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Interstate River Water Dispute
Importance for Exams Mains : Understand the issue, why is it not resolved yet. Steps taken this year. why they are expected to yield better results compared to the past. Prelims : Make a note of the institutional framework(composition, functions,etc) involved : Provisions of Art. 262, ISWD Act, CRA, CMC, CSC and the newly proposed CRMB.… Continue reading Interstate River Water Dispute
Foreign Policy Watch: India-Australia
India & the Oceans Backgrounder It is analytically sensible to divide Australia’s links to post-Independence India into four phases: The first corresponds to the years immediately surrounding Indian Independence when Labour Party was in power in Australia. The second period is the Menzies Years, The third may be regared as the post 1971 re-discovery of… Continue reading Foreign Policy Watch: India-Australia
Water Management – Institutional Reforms, Conservation Efforts, etc.
Importance for the exams Mains – Understand the problems with the existing water management institutions. How a new institutional framework tries to address these, its criticism. Prelims – All the bodies involved, their structure, composition – CWC, CGWB and the proposed NWC. In News Mihir Shah Committee recommendations on institutional reforms are being considered by the govt. The… Continue reading Water Management – Institutional Reforms, Conservation Efforts, etc.
Medical Education Governance in India
The MCI has been in the news for the wrong reasons as the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health in its 92nd report came down heavily on various aspects of the functioning of MCI. British medical Journal also had suggested radical revamp of the MCI. This articles focuses on the medical education governance in India. source… Continue reading Medical Education Governance in India
