UPSC Quiz – 2020 : IASbaba’s Daily Current Affairs Quiz [Day 61]

solution (c)

International Solar Alliance

• The launch of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) was announced by the Prime Minister of India (Narendra Modi) and former President of France (Francois Hollande) on 30th November 2015, at the 21st session of United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-21) in Paris, France.
• Head quarter of International Solar alliance is situated in Gurugram, India.
• It was conceived as a coalition of solar-resource-rich countries (which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) to address their special energy needs.
• 67 countries have signed and ratified the ISA framework agreement.
• The Assembly of the ISA is the apex decision-making body which comprises representatives from each Member Country.
• It aims at lowering the cost of technology and finance and thereby facilitate deployment of over 1,000 GW of solar energy and mobilize more than USD 1,000 billion into solar power by 2030 in Member countries.
• Solar is a key source of affordable and reliable energy, thus it could play a significant role in achieving the universal energy access goal (SDG 7).

Solution (a)

• The application and web portal was launched after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the National Mission for Clean Ganga and the National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO).
• Purpose of the user-friendly Bhuvan Mobile App and Portal  
  • The android based app will help in monitoring Union Government’s flagship Clean Ganga Mission.
  • It will be used as a tool to support decision making and planning for the Clean Ganga Mission.
  • It will enable public to collect and report information on various pollution sources that affects the water quality of river Ganga.
• Bhuvan Ganga Portal is an exclusive web portal deployed in ISRO Bhuvan’s geoportal with all geospatial layers related to river Ganga.

Solution (d)

Bhadbhut project

• It is located across the river Narmada, 5 km from Bhadbhut village and 25 km from the mouth of the river, where it flows into the Gulf of Khambhat.
• The project is part of the larger Kalpasar Project, which entails the construction of a 30-km dam across the Gulf of Khambhat between Bharuch and Bhavnagar districts.
• Kalpasar Project aims to store Gujarat’s 25% average annual surface water resources..
• This reservoir will store about 8,000 million cubic metres (MCM) of surface water and will be one of the world’s largest freshwater reservoirs in the sea.

Solution (b)

• Gharana in Hindustani music of India, is a community of performers who share a distinctive musical style that traces to a particular instructor or region or ancestry.
• It includes not only peculiarities of performance and repertoire but also a broader ideology of music, aesthetics, and pedagogy.
• The style must be passed down through at least three generations before it and its practitioners may be considered a gharana.
• Gharanas exist for both vocal and instrumental traditions as well as for dance.
• The gharana concept gained currency only in the nineteenth century when the royal patronage enjoyed by performers weakened. Performers were then compelled to move to urban centres. To retain their respective identities, they associated themselves with the names of the regions they hailed from.
• Some of the gharanas well known for singing are : Agra, Gwalior, Mewati, Bhendibazar, Jaipur (Khyal Singing); Mathura, Rampur, Darbhanga (Dhrupad Singing); Banaras, Lucknow, Patiala (Thumri Singing).

Solution (a)

• Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) is a trained female community health activist. Selected from the community itself and accountable to it, the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system
• ASHA is a community health worker instituted by the government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) as a part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

Role of ASHA

• ASHA will take steps to create awareness and provide information to the community on determinants of health such as nutrition, basic sanitation & hygienic practices, healthy living and working conditions, information on existing health services and the need for timely utilization of health & family welfare services. 
• She would counsel women on birth preparedness, importance of safe delivery, breastfeeding and complementary feeding, immunization, contraception and prevention of common infections including Reproductive Tract Infection/Sexually Transmitted Infection (RTIs/STIs) and care of the young child. 
• She also work with the Village Health & Sanitation Committee of the Gram Panchayat to develop a comprehensive village health plan. 
• ASHA will provide primary medical care for minor ailments such as diarrhoea, fevers, and first aid for minor injuries. 
• She is a provider of Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme. 
• She also act as a depot holder for essential provisions being made available to every habitation like Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORS), Iron Folic Acid Tablet (IFA), chloroquine, Disposable Delivery Kits (DDK), Oral Pills & Condoms, etc. A Drug Kit is provided to each ASHA. Contents of the kit will be based on the recommendations of the expert/technical advisory group set up by the Government of India. 
• She will inform about the births and deaths in her village and any unusual health problems/disease outbreaks in the community to the Sub-Centres/Primary Health Centre.