Current Affairs MCQs for UPSC & State PSC Exams (22 August 2022)

Current Affairs MCQs Quiz for UPSC, IAS, UPPSC/UPPCS, MPPSC. BPSC, RPSC & All State PSC Exams

Date: 22 August 2022

Q1. Consider the following statements:

1. The female labour force participation rate for the productive age group (15–59 years) increased in the last decade.
2. Female labour force participation rate is higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

Choose the correct option below:

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

Answer: (D)

Explanation:

  • The female labour force participation rate for the productive age group (15–59 years) decreased by 13.9 percent between 2011–12 to 2021–22 and decreased from 33.1 percent to 19.2 percent.
  • Female labour force participation rate is higher in rural areas than in urban areas

Q2. Consider the following statements regarding the forest areas in India

1. Forest Rights Act (FRA),2006 is implemented by the Ministry of Environment, forest and climate Change (MoEF&CC)
2. Van Dhan Scheme in rural tribal areas is implemented by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

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

Answer: (D)

Explanation: Forest Rights Act (FRA),2006 is implemented by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

Van Dhan Scheme :

  • Launched in April, 2018 and Implemented by The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED as the nodal agency.
  • The scheme aims to set-up tribal community-owned Van Dhan Vikas Kendra Clusters (VDVKCs) in predominantly forested tribal districts.

Q3. Consider the following statements:

1. 'Prisons' is a State subject under the State List of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.
2. State governments have unrestricted powers under Section 432 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to remit sentences.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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

Answer: (A)

Explanation:

  • Under Section 432 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the state governments also have the power to remit sentences as prisons are a state subject.
  • However, the powers of remission of the state government are restricted by Section 433A of the CrPC.
  • As per the law, if a person gets a life imprisonment sentence for an offense in which death is one of the punishments provided by law or where a death sentence has been commuted under Section 433 into one of life imprisonment, “such person shall not be released from prison unless he had served at least fourteen years of imprisonment.”

Q4. Consider the following statements regarding refugees in India:

1. Nearly 300,000 people are categorized as refugees in India at present.
2. India is a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention and the 1967 Protocol.
3. India does not have a refugee policy or a refugee law of its own.
4. The Foreigners Act, 1946 in India has procedures to deport illegal immigrants.

Choose the correct option below:

a. 1 and 2
b. 1, 3 and 4
c. 2 and 3
d. 2, 3 and 4

Answer: (B)

Explanation:

  • India has welcomed refugees in the past and nearly 300,000 people here are categorized as refugees at present.
  • But India is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention or the 1967 Protocol. Nor does India have a refugee policy or a refugee law of its own.
  • This has allowed India to keep its options open on the question of refugees. The government can declare any set of refugees as illegal immigrants — as has happened with Rohingya despite the UNHCR verification — and decide to deal with them as trespassers under the Foreigners Act or the Indian Passport Act.
  • The Foreigners Act, 1946 in India has procedures to deport illegal immigrants.
  • Myanmar shares a 1,600-km border with the four North-eastern states of Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
  • The Center had asked these states to “take appropriate action as per law” and “maintain a strict vigil at the border” to prevent a Rohingya influx.
  • The state governments were told that they did not have the authority to declare anyone as a “refugee” since India is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention of 1951.
  • This lack of generosity and compassion is a blemish on India’s record of treating communities under siege in its neighborhood – Tibetans, people from erstwhile East Pakistan and Sri Lankan Tamils.

Q5. Consider the following statements with regard to the commodification of water.

1. Water as a natural resource has seen the transformation from being a common good to an economic good.
2. The commodification will strike a balance in the ever-increasing misappropriate access to resources by the rich and poor across the world.
3. India follows the doctrine of public trust and therefore water commodification will be against its environmental jurisprudence.

Which of the above statements are true?

A) 1 & 2 only
B) 1 & 3 only
C) 2 & 3 only
D) 1,2 & 3

Answer: (B)