Daily Quiz 7-12-23

Q5 Which of the following has recently been included in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)?

Q4. Consider the following statements about the Char Dham project.

1.As per 2013 notification of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change expansion of National Highways greater than 100 km involving additional right of way or land acquisition greater than 40 metre on existing alignments and 60 metre on re-alignments require prior environment clearance.

2.Since Char Dhan highway, though 825 kms in distance, was being developed in smaller parcels of 53 projects, each with a length of less than 100 km, there was no environment clearance needed.

Which of the above statements is/are corr

ect?

Q3. Consider the following statements about Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).

1.Of the 75 PVTG communities in the country, 38 are found in the States of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), Andhra Pradesh (including Telangana), Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Tamil Nadu.

1. 2.The Ministry of Tribal Affairs also defines them as communities that have either declining or stagnant populations, among other criteria like economic backwardness, low literacy, and use of pre-agricultural level of technology.

Which of the above statements is/are corr

ect?

Q2 Consider the following statements about tropical cyclones.

1.Tropical cyclones are ‘engines’ that use a warm sea surface as ‘fuel’.

2.This is why they form close to the equator (but seldom at the equator itself because the spinning force, called the Coriolis force, is lowest there).

Which of the above statements is/are corre

ct?

Q1. From which of the following states the National Commission for Women (NCW) has received maximum complaints over the last five years?