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Q.1714) Recently India won the Vice President chair for the year 2023-25 at the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Which of the following is the National Committee which represents all private and public interests in electrotechnology in IEC standardization ?

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Q.1713) Which of the following are principles of the concept of 'Constitutionalism" ? 1. Rule of law 2. Popular Sovereignty 3. Police Accountability

✅️ Note : If u know option 4 is 💯 wrong as they are not easily disposable then (4) point can be outcasted in first go. 🎯Then between 1 and 3 or 2 and 3 options, which one is correct; here comes the part of General sense, Common sense, Elimination technique, backed with extensive study ✅️

✅️ 2022 PRELIMS Question on PET👇 Q) With reference to polyethylene terephthalate, the use of which is so widespread in our daily lives, consider the following statements: 1) Its fibres can be blended with wool and cotton fibres to reinforce their properties. 2) Containers made of it can be used to store any alcoholic beverage. 3) Bottles made of it can be recycled into other products. 4) Articles made of it can be easily disposed of by incineration without causing greenhouse gas emmisions.

✅️ Read the above Yojana pages and try to answer this UPSC PRELIMS Question on PET 👇

⭕️Microplastics : Plastics are made from non-renewable resources such as crude oil and hence they are hard to decompose as the polymers are bonded through covalent bonds, a strongest bonding force✅️ 👆Read about how plastic show high affinity to other toxicants ⭕️Learn about major types of polymers : PP, HDPE, LDPE and Poly (Amide-6) Nylon. 🎯PET (polyethylene terephthalate) -----In recent 2022 Prelims Paper, one question was on PET 🎯 Learn about Biodegradation and how enzymes in this process can break-up a polymer (like PET) into monomer. 🎯Read the discussion part for having a balanced answer---both pros & cons to be focussed ✅️

👉 Read carefully the section of Gulf of Mannar Biosphere and words used there like 👇 ••• Horst-Graben structures •••Prevelance of monsoon, two courses of drift in water currents ••• Cenizoic sedimentary functions ✅️Make a note on them from internet ; with this exercise gerography, environment and current issues---all will be cleared at one place 🎯Know about ALDFG👆

✅️ Look at the diagrams given----use this style in Mains Answer Writing ✅️ Focus pointers👇 🎯 MARPOL, COMAPS, Great Nicobar Island, top three Indian cities that contribute to marine pollution, how much percentage rivers contribute to the marine plastic debris, defination of microplastics or thin plastics, River Adyar and Cooum ✅️ 🎯Major plastic debris 👇 Thermocol, plastic bags, bottles and caps, straws, food wrappers. ✅️Recent add-on risk👇 😷Masks, Covid protection kits, home deliveries packaging

✅️ Data: By 2050, there could be mote plastic waste than fish in the ocean---------by UN