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  • 1st April 2019 | Prelims Daily with Previous Year Questions

    [WpProQuiz 22]

  • [Prelims Spotlight] Acts and Schemes related to Women

    Schemes & Acts (Women)

    1.NIRBHAYA FUND

    Salient Features–

    • Nirbhaya Fund is an Indian rupee 10 billion corpus announced by Government of India in its 2013 Union Budget.
    • According to the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, this fund is expected to support initiatives by the government and NGOs working towards protecting the dignity and ensuring the safety of women in India.
    • Nodal Ministry-Ministry of Women & Child.

    2.ICDS

    Salient Features

    • To prevent and reduce young child under-nutrition (% underweight children 0- 3 years) by 10 percentage points.
    • Enhance early development and learning outcomes in all children 0-6 years of age.
    • Improve care and nutrition of girls and women andreduce anaemia prevalence in young children, girls and women by one fifth by the end of 12th five year plan.
    • It is a centrally sponsored scheme.
    • The engagement of the anganwadi worker and helper from the same village.
    • It is a universal and self-selecting scheme i.e. anyone can visit to the Aanganwadi centre and
    • enroll these services.
    • Package of six services i.e.
      1.  SNP – supplementary nutrition programme
      2.  Pre-school education
      3. Health and nutrition education,
      4. Immunization,
      5. Health check up and
      6. Referral services to the beneficiaries
    • AEC-cum-crèche, AWC-cum counselor.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    3.Mahila Police Volunteer

    Salient Features

    • It envisages creation of a link between the police authorities and the local communities in villages through police volunteers who will be women specially trained for this purpose.
    • Under this scheme it is expected to have at least one such volunteer in every village whose primary job will be to keep an eye on situations where women in the village are harassed or their rights and entitlements are denied or their development is prevented.
    • Nodal Ministry – Joint initiative b/w Min. of WCD and Home Min. Ministry of Women & Child and Home Ministry.

    4.UJJAWALA Yojana

    Salient Features

    • Comprehensive scheme for prevention of trafficking and rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child.

    5.One Stop centre scheme

    Salient Features

    • To provide integrated support and assistance to women affected by violence, both in private and public spaces under one roof.
    • To facilitate immediate, emergency and non-emergency access to a range of … support under one roof to fight against any forms of violence against women 1.These centres will provide immediate access to a range of services including medical, legal, psychological and counselling support to the victims.
    • The OSC will support all women including girls below 18 years of age affected by violence ,also for girls below 18 years of age, institutions and authorities established under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 will be linked with the OSC.
    • In addition to this, a single uniform number –181 will provide 24-hour emergency response to all women affected by violence, through referral (linking with appropriate authorities such as Police, OSC or hospital); funding thru’ Nirbhaya fund.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    6.Swadhar Grehs

    Salient Features

    • Homes for relief and rehabilitation of women in difficult circumstances including survivors of rape/assault etc.
    • Provision for food clothing, counselling. training, clinical and legal aid.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child.

    7.She-Box

    Salient Features

    • Online complaint Management System for women working in both public and private organizations to ensure effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at workplace Act.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child.

    8.Universalization of Women Helpline

    Salient Features-

    • A Women Helpline (state level toll free number such as 181) would be made universal for providing an immediate and 24 hour emergency response to women affected by violence including rescue (where necessary), information, first point contact counseling and referral (linking with appropriate authority such as police, One Stop Centre, hospital) services to any woman in distress across the country.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    9.Mission for Protection and Empowerment for Women

    Salient Features

    • To achieve holistic empowerment of women through convergence of schemes/programmes of different Ministries/Department of Government of India as well as State Governments.
    • It aimed at improving the declining Child Sex Ratio; ensuring survival. & protection
    • of the girl child; ensuring her education, and empowering her to fulfill her potential.s a social sector welfare schemes for care, protection and development of
    • Women.
    • It will provide an interface for rural women to approach the government for availing their entitlements and for empowering them through training and capacity building.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    10.Mahila Shakti Kendra

    Salient Features

    • Mahila Shakti Kendras will converge all Govt. Schemes for women at National, State, District and Block level
    • Skill Development, Employment, Digital Literacy, Health and Nutrition.
    • Through this scheme, government plans to reach 115 most backward districts in the country with 920 Mahila Shakti Kendra.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    11.Sabla

    Salient Features

    • Enable the adolescent girls for self development and empowerment
    • Improve their nutrition and health status.
    • Promote awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, adolescent reproductive and sexual health (ARSH) and family and child care.
    • To educate, skill and make them ready for life’s challenges.
    • Nutrition provision
    • Iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation
    • Health check-up and referral services
    • Nutrition & health education (NHE)
    • Counseling/guidance on family welfare, ARSH, child care practices and home management.
    • Upgrade home-based skills, life skills and integrate with the national skill development program (NSDP) for vocational skills.
    • Mainstream out of school adolescent girls into formal/non formal education.
    • Provide information/guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, post office, bank, police station, etc.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    12.Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana-

    Salient Features

    • Empower women in agriculture by making systematic investments to enhance their participation and productivity,
    • Create and sustain agriculture based livelihoods of rural women.-a sub component of the Deendayal Antodaya Yojana-NRLM (DAY-NRLM)
    • Under the Pariyojana, projects are conceived in such a manner that the skill base of the women in agriculture is enhanced to enable them to pursue their livelihoods on a sustainable basis.
    • Under MKSP sustainable agriculture, 58 projects from 14 States have been sanctioned which will benefit 24.5 lakhs Mahila Kisans during the period.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Rural Development.

    13.Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

    Salient Features

    • Prevent Female infanticide
    • Ensure Every Girl Child is Protected
    • Ensure every Girl Child is educated
    • Enforcement of PC & PNDT Act, nation-wide awareness and advocacy campaign and multi-sectoral action in select 100 districts (low on Child Sex Ratio) in the first phase.
    • Under this scheme there is a strong emphasis on mindset change through training, sensitization, awareness raising and community mobilization on ground.
    • Nodal Ministry – It is a tri-ministerial effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development.

    14. Sukanya samriddhi yojana

    Salient features

    • (Minor) bank account for girl child below the age of 10.
    • She can withdraw 50% of the money after reaching age of 18 e.g. for higher education. 18 years deadline will also help preventing child-marriages.
    • For initial account opening, minimum deposit Rs.250 required.
    • Later, any amount in multiple of 100 can be deposited, but maximum Rs. 1.5 lakh per year.
    • Interest rate: 9.1% compounded annually.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    15. Pocso-e Box

    Salient Features

    • POCSO e-box is a unique endeavour by NCPCR for receiving online complaint of Child Sexual Abuse directly from the victim.
    • Through a well defined procedure complaints are directly followed up by a team which counsels the victim, providing further guidance for required legal action. Through a short animation film embedded in the e-box it assures the victim not to feel bad, helpless or confused as it’s not her fault. With the e-box, it is easy to register complaint through a step-by-step guided process.
    • Nodal Ministry – The Ministry of Women & Child

    16.NARI

    Salient Features

    • Due to scattered information on various women centric schemes/legislations there is a lack of awareness among people regarding the same.
    • To address this problem government launched NARI portal as a single window access to information and services.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

    17. E-samvaad Portal

    Salient Features

    • It is a platform for NGOs and civil society to interact with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) by providing their feedback, suggestions, put up grievances, share best practices etc.
    • This will help in formulation of effective policies and measures for welfare of women and children.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Women & Child

    18. Stree swabhiman

    Salient Features

    • It aims to create a sustainable model for providing adolescent girls and women an access to affordable sanitary products in rural areas.
    • Under this project, sanitary napkin micro manufacturing units (semi-automatic and manual process
    • production unit) are being set up at CSCs across India, particularly those operated by women entrepreneurs.
    • The product will be sold under local brand name and marketed by village level entrepreneurs.
    • Each facility will employ 8-10 women and educate women of their society to overcome this social taboo.
    • It also has a menstrual hygiene related awareness generation component and is also expected reduc dropped out rates in girls on reaching puberty.Ministry of
    • Nodal Ministry – Electronics and Information technology (MeITY).

    19.PROGRAM TO TRAIN ELECTED WOMEN REPRESENTATIVES OF PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS

    Salient Features

    • The program aimed at capacity building of EWRs is being organized by National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) of the MoWCD.
    • It is the first ever initiative which will train approximately twenty thousand EWRs covering nearly 50 EWRs from each district (by March, 2018) who will go out and administer the villages professionally.
    • It will help in creating model villages, ensure their effective participation in governance process and help preparing women as political leaders of the future.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of women and Child.

    20.Support to Training and Employment

    Salient Features

    • Programme for Women (STEP)
    • To provide competencies and skill that enable women to become self-employed/entrepreneurs.
    • The scheme is intended to benefit women who are in the age group of 16 years and above across the country.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of women and Child

    21.Rashtriya Mahila Kosh

    Salient Features

    • RMK is a national credit fund for women under the aegis of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
    • It was established in 1993 for socio-economic empowerment of women.
    • It aims to provide financial services with backward and forward linkages for women in the unorganized sector through Intermediary Micro Finance Organizations (IMOs) and Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) and to augment their capacities through multi-pronged efforts.
    • RMK also extends micro-credit to the women in the informal sector through a client friendly, without collateral and in a hassle-free manner for income generation activities.
    • Nodal Ministry – Ministry of women and child

    22.The Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018

    Objectives

    • It seeks to amend five Acts. These are: (i) the Divorce Act, 1869, (ii) the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, (iii) the Special Marriage Act, 1954, (iv) the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and (v) the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956.

    Key Features

    • These Acts contain provisions related to marriage, divorce, and separation of Hindu and Muslim couples. Each of these Acts prescribe leprosy as a ground for seeking divorce or separation from the spouse.
    • The Bill seeks to remove this as a ground for divorce or separation.

    Nodal Ministry-Ministr of  Law and Justice

    23.The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018

    Objectives

    • The Bill amends the IPC, 1860 to increase the minimum punishment for rape of women from seven years to ten years.

    Key Features

    • The Bill amends the IPC, 1860 to increase the punishment for rape of girls. However, punishment for rape of boys has remained unchanged. This has resulted in greater difference in the quantum of punishment for rape of minor boys and girls.
    • The Bill imposes death penalty for rape of girls below the age of 12 years. There are differing views on death penalty for rape. Some argue that death penalty has a deterrence effect on the crime and therefore helps prevent it. Others argue that death penalty would be disproportionate punishment for rape.

    Nodal Ministry-Ministry of Law and Justice

     

  • Interview transcript – Mangesh

    Board: Dr P.K. Joshi

    Background: IIT BHU (Varanasi), Computer Science.

    Chairman

    – How many marks did you get in Maths Class XII?
    – Which force has you been allocated?
    – Why SSB?
    – When we have BSF as a border guarding force, why need SSB?
    – Suppose you are posted as a DM in a village school and asked to address students of Class VIII-XII, what would you speak about for promoting Maths which students don’t like?

    Maths Question 1

    Maths Question 2, 2(a)

    M1

    – Munger is famous for? (Came as a shocker for me because I am from Saharsa, Bihar)
    – Do you do Yoga?
    – What is the status of women in Bihar? Do you think women has been empowered in your state?
    – What is accountable governance?
    – How to ensure government accountability?

    M2

    – What was the project you worked upon in Samsung? Two follow up questions
    – What is the state of R&D in India?
    – What is the need of high end R&D when our basic skill needs are unmet?

    M3

    – Should we go for making strong laws to provide security to women?
    – Are laws against Dowry enough? Why are they being misused? What are recent changes in Dowry law?
    – Situational Question: Your domestic help comes to you and complains to you about her drunkard husband who comes from work and beats her under the influence of alcohol. What would be your step of action?

    M4

    – What was the earlier name of BHU?
    – Who founded it?
    – Who gave the money?
    – Who founded AMU and when?
    – Don’t you think that the British sowed the seeds of division by helping the setup of a Hindu University and a Muslim university?
    – Why is Varanasi named so?
    – Why is IIT BHU not doing too good? (Asked in Hindi)
    – What is Kashi famous?
    – What is 3rd Industrial Revolution, 2nd IR and 1st IR.

     

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  • [Video Analysis + Top 10 Ranks] 30 March 2019 | Prelims Daily with Rakesh Sir

    Dear students,

    Here’s a link to the Prelims Daily Quiz Analysis Video. Watch this after you have attempted that day’s Prelims Daily questions [on this link]

    https://youtu.be/AkIWG5j-N8s

    The full playlist is available here [click2watch]

    [WpProQuiz_toplist 11]

    We need your comments, likes, and shares on these videos. The aim of this series is to help you revise news via questions. PLEASE spread the videos.

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    Only 5% of our students who read news attempt PD. This beats the purpose of reading the news. Even those 5% who attempt PD are unable to get the most out of the initiative. They are either guessing or doing the tests just as a routing activity without engaging in it.

    What’s CD doing to maximize your efforts?

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  • Interview transcript – Aditya

    Board- Dr Manoj Soni

    Chairman

    – You are 23, so tell me about the challenges Youth face today?
    – Difference between Older and Younger generation?
    – Was 20th Century good, or 21st Century? – What do you do in your leisure time?
    – Tell me about the historic importance of Gwalior (my hometown)?

    M1

    – What are foreign-funded NGOs?
    – What are Anti Nuclear Energy NGOs?
    – Is Nuclear Energy feasible for India’s energy security?
    – What is Nuclear Waste?
    – Should we go for renewable energy or Nuclear energy?

    M2

    – What is the civil engineer’s role in Smart city?
    – What are some of the current challenges of Urban development?
    – India produces so many engineering graduates, most of them are unemployed. Why?
    – What should we do to employ them?
    – You are a district collector if some newspaper writes a defamatory article against you? What would you do?

    M3

    – Should Delhi be given full statehood? Q2- What are simultaneous elections? Is it desirable?
    – List some electoral reforms we can undertake?
    – Is State funding of elections a desirable reform?

    M4

    – Why do we call Political Science as Science? What is ‘science’ in it?
    – How are India Iran relations going?
    – How are India Pak relations?
    – Who are non-state actors in Pakistan?
    – What is Track 2 diplomacy, and will it work with Pakistan?

    Chairman

    – If your junior doesn’t obey you, what would you do?
    – Should civil servants be terminated from services, if they don’t perform well despite repeated warnings?

  • [Video Analysis + Top 10 Ranks] 29 March 2019 | Prelims Daily with Rakesh Sir

    Dear students,

    Here’s a link to the Prelims Daily Quiz Analysis Video. Watch this after you have attempted that day’s Prelims Daily questions [on this link]

    https://youtu.be/98-De8rti9s

    The full playlist is available here [click2watch]

    [WpProQuiz_toplist 10]

    We need your comments, likes, and shares on these videos. The aim of this series is to help you revise news via questions. PLEASE spread the videos.

    What’s wrong with the student’s study habits?

    Only 5% of our students who read news attempt PD. This beats the purpose of reading the news. Even those 5% who attempt PD are unable to get the most out of the initiative. They are either guessing or doing the tests just as a routing activity without engaging in it.

    What’s CD doing to maximize your efforts?

    Now, we have moved one step further with the launch of analysis videos of Prelims Daily (PD). These videos will reveal the critical nitty-gritty surrounding every PD question. It is an unfortunate reality that no single question can be framed to cover all the possible angles.

    The analysis videos will plug this hitherto inevitable gap, thereby making your preparation more methodical, holistic and foolproof. Nothing can be more valuable than experience, and that is precisely what the PD initiative and the analysis videos offer. These will be valuable for both newcomers and senior players in the field.

    PS: We want to be 100% certain that the time and energy spent on making these videos is helping you in your UPSC Prelims preparation. So, pls click on the videos, like, share and comment and let us know your thoughts

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  • 30th March 2019 | Prelims Daily with Previous Year Questions

    [WpProQuiz 11]

  • Interview transcript – Harisha B C

    Board: P K Joshi

    Interview Date : 27/02/2017

    Chairman

    – You studied in Bangalore, you are from Tumakuru. How many KMs is Tumkur from Bangalore?
    – What is one nation one election? Do you support ?
    – How the challenges can be addressed ?
    – Why engineers are not getting jobs in India ?
    – What can be done to address this ?
    – What is skill India ?
    – What is NAAC?

    M1

    – what is communication?
    – Give example for communication?
    – Why did you choose Sanskrit as one of the languages ?
    – What is the script of Sanskrit called? (Sanskrit is one of the languages in school)
    – Can you tell me the varnamalas of Sanskrit?
    – What is a to aha is called?
    – What is ka to la is called?

    M2

    – so how did you get this listening to songs as your Hobby?
    – What is the league of kabaddi is called?
    – Is kabaddi popular in your region?
    – What are folk games played in Karnataka which is not popular in other parts of the country?

    M3

    – Why Hyderabad has a better entrepreneurial culture than Bangalore? ( I took an opposite stand here )
    – Why Bangalore has less engineering colleges than your neighbouring states, say TN. ( Indian Express ran a series of articles on this last month)
    – Why did you leave Cognizant? It’s a good company.

    M4

    – what is a dispute between your state and your neighbouring state Tamil Nadu?
    – What is the recent verdict on the dispute?
    – What are your priority areas as a DM?
    – How natural resources like Land should be allocated?

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