehrishi 13. Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre S. Somanath 14. Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India R. S Sharma 15. CBI Director Rishi Kumar Shukla 16. Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Nand Kumar Sai 17. Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi 18. Chairman, UPSC Arvind Saxena 19. Director General, National Investigation Agency Y.C. Modi 20. Chairman, UGC D. P. Singh 21. Chairman, Space Commission and ISRO K. Sivan 22. Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Sec. Deptt. of Atomic Energy K. N. Vyas 23. Chairman, SSC Braj Raj Sharma 24. Chairman,National Human Rights Commission Justice H.L. Dattu 25. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Vivek Joshi 26. Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes Pramod Chandra Mody 27. Chairman, Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India Subash Chandra Khuntia 28. Chairman, Securities & Exchange Board of India Ajay Tyagi 29. Chairperson, State Bank of India Rajnish Kumar 30. Chairman, LIC M. R. Kumar 31. India’s permanent representative in UNO Syed Akbaruddin 32. Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla 33. Chairperson of National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma 34. Chairman, 15th Finance Commission N. K. Singh 35. Chairman, Competition Commission of India Ashok Kumar Gupta 36. Chairperson,Central Board of Film Certification Prasoon Joshi 37. President, ASSOCHAM Balkrishan Goenka 38. Chairman, NASSCOM Keshav Murugesh 39. Chief of Army Staff Bipin Rawat 40. Chief, RAW Samant Goel 41. Children Film Society of India, CEO Prashant Pathrabe 42. Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre A.K. Mohanty 43. President, CII Vikram S. Kirloskar 44. President, FICCI Sandip Somany 45. Chairman of 21st Law Commission Dr. Justice BS Chauhan 46. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval 47. Chairperson, Prasar Bharati Dr. A. Surya Prakash 48. DG of National Testing Agency Vineet Joshi 49. Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar 50. Chairman, Indian Banks Association Rajnish Kumar Data as on 26th December, 2019

Fourth India Water Impact Summit was held in New Delhi. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 61 QUIZ TIME CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ Q.1. Which of the following statement/statements is/are (3) Only B and C (4) Only C and D correct? (5) Only A and D A. The Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Q.6. Which country’s film actor Isabelle Huppert was Taxes inaugurated the Web Portal for Exchange honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award in of Information on Income Tax Website in New the event of the International Film Festival of India Delhi. (IFFI) 2019 at Panaji in Goa? B. The Chairman of the Central Board of Direct (1) Russia (2) France Taxes is Rishi Kumar Shukla. (3) Saudi Arabia (4) Spain C. The portal would be useful for the domestic (5) South Africa financial institutions. Q.7. According to the Union Minister of Environment, D. The portal would help the foreign tax authorities Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar by and financial institutions to get information. how many percentage the Government is targeted E. The Central Board of Direct Taxes consists of a to reduce carbon emissions? Chairman and five Members. (1) 35% (2) 25% (3) 30% (1) Only A, B and C (2) Only A, C and D (4) 20% (5) 45% (3) Only B, C and E (4) Only C, D and E Q.8. Government has approved the setting up of six (5) Only A, D and E plastic parks in different parts of the country. Which Q.2. In which of the following country the Indian High of the following state is not selected to setting up of Commission will set up 12 hi-tech parks? plastic parks? (1) Srilanka (2) Nepal (3) Myanmar (1) Madhya Pradesh (2) Assam (4) Bangladesh (5) Bhutan (3) Jharkhand (4) Odisha Q.3. Recently, which of the following country’s (5) Uttar Pradesh President Desi Bouterse has been sentenced to 20 Q.9. How much fine has been proposed in e-cigarette years in prison over the execution of 15 political bill on the storage of e-cigarettes? opponents in 1982? (1) 50 Thousand (2) 1 Lakh (1) Sudan (2) Mauritania (3) Suriname (3) 25 Thousand (4) 2 Lakh (4) Nigeria (5) Ethiopia (5) 1.5 Lakh Q.4. Recently, in which of the following state a three- Q.10. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana -Urban aims to day Global Buddhist Congregation held in the address the housing needs of urban population of presence of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai country. CLSS covers the MIG (middle income Lama and Mahanayaka Thero from Sri Lanka? group) segment for first time? What is the full form (1) Himachal Pradesh (2) Goa of CLSS? (3) Maharashtra (4) Jammu and Kashmir (1) The Credit-locked Subsidy Services (5) Uttarakhand (2) The Customer-linked Subsidy Services Q.5. Which of the following statement/statements is/are (3) The Customer-locked Subsidy Services correct? (4) The Credit-linked Subsidy Services A. The Lok Sabha has passed the Chit Funds (5) The Credibility-linked Subsidy Services (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to amend the Chit Q.11. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen has won the Scottish Funds Act, 1980. Open men's single title. How many Indians have B. The prescribed ceiling of aggregate chit fund won the Scottish Open title previously? amount for individuals has been raised from (1) 3 (2) 2 (3) 4 one lakh rupees to three lakh rupees. (4) 1 (5) 5 C. In case of firms, the limit has been raised from 6 lakh to 18 lakh rupees. Q.12. The 17-year-old Manu Bhaker have clinched gold medal in the ISSF World Cup Finals? Where this D. Rajiv Maharishi is the Minister of State for event was held? Finance. (1) Peru (2) China (3) Chile (1) Only A, B and C (2) Only B, C and D (4) Japan (5) India

62 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 International Civil Aviation Day is observed on 7 December. CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.13. Recently, Rafael Nadal has won the Davis Cup (1) India (2) Thailand (3) Costa Rica title. It was his ______Davis Cup title. (4) Cyprus (5) Pakistan (1) Fifth (2) Fourth (3) Seventh Q.21. Soma Roy Burman is the ______Controller (4) Eighth (5) Sixth General of Accounts (CGA) of India. Q.14. Recently, which of the following state government (1) 7th (2) 15th (3) 24th has announced a relief package of 3,795 crore (4) 32nd (5) 21st rupees for farmers who suffered crop loss due to Q.22. Where is the UN Climate Change Conference COP unseasonal rains? 25 held? (1) Gujarat (2) Uttar Pradesh (1) Stockholm (2) Vienna (3) Davos (3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Maharashtra (4) Madrid (5) Austria (5) Bihar Q.23. Recently, Akkitham Namboodiri has won the Q.15. For how many years the Union Ministry of Jnanpith Award? This was the ______Home Affairs has extended ban on NDBF under Jnanpith Award. provisions of sub-section (1) of section 3 of (1) 51th (2) 52nd (3) 53rd Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967? (4) 54th (5) 55th (1) 3 years (2) 4 years (3) 5 years Q.24. Which state’s Chief Minister has stayed the Aarey (4) 6 years (5) 7 years Metro car-shed work and said no trees will be Q.16. The Rural Livelihoods Mission popularly known felled until further notice? as UMEED aims to reduce poverty in which union (1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Madhya Pradesh territory? (3) Maharashtra (4) Odisha (1) Andaman & Nicobar (5) Delhi (2) Ladakh Q.25. Saudi Aramco, world’s largest integrated oil and (3) Lakshadweep Gas Company, will float initial public offering (4) Jammu and Kashmir (IPO). Who is the President and CEO of Saudi (5) Daman and Diu Arabian Oil Company Saudi Aramco? Q.17. In which state the Shipping Ministry gave approval (1) Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi for the development of Loktak Inland Water ways (2) Kamal Bahamdan improvement project? (3) Asya Alashaikh (1) Mizoram (2) Nagaland (3) Manipur (4) Amr F. Zedan (4) Tripura (5) Arunachal Pradesh (5) Amin H. Nasser Q.18. Recently, the seventh edition of MITRA Q.26. Recently, India has announced India a line of credit SHAKTI military exercise aimed at enhancing of appx ______as financial assistance to Sri interoperability has held. It is conducted between Lanka. which two countries? (1) Rs. 4,450 crore (2) Rs. 3,230 crore (1) India and Sri Lanka (3) Rs. 7,854 crore (4) Rs. 800 crore (2) India and China (5) Rs. 650 crore (3) India and Bangladesh Q.27. With which Bank did BlackBuck partner to provide (4) India and France FASTags to truck owners free of cost? (5) India and Russia (1) PNB, ICICI Bank Q.19. Which Indian businessman has ranked among the (2) ICICI, Axis Bank top 10 of the Real-Time Billionaires List of Forbes (3) IDFC Bank, Yes Bank 2019? (4) HDFC Bank, Digibank (1) Gautam Adani (5) Dhanlaxmi Bank, City Union Bank (2) Lakshmi Mittal Q.28. How much loan the Asian Development Bank (3) N. R. Narayana Murthy (ADB) will provide for the Chennai- Kanyakumari (4) Ratan TATA Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in Tamil Nadu? (5) Mukesh Ambani (1) $238 million (2) $451 million Q.20. Which of the following country has been elected as (3) $672 million (4) $800 million a member of the World Heritage Committee? (5) $700 million

Cabinet approved the creation of Bharat Bond Exchange Traded Fund. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 63 QUIZ TIME CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.29. Who institutes the International Press Freedom Q.36. Recently, FICCI India Sports Awards 2019 were Award? presented at New Delhi to acknowledge and (1) Journalism Education Committee recognize contribution of sports persons and (2) Committee on Journalist Welfare various stakeholders who deliver excellent results during the year. Who among the following has got (3) Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award? (4) Committee to Protect Journalists (1) Vishwnathan Anand (2) Narain Karthikeyan (5) None of the above (3) Pankaj Advani (4) Deepa Malik Q.30. When is the Constitution Day observed in India? (5) Saurav Ganguly (1) 26 June (2) 26 December Q.37. Recently, which of the following Bill has been (3) 26 January (4) 26 November passed in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (5) 26 October that proposed harsh punishment for crimes against Q.31. Recently, Which of the following telecom women? company's chairman along with four directors (1) Asha Bill (2) Abha Bill (3) Drishti Bill have resigned from the company which is going (4) Disha Bill (5) Gargi Bill through the insolvency process because of loss of Q.38. Recently, around 73 countries have joined the Rs 30,142 crore for July-September? Climate Ambition Alliance (CAA) at the COP25 (1) Tata Communications in New York. Where will the COP26 in November (2) Bharti Airtel 2020 be held? (3) Reliance Communications (1) California, USA (2) Glasgow, UK (4) Idea (3) Paris, France (4) Tokyo, Japan (5) None of the above (5) New Delhi, India Q.32. Which of the following plant is Indian Oil Q.39. Recently, Rajya Sabha has passed the Constitution Corporation Limited going to set up in Panipat (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) to promote the use of environmentally friendly Bill. Which of the following tribe is included by products? this bill? (1) G ethanol plant (2) 2G ethanol plant (1) Parivara (2) Talwara (3) Siddi (3) 3G ethanol plant (4) 4G ethanol plant (4) Only 1& 2 (5) All of the above (5) 5G ethanol plant Q.40. With reference to the ‘Wholesale Price Index Q.33. The Economic Census is being conducted (WPI)’, consider the following statements: nationwide and first time conducted digitally. In A. It is released by the Ministry of Statistics and India how many times the economic Census had Programme Implementation. been conducted earlier? B. It covers the wholesale prices of goods only. (1) 7 Times (2) 6 Times (3) 5 Times C. It covers the average price of goods only. (4) 8 Times (5) 4 Times Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Q.34. Recently, the Reserve Bank has imposed a fine (1) Only A (2) Only B of Rs 5 lakh on prepaid payment instrument (3) Only A and B (4) Only A and C Oxigen Services for non-compliance of regulatory guidelines. This power of RBI is vested under (5) All of the above which Act? Q.41. With reference to the Atal Bhujal Yojana, consider (1) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2005 the following statements: (2) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2006 A. It has been launched for sustainable management of groundwater. (3) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 B. It is a central sector scheme fully funded by the (4) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2008 Government of India. (5) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2009 C. It is a central sector scheme funded by both the Q.35. Who among the following is named as Time Government of India and state governments. magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (1) Jeff Bezos (2) Narendra Modi (1) Only A (2) Only B (3) Mukesh Ambani (4) Jair Bolsonaro (3) Only A and B (4) Only A and C (5) Greta Thunberg (5) All of the above

64 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Harsimrat inaugurated Central Indias first Mega Food Park. CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.42. Mullaperiyar Dam, was recently in news. - consider only to Aadhar-authenticated bank accounts. How the following statements about that: much amount is provided in one instalment? A. Mullaperiyar Dam is located on the confluence (1) Rs.6000/- (2) Rs.4000/- (3) Rs.2000/- of the Mullayar and Periyar river. (4) Rs.1500/- (5) Rs.3000/- B. It is disputed between Karnataka and Kerala. Q.50. ISRO has successfully launched the CARTOSAT 3 C. Periyar river is an east-flowing river. satellite along with 13 nano satellites of which country? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (1) US (2) Srilanka (3) Nepal (1) Only A (2) Only B (4) Russia (5) Indonesia (3) Only A and B (4) Only A and C Q.51. Recently, which of the following country has been (5) Only B and C banned for 4 years by WADA’s (World Anti-Doping Q.43. Recently, the President of India Shri Ram Nath Agency) Executive Committee for manipulating Kovind presented the National Florence Nightingale laboratory data? Awards in New Delhi. It is related to which field? (1) Spain (2) Russia (3) Finland (1) Climate Change (2) Sports (4) Pakistan (5) Afghanistan (3) Literature (4) Nursing Services Q.52. Who among the following Indian Cricketer has (5) Child Development became the first Indian to play 150 Ranji Matches? Q.44. Who among the following has received the Right (1) Yuvraj Singh (2) Amit Mishra Livelihood Awards 2019, also known as the (3) Wasim Jaffer (4) Cheteshwar Pujara ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’? (5) Ashish Nehra (1) Davi Kopenawa (2) Greta Thunberg Q.53. Recently, which Country’s King Carl XVI Gustaf (3) Guo Jianmei (4) Aminatou Haidar and Queen Silvia has Sweden inaugurated Sarai (5) All of the above Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in Uttarakhand? Q.45. Recently, the United Nations Development (1) Scotland (2) Austria (3) Finland Programme (UNDP) released its report titled (4) England (5) Sweden “Human Development Report 2019. As per the Q.54. Recently, the Uttar Pradesh government has report what is the India’s rank? announced to set up how many fast track courts (1) 127th (2) 129th (3) 126th for the speedy disposal of sexual crimes against (4) 124th (5) 120th women and children? Q.46. Recently, Zozibini Tunzi has been crowned Miss (1) 212 fast track courts (2) 210 fast track courts Universe for the year 2019 beating more than 90 (3) 218 fast track courts (4) 228 fast track courts contestants. She belongs to which country? (5) 215 fast track courts (1) Sudan (2) USA (3) Ethiopia Q.55. Human Rights Day is celebrated on which date? (4) South Africa (5) Nigeria (1) December 7 (2) December 8 Q.47. According to the recent joint report of World Health (3) December 9 (4) December 10 Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund, (5) December 15 India has the 2nd highest number of children who Q.56. Which of the following city will host the 2023 are not vaccinated against measles. Who is in the Men’s Hockey World Cup? top of the list? (1) Jaipur (2) New Delhi (3) Gwalior (1) Nigeria (2) Pakistan (3) Philippines (4) Lucknow (5) Bhubaneswar (4) Indonesia (5) Libya Q.57. Which of the following bollywood actor has been Q.48. The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 introduced selected by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in Lok Sabha is inspired by which committee? as its brand ambassador? (1) Abhijit Sen Committee (1) Amitabh Bachchan (2) Akshay Kumar (2) Abid Hussain Committee (3) Salman Khan (4) Suniel Shetty (3) Ajit Kumar Committee (5) Shahrukh Khan (4) Athreya Committee Q.58. Which of the following country has topped the (5) B. N Srikrishna 2019 South Asian Games championship? Q.49. The Government of India has notified that now the (1) Nepal (2) Sri Lanka (3) India instalment of the PM-KISAN will be transferred (4) Pakistan (5) Indonesia

India ranked 73rd in the 2019 E-commerce Index. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 65 QUIZ TIME CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.59. Which country has recently recorded the first polio Q.68. Which state has become the first to have its own case in 27 years? water policy? (1) Vietnam (2) Singapore (3) Malaysia (1) Meghalaya (2) Goa (4) Indonesia (5) England (3) Chhattisgarh (4) Arunachal Pradesh Q.60. Who has been appointed as a Senior Security (5) Uttar Pradesh Advisor in the Home Ministry? Q.69. On which day the Central GST and (1) N. K Singh (2) Sylendra Babu State GST authorities have organized a (3) Walter Devaram (4) Sandeep Bharadwaj nationwide GST Stakeholder Feedback (5) K. Vijay Kumar Diwas on New GST Returns? Q.61. Ministry of Coal initiated the auction process of (1) 6th December (2) 7th December 27 coal mines. Who is the union minister of coal (3) 5th December (4) 8th December ministry? (5) 9th December (1) Pralhad Joshi Q.70. Recently, where have the 13th South Asian Games (2) Piyush Goel formally held? (3) Anurag Thakur (1) Kathmandu (2) Colombo (3) Dhaka (4) Ram Vilas Paswan (4) Bishkek (5) Odisha (5) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Q.71. In which Indian state the first Pashu Kisan credit Q.62. ______and Dell Technologies will cards are distributed to 101 animal farmers? launch a new education programme where they will (1) Gujarat (2) Punjab (3) Haryana train 4,000 Indian teachers in Artificial Technology. (4) Uttar Pradesh (5) Madhya Pradesh (1) UNESCO (2) UNISEF (3) WHO Q.72. Recently, OPEC and its allies has decided to reduce (4) Microsoft (5) World Bank oil production by how many barrels per day? Q.63. INDRA is a Joint tri military exercise between (1) 3 Lakh barrels (2) 4 Lakh barrels India and which country? (3) 5 Lakh barrels (4) 6 Lakh barrels (1) France (2) Russia (3) USA (5) 7 Lakh barrels (4) China (5) Myanmar Q.73. Recently, in which state the Union Minister for food Q.64. Who has won the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal has inaugurated title? Avantee mega Food Park? (1) Max Verstappen (2) Charles Leclerc (1) Rajasthan (2) Punjab (3) Valtteri Bottas (4) Lewis Hamilton (3) Gujarat (4) Jammu and Kashmir (5) None of the above (5) Madhya Pradesh Q.65. Which state government has launched a citizen Q.74. Who among the following has taken over as helpline No. 14400 for corruption-related the CEO of one of the world’s most cash-rich complaints? companies ALPHABET? (1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Andhra Pradesh (1) Bill Gates (3) Madhya Pradesh (4) Rajasthan (2) Satya Nadela (5) Karnataka (3) Abidali Neemuchwala Q.66. Suranga Bawadi has entered the World Monuments (4) Salil Parekh Watch List under “Ancient Water System of the (5) Sundar Pichai Deccan Plateau” of the World Monument Funds. It Q.75. Who among the following has won the Best Actress is situated in which state? Award at the 50th International Film Festival of India? (1) Maharashtra (2) Madhya Pradesh (1) Deepika Padukone (2) Anjali Patil (3) Kerala (4) Karnataka (3) Usha Jadhav (4) Nadezhda Markina (5) Andhra Pradesh (5) Anastasiia Pustovit Q.67. Willingdon Island is the largest artificial island in Q.76. Who among the following has topped the Real- India. It is situated in which state? Time Billionaires List of Forbes? (1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Odisha (1) Satya Nadela (2) Jeff Bezos (3) Kerala (4) Tamil Nadu (3) Mukesh Ambani (4) Mark Zuckerberg (5) Gujarat (5) Bill Gates

66 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Punjab partnered with WEF to promote electric mobility. CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.77. With which Country has India signed a (4) Airtel Payments Bank memorandum of understanding to enable the (5) Fino Payments Banks Maharashtra's Savitribai Phule Pune University to Q.86. Recently, RBI has approved the merger of 13 set up its campus in the country? District Cooperative Banks with state cooperative (1) UAE (2) Qatar (3) Dubai banks of which state? (4) Saudi Arabia (5) Cyprus (1) Kerala (2) Odisha (3) Karnataka Q.78. Which of the following has released the 2019 (4) Tamilnadu (5) Andhra Pradesh Emissions Gap Report? Q.87. Which is the first central government healthcare (1) World Environment Organization centre to have robotic surgery facility? (2) UN Environment Programme (1) Daya Memorial Hospital (3) Global Pollution Board (2) Indraprastha Apollo Hospital (4) Asian Global Warming Monitor (3) Safdarjung Hospital (5) None of above (4) Manipal Hospital Q.79. When was the Nagaland state formed which has (5) None of the above recently celebrated its foundation day? Q.88. Which organization has presented the Mother (1) 1 December 1962 (2) 1 December 1963 Teresa Memorial Award 2019 for social justice? (3) 1 December 1964 (4) 1 December 1965 (1) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (5) 1 December 1966 (2) Novo Nordisk Foundation Q.80. Where is the Military Exercise between India and (3) INGKA Foundation Sri Lanka Mitra Shakti 2019 held? (4) Wellcome Trust (1) Rajasthan (2) Visakhapatnam (5) Harmony Foundation (3) Gwalior (4) Pune Q.89. Who has become the first state in the country to get (5) Odisha the law on contract farming? Q.81. Recently, exercise HAND-IN-HAND 2019 held (1) Tamil Nadu (2) Rajasthan (3) Odisha between ______. (4) Uttar Pradesh (5) Madhya Pradesh (1) India, US (2) India, Russia Q.90. Which country has topped the E-commerce Index (3) India, China (4) India, Thailand 2019? (5) India, Srilanka (1) Scotland (2) Netherlands Q.82. Where will the third edition of Khelo India Youth (3) Switzerland (4) Singapore Games be held? (5) Finland (1) Lucknow (2) Guwahati (3) Pune Q.91. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (4) Mumbai (5) Gurugram has signed an MoU with the ______to offer Q.83. Recently, which State has mandated helmets for technical training programs to employees of pillion riders also? the government, nationals, and members of the (1) Uttarakhand (2) Telangana organization. (3) Uttar Pradesh (4) Karnataka (1) Cyprus Accountants and Auditors Association (5) Kerala (2) Saudi Arabia Accountants and Auditors Q.84. The Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Association will provide cover officially only for the ______. (3) Kuwait Accountants and Auditors Association (1) President Only (4) Abu Dabhi Accountants and Auditors Association (2) Prime Minister and former Prime Minister (5) None of the above (3) Prime Minister Only Q.92. Which of the following has organized the Startup (4) President, Vice President, Prime Minister India Global Venture Capital Summit? (5) President, Vice President (1) Department for Promotion of Industry and Q.85. Recently, Bharosa Saving Accounts is launched by Internal Trade which of the following Payments Banks? (2) Government of Goa (1) Jio Payments Banks (3) Government of Punjab (2) Aditya Birla Payments Banks (4) 1 & 2 (3) India Payments Banks (5) All of the above

Sundar Pichai has become CEO of Alphabet. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 67 QUIZ TIME CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.93. Who has taken charge as the Chief of Personnel of (1) Wireless Fisibility (2) Wireless Fiduciary the Indian Navy? (3) Wireless Fiscal (4) Wireless Fidelity (1) Vice Admiral R. Hari Kumar (5) Wireless Fireless (2) Vice Admiral Ravneet Singh Q.101. Finland elected Sanna Marin, the youngest-ever (3) Vice Admiral Karambir Singh Prime Minister. What is the capital of Finland? (4) Vice Admiral Pradeep Singh (1) Oslo (2) Kyiv (3) Bucharest (5) Vice Admiral Randheer Singh (4) Vienna (5) Helsinki Q.94. Who is elected as the President of the Asian Q.102. Recently, at least 62 migrants drown as boat sinks Development Bank (ADB)? off at the coast of Mauritania. What is the currency (1) Takehiko Nakao (2) Jin Liqun of Mauritania? (3) Tedros Adhanom (4) Masatsugu Asakawa (1) Naira (2) Ouguiya (3) Euro (5) None of them (4) Peso (5) Rand Q.95. Who is appointed as the Senior Security Advisor in Q.103. Which of the following national parks is included the Home Ministry? in UNESCO’s world heritage sites? (1) K. Vijay Kumar (1) Khangchendzonga National Park (2) S Raja Balan (2) Sri Venkateswara National Park (3) T V Karthick Subramaniyan (3) Sirohi National Park (4) Sandeep Kumar (4) Simlipal National Park (5) None of the above (5) Salim Ali National Park Q.96. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 seeks to Q.104. Recently, Consumer Affairs Minister has reported amend which of the following act? that Hallmarking for Gold jewellery and artefacts (1) The Citizenship Act, 1949 will be mandatory from 15th January 2021.Who is the Consumer Affairs Minister at present? (2) The Citizenship Act, 1955 (1) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (3) The Citizenship Act, 1956 (2) Prakash Javadeker (4) The Citizenship Act, 1945 (3) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (5) The Citizenship Act, 1957 (4) Ram Vilas Paswan Q.97. 799 Van Dhan Vikas Kendra benefiting 12 lakh tribals across the country by providing market access (5) Narendra Singh Tomar to their products is opened in how many states? Q.105. Which of the following bill is passed by Parliament (1) 20 states (2) 21 states (3) 22 states to set up a unified authority to regulate all financial services in India? (4) 23 states (5) 24 states (1) International Economic Services Centres Q.98. Recently, in Karnataka bypolls to 15 Assembly Authority Bill, 2019 constituencies have held. Who is the governer of Karnataka? (2) International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019 (1) B. D. Mishra (2) Vajubhai Vala (3) International Public Servants Authority Bill, 2019 (3) Phagu Chauhan (4) Jagdish Mukhi (4) International Financial Reorganisation Centres (5) Anusuiya Uikey Authority Bill, 2019 Q.99. Jalshakti Minister has informed in 4th India Water Impact Summit, 2019 in New Delhi that Ganga has (5) None of these become one of 10 cleanest rivers in the world. Who Q.106. Recently, Toni-Ann Singh was crowned as Miss is the Jalshakti Minister at present? World 2019 at a beauty pageant held in London, (1) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank UK. She belongs to which of the following country? (2) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (1) South Africa (2) Namibia (3) Jamaica (3) Prakash Javadeker (4) Mozambique (5) Peru (4) Anurag Thakur Q.107. Kailash Joshi, who has passed away recently, was the former Chief Minister of which state? (5) Narendra Singh Tomar (1) Uttarakhand (2) Madhya Pradesh Q.100. Recently, the Indian Railways has provided free WiFi at five thousand 500 stations across the (3) Uttar Pradesh (4) Rajasthan country. What is the full form of WiFi? (5) Maharashtra

68 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Ravneet Singh took charge as the Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy. CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.108. The World Economic Forum has recently (4) Army Sports Promotion Board announced the winners of 26th Annual Crystal (5) None of the above Award for the year 2020. Who among the following Q.116. How many communities will be provided Indian actresses has got the award for spreading citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) mental health awareness? Bill, 2019? (1) Priyanka Chopra (2) Alia Bhatt (1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (3) Deepika Padukone (4) Vidya Balan (4) 6 (5) 7 (5) Aushka Sharma Q.117. Who has been appointed as the new High Q.109. Which of the following nation has recently gained Commissioner of India to the Republic of Ghana? independence from Papua New Guinea? (1) Ahmed Yousif Mohamed (1) New Ireland (2) Kiriwina (3) Manus (2) E.J.C. Nwana (4) Buka (5) Bougainville (3) Sugandh Rajaram Q.110. Recently, Legislative elections in Jharkhand conducted. Who is the Governor of Jharkhand at (4) Rahul Kulshreshth present? (5) None of the above (1) Tamilisai Soundararajan Q.118. Sunil Chhetri, who has been recently appointed (2) Anusuiya Uikey brand ambassador of PUMA, plays which sports? (3) Najma Heptulla (1) Lawn Tennis (2) Badminton (3) Football (4) Draupadi Murmu (4) Hockey (5) Table Tennis (5) Baby Rani Maurya Q.119. Which Indian city has became the first city to Q.111. Who among the following has topped the Forbes’ have an online waste exchange for municipal solid 2019 edition of 100 World’s Most Powerful Women waste? for the ninth consecutive year? (1) Lucknow (2) Pune (3) Indore (1) Christine Lagarde (4) Bhopal (5) Chennai (2) Angela Merkel Q.120. Gollapudi Maruti Rao, who recently passed away, (3) Kristalina Georgieva was a famous personality of which field? (4) Greta Thunberg (1) Actor (2) Musician (3) Politician (5) Anshula Kant (4) Hockey Player (5) None of the above Q.112. The Seventh Economic Census is being conducted Q.121. Now the individuals will be able to transfer money nationwide and is expected to be completed by online any time as the Reserve Bank of India March 2020. When the first Indian Economic has allowed 24-hour National Electronic Funds Census was started? Transfer facility throughout all 365 days in a year. (1) 1975 (2) 1970 (3) 1980 What is the maximum limit of transferring money (4) 1977 (5) 1982 online? Q.113. Recently, who is named as the Business Person of (1) 1 Lakh (2) 2 Lakh (3) 2.5 Lakh the Year 2019 by TIME magazine? (4) 3 Lakh (5) 3.5 Lakh (1) Jeff Bezos (2) Mukesh Ambani Q.122. Recently, Reserve Bank has increased the (3) Tim Cook (4) Larry Page household income limits for borrowers of Non- (5) Bob Iger Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) from 1 lakh to Q.114. Recently, State Bank of India has announced a ______. reduced 1-year marginal cost-based lending rates by ______. (1) Rs. 1.20 lakh (2) Rs. 1.25 lakh (1) 5 bps (2) 7.5 bps (3) 10 bps (3) Rs. 1.50 lakh (4) Rs. 1.75 lakh (4) 15 bps (5) 8 bps (5) Rs. 2 lakh Q.115. Which of the following has won the 2019 FICCI Q.123. Who has been appointed as chief design consultant India Sports Awards? for TRIFED? (1) Railway Sports Promotion Board (1) Rohit Bal (2) JJ Valaya (2) IAF Sports Promotion Board (3) Neeta Lulla (4) Ritu Beri (3) Naval Sports Promotion Board (5) Arjun Munda

Masatsugu Asakawa elected as the President of ADB. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 69 QUIZ TIME CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.124. According to a recent report, which country has Q.133. How many POCSO courts for matters related to recorded the highest estimated number of cervical crimes against children will be set up by Uttar cancer deaths in 2018? Pradesh Government? (1) China (2) Russia (3) India (1) 94 (2) 84 (3) 34 (4) Mexico (5) Pakistan (4) 44 (5) 74 Q.125. Sarai Sewage Treatment Plant was inaugurated in Q.134. Which country has organized the 2019 NATO which state? Summit? (1) West Bengal (2) Kerala (3) Rajasthan (1) United States (2) United Kingdom (4) Haryana (5) Uttarakhand (3) France (4) India Q.126. International Civil Aviation Day is observed on (5) Spain which day? Q.135. Recently launched ‘Bharatiya Poshan Anthem’ has (1) December 5 (2) December 6 (3) December 7 been penned by which writer? (4) December 8 (5) December 10 (1) Shankar Mahadevan (2) Vishal Khurana Q.127. Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (3) Ehsaan Noorani (4) Prasoon Joshi has signed an agreement with which bank to create (5) Javed Akhtar Investor awareness in India? Q.136. Recently, Reliance Industries chief Mukesh (1) Union Bank (2) Axis Bank Ambani has been ranked the 9th richest person (3) HDFC (4) Bank of Baroda globally, according to 'The Real-Time Billionaires List' of Forbes. It is issued by ______. (5) SBI Bank (1) France Q.128. Which of the following country's President Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a (2) United Kingdom minimum-security lock-up for convicting in money (3) United States of America laundering and corruption? (4) Canada (1) Eretria (2) Rwanda (3) Sudan (5) Japan (4) Mauritania (5) Ethiopia Q.137. Recently, Asian Development Bank has approved Q.129. Recently, Foreign Minister of Indonesia Retno L. $206 million loans to develop water supply, P. Marsudi was on a two-day visit to India. Who is sewerage infrastructure in 5 cities of Tamil Nadu. the president of Indonesia? Where is the headquartes of Asian Development Bank? (1) Win Myint (2) Joko Widodo (1) Tokyo, Japan (2) Shanghai, China (3) Jair Bolsonaro (4) Shinzo Abe (3) Jakarta, Indonesia (4) New Delhi, India (5) Cyril Ramaphosa (5) Mandaluyong, Philippines Q.130. Recently, the Human Development Report 2019 by the United Nations Development Programme Q.138. WADA’s (World Anti-Doping Agency) Executive was released. Which of the following country has Committee has banned Russia from the Olympics and World Championships for 4 years. It is based topped the Human Development Index-2019? in which country? (1) Norway (2) Switzerland (3) Ireland (1) Canada (2) Switzerland (3) Australia (4) Australia (5) China (4) China (5) USA Q.131. Who among the following has been given the Q.139. Recently, who has been appointed as the new ‘Gangadhar National Award’ 2019? President of Mauritius? (1) Ashok Chakradhar (2) Suryakumar Pandey (1) Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (3) Nikita Jain (4) Viswanath Prasad Tiwari (2) Pravind Jugnaut (5) Phoolchand Gupta (3) Pritivirajsing Roopun Q.132. Recently, an MoU has been signed between (4) Ibrahim Mohamed Solih National Small Industries Corporation Limited and (5) None of the above Aramco for the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ecosystem in India in Oil & Q.140. What is the name of the typhoon that recently hit Gas Sector. Aramco belongs to which country? Philippines? (1) UAE (2) Saudi Arabia (3) Oman (1) Frank (2) Kammuri (3) Angela (4) Ecuador (5) Yemen (4) Haiyan (5) Faxai

70 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 UP approved Noida-Greater Noida Metro construction project. CURRENT AFFAIRS Q.141. The Suruli Waterfalls is attracting heavy footfalls (3) Jhulan Goswami (4) Poonam Yadav of tourists. It is located in which state? (5) Shikha Pandey (1) Tamil Nadu (2) Uttar Pradesh Q.147. Recently, for which Economic Corridor project (3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Himachal Pradesh Pakistan and the World Bank have signed a loan (5) Punjab agreement of USD 406 million? Q.142. Sports Minister has called for a rigorous campaign (1) Bolan Pass (2) Chaprot Pass (3) Dorah Pass to bring awareness about doping. Who is the Sports (4) Khyber Pass (5) Gumal Pass Minister? Q.148. In which of the following country India is set to (1) Anurag Thakur (2) Gautam Gambhir reconstruct 11 heritage sites under Indian National (3) Pankaj Singh (4) Kiren Rijiju Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage? (5) Shahnawaz Hussain (1) Nepal (2) Sri Lanka (3) Bangladesh Q.143. Which country will host the 36th International (4) Myanmar (5) Bhutan Geological Congress? Q.149. Which of the following countries non-Muslims (1) Russia (2) India (3) Japan migrants will get citizenship if they migrated to (4) Australia (5) USA India on or before December 31, 2014 as per the Q.144. Who has recently created history by scoring new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019? centuries on debut in both One Day International (1) Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and Test cricket? (2) Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan (1) Abid Ali (2) Shivam Dube (3) Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal (3) Naseem Shaah (4) Mayank Agarwal (4) Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal (5) Shreyash Ayer Q.145. Which Legislative Assembly passed two Bills to (5) None of these set up the separate Commissions for Scheduled Q.150. Which of the following is the 1st Indian corporate Castes and Scheduled Tribes? firm that is awarded with UN award in ‘climate (1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Karnataka neutral now’ category for its carbon neutral (3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Maharashtra programme? (5) Chattisgarh (1) Reliance Industries Limited Q.146. Who among the following is the only Indian to (2) Infosys have found a place in both the ICC Women's ODI (3) Tata Consultancy Services Team and T20I Team of the Year? (4) Tech Mahindra (1) Harmanpreet Kaur (2) Smriti Mandhana (5) None of these ANSWER KEY Q.1.(2) Q.2.(4) Q.3.(3) Q.4.(3) Q.5.(3) Q.6.(2) Q.7.(1) Q.8.(5) Q.9.(1) Q.10.(4) Q.11.(1) Q.12.(2) Q.13.(5) Q.14.(1) Q.15.(3) Q.16.(4) Q.17.(3) Q.18.(1) Q.19.(5) Q.20.(2) Q.21.(3) Q.22.(4) Q.23.(5) Q.24.(3) Q.25.(5) Q.26.(2) Q.27.(3) Q28.(2) Q.29.(4) Q.30.(4) Q.31.(3) Q.32.(2) Q.33.(2) Q.34.(3) Q.35.(5) Q.36.(3) Q.37.(4) Q.38.(2) Q.39.(5) Q.40.(2) Q.41.(1) Q.42.(1) Q.43.(4) Q.44.(5) Q.45.(2) Q.46.(4) Q.47.(1) Q.48.(5) Q.49.(3) Q.50.(1) Q.51.(2) Q.52.(3) Q.53.(5) Q.54.(3) Q.55.(4) Q.56.(5) Q.57.(4) Q.58.(3) Q.59.(3) Q.60.(5) Q.61.(1) Q.62.(1) Q.63.(2) Q.64.(4) Q.65.(2) Q.66.(4) Q.67.(3) Q.68.(1) Q.69.(2) Q.70.(1) Q.71.(3) Q.72.(3) Q.73.(5) Q.74.(5) Q.75.(3) Q.76.(2) Q.77.(2) Q.78.(2) Q.79.(2) Q.80.(4) Q.81.(3) Q.82.(2) Q.83.(5) Q.84.(3) Q.85.(4) Q.86.(1) Q.87.(3) Q.88.(5) Q.89.(1) Q.90.(2) Q.91.(3) Q.92.(4) Q.93.(2) Q.94.(4) Q.95.(1) Q.96.(2) Q.97.(5) Q.98.(2) Q.99.(2) Q.100.(4) Q.101.(5) Q.102.(2) Q.103.(1) Q.104.(4) Q.105.(2) Q.106.(3) Q.107.(2) Q.108.(3) Q.109.(5) Q.110.(4) Q.111.(2) Q.112.(4) Q.113.(5) Q.114.(3) Q.115.(1) Q.116.(4) Q.117.(3) Q.118.(3) Q.119.(5) Q.120.(1) Q.121.(2) Q.122.(2) Q.123.(4) Q.124.(3) Q.125.(5) Q.126.(3) Q.127.(4) Q.128.(3) Q.129.(2) Q.130.(1) Q.131.(4) Q.132.(2) Q.133.(5) Q.134.(2) Q.135.(4) Q.136.(3) Q.137.(5) Q.138.(1) Q.139.(3) Q.140.(4) Q.141.(1) Q.142.(4) Q.143.(2) Q.144.(1) Q.145.(3) Q.146.(2) Q.147.(4) Q.148.(1) Q.149.(2) Q.150.(2)

Mukesh Ambani ranked as the 9th richest person in the world. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 71 SSC CHSL PRE CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/ENGLISH LANGUAGE Q.1. Select the most appropriate word for the (A) needless (B) essential group of words. (C) insignificant (D) trivial That which cannot be seen through Q.7. Select the most appropriate indirect form of (A) magical (B) opaque the given sentence. (C) transparent (D) invisible She says, "I go for a walk every morning." Q.2. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out (A) She says that she goes for a walk every of the given options pick the one that gives morning. their correct order. (B) She said that she goes for a walk every A. As a result, he had gotten into a million morning. activities and hobbies. (C) She said that she went for a walk every B. Thus, his parents were now reluctant to spend morning. any more money on his hobbies. (D) She says that I go for a walk every morning. C. John hated finishing things almost as much as Q.8. Select the most appropriate passive form of he loved starting them. the given sentence. D. But he never stuck with any of them for He threw the ball towards his little brother. long. (A) The ball was thrown towards his little brother. (A) ADCB (B) BCAD (B) The ball is thrown towards his little brother. (C) CADB (D) CDBA (C) His little brother's ball was thrown at him. Q.3. Select the correctly spelt word. (D) The ball is being thrown towards his little (A) persoue (B) pursue brother. (C) persue (D) purseue Q.9. Select the most appropriate word for the Q.4. Identify the most appropriate option to group of words. substitute the underlined segment. If no Willing to be guided or controlled substitution is required, select No substitution. (A) abominable (B) adorable The commander of the ship as well as the crew are caught by the storm. (C) amenable (D) adamant (A) No substitution Q.10. Identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. (B) are being caught by The picture of the king's is exactly like the king (C) is caught in himself. (D) are caught in (A) The picture (B) the king himself Q.5. Identify the most appropriate option (C) is exactly like (D) of the king's to substitute the underlined segment. If no substitution is required, select No Q.11. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate substitution. word. All the accident victims have been admitted and ______people are remembered even after death received attention. for their good deeds. (A) but are receiving (B) No substitution (A) Virtuous (B) Vicious (C) so had received (D) and have received (C) Violent (D) Virtual Q.6. Select the most appropriate synonym of the Q.12. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. given word. VITAL OMINOUS

72 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Indian Navy successfully testfired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile. PREVIOUS PAPER 2019 (A) threatening (B) baleful (A) in great pain (B) in deep sorrow (C) foreboding (D) auspicious (C) in jubilation (D) in trouble Q.13. Select the most appropriate meaning of the Q.20. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given idiom. given word. Red letter day NOVEL (A) a very hot day (B) a very cold day (A) old (B) original (C) a very special day (D) a frightful day (C) new (D) fresh Q.14-18. In the following passage some words have Q.21. Identify the segment which contains the been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help grammatical error. of the alternatives given. Select the most He asked from me if I was interested in a career appropriate option for each blank. in modelling. For two months I have been trying to decide who (A) He asked (B) from me if (A) ______the best ice cream. I have (B) ______it down to my two favourite manufacturers. Let's (C) I was interested (D) in a career start (C) ______Randolph Farms who have lots Q.22. Select the most appropriate synonym of the of (D) ______flavours. Then, we have Goodies given word. who use natural (E) ______to make excellent PITFALL ice cream. (A) hazard (B) refuge Q.14. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank A (C) retreat (D) haven (A) was making (B) is making Q.23. Select the wrongly spelt word. (C) makes (D) make (A) receive (B) acheive Q.15. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (C) grieve (D) believe blank B Q.24. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out (A) chosen (B) cancelled of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order. (C) narrowed (D) selected (A) We even fail to recognize that their call of Q.16. Select the most appropriate option to fill in duty keeps them away from their families. blank C (B) Yet, we often fail to appreciate these (A) by (B) with sacrifices that they make. (C) from (D) off (C) They make countless sacrifices for the Q.17. Select the most appropriate option to fill in nation and keep us safe from our enemies. blank D (D) The uniformed men and women are our (A) unlike (B) variety unsung heroes. (C) various (D) different (A) DABC (B) DCBA Q.18. Select the most appropriate option to fill in (C) ABCD (D) CBAD blank E Q.25. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate (A) goods (B) ingredients word. (C) elements (D) particles She was ______with joy at winning the talent Q.19. Select the most appropriate meaning of the show. given idiom. (A) overruled (B) overwhelmed In a pickle (C) overturned (D) overpowered

Indian Railways restores train services in Kashmir Valley. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 73 SSC CHSL PRE CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/GENERAL INTELLIGENCE & REASONING Q.26. Three of the following four numbers are alike in a certain way and one is different. Pick the number that is different from the rest. (A) 336 (B) 224 (C) 226 (D) 448 Q.27. Arrange the following activities in a logical and (A) 2 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 5 meaningful order. Q.31. A + B means ‘A is the sister of B’. 1. Setting up alarm clock A − B means ‘A is the son of B’. 2. Solving question paper A × B means ‘A is the father of B’ 3. Alarm Bell ringing A ÷ B means ‘A is the brother of B’ 4. Reach examination centre. If S × M ÷ U + L × Z − I is true then how is L 5. Getting dressed and be ready related to I? 6. Returning answer book (A) Husband (B) Son (A) 3, 1, 5, 4, 2, 6 (B) 1, 3, 4, 5, 2, 6 (C) Father (D) Brother (C) 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2 (D) 1, 3, 5, 4, 2, 6 Q.32. Three of the following four words are alike in Q.28. Select the set in which the numbers are related in the a certain way and one is different. Pick the odd same way as are the numbers of the following set. word out. (8, 39, 5) (A) Ulcer (B) Anaemia (A) (11, 67, 8) (B) (10, 60, 6) (C) Hormone (D) Hypertension (C) (9, 55, 4) (D) (14, 115, 9) Q.33. If CALLOSUM is coded as 31336134, then how will CEREMONY be coded as? Q.29. Two statements are given, followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. Assuming (A) 25945757 (B) 35854656 the statements to be true, even if they seem to be (C) 35954547 (D) 35954657 at variance with commonly known facts, decide Q.34. Select the option that is related to the third letter- which of the conclusions logically follow(s) cluster in the same way as the second letter- from the statements. cluster is related to the first letter-cluster. Statements: DHMR : BJKT : : XCOE : ? Some plants are vegetable. (A) VFMH (B) VENG All vegetables are vitamins. (C) UENG (D) VEMG Conclusions: Q.35. Select the correct mirror image of the given I. Some vitamins are plants. figure when the mirror is placed to the right of II. Some vitamins are vegetables. the figure. III. No vitamin is plant. (A) Either conclusion I or III follows. (A) (B) (B) Only conclusions II and III follow. (C) (D) (C) Only conclusions I and II follow. Q.36. A figure of the transparent sheet with a pattern is given below. Select the option that shows how (D) Only conclusions I and III follow. the pattern would appear when the transparent Q.30. Two different positions of the same dice sheet is folded at the dotted line. are shown below, the six faces of which are numbered 1 to 6. Find the number opposite to the face having 3.

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(C) (D) (A) 27 (B) 26 (C) 24 (D) 25 Q.43. Three of the following four letter-clusters are Q.37. ‘Mercury’ is related to ‘Metal’ in the same way alike in a certain way and one is different. Pick as ‘Frog’ is related to ‘______’. the odd one out. (A) Rodent (B) Reptilian (A) DGJM (B) BDGJ (C) Amphibian (D) Mammal (C) TWZC (D) KNQT Q.38. Select the number-pair in which the two numbers Q.44. Three friends A, B and C have different amounts are related in the same way as are the two of rupees with them. If A takes `10 from B, then numbers of the following number-pairs. A will have `4 less than C. A and C together 11 : 120 have total `330. How many rupees does C have? (A) 17 : 289 (B) 12 : 144 (A) 176 (B) 170 (C) 172 (D) 174 (C) 2 : 3 (D) 8 : 65 Q.45. Select the combination of letters that when Q.39. Select the Venn diagram that best illustrates the sequentially placed in the gaps of the given letter relationship between the following classes. series will complete the series. Women, Lawyers, Sons u _ _ m p m _ _ u u c m _ m m j _ u c _ p m m _ (A) u c m j p u m j (B) u c m j u u m m (A) (B) (C) u c u j p m m j (D) p c j m p u m j Q.46. Select the figure that will come next in the (C) (D) following figure series.

Q.40. Which number will replace the question mark (?) in the following series? 55, 56, 64, 91, 155, ? (A) 280 (B) 265 (C) 275 (D) 270 (A) (B) Q.41. Select the option in which Figure-X is embedded. (Rotation is not allowed) (C) (B)

Q.47. Select the set in which the numbers are related in the same way as are the numbers of the following set.

(A) (B) (145, 65, 115) (A) (185, 65, 170) (B) (80, 50, 110) (C) (185, 70, 95) (D) (130, 70, 100) (C) (D) Q.48. Select the word-pair in which the two words are related in the same way as are the two words in the following word-pair. Q.42. How many triangles are present in the given figure? Temple : Worship

Indias first largest biotechnology conference Global Bio-India Summit 2019 concludes. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 75 SSC CHSL PRE (A) School : Education (A) QNNKINCEK (B) QMMKIMCEK (B) University : Professor (C) RNNLINCEK (D) QNNLINBEL (C) Hotel : Expenditure Q.50. Which two numbers should be interchanged in (D) Hospital : Doctor the following equation to make it correct? Q.49. In a code language, PROXIMITY is written 779+14×21−532÷41 = 807 as ZQTRKAVKO. How will ILLOGICAL be (A) 779 and 21 (B) 532 and 779 written as in that language? (C) 21 and 41 (D) 532 and 41 CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE Q.51. A and B can complete the piece of work in 15 Q.59. The compound interest on the certain sum of money days and 10 days respectively they work together at 11% for 2 year is `6963. Its simple interest at the to complete the work for `35000. Find the share same rate and for the same period is? of B. (A) `6500 (B) `6600 (C) `6750 (D) `6000 (A) `15000 (B) `14000 Q.60. A dealer buys an article marked at `20000 with two (C) `21000 (D) `7000 successive discount of 10% and 8%, He spends Q.52. Chords AB and CD of a circle intersect externally `1440 on repairs and sells it for `20000, what is the at P. AB= 6 cm,. CD = 3 cm and PB= 4 cm, then profit or loss percent ( correct to one decimal place? find the length (in cm) of PD is? (A) 12.3% profit (B) 12.35 loss (A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 2 (D) 7 (C) 11.1 % profit (D) 11.1% loss

Q.53. If each side of a rectangle is increased by 13%, − 3 3π then its area will increased by? Q.61. If cos x = and π

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2 o 2 o 1 o 2 o 2 y Q.71. In which year, the absolute difference of the Q.68. If 4( cosec 66− tan 24) + sin 90 − 4 tan 66y tan 24 = , 2 2 students in two schools is the lowest? then the value of y is ? (A) 2008 (B) 2011 (A) 1/2 (B) 1 (C) –1/2 (D) –1

3 3 3 (C) 2009 (D) 2012 Q.69. If (x−7) +( 28 x +) +( 233 x −) =( x − 72823)( x +)( x − ), then what is the value of x? Q.72. What is the Average of the number of students from school A during the six year period? (A) 1.6 (B) 2.4 (C) 1.2 (D) 0.4 (A) 760 (B) 700 Q.70. The average of fifteen person is 32 years. If two more persons are added then the average is (C) 715 (D) 765 increased by 3 years. The new person have an Q.73. In which of the year, the percentage increase age difference of 7 years between them. The age of the students in school A is the highest in (in year) of the older among the new persons is? comparison to its previous year? (A) 58 (B) 61 (C) 50 (D) 54 (A) 2010 (B) 2012 Q.71-75. The given Bar Graph presents the number of (C) 2011 (D) 2009 students of two schools for six year. Q.74. What is the ratio of the number of students taken for all years together from school A to that from school B? (A) 417 : 401 (B) 370 : 429 (C) 429 : 370 (D) 401 : 417 Q.75. PQRS is the cyclic quadrilateral. If angle P is three times the angle R and angel S is five times the angle Q, then the sum of the angle Q and R is ? ( in degree) (A) 70 (B) 65 (C) 72 (D) 75 CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/GENERAL AWARENESS Q.76. What was India's rank in the year 2018 in world Q.80. In 2018, Bharat Vatwani and______were the Crude Steel production according to Steel Users two Indian awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Federation of India? award. (A) Fourth (B) Second (A) Rajendra Singh (C) First (D) Third (B) Arvind Kejriwal Q.77. The Chola Empire was invaded by ______in the (C) Sonam Wangchuk early 14th century A.D. (D) Sathyabhama Das Biju (A) Malik Kafur (B) Taimur (C) Muhammad Ghori (D) Genghis Khan Q.81. With which of the following sports is the term 'bib' associated? The word refers to sheets Q.78. Who wrote the book 'An Era of Darkness: The printed with numbers. British Empire in India'? (A) Hockey (B) Football (A) Sudha Murthy (B) Shashi Tharoor (C) Ramchandra Guha (D) APJ Abdul Kalam (C) Lawn Tennis (D) Running Q.79. The historical Sher Shah Suri Marg is called as: Q.82. What is the chemical name of slaked lime? (A) National Highway Number 23 (A) Calcium Nitrate (B) Sodium Chloride (B) National Highway Number 11 (C) Calcium Chloride (D) Calcium Hydroide (C) National Highway Number 1 Q.83. With which of the following sports is the term (D) National Highway Number 8 'tumble turns' associated?

Anita Anand first Hindu to be appointed cabinet minister in Canada. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 77 SSC CHSL PRE (A) Long Jump (B) Cycling (A) Depreciation (B) Mortgage (C) Swimming (D) Running (C) Arbitrage (D) Devaluation Q.84. In May 2019, Former Miss World Priyanka Q.92. ______is the process by which water Chopra visited ______as UNICEF's Goodwill vapour in the air is changed into liquid water. Ambassador for humanitarian work. (A) Decantation (B) Precipitation (A) Ethiopia (C) Evaporation (D) Condensation (B) Uganda Q.93. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page (C) Democratic Republic of Congo and______. (D) Kenya (A) Peter Thiel (B) Steve Wozniak Q.85. To which of the following states does the folk (C) Sergey Brin (D) Elon Musk song 'Bhawaiya' belong? Q.94. ______is the first Indian gymnast to win (A) Chhattisgarh (B) Odisha a Gold medal at a Global Event in the World (C) West Bengal (D) Jharkhand Challenge Cup in Turkey. Q.86. ______attacked the southern coast of (A) Ashish Kumar Kathiawar along the Arabian Sea, where he (B) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu sacked the city of Somnath and its renowned (C) Rakesh Patra Hindu temple in 1026. (D) Dipa Karmakar (A) Firoz Shah Tugalaq Q.95. The powers, privileges and immunities of either (B) Mahmud of Ghazni House of Parliament and of its Committees and (C) Ahmed Shah Tugalaq Members have mainly been laid down in article (D) Muhammad Ghori _____ of the Constitution of India. Q.87. After going through the processes of scouring (A) 115 (B) 107 (C) 105 (D) 102 and bleaching, 99% of cotton is made up of Q.96. Kalumar Peak is the highest point in ___ range. which polymer? (A) Karakoram (B) Satpura (A) Epoy (B) Cellulose (C) Vindhaya (D) Aravalli (C) Proteins (D) Teflon Q.97. In May 2019, Pakistan successfully test- Q.88. A____ is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in fired a surface-to-surface ballistic missile a computer. named______. (A) ROM (Read Only Memory) (A) Salaam III (B) Musafir II (B) CPU (Central Processing Unit) (C) Watan I (D) Shaheen II (C) RAM (Random Access Memory) Q.98. ______is a large mass of snow and ice at an (D) Motherboard high altitude that slides down mountain slopes. Q.89. 'World Metrology Day' was celebrated in India (A) Volcano (B) Hurricane on ______2019. (C) Avalanche (D) Cyclone (A) 18th April (B) 25th January Q.99. 'Chakri' is a type of traditional music that is (C) 20th May (D) 17th February popular in the Indian state of ______. Q.90. Jawaharlal Nehru port is located in: (A) Rajasthan (B) Madhya Pradesh (A) Kerala (B) Maharashtra (C) Jammu and Kashmir (D) Punjab (C) Andhra Pradesh (D) West Bengal Q.100. Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) was introduced in Q.91. In Economics, buying an asset in one market December______. and simultaneously selling an identical asset in another market at a higher price is termed (A) 2014 (B) 2004 as______. (C) 1991 (D) 1993

78 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Mumbai Central railway station certified as Indias first Eat Right Station. PREVIOUS PAPER 2019 SSC CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/ENGLISH LANGUAGE Q.1.(B) Q.12.(D) Ominous (adj.)- giving the worrying impression. Q.2.(C) The correct sequence is CADB Auspicious (adj.)- conducive to success; Q.3.(B) The correct spelling is ‘pursue’ which means ‘to favourable. follow’. For other options: Q.4.(C) According to ‘as well as’ the verb should be used Baleful (adj.)- threatening harm; menacing. for the first subject ‘the commander’ a singular Foreboding (n)- a feeling that something bad subject. will happen; fearful apprehension. Q.5.(D) The rule of Parallelism is to be followed. Q.13.(C) Q.14.(C) Q.15.(C) Q.6.(B) For other options: Q.16.(B) Q.17.(D) Q.18.(B) Trivial (adj.) - not important Q.19.(D) Q.7.(A) Kindly refer to the rules of narration for the Q.20.(A) Novel (adj.)- interestingly new or unusual. sentences expressing habitual actions and universal truth. Q.21.(B) Generally ‘ask’ does not take ‘any preposition. Q.8.(A) Kindly refer to the rules of Voice. Q.22.(A) Pitfall (n)- a hidden or unsuspected danger or difficulty. Q.9.(C) For other options: For other options: Abominable (adj.)- very bad; terrible. Refuge (n)- the state of being safe or sheltered Adorable (adj.)- inspiring great affection or from pursuit, danger, or difficulty. delight. Retreat (v)- move back or withdraw. Adamant (adj.)- refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind. Haven (n)- a place of safety or refuge. Q.10.(D) As ‘of’ is already mentioned, there is no need of ('s). Q.23.(B) The correct spelling is ‘achieve’. Q.11.(A) Virtuous (adj.)- having or showing high moral Q.24.(B) standards. Q.25.(B) Overwhelm (v.)- have a strong emotional effect For other options: on. Vicious (adj.)- deliberately cruel or violent. For other options: Virtual (adj.)- almost or nearly as described, but Overrule (v)- reject or disallow. not completely or according to strict definition. Overturn (v)- abolish, invalidate. CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/GENERAL INTELLIGENCE & REASONING Q.26.(C) 336 = 3 + 3 = 6 Q.30.(B) 224 = 2 + 2 = 4 448 = 4 + 4 = 8 Q.27.(D) Q.31.(A) Q.28.(D) (8, 39, 5) = 82 – 52 = 39 (14, 115, 9) = 142 - 92 = 115 Q.29.(C)

Q.32.(C) The hormone is different because hormones are chemical substances that act like messenger molecules in the body.

CCEA approved Rs.150 crore for 39 Government Medical Colleges and Institutions. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 79 SSC CHSL PRE Q.33.(D) CALLOSUM = 3 1 12 12 15 19 21 13 K (LM) N (OP) Q (RS) T = 3 1 3 3 6 1 3 4 Q.44.(C) A + 10 = C – 4 Q.34.(D) DHMR = -2, +2, -2, +2 = BJKT A – C = - 14…..(I) Q.35.(B) A + C = 330 …..(II) Q.36.(C) From (I) and (II)- Q.37.(C) The frog belongs to the amphibian class. 2 A = 316 Q.38.(C) 112 = 121 – 1 = 120 A = 158 22 = 4 – 1 = 3 C = 172 Q.39.(B) Q.45.(A) u u c m /p m m j /u u c m/ p m m j /u u c m /p m Q.40.(A) 55, 56, 64, 91, 155, 280 m j +13 +23 +33 +43 +53 Q.46.(C) Q.41.(D) Q.47.(C) (145, 65, 115) = 145 + 115 = 260 = 260/4 = 65 Q.42.(D) (185, 70, 95) = 185 + 95 = 280 = 280/4 = 70 Q.48.(A) Q.49.(A)

Q.43.(B) D (EF) G (HI) J (KL) M Q.50.(B) 532 + 14 × 21 − 779 ÷ 41 = 807 B (C) D (EF) G (HI) J 532 + 294 – 19 = 807 1 3  8 T (UV) W (XY) Z (AB) C 826 – 193 =+ 807 ÷ 5 5  5 807= = 807  1 5 1 1   SSC CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/QUANTITATI1 ÷ + ÷ V  E APTITUDE 8 8 8 3   Q.51.(C) Ratio of share = 2 : 3 16 3  5 + × B's share 5 5  8 =   35000 9 5 1   = ×3 = 21000 ÷ + ×3   5 8 8 8   19  5 Q.52.(A) PA×PB = PC× PD × 5  8 (6+4)×4 = (3+PD)×PD =   9 ÷{1} PD=5 8 Q.53.(C) =13+13+1.69 19 / 8 = =27.69% 9 / 8 19 Q.54.(D) A+B = 43000 = A= 4B 9 5B = 43000 Q.56.(C) sinθ = 3x B = 8600 sin2θ = 9x 2 − − − −( I ) Q.55.(C) 3 1 3  8 cosθ = 3 +  ÷ x 5 5  5 9 = cos2 θ = − − − −(II ) 1 5 1 1   x2 1 ÷ + ÷   8 8 8 3   (I)+ ( II )

16 3 5 2 2 2 9   sinθ+ cos θ = 9x + +  × 2 80 MICA FEBRUARY5 2020 5 8 Mysore University to set up separate Department of Disabilities andx Rehabilitation Studies. =   9 5 1  2 1    1= 9x + 2  ÷ + ×3   x  8 8 8   12 1  =x + 19  5 2   × 9 x  5  8 = 62 1  9 =6x + 2  ÷{1} 9 x  8 2 1  2 6 x 19 / 8 +2  = = x  3 9 / 8 19 = 9 sinθ = 3x sin2θ = 9x 2 − − − −( I ) 3 cosθ = x 9 cos2 θ = − − − −(II ) x2 (I)+ ( II ) PREVIOUS PAPER 2019 9 350 sin2 θ+ cos2 θ = 9x 2 + Q.62.(C) Speed of the first train = = 70 km/h x2 5 2→70 2 1  1= 9x + 2  1→35 x  7→245 12 1  =x + 2  Q.63.(C) A = 60% 9 x  B = 40% 62 1  =6x + 2  20%→8 9 x  100% = 40 2 1  2 6 x + = 2  Q.64.(C) 2 2 x  3 l =10 −( 4 + 2) l =100 − 36 Q.57.(B) o ∠A ∠BOC =90 + l = 8 2 Q.65.(D) 2 =6n + 3 o o ∠A ( ) 156− 90 = 2 2 =32 ( 2n + 1) o 2 ∠A =66 × 2 =9 ×( 2n + 1) o ∠A =132 Q.66.(A) 11 = C3 Q.58.(B) 11× 10 × 9 = 3× 2 =165 Q.67.(B) x = 16 Q.68.(B) 6 →30 1 y 4( cosec2 66o − tan2 24o ) + sin 90o − 4 tan2 66o y tan2 24 = 1→5 2 2 1 y 15,20 4 cosec2 66o − cot2 66o + − 4 tan2 66o y cot 2 66 = ( ) 2 2 11× 11 Q.59.(B) 11+ 11 + = 23.21 1 y 100 4+ − 4y = 23.21%→ 6963 2 2 9 9 1%→ 300 = y 22%→ 6600 2 2 10× 8 y =1 Q.60.(C) Net discount %= −10 − 8 + = 17.2% 100 Q.69.(D) 17.2 Discount =20000 × = 3440 3 3 3 100 (x−7) +( 28 x +) +( 233 x −) =( x − 72823)( x +)( x − ) He also pays `1400 on repairing, (x−7) +( 2 x + 8) +( 2 x − 3) = 0 Net cost = 20000 – 3440 + 1440 = 18000 5x = 2 2000 Net profit % = ×100 = 11.1% 2 18000 x = Q.61.(A) 2cos2 x 3 5 2 + 2 sin x cos x x = 0.4 3 2× Q.70.(B) Sum of the age of the new persons = 3×15+35+35 4 4 6 +3 × = +4 = 10 =115 3 3 1− 1 Age of the older person = 61 4

ECI to implement Political Parties Registration Tracking Management System. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 81 SSC CHSL PRE Q.71.(C) =2009 = 4290 : 3700 = 429 : 370 Q.72.(C) 640+ 800 + 500 + 700 + 900 + 750 Q.75.(D) = 6 4290 = 6 = 715 Q.73.(C) =2011 Q.74.(C) = 640 + 800 + 500 + 700 + 900 + 750 : 550 + 820 + 600 + 750 + 500 +480 Q+R = 75 SSC CHSL PRE PREVIOUS PAPER 2019/GENERAL AWARENESS Q.76.(B) India's crude steel production for 2018 was Q.88.(D) Motherboard is the main printed circuit board 106.5 Mt, up by 4.9% on 2017, meaning India (PCB) in a computer. has replaced Japan as the world's second largest Q.89.(C) 'World Metrology Day' was celebrated in India steel producing country. on 20th May in 2019 and this year's theme was Q.77.(A) The Chola Empire finally came to an end with "Redefinition of SI base units". the invasion of Malik Kafur in the early 14th Q.90.(B) Jawaharlal Nehru port is located in Situated on century A.D. the Western seafront of Maharashtra. Q.78.(B) Shashi Tharoor wrote the book 'An Era of Q.91.(C) In Economics, buying an asset in one market and Darkness: The British Empire in India'. simultaneously selling an identical asset in another Q.79.(C) National Highway 1 or NH 1 is a National market at a higher price is termed as Arbitrage. Highway in Northern India that links the Q.92.(D) Condensation is the process by which water national capital New Delhi to the town of Attari vapour in the air is changed into liquid water. in Punjab near the India–Pakistan border. This Q.93.(C) Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and was a part of Grand Trunk Road of Sher Shah Sergey Brin. Suri that ran from Lahore to Bengal. Q.94.(D) Dipa Karmakar is the first Indian gymnast to Q.80.(C) In 2018, Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk win a Gold medal at a Global Event in the World were the two Indian awarded with the Ramon Challenge Cup in Turkey. Magsaysay award. Q.95.(C) The powers, privileges and immunities of either Q.81.(D) Bib is a usually a piece of cloth hung from the House of Parliament and of its Committees and neck and hanging on the chest of the runner. Members have mainly been laid down in article Q.82.(D) Calcium Hydroide is the chemical name of slaked 105 of the Constitution of India. lime. It has many names including hydrated lime, Q.96.(C) Kalumar Peak (752 meters) is the highest point caustic lime, builders' lime, slack lime or cal. in Vindhaya range. Q.83.(C) A tumble turn is one of the turns in swimming, Q.97.(D) The Shaheen-II is a land-based supersonic used to reverse the direction in which the person surface-to-surface medium-range guided is swimming. ballistic missile. The Shaheen-II is designed and Q.84.(A) In May 2019, Former Miss World Priyanka developed by the NESCOM and the National Chopra visited Ethiopia as UNICEF's Goodwill Defence Complex of Pakistan. Ambassador for humanitarian work. Q.98.(C) Avalanche is a large mass of snow and ice at an Q.85.(C) Bhawaiya is a popular folk music of West Bengal. high altitude that slides down mountain slopes. Q.86.(B) Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the southern coast Q.99.(C) 'Chakri' is a type of traditional music that is of Kathiawar along the Arabian Sea, where he popular in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. sacked the city of Somnath and its renowned Q.100.(D) Members of Parliament Local Area Development Hindu temple in 1026. Scheme (MPLADS) was introduced in December Q.87.(B) After scouring and bleaching, cotton is 99% cellulose. 1993.

82 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Ursula took charge as the President of European Commission. CRP CLERK MAINS MODEL PAPER 2019 CRP Clerk Mains/General Awareness Q.1. Who is the chairperson of the National Green (1) Deodhar Trophy (2) Ranji Trophy Tribunal (NGT)? (3) Bandodkar Trophy (4) Santosh Trophy (1) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel (5) None of these (2) Justice A. K. Sikri Q.10. Which of the following state government has (3) Justice N.V. Ramana decided to bring more crops under its ‘Bhavantar (4) Justice Arun Kumar Mishra Bharpayee Yojna (BBY)’ scheme? (5) None of the above (1) Himachal Pradesh (2) Haryana Q.2. Who is the Chairman of Indian Space Research (3) Delhi (4) Uttar Pradesh Organisation (ISRO)? (5) Rajasthan (1) Ajay Narayan (2) K. Sivan Q.11. Which of the following represents correct meaning (3) Anoop Srivastava (4) Vijay Keshav Gokhale of ‘REPO RATE’? (1) Rate on which RBI sells Government Securities (5) None of these to Banks Q.3. Who is the author of the book titled “The Tech Whisperer”? (2) Rate for borrowing rupees by banks from RBI (1) Jaspreet Bindra (2) Rohinton Mistry (3) Rate offered by banks to their prime customers (3) Nirad C. Chaudhari (4) Preeti Shenoy (4) Rate applicable for grant of priority sector loans (5) None of these (5) None of these Q.4. Who is appointed as Google India Country Manager? Q.12. Which of the following book is written by Kapil (1) Rajesh Sharma (2) Suresh Sharma Dev? (3) Vikram Raj (4) Rahul Rai (1) One day Wonders (5) Sanjay Gupta (2) Cricket - My Style Q.5. Who has taken Charges as new BCCI President? (3) Twenty Years at the top (1) Sachin Tendulkar (2) Virat Kohli (4) Cricket-Favourite Game (5) None of these (3) Rohit Sharma (4) Saurav Ganguly Q.13. Which country’s researchers have developed a (5) None of these new technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) Q.6. Who among the following is the new Chairman of from a stream of air? Staff Selection Commission (SSC)? (1) UK (2) USA (3) Japan (1) Braj Raj Sharma (2) Pankaj Kumar (4) China (5) France (3) Roshni Rajaram (4) Ayush Singh Q.14. Which country will host the 2023 Men's Hockey (5) Rajnish Kumar World Cup? Q.7. Who among the following has not shared the (1) India (2) France (3) Australia Nobel Prize 2019 for Medicine? (4) South Africa (5) Indonesia (1) Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe Q.15. Which country topped in Inclusive Internet Index (2) William Kaelin 2019? (3) Gregg Semenza (1) Sweden (2) Singapore (3) Iran (4) M Stanley Whittingham (4) India (5) None of the above (5) None of the above Q.16. Which country has decriminalised Abortion and Q.8. Which State Government has decided that no also legalised same-sex marriage? Government job will be provided to persons with (1) Malta (2) Northern Ireland more than 2 children? (3) El Salvador (4) Poland (1) Kerala (2) Goa (5) Southern Ireland (3) Assam (4) Arunachal Pradesh Q.17. Which company became the world’s sixth-largest (5) None of these energy entity with high market capitalization? Q.9. Which of the following trophy has won by the (1) TATA (2) Amazon (3) ONGC Services football team? (4) RIL (5) TCS

MSME sector has contributed over 29 percent of GDP. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 83 CRP CLERK MAINS Q.18. Which Bank has topped the RRBs in terms of Q.27. What is the name of the regulatory body that issues achievement of Rupay Card transaction targets the Financial Stability Report? (POS and eCOM)? (1) Reserve Bank of India (1) Delhi Grameen Bank (2) State Bank of India (2) Assam Grameen Bank (3) Industrial Development Bank of India (3) Jammu & Kashmir Grameen Bank (4) Central Bank of India (4) Manipur Grameen Bank (5) None of the above (5) Uttar Pradesh Grameen Bank Q.28. What is Minimum Capital Requirement to open Q.19. Which among the followings birthday on 15 Small Finance Banks? October is declared as World Students Day by the (1) 200 Crore (2) 100 Crore (3) 300 Crore United Nations? (4) 500 Crore (5) 400 Crore (1) Barak Obama (2) Abraham Lincoln Q.29. What do you mean by a non-performing asset? (3) Nelson Mandela (4) Abiy Ahmed (5) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (1) Money at call and short notice Q.20. Which among the following is not a factor of (2) An asset that ceases to generate income Production? (3) Cash balance with other banks (1) Bank credit (2) Labour (3) Land (4) Cash balance with RBI (4) Capital (5) Entrepreneurship (5) None of these Q.21. Where was “The Global Ayurveda Summit” 2019 Q.30. Under which Ministry does Agricultural and held? Processed Food Products Export Development (1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Karnataka Authority (APEDA) function? (3) Kerala (4) Bihar (1) Ministry of Agriculture and Technology (5) Tamilnadu (2) Ministry of Commerce and Industry Q.22. Where is the headquarters of Ujjivan Small (3) Ministry of Human Welfare Finance Bank Limited located? (4) Ministry of Food Processing and Research (1) Thrissur (2) Ahmadabad (3) Kolkata (5) None of the above (4) Bangalore (5) None of these Q.31. Uber cup is related with which sport? Q.23. Where is the headquarters of BIMSTEC located? (1) Table Tennis (2) Badminton (3) Cricket (1) Bangladesh (2) Nepal (3) India (4) Hockey (5) None of these (4) Indonesia (5) Srilanka Q.32. The second edition of the naval exercise Q.24. Where is the Colonel Chewang Rinchen Setu IMNEX-19 has been conducted between India and located? ______. (1) Leh (2) Pakistan (3) Kashmir (1) Maldives (2) Nepal (3) Myanmar (4) Ladakh (5) Srinagar (4) Mongolia (5) Malawi Q.25. What is the time limit fixed by TRAI for mobile Q.33. The Indian Army has begun to digitize its official phone call ring? records under its new programme called: (1) 40 sec (2) 45 sec (3) 35 sec (1) “OASIS”-Officers Abstracted Structures (4) 50 sec (5) 30 sec Information System Q.26. What is the theme of the 2019 Aadi Mahotsav, the National Tribal Festival? (2) “OASIS”-Officers Analytical Structures (1) A Celebration of the Spirit of Tribal Crafts, Information System Culture, and Commerce (3) “OASIS”-Officers Automated Structures (2) Festival to Light up the Artisans Information System (3) Celebrating the Artisans (4) “OASIS”-Officers Auxiliary Structures Information System (4) The true colour of Celebration of handicrafts (5) “OASIS”-Officers Attentive Structures (5) None of the above Information System

84 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Centre to fine up to Rs.5 lakh for misuse of national emblems. MODEL PAPER 2019 Q.34. The best indicator of economic development of (1) 34th (2) 35th (3) 47th any country is____. (4) 50th (5) 67th (1) Its agriculture (2) Its transport Q.42. In which year the South Africa was invited to join (3) Its gross production (4) Its per capita income BRIC? (5) None of these (1) 2008 (2) 2009 (3) 2010 Q.35. The ‘World Economic Outlook Report’ is released (4) 2011 (5) 2012 by - Q.43. In which country Block chain-based carbon (1) World Bank trading exchange has been launched? (2) Asian Development Bank (1) Malaysia (2) Japan (3) Singapore (3) International Monetary Fund (4) China (5) India (4) International Labor Organization Q.44. Dhanwantari award is conferred in the field of (5) None of the above ______. Q.36. Smart Money is a term used for Credit card & (1) Medical Science (2) Sports ______. (3) Indian Philosophy (4) Agriculture (1) Internet Banking (2) Debit Card (5) None of the above (3) Mobile Apps (4) Demand Drafts of Banks Q.45. Deutsche Bank AG is a ______multinational (5) None of the above investment bank and financial services company. Q.37. Savings bank accounts are opened by- (1) Japanese (2) American (3) Russian (4) German (5) None of these (1) Trading entities, manufacturing entities and individuals for savings purposes Q.46. Between which cities, Sarbat-Da-Bhala Express train runs? (2) Traders and manufactures for business purposes (1) New Delhi and Lohian (3) Individuals for savings purposes (2) New Delhi and Jaipur (4) Limited companies and partnerships for savings (3) New Delhi and Amritsar purposes (4) New Delhi and Chandigarh (5) Cooperative banks for savings (5) None of these Q.38. Recently, The Ministry of Health and Family Q.47. At which place, 2019 World Athletics Welfare released a commemorative postal stamp of: Championships was held? (1) National Institute of Nutrition (1) Qatar (2) UAE (2) National Institute of Research (3) Saudi Arabia (4) India (3) National Institute of Art (5) None of these (4) National Institute of Culture Q.48. Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank merged into Union Bank of India. Where is the Headquarters (5) None of the above of Union Bank of India? Q.39. Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana was (1) Mumbai (2) Kolkata (3) Chennai launched by- (4) New Delhi (5) Bengaluru (1) Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Q.49. ‘Hryvnia’ is the currency of which country? (2) Nitish Kumar (1) Ukraine (2) Uganda (3) Kenya (3) Yogi Adityanath (4) Sudan (5) Belgium (4) Bhupesh Baghel Q.50. ‘AIBEA’ was recently in news what is the full (5) Manohar Lal Khattar form of ‘AIBEA’? Q.40. Kais Saied is elected as the new President of which (1) Asia and India Bank Entrepreneur Association country? (2) All India Bank Employees Association (1) Tunisia (2) Ethiopia (3) Armenia (3) Agreement of Indian Bankers with Employees (4) Mauritius (5) Singapore Association Q.41. Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde has become the (4) Article of Indian Bank Executive Association ______Chief Justice of India on 18 November (5) None of the above 2019.

India to announce LoC of Rs. 3,230 crore to Sri Lanka. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 85 CRP CLERK MAINS CRP Clerk Mains/English Language Q.51-55. Read the THREE sentences i.e. (A), (B) and (3) Both A and B (4) Only C (C) given below respectively and try to find (5) All are correct out the sentence(s) which is/are INCORRECT Q.55. A. The spokesperson did not comment on the among them and mark your answer. number of employees that could be impacted Q.51. A. India is hardly immune to the global trend of by the exercise. sliding fees and trading commissions. B. Technology and economics have done their bit B. Any attempt at sweeping out a corner of India’s to nudge the industry toward a much-delayed financial system means bringing investors consolidation. face-to-face with creepy-crawlies. C. The company, which has been focussing on C. One of the most controversial aspect of the profitability, will accommodate some of their Draft Rules is the requirement for every employees in other business. intermediary to enable tracing of originators of (1) Only A (2) Only B information on its platform. (3) Both A and B (4) Only C (1) Only A (2) Only B (5) All are incorrect (3) Both A and B (4) Only C Q.56-58.In the following question, a group of five words (5) All are incorrect is given in which two words are different from Q.52. A. The integrity of markets, including sanctity of the other three words same in meaning. Choose contracts and guaranteed settlement of trades the option which contains the initials of those is at stake. two words. B. Unearthing bad behaviour is a first welcome Q.56. A. Supplant B. Do up C. Oust step. D. Recondition E. Supersede C. Too many small, independent shops are still (1) A-B (2) B-D (3) C-E open for business even as their owners try to (4) A-D (5) B-E sell themselves to bigger intermediaries. Q.57. A. Adjure B. Spurn C. Rebuff (1) Only A (2) Only B D. Repudiate E. Beseech (3) Both A and B (4) Only C (1) A-B (2) B-D (3) C-E (5) All are incorrect (4) A-D (5) A-E Q.53. A. Market pressures haven’t led to the kind of brutal Q.58. A. Clump B. Subjugate C. Vanquish consolidation that should have taken place. D. Trudge E. Clobber B. The authorities are keen that assets, where the underlying risk emanate in India, should be (1) A-B (2) B-D (3) C-E traded onshore, and not via derivatives. (4) A-D (5) B-E C. Upfront cash is often a key factor which Q.59-62.In the following question, a sentence followed creditors evaluate while deciding a winning by four differently written sentences is given. bidder. Read them carefully and choose the option (1) Only A (2) Only B which contains the initials of the sentences conveying the similar meaning. (3) Both A and B (4) Only C Q.59. In order to doubly ensure safety and security of (5) All are incorrect the school, the department would soon ask all Q.54. A. Recapitalising insurance companies will help government school authorities to convene PTI them meet regulatory requirements and facilitate meetings. eventual sale of government stake in them. A. PTI meetings would soon be asked to be B. The task of the hackers will become much convened as per the department in order to more difficult, no doubt about that. doubly ensure the safety and security of the C. The government is seeking clearance for fresh school. spending and for reallocation of certain unspent B. The department would soon ask all government amounts amid an economic slowdown. school authorities to convene PTI meetings to (1) Only A (2) Only B doubly ensure safety and security of school.

86 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Deepika won gold at the Continental Qualification Tournament. MODEL PAPER 2019 C. All government school authorities would soon A. The properties of each and every employee be asked to convene PTI meetings, by the will be confiscated and all those involved in department in order to doubly ensure safety the scam will be returned every single paisa. and security of the school. B. Each and every employee will be returned D. The department would soon convene PTI their every single paisa and all those involved meetings and ask all government school in the scam their properties will be confiscated. authorities to doubly ensure safety and security C. Every single paisa of each and every employee of the school. will be returned and the properties of all those (1) Only A and D (2) Only C and D involved in the scam will be confiscated. (3) A, B and C (4) B, C and D D. Confiscation of the properties of all those (5) Only A and B involved in the scam will be done and each and Q.60. Cough suppressants act by suppressing the part of every employee will be returned their every your brain that makes you feel like coughing but single paisa. do not treat the cause of cough. (1) Only A and D (2) Only C and D A. Treatment of the cause of cough is done by (3) A, B and C (4) B, C and D Cough suppressants by suppressing the part of (5) Only A and C your brain that makes you feel like coughing. Q.63-64. In the following sentence, there are two blank B. The part of your brain that makes you feel like spaces and five pair of words have been denoted coughing is suppressed by Cough suppressants by numbers (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) are given. but the cause of cough is not treated by them. Find out which pair of words can be filled in the C. The cause of cough is not treated but the part blanks to make a meaningful sentence. of your brain that makes you feel like coughing Q.63. Brokers______day traders to the products by is suppressed by Cough suppressants. offering additional ______for trades which D. Cough suppressants do not treat the cause of they must enter and exit in five minutes. cough but suppress the part of your brain that (1) endure, influence (2) tempt, intact makes you feel like coughing. (1) Only A and D (2) Only C and D (3) lure, leverage (4) put off, pay (3) A, B and C (4) B, C and D (5) Both (1) and (3) (5) Only A and C Q.64. Technology-based automated tools or appropriate Q.61. The demand of the present time is that society should mechanisms with appropriate controls to deliberate on its duties and responsibilities as well. ______identify and remove or disable public access to unlawful information or content must be A. Society in the present time should fulfil the ______. demand of deliberating on its duties and responsibilities as well. (1) instinctively, ascertained B. Duties as well as responsibilities should be (2) inevitably, utilise deliberated on by society which is the demand (3) unavoidably, affected of the present time. (4) proactively, deployed C. Either duties or responsibilities should be (5) Both (1) and (4) deliberated on the demand of the present time Q.65. In the following question, three sentences i.e. by the society. (A), (B) and (C) are given and you have to D. Both duties and responsibilities should be choose the sentence in which the highlighted deliberated on by society as per the demand of phrasal verb/idiom is correctly used. the present time. A. I'd gotten a handle on the concept after (1) Only A and D (2) Only C and D spending an hour with the tutor. (3) A, B and D (4) B, C and D B. As long as I was in town on business, I thought (5) Only A and C I'd kill two birds with one stone and visit my Q.62. The properties of all those involved in the scam uncle too. will be confiscated and every single paisa of each C. Rani has been burning the midnight oil trying and every employee will be returned. to finish this report, so she must be exhausted.

ADB signed USD 451 million loan with India for CKIC Project. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 87 CRP CLERK MAINS (1) Only A (2) Only B (1) AAA (2) BBA (3) ABB (3) Both A and B (4) Only C (4) ABA (5) AAB (5) All of the above Q.70. I. She refused to get up and continued laying Q.66. Which of the Phrases (1), (2), (3) and (4) should back with a groan (A)/ grown (B). replace the highlighted phrase to make it II. He continued supposing we had groan (A)/ grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct grown (B) to know and love nuclear power. as it is given and no correction is required, mark III. Their suffering was quite evident due to their (5) as the answer. continual grown (A)/ groan (B). This issue of traceability and decrypt is in the (1) AAA (2) BBA (3) ABB heart of the challenge between Facebook, (4) ABA (5) AAB WhatsApp and the government in the Supreme Court. Q.71-75.In the following question, out of the five phrases choose the one which is out of the context and (1) decrypt is at the heart of the challenge among can’t be the part of a meaningful passage. (2) decryption is in the heart of the challenge between Q.71. (1) English teachers in government-run primary and upper primary schools (3) decryption is at the heart of the challenge between (2) across UP will now learn spoken English for (4) decryption is at the heart of the challenge better communication among (3) improve the level of education in government (5) No correction required schools Q.67-70.In the following question, there are three (4) with students the teachers will have to undergo a sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words (5) short-duration compulsory online course. that are highlighted. From the highlighted Q.72. (1) several migratory Siberian birds were spotted words, select the most appropriate words (A or (2) in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur B) to form correct sentences. (3) are an attraction for many visitors in the bird Q.67. I. We reassembled the pig ark (A)/ arc (B) in sanctuary preparation for our spring arrivals. (4) Siberian birds have reached the zoo of Kanpur II. I marked the point where the tangential line bird sanctuary touched the ark (A)/ arc (B) of the circle. (5) with the onset of winter. III. They held each other’s hand in a way that it Q.73. (1) if you feel distracted and you need something formed an arc (A)/ ark (B). to pump your energy, (1) AAA (2) BBA (3) ABB (2) about you take a short break where you can be (4) ABA (5) AAB distracted Q.68. I. The guinea foul (A)/ fowl (B) likes to hide her (3) catching up on something enjoyable nest in out-of-the-way places. (4) and exciting is a great idea II. The midfielder was booked for afowl (A)/ foul (B) on Ford. (5) as it gets monotonous doing the same old thing every day. III. Domestic and wild fowl (A)/ foul (B) are generally abundant. Q.74. (1) if you got a work bestie, you should consider (1) AAA (2) BBA (3) ABB going out (4) ABA (5) AAB (2) for a walk with them to help you get through Q.69. I. She went to House of Design, a new Boston all that work stress and strain. bridal (A)/ bridle (B) house specializing in (3) as going for a walk helps you release all the couture-quality gowns. stress in your muscles II. At this period he also assumes a bridle (A)/ (4) end of the day you got to be productive, bridal (B) dress, painted with blue and red (5) and makes you active and mobile. tints. Q.75. (1) well, too much caffeine is bad for health and III. The boy walked up to the horse and pulled we all know that, its head up with the bridle (A)/ bridal (B), (2) but a cup of piping hot coffee can always come leading it out of the trees. to your rescue,

88 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Centre to set up a new rocket launch pad at Kulasekarapattinam. MODEL PAPER 2019 (3) however, this isn’t quite advisable and you has restated the salience of the RTI Act, just when better keep a the executive seemed intent on devaluing it. (4) if you don’t want to let your personal life suffer The verdict sets at rest notions that RTI Act (5) watch on how many cups are you consuming provisions pose a threat to judicial independence. per day. SC has accepted the principle that disclosures serve the public interest. However, the court also Q.76-80. In the following question, two sentences divided underscored the threats facing the judiciary while into 3 parts are given. Choose the option which noting that RTI Act must not be used to destroy the contains the initials of incorrect parts. institution. Therefore the judgment is justified in Q.76. I. The Press Council of India has filed a plea(A) / carving out certain limitations for exercising the in Supreme Court regarding restrictions (B)/ Act's provisions. In recent years, controversies on press freedom in Jammu and Kashmir (C). have brought out severe churning within Supreme II. The watchdog body was established (P)/ for Court on issues like collegium deliberations, the purpose of maintain (Q)/ the standards of executive interference in judicial appointments news agencies in the country (R). and transfers, and CJI's powers as a master (1) B and Q (2) A and R (3) B and P of the roster in charge of setting up benches. (4) C and Q (5) All correct Given the enormous pressures under which judges Q.77. I. India has made considerably improvement work, information commissioners have the two- (A)/ in education enrolment in recent years, pronged task of ensuring their orders serve the (B)/ almost reaching the goal of universal urgent public interest while not impeding the access to schooling (C). functioning of judges. By embracing transparency II. The real policy challenge and haranguing, despite these recent setbacks, SC has sent out (P)/ disruptive protests and slogans (Q)/ is no a strong message to other public functionaries. substitute for policy action (R). Political parties refuse to come under the RTI (1) C and R (2) B and Q (3) A and R Act despite a Central Information Commission (4) B and P (5) All correct ruling in 2013. The claim that parties are not Q.78. I. Opposition parties should unite (A)/ around the public functionaries is facetious given how they demand, (B)/ as his own interests are at stake (C). depend on funds collected from the public and II. British rule triggered in India (P)/ in the late exist for serving the public interest. The RTI Act's 19th century lead to (Q)/ the emergence of a prescription of proactive disclosure of information few movements (R). should become the credo of every public institution. (1) C and R (2) B and Q (3) A and P Q.80. Which of the following strong messages has/have (4) C and Q (5) All correct been sent out to other public functionaries by SC? Q.79. I. The adopt of the Constitution (A)/ in 1950 was A. The predominance of laws with the support of a watershed (B)/ in Indian history (C). foreign forces which are inimical to India must II. Let us examine broad trends in gross not be there. investment, (P)/ employment and aggregate B. Clarity must be adopted in the face of any demand (Q)/ at the last few years (R). emerging complications. (1) C and R (2) B and Q (3) A and R C. All the rights are guaranteed by the Constitution (4) B and P (5) All correct of India to all citizens of the country. Q.80-85.Read the following passage carefully and (1) Only A (2) Both A and B answer the questions given below it. Certain (3) Only B (4) Both B and C phrase has been given in bold to help you locate (5) All of the above it while answering some questions. Q.81. Notwithstanding a Central Information By holding the Chief Justice of India as a public Commission ruling in 2013, which of the following authority falling under the ambit of the Right to repercussions was/were seen? Information Act, the Supreme Court's verdict (1) Government bodies refuse to come under the strikes a blow for transparency and accountability. RTI Act. The judgment comes at a time when the RTI Act (2) Political parties denied being subjected to the and the information commissioners overseeing RTI Act. RTI appeals have been weakened by the Centre assuming greater powers in determining their (3) Leading Print and Media houses refused to tenure and terms of service. In a way, the judiciary come under the RTI Act. Air Marshal D Choudhury is the new Commandant of National Defence College. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 89 CRP CLERK MAINS (4) Major retail and wholesale companies turned successful rather than relying on the success down functioning under the RTI Act. that one has already had. (5) Both 2 and 3 (5) To win something easily or decisively. Q.82. As per the given passage, which of the following Q.86-90. In the passage, some blanks are given and facts is/are in contrast with the claim that ‘parties against each blank five alternatives are are not public functionaries’? suggested. Choose the correct alternative to (1) Political parties alerting the government to complete the passage in a meaningful way. change in public opinion. India’s request for country-specific tariff schedules (2) Political parties function due to public funds. was rejected early in the ______(A). So was its (3) Political parties are working for the general interest. suggestion of an auto-trigger mechanism to check a sudden ______(B) in imports from particular (4) Political parties encourage popular participation partner countries. India also argued for stricter rules in government programs. of origin, and rightly so too, but this too failed (5) Both 2 and 3 to ______(C). Movement of professionals Q.83. As per your reading of the passage, what should be was another area that saw a/an ______(D). the ‘working principle’ of every public institution? Given these, there was little chance of the political A. Strategical divulgation of information of making leadership agreeing to join the bloc. Policymakers contract terms as per the RTI Act prescription. must have reasoned that India has active FTAs with B. Dynamic divulgation of information based on most members of the RCEP except China, Australia the RTI Act’s ordinance. and New Zealand and there will be no economic impact. However, the fallout of India’s decision is C. Systematic concealment of the information that it has ______(E) its image as a protectionist based on the RTI Act’s ordinance. nation with high tariff walls. With a market of 1.3 (1) Only A (2) Both A and B billion people, there is bound to be more pressure on (3) Only B (4) Both B and C India to open its gates. The smart way to handle this (5) All of the above is to initiate reforms on the export front, bring down Q.84. Which of the following sentences is/are NOT costs in the economy and, simultaneously, increase TRUE, according to the passage? efficiencies. India cannot miss out on being a part A. Establishing specific restraints rationalizes the of global supply chains and this can happen only if judgment. tariff barriers are reduced and the best way to balance the effect of rising imports is by promoting exports. B. The huge disturbance is caused due to a Tariff walls cannot be permanent. number of disputes on various issues inside the Supreme Court. Q.86. Choose the correct option for A. C. The watchdog body was established for the (1) summoning (2) discuss (3) negations purpose of preserving interdependence. (4) negotiations (5) parleys (1) Only A (2) Both A and B Q.87. Choose the correct option for B. (3) Only C (4) Both B and C (1) gush (2) surge (3) discharge (5) All of the above (4) plummet (5) eddy Q.85. As per your reading, what is best understood by Q.88. Choose the correct option for C. the phrase “strike a blow for” used in the first (1) pass away (2) pass off (3) pass on paragraph? (4) pass out (5) pass muster (1) To take care not to lower or diminish one's Q.89. Choose the correct option for D. reputation or position, especially in relation to (1) sure-fire (2) deadlock that of someone else potentially better. (3) breakthrough (4) impasse (2) To stop trying because one is satisfied with (5) Both (2) and (4) one's past achievements. Q.90. Choose the correct option for E. (3) To do something that helps something or contributes to the success of something. (1) perceived (2) polished (3) burnished (4) To continue working hard to make sure to be (4) mundane (5) furbish

90 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Anita Praveen is appointed as the additional secretary in DoT. MODEL PAPER 2019 CRP Clerk Mains/Reasoning Ability Q.91-93.Study the following information to answer the Q.94. If the farmer “Gopal” wants to reach to the dog E given questions. from cow D, then which of the following will be D S * H 4 W N @ 9 K T L $ F 3 6 Q 5 C % 8 B # 7 the correct direction to reach his destination? Step: 1 – Those Number which is immediately (1) Gopal walks 1600 m to the north of cow D, preceded by the symbol and immediately followed then he takes left turn and walks 1000 m to by an Alphabet are written at the right end in reach near the dog E. ascending order. (2) Gopal walks 1600 m to the north of cow D, then he takes right turn and walks 500 m to Step: 2 – After completing the step -1, reach a point and then he takes right turn and interchanging the Odd number with the previous walks 1200 m and then he takes right turn and element in the series to form the step -2. walks 1600 m to reach near the dog E. Step: 3 – After completing the step – 2, Alphabet (3) Gopal walks 400m to the north from cow D which is immediately followed by a symbol are and then he takes left turn and walks 200m and written between sixth and seventh element from then he takes right turn and walks 1200m and the right end in alphabetical order from left to finally he takes right turn and walks 900m to right. reach near the dog E. Q.91. Which of the following element is seventh to the (4) Gopal walks 400m to the north from cow D right of the element which is tenth from the left and then he takes left turn and walks 1100m end in step -3 of newly formed series? and then he takes left turn and walks 1200m to (1) B (2) * (3) N reach near the dog E. (4) W (5) S (5) Gopal walks 200m west from cow D and then Q.92. If all the symbols are removed from the step -3, he takes right turn and walks 400m then he then which of the following element will be takes left turn and walks 900m and finally he exactly in the middle of the new series? takes right turn and walks 1200m to reach near the dog E. (1) 5 (2) B (3) 6 Q.95. What will be the minimum distance to reach cow (4) Q (5) S C from point L according to the options? Q.93. How many numbers are immediately followed and (1) LJDBAC (2) LJHGIC (3) LJIKAC immediately preceded by an alphabet in step -3 of (4) LFEKAC (5) LHGKAC new series? Q.96-100.Study the following information carefully and (1) One (2) Two (3) Three answer the questions given below. (4) None (5) More than three Seven books - Book-1, Book-2, Book-3, Book- Q.94-95.Study the following information to answer the 4, Book-5, Book-6 and Book-7 were launched given questions. in seven different months – February, March, Four cows A, B, C and D are seated at the corners April, May, July, October and December but not of a rectangular field such that cow A is to the necessarily in the same order. Each book has a North of cow B. Cow C is 0.2 km to the East of different number of pages – 120, 110, 125, 190, cow A. The longer side of the rectangular field is 200, 230, and 135. Each book was written in a 2 km. Four dogs E, F, G and H are seated at the different font – Rumi, Sheila, Kalam, Sophia, corners of another rectangular field such that dog Calibri, Reis and Italic but not necessarily in the E is 1.6 km to the west of dog G. Dog H is 1.2 same order also each book has a different genre km to the south of dog G and in the East of dog F. – Thriller, Romance, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Action, Rectangle field which is made by the dogs EFHG, Horror and Drama but not necessarily in the same intersects the line joining the cows AB and CD at order. the points KL and IJ respectively. It is also known The book written in Calibri font was launched in a that point K is 0.9 km towards the East of dog E month having less than 31 days and has120 pages. and point J is 0.4 km towards the North of cow D. The book launched in July month has 110 pages.

RBI recorded 11.4 lakh Online transaction in first 8 hours after NEFT was made 24/7 FEBRUARY 2020 MICA operational. 91 CRP CLERK MAINS Only one book was launched between Book-1 and (1) Romance (2) Action (3) Drama the book written in Calibri font. The book based on (4) Mystery (5) Thriller Romance was launched immediately before book Q.100. How many books were launched after the book based on Horror and immediately after the book based on Thriller was launched? based on Thriller. The book written in Kalam font was launched immediately before Book-1. Book- (1) None (2) One (3) Two 3 was launched immediately after Book-1. Only (4) Three (5) More than three two books were launched between Book-2 and Q.101-105. Study the following information carefully Book-3. The book based on Drama was launched and answer the questions given below. immediately before the book based on Mystery. Book-7 was launched in a month which has less There are eight boxes namely H to O are placed in a than 31 days. Book-6 was launched immediately rack one above the other and each box has different after Book-7. Only one book was launched fruits – apple, orange, banana, grapes, watermelon, between Book-1 and the book written in Sophia peach, apricot and blackberry. The lowermost rack font. Book-6 was not based on Sci-Fi. The book is numbered as 1 and above is 2 and so on. Each of written in Rumi font was launched immediately the boxes is having different colours among Blue, before the book written in Italic font. Only two Green, Yellow, Brown, White, Orange, Indigo and books were launched between the book based on Red. Each of the boxes is having different serial numbers among 19, 23, 17, 31, 34, 37, 27 and 21. Thriller and the book based on Drama. The number All the above information is not necessarily in the of pages in book-7 is less than book-5. Book-5 was same order. not written in Kalam font. The book written in Reis font was launched in a month having less than 30 The box, whose serial number is prime number, days. The book based on Thriller was launched in contains apple. The box, whose serial number is 34, the month of April. The book which is in between contains grapes. There are three boxes are placed of Book-1 and Book-2 has 125 pages. The book between the box whose serial number is 27 and the which has 200 pages launched before December Indigo coloured box. Box J’s serial number is not but after July. The book which has 135 pages was 27. The Indigo coloured box is placed adjacent to not launched in February and December. the blue coloured box. The box I’s serial number Q.96. Which of the following books was based on Action is 37 and doesn’t placed at the topmost rack. The and how many pages were there? box whose serial number is a cube of 3, contains Blackberry. Box M is Yellow-coloured and (1) Book – 1, 190 (2) Book – 4, 200 placed adjacent to the Red-coloured box. Box H (3) Book – 2, 125 (4) Book – 6, 135 is placed in the even-numbered rack above fourth (5) None of these and it is placed adjacent to the box whose serial Q.97. How many book (s) were launched between the number is 31. Not more than five boxes are placed book written in Sheila font and the book based on above the Red-coloured box. Box J is placed in Drama was launched? the seventh rack and Box H is placed adjacent to (1) None (2) One (3) Two Box J. Two boxes are placed between the boxes having serial number 21 and 34. Box J is White- (4) Three (5) More than three coloured. Maximum numbers of boxes are placed Q.98. Which of the following combinations is/are between the Brown-coloured box and Orange- correct? coloured box. Box H is not Brown coloured. Box (1) Book-6 – Thriller – Sheila - 135 L is Green coloured and it is placed adjacent to (2) Book-1 – Horror – Italic - 110 the Orange coloured box. Box N’s serial number (3) Book-7 – Mystery – Sheila - 190 is 21 and placed in the lowermost rack. The box, whose serial number is 23, is placed two boxes (4) All are Correct above the Yellow-coloured box. Box O’s serial (5) None is correct number is 19. The box, whose serial number is 17, Q.99. If Sci-Fi is related to Calibri, in the same way, is placed above the box whose serial number is 34. Horror is related to Sophia, and then following the Box O does not contain banana, orange and apple. same pattern, who among the following is related The box whose colour is blue has apricot in it. The to Italic? box whose sum of digits of the serial number is

92 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Nagaland Governor R N Ravi to take additional charge of the State Meghalaya. MODEL PAPER 2019 10 has orange in it. The box whose serial number spots and only one car is parked on one of those is completely divisible by 3 has peach in it. The 5 spots. V sits fourth to the left of Q. Q is one of white box does not contain apple. the immediate neighbours of R. Polo is parked Q.101. What is the serial number of Box H? second to the left of Captur and is at a gap of 3 spots from Duster. Only three persons sit between (1) 23 (2) 33 (3) 17 P and R (from one side only). Amaze is parked on (4) 27 (5) None of these the immediate right of Duster. Only five persons Q.102. Which among the following combination is true? sit between T and S when counted from the left of T. U sits second to the left of T. The number (1) Box N-Brown-21-1st rack of spots between Creta and Brezza, when counted (2) Box M-Yellow-34-3rd rack from the left of Creta, is one more than the number (3) Box K-blue-31-5th rack of spots between Brezza and Amaze when counted (4) Box O-Orange-19-8th rack from the right of Amaze. Only three persons sit between R and T (from one side only). Brezza is (5) None of these parked adjacent to Nano and is second to the left of Q.103. In a certain way Box O is related to serial number WagonR. Not more than four persons sit between 17, Box H is related to serial number 34 and in the V and U when counted from left of U. Verna is same way Box M is related to which among the parked at a gap of 1 spot from Duster. Only 2 cars following serial number? were parked between Nano and Duster, but Nano (1) 21 (2) 23 (3) 37 is not parked adjacent to Verna. Only six persons sit between T and Q counted from one side only. (4) 27 (5) None of these V is not an immediate neighbour of T. Not more Q.104. Which of the following statements is true? than 2 spots were there between Brezza and Verna (1) Only two boxes are placed below Box M. when counted from the right of Verna. (2) The number of boxes is placed between Box K Q.106. What is the total number of persons sitting around and Box I is same as Red and Green coloured the circular table and what is the position of Creta box. with respect to Polo? (3) Box L and Box K are placed adjacent to the (1) 11, Fourth to the right box whose serial number is 34. (2) 8, Second to the right (4) Box H is placed two boxes above the Red (3) 10, Third to the left coloured box. (4) 12, Fourth to the left (5) None of these (5) Cannot be determined Q.105. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which of the following Q.107. What is the position of R with respect to V and does not belong to the group? how many vacant spots were there between WagonR and Duster, when counted from the left (1) Box L-27 (2) Box M-34 (3) Box H-23 of WagonR? (4) Box O-19 (5) Box K-31 (1) Third to the left, 3 Q.106-110. Study the following information carefully (2) Seventh to the right, 5 and answer the questions given below. (3) Sixth to the right, 7 A definite number of persons are sitting around a circular table facing towards the centre and the (4) Seventh to the left, 2 other side their nine friends have nine cars – Nano, (5) None of these Creta, Verna, Polo, Brezza, Duster, WagonR, Q.108. How many persons sit between P and Q, when Captur and Amaze, which were parked in a counted from the left of Q and what is the position circular parking lot which has space to park at least of Captur with respect to Nano? 10 cars. There are two circles, one circle is inside another circle. Cars are parked in the outer circle (1) 2, Eighth to the left and people are sitting in the inner circle. (2) 6, Seventh to the right Wagon R and Polo were parked at a gap of 5 (3) 4, Sixth to the left

Orange festival began in Manipur. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 93 CRP CLERK MAINS (4) 5, Fifth to the left (1) A (2) B (3) C (5) None of these (4) D (5) E Q.109. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way Q.114. Identify the code for "BRUTAL" belongs to which and thus form a group. Which of the following of the following? does not belong to the group? (1) A (2) B (3) C (1) UR (2) QV (3) TV (4) D (5) E (4) PU (5) QR Q.115. Identify the code for "SUPREME" belongs to Q.110. How many car(s) are parked between Creta and which of the following? Verna, when counted from the right of Verna and (1) A (2) B (3) C how many cars can be parked in the parking lot? (4) D (5) E (1) One, 12 (2) Two, 14 (3) Three, 17 Q.116-120. A string of numbers is given as input. The (4) Four, 15 (5) Five, 18 further steps given are obtained by applying Q.111-115. Read the following information carefully certain logic. Numbers of step II have been and answer the questions given beside. obtained by using at least one digit of each The below-mentioned table represents some number in step I. words and their codes. The codes are assigned on Input: 2436 1192 2971 1234 3420 the basis of some pattern. Step-I: 1212 0209 0263 0406 0008 Word: VITAMIN PROOF RATIFY Step-II: 2236 1233 1287 1430 1032 Code: 50 10 59 Step-III: 1032 1233 1287 1430 2236 Column A, B, C, D and E show some numerical Step-IV: 70 218 values which form the codes for the words asked. Step-V: 170 You have to mark the column name as your answer in which the code for the asked word lies. The Step V is the last step of arrangement. As per the words are to be coded in the same manner which rule followed in the above steps, give the answer is followed by the codes mentioned in the above of following questions for the given input. table. Input: 5241 4522 3489 4179 4183 A B C D E Q.116. What will be the third step of the given input? 49 72 38 61 26 (1) 1532 2232 3756 1834 4631 30 33 22 29 50 (2) 1532 1834 2232 3756 4631 10 59 25 66 20 (3) 1834 1532 2232 3756 4631 47 87 93 35 40 (4) 1532 1834 2232 4631 3756 19 31 84 57 37 (5) 1532 2232 1834 3756 4631 For example: If the code for the word “VITAMIN” Q.117. What will be the resultant of the given input? is asked then it would be ‘E’. (1) 170 (2) 110 (3) 340 Q.111. Identify the code for "STRANGE" belongs to (4) 530 (5) 420 which of the following? Q.118. Which number is third from the right end of the (1) A (2) B (3) C step-II? (4) D (5) E (1) 1834 (2) 2232 (3) 1532 Q.112. Identify the code for "EFFECT" belongs to which (4) 4631 (5) 3756 of the following? Q.119. What will be the sum of both numbers of step-IV? (1) A (2) B (3) C (1) 323 (2) 529 (3) 426 (4) D (5) E (4) 360 (5) 288 Q.113. Identify the code for "DREAM" belongs to which of the following? Q.120. If you have to multiply the result of a given input by 8, what will be the new result?

94 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Lahore-Wagah shuttle train service resumed after 22 years. MODEL PAPER 2019 (1) 1521 (2) 1444 (3) 1360 sensitive and can identify problem areas that an (4) 1960 (5) 2720 angiogram might not perceive. However, heart scans use more radiation than most diagnostic Q.121-126. Study the following information carefully procedures, and can cause undue concern over and answer the questions. and treatment for the harmless abnormalities Q.121. Educator: Like any other difficult pursuit, music often picked up by such sensitive technology. requires intense study and practice in order for Which of the following conclusions is best one to become proficient. But many school music supported by the statements above? programs encourage only children who demonstrate (1) A heart scan is safer than an angiogram early aptitude to continue studying music, while procedure. children who are not especially musical are (2) Patients should not be concerned about heart directed towards other activities. Having learned abnormalities that appear in a heart scan. to think of themselves as musically inept, these (3) A heart scan could result in indirect harm by children do not devote any time to music and thus causing a patient to undergo risky, unnecessary deprive themselves of the opportunity to develop a procedures. latent talent. (4) An angiogram is the more appropriate of the The educator’s statements, if true, would best two procedures for most patients. support which of the following conclusions? (5) The heart scan is a more expensive procedure (1) Music education should not devote special than the angiogram. attention to talented students. Q.124. China will soon become a nation producing world- (2) Everyone has the potential to learn music. leading products developed by a large number of (3) Talent is not always apparent at an early age. small local entrepreneurs. (4) Children are particularly sensitive to criticism Which of the following is/are valid argument/ from adults. arguments? (5) All children should study music. I. No, The true potential of entrepreneurship can Q.122. Improved technology and equipment often result be attained not by having too many start-ups in fewer injuries during high-risk activities such but by ensuring that these start-ups grow into as rock climbing and scuba diving. But participant sizeable businesses. education also plays a large role in reducing II. Yes, Starting up a business is a hard task but the number of injuries sustained during these growing it is much easier. activities. People who are poorly trained in these III. No, We support seeding of businesses but once activities run a much higher risk of injury even if these businesses are successful, our policies provided with the latest and best equipment. simply do not seem to help them. Which of the following can be properly inferred (1) Only I (2) Only II from the information above? (3) Only I and III (4) Only II and III (1) Training is a more important safety factor than equipment in high-risk activities. (5) All of the above (2) People who are properly trained in their Q.125. The public often protests when an unregulated activities do not sustain injuries. service industry is found to be corrupt. However, regulation often leads to increased costs for the (3) The safety benefits of the latest equipment can consumer. Fewer companies survive in a regulated be offset by inadequate preparation. market, leading to decreased competition and (4) Rock climbing and scuba diving are more risky higher prices. The public then responds negatively than any other activities. to the increased costs of these services. (5) People with the latest equipment often neglect The statements above best support which of the proper training. following? Q.123. The new heart scans offer patients significant (1) Service industries should not be regulated. benefits. They can be completed in a fraction of the (2) The public should not protest unregulated time required for an angiogram, with no recovery services. time necessary. Furthermore, the scans are more

Ankur Garg is appointed as chief commercial officer of AirAsia India. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 95 CRP CLERK MAINS (3) Only unregulated services are subject to public P does not live in building-1 and he lives one of protest. the floors above either K or O but not at the top. N (4) The public is sometimes the cause of its own lives immediately below the floor on which J lives. complaints. There is one floor between J and O. (5) Decreased competition always leads to Q.127. If B and D live in building-3 then S and R will live increased prices. in which of the following buildings? Q.126. In many countries, handloom art is in crisis. The (1) Building-1 textile ministry’s Handlooms Census (2013) shows (2) Building-2 there has been a 33 per cent drop in handloom (3) Building-3 employment since 1995-96. Many countries' handloom exports touched Rs 2,246 crore in (4) Either Building-1 or Building-2 2016-17. However, this has been continually (5) None of these declining compared to the previous 4-5 years. Q.128. If P lives below the either S or R then how many Since India produces almost 85 per cent of the persons live between P and K? world’s handloom products, we can ill afford to let (1) One (2) Two (3) None the handloom sector and handloom art to fall into decline. (4) Three (5) Either One or None Which of the following statements weakens the Q.129. If T lives immediately above H then H lives in importance of the handloom sector? which of the following building? I. Only 4.3 million people are engaged in (1) Building-1 handloom weaving and allied activities now, (2) Building-2 against 6.5 million in 1995-96. (3) Building-3 II. Handloom is the second-largest unorganized (4) Either Building-1 or Building-2 set of economic activities in the country, after (5) Cannot be determined agriculture that supports rural areas. Q.130. If S and R live in building-2 and M is immediately III. Handloom art and weaving centres are below the either B or D then what can be the clustered all over the country with many of position of U with respect of P in building-2? these art genres being popular in international markets. (1) Immediately below (1) Only I (2) Only II (2) Immediately above (3) Only I and III (4) Only II and III (3) Four places below (5) None of the above (4) Two places above Q.127-130. Study the following information carefully (5) Cannot be determined and answer the question given below. Q.131-135. Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below.

M Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are sitting A in a straight line facing north and the person G of this family has six vessels which were also K O placed in a row. G’s vessels names are A1, B2, C3, D4, E5 and F6. G’s vessels have contained L different volumes of Milk from 1 to 6 litres but not necessarily in the same order. G’s vessels are Building-1 Building-2 Building-3 differentiated with respect to following colours There are three buildings 1, 2 and 3. Each building Blue, Green, Red, Black, Purple and Yellow but has 7 floors and if the floor is occupied then there not necessarily in the same order. Consider all will be only one person. There are five floors the vessels are facing north direction. These eight between B and D. There are three floors between persons have different ages (in years) – 7, 10, 13, S and R. Neither S nor R lives on the top and the 18, 28, 30, 36, and 42 but not necessarily in the bottom floor. same order.

96 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Gujarat police was honoured with the Presidents Colours award. MODEL PAPER 2019 The vessel D4 and the vessel E5 are at a gap of Q.135. Who among the following is 30 years old? two vessels. G is sitting second to the left of the (1) C (2) G (3) A one who is 18 years old. The vessel F6 is third to (4) F (5) None of these the right of Black coloured vessel. Two persons Q.136-140. Each of the questions below consists of a are sitting between G and B. The Purple coloured question and two statements numbered I and II vessel is the thrice the volume of Milk as in the given below it. You have to decide whether the Vessel E5. The person having age 13 is sitting data provided in the statement are sufficient to immediate right of B. The vessel C3 is second to answer the question. Read both the statements the left of the vessel having 6 litres of Milk. D is the and Give answer: immediate neighbour of B. G is as much younger Q.136. Six persons i.e. A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting than D as he is older than H. The vessel D4 is around a circle facing inside. Who among the placed exactly between the Red coloured vessel following sits second to the right of E? and the vessel A1. None of G, H, and D is sitting immediately to one another. C is sitting third to I. B sits second to the right of A. D is not the the right of the one who is 7 years old. The Green immediate neighbour of B. Only one person vessel has 4 litres of Milk and it is at either of the sits between D and E. Neither F nor C is extreme ends. A is sitting second to the right of the the immediate neighbour of E. C is not the one who is 36 years old. At least three persons are neighbour of B. sitting between G and A. F is sitting third to the II. Only two person sits between B and C. D sit right of the one who is 10 years older than him. A second to the right of A. E sits second to the left is not the oldest. The total volume of Milk in the of F. E is not the immediate neighbour of B. vessel F6 and the volume of Milk to its immediate (1) If the data in statement I alone are sufficient right are equal to the volume of Milk in the vessel to answer the question, while the data in A1. The vessel D4 has 3 litres of Milk. The Blue statement II alone are not sufficient to answer vessel has more volume of Milk then vessel E5. the question. Q.131. Four of the following five are alike and thus form (2) If the data in statement II alone are sufficient a group. Which is the one that does not belong to to answer the question, while the data in the group? statement I alone are not sufficient to answer (1) A (2) E (3) G the question. (4) D (5) F (3) If the data either in statement I alone or in Q.132. What is the position of the one whose age is 28 statement II alone is sufficient to answer the years with respect to the one who is the oldest question. among all? (4) If the data even in both statements I and (1) Second to the left (2) Third to the left II together are not sufficient to answer the question. (3) Second to the right (4) Third to the right (5) If the data in both statements I and II together (5) Immediate left are necessary to answer the question. Q.133. Which among the following vessels has 6 litres Q.137. Do P, Q, and R stand in a straight line? Milk and which among the following vessels is placed 2nd to the left of Purple coloured vessel? I. T is 4 km towards the south of S. U is 8 km towards the west of T. P is 2 km towards the (1) Blue coloured vessel, The vessel with 2 litres north of T. Q is 3 km towards the north of S Milk and R is 4 km towards the south of Q. (2) Yellow coloured vessel, The vessel with 3 II. P is 2 km towards the north of V. U is 4 km litres Milk towards the west of V. Y is 1 km towards the (3) Black coloured vessel, Vessel E5 south of U. W is 2 km towards the west of Y. (4) Purple coloured vessel, Vessel C3 Q is 2 km towards the north of W. R is 2 km (5) Can't be determined towards the north of Y. Q.134. What is the difference between the ages of D and (1) If the data in Statement I alone are sufficient C? to answer the question, while the data in (1) 20 (2) 29 (3) 8 Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer (4) 15 (5) 30 the question.

Over 1,65,000 lakh farmers across India have been registered on e-NAM. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 97 CRP CLERK MAINS (2) If the data in Statement II alone are sufficient daughter of Govind’s sibling. to answer the question, while the data in (1) If the data in Statement I alone are sufficient Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer to answer the question, while the data in the question. Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer (3) If the data in Statement I alone or in Statement the question. II alone are sufficient to answer the question. (2) If the data in Statement II alone are sufficient (4) If the data in both the Statements I and II are to answer the question, while the data in not sufficient to answer the question. Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer (5) If the data in both the Statements I and II the question. together are necessary to answer the question. (3) If the data in Statement I alone or in Statement Q.138. Who amongst A, B, C, D, E, F and G is the tallest? II alone are sufficient to answer the question. I. G is smaller than only one person. A is taller (4) If the data in both the Statements I and II are than C and E but not as tall as F, who is smaller not sufficient to answer the question. than B and D. (5) If the data in both the Statements I and II II. B is taller than A but not the tallest. Only three together are necessary to answer the question. person is taller than G. F is taller than C but Q.140. What is Pulkit’s rank from the right in a class of 50 smaller than G. C is not smallest. students? (1) If the data in Statement I alone are sufficient I. Mohan rank is 16th from the end. Mohan is to answer the question, while the data in 6 ranks left of Kamal who is 7 ranks left of Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer Pulkit. the question. II. Pradeep is 24 ranks right of Pulkit and Pramod (2) If the data in Statement II alone are sufficient is 6 ranks to the left Pulkit. Pramod rank is to answer the question, while the data in 16th from the end. Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer (1) If the data in Statement I alone are sufficient the question. to answer the question, while the data in (3) If the data in Statement I alone or in Statement Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer II alone are sufficient to answer the question. the question. (4) If the data in both the Statements I and II are (2) If the data in Statement II alone are sufficient not sufficient to answer the question. to answer the question, while the data in (5) If the data in both the Statements I and II Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer together are necessary to answer the question. the question. Q.139. Who is paternal uncle of Atul? (3) If the data in Statement I alone or in Statement I. Atul is brother of Leela who is daughter of II alone are sufficient to answer the question. Seema. Pawan is brother of Neeraj who is (4) If the data in both the Statements I and II are sibling of Seema’s husband. not sufficient to answer the question. II. Govind is sister of Kisan who is husband (5) If the data in both the Statements I and II of Reema. Krishna is sister of Atul who is together are necessary to answer the question.

CRP Clerk Mains/Numerical Ability Q.141-145. Find the correct relationship between given Q.141. The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 4: 5. If 45 quantities. students from the same school left in which ratio of (1) Quantity: I > Quantity: II boys and girls is same and 40 new girls joined the school, then the ratio of boys to girls will becomes (2) Quantity: I ≥ Quantity: II 4 : 9. (3) Quantity: I < Quantity: II Quantity I: What percentage of total students will (4) Quantity: II ≥ Quantity: I be boys if 50% of the total number of (5) Quantity I = Quantity II or relation can't be boys leave the school? established Quantity II: 30%

98 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Government is to allot 6 Coal Mines to reduce coal imports. MODEL PAPER 2019 Q.142. In a race of 500 meters, A beats B by 50 meters but and 2015 is 60 and 96 respectively. If employee in a race of 1 km, B beats C by 250 meters. left B in year 2016 is 48 and this company starts in Quantity I: In a race of 800 meters, by how much 2015, then find total employee working in B at the distance will A beat C? end of 2016 is approximate what percent of total Quantity II: 250 meters. employee working in A at the end of 2016? Q.143. The compound interest received on Rs. 5000 at (1) 75% (2) 72% (3) 68% x% per annum at the end of 2 years is equal to the (4) 78% (5) None of these simple interest received in four years on Rs. 2650 Q.148. The ratio of total employee who left B and C in at the same rate of interest. the year 2016 is 7: 9 and total employee working Quantity I: What is the total simple interest received? in B and C at the end of 2014 are 480 and 516 Quantity II: Rs. 1275 respectively. If total employee working at the Q.144. An inlet pipe A can completely fill a water tank of end of 2017 in C is 399, then find total employee 25000 litres capacity in 10 hours but an outlet pipe working in B at the end of 2016. B can empty the completely filled tank in 40 hours. (1) 356 (2) 251 (3) 441 Quantity I: In how many hours pipe A and Pipe (4) 280 (5) None of these B together will fill half of the tank? Q.149. Total employee working in B at the end of 2013 Quantity II: In how many hours pipe A alone fill is 660 and 84 employee left company in 2014, 70% of the capacity of the tank? while 96 new employees joined the company. If Q.145. A train of length 'x' metres running at the speed of respective ratio of employee left the company B 15 km per hour takes 40 seconds to cross a man in year 2016 and 2017 is 6: 7 and total employee walking in the opposite direction at the speed of working in B at the end of 2017 is 1398, then find 7.5 km per hour but it takes 2 minutes to cross a total employee left B in 2016 and 2017 together? platform of length 'y' meters. (1) 2652 (2) 2874 (3) 3516 Quantity I: What is the length of the train? (4) 4044 (5) None of these Quantity II: What is the length of the platform? Q.150. The average of total employee left company Q.146. There are two groups in first group four boxes each A in the given three years is 63 and ratio of containing 4 white and 5 black balls and also in employee left in 2015 to in 2017 is 7 : 6. If second group there are 3 boxes each containing 5 company A start in 2015, then find total employee white and 3 black balls. A black ball is selected at working in A at the end of 2016 is how much random. Find the probability that black ball is from percent more than total employee who joined a box of the second group? company C in the year 2016? 81 81 9 (1) (2) (3) (1) 18% (2) 25% (3) 22% 242 26 241 (4) 20% (5) None of these 1 (4) (5) None of these Q.151. If each company start in 2015 and ratio of total 3 employee left A in 2015 to that of B and C together Q.147–151. Read the data carefully and answer the in 2016 is 1: 2. If total employee who left A in questions. (Some data are missing). 2015 and that of B and C together in 2016 is 108 Given below table shows number of employees and total employee who left B in 2016 is 50% joined (at the beginning of the year) and left (at the of employee who left C in same year, then find end of the year) in three companies i.e. A, B and C difference between total employee working in C at in four years (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). the end of 2017 and total employee working in A A B C at the end of 2016. Year Joined Left Joined Left Joined Left (1) 244 (2) 286 (3) 252 2015 306 - 288 54 252 108 (4) 276 (5) None of these 2016 234 72 216 - 324 - Q.152. A broker gets a commission of 8% on the sale upto 2017 336 - 432 - 372 84 Rs. 8000 and a commission of 10% on the sale Q.147. In year 2014 total employee who joined A is 64 above Rs. 8000. If he returns a sum of Rs. 12310 to which is 32% of total employee working in A that the company after deducting his commission, what year and total employee who left A in year 2014 was total sale of the company?

TV Somanathan is appointed as expenditure secretary in the finance ministry. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 99 CRP CLERK MAINS (1) 13500 Rs (2) 13800 Rs (3) 12900 Rs Total Players = 6000 (4) 12500 Rs (5) None of these Q.153. A sum of Rs 2592 was invested in two banks 2 first bank offers 16 % compound interest of compound 3 annually whereas second bank offers a simple 1 interest of 12 % . 2 Find the difference of SI and CI of 2 years and 6 months. (1) Rs. 275 (2) Rs. 250 (3) Rs. 264

(4) Rs. 279 (5) None of these Players who know the game Q.154. A is 30% more efficient than B. B works for 12 days, Village Kabaddi (Skilled) and the remaining work is completed by A alone in P 440 20 days. In how many days will B, working alone, to Q 500 complete half of the total work? R 880 (1) 38 days (2) 30 days (3) 23 days S 700 T 360 (4) 26 days (5) 19 days Q.157. Total skilled players from village Q and T together Q.155. A perfume production company prepares perfume is what percent more than total unskilled players by mixing it with water. The new mixture of 340 from village R? litres contains perfume and water in the ratio 27 (1) 8% (2) 6.5% (3) 12% : 7. Later, the company decides to further liquefy the mixture to form a new mixture containing (4) 7.5% (5) None of these perfume and water in the ratio 3 : 1. How much Q.158. If total male unskilled players in village S is 2 water must they have to add in the previous 66 % more than that of female unskilled players, mixture? 3 then find ratio of total male unskilled players in (1) 20 litre (2) 15 litre (3) 10 litre village S to total unskilled players in village P and (4) 24 litre (5) 30 litre R together? Q.156. Present age of Rahul’s mother is double of his age. (1) 22: 43 (2) 23: 41 (3) 25: 54 Rahul’s father is 5 years elder to Rahul’s mother. (4) 28: 57 (5) None of these 10 years back, the father was 3 times the age of 3 Rahul. After 5 years, father’s age will be twice that Q.159. Out of total players in village R, 46 % are female of Rahul. What is the ratio of the present ages of 7 th 7 and of total female are unskilled players, then Rahul, mother and father? 13 (1) 1 : 2 : 11 (2) 5 : 10 : 11 (3) 3 : 8 : 9 find total unskilled male players from village R. (4) 5 : 11 : 10 (5) None of these (1) 420 (2) 380 (3) 360 Q.157-161.Read the data carefully and answer the (4) 440 (5) None of these questions. Q.160. In another village U total skilled players are 20% Given pie chart shows percentage distribution of Players of Kabaddi in five different villages more than total unskilled players in village P and 3 th (P, Q, R, S and T) and table shows number total skilled players in village U are of total of Players who know the game Kabaddi. 7 Note – Total Players = players who know the game players in that village. Find total unskilled players Kabaddi (Skilled) + players who don’t know the from village U is what percent less than total game Kabaddi but they can play (unskilled). unskilled players from village R?

100 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 US cuts new tariffs on China and enters into a new deal. MODEL PAPER 2019 (1) 24% (2) 44% (3) 34% Q.165. What is the difference between the total runs (4) 42% (5) None of these scored against Others in 2017 to the total runs Q.161. If the above data given is for the year 2017 and scored against Others in 2018? in 2018 total players increased by 40%, while (1) 150 (2) 200 (3) 100 percentage distribution of players of Kabaddi in (4) 300 (5) 250 five different villages remain same as in 2017. If number of skilled players from village P, Q, S Q.166. The total runs scored against Australia in 2018 is and T in 2018 increased by 25%, 20%, 14% and what percentage of the total runs scored against 10% respectively and total skilled players from all Australia in 2019? the five village in 2018 are 2800, then find total (1) 125% (2) 100% (3) 150% unskilled players from R in 2018. (4) 200% (5) 250% (1) 1896 (2) 1472 (3) 1672 Q.167-170. What approximate value will come in place of (4) 1596 (5) None of these question mark (?) in the following questions? Q.162-166. Read the given information carefully and answer the questions given below. Q.167. 447.75 ÷ 28 × 4.99 = ? Rohit Sharma scored runs against different (1) 50 (2) 70 (3) 60 countries in three different years. (4) 80 (5) 90 NOTE: Total runs scored in a year = Australia Q.168. 4985.0346 ÷ 215.987 + 3768.112 ÷ 206.868 = ? + England + Others (1) 40 (2) 50 (3) 75 2017: The total runs scored in 2017 were 1200. The runs scored against England were 1/3 of the (4) 60 (5) 45 runs against Others in 2018. Q.169. 732 – 163 = ?% of 399 The average runs scored against Australia and (1) 250 (2) 270 (3) 290 England was 300. 2018: The total runs scored against Australia and (4) 310 (5) 330 Others was 1200. The ratio of the total runs scored Q.170. 459% of 849.947 + 269.9% of 6281.012 - 1486.002 against Others in 2017 to that of the total runs = ? scored against Others in 2018 is 4:3. The total runs (1) 18500 (2) 17900 (3) 18200 scored against England in 2018 were equal to the total runs scored against England in 2019. (4) 19500 (5) 19300 2019: The sum of the total runs scored against Q.171-175. Study the data given below and answer the Australia and England is equal to the total runs following question. scored against Others. The total runs scored in The bar graphs shown below shows the distance 2019 were 1400. The total runs scored against covered by a boat moving upstream and Australia were twice of the runs scored against downstream on different days. And the table shows England in 2017. the speed of stream in km/hr. on different days. Q.162. What were the total runs scored in 2018? (1) 1100 (2) 1500 (3) 1600 (4) 1400 (5) 1000 Q.163. What is the sum of the runs scored against England in all three years? (1) 800 (2) 950 (3) 850 (4) 1050 (5) 1100 Q.164. What is the ratio of the total runs scored against Australia in 2017 to that of the total runs scored against England in 2019? (1) 7: 9 (2) 9: 7 (3) 11: 7

(4) 9: 8 (5) 11: 13

Fifteen Indian-origin candidates elected to House of Commons in UK. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 101 CRP CLERK MAINS Q.175. If the time taken by boat to travel upstream on Day 1 is 6 hours more than the time taken by it to travel downstream on Day 5 and the speed of boat in still water on Day 5 is 13 km/h, then find the upstream speed of boat on Day 1. (1) 12 km/h (2) 15 km/h (3) 18 km/h (4) None of these (5) Can’t be determined Q.176-180. In each of the following questions, a question is followed by three statement. Read all the statements and find that which statements are Day 1 required to answer the question and answer Day 2 2 accordingly. Day 3 Q.176. What is the volume of the cylindrical tank? Day 4 3 Statement I: Diameter of the base is equal to the Day 5 height of the tank. Day 6 4 Statement II: Height of the tank is 20 m. Day 7 2 Statement III: Area of the base is 320 sq. m. Q.171. If the time taken by boat to travel upstream on (1) Only I and III (2) Only I Day 1 is equal to the time taken by it to travel (3) Only III (4) Any two are sufficient downstream on Day 5 and the speed of boat in still (5) None of these water on Day 5 is 13 km/h then find the speed of stream in still water on Day 5. Q.177. What is the selling price of the camera if no discount is offered? (1) 13.5 (2) 12.5 (3) 13 Statement I: Cost price of the camera is Rs 10000. (4) 14 (5) Can’t be determined Statement II: Profit earned was 20%. Q.172. If the time taken by boat to travel upstream on Day Statement III: Had 20% discount been offered on 2 and the time taken by it to travel downstream on selling price the profit would have been Rs 700. 1 the same day is 25 hrs. Find the speed of boat in (1) Only III (2) Only II and III 4 still stream on Day 2. (3) Only I and II (4) All together are sufficient (1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (5) Any two are sufficient (4) 8 (5) can’t be determined Q.178. How many students failed in class 6? Q.173. If the speed of boat in still water on Day 6 was 31 Statement I: 400 students passed in class 6. km/hr and the speed of boat in still water on Day 3 Statement II: Number of students failed in class 6 was 28 km/h and time taken to travel downstream is 10% of those of failed in class 7? on Day 6 is 5/6 hrs less than the time taken by it to Statement III: 75% of the students who appeared travel downstream on Day 3, then find the speed of in examination have passed taking class 6 and 8 stream (in km/h) on Day 3? together. (1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (1) Only II and III (2) Only I and II (4) 6 (5) None of these (3) Only III (4) None of these Q.174. The speed of boat in still water on Day 7 was 23 km/ (5) All together are sufficient hr if the time taken by boat to travel downstream Q.179. What is the rate of interest per capita per annum? on Day 7 is 15/32 times taken to travel upstream Statement I: Simple Interest accrued in two years on Day 1, then find the time taken by the boat to on the same amount at the same rate of interest is cover a distance of 51.20 km upstream when the Rs 44000. speed of stream is same as that of Day 7. Statement II: The amount becomes Rs 15400 in (1) 0.3 (2) 0.5 (3) 0.9 two years on simple interest. (4) 0.8 (5) None of these Statement III: Difference between the compound

102 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Poland was left out of European Union's 2050 climate neutrality agreement. MODEL PAPER 2019 interest and simple interest earned in two years on Q.185. A man invested an amount at the rate of 10% p.a. the amount invested is Rs 120. on compound interest and after two years he again (1) Only I and II (2) Only II and III invested half of the initial amount. If man got Rs. (3) Only II (4) Only I and III 444.6 as interest after three years, find the amount received by man after three years, if he invested (5) None of these same amount on simple interest at rate of 15% p.a.? Q.180. In how many days 9 men and 15 women can the (1) 3840 (2) 3590 (3) 3760 work be done ? (4) 3720 (5) None of these (I) 6 men and 5 women can complete the work in 6 Q.186. From container A containing 54 liter of mixture of days. milk and water in ratio of 8 : 1 , 18 liter of the (II) 3 men and 4 women can complete the work in 10 mixture is taken out and poured into container B in days. which ratio of milk to water is 3 : 1. If difference (III) 18 men and 15 women can complete the work in 2 between total milk and total water in container B days. is 30 liter then find the quantity of initial mixture (1) Only I (2) Only II (3) Any two in container B. (4) All I, II and III (5) None of these (1) 30 (2) 28 (3) 32 Q.181. In a match of 50 overs, team A’s average runs for (4) 36 (5) 40 first thirty overs was 4.5 runs/over while for the Q.187. Train A can cross a man in 8 sec and a 180 m remaining 20 overs the average was 5.5 runs/over. long platform ‘P’ in 17 sec. If train A cross train B Team B chased the target and lost by 10 runs. Find which is running in opposite direction at speed of the average runs per over scored by team B. (team 108 km/hr in 8 sec, then find time (in sec) taken by B played all the 50 overs). train B to cross platform P? (1) 12 (2) 15 (3) 18 (1) 3.6 (2) 5.7 (3) 4.7 (4) 14 (5) None of these (4) 6.0 (5) None of these Q.188. There are two shopkeepers, first shopkeeper Q.182. In a bag which contains 40 balls, there are 18 red calculates his profit percent on the selling price balls and some green and blue balls. If two balls whereas the second shopkeeper calculates his are picked up from the bag without replacement, profit percent on the cost price. If the selling price then the probability of the first ball being red and for both the shopkeeper is same and the difference second being green is 3/26. between their profits is Rs 175. Then, calculate the Find the number of blue balls in the bag. sum of the cost price for both the shopkeeper if the (1) 12 (2) 10 (3) 18 profit percent for the both shopkeeper is 25%? (4) None of these(5) can’t be determined (1) 5425 (2) 4875 (3) 4675 (4) 5275 (5) 5325 Q.183. A is 50% more efficient than B. They together start Q.189. If 6 years are subtracted from the present age 7 the work and does th of the work in 8 days and of Ayush and takes 25% of that then we get the 12 present age of his only son. 4 years ago, his A left. Find in what time B alone will complete the daughter’s age is 7 years more than his son. Sum whole work. of daughter’s present age and his wife’s present 1 1 2 age is 10 years more than Ayush’s present age then (1) 32 (2) 35 (3) 34 7 2 7 find the present age of Ayush if average of present 2 age of entire family is 30.25 year? (4) 37 (5) None of these 5 (1) 45 (2) 50 (3) 60 Q.184. There is a square field of area ‘X’ square meters. (4) 40 (5) 36 A cylindrical ditch of radius 7 meters and depth Q.190. ‘X’ is a bread seller who marked up price of each 2 meters is dug, and the mud is taken out and bread packet by 150% above and allow discounts spread over the remaining part of the square field, of 40% and made a profit of Rs. 30 on each bread the height of square field which goes up by 0.77 packet. If ‘X’ allows 37.5% discount on each meters. What is the value of ‘X’? packet, then find how much profit he gets on (1) 548 m2 (2) 524 m2 (3) 518 m2 selling 80 bread packets? 2 2 (1) 2750 (2) 3200 (3) 2700 (4) 554 m (5) 504 m (4) 2500 (5) 2400

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurates the 172nd Defence FEBRUARY 2020 MICA Pensioners Adalat in Lucknow. 103 CRP CLERK MAINS Explanation/CRP CLERK MAINS/General Awareness Q.1.(1) A retired Judge of the Supreme Court. Adarsh Q.15.(1) Sweden topped in Inclusive Internet Index Kumar Goel is the chairperson of the National 2019. India has been ranked 47th in the overall Green Tribunal (NGT). National Green Tribunal "Inclusive Internet Index 2019" score. Act, 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of India Q.16.(2) In Northern Ireland Abortion has been which enables the creation of a special tribunal decriminalised and same-sex marriage is to handle the expeditious disposal of the cases legalised. environmental issues. Q.17.(4) RIL became the world’s sixth-largest energy Q.2.(2) Kailasavadivoo Sivan, an Indian space scientist, entity with high market capitalization. is the Chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organization. Q.18.(3) Jammu & Kashmir Grameen Bank secured the top position in terms of achievement of Rupay Q.3.(1) A new book entitled “The Tech Whisperer”, Card transaction targets (POS and eCOM). written by digital transformation expert Jaspreet Bindra. Q.19.(5) The birthday of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on 15 October is declared as World Students Day by Q.4.(5) Google India has appointed former Star and Disney the United Nations. head Sanjay Gupta as new Country Manager. Q.20.(1) Bank credit is not a factor of Production. Q.5.(4) Saurav Ganguly has taken Charges as new BCCI Q.21.(3) “The Global Ayurveda Summit” was held President. at Hotel Le Meridien, Kochi Kerala. It is an Q.6.(1) Braj Raj Sharma, a 1984-batch IAS officer of international annual event has started to serve as J&K cadre, has been appointed as chairman a force to galvanize Ayurvedic sector to aspire, of Staff Selection Commission (SSC). Pankaj plan and achieve greater heights. Kumar has been appointed as the new CEO of Q.22.(4) Ujjivan Financial Services Limited started the Unique Identification Authority of India operations as a NBFC in 2005. On 7 October (UIDAI). 2015, Ujjivan received an in-principle approval Q.7.(4) M Stanley Whittingham has received the Nobel from the Reserve Bank of India to set up a small Prize 2019 for Chemistry. finance bank. Q.8.(3) Assam State Government has decided that no Q.23.(1) The headquarters of BIMSTEC is in Dhaka, Government job will be provided to persons Bangladesh. The Bay of Bengal Initiative with more than 2 children after 1 January 2021. for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation is an international organisation of Q.9.(4) In Football, the Services football team lifted seven nations of South Asia and South East Asia. the 2019 Santosh Trophy by defeating Punjab 1-nil in the final at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Q.24.(4) Colonel Chewang Rinchen Setu is located in Ludhiana. Ladakh. On 21 October 2019, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Colonel Chewang Q.10.(2) The state government of Haryana has decided Rinchen Setu in East Ladakh on the Shyok River. to bring more crops under its ‘Bhavantar Bharpayee Yojna (BBY)’ scheme. Q.25.(5) The time limit set by TRAI for mobile phone call ring is 30 seconds. Telecom regulator TRAI Q.11.(2) Rate for borrowing rupees by banks from RBI fixed ring call time on mobile for 30 seconds and represents correct meaning of ‘REPO RATE’. for landline phones by 60 seconds. TRAI has Q.12.(2) Kapil Dev has written three autobiographical mandated a terminating network to disconnect works. “Cricket-My Style” was launched in 1987. incoming calls after a minimum ring span as well as notify the original network. Q.13.(2) Researchers of USA have developed a new technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) Q.26.(1) Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah from a stream of air. inaugurated Aadi Mahotsav 2019, the National Tribal Festival, at Dilli Haat, New Delhi. The Q.14.(1) India will host the 2023 Men's Hockey World theme is to represent the basic ethos of tribal Cup. life.

104 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 Bodybuilder Chitharesh Natesan crowned as Mr Universe 2019. MODEL PAPER 2019 Q.27.(1) Reserve Bank of India is the regulatory body program aims at empowering the girl child for that issues the Financial Stability Report. which an amount of 15 thousand rupees will be Q.28.(2) The Minimum Capital Requirement to open provided to every family in which a girl child Small Finance Banks is 100 Crore. takes birth. Q.29.(2) Non – performing asset is an asset that ceases to Q.40.(1) Kais Saied is elected as the new President of generate income. Tunisia. Kais Saied is a Tunisian politician and former professor of constitutional law. Q.30.(2) Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is Q.41.(3) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde has sworn in as an apex body that functions under the Ministry the 47th Chief Justice of India on 18 November of Commerce and Industry, Government of 2019. President Ram Nath Kovind administered India, responsible for the export promotion of the oath of office at the Durbar Hall of the agricultural products. Rashtrapati Bhavan. Q.31.(2) Uber cup is related with the sport of Badminton. Q.42.(3) South Africa was invited to join BRIC in December 2010, after which the group adopted Q.32.(3) The second edition of the naval exercise called the acronym BRICS. IMNEX-2019 has been conducted between India and Myanmar in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Q.43.(3) New technology, blockchain-based carbon Pradesh. The exercise aims to increase maritime trading exchange has been launched in cooperation between the two navies. Singapore. This will enable airlines and other corporate buyers to buy and sell tokens approved Q.33.(3) The Indian Army has begun to digitize its by the International Civil Aviation Organization official records under its new programme and supported by carbon offset credits. called “OASIS”-Officers Automated Structures Information System. Q.44.(1) The prestigious Dhanwantari award, which recognizes contribution in medical science is Q.34.(4) Per capita income of a country is the best awarded annually since 1972. indicator of economic development of that country. Q.45.(4) Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company Q.35.(3) The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a report headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. by the International Monetary Fund that analyzes key parts of the IMF's surveillance of economic Q.46.(1) Indian Railways unveiled the Sarbat-Da-Bhala developments and policies in its member Express on the occasion of the 550th Birth countries. It also projects developments in the Anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. The global financial markets and economic systems. train no. 22479/22480 Sarbat-Da-Bhala Express runs between New Delhi and Lohian Khas. New Q.36.(2) Smart Money is a term used for the credit card, Delhi-Ludhiana Intercity renamed by Union debit card etc. Minister Harsimrat Badal on the occasion of the Q.37.(3) Savings bank accounts are opened by individuals 550th Parkash Purb celebrations as 'Sarbat Da for saving purpose. Bhala Express'. Q.38.(1) Recently, The Ministry of Health and Family Q.47.(1) The 17th edition 2019, World Athletics Welfare released a commemorative postal Championships was held at Khalifa International stamp of National Institute of Nutrition. It was Stadium, Doha, Qatar. introduced under the “Corporate My Stamp” Q.48.(1) Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank merged into scheme of India Posts. The stamp was released Union Bank of India. The headquarters of Union during the completion of Centenary Celebrations Bank of India is in the Mumbai. of National Institute of Nutrition. The theme of the celebration was “Empowering the nation Q.49.(1) ‘Hryvnia’ is the currency of Ukraine. through nutrition”. Q.50.(2) The two bank unions – AIBEA (All India Q.39.(3) On the occasion of Dhanteras, Mukhya Mantri Bank Employees Association) and BEFI (Bank Kanya Sumangala Yojana launched in Uttar Employees Federation of India) have protested Pradesh by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The against the Modi government’s decision to merge six PSU banks with four large ones.

Ellyse Perry named 2019 Best cricketer and ODI player. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 105 CRP CLERK MAINS Explanation/IBPS CLERK MAINS/English Language Q.51.(4) ‘aspects’ should replace ‘aspect’ as ‘one of the’, Intact (adj.) – not damaged or impaired in any ‘each of the’, etc. take plural nouns with them. way; complete. Q.52.(2) ‘the’ should replace ‘a’ as the definite article is Put off (n) – an evasive reply. used before ordinal numbers. Q.64.(4) Proactively (adverb) – by taking action to control Q.53.(2) ‘emanates’ should replace ‘emanate’ as a singular a situation. verb is needed for a singular noun (risk). Deploy (v) – bring into effective action; utilise. Q.54.(5) All are correct. For other options: Q.55.(4) ‘its’ should replace ‘their’ as it is referring to a Instinctively (adverb) – without conscious singular noun (company). thought; by natural instinct. Q.56.(2) Supplant, Oust and Supersede are synonyms, Inevitably (adverb) – unavoidably they all mean to take the place of (a person or Ascertain (v) – find (something) out for certain; thing previously in authority or use) whereas Do make sure of. up and Recondition are synonyms which mean Q.65.(5) Get a handle – Develop an understanding of overhaul or repair (a vehicle engine or piece of something. equipment). Kill two birds with one stone – Accomplish two Q.57.(5) Spurn, Rebuff and Repudiate are synonyms, they things with the same effort. all mean reject with disdain or contempt whereas Burn the midnight oil – Work or labour late into Adjure and Beseech are synonyms which mean the night. ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do Q.66.(4) decryption ('and' connects similar parts of something. speech) is at (at is used to indicate places) the Q.58.(4) Subjugate, Vanquish and Clobber are synonyms, heart of the challenge among (among is used for they all mean to overcome, quieten, or bring more than two people). Q.67.(4) Ark (n) – a low hut used to house livestock, under control (a feeling or person) whereas often incorporating a covered run. Clump and Trudge are synonyms which mean Arc (n) – a part of a curve, especially a part of walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps. the circumference of a circle. Q.59.(3) For D: All other sentences are conveying the Q.68.(2) Fowl (n) – a gallinaceous bird kept for its eggs same meaning except sentence D, because as per and flesh; a domestic cock or hen. sentence D ‘the department would soon convene Foul (n) – (in sport) an unfair or invalid stroke PTI meetings’, while the original message is or piece of play, especially one involving saying that ‘the department would soon ask all interference with an opponent. government school authorities to convene PTI Q.69.(4) Bridal (adj.) – of or concerning a bride or a meetings’, so it is giving the wrong message, newly married couple. hence it gets eliminated. Bridle (adj.) – the headgear used to control a Q.60.(4) For A: It is clearly written in the original horse, consisting of buckled straps to which a bit sentence that the cause of cough is not treated and reins are attached. by Cough suppressants, but sentence A is saying Q.70.(3) Grown (v) – (of a person) come to feel or think that it does treat the cause of cough. something over time. Q.61.(3) For C: Both duties and responsibilities should Groan (v) – a deep sound conveying pain, be fulfilled, according to the original sentence despair, pleasure, etc. but in the sentence C 'either….or' is mentioned Q.71.(3) If we see on the basis of grammar, ‘for better which makes it entirely wrong. communication’ does not link well with ‘improve Q.62.(4) For A: Sentence A is wrong because of the fact the level’, so it is not linking with phrase 3. that neither the properties of employees will If we see, on the basis of the context, ‘better be confiscated nor the corrupt people will be communication with students is done and refunded any single paisa. improve the level’ is getting out of the context. Q.63.(3) Lure (v) – tempt (a person or animal) to do If we remove the third phrase and directly something or to go somewhere, especially by connect 2 and 4, we will get a meaningful and offering some form of reward. grammatically correct sentence. Leverage (n) – the power to influence a person or Q.72.(3) If we see on the basis of grammar, the place situation. ‘Kanpur’ and ‘are an’ are not connecting, and For other options: phrase 1 is in the past tense but phrase 3 is starting Endure (v) – suffer (something painful or with the present tense, so it is grammatically difficult) patiently. wrong as well.

106 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 UWW named Deepak Punia as the Jr Freestyle Wrestler of the Year. MODEL PAPER 2019 If we see, on the basis of the context, ‘Uttar Q.80.(3) The answer lies in the last paragraph of the Pradesh’s Kanpur’ is totally not matching with passage. ‘are an attraction for many visitors in bird Q.81.(2) The answer lies in the last paragraph of the sanctuary’. passage. If we remove the third phrase and directly Q.82.(5) The answer lies in the last paragraph of the connect 2 and 4, we will get a meaningful and passage. grammatically correct sentence. Q.83.(3) The answer lies in the last line of the passage. Q.73.(2) If we see on the basis of grammar,’ energy' written Q.84.(3) The answer lies in the second paragraph of the at last of the phrase 1 is not at all connecting passage. with 'about you' written at the beginning of the Q.85.(3) To do something that helps something or phrase 2. contributes to the success of something. If we see, on the basis of the context, ‘getting e.g. - Relief agencies are desperately hoping distracted’ is not the idea but ‘catching up on that the ceasefirestrikes a blow for peace in the something enjoyable’ is. region. If we remove the second phrase and directly Q.86.(4) Negotiation (n) – discussion aimed at reaching connect phrase 1 and 3, we will get a meaningful an agreement. and grammatically correct sentence. For other options: Q.74.(4) If we see on the basis of grammar, at last of the Summon (v) – order (someone) to be present. phrase 3, ‘in your muscles’ is written which is Negation (n) – the contradiction or denial of not logically connecting with ‘end of the day’ something. moreover it is a phrase which starts with ‘at the Parley (v) – hold a conference with the opposing end of the day’. side to discuss terms. If we see, on the basis of the context, a walk is Q.87.(2) Surge (n) – a sudden large increase, typically a used in an active voice so next step should also temporary one. be relevant with a walk and not with the For other options: If we remove the fourth phrase and directly Gush (n) – (of a liquid) flow out of something in connect 3 and 5, we will get a meaningful and a rapid and plentiful stream. grammatically correct sentence. Discharge (n) – the action of doing all that is Q.75.(4) If we see on the basis of grammar, the last word required to fulfil a responsibility or perform a of phrase 3 is ‘a’ which does not connect with duty. the first word i.e. ‘if’ of the phrase 4. Plummet (n) – a steep and rapid fall or drop. If we see, on the basis of the context, ‘letting Eddy (n) – a circular movement of water causing your personal life suffer’ does not link well with a small whirlpool. a mild consciousness mentioned in the phrase Q.88.(5) Pass muster means to be accepted as adequate or 5 to know how many cups of coffee have been satisfactory. consumed by one, which is why phrase 4 is out For other options: of the context. Pass away – a polite or kind way to say someone Moreover, if we remove the fourth phrase and has died. directly connect 3 and 5, we will get a meaningful Pass off – to try and convince someone that and grammatically correct sentence. something is real. Q.76.(1) In part B: Add ‘the’ before ‘Supreme Court’. Pass on – to transfer information. In part Q: Preposition generally takes 'gerund' Pass out – to faint, or become unconscious. with it so use 'maintaining' in place of 'maintain'. Q.89.(5) Impasse (n) – a situation in which no progress is Q.77.(3) In part A: An adjective ‘considerable’ is required possible, especially because of disagreement; a to qualify a noun ‘improvement’. deadlock. In part R: a plural helping verb ‘are’ is required for For other options: the plural subject ‘disruptive protests and slogans’. Breakthrough (n) – a sudden, dramatic, and Q.78.(4) In part C: ‘his’ must be replaced with ‘their’ important discovery or development. because the subject is ‘Opposition parties’. Sure-fire (adj.) – certain to succeed. In part Q: here the sentence is in the past tense so Q.90.(3) Burnish (v) – enhance or improve. ‘lead to’ must be replaced with ‘led to’. For other options: Q.79.(3) In part A: ‘subject of reference’ generally should Perceive (v) – become aware or conscious of be a noun hence ‘adoption’ must replace ‘adopt’. (something); come to realize or understand. In part R: ‘at the last few years’ should be Furbish (v) – give a fresh look to replaced with ‘over the last few years’, because (something old or shabby); renovate. the latter is a phrase which means ‘during the Mundane (adj.) – boring. last several years’.

Veteran actor Shriram Lagoo passed away. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 107 CRP CLERK MAINS Explanation/CRP CLERK MAINS/Reasoning Ability Q.91.(5) Step- 1: D S * H 4 W N T L $ F 3 6 Q 5 C # 7 % Q.96.(4) Q.97.(4) Q.98.(5) 8 B @ 9 K Q.99.(1) Q.100.(5) Step- 2: D S * H 4 W N T L $ 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 # % Q.101-105. 8 B 9 @ K Rack Box Color Serial Fruits Step- 3: D H 4 W N T 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 # L $ S * % 8 B 9 @ K Number 8 Box O Brown 19 watermelon Q.92.(1) Step- 1: D S * H 4 W N T L $ F 3 6 Q 5 C # 7 % 7 Box J White 23 banana 8 B @ 9 K 6 Box H Indigo 17 apple Step- 2: D S * H 4 W N T L $ 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 # % 5 Box K Blue 31 apricot 8 B 9 @ K 4 Box M Yellow 34 grapes Step- 3: D H 4 W N T 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 # L $ S * % 3 Box I Red 37 orange 8 B 9 @ K 2 Box L Green 27 blackberry 1 Box N Orange 21 peach Step- 3: D H 4 W N T 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 L S 8 B 9 K Q.101.(3) Q.102.(3) Q.103.(4) Q.93.(2) Step- 1: D S * H 4 W N T L $ F 3 6 Q 5 C # 7 % Q.104.(4) Q.105.(3) 8 B @ 9 K Q.106-110. Step- 2: D S * H 4 W N T L $ 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 # % WagonR 8 B 9 @ K Creta Step- 3: D H 4 W N T 3 F 6 5 Q C 7 # L $ S * % 8 B 9 @ K U Brezza Q.94.(5) A 0.2 km C Q 0.4 km 0.4 km T R Nano E 0.9 km K 0.2 km I 0.5 km G Polo 1.2 km P 1.2 km 1.2 km V S L J 0.5 km F 0.9 km H Verna 0.4 km 0.4 km Captur Amaze B D Duster Q.106.(3) Q.107.(4) Q.108.(3) Q.95.(3) A 0.2 km C Q.109.(5) Q.110.(3) 0.4 km 0.4 km Q.111.(2) The numeric value of the letters are calculated E 0.9 km K 0.2 km I 0.5 km G by considering A as 1 and Z as 26. 1.2 km The code for VITAMIN using the below 1.2 km 1.2 km L J 0.5 km mentioned logic is F 0.9 km H 0.4 km 0.4 km (V+T+M+N) – (I+A+I) = (22+20+13+14) – (9+1+9) B D 69 – 19 = 50 Q.96-100. Hence, the answer is E. Month Book Genre Font Pages Similarly, February Book-7 Sci-Fi Reis 190 (S+T+R+N+G) – (A+E) = (19+20+18+14+7) – March Book-6 Action Sheila 135 (1+5) = 78 – 6= 72 April Book-2 Thriller Calibri 120 May Book-4 Romance Kalam 125 Q.112.(3) EFFECT = (F+F+C+T) – (E+E) = (6+6+3+20) – July Book-1 Horror Rumi 110 (5+5) = 25 October Book-3 Drama Italic 200 Q.113.(4) DREAM = (D+R+M) – (E+A) = (4+18+13) – December Book-5 Mystery Sophia 230 (5+1) = 35 – 6 = 29

108 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 The 5-day music festival Tansen Samaroh held in Gwalior. MODEL PAPER 2019 Q.114.(1) BRUTAL = (B+R+T+L) – (A+U) and would stop our startups from making their = (2+18+20+12) – (1+21) mark as the policies are not supportive. Hence, 52 – 22 = 30 option (3) is correct. Q.115.(4) SUPREME = (S+P+R+M) – (U+E+E) Q.125.(4) = (19+16+18+13) – (21+5+5) = 66 – 31 = 35 Q.126.(1) Statement I is correct. It states how the number of people employed has been dwindling over Q.116-120. the years. This weakens the importance of the Input : 2436 1192 2971 1234 3420 (2×6, 4×3) (1×2, 1×9) (2×1, 9×7) (1×4, 2×3) (3×0, 4×2) handloom sector. Statement II is incorrect as it Step-I: 1212 0209 0263 0406 0008 not strengthens the importance of the argument. +(32)2 +(32)2 +(32)2 +(32)2 +(32)2 Statement III is incorrect as it does not impact Step-II: 2236 1233 1287 1430 1032 the argument. Hence, option (1) is correct. Arranged in ascending order Q.127-130. Step-III: 1032 1233 1287 1430 2236 1 (a) 1 (b) (10+12+12+14+22) (32+33+87+30+36) B/D B/D Step-IV: 70 218 S/R M S/R P+ M 2 2 (7+0=7=7 =49) (2+1+8=11=11 =121) A P+ J A P+ J (49+121) P+ N P+ N Step-V: 170 K O K O Input : 5241 4522 3489 4179 4183 S/R S/R Step-I: 0508 0810 2732 3607 1208 L B/D L B/D Building-1 Building-2 Building-3 Building-1 Building-2 Building-3 Step-II: 1532 1834 3756 4631 2232 Step-III: 1532 1834 2232 3756 4631 2 (a) 2 (b) Step-IV: 138 185 B/D B/D Step-V: 340 S/R M S/R P+ M A P+ J A P+ J Q.116.(2) Q.117.(3) Q.118.(5) P+ N P+ N Q.119.(1) Q.120.(5) K O K O Q.121.(3) By referring to the latent talent that some children S/R S/R L B/D L B/D may be neglecting, the educator is implying that not all talent shows its face at an early age. Building-1 Building-2 Building-3 Building-1 Building-2 Building-3 Q.122.(3) The text states that preparation, like equipment, Q.127.(4) Q.128.(5) Q.129.(5) Q.130.(5) is a major factor in the risk of injury during high- Q.131-135 risk activities. People who are poorly trained run Persons H E G C F B D A a higher risk of injury even if provided with Age 7 28 10 42 18 36 13 the best equipment. From this we can infer that (in years) 30 whatever benefits might derive from the best equipment can be negated by improper training. Person G's vessels Vessels Q.123.(3) The option (3) states that a heart scan could result C3 E5 B2 F6 D4 A1 (North) in indirect harm by causing a patient to undergo Milk 5 2 6 1 3 4 risky unnecessary procedures. This is supported (Liters) by the passage, which states that the scans could Color Black Yellow Purple Red Blue Green result in undue concern and treatment. Q.131.(4) Q.132.(1) Q.133.(4) Q.124.(3) To become a world leading producer, one needs Q.134.(2) Q.135.(3) to have economies of scale.Statement I is a Q.136.(3) strong argument. It states that simply having A B a huge number of startups is not enough but E D D A what is done with them in terms of growth is important. Statement II is not strong as it does not add anything to support the given original B C E F statement and is irrelevant. Statement III is F C correct. If this is true, this is a strong argument Q.137.(1) Q.138.(4) Q.139.(4) Q.140.(2)

International Migrants Day is observed on 18 December. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 109 CRP CLERK MAINS Explanation/CRP Clerk Mains/Numerical Ability Q.141.(3) Let the number of boys = 4x and the number of Q.143.(3) girls = 5x 2 r  2650× 4 × r If 45 students from the same school leave the 5000 1+  − 5000 = school 100  100 2 45× 4 5000 1+ 0.01r − 5000 = 106r = 20 ( ) Then the number of boys left = 9 5000 1 0.0001r 2 5000 106r 45× 5 ( +) − = Then the number of girls left = = 25 9 5000+ 0.5r2 + 100 r − 5000 = 106r According to the question, 0.5r2 − 6 r = 0 4x − 20 4 = 5x 25 40 9 6 − + r 12% 4x − 20 4 = = = 0.5 5x 15 9 + 2650× 12 × 4 =106 × 12 = 1272 36x – 180 = 20x + 60 100 16x = 240 So, Quantity I = Rs. 1272 x = 15 Quantity II = Rs. 1275 The number of boys = 4x = 4 × 15 = 60 Q.144.(3) The efficiency of inlet pipe And the number of girls = 5x = 5 × 15 = 75 25000 = = 2500 liters/hour When, 50% of the boys left then the remaining 10 The efficiency of outlet pipe number of boys = 50% of 60 = 30 25000 = = 625 liters/hour Total students = 30 + 75 = 105 40 30× 100 Quantity I: = 28.57% 105 25000 Half of the tank = =12500 liters 2 Therefore, Quantity : I < Quantity : II The efficiency of pipe A and B together Q.142.(1) Case 1, = 2500 – 625 = 1875 litres per hour When A goes for 500 meters B goes for 450 12500 20 The reqd. time = = hours meters 1875 3 A : B = 500 : 450 = 10 : 9 = 6 hours 40 min. Case 2, Quantity II: When B goes for 1000 meters, C goes for 750 100% in 10 hours therefore, 70% of 10 = 7 hours meters Therefore, Quantity : I < Quantity : II B : C = 1000 : 750 = 4 : 3 Q.145.(5) Quantity I: A : B : C = 40 : 36 : 27 Relative speed of man and train Quantity I: = 15 + 7.5 = 22.5 km/hr = 22.5 × 5/18 m/sec When A travels 40x meters C travels 27x meters Distance(x) = speed × time When A travels 40 × 20 = 800 meters 22.5× 5 × 40 = 250 meters C will travel 27 × 20 = 540 meters 18 It means, A will beat C by Quantity II : 800 – 540 = 260 meters x + y = 15 × 120 × 5/18 Therefore, Quantity I > Quantity II 250 + y = 500

110 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 India became the worlds 3rd largest publisher of science and engineering articles. MODEL PAPER 2019 Y = 500 – 250 = 250 meters = the length of Total employee working in company C at the end platform of year 2017 Therefore, Quantity I = Quantity II = 252 – 108 + 324 – 48 + 372 – 84 = 708 Q.146.(1) Required difference = 708 – 432 = 276 3 3 9 Q.152.(1) Let total sale be x × 92 % of 8000 + 90% (x-8000)=12310 7 8= 56 3 3 4 5  9 20  after solving x=13500 × + × + 7 8 7 9  56 63  Q.153.(5) SI of 2.5 years=12.5 2.5 25.92=810 Rs 9 CI of 2.5 years = 56 81 72− 6 2 ⇒ = 2592× = 936 241 241 62 63 1 3528× = 294 12 Q.147.(4) Total employee working in Company A in 2014 32 CI of 2.5 years= 936+294=1230 = x× =64 =x = 200 100 difference of SI and CI=1230-810 = Rs. 420 Total working employee in Company A in end of Q.154.(5) A 13 2016 = 200–60 + 306 – 96 + 234 – 72 = 512 n = B 10 Total working employee in Company B in end of n 2016 = 288 – 54 + 216 – 48 = 402 Tw = 10 × 12 + 20 × 13 = 380 380 402 = 19 Required % = ×100 ≈ 78% 512 2× 10 Q.148.(2) Total employee working in Company C at the Q.155.(1) Make quantity of liquid perfume equal end of 2017 = 1272 – 9x = 399 27 : 7 = 27 : 7 9x = 873 9 (3 : 1) = 27 : 9 x = 97 Now, 27 + 7 = 34 = 340 1 = 10, 2 = 20 So, 7x = 7×97 = 679 Q.156.(2) M = 2R Total employee working in Company B at the F = M + 5 ...... (i) end of 2016 = 480 + 288 + 216 – 54 – 679 = 251 10 years back, Q.149.(3) F – 10 = 3(R - 10) ...... (ii) 2013 660 After 5 years, 2014 672 F + 5 = 2(R + 5) ...... (iii) 2015 906 After solving 2016 1122-6x Ratio: 5 : 10 : 11 2017 1554-7x Q.157-160. Total 4914 – 13x = 1398 Number of Skilled Unskilled Village 13x = 3516 Players Players Players Q.150.(2) 7x+ 6 x + 72 P 720 440 280 = 63 3 Q 900 500 400 R 1680 880 800 x = 9 S 1500 700 800 Total employee working in company B at the end T 1200 360 840 of 2016 = 306 – 63 + 234 – 72 = 405 Q.157.(4) Required % Total employee joined company C in 2016 = 324 500+ 360 − 800 60 81 = ×100 = × 100 = 7.5% Required % = ×100 = 25% 800 800 324 Q.158.(3) Ratio between male unskilled player to female Q.151.(4) Total employee working in company A at the end unskilled players in village S = 5: 3 of year 2016 8 = 800 = 306 – 36 + 234 – 72 = 432 1 = 100

India and France to begin patrolling mission in Indian Ocean Region. FEBRUARY 2020 MICA 111 CRP CLERK MAINS 5 = 500 Q.171-175. Upstream Downstream Stream Required ratio = 500: 1080 = 25: 54 Days 325 distance distance speed Q.159.(2) 1680× % = 780 Day – 1 60 75 - 7 Day – 2 56 90 2 7 780× = 420 Day – 3 40 75 - 13 Day – 4 72 80 3 800− 420 = 380 Day – 5 48 60 - Q.160.(2) Total skilled player in village U Day – 6 64 70 4 Day – 7 60 50 2 120 = 280× = 336 Q.171.(5) Data is not sufficient 100 56 90 1 3 = 336 Q.172.(3) + = 25 b−2 b + 2 4 1 = 112 on putting b = 6, we get the answer 7 = 784 75 70 5 784 – 336 = 448 − = 28+ x 31 + 4 6 800 – 448 = 352 Q.173.(5) x = 2 352 ×100 = 44% Q.174.(4) 800 50 = 2 Q.161.(1) 23+ 2 Number of Skilled Unskilled 15 15 Village 2× = Players Players Players 32 16 60 15 P 1008 550 458 = Q 1260 600 660 b − 2 16 R 2352 456 1896 b −2 = 64 S 2100 798 1302 51.20 T 1680 396 1284 = 0.8h 64 Q.162-166. Q.175.(5) Can’t be determined. 2017 2018 2019 Australia 450 750 300 Q.176.(4) Any of the two are sufficient to answer the England 150 400 400 question. Other 600 450 700 Q.177.(5) Any two of these are sufficient to answer the Total 1200 1600 1400 question. Q.162.(3) = 1600 Q.178.(4) None of these are sufficient to answer the Q.163.(2) = 150 + 400 + 400 = 950 question. Q.164.(4) = 450: 400 = 9: 8 Q.179.(4) Only I and III are sufficient to answer the question. Q.165.(1) = 600 – 450 = 150 Q.180.(5) From (I) Profit percent of Jeevan 750 Q.166.(5) = ×100 = 250% 300 = = 20 Q.167.(3) ? ≈ 80 From (II) Profit percent of Rahul 5000 3800 Q.168.(1) + =23 + 19 ≈ 42 220 200 = = 15 5329− 4096 So both statements are necessary Q.169.(4) = ? 4 Q.181.(3) Runs scored by A for first 30 overs = 4.5×30 = 135 ? = 308.25 Runs scored by A for last 20 overs = 5.5 × 20 = Q.170.(5) 110 450 270 850×+ 6280 × − 1480 = 3825 + 16950 − 1480 ≈ 19295 Total Run scored by A in 50 overs = 135 + 110 = 100 100 245

112 MICA FEBRUARY 2020 73 Countries join Climate Ambition Alliance at COP25. MODEL PAPER 2019 Total Runs scored by B in 50 overs = 245 – 10 = (3x+16) - (x+2) = 30 235 2x+14=30 235 = 4.7 2x=16 So the required average = 50 x 18 3 x=8 Q.182.(1) × = 40 39 26 4x=32 x = 10 Q.187.(4) x + y = 22 y = 22 – 10 = 12 LL +180 a= a Q.183.(3) The ratio of efficiency of A to B is 3: 2 8 17 Together they can do 5x work per day La =160 m In 8 days they can does 40x work 160 7 Sa = = 20m / s ×total work = 40x 8 12 40x× 12 480 x 160 + Lb = =30 + 20 Total work = 7 7 8 Total work done by B alone in 160+Lb = 400 480x 240 2 = = = 34 days Lb = 240 7× 2x 7 7 Q.184.(4) 240+ 180 420 t = = =14sec 30 30 Q.188.(1) 7m CPSP... A (4 5)× 4 B (3 4)× 5 22 ×7 × 7 = 154m2 16 20 7 15 20 22 1→ 175 ×7 × 7 × 2 = 308m3 7 31→ 175 × 31 = 5425 (a2–154m2) × 0.77 = 308 m3 a2– 154m2 = 400m2 Q.189.(2) Let the age of Ayush is x years. a2 = 554 m2 A W D S Q.185.(5) let he invested Rs 100 3x+ 6 x− 6 x− 6 x + 3 + 7 after 2 years he got Rs 121 4 4 4 and now he invested Rs 50 x− 6 x − 6 3x + 6 10 +7 + + x + + 3 171× = 444.6 4 4 4 = 30. 25 100 4 171= 4446 9x+ 34 1= 26 = 30. 25 16 100= 2600 9x = 450 145 2600× = 3770 x = 50 100 Q.190.(3) C.P. M.P. S.P. Q.186.(3) 100 250 150 M : W 50 = 30 8 : 1 100 = 60 48 6 250 = 150 18 60 150 375/4 16 2 profit = 135×80/4 = 2700

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