UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has recently appointed a three-member committee to revisit the criteria for 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) in educational institutions and government jobs. This came after Supreme Court’s observations while hearing petitions challenging… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: Defining EWS

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) NITI Aayog has recently released the state-wise National Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI in line with the global index released by the United Nations each year. Must read: National MPI Project The National MPI Project is the first attempt in years to… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: Multidimensional Poverty in India

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Overview The Summit between India and Russia marks the 21st Annual Summit between the two countries after the 2+2 dialogue. This will be the first in-person meeting of the Russian President and PM Modi after 2019. It is in continuation of the… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: India – Russia Annual Summit

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Historical background Lord Mayo’s Resolution of 1870 on financial decentralisation visualised the development of local self-government institutions. Lord Ripon’s Resolution of 1882 has been hailed as the ‘Magna Carta’ of local self-government. He is called as the father of local-self government in… Continue reading [Yojana Archives] Journey of Panchayats

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context According to the National Family Health Survey data for 2019-21, the country’s population is set to fall. The Total Fertility Rate – which is the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime has dropped to 2 for… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: Population Slowdown

Gram Sabha: A backgrounder The Gram Sabha is the fulcrum of the Panchayati Raj and village development. It is the Sabha of the electorate. All other institutions of the Panchayati Raj like the Gram Panchayat, Block Panchayat and Zilla Parishad are constituted by elected representatives. People use the forum of the Gram Sabha to discuss… Continue reading [Yojana Archive] Making Gram Sabhas Vibrant

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The situation at Europe’s eastern border with Belarus has been in focus for quite some time now.  Thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East have flocked to Belarus to try to enter Europe through neighboring EU member states Poland, Latvia… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: Belarus Migrant Crisis

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) The 12th Ministerial Conference of WTO is scheduled to take place in Geneva. Context The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the principal forum for setting the rules of international trade. For the past two and a half decades, it has helped reduce… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: WTO Reforms

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The third Sunday of November every year is observed as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Globally, over 3500 people die every day on the roads, which amounts to nearly 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: Road to Safety

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Drones in India Drones, officially known as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), have been in widespread use in the Indian military since the 1990s. While the first drones were imported into India from Israel for use in active combat, DRDO has since then… Continue reading [Yojana Archive] Drone Policy

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Organic Farming is poised to become 75000 cr rupee market by 2025. The Indian Organic market is expected to grow at an annual rate of more than 20%.  However, India’s share in the global organic market is just 1%. India has potential… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: The ‘Organic’ Growth

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Several initiatives have been undertaken by the Centre Government to develop North Eastern Region holistically for improving basic infrastructure and providing connectivity in the region. In this article, we shall discuss and analyse all these challenges and initiatives taken for Infrastructure… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: North East Infra in Focus

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context: Floods storms Chennai Several parts in Chennai and its suburban areas reported waterlogging after heavy rains lashed the city. The showers have now been marked as the heaviest downpour since 2015. In fact, there has been an increasing trend of urban… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Perspective: Urban Deluge (Floods)

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The informal economy is a global and pervasive phenomenon. According to ILO approximately 60 percent of the world’s population participates in the informal sector. Defining Informal Economy As the International Labour Organization defined the informal sector in 2002, the informal sector… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Informal Economy: Challenges & Opportunities

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Aspects of Energy Security Energy security means consistent availability of sufficient energy in various forms at affordable prices. These conditions must prevail over a longer period of time if energy is to contribute to sustainable development. India is one of the world’s… Continue reading [Yojana Archive] Energy Security: Nuclear Power

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) One97 Communications-owned Paytm will launch its initial public offering for subscription in the coming week. This is the largest-ever public issue in the history of Indian capital markets.  Before this, state-run coal mining company Coal India had the biggest IPO of more… Continue reading [Sansad TV] The IPO Boom

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) PM Narendra Modi addressed the COP26 World Leaders’ Summit in Glasgow where he made a critical pitch for climate action and stood for the nations of the developing world. India has been pushing for Climate Equity in terms of actions that need… Continue reading [Sansad TV] Need for Climate Equity

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Spanning thousands of years, toy manufacturing in India is as old as civilization itself. Some of the earliest evidence of terracotta toys being found in Harappa (c. 2500 BCE)- a key site of the Indus Valley Civilisation. It is remarkable to note… Continue reading [Yojana Archive] Women in India’s Toy Industry