Daily Quiz 21 September 2023

Explanation:

• Option (3) is the correct answer: About National Population Register (NPR):
  • NPR is not a citizenship enumeration drive as it Includes foreigners as well.
  • It is mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the NPR. The objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country. It is the NRC; whose purpose is to identify illegal migrants in India.
  • It will record all people staying in India 6 months and above and who intends to reside for 6 months or more including foreigners.
  • It was prepared with Census 2011 and was updated in 2015. The next update was scheduled during the census 2020. Only Assam will be excluded from this exercise.

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is incorrect: Assam Accord was signed in 1985 between the Union government and the All-Assam Students’ Union at the end of a 6-year-long agitation against the influx of migrants from Bangladesh into the state of Assam.
• Statement 2 is correct: To implement the Accord, a new Department has been established in the name of “Implementation of Assam Accord Department” in 1986.
• Statement 3 is correct: The Accord sets March 24, 1971, as the cut-off date to determine who is considered a foreigner in the state of Assam. Anyone who had come to Assam before midnight on that date would be an Indian citizen, while those who had come after would be dealt with as foreigners. This date is significant because it marks the onset of the mass influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh into Assam, beginning with the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is incorrect: The Constitution of India, does not provide for reservation of seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. Bills amending the Constitution to reserve seats for women in Parliament and state legislative assemblies have been introduced in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2008 but all got lapsed with the dissolution of their respective Lok Sabhas. Recently, the Lok Sabha has given its nod to the Constitutional (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, seeking to reserve one-third of the total number of seats for women in Lower House and State legislative assemblies. The Bill is called Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam.
• Statement 2 is correct: The Constitution 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts mandated the reservation of one-third of seats for women in Panchayati Raj institutions and offices of the chairperson at all levels of Panchayati Raj institutions, and in urban local bodies respectively.

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is incorrect: NJDG was developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in coordination with the Computer Cell, Registry of the Supreme Court (SC). National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is the technology partner of the Government of India. Whereas, C-DAC is a premier research and development Society of MeitY.
• Statement 2 is correct: National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) is comprehensive database of orders, judgments, and case details from District and subordinate Courts and High Courts across India. All High Courts have joined the NJDG through web services.
• Statement 3 is correct: Recently, the Supreme Court of India linked its case management data on pending and disposed matters on the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG).

Explanation:

• Statement 1 is correct: Like other diamonds, pink diamonds are primarily composed of carbon atoms. These carbon atoms are subjected to intense pressure and heat deep within the Earth’s mantle, typically more than 150 kilometres below the Earth’s surface.
• Statement 2 is correct: Pink diamonds are highly expensive and extremely rare gemstones (third-rarest type of diamond after red and blue diamonds).
• Statement 3 is incorrect: Australia accounts for more than 90% of pink stones formed on Earth while the remaining 10% is found in Brazil, South Africa, India, Russia, and Canada. These diamonds at the Argyle mine were formed due to immense pressure during collisions between western Australia and northern Australia around 1.8 billion years ago.
• Statement 4 is correct: Another important factor in the formation of pink diamonds is the volcanic event that brings these diamonds to the Earth’s surface, where they can be mined. Pink diamonds are typically found in volcanic rock formations called kimberlites or lamproites. These volcanic pipes or conduits are responsible for transporting diamonds from deep within the Earth to the surface during volcanic eruptions.