GA Topper Series : 19th July 2022

GA Topper Series: 19th July 2022: Hello Students, all those students who have cleared their prelims exams in the banking sector must be prepared with every topic in the General Awareness Section for the mains examinations. Bankersadda team has brought you up a new series in which we will come up with 10 questions with the correct answer and the detailed solution to the question.

Q1. In which medical institute first-ever Made-in-India Surgical Robotic System, “SSI-Mantra” is installed?

(a) AIIMS Delhi

(b) Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Delhi

(c) PGMIR, Chandigarh

(d) None of these

Q2. Who won the Paracin Open A chess competition 2022?

(a) R Praggnanandhaa

(b) AL Muthiah

(c) Aravindh Chithambaram

(d) Alexandr Predke

Q3. Which branch of Indian army guards the border of India and Bangladesh?

(a) Assam Riffles

(b) ITBP

(c) BSF

(d) CAPF

Q4. DIGI Yatra is project under which ministry?

(a) Ministry of Railways

(b) Ministry of Commerce

(c) Ministry of Civil Aviation

(d) Ministry of Home affairs

Q5. To implement Digi Yatra Project , DIGI Yatra foundation was setup. It has many stakeholders. Choose the following which is not a stakeholder?

(a) AAI

(b) Cochin International Airport

(c) Delhi International Airport Ltd

(d) Mumbai International airport ltd

Q6. Outreach program of export Potential for Agri Crops, Fruits & Vegetables” in Amravati, Maharashtra. Which organistaion implementing it?

(a) NAFED

(b) APEDA

(c) ICAR

(d) CSIR

Q7. Who calculates Index of mineral production?

(a) Niti Ayog

(b) Indian Bureau of Mines

(c) NSO

(d) Geological Survey of India

Q8. With whom World Food Programme, India will launch the Mapping and Exchange of Good Practices initiative for mainstreaming millets in Asia and Africa?

(a) ICRISAT

(b) ICAR

(c) CSIR

(d) Niti Ayog

Q9. E-Shram portal was launched in which year?

(a) 2022

(b) 2021

(c) 2020

(d) 2019

Q10. NAMASTE scheme comes under which ministry?

(a) Ministry of Home Affairs

(b) Ministry of Culture

(c) Ministry of Housing anin Hindid urban affairs

(d) Ministry of tourism

19th July 2022 क्विज़ को हिंदी में हल करें

Solutions

Ans.1.(b)

Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center, New Delhi (RGCI) have installed the first-ever Made-in-India Surgical Robotic System, “SSI-Mantra”, devised by the new-age Indian med-tech start-up SS Innovations. The ingenious SSI Mantra, a brainchild of World-renowned robotic cardiac surgeon Dr Sudhir P Srivastava, will be signifying the beginning of a new era of surgical procedures in India, making robotic surgery accessible and affordable for the people of our country.

Ans.2.(a)

The Paracin Open ‘A’ chess competition 2022 in Serbia was won by young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa, who finished with 8 points after nine rounds. The 16-year-old finished with a score of 0.5 points higher than the competition. Alisher Suleymenov and India’s AL Muthaiah, both of whom scored 7 points, were surpassed by Alexandr Predke, who finished in second place with 7.5 points. Due to a higher tie-break score, Suleymenov took third place

Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram has emerged winner in the 41st Villa De Benasque International Chess Open in Spain

Ans.3(c)

BSF gaurds bangladesh border.

The Indian delegation, led by DG, BSF Pankaj Singh, arrived in Dhaka early on the first day of the 52nd BGB-BSF Director General level Border conference in Bangladesh. On the first day, a variety of topics including border management, drug trafficking, smuggling of weapons and ammunition, trafficking in women and children, and other development initiatives within 150 yards of the international boundary were discussed.

Ans.4.(c)

Ministry of Civil Aviation

DIGI YATRA’ is a project conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at Airports, based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). The project basically envisages that any traveller may pass through various check points at the airport through a paperless and contactless processing, using facial features to establish the identity which would be linked to the boarding pass. It provides for decentralized mobile wallet-based identity management platform which is cost effective and addresses privacy/data protection issues in implementation of Digi Yatra. After approval of the revised Digi Yatra guidelines, an AIC (Aeronautical Information Circular) has been published by DGCA on 18.04.2022.

Ans.5.(d)

Digi Yatra Foundation (DYF) has been set up as a joint venture (JV) company in  2019 under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 . Digi Yatra Foundation was set up with initial shareholding of Airport Authority of India (AAI), Cochin International Airport (CIAL), Bangalore International Airport (BIAL), Delhi International Airport Ltd. (DIAL) & Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (HIAL).

Ans.6.(b)

Outreach program of export Potential for Agri Crops, Fruits & Vegetables” in Amravati, Maharashtra.

The programme for boosting exports of citrus fruits and vegetables was organized by APEDA (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority) – an organization under Department of Commerce, in association with Agrovision.

 Ans.7.(b)

The index of mineral production of mining and quarrying sector for the month of May, 2022 (Base: 2011-12=100) at 120.1, was 10.9% higher as compared to the level in the month of May, 2021. The cumulative growth for the period April- May, 2022-23 over the corresponding period of previous year has increased 9.4 percent.

As per the provisional figures of Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) , production level of important minerals in May, 2022 were: Coal 712 lakh tonnes, Lignite 42 lakh tonnes, Natural gas (utilized) 2846 million cu. m., Petroleum (crude) 26 lakh tonnes, Bauxite 2276 thousand tonnes, Chromite 320 thousand tonnes, Copper conc. 8 thousand tonnes , Gold 97 kg, Iron ore 221 lakh tonnes, Lead conc. 30 thousand tonnes, Manganese ore 235 thousand tonnes, Zinc conc. 129 thousand tonnes, Limestone 348 lakh tonnes, Phosphorite 143 thousand tonnes, Magnesite 8 thousand tonnes, and Diamond 22 carat.                                                        The production of important minerals showing positive growth during May, 2022 over May, 2021 include: Gold (212.9%), Phosphorite (121.4%), Coal (33.7%), Bauxite (31.5%), Lignite (25.8%), Magnesite (22.9%), Lead conc (18.7%), Zinc conc (15.6%), Limestone (8.5%), Natural Gas (U) (7.0%), and Petroleum (crude) (4.6%). The production of other important minerals showing negative growth include: Iron Ore (-5.6%), Copper conc (-33.5%), Manganese ore (-43.3%), and Chromite (-67.3%).

 Ans.8.(d)

NITI Aayog and the World Food Programme, India will launch the Mapping and Exchange of Good Practices initiative for mainstreaming millets in Asia and Africa. NITI Aayog and WFP will prepare a compendium of good practices for scaling up the production and consumption of millets in India and abroad.

Ans.9.(b)

The government today said around 28 crore unorganised workers have been registered on e-Shram Portal. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameswar Teli said the government had launched e-Shram portal in August 2021 with an objective to create a national Database of unorganised workers

Ans.10.(c)

Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore today said, the Government has formulated a National Action Plan for Mechanized Sanitation Ecosystem- NAMASTE  scheme for cleaning of sewers and septic tank.

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