✅Gs-1 : Geography- Urban planning- Case study of Dharavi
🅾️Context : Use this article as an example of how urbanization can impact ecology
🅾️Things to know : What are salt pans?
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🅾️Context : Use this article as an example of how urbanization can impact ecology
🅾️Things to know : What are salt pans?
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✅Gs-1 : Urbanization and its impacts/ Issues related to poverty and employment.
✅Gs-2 : Government policies and interventions
✅Gs-3 : Employment and economic planning, role of industries, and effects of liberalization.
🅾️Main context : India's manufacturing growth has remained sluggish despite policy pushes. A key reason is industrialization's focus on urban regions, leading to challenges for rural economies.
🅾️What did it lead to?- Unlike China and the US, industrial growth in India did not evolve in tandem with urbanization; manufacturing is now moving to rural regions. Over 40% of Indian employment remains in agriculture, mostly due to limited opportunities outside farming.
🅾️What should we do now?- Empirical studies on 600 districts show manufacturing dispersal from urban to rural areas leads to better resource allocation. So Investments should focus on rural India .
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✅Gs-2 : Government policies and interventions
✅Gs-3 : Employment and economic planning, role of industries, and effects of liberalization.
🅾️Main context : India's manufacturing growth has remained sluggish despite policy pushes. A key reason is industrialization's focus on urban regions, leading to challenges for rural economies.
🅾️What did it lead to?- Unlike China and the US, industrial growth in India did not evolve in tandem with urbanization; manufacturing is now moving to rural regions. Over 40% of Indian employment remains in agriculture, mostly due to limited opportunities outside farming.
🅾️What should we do now?- Empirical studies on 600 districts show manufacturing dispersal from urban to rural areas leads to better resource allocation. So Investments should focus on rural India .
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✅Gs-2 : IR- Role of international bodies like COP, G20 in climate action.
🅾️India has positioned itself as a leader of the Global South in climate action, backed by its commitment at COP26 to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070
🅾️But The financial shortfall is significant: India needs $3.5 trillion, with an average annual funding gap of $28 billion over the next five decades
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🅾️India has positioned itself as a leader of the Global South in climate action, backed by its commitment at COP26 to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070
🅾️But The financial shortfall is significant: India needs $3.5 trillion, with an average annual funding gap of $28 billion over the next five decades
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- Sectors of Economy
✅Gs-1 : Geography- Locational factors- Textile industry
🅾️Context : Problems of textile industry- In FY22, India was the third-largest textile exporter globally, with a 5.4% share. India holds the second-largest manufacturing capacity, contributing 2.3% of GDP in FY21 and 10.6% of total manufacturing GVA in FY23.FY2023-24 saw a sharp decline in both exports and domestic demand, affecting the entire manufacturing chain.For example, Tamil Nadu, a key hub, saw nearly 500 textile mills close, and Tiruppur (a knitwear hub) experienced a 40% business drop.
🔰Reasons
⚜️Geopolitical issues: Countries are supporting domestic manufacturing, limiting export demand.
⚜️Import duty on cotton: A 10% duty made Indian cotton expensive, hurting competitiveness.
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Locational factors- Textile industry
🅾️Context : Problems of textile industry- In FY22, India was the third-largest textile exporter globally, with a 5.4% share. India holds the second-largest manufacturing capacity, contributing 2.3% of GDP in FY21 and 10.6% of total manufacturing GVA in FY23.FY2023-24 saw a sharp decline in both exports and domestic demand, affecting the entire manufacturing chain.For example, Tamil Nadu, a key hub, saw nearly 500 textile mills close, and Tiruppur (a knitwear hub) experienced a 40% business drop.
🔰Reasons
⚜️Geopolitical issues: Countries are supporting domestic manufacturing, limiting export demand.
⚜️Import duty on cotton: A 10% duty made Indian cotton expensive, hurting competitiveness.
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✅Gs-3 : Agriculture- National Agriculture code
🅾️Why is Standardization Needed?- For any industry to function efficiently and sustainably, standards ensure consistency, safety, and efficiency. Agriculture in India lacks unified standards for important operations like micro-irrigation, fertilizer use, and post-harvest management. This causes inefficiencies, unequal practices, and sometimes environmental damage due to overuse or misuse of inputs like pesticides and water.
🅾️NAC's Objective: To create a comprehensive agriculture standard framework that includes machinery, processes, and new technologies like Internet-of-Things (IoT) in precision farming. This will help farmers adjust inputs based on real-time data about soil, crop, and weather conditions.
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🅾️Why is Standardization Needed?- For any industry to function efficiently and sustainably, standards ensure consistency, safety, and efficiency. Agriculture in India lacks unified standards for important operations like micro-irrigation, fertilizer use, and post-harvest management. This causes inefficiencies, unequal practices, and sometimes environmental damage due to overuse or misuse of inputs like pesticides and water.
🅾️NAC's Objective: To create a comprehensive agriculture standard framework that includes machinery, processes, and new technologies like Internet-of-Things (IoT) in precision farming. This will help farmers adjust inputs based on real-time data about soil, crop, and weather conditions.
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Impact of climate change- greening of the Antarctic Peninsula
🅾️How Does Greening Affect Climate?
⚜️1. Temperature changes affect ecosystems by altering the conditions in which species thrive.
⚜️2. Darker surfaces (like vegetation) absorb more solar radiation, increasing surface temperatures.
⚜️3. Invasive species can disrupt local ecosystems by competing with native species for resources, potentially leading to ecological imbalance.
🅾️The rapid greening of the Antarctic Peninsula due to rising temperatures is a concerning sign of climate change. It points to potential ecological disruptions and further global warming as darker vegetation replaces reflective ice, contributing to rising sea levels and ecosystem imbalances. Scientists warn that this transformation could have far-reaching consequences, not only for the Antarctic region but for the planet as a whole.
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🅾️How Does Greening Affect Climate?
⚜️1. Temperature changes affect ecosystems by altering the conditions in which species thrive.
⚜️2. Darker surfaces (like vegetation) absorb more solar radiation, increasing surface temperatures.
⚜️3. Invasive species can disrupt local ecosystems by competing with native species for resources, potentially leading to ecological imbalance.
🅾️The rapid greening of the Antarctic Peninsula due to rising temperatures is a concerning sign of climate change. It points to potential ecological disruptions and further global warming as darker vegetation replaces reflective ice, contributing to rising sea levels and ecosystem imbalances. Scientists warn that this transformation could have far-reaching consequences, not only for the Antarctic region but for the planet as a whole.
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth
🅾️What is middle income gap?- The middle-income trap refers to the stagnation of growth as economies transition from low-income to middle-income status but struggle to advance further. The World Bank highlights that only 34 countries have successfully moved to high-income status in the past 34 years- Why?- Read this old article
🅾️What should India do?- ndia's pathway out of the middle-income trap should balance state intervention with democratic values. The focus must be on:
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🅾️What is middle income gap?- The middle-income trap refers to the stagnation of growth as economies transition from low-income to middle-income status but struggle to advance further. The World Bank highlights that only 34 countries have successfully moved to high-income status in the past 34 years- Why?- Read this old article
🅾️What should India do?- ndia's pathway out of the middle-income trap should balance state intervention with democratic values. The focus must be on:
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- GDP measurement- Importance of Base year
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✅Gs- 1: Urbanization and its problems : Issues related to urban heat islands environmental degradation, and the socio-economic divide in urban planning.
✅Gs-2 : Social Justice: Inequalities in access to public services
✅Gs- 3: Environment and Disaster Management: Impact of climate change on urban areas
🅾️Technological Insulation of the Privileged: The elite are detached from the realities-Technology (apps, deliveries) makes physical engagement unnecessary=reluctance to push for better public services=worsening the quality of urban life for the less privileged.
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✅Gs-2 : Social Justice: Inequalities in access to public services
✅Gs- 3: Environment and Disaster Management: Impact of climate change on urban areas
🅾️Technological Insulation of the Privileged: The elite are detached from the realities-Technology (apps, deliveries) makes physical engagement unnecessary=reluctance to push for better public services=worsening the quality of urban life for the less privileged.
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✅Gs-1 : Geography-
✅Gs-3 : Disaster Management- Role of IMD
🅾️Why do we need advanced radar systems like the X-band? The starting point is recognizing the unpredictable and destructive nature of extreme weather events such as floods and landslides, which pose significant risks to life and property. The conventional methods of predicting weather patterns rely heavily on past data and general models, which may not be effective in real-time, especially in disaster-prone regions like Wayanad.
🅾️ Wayanad’s geography (hilly terrain, heavy monsoon rains) necessitates highly localized, high-resolution weather data. X-band radar, with its ability to detect minute particles (like raindrops or soil) and provide short-term, precise readings, directly addresses this need.
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✅Gs-3 : Disaster Management- Role of IMD
🅾️Why do we need advanced radar systems like the X-band? The starting point is recognizing the unpredictable and destructive nature of extreme weather events such as floods and landslides, which pose significant risks to life and property. The conventional methods of predicting weather patterns rely heavily on past data and general models, which may not be effective in real-time, especially in disaster-prone regions like Wayanad.
🅾️ Wayanad’s geography (hilly terrain, heavy monsoon rains) necessitates highly localized, high-resolution weather data. X-band radar, with its ability to detect minute particles (like raindrops or soil) and provide short-term, precise readings, directly addresses this need.
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- Role of Institutions in growth
🅾️In 2012 a very famous book- "why nations fail was published-this year economic nobel prize was given for the same theme-Nations succeed when their institutions protect property rights, encourage innovation, and distribute power equally (inclusive institutions). They fail when institutions extract wealth for elites, discourage investment, and prevent economic mobility (extractive institutions). The root difference lies in how power and resources are allocated.
🅾️. Nations with inclusive institutions, promoting rule of law, property protection, and democracy, achieve economic success. On the other hand, extractive institutions, concentrating power in the hands of a few, lead to poverty and instability.
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🅾️In 2012 a very famous book- "why nations fail was published-this year economic nobel prize was given for the same theme-Nations succeed when their institutions protect property rights, encourage innovation, and distribute power equally (inclusive institutions). They fail when institutions extract wealth for elites, discourage investment, and prevent economic mobility (extractive institutions). The root difference lies in how power and resources are allocated.
🅾️. Nations with inclusive institutions, promoting rule of law, property protection, and democracy, achieve economic success. On the other hand, extractive institutions, concentrating power in the hands of a few, lead to poverty and instability.
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✅Gs-2 : Indian constitution- Citizenship - Assam Accord (1985)
🅾️Context : Assam's special demographic context (owing to large-scale migration) brings into question the extent of state autonomy in handling immigration and citizenship versus Parliament’s powers to legislate on citizenship issues
🔰What did the court say ?-upheld the constitutionality of Section 6A
⚠️Takeaway for us?- The verdict shows broader challenges in balancing national interests with regional identities. Especially in areas affected by migration and demographic change. It sets the stage for future legal debates around citizenship laws, including the CAA
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🅾️Context : Assam's special demographic context (owing to large-scale migration) brings into question the extent of state autonomy in handling immigration and citizenship versus Parliament’s powers to legislate on citizenship issues
🔰What did the court say ?-upheld the constitutionality of Section 6A
⚠️Takeaway for us?- The verdict shows broader challenges in balancing national interests with regional identities. Especially in areas affected by migration and demographic change. It sets the stage for future legal debates around citizenship laws, including the CAA
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✅Gs-3 : Science and Technology- Achievements/Contribution of Indians in Science & Technology/ Indigenous technology- Nobel prizes for Indians
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