● The Ninth Schedule was added to the constitution by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951.

● Articles 31A and 31B are also added and some amended articles are 15, 19, 85, 87, 174, 176, 341, 342, 372 and 376.

● It was moved by the then Prime Minister of India JAWAHARLAL NEHRU on 10 May 1951 and enacted by PARLIAMENT on 18 June 1951.

Sanjeeva Reddy has never become Vice President of Country.

• Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was sixth President of country and also was the youngest president of country.

• BD Jatti served as 5^th Vice President of India from 1974 to 1979.

• VV Giri served as 3^rd Vice President of India from 1967 to 1969.

• KR Narayan served as 9^th Vice President of India from 1987 to 1992.

* Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana is a part of the Indian government's National Health Policy.

* Its aim to provide free health coverage at the secondary and tertiary level to its bottom 40% poor and vulnerable population.

* It is the world's largest and fully state sponsored health assurance scheme.

* It was launched in September 2018, under the aegis of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India.

* The most competitive market structure is perfect competition.

* Perfect competition is a market system characterized by many different buyers and sellers.

* Under perfect competition, there are many buyers and sellers, and prices reflect supply and demand.

* Perfect competition establishes an idealized framework for establishing a market.

Under Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme, RBI issues gold bonds on behalf of Central Government.

• These bonds are then sold at the banks and post offices issued in denomination of gold in grams.

• The tenor of the Bond will be for a period of 8 years with exit option after completion of five years.

• The Bonds bear interest at the rate of 2.50 per cent (fixed rate) per annum on the amount of initial investment.

• Interest on the Bonds will be taxable as per the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

• Pradhan Mantri Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojna is being implemented by Department of Financial Services under Ministry of Finance.

• Pradhan Mantri Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojna is an insurance scheme launched on 9^th May, 2015 by PM Narendra Modi.

• This scheme can be availed by people aged between 18 years to 50 years.

• Each person has to deposit 330 Rs/year and he is insured for a sum of Rs. 2 Lakh.

• The scheme also provides risk coverage for 1 year which can be renewed yearly.

● Satmala Hills are located in the state of Maharashtra.

● It is the most important range of Nashik is the Satmala range and it looks like a necklace placed along Nashik.

● Dhodap is the highest peak of this range and also the third highest hill peak in Maharashtra.

● Gairson was declared the summer capital of Uttarakhand on 04 March 2020.

● Dehradun is the winter capital of Uttrakhand.

● The High Court of the state is located in Nainital.

● Jim Corbett National Park the oldest national park of the Indian subcontinent is also in Uttrakhand.

• With increase in temperature the Relative humidity of air decreases.

• There is an inverse relation between Relative Humidity and Temperature for a given volume of air.

• Relative Humidity is ratio of actual amount of water vapour present in air to the maximum amount of water vapour the water vapour can uphold.

• With increase in temperature the water vapour holding capacity of air increases and this led to decrease in Relative Humidity of air.

Sundergarh, Mayurbhanj and Jhar regions are Iron ore deposit rich areas in Odisha.

• The major iron ore producing areas in country are as follow-

a) Orissa - Sundergarh, Mayurbhanj and Jhar

b) Jharkhand – Naumundi and Jhar

c) Karnataka – Sandur Hospet area, baba budan hills and Kudremukh

d) Maharashtra – Chandrapur, Bhandara and Ratnagiri.

• India ranks 4th in terms of iron ore production globally. In FY18, production of iron ore stood at 210 million tonnes.

• India has around 8 per cent of world’s deposits of iron ore.