General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 13th-14th November |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 13th-14th November: Hello Students, General Awareness is an essential part of all government exams. It’s better to prepare this section daily and revise the same using the factsheet provided. Bankersadda team has brought you up a new series in which we will come up with 10 questions and answers, other options of the question have related news to them. So don’t miss reading the solutions.

Q1. Choose that option which is incorrectly match with its date of celebration.

(a) World Kindness day: 14 November

(b) Children’s Day: 14 November

(d) A and C

Q2. The world’s Biggest employers survey is conducted by which of the following Organisation?

(a) World economic Forum

(b) Statista

(d) World Bank

Q3. DigiLocker has completed its second-level of integration with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. DigiLocker Platform comes under which Ministry?

(a) Ministry of Health

(b) Ministry of Science and Technology

(d) Ministry of Education

Q4. In which year Digilocker was launched ?

(a) 2014

(b) 2015

(d) 2017

Q5. What is the Budgetary allocation for Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission?

(a) 1000 cr

(b) 1200 cr

(d) 1600 cr

Q6. Consider the following statement about National Health authority (NHA) and choose which incorrect.

(a) The CEO of NHA is R S Sharma

(b) It implements National Digital Health Mission only

(d) It is successor of the National Health agency , established in 2018

Q7. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced the launch of the BHIM App open-source license model to regulate entities participating in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem. What does M stands in “BHIM” ?

(a) Master

(b) Money

(d) Material

Q8. The year 2022 has been declared as the ASEAN-India Friendship year. Which of the statements is correct about ASEAN?

(a) The motto of ASEAN is “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”

(b) ASEAN established in 1965

(d) Founding Fathers of ASEAN are: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Brunei.

Q9. Which tech giant will be helping BSNL to launch 4G services in India?

(a) Accenture

(b) Wipro

(d) TCS

Q10. Which of the head and organisation are incorrectly matched?

(a) BSNL: Pravin Kumar Purwar

(b) TCS: Rajesh Gopinathan

(d) None of these

Solutions

Ans.1.(a)

World Kindness Day 2022 is observed on the 13th of November 2022.

Children’s Day in India is observed on the 14th of November 2022.

World Diabetes Day 2022 is observed on the 14th of November 2022.

Ans.2.(b)

The report titled The World’s Biggest Employers’ (2022 or latest available) conducted by Statista has revealed that the Indian Ministry of Defence is the world’s largest employer, with a total of 2.92 million members who work under it.

Ans.3(c)

DigiLocker, the authentic documents exchange platform under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has completed its second-level of integration with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), the National Health Authority (NHA) said.

Ans.4.(b)

Digital Locker is a key initiative under Digital India program. It aims at eliminating the use of physical documents and enables sharing of verified electronic documents across agencies. Launch year: 2015

Ans.5.(d)

Union Cabinet has approved the countrywide implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) with the budgetary allocation of Rs 1,600 crore for five years. Launch date September 2021

Ans.6.(b)

National Health authority CEO : RS sharma

National Health Authority (NHA) is the apex body responsible for implementing India’s flagship public health insurance/assurance scheme called “Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana” & has been entrusted with the role of designing strategy, building technological infrastructure and implementation of “National Digital Health Mission” to create a National Digital Health Eco-system.

It is successor of the National Health agency , established in 2018

Ans.7.(b)

BHIM Full form is Bharat Interface for Money based on the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and works on all major Android and iOS devices. BHIM was launched on 30 December 2016, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Digi Dhan Mela in Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi.

Why in News?

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced the launch of the BHIM App open-source license model to regulate entities participating in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ecosystem. The source code of the BHIM App will help those who do not have a UPI app of their own, to empower them to launch their own UPI App.

Ans.8.(a)

The year 2022 has been declared as the ASEAN-India Friendship year, as ASEAN and India commemorate 30 years of partnership.

The motto of ASEAN is “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”.
8^thAugust is observed as ASEAN Day.
ASEAN Secretariat – Indonesia, Jakarta.

1967 – ASEAN was established with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by its founding fathers. Founding Fathers of ASEAN are: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Ans.9.(d)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) received a nod from Central Government to go ahead with Rs 26,821 crore deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) paving its way to launch 4G services in India. TCS is ready to set up the 4G lines and maintain the network for nine years.

Ans.10.(d)

BSNL : Pravin Kumar Purwar

TCS : Rajesh Gopinathan

Mr. Dilip Asbe is the MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

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