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House panel calls in CAG officials: Explain audit report delays
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Main Examination: General Studies II: Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies
Key Points to Ponder:
• Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and Article 148 of the Constitution
• Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) is appointed by Whom?
• Independence of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)-Provisions
• Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)-Functions and Powers
• What do you understand by “Comptroller”?
• What do you understand by “Auditor General”?
• Compare CAG of India with that of CAG of United Kingdom
• Public Accounts Committee and Government of India Act of 1919-Connect the Dots
• Public Accounts Committee-Members and Selection Procedure
• Public Accounts Committee and Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)-Connect the Dots
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📍 Of accounts and accountability
Blockchain system in Gadchiroli to weed out fake caste certificates
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Main Examination: General Studies III: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Map Work- Gadchiroli district (Maharashtra)
• Why Gadchiroli district is often in News
• Linkages between development and spread of extremism-Gadchiroli district (Maharashtra
• Blockchains- What are they?
• Blockchains-How does it operate?
• Significance of Blockchain beyond Cryptocurrency?
• Issues and Challenges Associated to Blockchain Technology
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📍 Beyond the hype of blockchain, a look at its reality
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Main Examination:
• General Studies II: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining
to the federal structure
• General Studies III: Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with
terrorism
Key Points to Ponder:
• Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958
• Why AFSPA is Controversial?
• Framework agreement of 2015
• What is a “Disturbed Area”?
• The power to declare “Disturbed Area” lies with whom?
• Other States under AFSPA and why?
• Recommendation of Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy Committee in 2005, Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) in 2007 and Santosh Hegde Committee appointed by Supreme Court in 2013
• The Supreme Court guidelines for the use of AFSPA in 1997
• Supreme Court on AFSPA (Naga People’s Movement of Human Rights v. Union of India 1998)
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Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies III: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Female Labour Force Participation Rate-Know about this in detail
• Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)-Role and Functions
• What do you understand by Labour Force and Labour Force participation rate (LFPR)?
• Employment Rate (ER) and Unemployment Rate (UER)
• Safety of women in workplaces-What does Law says in Indian Context?
• What do you understand by “Informal economy” and “Unorganised Sector”?
• Women, informal and unorganised sector-Know in detail
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📍 COVID-19 and Women Informal Sector Workers in India
EXPLAINED
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Main Examination: General Studies II: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary
Key Points to Ponder:
• What is Capital Punishment or Death Penalty?
• Important Supreme Court Judgements Related to Capital Punishments like Jagmohan Singh v state of Uttar Pradesh in 1972, Rajendra prasad v state of Uttar Pradesh in 1979, Bachan Singh v state of Punjab in 1980, Machhi Singh v state of Punjab in 1983
• What are the Arguments for and Arguments against Death Penalty or Capital Punishment?
• Law commission on Death Penalty?
• What has caused the SC to examine practices in death penalty sentencing?
• How are judges supposed to choose between life and death sentences?
• What has happened to this framework in the four decades since Bachan Singh?
• What is mitigation, and what are mitigating factors?
• Can procedural reforms address the broader concerns with the death penalty?
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📍 Why the link between mental health and death penalty deserves greater attention
ECONOMY
BharatNet likely to miss deadline as shifting goalposts slow roll out
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc and Investment Models
Key Points to Ponder:
• BharatNet Project-Key Provisions and Highlights
• National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and BharatNet-Connect the Dots
• Phases of the BharatNet Project-What are they?
• Special Purpose Vehicle and Bharat Broadband Network Ltd. (BBNL)?
• What do you understand by Viability Gap Funding (VGF)?
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📍 PPP model of BharatNet: DoT starts meets, hopes to float bid by Sept-end
Jobless rate decreasing in India, says CMIE
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies III: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it
Key Points to Ponder:
• Know the Basics-Demography, Demographic characteristics, Demographic potential, Demographic Transition,
Demographic Dividend and India’s Demographic Dividend
• India’s unemployment rate in Urban and Rural Areas-Present Status
• Why unemployment is more in the urban areas as compared to the rural areas?
• What is Labour Force Participation (LPR)?
• What Is the Unemployment Rate? How it is Calculated by CMIE?
• Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)-Role and Under which Ministry/Organisation?
• Reasons for rise in Unemployment Rate
• Types of Unemployment in India
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