Daily Quiz – 22.09.2026

1. A Geographical Indication can protect the name, geographical origin and reputation of a qualifying craft product, but does not necessarily protect every technique, motif or visual element associated with that craft.
2. The territorial nature of intellectual property rights can create difficulties in protecting traditional crafts when the craft is reproduced outside the jurisdiction in which its geographical or community-based rights are recognised.

III. Documentation of traditional craft techniques in a digital registry, by itself, would confer exclusive ownership over every future commercial use of those techniques on the communities associated with them.

Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the above statements?

1. Protection of a traditional craft may require mechanisms beyond a product-based geographical indication.
2. Recognition of a traditional craft within one jurisdiction may not by itself ensure effective protection against its unauthorised use elsewhere.
3. A provenance-based documentation system necessarily converts traditional knowledge into a proprietary monopoly.

Select the answer using the code given below:

1. Drought assessment cannot be based solely on rainfall deficiency, as its agricultural and hydrological manifestations may differ across regions.
2. A meteorological drought can develop into an agricultural or hydrological drought depending upon factors such as soil-moisture availability, crop water requirements and water-storage conditions.

Which of the following information supports the above statement(s)?

1. A region may experience deficient rainfall without immediately experiencing agricultural drought if adequate soil moisture and irrigation water are available.
2. Declining reservoir storage and streamflow can indicate hydrological drought even though rainfall deficiency is not necessarily uniform across the entire region.
3. Maharashtra has substantial areas under rain-fed agriculture, making monsoon variability particularly important for agricultural outcomes.

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1. The Damodar River originates in the Chota Nagpur Plateau and flows through Jharkhand and West Bengal before joining the Hooghly River.
2. The Damodar Valley Corporation was established after Independence as a multipurpose river valley development institution.
3. The Damodar basin is associated with several important Gondwana coalfields, including Jharia, Raniganj and Bokaro.

Which of the statements given above are correct?