UPSC Quiz - 2019 : IASbaba’s Daily Current

Affairs Quiz [Day 129]

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1. It has been formulated by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)
2. It envisages providing rating in terms of its energy performance

1. 1 Only
2. 2 Only
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2

1. Power Purchases
2. Coal Block Allocation
3. Road Safety
4. Trafficking of Women and Children

1. Providing for financial turnaround and revival of power distribution companies
2. Providing technical and financial assistance to start-up entrepreneurs in the field of renewable sources of energy
3. Providing electricity to every household in the country by 2020
4. Replacing the coal-based power plants with natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind and tidal power plants over a period of time

1. Poor households identified using Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 would be provided with free electricity
2. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) is the nodal agency for the operationalisation of the scheme
3. Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) have been subsumed under the ‘Saubhagya’ scheme

1. 1 and 2
2. 2 Only
3. 1 and 3
4. 1, 2 and 3

1. It focuses on feeder separation (households & agricultural)
2. It focuses on strengthening of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure including metering at all levels in rural areas

1. 1 Only
2. 2 Only
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2