GS I (Women Empowerment) (Duplex)
Despite the improvement in the condition of women empowerment, Indian women are still facing spousal violence by the hands of insecure family members and are forced to disown their properties. Discuss. What needs to be done ?
GS II (Issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure) (Hattrick)
India’s inter-state disparity is not just confined to income levels. The states diverge on several other economic, social and demographic indicators. Elucidate. What are the challenges to India in coming future?
GS III (Economic Development) (Hattrick)
India is likely to post its first current account surplus in nine years, which should bolster the rupee though it is not a good sign for the economy as it reflects weak investment demand at home and subdued exports. Critically examine.
GS IV (Information sharing and transparency in government) (Duplex)
Is the liquor ban is a good idea ? Discuss
GS I (Women Empowerment) (Duplex)
Demand-
Raised financial power to women makes them more vulnerable. Woman will be physically assaulted in a marriage if she owns properties. This shall be discussed with solution to problem.
Tikdam- Very easy. Domestic voilence due to property ownership of women. Analyse safegurads, write reasons & solutions.
Approach-
-Explain steps taken by government in this area. Reason for its non effectiveness. Causes behind this violence. Brief on impact of this violence.(5 marks)
– Issues with existing safeguard. Suggest Solutions to the problem. (3 marks)
– Way forward (2 marks)
GS II (Issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure) (Hattrick)
India’s inter-state disparity is not just confined to income levels. The states diverge on several other economic, social and demographic indicators. Elucidate. What are the challenges to India in coming future?
Demand-
Explain the interstate disputes i terms of the various indicators. Quote examples of states. Mention challenges and solutions.
Approach-
– Discuss about the various indicators and disparity. Reasons of this should be mentioned (4 marks)
– Explain the challenges due to this disparity. Quote some past experiences (3 marks)
– Challenges and solutions (3 marks)
GS III (Economic Development) (Hattrick)
Demand-
Its bit difficult question and requires information about the current account situation in India.
Question’s other part is negative impact of the surplus situation. Try discussing by taking a one or two years situation in consideration so that writing answer would become easy.
Approach-
-Brief on the importance and meaning of account surplus. How it helps the rupees with example of any year (4 marks)
– Explain the weak investment and export impact because of the current account surplus in India. Relate this with experience of India or any country (4 marks)
-Challenges and way ahead in future to reduce impact of current account surplus (2 marks)
GS IV (Information sharing and transparency in government) (Duplex)
Is the liquor ban is a good idea ? Discuss.
Demand-
Simple-Put both the sides and arrive on conclusion.
Approach-
– Explain why it should be banned. One example will be required showing vaious positive sides of liquor banned (4 marks)
– Explain why it should not be banned. Give an example and impact of banning. (4 marks)
– Challenges in liquor banning, solution and way ahead (2 marks)
The Hindu and Editorials
Editorials
A first step to wholesome reform
Context – Supreme Court in its recent judgement in Youth bar association of India vs Union of India and others case held that police shall mandatorily register and upload the FIR with in 48hrs on to worldwide web.
It has many positive repercussions
On the other hand, Supreme Court also took care of other practical aspects in Judgement, That is privacy and logistics.
If issues of privacy or national security are involved, the upload of FIR can be differed. But the decision can only be taken at the level of DySP. The decision is appealable before a committee headed by SP or police commissioner.
On logistics front, if the Internet connectivity is not available in the remote location of a police station, it can be uploaded with in 72hours by sending it to the district headquarters through a special messenger.
But the challenges remain
The above needs to be addressed. If not,changes remains grossly cosmetic.
Af Pak transit trade agreement
Afghanistan and Pakistan transit and trade agreement can be fruitful and advantageous to both the countries only of India-Pakistan trade gets strengthened. As of now, the agreement permits goods from Afghanistan to India and not vice versa. It mean that the trucks need to go back with out any load and it becomes financially unviable. In this scenario, Afghanistan is looking for restrictions on Pakistan trade to Central Asia through its soil. Both of these are harming the prosperity of the respective countries. Here,
States in Higher education – Involve the States more in higher education.
In India, the quality of education is a major challenge. The solution is adopted for the same is the expansion of central educational institutions. In India as state universities and their affiliated colleges constitute close to 95% of access to higher education. In this context, it is not possible to raise the standards of higher education with out involvement of the states.
Added to this, private sector participation shall not see education as business only model and shall have an active participation in research in to the problems of the society.
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Cauvery water dispute is turning out to be less about water and irrigation and more about linguistic chauvinism and regional identity. Involvement of local politics is the major reasons for the same., So, as Cauvery water dispute redress all tribunal suggested, the water sharing should be left in the hands of technical experts and not politicians.
The ceasefire in Syria
Context – The Putin Plan in Syria is to retain the Syrian state structure and a collective fight of all major powers against jihadist groups including the Islamic state. Russian intervention has strengthened the Assad regime and weakened the rebels in Syria. In this scenario, fight against Islamic state is unifying global forces. So, the major challenges in achieving a ceasefire agreement are
With inputs from CivilsPrep
The Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) is a Group A service and holds responsibility for maintaining complete accounts of the Defence Services. It has civilian officers under the Ministry of Defence. The Defense Accounts Department has a history of more than two hundred years old.
The first position to be placed in after appointment is that of Assistant Controller of Defence Accounts. The defence accounts offices are in cantonment, states. Defence command headquarters are under the jurisdiction of the IDAS.
The Defence Accounts department serves the three Defence Services: DRDO, Border Road Organisation, Ordinance factories and other inter-services organisations.
The Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) is the Head of the Indian Defence Accounts Service and functions as internal Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer to the three Services Chiefs.
They also serve in Rashtrapati bhavan, PMO, Cabinet Secretariat, Passport offices, Autonomous bodies, PSU’s, constitutional bodies like UPSC, Seventh pay commission, 3G Spectrum design committee and international organisations like IMF, WTO, ICAO, PMI-UK, PMI-US, among others. IDAS officers are also placed in intelligence agency like R&AW.
The eligibility criteria for the Indian Defence Accounts Service exam is the same as for other services. Once the candidate clears the civil services and gets allotment to the Indian Defence Account Service as per his rank, he has to go through specific training.
The selected candidates’ training grounds are at, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Meerut, and Pune. The Indian Defence Accounts Service training is carried out for almost 1 and half years. Before the main training, the trainee officers are trained for auditors and clerks for phase of 2 months. After the two months training they are posted officially in Defence Accounts Director’s Office.
The training programme is divided in to 4 stages
The last stage, that is, the Perfection or Grooming Module is managed by IDAS Officers or Guest Faculty. After being effectively trained as auditors and clerks, the trainees are posted at the Defence Accounts Authority’s office.
Here they are strongly guided by the senior Administrative Officers or IDAS Officers with practical training in Accounting and Costing Sections, Audit. The apprentice auditors are supposed to attend classed in accurate attire in RTC course group.
IDAS has a great demand of officers and is considered a diversified service. An added distinction is the fast pace of promotions of these officers as compared to their counterparts in Group A services. It gives its officers opportunity to reach higher echelons of seniority – viz., joint secretary, additional secretary in various ministries and Secretary( Defence Finance) etc.
As per ncert std.11 chapter.4 : Vote power of President is Discretionary power of President & As per Laxmikant, there is no clearly mentioned. Plz resolve my doubly,sir.Thank you
GS I (Culture) (Duplex)
Nationalist and freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak was the man who turned the private, household Ganesh Chathurthi celebration into the present day carnival. Do you think that the spirit with which the festival was started is lost?
GS II (e-governance)
India which takes pride in being one of the leaders in the field of Information Technology however ranks low when it comes to e-governance. Attitudinal change, a change of mindset among political rulers, bureaucrats and the people are required to usher in this tool of modern administration. Elucidate.
