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Mission IAS’2009

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Qn. 8 Bisphenol A is used in the production of epoxy resins and polycarbonate plastics. These plastics are used in many food and drink packaging applications, ...
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Qn No. 11 : The rural electrification plan mainly aims at providing access to electricity to all households by 2009, with emphasis on "quality and reliable power supply at reasonable rates." It also aims at extending a minimum lifeline consumption of one unit of electricity per household per day as a merit good by year 2012.

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Qn 12 National Population Policy of India was formulated with the objective of achieving stable Indian Population by 2045.

National Population Policy of India was formulated in the year 2000 with the long term objective of achieving a stable population by 2045, at a level consistent with the requirements of sustainable economic growth, social development, and environmental protection. The immediate objective of the policy is to address the unmet needs for contraception, health care infrastructure, and health personnel, and to provide integrated service delivery for basic reproductive and child health care. The medium-term objective is to bring the TFR (Total Fertility Rate) to replacement levels by 2010, through vigorous implementation of inter-sectoral operational strategies. TFR is the average number of children each women would have in her life time.

National Population Policy pursues to achieve following Socio-Demographic goals by 2010:

• Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child health services, supplies and infrastructure.
• Make school education up to age 14 free and compulsory, and reduce drop outs at primary and secondary school levels to below 20 percent for both boys and girls.
• Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.
• Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100,000 live births.
• Achieve universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable diseases.
• Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than age 18 and preferably after 20 years of age.
• Achieve 80 percent institutional deliveries and 100 percent deliveries by trained persons.
• Achieve universal access to information/counseling, and services for fertility regulation and contraception with a wide basket of choices.
• Achieve 100 per cent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
• Contain the spread of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and promote greater integration between the management of reproductive tract infections (RTI) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the National AIDS Control Organization.
• Prevent and Control communicable diseases.12. Integrate Indian Systems of Medicines (ISM) in the provision of reproductive and child health services, and in reaching out to households.
• Promote vigorously the small family norm to achieve replacement levels of TFR.

Bring about convergence in implementation of related social sector programs so that family welfare becomes a people centered programme

Qn. 13The National biodiesel mission will be implemented in two stages. ..... mission for biofuels with ministry of Rural development as the nodal ministry. ...
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Qn 14. Wth the launching of the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme the old age pension scheme has been broad based to cover all those who are 65 years or above and belong to the BPL families instead of only destitute under the previous scheme.. It was observed that establishing“destitute” criteria was a problem. In some States annual income ceiling was prescribed while in other States the destitute criteria was fixed in terms of earning members in the household

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Qn 15 Swawlamban ( NORAD) Scheme is being implemented by the Department of Women and Child Development, Government of India with partial assistance from Norway since 1982.  Its basic objective is to provide training and skill to women to facilitate them obtain employment or self-employment on a sustained basis.  The target group under the scheme are the poor and needy women, women from weaker sections of the society, such as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, etc.  Financial assistance is provided to undertake training programmes for women in both traditional as well as non-traditional trades.

Qn. 16The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year.
The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the "Bessie" created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven.
The Pulitzer Prize, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

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