Under which law would drivers provided by a Rent a Cab operator get welfare cover as per the proposed reforms?
- A.Motor Vehicles Act
- B.Code on Social Security, 2020
- C.Industrial Disputes Act
- D.Contract Labour Act
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Explanation
The correct answer is the Code on Social Security, 2020. The framework says that a driver supplied by the operator would require police verification, and that the welfare of such drivers falls under this Code. Accountability runs the other way too: where specified serious offences are committed involving a cab or an operator-provided driver, the validity of the operator's licence is reduced. Option A is tempting, since motor vehicle law is the natural home for cab regulation, but the welfare cover named in the announcement is the social security Code, not the Motor Vehicles Act. Options C and D are labour statutes that the proposal does not invoke. Also note the softer enforcement design: an operator is given time to set right violations that are not material before suspension or revocation is considered, and an appellate mechanism with electronic hearings has been introduced.
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Practice Questions
Under the proposed Rent a Cab reforms, the minimum fleet requirement for an operator has been reduced from 50 cabs to how many?
- A.2
- B.5
- C.10
- D.20
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has proposed bringing the floor for a Rent a Cab fleet down from 50 vehicles to just 5, which is the single change most likely to let small operators enter the business.
Read the full explanation →What timeline has been proposed for the grant and renewal of a Rent a Cab licence?
- A.15 days
- B.30 days
- C.45 days
- D.60 days
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The proposal fixes a clock of 60 days for deciding the grant or renewal of a licence, so an application cannot be left hanging indefinitely.
Read the full explanation →At the festival, the endangered Toda language of the Nilgiris was said to have roughly how many speakers?
- A.About 500
- B.About 2,000
- C.About 12,000
- D.About 50,000
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Speaking in the opening session, K. Vasamalli of the Toda community of the Nilgiris said the language has only that many speakers left, and described her effort to record it through radio recordings, her published work and a dictionary of five thousand seven hundred words prepared with the International Phonetic…
Read the full explanation →Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, during whose Pakhwada the festival is held, is observed on the birth anniversary of which leader?
- A.Bhagwan Birsa Munda
- B.Rani Gaidinliu
- C.Tilka Manjhi
- D.Komaram Bheem
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The Union Cabinet declared the fifteenth of November, his birth anniversary, as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, so that tribal heritage is celebrated and the contribution of tribal heroes enters the national consciousness; the literary festival is held during the fortnight, or Pakhwada, built around that day.
Read the full explanation →Where was the second edition of the National Tribal Literary Festival inaugurated?
- A.Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
- B.India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- C.Ranchi, Jharkhand
- D.Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
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The Ministry of Tribal Affairs opened the two-day festival there on the theme of the journey from oral tradition to contemporary tribal literature, as part of the Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas Pakhwada.
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