Current Affairs Quiz – 01 January 2020

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1. In a bid to speed the target of becoming $5 trillion economy by 2024-25, how much approx amount has been sanctioned by the Government towards infrastructure project pipeline over next 5 years?
   A) Rs 115 lakh crore
   B) Rs 102 lakh crore
   C) Rs 75 lakh crore
   D) Rs 129 lakh crore
   
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   Option B
   Explanation: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced an infrastructure project pipeline worth over Rs 102 lakh crore to be implemented over the next five years, as a major step towards achieving the government’s ambition of turning India into a $5 trillion economy by 2024-25. The total expected capital expenditure amounts to Rs 10,250,704 crore during the fiscals 2020 to 2025.
2. Which among these states has launched first of its kind ‘e-Certificate portal’ to enable the residents get the important certificates such as caste, resident, income etc., online, without the need to visit the respective offices?
   A) Maharashtra
   B) Gujarat
   C) Himachal Pradesh
   D) Odisha
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: The Odisha government has launched ‘e-Certificate portal’, a unique project to provide official documents such as caste certificate, permanent residence certificates, income or similar other certificates online without the need to visit Tehsil offices or Common Service Centres. The initiative has been launched by the Revenue and Disaster Management department of the state as part of its 5T model of governance.
3. Name the first Indian state to pass a resolution in the State Assembly for scrapping the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)?
   A) West Bengal
   B) Tamil Nadu
   C) Kerala
   D) Jharkhand
   
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   Option C
   Explanation: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has moved a resolution in the state Assembly on December 31, 2019, to scrap the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). With this, it has become the first state in the country to do so.
4. Umaro Sissoco Embalo has recently won the Presidential election of which country?
   A) Guinea-Bissau
   B) Senegal
   C) The Gambia
   D) Zambia
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has won presidential elections in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau.The 47-year-old opposition leader picked up 53.55 percent of vote
5. Which state has launched the Atal Kisan-Mazdoor canteens, that aims to provide cheap meal to farmers and labourers at the cost of Rs 10?
   A) Chhattisgarh
   B) Rajasthan
   C) Odisha
   D) Haryana
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: The Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has inaugurated the first Atal Kisan-Mazdoor canteens in Karnal where the farmers and labourers will get food for Rs 10. The canteen will provide Veg-thali comprising four chapatis, rice, dal and seasonal vegetable, all for Rs 10, with the capacity to serve 300 persons daily.
6. Who has been reappointed as the Chairman of the Railway Board, under the Ministry of Railways?
   A) Prof Prem Vrat
   B) Vinod Kumar Yadav
   C) S.K. Salwan
   D) Alok Kumar
   
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   Option B
   Explanation: The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved the reappointment of Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav as Chairman, Railway Board and Ex-Officio Principal Secretary to Government of India, for a period of one year effective from January 01, 2020.
7. ICC has plans to scrap the five-day Tests match system and instead convert it into four-day match from which year?
   A) 2023
   B) 2020
   C) 2021
   D) 2022
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: The Cricket’s apex body, the International Cricket Council has planned to reduce all Test matches, including the Ashes, from five days to four from 2023, to ease workload on players in the crowded calendar.
8. The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 enacted into law on 12 December 2019, amends which of these acts?
   A) Citizenship Act 1962
   B) Citizenship Act 1947
   C) Citizenship Act 1955
   D) Citizenship Act 1959
   
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   Option C
   Explanation: The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) is an act, passed by the Parliament of India, which amends the Citizenship Act of 1955
9. Which state has launched the Mobile App Pauti to enable its citizen in online payment of land revenue?
   A) Andhra Pradesh
   B) Odisha
   C) Assam
   D) Haryana
   
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   Option B
   Explanation: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik launched a mobile App “Pauti”, to facilitate online payment of land revenue so that citizens need not visit government offices for the same. They can download the application and make payment.
10. For the first time, Government has appointed a female as the head of the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). Name the new Chairperson and Managing Director of SCI?
    A) Arun Kumar Gupta
    B) Sabyasachi Hajara
    C) P.P. Radhakrishnan
    D) Harjeet Kaur Joshi
    
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    Option D
    Explanation: Harjeet Kaur Joshi has been appointed as the full-time Chairperson and Managing Director of privatisation-bound Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). She is the first female to head the Mumbai based Public Sector Enterprise and the 13th chairperson and managing director of country’s biggest ocean carrier by fleet size.

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