✅Gs-3 : Disaster Management/ Gs-1 : Geography
🅾️Context : Revise the basics of Geography-Earthquakes- how they occur- convergent and divergent plates- Meaning of Hypocentre and epicentre from basic texts- know what Fault Zones ...
🅾️Taiwan’s earthquake preparedness takeaways- Advanced Monitoring and Early Warning Systems, Widespread awareness campaigns and regular drills on earthquake safety, Government Regulations and Incentives for both new and existing buildings-to improve the quake resistance of buildings,
⚜️Utilization of New Technologies:Seismic dampers and base isolation systems to enhance building resilience. Ex : Taipei 101, the nation’s iconic building, features a tuned mass damper—a massive steel sphere suspended by cables within the tower—which acts as a pendulum to counteract building motion during earthquakes.
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🅾️Context : Revise the basics of Geography-Earthquakes- how they occur- convergent and divergent plates- Meaning of Hypocentre and epicentre from basic texts- know what Fault Zones ...
🅾️Taiwan’s earthquake preparedness takeaways- Advanced Monitoring and Early Warning Systems, Widespread awareness campaigns and regular drills on earthquake safety, Government Regulations and Incentives for both new and existing buildings-to improve the quake resistance of buildings,
⚜️Utilization of New Technologies:
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✅Gs- 2 : Health- Snakebites
✅Gs-3 : Science and technology- Biotech- Antivenom production
🅾️Context : Traditional antivenom production, which involves injecting animals with venom and then collecting the antibodies produced, has been updated. A group of scientists has bypassed the use of animals and used human antibodies to develop an antidote to cobra and krait venoms.
🅾️What are the big four snakes?- Click here
🅾️Also read this article from this POV- global burden of snakebite envenoming, noting it as a significant tropical disease, especially in low and middle-income countries, and the challenges in antivenom accessibility and affordability.
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✅Gs-3 : Science and technology- Biotech- Antivenom production
🅾️Context : Traditional antivenom production, which involves injecting animals with venom and then collecting the antibodies produced, has been updated. A group of scientists has bypassed the use of animals and used human antibodies to develop an antidote to cobra and krait venoms.
🅾️What are the big four snakes?- Click here
🅾️Also read this article from this POV- global burden of snakebite envenoming, noting it as a significant tropical disease, especially in low and middle-income countries, and the challenges in antivenom accessibility and affordability.
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🅾️What is the Year 1- progress report of VK IAS?- Click here ✅ Thank you everyone for being a part of this eventful journey.Now that 2023 is done , it is time to get back to work🙂
🛑2024 and 2025- reset and repeat( hopefully) 🙂 Thank you for letting us be a small part of your journey. Grateful forever- VK🙂
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Testimonial - playlist -
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🅾️What is the Year 1- progress report of VK IAS?- Click here ✅ Thank you everyone for being a part of this eventful journey.Now that 2023 is done , it is time to get back to work🙂
🛑2024 and 2025- reset and repeat( hopefully) 🙂 Thank you for letting us be a small part of your journey. Grateful forever- VK🙂
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Testimonial - playlist -
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✅Gs-3 : Internal security- Indian Navy
🔴Coastal security : Coastal security- Its components- Click here
🛑Context : Recent attacks in high-risk maritime areas like the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz- need for a comprehensive approach to maritime security, broader contractual terms, and issues such as piracy, armed robbery,
🛑National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have launched a 'human rights at sea' initiative
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🔴Coastal security : Coastal security- Its components- Click here
🛑Context : Recent attacks in high-risk maritime areas like the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz- need for a comprehensive approach to maritime security, broader contractual terms, and issues such as piracy, armed robbery,
🛑National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have launched a 'human rights at sea' initiative
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✅Gs-1 : Indian society- Impact of caste on the aspect of sanitation
🅾️Gs-2- Govt.policies- Swach bharat mission- casestudy- peddapalli-cleanest dist
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🅾️Gs-2- Govt.policies- Swach bharat mission- casestudy- peddapalli-cleanest dist
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✅Gs-2 : Judiciary- Curative petition
🅾️What?-Concept stems from the idea that the judiciary has the power to correct its own judgments post-delivery. Intended as a rare mechanism to prevent miscarriage of justice.
🅾️Ex : Delhi Metro Rail Judgment Context:The case involved a decision on a curative petition filed by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd against DAMPEL in a contractual dispute-The Court took a stance differing from its own previous verdict, showcasing its willingness to rectify past errors.
⚠️Revise your static part- This case can be used as an example- Imp for mains.
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🅾️What?-Concept stems from the idea that the judiciary has the power to correct its own judgments post-delivery. Intended as a rare mechanism to prevent miscarriage of justice.
🅾️Ex : Delhi Metro Rail Judgment Context:The case involved a decision on a curative petition filed by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd against DAMPEL in a contractual dispute-The Court took a stance differing from its own previous verdict, showcasing its willingness to rectify past errors.
⚠️Revise your static part- This case can be used as an example- Imp for mains.
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✅Gs-1 : Impact of globalization on Indian society
✅Gs-2 : What is the importance of soft power?
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✅Gs-2 : What is the importance of soft power?
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✅Gs-3 : Environment- Conservation
🅾️Context : The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023, amends the FCA, 1980.
🔰Narrowed coverage to two land types:
⚜️Officially declared forests under IFA, 1927 or other relevant legislation.
⚜️Lands recorded as forests in government records since October 25, 1980.
🔰Supreme Court's Intervention : States/UTs to follow TN Godavarman case definition of 'forest' while preparing consolidated records.
🔰Recent writ petition (March 15, 2024): Challenges Act's constitutionality on multiple grounds-Act assumes FCA applies only to notified forests-Misinterprets 1996 TN Godavarman case order.Ignores ecological forests in non-recorded areas-Limits protection to recorded forest
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🅾️Context : The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023, amends the FCA, 1980.
🔰Narrowed coverage to two land types:
⚜️Officially declared forests under IFA, 1927 or other relevant legislation.
⚜️Lands recorded as forests in government records since October 25, 1980.
🔰Supreme Court's Intervention : States/UTs to follow TN Godavarman case definition of 'forest' while preparing consolidated records.
🔰Recent writ petition (March 15, 2024): Challenges Act's constitutionality on multiple grounds-Act assumes FCA applies only to notified forests-Misinterprets 1996 TN Godavarman case order.Ignores ecological forests in non-recorded areas-Limits protection to recorded forest
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✅Air 11- Kush Motwani- VK IAS student - Talk.
https://youtu.be/rD1hHfgqTGY?feature=shared
🅾️How did his mentorship session look like?- Watch this video- https://youtu.be/5jKA1bN90kA?feature=shared
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✅CSAT last minute resources
1. English - RC - https://www.tg-me.com/VK IAS UPSC Highlights by Vikas kanukollu VK/com.hinduhighlights/12577
2. Maths - https://www.tg-me.com/VK IAS UPSC Highlights by Vikas kanukollu VK/com.hinduhighlights/10861
1. English - RC - https://www.tg-me.com/VK IAS UPSC Highlights by Vikas kanukollu VK/com.hinduhighlights/12577
2. Maths - https://www.tg-me.com/VK IAS UPSC Highlights by Vikas kanukollu VK/com.hinduhighlights/10861
✅Gs-3 : Inclusive growth-Income Inequality in India
⚜️Key Findings of Thomas Piketty's study : Significant increase in income inequality in India since the 1980s, particularly noted post-1990.
⚜️Current Context: Top 10% of Indians now control 65% of total wealth, whereas the bottom 50% own just 6.4%.
🔰Impact of Market Economy :
⚜️Market Forces Suggests that in a free market economy, opportunities are not equitably distributed, leading to increased wealth concentration in the hands of a few.
⚜️Role of Competition: Competition favors those with capital and resources, often sidelining the less privileged.
➡️How to deal with Global income inequality- Read this important news
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⚜️Key Findings of Thomas Piketty's study : Significant increase in income inequality in India since the 1980s, particularly noted post-1990.
⚜️Current Context: Top 10% of Indians now control 65% of total wealth, whereas the bottom 50% own just 6.4%.
🔰Impact of Market Economy :
⚜️Market Forces Suggests that in a free market economy, opportunities are not equitably distributed, leading to increased wealth concentration in the hands of a few.
⚜️Role of Competition: Competition favors those with capital and resources, often sidelining the less privileged.
➡️How to deal with Global income inequality- Read this important news
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✅VK IAS Mentorship Program-2025 Brochure.
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✅Gs-2 : IR- Dichotomy between global rise and regional decline poses challenges for India's global aspirations.
🅾️Global Rise- Growth in absolute power, peer accommodation, and chaotic international situation.Robust economic growth, military capabilities, and young demography.
🅾️Regional Decline- How?
⚜️Diminishing relative power vis-à-vis China.
⚜️Loss of primacy in South Asia.
⚜️Changes in South Asian geopolitics.
🅾️Need for India to revisit traditional conceptions of the region-Focus on strengths rather than matching China's might in every respect.
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🅾️Global Rise- Growth in absolute power, peer accommodation, and chaotic international situation.Robust economic growth, military capabilities, and young demography.
🅾️Regional Decline- How?
⚜️Diminishing relative power vis-à-vis China.
⚜️Loss of primacy in South Asia.
⚜️Changes in South Asian geopolitics.
🅾️Need for India to revisit traditional conceptions of the region-Focus on strengths rather than matching China's might in every respect.
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Ocean salinity- What makes oceans saline?
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