Which new body will provide technical and professional support to the Steel Industry Safety Council?
- A.Steel Industry Safety Directorate
- B.National Steel Safety Mission
- C.Bureau of Steel Safety Standards
- D.Steel Plant Inspection Authority
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Explanation
The correct answer is the Steel Industry Safety Directorate, abbreviated as SISD. It is being established alongside the Council to supply technical and professional expertise in areas such as process safety, blast furnaces, steel melting, rolling mills, coke ovens, refractory systems, electrical and mechanical safety, occupational health, fire engineering and disaster management. The Directorate will also oversee implementation of the Council's decisions, carry out periodic safety audits, maintain information on accidents and near-miss incidents, investigate serious safety events and issue safety standards, recommended practices and guidelines suited to Indian conditions. The other three names in the options do not exist in this announcement and have been placed there only as distractors. Note the pairing of a council that decides with a directorate that executes.
Read the full article: Ministry of Steel to Set Up Steel Industry Safety Council
Practice Questions
Who will be the Chairman of the newly announced Steel Industry Safety Council?
- A.The Union Minister of Steel
- B.The Secretary, Ministry of Steel
- C.The Director General of Mines Safety
- D.The Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority
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The Council has been placed under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel and its Secretary has been made its Chairman, with senior officers of the Ministry and the chief executives of integrated steel producers sitting as members.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following organisations will NOT be represented on the Steel Industry Safety Council as announced?
- A.Directorate General of Mines Safety
- B.Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation
- C.Securities and Exchange Board of India
- D.National Disaster Management Authority
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That body regulates the securities market and has nothing to do with industrial safety in steel plants, so it does not figure in the composition of the new Council.
Read the full explanation →The Department of Posts, which ran Digital Detox 2.0, works under which ministry?
- A.Ministry of Civil Aviation
- B.Ministry of Communications
- C.Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- D.Ministry of Culture
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The Department of Posts is one of the departments of that ministry, and the announcement about Digital Detox 2.0 came from it.
Read the full explanation →Digital Detox 2.0 was conducted on how many flights?
- A.11
- B.15
- C.21
- D.30
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The campaign was carried out across fifteen flights, and those flights between them served eleven destinations, so the two figures must be kept apart.
Read the full explanation →India Post ran the Digital Detox 2.0 campaign in collaboration with which airline?
- A.Air India
- B.IndiGo
- C.SpiceJet
- D.Akasa Air
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The Department of Posts, which works under the Ministry of Communications, organised the in-flight postcard writing activity in collaboration with that airline, and the campaign ran on fifteen of its flights serving eleven destinations.
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