Daily Mains Practice Questions 05-01-2023

KINDLY REVIEW

KINDLY REVIEW

1) KEY POINTS

·        A national database on cooperatives has been initiated by the Ministry of Cooperation for single-point access to information on cooperatives of different sectors and develop a process for better understanding of cooperatives.

·        The proposed database shall facilitate all stakeholders in policy-making and implementation to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country.

·        The recently announced National Geospatial Policy 2022 provides the framework to develop geospatial infrastructure, skills and knowledge, standards and businesses.

·        By 2030, the government will look to establish an Integrated Data and Information Framework, under which a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) will be developed.

·        A high-resolution topographical survey and mapping as well as a high-accuracy Digital Elevation Model for the entire country will be developed by 2035.

·        The national database for cooperatives needs to have geospatial database creation with geo-referencing of cooperative societies to make a decision-support model.

·        It is essential to undertake research on the major parameters that contribute to the development of such societies and their distribution in specific regions.

·        The advanced geospatial tools and technologies will help in predicting, analysing, modelling, and visualizing spatially explicit information.

·        The geospatial mapping of the cooperative ecosystem will generate ease of doing business outcomes and enhance the cooperative movement’s visibility, networking and partnership opportunities.

2) KEY POINTS

·        The Union government’s proposed measures for regulating online gaming in a draft amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Liability and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 leave several questions unanswered.

·        Still, games that require wagering are outlawed in the physical form under the colonial Public Gambling Act, 1867 or States’ own gambling laws.

·        A clear answer should come from the Union government on whether States are empowered to prohibit these games online as they do offline.

·        While the gaming industry has huge potential as an economic driver of growth in India, there is strong case for robust regulation.

·        Of skill or of chance, all online games impact individuals and society, in the short and the long term.

·        The government has indicated that the definition of an ‘online game’, which is limited in the draft amendment to wagering platforms, may be expanded in future to include all games broadly.

·        China, for instance, has limited the number of hours that young gamers are allowed to play daily, after which they are locked out for the day.

·        The government has said the goal is to facilitate the industry and not hinder its growth. It has also indicated that in future, it will try to curb “violent, addictive or sexual content” in video games.

3) KEY POINTS

·        The export of key agriculture commodities rose around 16 per cent in the first half of 2022-23 (April-September) over the corresponding year-ago period.

·        Agri-export income often brings relief when other sectors of the rural economy face stress. In celebrating the performance of farm exports, it is important also to ensure that they are sustainable.

·        As the international market for value-added products is constantly growing, it is time India moved faster towards export of agri products.

·        Successful value-added products are generally specialised/technical and sell in markets which have low competition.

·        It is time to leverage policy interventions and bring in operational changes, including training and hand-holding of producers, for creating a business ecosystem for agri product exports.

·        Value-addition can be achieved by promoting the industrial use of food products but only where we have non-utilisable surplus.

·        Resultantly, the traditional crops can be turned into non-food goods using a number of inventive and innovative technologies — bio-diesel is a case in point.

·        Considering India’s small landholdings, horizontal coordination that aims to pool or consolidate people or enterprises from the same level of the food chain is one solution.

·        Finally, India’s agriculture export policy has been vacillating between export bans/restrictions and minimum export price on one side and free trade on the other. This approach needs to be reviewed.

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