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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Explanation
The correct answer is Kolkata. 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. The Minister of State who was chief guest also spoke about the benefits Aadhaar would bring to the people of West Bengal, which further fixes the location of the event. Option A, Bengaluru, is a major technology centre but was not the venue on this occasion. Option C, Hyderabad, likewise hosts many technology events but not this one. Option D, New Delhi, is where UIDAI has its headquarters, which makes it a tempting choice, yet the conference being reported was deliberately taken to the eastern region. Candidates should tie the five launches to Kolkata.
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Practice Questions
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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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.
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 →Under which fund has TDB extended support to the AI-ELINT project, and in what form?
- A.Research, Development and Innovation Fund, as Optionally Convertible Debt
- B.National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, as an outright grant
- C.Startup India Seed Fund, as equity
- D.Production Linked Incentive scheme, as a subsidy
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The Technology Development Board is giving the money through this fund, and the instrument chosen is debt that may later be converted into equity, which lets the Board support a deep technology firm without taking a shareholding at the outset.
Read the full explanation →The AI-ELINT satellite constellation supported by TDB will use microsatellites of which class?
- A.The 10 kg class
- B.The 50 kg class
- C.The 500 kg class
- D.The 1,200 kg class
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The project plans microsatellites of this weight class, to be placed in low Earth orbit and added to the group in stages, so that coverage and the frequency of revisits over a chosen area both grow as more satellites go up.
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