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  • JOIN Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Link Available

    JOIN Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Link Available

    Date:  18th July 2021

    Time: 3 PM

    Join Zoom Meeting
    https://zoom.us/j/93464046708?pwd=TlRFWkRlQ0w5SEpaYjNvZEo3RnBJUT09

    Meeting ID: 934 6404 6708
    Passcode: 921499

    What can you expect from the webinar? 

    Our Webinar is curated from learning over the years and interactions with students from our successful programs like Smash mains and MEP super 50.

    • Introduction to answer writing as expected by UPSC. 
    • Learn about the common mistakes that most aspirants make and how to avoid them.
    • Live examples of poor answer writing and how to change them. 
    • A comprehensive coverage of How to approach a question. 
      • Learn to identify: 
        • The key demand of the question 
        • How to structure your answer ?
        • How to write the introduction? 
        • What to write in the body ?
        • How to conclude your answers? 
    • An interactive open session for discussion 
    • Live question and answer session with the mentor 

    You learn all of this in 2 hours, for absolutely FREE! 

    This is a session that can transform your answers, don’t miss it! Register now!

    A quick bit about Sukanya Ma’am

    Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.

    At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.

  • HALF AN HOURS TO GO || Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Register NOW

    HALF AN HOURS TO GO || Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Register NOW

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    Date:  18th July 2021

    Time: 3 PM

    Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you. 

    Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions.  And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why? 

    Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master. 

    And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    What can you expect from the webinar? 

    Our Webinar is curated from learning over the years and interactions with students from our successful programs like Smash mains and MEP super 50.

    • Introduction to answer writing as expected by UPSC. 
    • Learn about the common mistakes that most aspirants make and how to avoid them.
    • Live examples of poor answer writing and how to change them. 
    • A comprehensive coverage of How to approach a question. 
      • Learn to identify: 
        • The key demand of the question 
        • How to structure your answer ?
        • How to write the introduction? 
        • What to write in the body ?
        • How to conclude your answers? 
    • An interactive open session for discussion 
    • Live question and answer session with the mentor 

    You learn all of this in 2 hours, for absolutely FREE! 

    This is a session that can transform your answers, don’t miss it! Register now!

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    A quick bit about Sukanya Ma’am

    Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.

    At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.

  • JUST A FEW HOURS TO GO || Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Register NOW

    JUST A FEW HOURS TO GO || Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Register NOW

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    Date:  18th July 2021

    Time: 3 PM

    Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you. 

    Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions.  And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why? 

    Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master. 

    And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    What can you expect from the webinar? 

    Our Webinar is curated from learning over the years and interactions with students from our successful programs like Smash mains and MEP super 50.

    • Introduction to answer writing as expected by UPSC. 
    • Learn about the common mistakes that most aspirants make and how to avoid them.
    • Live examples of poor answer writing and how to change them. 
    • A comprehensive coverage of How to approach a question. 
      • Learn to identify: 
        • The key demand of the question 
        • How to structure your answer ?
        • How to write the introduction? 
        • What to write in the body ?
        • How to conclude your answers? 
    • An interactive open session for discussion 
    • Live question and answer session with the mentor 

    You learn all of this in 2 hours, for absolutely FREE! 

    This is a session that can transform your answers, don’t miss it! Register now!

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    A quick bit about Sukanya Ma’am

    Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.

    At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.

  • A panoramic look at our three decades of economic reforms

    Context

    This month marks the 30th anniversary of the economic reforms launched by our then finance minister Manmohan Singh in his budget speech of 24 July 1991.

    After and before reform comparison

    •  The average annual growth over the past three decades has been 5.8% per annum.
    • It is slightly higher than 5.6% in the decade before 1991.
    • Clearly, our growth acceleration was not sustained, despite a pick-up in the pace of reforms.
    • However, on a long-term comparison, the economy did better than its 4.1% average of the first 40 years of independence.
    • But if we compare our first four decades with the pre-1947 phase, and on that score, we saw a massive growth improvement.

    Impact of reforms

    • Their biggest contribution was a change in India’s economic paradigm.
    • Every government after 1991 has embraced the philosophy of liberalization and privatization that those reforms initiated and has tried to outdo the previous regimes on that.
    • Still, 30 years on, the situation for most of our population remains unchanged.
    • The reforms created a class of rich entrepreneurs and a small but vocal middle class in urban areas.
    • But it also contributed to widening inequality, which has worsened after 1991 and is now at its worst level since 1947 on almost all dimensions.
    • The widening of disparities also occurred between urban and rural areas, between laggard states and developed ones.
    • Disparities have increased even further in terms of access to health and education and several other human- development indicators.
    • On most of these, be it education, health, women’s workforce participation and hunger, we remain at the bottom of any global chart of comparison.
    • The logic of reforms meant that expenditure on welfare and investment in human development were not a policy priority.
    • The situation is no different on employment, with data suggesting an absolute decline on this count and a historic rise in unemployment rates.
    • An official consumption survey that was not accepted about two years ago by the Centre had shown, a decline in real consumption and a rise in poverty.
    • Rising informalization and contractualization of the country’s workforce has been a factor in the worsening of most workers’ working conditions.

    Why reforms failed to deliver

    • In many ways, they are no different from our pre-reform economic policies, all of which were supply- side responses.
    • The reforms attempted to use the private sector for the task through a liberalized regulatory framework and business-friendly fiscal and monetary policies.
    • But an absence of concern for distributional inequities and aggregate-demand management has continued as the defining feature of our economic policymaking.
    • The consequences of supply-side- biased reforms will show up in a further worsening of income distribution and eventually slow growth down.

    Conclusion

    Things have taken a turn for the worse with the pandemic. The problem this time is not like the 1991 crisis. What is needed at this point is a fundamental shift in the way economic policy is designed, keeping people and workers at the centre of the exercise.

  • Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Registration Open

    Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Registration Open

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    Date:  18th July 2021

    Time: 3 PM

    Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you. 

    Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions.  And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why? 

    Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master. 

    And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    What can you expect from the webinar? 

    Our Webinar is curated from learning over the years and interactions with students from our successful programs like Smash mains and MEP super 50.

    • Introduction to answer writing as expected by UPSC. 
    • Learn about the common mistakes that most aspirants make and how to avoid them.
    • Live examples of poor answer writing and how to change them. 
    • A comprehensive coverage of How to approach a question. 
      • Learn to identify: 
        • The key demand of the question 
        • How to structure your answer ?
        • How to write the introduction? 
        • What to write in the body ?
        • How to conclude your answers? 
    • An interactive open session for discussion 
    • Live question and answer session with the mentor 

    You learn all of this in 2 hours, for absolutely FREE! 

    This is a session that can transform your answers, don’t miss it! Register now!

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    A quick bit about Sukanya Ma’am

    Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.

    At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.

  • Need for social security to migrant and informal workers

    Context

    The migrants’ crisis after the two covid waves compelled policy-makers to make certain provisions for them in the schemes announced for the assistance of the poor.

    Supreme Court judgement on the issue

    • On June 29, the Supreme Court finally delivered its judgment on the plight of migrant labour.
    • The judgement was notable for two main reasons.
    • First, it recognised that there was the large-scale exclusion of migrant workers and other informal workers from existing schemes due to the lack of their registration and outdated eligibility lists.
    • It noted that no benefits will be denied to migrant workers for want of an Aadhaar card and that food assistance will be provided for migrants who were not covered by the National Food Security Act.
    • Second, it connected informal workers and migrant workers, both of whom experience exclusion, and mandated that the portal for registration of all informal/migrant workers should be fully operational before July 31.

    Advantages of providing social protection

    • Investment in social protection is not charity, it is an investment in workers’ productivity and in equitable growth.
    • Providing social protection is, as the UN mooted in 2009 when it spelt out the social protection floor (SPF) initiative after the global financial crisis, the surest way out of a crisis by boosting demand at the bottom of the pyramid.
    • The report of the Advisory Committee of the ILO, in which India was represented by its labour secretary, provides a strong rationale for instituting a universal SPF during economic crises.
    • As a result, all constituents of the ILO adopted Recommendation 202 on social protection floors at the International Labour Conference in 2012.

    Inadequate provisions by government

    • The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, was approved by Parliament in December 2008.
    • But it lacks the mandatory elements of the NCEUS’s proposals and included neither a National Minimum Social Security Package, nor the provision for mandatory registration.
    • Estimates show that the central government’s expenditure on all major social protection programmes declined from 1.96 per cent of GDP in 2008-09 to 1.6 per cent in 2013-14 and to only 1.28 per cent in 2019-20.

    Way forward

    • The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) had pointed out that the circular migrant workers were a disadvantaged segment among informal workers.
    • Comprehensive law: The NCEUS had advocated a comprehensive law for the protection of the rights of all informal workers, including migrants, home workers, and domestic workers.
    • Universal registration: NCEUS had also recommended a universal registration mechanism based on self-declaration, with the issuance of a smart social security card, and a National Minimum Social Security Package.
    • Guaranteed social security/social protection: We need the provision of a minimum level of guaranteed social security/social protection for all informal workers and their households within a definite time frame.
    • More public spending: Guaranteed social protection would involve a clear framework and a commitment to greater public resources being spent on social protection as a large class of workers in India do not have an identifiable employer and a contributory social insurance framework will not work for them.
    • Recommendation 202: Government should embrace ILO’s Recommendation 202 and work towards these in a time-bound manner.

    Conclusion

    To end the silent, painful, and enduring crisis for the workers, as well as the crisis for the economy, the government must urgently recognise the right to social security, embedded both in the Indian Constitution and international covenants.

  • Complete Entire ‘Social Issues’ Syllabus For Absolutely FREE! Study Materials, Daily Classes, Live Interaction With Mentor And Doubt Clearing

    Dear aspirants,

    Complete the entire syllabus of ‘Social Issues’ through ‘Social Learning’ with Siddharth Sir for absolutely FREE! Social Issues can help you write high-scoring answers, detailed essays, and crack Prelims with a high score!

    Here’s what you get:

    1. Daily sessions.
    2. Revisions and study material.
    3. Tips and techniques to score more. 
    4. Learning to improve your answer-writing.
    5. Fodder for essay writing.

    And more…

    Session at 6.30 P.M.

    All of this for absolutely no charge!

    This is available for absolutely FREE but we request you not to miss it!

    It’s Absolutely FREE, Join Now!

    What do you have to do?

    1. Join Habitat For Absolutely Free Sessions!
    2. Read The Discussions Happening On The General Page.
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    4. Participate, Ask Questions, Engage, And Learn!

    Don’t Miss Out On The Questions That May Help You Succeed!

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    Here is a list of topics and discussions you can join immediately:

    Revise Economics for IAS PrelimsRavi Ranjan11:00 am
    English WritingAnand Prakash12:30 pm
    Science and TechDr. Keerti1:00 pm
    Samadhan CSATRavi Ranjan2:00 pm
    UPSC EPFORohit Yadav3:00 pm
    Chat pe News: Current AffairsAnjum Sharma4:30 pm
    Polity Laxmikant Amoghavarsha5:30 pm
    Indian society and Social IssuesSiddharth 6:00 pm
    Abhyaas: Answer WritingGarima7:00 pm
    Samvad: Indian AgricultureRadhika Didwania7:30 pm
    Prelims HeistParth Verma8:30 pm
    Parakram Answer Writing sessionRohit Yadav9:30 pm
    Post dinner MCQs for IAS prelimsAmitB10:15 pm

    And many more…

    Whatever you need, we have it here.

    Join the club of your choice here (for free)

    How to join a discussion?

    After you have joined/registered on Habitat for free, go to the General club. Click on the blue box of the session you want to attend.

  • Can India invoke state sovereignty in Cairn Energy case?

    Context

    Last year, an arbitration tribunal indicted India for breaching its obligations by imposing taxes retrospectively on Cairn. As a result, Cairn Energy has been attempting to seize Indian assets in several jurisdictions to recover $1.7 billion due from India.

    How asset seizure order affects India?

    • This episode projects India as an unfriendly country for investors at a time when it wishes to project itself as a prime destination for foreign investment.
    • This episode puts India in the league of countries like Pakistan, Congo, Venezuela, Russia and Argentina, who have been part of attachment proceedings overseas due to their failure to comply with international arbitral awards.
    • Fighting cases will consume an enormous amount of time, money, and resources, in addition to attracting bad press internationally.

    Understanding the doctrine of state immunity

    • State immunity is a well-recognised doctrine in international law.
    • It safeguards a state and its property against the jurisdiction of another country’s domestic courts.
    • Despite the universal acceptance of this doctrine, there is no international legal instrument in force administering its implementation.
    • Attempts are underway to create binding international law on the application of the rules of state immunity such as the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property (UNSCI).
    • However, this convention is yet to be ratified by 30 countries — the minimum number required to bring it in force, as per Article 30(1) of UNSCI.
    • India has signed the convention, but not ratified it.
    • The doctrine of state immunity has progressed from absolute immunity to restrictive immunity in which immunity is only for the sovereign functions of the state.

    Can India invoke state immunity?

    • Most prominent jurisdictions follow the concept of restrictive immunity.
    • State immunity can be invoked to resist the seizure of sovereign assets, but not commercial properties. 
    • In the context of the execution of the investment treaty arbitration awards, properties serving commercial functions are available for seizure.
    • In the case of India, the most popular commercial property that foreign investors would target for attachment are the global assets of India’s public sector undertakings such as Air India.

    Way forward

    • If India wishes to continue the case, it needs to carefully study the laws on state immunity in different jurisdictions where attachment proceedings are likely to come up.
    • A better option would be to admit that amending the tax law retrospectively was a mistake and comply with the international ruling.

    Conclusion

    At the time when India seeks to project itself as an attractive investment destination, such cases could be a setback. India needs to avoid such disputes in the future.

  • Score 120+ In Prelims Paper-1 With The Most Probable Question, For FREE! || MCQs with Addya ma’am

    Score 120+ In Prelims Paper-1 With The Most Probable Question, For FREE! || MCQs with Addya ma’am

    Focused MCQ-Based Prelims Preparation With Analysis

    Dear Aspirants,

    Our experienced mentor, Sadhya, will be discussing the Most Probable Questions that could come in the Prelims exam and how to solve them. This will help you gain an advantage over other aspirants and score more in the exam.

    This is available for absolutely FREE but we request you not to miss it!

    It’s Absolutely FREE, Join Now!

    What will you learn in the sessions:

    1. What To Expect From Prelims This Year.
    2. Which Questions Are Most Probable For This Year.
    3. Which Subjects And Topics To Focus On.
    4. Daily Practice To Keep You Focused.
    5. Question-Answer Analysis.
    6. Instant Feedback And Tips.

    What do you have to do?

    1. Join Habitat For Absolutely Free Sessions!
    2. Read The Discussions Happening On The General Page.
    3. Click On The Blue Box To Join The Discussion.
    4. Participate, Ask Questions, Engage, And Learn!

    Don’t Miss Out On The Questions That May Help You Succeed!

    Join Now And Start Learning!

    Here is a list of topics and discussions you can join immediately:

    Revise Economics for IAS PrelimsRavi Ranjan11:00 am
    English WritingAnand Prakash12:30 pm
    Science and TechDr. Keerti1:00 pm
    Samadhan CSATRavi Ranjan2:00 pm
    UPSC EPFORohit Yadav3:00 pm
    Chat pe News: Current AffairsAnjum Sharma4:30 pm
    Polity Laxmikant Amoghavarsha5:30 pm
    Indian society and Social IssuesSiddharth 6:00 pm
    Abhyaas: Answer WritingGarima7:00 pm
    Samvad: Indian AgricultureRadhika Didwania7:30 pm
    Prelims HeistParth Verma8:30 pm
    Parakram Answer Writing sessionRohit Yadav9:30 pm
    Post dinner MCQs for IAS prelimsAmitB10:15 pm

    And many more…

    Whatever you need, we have it here.

    Join the club of your choice here (for free)

    How to join a discussion?

    After you have joined/registered on Habitat for free, go to General club. Click on the blue box of the session you want to attend.

  • Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Registration Open

    Webinar on The Art of Answer Writing: Boost your Marks in UPSC Mains|| 18th JULY || Registration Open

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    Date:  18th July 2021

    Time: 3 PM

    Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you. 

    Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions.  And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why? 

    Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master. 

    And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    What can you expect from the webinar? 

    Our Webinar is curated from learning over the years and interactions with students from our successful programs like Smash mains and MEP super 50.

    • Introduction to answer writing as expected by UPSC. 
    • Learn about the common mistakes that most aspirants make and how to avoid them.
    • Live examples of poor answer writing and how to change them. 
    • A comprehensive coverage of How to approach a question. 
      • Learn to identify: 
        • The key demand of the question 
        • How to structure your answer ?
        • How to write the introduction? 
        • What to write in the body ?
        • How to conclude your answers? 
    • An interactive open session for discussion 
    • Live question and answer session with the mentor 

    You learn all of this in 2 hours, for absolutely FREE! 

    This is a session that can transform your answers, don’t miss it! Register now!

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

    A quick bit about Sukanya Ma’am

    Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.

    At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.

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