✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- Inclusive Growth- Corporate Social Responsibility- Case study - One corporate, one village adoption scheme
✅Gs-2 : Governance- NGOs- Corporate social Responsibility- What is the Quality of CSR activities ?
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🅾️A very good analysis on CSR- Click here
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✅Gs-2 : Governance- NGOs- Corporate social Responsibility- What is the Quality of CSR activities ?
🔰Philosophical origin of the concept of CSR - Click here
🅾️A very good analysis on CSR- Click here
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✅Gs-3 : Climate change- Cop 29 Negotiations- Baku, Azerbaijan- Click here
🅾️Controversial Points at COP29
⚜️1. Quantum of Finance: The NCQG sets no clear number for funding, leading to disputes- Click here
⚜️2.Nature of Contributions: The debate over grants versus loans continues- Click here
⚜️3. Accountability: Mechanisms to track how funds are used remain weak- Just like how it is in CSR- Click here
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🅾️Controversial Points at COP29
⚜️1. Quantum of Finance: The NCQG sets no clear number for funding, leading to disputes- Click here
⚜️2.Nature of Contributions: The debate over grants versus loans continues- Click here
⚜️3. Accountability: Mechanisms to track how funds are used remain weak- Just like how it is in CSR- Click here
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✅Gs-1 : Indian Society - Role of Women
✅Gs2- Vulnerable sections- Women
🅾️Feminist Ideology in India's Constitutional Discourse- This is a very important article for Philosophy, sociology optional candidates.
🔰Role of Founding Mothers
⚜️1. Advocacy for a social revolution against patriarchal structures- Collaboration with leaders like B.R. Ambedkar to integrate feminist ideals.
⚜️2. Demands to include Uniform Civil Code-Hansa Mehta and Amrit Kaur’s advocacy for UCC
⚜️3. Emphasis on secular values by leaders like Begum Aizaz Rasul.
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✅Gs2- Vulnerable sections- Women
🅾️Feminist Ideology in India's Constitutional Discourse- This is a very important article for Philosophy, sociology optional candidates.
🔰Role of Founding Mothers
⚜️1. Advocacy for a social revolution against patriarchal structures- Collaboration with leaders like B.R. Ambedkar to integrate feminist ideals.
⚜️2. Demands to include Uniform Civil Code-Hansa Mehta and Amrit Kaur’s advocacy for UCC
⚜️3. Emphasis on secular values by leaders like Begum Aizaz Rasul.
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✅Gs-3 : Science and technology- European solar mission- Proba-3
🅾️Objective of Proba-3: To Study the solar corona, the outermost and hottest part of the Sun’s atmosphere, which remains difficult to observe due to the Sun’s intense brightness.
🅾️Unique feature : First ever Precision Formation Flying: Two satellites, the Occulter Spacecraft (200 kg) and the Coronagraph Spacecraft (340 kg), will maintain a fixed configuration with a distance of 150 meters between them.
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🅾️Objective of Proba-3: To Study the solar corona, the outermost and hottest part of the Sun’s atmosphere, which remains difficult to observe due to the Sun’s intense brightness.
🅾️Unique feature : First ever Precision Formation Flying: Two satellites, the Occulter Spacecraft (200 kg) and the Coronagraph Spacecraft (340 kg), will maintain a fixed configuration with a distance of 150 meters between them.
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This helps: productivity means maximum output for a given input.
Let us normalise productivity as a metric- not the no of hours spent 🙂
Let us normalise productivity as a metric- not the no of hours spent 🙂
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✅Gs-2- Government schemes and their implementation-MGNREGA-
🅾️Chronology wise read the articles in the following manner if you dont know about MGNREGA- Click here
🅾️Then you should read this very analytical and solution oriented article on MGNREGA- CLick here
⚠️Present article - latest updates : Issues- Over the last five years, 2.15 crore workers have been deleted from MGNREGA job cards, with a 249% increase in deletions in 2022-23 alone. This includes 1.68 lakh workers in 2022-23 who were deemed “not willing to work”, often without their knowledge.Many workers have lost their right to guaranteed work under MGNREGA, which directly affects their livelihood.
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🅾️Chronology wise read the articles in the following manner if you dont know about MGNREGA- Click here
🅾️Then you should read this very analytical and solution oriented article on MGNREGA- CLick here
⚠️Present article - latest updates : Issues- Over the last five years, 2.15 crore workers have been deleted from MGNREGA job cards, with a 249% increase in deletions in 2022-23 alone. This includes 1.68 lakh workers in 2022-23 who were deemed “not willing to work”, often without their knowledge.Many workers have lost their right to guaranteed work under MGNREGA, which directly affects their livelihood.
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✅Gs-3 : Agriculture- Natural Farming- National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF)
➡️What is the difference between Natural farming and Organic Farming?- Click here
🅾️Pros and cons of Natural farming- Click here
⚠️Major difference?- Emphasis on soil health, resilience to climate risks (like floods and droughts), and reducing the environmental footprint of farming.Builds on earlier initiatives like Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP) but aims for nationwide adoption and scalable models.
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➡️What is the difference between Natural farming and Organic Farming?- Click here
🅾️Pros and cons of Natural farming- Click here
⚠️Major difference?- Emphasis on soil health, resilience to climate risks (like floods and droughts), and reducing the environmental footprint of farming.Builds on earlier initiatives like Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP) but aims for nationwide adoption and scalable models.
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✅Gs-1 : Indian society- Secularism- Preamble
✅Gs-2 : Indian constitution-Preamble- secularism- Interpretation in the context of renaming of cities- Written by J sai Deepak- Read this
⚠️What is the reasoning Behind Including ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ in the Preamble?- Read this article- in short- to reflect India’s commitment to inclusive governance and equality in the face of changing socio-political realities
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✅Gs-2 : Indian constitution-Preamble- secularism- Interpretation in the context of renaming of cities- Written by J sai Deepak- Read this
⚠️What is the reasoning Behind Including ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ in the Preamble?- Read this article- in short- to reflect India’s commitment to inclusive governance and equality in the face of changing socio-political realities
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✅Gs-2 : Centre - state relations- Finance commission - Fiscal federalism
🅾️Please keep a tab on this and implications for the 16th finance commission- Click here
⚠️Main issue here : equity and effectiveness in resource devolution-these transfers have not effectively raised their capacity to enhance social and economic outcomes, leading to stagnation in convergence between states.
🚫Implication?- The FC relies heavily on population and income-based criteria to allocate funds, which ensures higher transfers to poorer states. However, these criteria fail to incentivize capacity-building efforts, as states with higher tax revenues and better governance may receive comparatively lower transfers
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⚠️Main issue here : equity and effectiveness in resource devolution-these transfers have not effectively raised their capacity to enhance social and economic outcomes, leading to stagnation in convergence between states.
🚫Implication?- The FC relies heavily on population and income-based criteria to allocate funds, which ensures higher transfers to poorer states. However, these criteria fail to incentivize capacity-building efforts, as states with higher tax revenues and better governance may receive comparatively lower transfers
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✅Gs-3 : Inclusive growth/ Economic development
🔰Present strategy to achieve Inclusive growth - there are many - but populist strategies for parties to win elections are :
⚜️1) Reservations- Click here
⚜️2) Freebies- Click here
⚠️Takeaway from the article : the examples and case laws
🅾️Argument : In S. Subramaniam Balaji vs Tamil Nadu (2013), the Supreme Court observed that excessive freebies distort electoral behavior and financial stability.
🔰Use any one fact to support arguments against freebie
🅾️1. Karnataka’s five guarantees led to a doubling of fiscal deficit and increased reliance on borrowing- leading to unfunded liabilities and compromising critical expenditures like infrastructure and development—> affects public investment in essential sectors like health, education, and infrastructure.
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🔰Present strategy to achieve Inclusive growth - there are many - but populist strategies for parties to win elections are :
⚜️1) Reservations- Click here
⚜️2) Freebies- Click here
⚠️Takeaway from the article : the examples and case laws
🅾️Argument : In S. Subramaniam Balaji vs Tamil Nadu (2013), the Supreme Court observed that excessive freebies distort electoral behavior and financial stability.
🔰Use any one fact to support arguments against freebie
🅾️1. Karnataka’s five guarantees led to a doubling of fiscal deficit and increased reliance on borrowing- leading to unfunded liabilities and compromising critical expenditures like infrastructure and development—> affects public investment in essential sectors like health, education, and infrastructure.
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✅Gs-3 : Internal security- Drug trafficking - Successful operation of Coast guard
🔰There are two dimensions to this issue - Click here
⚜️1. As a social problem
⚜️2. As a security problem
🔰This will be a comprehensive answer on coastal security : Coastal security- Its components : Read here
⚠️Please note coast guard is not a part of Navy but is under the ministry of defence
Prelims : Kanaklata Barua
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🔰There are two dimensions to this issue - Click here
⚜️1. As a social problem
⚜️2. As a security problem
🔰This will be a comprehensive answer on coastal security : Coastal security- Its components : Read here
⚠️Please note coast guard is not a part of Navy but is under the ministry of defence
Prelims : Kanaklata Barua
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✅Gs-3 : Climate change- Cop 29 Negotiations- Baku, Azerbaijan- Click here
🅾️This is about the outcomes. Read about what the article says
⚜️1. Quantum- meaning the amount we got vs what is needed
⚜️2. Structure of finance- i.e not grants but debt- Read this OECD report for context
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🅾️This is about the outcomes. Read about what the article says
⚜️1. Quantum- meaning the amount we got vs what is needed
⚜️2. Structure of finance- i.e not grants but debt- Read this OECD report for context
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✅GS-1 : Demographic studies- Census- Socio Economic caste census
🅾️ Read this article completely for the background- CLick here
⚜️Conclusion of this article: Conducting a caste census could be more impractical than useful.
⚜️Risks: Administrative overload, potential for manipulation, and difficulty in ensuring fairness in reservation benefits.
⚜️Why?- Existing assumptions often fail to match reality due to overlapping caste names and changes in societal hierarchies.
🅾️Detailed note for mains on this issue( along with OBC subclassification) and Bihar caste census is given in this notes' channel- https://www.tg-me.com/UPSC_PDF_notes/172
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🅾️ Read this article completely for the background- CLick here
⚜️Conclusion of this article: Conducting a caste census could be more impractical than useful.
⚜️Risks: Administrative overload, potential for manipulation, and difficulty in ensuring fairness in reservation benefits.
⚜️Why?- Existing assumptions often fail to match reality due to overlapping caste names and changes in societal hierarchies.
🅾️Detailed note for mains on this issue( along with OBC subclassification) and Bihar caste census is given in this notes' channel- https://www.tg-me.com/UPSC_PDF_notes/172
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✅Gs-3 : Environment- Plastic treaty
⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance and other dimensions like urbanization- impact of climate change
⚠️The treaty, being negotiated since March 2022, aims to create a legally binding framework to address plastic pollution.
🅾️Many countries, including India, opposed including a production cap on plastics, instead focusing on managing plastic waste.
🚫India’s Position: India did NOT support limits on production
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⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance and other dimensions like urbanization- impact of climate change
⚠️The treaty, being negotiated since March 2022, aims to create a legally binding framework to address plastic pollution.
🅾️Many countries, including India, opposed including a production cap on plastics, instead focusing on managing plastic waste.
🚫India’s Position: India did NOT support limits on production
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✅Gs-4 : Ethics- Public service values
🅾️Case study of 1896 -> Plague case study for modern day governance
⚜️Colonial plague control—> top-down measures undermined community trust and fairness, prioritizing coercion over cooperative engagement.
⚜️Ethical deficits in health mapping: surveillance focused on containment rather than empathy and public good, reinforcing inequities in health governance.
⚜️Contemporary lesson: public health ethics demands transparency, participation, and accountability, avoiding legacy patterns of oppression and intimidation.
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🅾️Case study of 1896 -> Plague case study for modern day governance
⚜️Colonial plague control—> top-down measures undermined community trust and fairness, prioritizing coercion over cooperative engagement.
⚜️Ethical deficits in health mapping: surveillance focused on containment rather than empathy and public good, reinforcing inequities in health governance.
⚜️Contemporary lesson: public health ethics demands transparency, participation, and accountability, avoiding legacy patterns of oppression and intimidation.
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth
🎖MUST READ ARTICLE- What is it about?- What kind of strategy should India deploy for improving per capita - Read this article
⚠️GDP formula G= C+I+G+(X-M)
This infographic is about how C is changing.
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🎖MUST READ ARTICLE- What is it about?- What kind of strategy should India deploy for improving per capita - Read this article
⚠️GDP formula G= C+I+G+(X-M)
This infographic is about how C is changing.
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✅UPSC Mains 2024 result.