UPSC Quiz – 2024 : IASbaba’s Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2nd April 2024

·       Mandate: To adjudicate disputes and complaints with respect to the recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to public services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or other authorities under the control of the Government.

·       Composition: A bench consists of one Judicial Member and one Administrative Member.

·       The conditions of service of the Chairman and Members of CAT are the same as applicable to a Judge of High Court.

·       Salaries, Allowances and Conditions of Service of the officers and other employees of the Tribunal are specified by the Central Government.

·       The Tribunal is guided by the principles of natural justice in deciding cases and is not bound by the procedure prescribed by the Civil Procedure Code.

·       CAT is empowered to frame its own rules of procedure and practice.

·       It has been conferred with the power to exercise the same jurisdiction and authority in respect of contempt of itself as a High Court.

·       They are found mostly in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and are located in Kutch, the Malwa Plateau, the Aravalli hill range.

·       Besides India, the caracal is found in several dozen countries across Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia.

Habitats:

·       It occurs in semi-deserts, steppes, savannah, scrubland, dry forest and moist woodland or evergreen forest.

·       It prefers open terrain and drier, scrubby, arid habitats and needs cover.

·       IUCN Red List: Least Concern

·       Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: Schedule I

·       CITES: Appendix I

·       In 2021, the National Board for Wildlife and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change included Caracal in the list of Critically Endangered species under critically endangered species recovery programme.

·       There are 22 species on the critically endangered species recovery programme.

·       Snow Leopard, Bustard (including Floricans), Dolphin, Hangul, Nilgiri Tahr, Marine Turtles, Dugongs, Edible Nest Swiftlet, Asian Wild Buffalo, Nicobar Megapode, Manipur Brow-antlered Deer, Vultures, Malabar Civet, Indian Rhinoceros, Asiatic Lion, Swamp Deer, Jerdon’s Courser, the Northern River Terrapin, Clouded Leopard, Arabian Sea Humpback Whale, Red Panda and Caracal.

·       The Global Geoparks Network was founded under the umbrella of UNESCO.

·       Headquarters – Paris

·       During the 38th session of UNESCO’s General Conference in 2015, the 195 Member States of UNESCO ratified the creation of a new label, the UNESCO Global Geoparks.

·       The GGN is a dynamic network where members work together to share examples of good practice and join together in common projects.

·       The Geopark tag is akin to that of a ‘World Heritage Site’ for historical monuments that can bring famed geological features to the global stage.

·       UNESCO Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important rocks and landscapes, all of which are managed responsibly for conservation, education and sustainable development.

·       However, it does not have any legislation and policy for conservation of geoheritages.

·       Geological Survey of India (GSI) identifies sites as National Geological Monuments.

·       India is one of those countries which do not have a single geopark registered and acknowledged under UNESCO Global Geopark list.

·       A stone deity (Kakad Bhairav or Bhilat Baba) worshipped by the Bhils in Madhya Pradesh’s Bagh was proved to be a fossilized dinosaur egg. With this discovery, India hopes to get its first UNESCO Global Geopark Tag.

·       Their mother tongue is Telugu in its purest and chaste form, with a unique accent.

·       The Konda Reddy tribe is divided into exogamous septs for regulating matrimonial relations.

·       Generally, each sept is exogamous, but certain septs are considered as brother septs, and marriage alliances with brother septs (agnate relations) are prohibited.

Political Organization:

·       They have their own institution of social control called ‘Kula Panchayat’.

·       Each village has a traditional headman called ‘Pedda Kapu’.

·       The office of the headman is hereditary, and the headman is also the Pujari (priest) of the village deities.

·       Livelihood:

·       They are primarily shifting cultivators and largely depend on flora and fauna of forest for their livelihood.

·       It is the IEA’s flagship initiative launched in 2017 for accelerating progress toward a global net zero energy system.

·       It leverages the insights and influence of the world’s leading energy authority to accelerate clean energy transitions, particularly in emerging and developing economies.

·       Its goals are in line with the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.

IEA

·       It is an autonomous inter-governmental organisation within the OECD framework.

·       It works with governments and industry to shape a secure and sustainable energy future for all.

·       It was founded in 1974 to ensure the security of oil supplies.

·       It was created in response to the 1973-1974 oil crisis when an oil embargo by major producers pushed prices to historic levels and exposed the vulnerability of industrialised countries to dependency on oil imports.

·       It consists of 31 member countries and eleven association countries.

·       A candidate country to the IEA must be a member country of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).