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When the crew was crossing the Tasman Sea, they witnessed the brilliant Southern Lights from sea. It was rare to watch that in those months, that too from sea. The entire sky was lit up in green light. There was bioluminescence, dolphins swimming in the wake of the boat like our neighbours and a variety of sea creatures.

One day they were hit by a storm – it was scary to see very high waves, around 9-10 metres high surging the boat at a wind speed of 60 to 70 knots. Though they were prepared for the storm, it was quite challenging. Mountainous waves were surging from behind, pushing them forward. They were in the South Pacific. Luckily, they were sailing downwind. They took turns in steering the boat. When three of them were doing the watch at a time the other three rested.

It was so cold that it was difficult to stand outside for more than an hour. They watched enormous waves break over the top of the boat and sweep across the deck. One can imagine that a blast of saltwater soaking them completely. Sometimes the water would have gushed inside their living space, soaking all their clothes in sea water. The place would have been a mess.

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhiliration of victory.” 

They celebrated Diwali during their expedition.

As they were not specialists, whenever they spotted something new in the sea, they googled and browsed information to learn more about the species.

Navika Sagar Parikrama was a project undertaken in consonance with the National policy to empower women to attain their full potential. The Project is considered essential towards promoting ocean sailing activities in the Navy while depicting Government of India’s thrust for Nari Shakti which means women power.

The Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba gave his welcome speech when this project was launched. The voyage was aimed to show ‘case ‘Make in India’ initiative by sailing on-board indigenously built INSV Tarini. The special feature of this sailboat is that it encouraged use of environment friendly non-conventional renewable energy resources such as the wind; collected and updated meteorological, ocean and wave data on regular basis for accurate weather forecast by India Meteorological Department (IMD) and also collected data for monitoring marine pollution on high seas.

“The goal is not to sail the boats, bat rather to help the boat sail herself.”

1.  True.

2. False – The crew consisted of all women crew in Indian Navy Service.

3. True.

4. False – The crew started their expedition on 10 September, 2017 from Goa.

5. True.

To complete the journey with ultimate honesty was the quality of skipper which helped to bring out a successful expedition. Rather than the destination, it was the journey which was the most important. So her contention was to make sure that they go by the rules of circumnavigation which say that one need not use any auxiliary means of repulsion and take anybody else’s assistance.

Even during the storm when three people would be out on watch, the other three who would be inside wouldn’t be able to rest. When somebody heated the water, the other person would heat the gloves because it was raining also.

False – Navika Sagar Parikrama was a project undertaken with the National policy to empower women to attain their full potential.

True - Team effort actually helped in navigating through the 20 hours long storm.

False – In the South Pacific, the crew encountered a storm where the seas were almost nine to ten meters high and the winds were picking up to 60- 70 knots.

• Replying to queries of customers of the company.
• Conducting sales campaign on phone to make new clients.

Telephone and Computer.

Around 8 lac crore.

The coordination and selling of various products that are used in day to day activities of a person.

• Products related to pregnant women, infants and children.
• Saris and traditional Indian apparel.

Correct Answer is True

(c) Consumer market

1. Resources are always scarce. The demand for resources is more and the availability of resources is less. 

2. Similarly, resources belong to the society but the businesses use them for production and provide the finished products to the society. 

3. So it is necessary to use the resources carefully. 

4. Wastage of resources should be avoided. 

5. Wherever possible, recycling and reusing the resources should be considered by the businesses. 

6. Thus, whatever resources available should be used to its maximum.

1. Economic activities are those activities which are done with the intention of making money. 

2. A person has to earn money for his livelihood.

3. However all economic activities are not same. They can be conducted mainly in three different ways. (a) Employment (b) Profession and (c) Business. 

4. Business is conducted to earn profit. 

5. businessman invests his own capital, takes decisions and carries out business activities. 

6. He also takes risk for carrying business activities. 

7. Thus, a businessman is responsible for the business activities. The profit earned is enjoyed by the businessman. So business is a part of economic activity.

1. Wholesaler and retailer are the important intermediaries in trade.

2. They help to bring the goods from the manufacturer to ultimate consumer. 

3. Wholesaler is a trader who deals in large quantities i.e. the wholesaler purchases the goods in bulk from the manufacturer and sells it to retailer in small quantities. 

4. Both the wholesalers and retailers are the part of chain of distribution, which is shown below. Producer → Wholesaler → Retailer → Consumer 

5. Thus, it is true that wholesaler is the link between the manufacturer and retailer.

Correct option is (c) Gottfried Achen Wall

EDI Standards:

• The standard is the most critical part of the entire EDI. Since EDI is the data transmission and information exchange in the form of an agreed message format, it is important to develop a unified EDI standard. 
• The EDI standard is mainly divided into the following aspects:

basic standards, codestandards, message standards, document standards, management standards, application standards, communication standards and security standards.

• The first industry-specific EDI standard was the TDCC published by the Transportation Data coordinating Committee in 1975.
• Then other industries started developing unique standards based on their individual needs.

E.g. WINS in the warehousing industry.

• Since the application of EDI has become more mature, the target of trading operations is often not limited to a single industry.
• In 1979, the American National Standards Institute Accredited Standard Committee (ANSI ASC) developed a wider range of EDI standard called ANSI XI2.
• On the other hand, the European region has also developed an integrated EDI standard. Known as GTDI (Guideline for Trade Data Interchange).
•  ANSI X12 and GTDI have become the two regional EDI standards in North America and Europe respectively.
• After the development of the two major regional EDI standards and a few years after trial, the two standards began to integrate and conduct research and development of common EDI standards.
• Subsequently, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE/WP.4) hosted the task of the development of international EDI standards. In 1986, UN/EDIFACT is officially proposed. The most widely used EDI message standards are the United Nations EDIFACT and the ANSI X12.

In barter system, there was a difficulty in establishing a need for each other’s goods or services to make the barter possible. For example a person who had rice to exchange for wheat did not want wheat but clothes for barter.

EDI Interchange:

Interchange is also called as envelope. The top level of EDIFACT structure is Interchange. An interchange may contain multiple messages. It starts with UNB and ends with UNZ.

Data exchange:

CREMUL – multiple credit advice

DELFOR-Delivery forecast

IFTMBC – Booking confirmation.

1. CONTRL- Syntax Check and Confirmation of Arrival of Message

2. APERAK – Technical error

EDIFACT Segment

It is the subset of message. A segment is a threecharacter alphanumeric code. These segments are listed in segment tables. Segments may contain one, or several related user data elements.

EDI via FTP/VPN, SFTP, FTPS:

When protocols like FTP/VPN, SFTP and FTPS are used for exchange of EDI based documents through the Internet or Intranet it is called as EDI via FTP/VPN, SFTP, FTPS.

1. GEFIC – Chemical industry

2. EDIFURN – furniture industry

3. EDIGAS – gas business

Segment Tables:

Segment table lists the message tags. It contains the tags, tag names, requirements designator and repetitation field. The requirement designator may be mandatory (M) or conditional (C). The (M) denotes that the segment must appear atleast once. The (C) denotes that the segment may be used if needed

A value-added network is a company, that is based on its own network, offering EDI services to other businesses. A value-added network acts as an intermediary between trading partners. The principle operations of value- added networks are the allocation of access rights and providing high data security

: is used for component data element separator

? is the release character

' is the segment terminator

The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the exchange of business documents between one trade partner and another electronically. It is transferred through a dedicated channel or – through the Internet in a predefined format without much human intervention.

(c) Directories

DTM is date/time information in the segment.

CCYYMMDDHHMM

A segment is a 3 character alphanumeric code.

APERAK show technical error messages in EDIFACT.

The EDIFACT message begins and ends with UNH, UNT

The interchange is also called as envelope

C1O indicates the repetitions of a segment or group between 0 and 10.

(c) interchange

(a) data element

(c) EDI for Administration, Commerce and Transport

TDCC was formed in 1968

(b) UNB, UNZ

TDCC is the first industry-sjpecific EDI standard