Forwarded from UPSC Ethics by VK IAS
✅Gs-4 : Ethics- Ethical Concerns: Why GenAI threatens originality in art
🅾️GenAI models are trained on vast datasets that often include human-generated art without consent. This undermines artistic agency, violating the basic principle of ownership: “One should have a say over how their creation is used.”
🅾️AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli mimic the aesthetic but lack the emotional, cultural, and experiential roots. Viewers may mistake AI outputs for genuine art, creating false equivalence, and in the process, dilute the value of original creators.
🅾️Artists who build new styles invest years, yet their work becomes training fodder for AI, with no credit, royalties, or control. This is tantamount to digital appropriation – ethical plagiarism at scale.
🅾️Cheap GenAI output reduces demand for human-created art.
⚠️What should we do?- Cultivate markets that reward authentic narratives and subjective originality.
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🅾️GenAI models are trained on vast datasets that often include human-generated art without consent. This undermines artistic agency, violating the basic principle of ownership: “One should have a say over how their creation is used.”
🅾️AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli mimic the aesthetic but lack the emotional, cultural, and experiential roots. Viewers may mistake AI outputs for genuine art, creating false equivalence, and in the process, dilute the value of original creators.
🅾️Artists who build new styles invest years, yet their work becomes training fodder for AI, with no credit, royalties, or control. This is tantamount to digital appropriation – ethical plagiarism at scale.
🅾️Cheap GenAI output reduces demand for human-created art.
⚠️What should we do?- Cultivate markets that reward authentic narratives and subjective originality.
✅Join : Ethics channel link : https://www.tg-me.com/joinchat-mrcWyE8pY2UyMDll
Forwarded from VK IAS Geography current Affairs for UPSC
✅Gs-1 : Geography
✅Gs-3 : Disaster management - Heatwaves
🅾️Nothing new- We covered many times- Click here
🅾️What is a heatwave?- A climate shock + a governance failure + a design problem
🅾️Root Cause: Cities are built like ovens-asphalt, glass, lack of trees = heat island effect-Water isn't accessible, Medical alerts don’t reach slum areas, Labour laws don’t pause outdoor work, Buildings aren’t ventilated—> No Early warning-> No action -> Death.
🚫 Civic systems fail to translate alerts into behavioral change.
⚠️What not to do: Stop saying “climate change is to blame” without naming who is accountable -> Don’t rely on centralised plans; the heat kills hyper-locally-> Don’t wait for 2024’s death toll to issue a 2025 budget allocation
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✅Gs-3 : Disaster management - Heatwaves
🅾️Nothing new- We covered many times- Click here
🅾️What is a heatwave?- A climate shock + a governance failure + a design problem
🅾️Root Cause: Cities are built like ovens-asphalt, glass, lack of trees = heat island effect-Water isn't accessible, Medical alerts don’t reach slum areas, Labour laws don’t pause outdoor work, Buildings aren’t ventilated—> No Early warning-> No action -> Death.
🚫 Civic systems fail to translate alerts into behavioral change.
⚠️What not to do: Stop saying “climate change is to blame” without naming who is accountable -> Don’t rely on centralised plans; the heat kills hyper-locally-> Don’t wait for 2024’s death toll to issue a 2025 budget allocation
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✅Gs-2 : Governance- Issues with District mineral funds
🅾️When minerals are mined from tribal/rural land, economic value is extracted, but the social cost is local. So if you dig there, the fixes should be local too.
⚠️Parliament passed the MMDR Act, 2015 to set up DMFs — meant to reinvest mining profits into local health, education, water, livelihood. But DMFs are run by bureaucrats — the same people who clear mining projects.
🌟Result?Conflict of interest + top-down control = locals excluded. Funds follow bureaucratic ease, not moral urgency. Only ~40% utilised. Projects often irrelevant or half-done.
⚜️What should’ve been a tool for justice is now a missed opportunity. It forgot that development must be owned by the displaced, not just designed for them
☝️I wanted everyone to read this during prelims prep also - so i sort of made it in a story format! - V.IMP issue.
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🅾️When minerals are mined from tribal/rural land, economic value is extracted, but the social cost is local. So if you dig there, the fixes should be local too.
⚠️Parliament passed the MMDR Act, 2015 to set up DMFs — meant to reinvest mining profits into local health, education, water, livelihood. But DMFs are run by bureaucrats — the same people who clear mining projects.
🌟Result?
⚜️What should’ve been a tool for justice is now a missed opportunity. It forgot that development must be owned by the displaced, not just designed for them
☝️I wanted everyone to read this during prelims prep also - so i sort of made it in a story format! - V.IMP issue.
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Forwarded from VK IAS by Vikas kanukollu (VK)
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🔰Forest Governance, Policy & Law - Important for IFos Interviews ( Folks preparing for IFos Prelims may also do some extra work here by reading the nuances)
⚜️Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (latest amendments)- Click here
⚜️Compensatory Afforestation (CAMPA) fund usage- Click here
⚜️FRA, 2006 – forest rights, tribal issues- Click here and here and here
⚜️Role of MoEFCC, Forest Survey of India, NTCA, NBWL, SBBs- Click here
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⚜️Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (latest amendments)- Click here
⚜️Compensatory Afforestation (CAMPA) fund usage- Click here
⚜️FRA, 2006 – forest rights, tribal issues- Click here and here and here
⚜️Role of MoEFCC, Forest Survey of India, NTCA, NBWL, SBBs- Click here
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✅Gs-2 : Centre- state relations- The office of Governor
🅾️COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW- Multiple issues around governor- Click here
🅾️What does Article 200 allow the Governor to do when a Bill is presented? The Governor has three choices:
⚜️Assent to the Bill
⚜️Withhold assent
⚜️Reserve the Bill for President’s consideration (discretionary power, but limited)
👉 This discretion is not absolute and is subject to constitutional morality and the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers (Article 163).
🔰SC-imposed timeline:
⚜️One month: To assent or withhold (with reasons)
⚜️ Three months: To return the Bill if rejected, giving reasons
⚜️ Three months: To reserve for President’s consideration
🚫 No indefinite discretion or delay allowed.
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🅾️COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW- Multiple issues around governor- Click here
🅾️What does Article 200 allow the Governor to do when a Bill is presented? The Governor has three choices:
⚜️Assent to the Bill
⚜️Withhold assent
⚜️Reserve the Bill for President’s consideration (discretionary power, but limited)
👉 This discretion is not absolute and is subject to constitutional morality and the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers (Article 163).
🔰SC-imposed timeline:
⚜️One month: To assent or withhold (with reasons)
⚜️ Three months: To return the Bill if rejected, giving reasons
⚜️ Three months: To reserve for President’s consideration
🚫 No indefinite discretion or delay allowed.
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- sectors of economy- aviation sector
📍Topics under Aviation sector : Click here
🅾️When airlines in India can’t pay their debts, the companies that lease them planes (called lessors) struggle to take their planes back.Lessors had to go through slow Indian courts, which caused Huge losses to the lessors,fear among global investors, difficulty for indian airlines to get new planes on lease.
🅾️India had signed a global agreement in 2008 called the Cape Town Convention, which says: If an airline doesn’t pay, the lessor should get the aircraft back fast.But India never actually made a law to implement this agreement.
🅾️Now what happens after this new law?- An airline misses payments-> No need to wait months or years in court.
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📍Topics under Aviation sector : Click here
🅾️When airlines in India can’t pay their debts, the companies that lease them planes (called lessors) struggle to take their planes back.Lessors had to go through slow Indian courts, which caused Huge losses to the lessors,fear among global investors, difficulty for indian airlines to get new planes on lease.
🅾️India had signed a global agreement in 2008 called the Cape Town Convention, which says: If an airline doesn’t pay, the lessor should get the aircraft back fast.But India never actually made a law to implement this agreement.
🅾️Now what happens after this new law?- An airline misses payments-> No need to wait months or years in court.
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1. Release on bail of any person accused of an offense and in custody is a power of High court only
2. Any person against whom a warrant on a non bailable offense had been issued can apply for anticipatory bail.
Select the correct code
2. Any person against whom a warrant on a non bailable offense had been issued can apply for anticipatory bail.
Select the correct code
Anonymous Quiz
12%
1 only
41%
2 only
22%
Both are correct
25%
Both are incorrect
Forwarded from VK IAS - Prelims Quiz.
Which of the following is responsible for administrating the Government of India (Transaction of Business) Rules, 1961 and Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961 facilitating smooth business transaction in Ministries/ Departments?
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45%
Ministry of parliamentary Affairs
11%
Law Ministry
21%
Lok sabha secratariat
24%
Cabinet Secretariat
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✅Announcement for UPSC 2026 Full year Mentorship batches- This MAY 2025 batch will be applicable for both freshers and Seniors who want to take a fresh start!
🅾️As it is a limited intake batch, announcing it in advance so that you can plan accordingly! 8 slots of this batch are tentatively filled with old students who are now in State services or other jobs. Entire schedule will be announced after UPSC 2024 results- If you want to check the credibility of the offerings- Kindly check here- Click here
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Cost of the program is 55k+18% GST
Watch this video to know what upsc expects from you - UPSC mentorship- What is it? Why does it help? Who needs it?
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🅾️As it is a limited intake batch, announcing it in advance so that you can plan accordingly! 8 slots of this batch are tentatively filled with old students who are now in State services or other jobs. Entire schedule will be announced after UPSC 2024 results- If you want to check the credibility of the offerings- Kindly check here- Click here
🅾️Looking forward to work with highly PATIENT and committed students for the year ahead. Please fill the form if you are interested!
Cost of the program is 55k+18% GST
Watch this video to know what upsc expects from you - UPSC mentorship- What is it? Why does it help? Who needs it?
https://youtu.be/b2mwjZn17Js
⚜️Application form : https://forms.gle/i9xrYTojgmMCRVJ56
Thank you,
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✅Gs-3 : Internal security/ Forest rights act
⚠️Note : Even if a tribal moves states, there is no clause in FRA that disqualifies them by default.Rule 3(1)(m): Specifically grants: “In case of displacement... the right to in situ rehabilitation including alternative land, before such eviction or displacement.” FRA does not explicitly mention cross-state portability of forest rights. It does not prohibit displaced persons from being resettled or claiming forest rights in another state either. Hence, the intent of FRA = protection of tribal life and habitat, not territoriality of status.
🅾️Article quotes a 5 year old case- BRU refugee situation- we disucssed that here- Click here- Happy to see the vision of making this telegram channel a repository for public use is taking a shape after the LONG patient wait.
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⚠️Note : Even if a tribal moves states, there is no clause in FRA that disqualifies them by default.Rule 3(1)(m): Specifically grants: “In case of displacement... the right to in situ rehabilitation including alternative land, before such eviction or displacement.” FRA does not explicitly mention cross-state portability of forest rights. It does not prohibit displaced persons from being resettled or claiming forest rights in another state either. Hence, the intent of FRA = protection of tribal life and habitat, not territoriality of status.
🅾️Article quotes a 5 year old case- BRU refugee situation- we disucssed that here- Click here- Happy to see the vision of making this telegram channel a repository for public use is taking a shape after the LONG patient wait.
@hinduhighlights
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Forest rights act, 2006 explicitly says that the enforcement of the act depends on where the tribe resides
Anonymous Quiz
61%
True
39%
False
✅Gs-3 : Environment- India- LT-LEDS- Infrastructure-> Urban infra- Urban mobility-> E vehicles-
🅾️Read about the Scope and future of E- Vehicles- Click here
🅾️This v2G concept visualises electric car as a moving power bank:
⚜️When power is extra → It stores power.
⚜️When power is needed → It gives power back.
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🅾️Read about the Scope and future of E- Vehicles- Click here
🅾️This v2G concept visualises electric car as a moving power bank:
⚜️When power is extra → It stores power.
⚜️When power is needed → It gives power back.
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⚠️An Update regarding the 2026 batch Mentorship applications: 18 slots are now filled- A kind request, Please DO NOT apply if you are NOT interested . All the details you need are posted here- https://www.tg-me.com/VK IAS UPSC Highlights by Vikas kanukollu VK/com.hinduhighlights/13901
⚜️Those who are yet to get a message from us, we will be getting back shortly. PLEASE DO NOT consider that a rejection here means your chances of clearing the exam are low! NEVER DOUBT that- it is just that your expectations may not be aligned with VK IAS's style of mentorship.
⚜️ The idea of how mentorship can add value and what UPSC is expecting from us and how ANY mentorship( Not just VK IAS) can add value is explained in this video. please do watch it if you do not know about VK IAS or what the program stands for. - https://youtu.be/b2mwjZn17Js
⚜️Those who are yet to get a message from us, we will be getting back shortly. PLEASE DO NOT consider that a rejection here means your chances of clearing the exam are low! NEVER DOUBT that- it is just that your expectations may not be aligned with VK IAS's style of mentorship.
⚜️ The idea of how mentorship can add value and what UPSC is expecting from us and how ANY mentorship( Not just VK IAS) can add value is explained in this video. please do watch it if you do not know about VK IAS or what the program stands for. - https://youtu.be/b2mwjZn17Js