Daily Current Affairs Quiz Prelims Practice 2027
- Article 243-I requires the Governor to constitute an SFC within one year of the 73rd Amendment and every five years thereafter — to review the financial position of Panchayats.
- Article 280 obliges the Central Finance Commission to recommend measures to supplement local body resources on the basis of SFC recommendations.
- The 15th Finance Commission found SFC reports were submitted with an average delay of 16 months, while the 16th Finance Commission found SFC reports unusable for framing central transfer recommendations.
- The 16th Finance Commission proposed amending Articles 280(3)(bb) and 280(3)(c) to retain the requirement that its recommendations be based on SFC reports.
Statements 1, 2, and 3 are correct — Article 243-I mandates the Governor to constitute an SFC every five years to review Panchayat finances; Articles 280(3)(bb) and (c) require the Central Finance Commission to base local body recommendations on SFC reports; and the MoPR committee report (June 2026) confirmed both the 15th FC's finding of a 16-month average SFC delay and the 16th FC's finding of reports being "unusable." Statement 4 is the trap — the 16th FC proposed amending those articles to drop, not retain, the requirement that CFC recommendations be grounded in SFC reports, effectively conceding that the constitutional chain has broken down.
SAPLING (South Asian Policy Leadership for Improved Nutrition and Growth) is a World Bank Group-led platform — MoFPI co-organised the SAPLING Dialogue 2026 held at Ahmedabad as a partner, not as the lead institution. Option (a) conflates SAPLING with the PM FME Scheme, which is the actual GoI scheme for formalising micro food processing enterprises. Option (c) incorrectly substitutes FAO for the World Bank. Option (d) invents both a bilateral structure and a specific doubling target not associated with SAPLING.
- A. Bihar — 1. 1.2
- B. Delhi — 2. 2.1
- C. Rural India — 3. 1.5
- D. Urban India — 4. 2.9
Per SRS Statistical Report 2024: Bihar = 2.9 (highest among bigger states), Delhi = 1.2 (lowest nationally), Rural India = 2.1 (exactly at replacement level), Urban India = 1.5. The primary trap is the Rural India figure — candidates expect a dramatically high rural TFR, but at the national aggregate, rural India sits precisely at the replacement level of 2.1. Option (b) swaps Delhi with Urban India (a plausible confusion since Delhi is entirely urban), and Option (d) fully inverts the rural/urban figures.
- India became the world's first country to launch an official national family planning programme — in 1952.
- Overall Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) rose from 66.7% (NFHS-5) to 69.1% (NFHS-6), while modern method use fell from 56.4% to 52.7% over the same period.
- Female sterilisation is higher in rural India (38.1%) than the national average (36.5%), while male sterilisation stands at just 0.5% nationally.
- The share of women aged 20–24 married before age 18 declined from NFHS-5 to NFHS-6, reflecting progress in implementation of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.
Statements 1, 2, and 3 are correct — India launched the world's first official national family planning programme in 1952; NFHS-6 shows overall CPR rising to 69.1% even as modern method use fell to 52.7%; and female sterilisation at 38.1% in rural India exceeds the national average while male sterilisation stands at just 0.5%. Statement 4 is the policy-significant trap — early marriage rates were completely unchanged from NFHS-5, with 20.1% of women aged 20–24 married before 18 nationally (23.3% rural) remaining static despite the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act being in force.
- On 11 June 2026, the Russia-Ukraine war surpassed WWI in duration, reaching 1,569 days.
- The Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War lasted 1,418 days — a milestone matched by the Ukraine war in January 2026.
- UNSCR 2202 (2015) endorsed the Minsk I agreements as the international framework for the Donbas conflict.
- Russia and Ukraine together accounted for approximately 30% of global wheat exports and 15% of maize exports before the war.
Statements 1, 2, and 4 are correct — the war reached 1,569 days on 11 June 2026, surpassing WWI; the Great Patriotic War (22 June 1941 – 9 May 1945) lasted 1,418 days, matched by the Ukraine war in January 2026; and Russia-Ukraine together accounted for ~30% of global wheat exports and ~15% of maize exports before the war. Statement 3 is the precision trap — UNSCR 2202 (2015) endorsed the Minsk II agreements, not Minsk I; Minsk I was concluded in September 2014 under a separate diplomatic framework, while Minsk II (February 2015) was the comprehensive package the Security Council formally adopted.
