Daily Practice Sheet

3rd Feb, 2020

Santosh Sir
All 6 Prelims qualified
If I can do it, you can too
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Daily Prelims Topics

 Wetlands
 Ramsar Convention
 World Wetland Day
 IPBES
 Ramsar Sites in India
 Great Indian Bustard
 Endangered Wolf
 Keystone Species
 Bodo language
 Oxfam
 Thirukkural
 NRI
 Surcharges
 Facial Recognition technology
 550th Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev
 Dhanyalakshmi
 Krishi Udaan
 One District One Product
 15th FC
 H5N1
Daily Constitution
 8th Schedule
 Art 14

Daily Mapping:
 In India, the 10 new wetlands declared Ramsar Sites are Nandur Madhameshwar in
Maharashtra; Keshopur-Miani, Beas Conservation Reserve and Nangal in Punjab; and
Nawabganj, Parvati Agra, Saman, Samaspur, Sandi and Sarsai Nawar in UP.

 Kuno Palpur
 Nauradehi
 Kutch Bani Grassland
 CRZ
 Bandipur

Daily Facts:
 We have a total of 7,57,060 wetlands, covering 1.6 crore hectares or 4.5% of India’s area.
 The IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
the global assessment identified wetlands as the most threatened ecosystem. This impacts
40% of the world’s plant and animal species that live or breed in wetlands, according to
UNESCO. Thirty per cent of land-based carbon is stored in peatland; one billion people depend
on wetlands for their livelihoods; and wetlands provide $47 trillion in essential services
annually, according to the Wetlands Day official website.
This year’s Wetlands Day theme is Wetlands and Biodiversity.

 This year, the report established that the richest 1 per cent in the world have more than
double the wealth of 6.9 billion people combined. Within this 1 per cent, the world’s
 billionaires, just 2,135 people, have more wealth than that of the bottom 4.6 billion
combined.
 In many ways, India has earned notoriety for its rampant inequality that seems to grow
exponentially each year. We now know that nine of India’s billionaires own as much wealth as
the bottom 50 per cent of the country’s populace and that it would take the average female
domestic worker 22,277 years to earn the annual pay-out to India’s top tech CEO.

Daily Mains Mantra:

GS 1: History
1. What was Khalistan Movement? Discuss the origin?
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/harmeets-killing-in-pakistan-linked-to-fight-over-
drug-money/article30720298.ece

GS 2: Polity
1. What do you understand essential practices? Discuss the

GS 3: Economy
1. Analyze the reasons for increasing economic inequality in India. Discuss
its socio-economic impact. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/world-
economic-forum-inequality-report-6247886/
2. What are wetlands? Discuss its significance? Analyze the threats to
wetlands. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-wetlands-matter-to-world-and-
india-6248015/
3. Union Budget 2020-21 lacks the vision to craft the policy and allocate
suitable funds to address myriad problems of rural India. Examine
https://in.news.yahoo.com/farmers-empty-plate-203823937.html
4. Union Budget is woven around three themes –aspirational India,
economic development for all and building a caring society. Critically
examine how far budget provision are geared to achieve these objectives.
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-budgets-blurred-social-sector-
vision/article30721052.ece
GS 4: Daily Ethics
1. Discuss the relevance of Guru Nanak Dev Teaching?
https://www.news18.com/news/india/with-cji-on-stage-ex-canada-minister-talks-of-silence-
surrounding-concentration-camps-2483571.html

Mains Mantra Manthan:

Budget: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/falling-short-of-aspirations/article30721024.ece

15th Finance Commission:

https://www.google.com/search?q=falling+short+of+budget&rlz=1C1GCEU_enIN831IN835&oq=falling+
short+of+budget&aqs=chrome..69i57.5990j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8