UPSC CSE Key – April 4, 2022: What you need to read today

House panel calls in CAG officials: Explain audit report delays

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies

Key Points to Ponder:

• Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and Article 148 of the Constitution

• Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) is appointed by Whom?

• Independence of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)-Provisions

• Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)-Functions and Powers

• What do you understand by “Comptroller”?

• What do you understand by “Auditor General”?

• Compare CAG of India with that of CAG of United Kingdom

• Public Accounts Committee and Government of India Act of 1919-Connect the Dots

• Public Accounts Committee-Members and Selection Procedure

• Public Accounts Committee and Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)-Connect the Dots

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Of accounts and accountability

Blockchain system in Gadchiroli to weed out fake caste certificates

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies III: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Map Work- Gadchiroli district (Maharashtra)

• Why Gadchiroli district is often in News

• Linkages between development and spread of extremism-Gadchiroli district (Maharashtra

• Blockchains- What are they?

• Blockchains-How does it operate?

• Significance of Blockchain beyond Cryptocurrency?

• Issues and Challenges Associated to Blockchain Technology

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Beyond the hype of blockchain, a look at its reality

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Goodbye AFSPA

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination:

• General Studies II: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining
to the federal structure

• General Studies III: Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with
terrorism

Key Points to Ponder:

• Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958

• Why AFSPA is Controversial?

• Framework agreement of 2015

• What is a “Disturbed Area”?

• The power to declare “Disturbed Area” lies with whom?

• Other States under AFSPA and why?

• Recommendation of Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy Committee in 2005, Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) in 2007 and Santosh Hegde Committee appointed by Supreme Court in 2013

• The Supreme Court guidelines for the use of AFSPA in 1997

• Supreme Court on AFSPA (Naga People’s Movement of Human Rights v. Union of India 1998)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 AFSPA and the Northeast

📍 Why AFSPA exists

Employment with Dignity

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Female Labour Force Participation Rate-Know about this in detail

• Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)-Role and Functions

• What do you understand by Labour Force and Labour Force participation rate (LFPR)?

• Employment Rate (ER) and Unemployment Rate (UER)

• Safety of women in workplaces-What does Law says in Indian Context?

• What do you understand by “Informal economy” and “Unorganised Sector”?

• Women, informal and unorganised sector-Know in detail

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 COVID-19 and Women Informal Sector Workers in India

EXPLAINED

Reforming death penalty

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Capital Punishment or Death Penalty?

• Important Supreme Court Judgements Related to Capital Punishments like Jagmohan Singh v state of Uttar Pradesh in 1972, Rajendra prasad v state of Uttar Pradesh in 1979, Bachan Singh v state of Punjab in 1980, Machhi Singh v state of Punjab in 1983

• What are the Arguments for and Arguments against Death Penalty or Capital Punishment?

• Law commission on Death Penalty?

• What has caused the SC to examine practices in death penalty sentencing?

• How are judges supposed to choose between life and death sentences?

• What has happened to this framework in the four decades since Bachan Singh?

• What is mitigation, and what are mitigating factors?

• Can procedural reforms address the broader concerns with the death penalty?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Why the link between mental health and death penalty deserves greater attention

ECONOMY

BharatNet likely to miss deadline as shifting goalposts slow roll out

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc and Investment Models

Key Points to Ponder:

• BharatNet Project-Key Provisions and Highlights

• National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and BharatNet-Connect the Dots

• Phases of the BharatNet Project-What are they?

• Special Purpose Vehicle and Bharat Broadband Network Ltd. (BBNL)?

• What do you understand by Viability Gap Funding (VGF)?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 PPP model of BharatNet: DoT starts meets, hopes to float bid by Sept-end

Jobless rate decreasing in India, says CMIE

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it

Key Points to Ponder:

• Know the Basics-Demography, Demographic characteristics, Demographic potential, Demographic Transition,
Demographic Dividend and India’s Demographic Dividend

• India’s unemployment rate in Urban and Rural Areas-Present Status

• Why unemployment is more in the urban areas as compared to the rural areas?

• What is Labour Force Participation (LPR)?

• What Is the Unemployment Rate? How it is Calculated by CMIE?

• Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)-Role and Under which Ministry/Organisation?

• Reasons for rise in Unemployment Rate

• Types of Unemployment in India

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Young and jobless

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