Current Affairs: 12th April 2023

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1) Who has been awarded the “Maratha Udyog
Ratna” award?

• Nilesh Bhagwan Sambare, also known as Appa, the

A. Jayanti Prasad founder of Jijau Educational and Social Foundation or
Sanstha, was awarded the “Maratha Udyog Ratna”
B. Nilesh Sambare award.
• He was awarded during the “Maratha Entrepreneurs
C. Vinayak Pai Conference 2023” in Nashik, Mumbai.
• Jijau Sanstha has been providing education, health,
D. Sanjay Kumar Jain employment, and agriculture through self-earning for
the past 14 years.

Ans-B
2) Which state government has launched the
Sanjeevani project to support dairy farmers?

• The Himachal Pradesh government has launched a

A. Uttar Pradesh
project named Sanjeevani to empower the livelihood
government of small dairy farmers and livestock owners.
B. Rajasthan government • This project will help in improving the lives of farmers
by providing them convenient and quality care for
C. Punjab government livestock at their doorsteps.
D. Himachal Pradesh • Telemedicine and technology will help in reducing
the turnaround time of services. It will also help in
government
controlling the outbreaks of diseases.

Ans-D
3) MUDRA scheme aims to provide collateral-free
micro credit of up to ________to non-corporate,
non-farm small and micro- entrepreneurs.
• Disbursement under MUDRA reached 98.65% in FY23.
• The gap between sanctioned and disbursed under
Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) has declined
A. ₹20 lakh to an all-time low level of 1.35% at end of FY23.
• On April 8, the scheme completed eight years since its
B. ₹10 lakh launch. It was launched on April 08, 2015.
• According to Finance Minister, Nearly 68% of the
C. ₹30 lakh accounts under the scheme belong to women
entrepreneurs.
D. ₹40 lakh • The aim of the scheme is to facilitate easy collateral-
free micro credit of up to ₹10 lakh to non-corporate,
non-farm small and micro- entrepreneurs.
Ans-B
4) What percentage of the country’s cattle
population is insured at present?
• The government is planning to rehaul the livestock insurance
scheme and will launch a comprehensive livestock insurance
scheme just like Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojana.
A. 4% • At present, less than 1% of India’s cattle population is insured
and the average yearly premium is 4.5% of the insured amount.
• Recently, a Parliamentary Standing Committee raised concern in
B. 6% front of the Animal Husbandry Ministry for zero insurance
coverage of livestock in 2022-23.
C. 1% • The government is considering waving premiums of cattle
rearers from Scheduled Caste (SC)-Scheduled Tribe (ST)
D. 9% communities.
• The main focus of the revamped scheme will be to reduce the
premium to attract more farmers to enroll in the insurance
scheme.
Ans-C
5) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed
"never-before-seen" detail of Cassiopeia A. It is a __
• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed
"never-before-seen" detail of Cassiopeia A.
• James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of
A. Supernova remnant the remnant of a massive star that exploded around
340 years ago.
B. Nebula • Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located
about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the
C. Asteroid constellation Cassiopeia.
• Cas A is the youngest remnant of a massive star in
D. Dwarf Planet our galaxy known to mankind.
• Cas A is a prototypical type of supernova remnant. It
has been studied by many ground-based and space-
based observatories. Ans-A
6) Who has been appointed as the Chief Investment
Officer by LIC?

A. Rahul Puri • LIC has appointed Ratnakar Patnaik as Chief

Investment Officer and PC Paikray as Chief Risk
B. P C Paikray Officer. Ratnakar will replace PR Mishra. In addition
to this, PC Paikray replaced Tablesh Pandey on April
C. Ajitesh Sinha 10. Patnaik has 32 years of experience. He joined LIC
in September 1990.
D. Ratnakar Patnaik

Ans-D
7) UIDAI has joined hands with which of the
following to develop a touchless biometric capture
system?

• UIDAI joined hands with IIT Bombay to develop a

A. IIT Bombay touchless biometric capture system.
• A robust touchless biometric capture system for
B. IIT Kanpur easier use will be developed by IIT Bombay in
association with UIDAI.
C. IIT Delhi • UIDAI and IIT Bombay will jointly conduct research to
create a mobile capture system for fingerprints with
D. IIT Madras a liveness model integrated with the capture system.

Ans-A
8) Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently
launched the 'Vibrant Villages Programme' in which
state?
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the
'Vibrant Villages Programme' on April 10 at Kibithu, a
border village in Arunachal Pradesh. The objective of
A. Sikkim this program is to comprehensively develop villages
on the Indo-China border. The government has
B. Arunachal Pradesh approved VVP with Rs 4800 crore, in which Rs 2500
crore has been allocated specifically for road
C. Himachal Pradesh connectivity for the financial years 2022-23 to 2025-
26. Union Minister Amit Shah also inaugurated 9
D. Uttarakhand micro hydro projects of the Arunachal government
and 14 infrastructure projects worth Rs 120 crore for
ITBP.
Ans-B
9) Which political party has got the status of
National Party recently?

• The Election Commission of India has issued a new

A. Samajwadi Party
B. Aam Aadmi Party
C. Rashtriya Janata Dal
D. Bharatiya Janata Party
list of national and state political parties. The Aam
Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal has been given the status of a national party.
The Nationalist Congress Party led by Sharad Pawar
and the Trinamool Congress led by West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee have been removed from
their National Party status. Along with this, the
Communist Party of India (CPI) of D. Raja has also lost
the status of a national party.
Ans-B
10) Which city was ranked as the city with the best
public transport system globally?
• According to a survey published by London-based ‘Time
Out’, Germany’s Berlin was ranked as the city with the
best public transport system globally, followed by Czech
A. New Delhi, India Republic’s capital Prague.
• While Mumbai secured the 19th spot and was the top-
B. Berlin, Germany ranked Indian city.
• Five Asian countries ranked among the top 10 in the chart,
C. Paris, France with Japan’s busy capital Tokyo leading at the third spot.
• According to the survey conducted among 20,000
D. Sofia, Bulgaria respondents in 50 cities worldwide to gauge public
sentiment about their local transport systems, Berlin was
ranked as having the most reliable, safe, and comfortable
public transport network.
Ans-B
11) Which state government has set up a state-of-the-
art Jatayu Conservation and Breeding Center (JCBC)
for the critically endangered Asian king vulture?
• Uttar Pradesh has set up a state-of-the-art Jatayu
Conservation and Breeding Center (JCBC) for the
critically endangered Asian king vulture, the first of
A. Uttar Pradesh its kind in the world.
• It is located in the Maharajganj district of Uttar
B. Gujarat Pradesh and is spread over 1.5 hectares.
• The objective behind setting up the centre is to
C. Rajasthan breed king vultures in captivity and release them in
the wild to maintain a sustainable population of the
D. Maharashtra species.
• It is a 15-year project which aims to raise at least 40
vultures.
Ans-A
12) Which of the following bank has recently
launched “Parivar” (family) savings account?
• The State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to launch
new variants of current account (with balances of
₹50,000 and ₹50 lakh) and “Parivar” (family) savings
A. State Bank of India account in FY24 to minimize the gap between deposit
growth and credit growth.
B. Axis Bank • Domestic deposits of India’s largest bank grew 8.86
percent year-on-year (y-o-y) by the end of 2022,
C. UCO Bank while domestic advances were up 16.91 percent y-o-
y.
D. HDFC Bank • SBI expects that its domestic deposits and domestic
advances will grow about 12 per cent and 16 per cent
y-o-y, respectively, in FY24.
Ans-A
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