Face Authentication for the electronic Public Distribution System was launched by UIDAI jointly with which two bodies?
- A.NPCI and the Reserve Bank of India
- B.The Department of Food and Public Distribution and the National Informatics Centre
- C.The Food Corporation of India and CSC e-Governance Services
- D.The Department of Telecommunications and BSNL
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Explanation
The correct answer is the Department of Food and Public Distribution and the National Informatics Centre. The three bodies together launched a consent-based and contactless face authentication option for the electronic Public Distribution System, giving beneficiaries an additional way to authenticate themselves in situations where fingerprint authentication may be difficult, and allowing States and Union Territories to fold the facility into their own ration distribution systems. Option A names the payments organisation and the central bank, neither of which runs the ration system. Option C names the agency that handles foodgrain procurement and storage and a service delivery company, which are not the partners named in this launch. Option D names the telecom department and a telecom operator, which have no role in this particular initiative. The pairing worth memorising is UIDAI with the food distribution department and the informatics centre.
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Practice Questions
In which city did UIDAI hold the Aadhaar Samvaad conference at which five new initiatives were launched?
- A.Bengaluru
- B.Kolkata
- C.Hyderabad
- D.New Delhi
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The day-long stakeholders conference named Aadhaar Samvaad was held there, it coincided with the seventeenth Aadhaar Day, and more than six hundred policy makers, industry leaders, technocrats and professionals took part in it.
Read the full explanation →Through integration with BHASHINI, how many languages does the revamped UIDAI website currently support?
- A.8
- B.11
- C.13
- D.22
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The redesigned website of the authority supports that many languages at present, English and Hindi among them, using the BHASHINI language platform, and the stated plan is to extend the coverage to twenty three languages in the near future.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT among the five initiatives unveiled by UIDAI at the conference?
- A.SWIK Portal 2.0
- B.Sub-AUA and Sub-KUA (LITE) Framework
- C.A new Token Management System
- D.A new Aadhaar-linked payment bank
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The five initiatives were face authentication for the electronic Public Distribution System, the SWIK Portal in its second version, the framework allowing smaller entities to use the authentication infrastructure of an existing agency, a token management system for visitors to state and regional offices, and the redesigned website of the…
Read the full explanation →How many medals did Indian students win at this year's International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Vietnam?
- A.Three gold and two silver
- B.Four gold and one silver
- C.Two gold and three bronze
- D.Five gold
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Five students from India took part in this year's edition of the olympiad, held in Vietnam, and four of them returned with gold medals while the fifth won a silver medal, a result the Prime Minister called a matter of pride for the whole country.
Read the full explanation →Which of these astronomers was NOT named by the Prime Minister at the COSMOS Planetarium event?
- A.Varahamihira
- B.Bhaskaracharya
- C.Nilakantha Somayaji
- D.Charaka
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The Prime Minister recalled four great Indian astronomers of the past, namely Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Bhaskaracharya and Nilakantha Somayaji, which makes options A, B and C wrong choices for a question asking who was left out.
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