✅GS2- Vulnerable sections- Rights of persons with disabilities, 2016
➡️Present context : BIRD initiative to make media accessible to the disabled.
🔰Other dimensions?
🅾️Principle of Reasonable Accommodation?
🅾️Legal provisions in India of disabled people in this context- Click here
🅾️Reservation issue - Click here
🅾️ How can we use this covid crisis to overcome the apathy towards the disabled people?- CLick here
🅾️Poverty - disability link- Click here
🔴Prelims: GLAD by UNESCO
📍Accessible India campaign- sugamya bharat abhiyan- Click here
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➡️Present context : BIRD initiative to make media accessible to the disabled.
🔰Other dimensions?
🅾️Principle of Reasonable Accommodation?
🅾️Legal provisions in India of disabled people in this context- Click here
🅾️Reservation issue - Click here
🅾️ How can we use this covid crisis to overcome the apathy towards the disabled people?- CLick here
🅾️Poverty - disability link- Click here
🔴Prelims: GLAD by UNESCO
📍Accessible India campaign- sugamya bharat abhiyan- Click here
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Forwarded from UPSC Ethics by VK IAS
✅Gs-4 : Ethics
🅾️Role models
➡️As a cricket obsessed nation, I may just be another fan but a particular conversation triggered a thought - This is equally important for UPSC ASPIRANTS AS WELL.
My thoughts- https://qr.ae/pvDLAM
🅾️Essay and Ethics channel : https://www.tg-me.com/joinchat-mrcWyE8pY2UyMDll
🅾️Role models
➡️As a cricket obsessed nation, I may just be another fan but a particular conversation triggered a thought - This is equally important for UPSC ASPIRANTS AS WELL.
My thoughts- https://qr.ae/pvDLAM
🅾️Essay and Ethics channel : https://www.tg-me.com/joinchat-mrcWyE8pY2UyMDll
✅Gs-2 : IR- Indian diaspora
✅Gs-1 : Modern India- Indentured labourers- History
🛑The British instituted the Indentured Labor System in 1843, which persisted until 1920. This system involved a form of bonded labor in which approximately 3.5 million Indians were relocated to various British colonies across the globe to supply labor for British-owned plantations.Indians were taken to several British colonies, including places like Fiji, Mauritius, the Caribbean (Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica), South Africa, and Southeast Asia, among others.
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✅Gs-1 : Modern India- Indentured labourers- History
🛑The British instituted the Indentured Labor System in 1843, which persisted until 1920. This system involved a form of bonded labor in which approximately 3.5 million Indians were relocated to various British colonies across the globe to supply labor for British-owned plantations.Indians were taken to several British colonies, including places like Fiji, Mauritius, the Caribbean (Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica), South Africa, and Southeast Asia, among others.
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✅Gs-2 : IR- Indian diaspora
🅾️The new wave of migration- expanding India's global outreach- Diaspora- OECD International Migration outlook 2023 report.
➡️Read this article on history of Indian diaspora on the occassion of Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas- Click here
⚜️Indentured labourers- History- Click here
➡️Impact of globalization on softpower?- Click here
➡️Q) What are the structural changes in the Indian diaspora community across the world? Examine the implications for India's Vishwa guru ambitions
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🅾️The new wave of migration- expanding India's global outreach- Diaspora- OECD International Migration outlook 2023 report.
➡️Read this article on history of Indian diaspora on the occassion of Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas- Click here
⚜️Indentured labourers- History- Click here
➡️Impact of globalization on softpower?- Click here
➡️Q) What are the structural changes in the Indian diaspora community across the world? Examine the implications for India's Vishwa guru ambitions
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✅Gs-2 : Health
📍Summary
🛑India's urban population to reach 675 million by 2035.
⚜️Urban areas in India face health, environmental, and equity challenges.
⚜️High air and noise pollution, lack of green spaces, and unhealthy diets impact health.
⚜️Focus on cardiometabolic diseases like heart disease and diabetes.
⚜️Transforming urban infrastructure is crucial for public health.
⚜️Dysfunctional provisioning systems contribute to health disparities.
⚜️Changes in food, mobility, and green infrastructure can have a significant health impact.
⚜️Safe walking and biking lanes reduce sedentary lifestyles and air pollution.
⚜️Holistic urban policy needed to promote population health.
⚜️Unhealthy diets, reduced physical activity, and air pollution are major health risks in Indian cities.
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📍Summary
🛑India's urban population to reach 675 million by 2035.
⚜️Urban areas in India face health, environmental, and equity challenges.
⚜️High air and noise pollution, lack of green spaces, and unhealthy diets impact health.
⚜️Focus on cardiometabolic diseases like heart disease and diabetes.
⚜️Transforming urban infrastructure is crucial for public health.
⚜️Dysfunctional provisioning systems contribute to health disparities.
⚜️Changes in food, mobility, and green infrastructure can have a significant health impact.
⚜️Safe walking and biking lanes reduce sedentary lifestyles and air pollution.
⚜️Holistic urban policy needed to promote population health.
⚜️Unhealthy diets, reduced physical activity, and air pollution are major health risks in Indian cities.
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✅Gs-2 : IR- HUmanitarian law
➡️Background: Israel accused of using white phosphorus munitions in Gaza. Controversy over its use in the 2008-2009 Gaza War.
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🅾️Chemical Weapons Convention- CLick here
➡️Way ahead -Consideration of legal precedents, such as the Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons and Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions.
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➡️Background: Israel accused of using white phosphorus munitions in Gaza. Controversy over its use in the 2008-2009 Gaza War.
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🅾️Chemical Weapons Convention- CLick here
➡️Way ahead -Consideration of legal precedents, such as the Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons and Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions.
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✅Gs-2 : Governance- Accountability and Transparency
➡️The framework for this topic is given in this link-> click here
👆In the above embedded article- Under Initiatives To Enhance Transparency- RTI is the first topic : So this present article is the latest development on that issue- CLick here
➡️Missing RTI records- a new low
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➡️The framework for this topic is given in this link-> click here
👆In the above embedded article- Under Initiatives To Enhance Transparency- RTI is the first topic : So this present article is the latest development on that issue- CLick here
➡️Missing RTI records- a new low
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✅Gs-3 : Pollution- Solid waste
➡️Future Projections: Waste generation could double to 350,000 tonnes/day with population growth.
➡️Indigenous Approach: Sorting & Recycling: Already prevalent ('kabaadiwala' system). Biodigestion: Suited for India's moist waste (up to 60%). Generates methane & compost
🛑Govt hopes to rope in private sector for this- but why PPP is not helping the cause of waste management?- Click here
⚜️So the Central Govt Role: Incentivize municipalities for organic waste collection for CBG plants.
📍Also read - Genetically modified bacteria degrade plastics in saltwater- Click here
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➡️Future Projections: Waste generation could double to 350,000 tonnes/day with population growth.
➡️Indigenous Approach: Sorting & Recycling: Already prevalent ('kabaadiwala' system). Biodigestion: Suited for India's moist waste (up to 60%). Generates methane & compost
🛑Govt hopes to rope in private sector for this- but why PPP is not helping the cause of waste management?- Click here
⚜️So the Central Govt Role: Incentivize municipalities for organic waste collection for CBG plants.
📍Also read - Genetically modified bacteria degrade plastics in saltwater- Click here
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✅Gs-3 : Mobilization of resources/ External sector
✅Gs-2 : IR- India- Qatar Trade relations
➡️Context : 8 Indians are on death row in Qatar.
🔰Key points for relevance : Need for India to diversify its sourcing to avoid excessive dependence on one nation. The balance of trade is skewed in favor of Qatar due to LNG, indicating India's vulnerability in energy sourcing- 54% LNG of India comes from Qatar
🅾️How can india make a transition towards clean energy?- Gas based economy- important in the context of the new natural gas marketing reforms- Qatar benefits more from trade, given its position as a major LNG supplier.
➡️Qatar's dual diplomatic role in the Middle East offers both opportunities and challenges for India in navigating regional dynamics.- Read the highlights
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✅Gs-2 : IR- India- Qatar Trade relations
➡️Context : 8 Indians are on death row in Qatar.
🔰Key points for relevance : Need for India to diversify its sourcing to avoid excessive dependence on one nation. The balance of trade is skewed in favor of Qatar due to LNG, indicating India's vulnerability in energy sourcing- 54% LNG of India comes from Qatar
🅾️How can india make a transition towards clean energy?- Gas based economy- important in the context of the new natural gas marketing reforms- Qatar benefits more from trade, given its position as a major LNG supplier.
➡️Qatar's dual diplomatic role in the Middle East offers both opportunities and challenges for India in navigating regional dynamics.- Read the highlights
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✅Gs-3 : Environment- Climate change
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🅾️Present news?- Cloud seeding and its impact- calcium chloride as cloud seeding flare
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🅾️Present news?- Cloud seeding and its impact- calcium chloride as cloud seeding flare
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✅Gs-2 : Criminal Justice system
✅Gs-2 : Fundamental Rights
➡️Context : The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act (CrPI) was passed in April 2022 to replace the British-era Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. The new Act allows for the collection and recording of various body measurements, including retina and iris scans, and it DOES NOT distinctly mention DNA samples and face-matching procedures.
🅾️Prelims info : National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS)
🅾️Issues with the DNA tech bill- Click here to read about the Justice Madan Lokur submission to the parliamentary standing committee on S&T
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✅Gs-2 : Fundamental Rights
➡️Context : The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act (CrPI) was passed in April 2022 to replace the British-era Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. The new Act allows for the collection and recording of various body measurements, including retina and iris scans, and it DOES NOT distinctly mention DNA samples and face-matching procedures.
🅾️Prelims info : National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS)
🅾️Issues with the DNA tech bill- Click here to read about the Justice Madan Lokur submission to the parliamentary standing committee on S&T
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✅GS3- Food processing/Agri cropping patterns
🔰This is an important news for both pre and mains. Why?- Because of our agricultural export policy
🅾️It says that we have to double agricultural exports from the present $30 billion to $60 billion by 2022 and reach $100 billion in the next few years thereafter, with a stable trade policy regime- Click here to read
🅾️Central government aims to control food inflation for upcoming state elections.
🅾️Restrictive export policies, including imposing high prices on basmati rice, affect farmers in Punjab and Haryana.These policies favor urban consumers over rural farmers.
🅾️Challenges include losing export markets and hindering the goal of doubling agricultural exports.
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🔰This is an important news for both pre and mains. Why?- Because of our agricultural export policy
🅾️It says that we have to double agricultural exports from the present $30 billion to $60 billion by 2022 and reach $100 billion in the next few years thereafter, with a stable trade policy regime- Click here to read
🅾️Central government aims to control food inflation for upcoming state elections.
🅾️Restrictive export policies, including imposing high prices on basmati rice, affect farmers in Punjab and Haryana.These policies favor urban consumers over rural farmers.
🅾️Challenges include losing export markets and hindering the goal of doubling agricultural exports.
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✅Gs-1 : Indian society
✅Gs-2 : Judiciary-Constitutional morality vs majoritarian morality
🅾️Broader Context : Live-in relationship- Is it a social problem?- Kiran Rawat vs state of UP case- Issues with the judgement= Click here to read
⚠️Q) Is the institution of marriage undergoing a change ?- Examine the reasons.
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✅Gs-2 : Judiciary-Constitutional morality vs majoritarian morality
🅾️Broader Context : Live-in relationship- Is it a social problem?- Kiran Rawat vs state of UP case- Issues with the judgement= Click here to read
⚠️Q) Is the institution of marriage undergoing a change ?- Examine the reasons.
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth
⚠️Q) Analyze the evolving nature of India's workforce. Highlight the challenges and prospects of this transition in light of the global trend of capital-intensive manufacturing. Suggest appropriate policy measures that can effectively harness the potential of India's demographic dividend in this changing landscape. (250 words)
📍Implications :
⚜️1. Underemployment
⚜️2. Skills Mismatch
📍Suggestions : farm as a factory model- imperative of integrating technology with agriculture- Read the last paragraphs/
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⚠️Q) Analyze the evolving nature of India's workforce. Highlight the challenges and prospects of this transition in light of the global trend of capital-intensive manufacturing. Suggest appropriate policy measures that can effectively harness the potential of India's demographic dividend in this changing landscape. (250 words)
📍Implications :
⚜️1. Underemployment
⚜️2. Skills Mismatch
📍Suggestions : farm as a factory model- imperative of integrating technology with agriculture- Read the last paragraphs/
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✅Gs-3 : Climate finance
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⚜️Climate Finance's Role: Essential for trust in future climate talks.
⚜️COP 28: Should discuss climate finance inadequacies for developing countries.
⚜️Developed Countries' Commitment: Pledged $100 billion annually till 2025, but only reached $79.6 billion in 2021.
⚜️India's Stance: Requires funds for transition from high-carbon economy.
⚜️Challenges: Unclear criteria and formula for money collection and distribution.
⚜️Solution: Developed countries should provide consistent and adequate funds to address global climate threats, recalling how G20 nations could mobilize large funds during 2009-10 financial crisis.
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There is nothing new here- dont waste time - Just read this summary
⚜️Climate Finance's Role: Essential for trust in future climate talks.
⚜️COP 28: Should discuss climate finance inadequacies for developing countries.
⚜️Developed Countries' Commitment: Pledged $100 billion annually till 2025, but only reached $79.6 billion in 2021.
⚜️India's Stance: Requires funds for transition from high-carbon economy.
⚜️Challenges: Unclear criteria and formula for money collection and distribution.
⚜️Solution: Developed countries should provide consistent and adequate funds to address global climate threats, recalling how G20 nations could mobilize large funds during 2009-10 financial crisis.
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✅Gs-1 : Geography- Monsoon
🅾️Present context : Eighth consecutive year of 'normal' monsoon rainfall in India.Despite 'normal' label, wide regional and daily variations observed due to climate change-Only 6% of 718 districts experienced predicted daily rainfall.
🅾️Kerala and North-East: Kerala, typically one of India's rainiest states, saw a rainfall deficit of 34%. North-East regions also reported low monsoon rainfall.
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🅾️Present context : Eighth consecutive year of 'normal' monsoon rainfall in India.Despite 'normal' label, wide regional and daily variations observed due to climate change-Only 6% of 718 districts experienced predicted daily rainfall.
🅾️Kerala and North-East: Kerala, typically one of India's rainiest states, saw a rainfall deficit of 34%. North-East regions also reported low monsoon rainfall.
📍This article has points which we previously discussed- Some important questions previously discussed regarding the Regional Variations of Monsoons- Click here
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✅Gs-2 : Parliament- Parliamentary committees- Ethics committee
🅾️Context : Sworn affidavit- Mohua Moitra case
➡️I will simplify the article- But for that- you need to know what Article 105 is- MP privileges- Click here
➡️Also know that- Under Article 105 of the constitution, asking questions in parliament is a constitutional right of a member of the House- So you cant misuse that right for money.
➡️Parliamentary privilege is distinct from legal immunity-Read the highlights
👆All this may or may not be important for a stand alone question in mains- but at best can form a simple example - SO just understand the issue for prelims
🅾️This issue should be placed under the umbrella topic of Functioning of parliament / legislatures- productivity issues- Role of parliamentary committees
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🅾️Context : Sworn affidavit- Mohua Moitra case
➡️I will simplify the article- But for that- you need to know what Article 105 is- MP privileges- Click here
➡️Also know that- Under Article 105 of the constitution, asking questions in parliament is a constitutional right of a member of the House- So you cant misuse that right for money.
➡️Parliamentary privilege is distinct from legal immunity-Read the highlights
👆All this may or may not be important for a stand alone question in mains- but at best can form a simple example - SO just understand the issue for prelims
🅾️This issue should be placed under the umbrella topic of Functioning of parliament / legislatures- productivity issues- Role of parliamentary committees
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