These MCQs are based on Today’s Targets given here
Q.1) Consider the following statements about United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
1. UNHCR is a member of the United Nations Development Group
2. UNHCR is headquartered in New York
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. A
Explanation:
- The UNHCR, also known as the UN Refugee Agency, is a UN programme mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.
- Its headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is a member of the United Nations Development Group.
- The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes (in 1954 and again in 1981).
- The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, provide the mandate to UNHCR.
Q.2) Consider the following statements about Tropical Cyclones:
1. Tropical Cyclones originate over both land and sea
2. Tropical Cyclones are low pressure systems
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. B
Explanation:
Tropical Cyclones originate only over seas.
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Q.3) Consider the following statements about Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS):
1. INCOIS headquarter is located in Hyderabad
2. INCOIS comes under Ministry of Earth Sciences
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. C
Explanation:
- INCOIS is an autonomous organization of the Union Government.
- It comes under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
- It was established in 1999
- HQ : Hyderabad
- Its mandated is to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services to government agencies, society, industry and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.
Q.4) Consider the following statements:
1. The Club of Rome introduced the concept of sustainable development.
2. The Brundtland Commission Report, 1987 advocated resource conservation for the first time in a more systematic way.
Select the correct answer using the code given below
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 and 2
Ans. D
Explanation: At the international level, the Club of Rome advocated resource conservation for the first time in a more systematic way in 1968. Subsequently, in 1974, Gandhian philosophy was once again presented by Schumacher in his book Small is Beautiful. The seminal contribution with respect to resource conservation at the global level was made by the Brundtland Commission Report, 1987. This report introduced the concept of ‘Sustainable Development’ and advocated it as a means for resource conservation, which was subsequently published in a book entitled Our Common Future. Another significant contribution was made at the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.
Source: NCERT 10th: Contemporary India, Chapter 1, Page 5
Q.5) Which of the following is/are consists the provision for ‘Economic Equality’:
1. Directive Principles of State policy
2. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
3. Fundamental Rights.
Select the correct answer using the code given below
a) 2 and 3 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2, and 3
Ans. B
Explanation: The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 provides that equal wages should be paid to equal work. However in almost all areas of work, from sports and cinema, to factories and fields, women are paid less than men, even when both do exactly the same work.
More over the Art 39A of Directive Principles of State policy also consists of the provision of economic equality.
Source: NCERT 10th: Democratic Politics II, Chapter 4, Page 43.