Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027
- Introduction of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation (LPG) reforms, triggered by a Balance of Payments crisis
- A proposal to treat Artificial Intelligence as a new wave of public digital infrastructure (termed "Reforms 3.0")
- India's average GDP growth remained subdued at 3–4% per annum, a phase termed the "Hindu rate of growth"
- Large-scale rollout of Digital Public Infrastructure through Aadhaar and UPI (termed "Reforms 2.0")
The correct sequence is 3–1–4–2: the "Hindu rate of growth" phase of subdued 3–4% growth followed Independence and lasted roughly 45 years (3); the 1991 Balance of Payments crisis triggered the LPG reforms — "Reforms 1.0" (1); roughly two decades later, India built Aadhaar and UPI as Digital Public Infrastructure — "Reforms 2.0" (4); and the AI Token Policy proposal, framed as "Reforms 3.0," is the most recent and still-unenacted development (2). Option B inverts the first two items by placing the 1991 reforms before the Hindu-rate phase; option C places DPI rollout before the 1991 reforms; and option D places the AI proposal before the DPI rollout.
- India's national sex ratio at birth in 2024 stood at 917 females per 1,000 males.
- Nagaland recorded the lowest sex ratio at birth among States/UTs in the CRS 2024 report, a distinction it also held for child sex ratio in the 2011 Census.
- Death registration coverage (99.4%) was higher than birth registration coverage (99.1%) in 2024.
- Still births recorded in 2024 numbered 81,117, with a majority of these occurring in rural areas.
Statements 1 and 3 are correct — India's national sex ratio at birth in 2024 was 917 females per 1,000 males, and death registration coverage (99.4%) exceeded birth registration coverage (99.1%). Statement 2 is incorrect: Nagaland did tie with Lakshadweep for the lowest sex ratio at birth in the CRS 2024 report (865), but the lowest child sex ratio in the 2011 Census belonged to Haryana (834) and Punjab (846) — conflating two separate indicators from two separate surveys wrongly transfers the "worst performer" tag to Nagaland. Statement 4 is incorrect: 69% of the 81,117 still births in 2024 occurred in urban, not rural, areas — a straightforward geographic inversion.
VB-G RAM G's core structural shift is from a demand-driven guarantee to a "normative allocation" (budget ceiling) fixed by the Centre per State. Guaranteed employment rises from 100 to 125 days, and the Centre-State funding ratio shifts from roughly 90:10 to about 60:40, sharply increasing States' burden — including full responsibility for unemployment allowance and delayed-payment compensation beyond the allocation. Option A substitutes the Satpathy Committee's recommended-but-unadopted ₹375 floor for the actually notified ₹300; option B correctly captures the structure but falsely reduces guaranteed days to 90; and option D correctly states 125 days but wrongly retains the old 90:10 funding ratio.
- Gitchak nakana, discovered in Assam, is a sighted fish species inhabiting surface streams, and represents the first record of its genus from Peninsular India's Western Ghats.
- The Sangno clan of Arunachal Pradesh translocated fingerlings of Schizothorax pelzami to protect the species from predation by the mahseer, a fish often called the "tiger of the water."
Statement 2 is correct — the Sangno clan of Arunachal Pradesh moved 52 fingerlings of Schizothorax pelzami into a stretch of the Richaso stream inaccessible to the predatory mahseer. Statement 1 is incorrect on multiple counts: Gitchak nakana is blind (eyeless) and phreatobitic (permanently aquifer-dwelling), not a sighted surface-stream species; and it marks the first aquifer-fish record from Northeast India and the Eastern Himalaya — not from the Western Ghats, which already has a known subterranean species (Horaglanis krishnai, Kerala's Blind Catfish). Statement 1 thus stacks three traps: attribute misattribution (blind → sighted), habitat conflation (aquifer → surface stream), and geographic inversion (Northeast India → Western Ghats).
- 1. Telecommunications Act, 2023 A. Fund that replaced the erstwhile Universal Service Obligation Fund in nomenclature
- 2. GMPCS B. Term whose explicit references were dropped from the finally notified Rules, despite featuring in the earlier draft
- 3. Digital Bharat Nidhi C. Law that consolidated and replaced the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933
- 4. Authorisation regime D. Regulatory framework replacing the licence-based system for principal, captive, and miscellaneous telecom services
The correct match is 1–C, 2–B, 3–A, 4–D: the Telecommunications Act, 2023 consolidated and replaced the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 (C); GMPCS references were dropped from the finally notified Rules despite appearing in the earlier draft (B); Digital Bharat Nidhi is the renamed Universal Service Obligation Fund (A); and the authorisation regime replaces the erstwhile licensing framework for principal, captive and miscellaneous telecom services (D). Option B swaps the descriptions of GMPCS and Digital Bharat Nidhi (A ↔ B); option C swaps the parent Act and the authorisation regime (C ↔ D); and option D swaps Digital Bharat Nidhi and the authorisation regime (A ↔ D).
