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Fly ash is a byproduct from coal burning in electric power generating plants. It is used in Cement and Brick Industry, Waste stabilization and solidification, Structural filling, Melting of ice on rivers etc.
Q 3: Choose the correct statement
Asiatic Lion falls under Vulnerable category in the IUCN Red List
Asiatic Lions are found In Gujarat and Karnataka
Gir Forest was once part of Nawab of Junagadh’s Private Hunting Ground
James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan has won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for their research into how the body’s natural defences can fight cancer
Allison and Honjo researched how to help the patient’s own immune system tackle the cancer more rapidly.
Their award-winning research led to treatments targeting proteins made by some immune system cells that act like a “brake” on the body’s natural defences killing cancer cells.
Q5: Choose the correct statement:
The average size of land Holding in India is 1.05 ha
Nagaland has the highest average Land Holding in the country
Statement 1 is incorrect as The average size of land Holding in India is 1.08 ha.
As per the 10th Agriculture Census, the average size of operational agricultural holdings in the country has declined to 1.08 hectares (ha) in 2015-16. It was 1.15 ha in 2010-11
The average operational holding was highest in state of Nagaland (5.06 ha) and it is lowest in Kerala (0.18 ha).
Q 6: Which state has launched its own Food Security Scheme?
Odisha will launch its own State Food Security Scheme (SFSS) from Gandhi Jayanti on October 2
Around 18 lakh poor and eligible people who were left out under the National Food Security Act, 2013, (NFSA) will receive 5 kg of rice at the rate of ₹1 per kg, they said.
The State government decided to launch its own food security scheme after the Union government did not respond to the Odisha state government’s request to add an additional 25 lakh poor people under the National Food Security Act