Note4Students The Mental Healthcare Bill aims to provide for the right to better healthcare for mentally ill patients and decriminalises suicide. It is important to know its provision and the challenges India faces in providing better mental health care. Introduction The Parliament has passed the Mental Healthcare Bill, 2016 that decriminalizes suicide attempt by mentally ill… Continue reading Mental Healthcare Bill

Note4students Parliament has passed a crucial Bill to ensure equal rights to the people infected with HIV and AIDS in getting treatment and prevent discrimination of any kind. It’s important to study its various provision and flaws involved in the bill. Introduction Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (Prevention and Control) Bill,… Continue reading HIV AIDS Bill

Note4Sstudent Transgender communities in India are facing issues like discrimination, unemployment, lack of educational facilities, homelessness, lack of medical facilities. Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 attempts to bring the community into the mainstream. It is important to know the bill provisions and various concerns expressed against the bill. Introduction Transgender community is among… Continue reading Transgender bill

Note4Students Indian health sector is meddled with a host of issues. Poor strata of population have denied proper health care. NHP policy tries to achieve over all development of health sector with private sector as an active partner. So NHP is very important for coming mains exam. Introduction The main objective of the National Health… Continue reading New Health policy

Note4Students Medical termination of pregnancy has many dimensions. Indian legal system had considered the women’s right to choose her pregnancy as a moral and ethical problem. Legal system often took narrow stand regarding the abortion of pregnancy under special circumstances. Social mentality also doesn’t recognize the women’s autonomy over her own body. MTP amendment trying… Continue reading Proposed medical termination of pregnancy amendment bill

Note4Students: The bill has been in news since it is considered a revolutionary step towards maternity leave provisions in India. So, a probable question may be asked on this. Context The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that seeks to amend the old Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 that entitles women to receive maternity benefits has been… Continue reading Maternity benefit amendment bill

Note4Students: Child labour is one of the most debated topics. After a long time, amendment bill to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 has been passed. The topic is important as despite making stricter norms for regulating child labour, the bill suffers from many flaws. Context The Parliament has amended the Child Labour (Prohibition… Continue reading Child labour amendment bill

Note4Student Section 498A, which is made to contain violence against women within the family has been widely misused. Supreme Court in the recent Rajesh Sharma and Ors v State of UP and Anr case delivered a judgment, announcing a set of guidelines to prevent the misuse of Section 498A of the IPC. So there is… Continue reading Should Section 498 be amended

Note4Students In a recent judgment, the Uttarakhand High Court declared the rivers Yamuna and Ganga as legal or juridical persons, enjoying all the rights, duties and liabilities of a “living person”. SC stays Uttarakhand HC order on Ganga, Yamuna living entity status because it raised several legal and administrative issues. Even though majority of the Indian population considers… Continue reading Declaring river as living entity

“If anyone intentionally spoils the water of another, let him not only pay damages, but purify the stream or cistern which contains the water.” – Plato Note4Students Environment has always been a favorite topic of UPSC. The NGT order said any person found dumping debris on the river bank at the Geeta Colony site or any… Continue reading Should we Adopt Polluters pay model

Note4Students The Ministry of Environment recently permitted states to declare earlier protected wild animal species as “vermin” under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, thereby allowing private shooters and others to kill these species with few safeguards and no risk of prosecution. Recent examples are Nilgai in Bihar and Maharashtra, Rhesus macaque in HP, Wild… Continue reading Should Culling of animals be allowed

Note4Students/Syllabus Mapping: GS3 Water management and conservation has become imperative due to the intense water scarcity, frequent agrarian crisis, farmer distress, recurring floods and droughts, fast ground water depletion and unprecedented weather vagaries due to climate change. ILR as an instrument under National Water Policy to resolve the water crisis in the country has taken… Continue reading Interlinking of rivers: Significance & Challenges

Note4Students/Syllabus Mapping: GS3 The quantum of solid waste is ever increasing due to increase in population, developmental activities, changes in life style, and socio-economic conditions, Plastics waste is a significant portion of the total municipal solid waste (MSW). The Government through MoEF&CC has notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, in suppression of the earlier… Continue reading Plastic Waste Managament Rules 2016

Note4Students/Syllabus Mapping: GS3 Emphasizing that toxic constituents present in e-waste and their disposal mechanism affect human health and lead to various diseases, e-waste management becomes imperative. The rapid internet penetration and smart phone revolution resulting in phones and other electronics contributed to 1.5 million tonnes of e-waste produced in India in 2015, 90% of which… Continue reading E- Waste Managament Rules 2016 

Note4Students/Syllabus Mapping: GS3 Waste management and diligent planning becomes critical for regulation of humongous solid waste being generated every day. With growing urbanization and rise of smart cities on the offing the issue of solid waste management becomes even more imperative. The fact that the solid waste management rules have been revised after 16 years… Continue reading Solid waste management rules, 2016

Note4Students/Syllabus Mapping: GS3 The Climate Change and sustainability has become the buzz words considering the global warming and its multiplier effects on agriculture, industry, people and governments. A landmark agreement at Paris to limit the rise of earth’s temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius of pre industrial levels doesn’t seem enough considering the debilitating impacts… Continue reading Kigali agreement: Prospects and Issues