Current Affairs Quiz 06 March 2023

Ans: B
About Vibrant Village Programme

• The program’s goal is to enhance infrastructure in villages along India’s China border.
• In states like Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh, infrastructure will be enhanced.
• Residential and tourism centres will be built as part of the programme.
• It will also facilitate the development of decentralised renewable energy sources and increase road connectivity.
• Aside from that, there will be direct access to Doordarshan and educational channels. A source of income will be offered.

Focus areas
• It emphasises the generation of livelihoods, road connectivity, housing, rural infrastructure, renewable energy, television, and broadband connections.
• This goal will be achieved by improving infrastructure in villages near the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Answer: C

About LiFE-Movement
The idea promotes an environmentally conscious lifestyle that focuses on ‘mindful and deliberate utilisation’ instead of ‘mindless and wasteful consumption’.

Aim of LiFE:
• The LiFE Movement aims to utilise the power of collective action and nudge individuals across the world to undertake simple climate-friendly actions in their daily lives.
• The LiFE movement, additionally, also seeks to leverage the strength of social networks to influence social norms surrounding climate.

Pro-Planet People:
• The Mission plans to create and nurture a global network of individuals, namely ‘Pro-Planet People’ (P3), who will have a shared commitment to adopt and promote environmentally friendly lifestyles.
• Through the P3 community, the Mission seeks to create an ecosystem that will reinforce and enable environmentally friendly behaviours to be self-sustainable.
• LIFE recognizes that small individual actions can tip the balance in the planet’s favour.

Correct Answer: A
Answer Justification :
Background: Many development and industrial projects such as erection of dams, mining, and construction of industries or roads require diversion of forest land. Any project proponent, government or private must apply for forest clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), before the conversion of land takes place. This proposal is to be submitted through the concerned forest department of the state government. If clearance is given, then compensation for the lost forest land is also to be decided by the ministry and the regulators. Due to certain discrepancies in the implementation of compensatory afforestation, some NGOs had approached the SC for relief.
The SC in 2009 issued orders that there will be a Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) as National Advisory Council under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of Environment & Forests for monitoring, technical assistance and evaluation of compensatory afforestation activities.
National CAMPA Advisory Council has been established as per orders of The Hon’ble Supreme Court with the following mandate:
Lay down broad guidelines for State CAMPA. Facilitate scientific, technological and other assistance that may be required by State CAMPA. Make recommendations to State CAMPA based on a review of their plans and programmes. Provide a mechanism to State CAMPA to resolve issues of an inter-state or Centre-State character. The State CAMPA would presently receive funds collected from user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, Net Present Value (NPV) and all other amounts recovered from such agencies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and presently lying with the Adhoc CAMPA.

Correct Answer: B
Answer Justification :
Justification: The buildings, under the concept, are planned to be designed in such a way that natural sunlight and wind would be used to maximum and the usage of electricity reduces to the minimum. The Kerala government is considering promoting a ‘green habitat’ concept giving thrust to eco- friendly and reusable building materials, natural water storage and solid waste management. The objective of the concept is to introduce maximum eco-friendly and reusable materials in the construction.
Statement 1: There is no such requirement, a green habitat can be within a city as well. Statement 2: The habitat can use groundwater provided the use is sustainable. However, A rainwater harvesting or natural water storage system would be a sure feature of such ‘green’ buildings, where even kitchen and drainage water would be recycled and reused for other household purposes.

Correct Answer: A
Answer Justification :
Concept and Justification: Permafrost is ground, including rock or soil, at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years.
Most permafrost is located in high latitudes. It also occurs subsea on the continental shelves of the continents surrounding the Arctic Ocean, portions of which were exposed during the last glacial period, with global weather implications Permafrost can also store carbon, both as peat and as methane. The amount of carbon sequestered in permafrost is roughly four times the carbon that has been released to the atmosphere due to human activities in modern time. Melting permafrost would raise water levels in the Earth’s oceans and increase erosion. Erosion happens when permafrost melts because soil and sediment are easily washed away without the ice binding them
together.