UPSC CSE Key – December 15, 2021: What you need to read today

• SC accepts security concerns, clears Char Dham road widening

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Geography

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

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is Chardham Project

• “Delicate balance” between environmental considerations and security needs

• Atlas/Map Work- Locate Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri

• Famous Panch Prayag Temples in Uttarakhand-Important Rivers and their Confluence (Locate on Atlas/Map)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Environment vs defence needs: how the balance tilted

📍 Explained: The Char Dham road debate

IN PARLIAMENT

• RS passes Bills on tenure of CBI, ED chiefs; Opp absent

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity

Main Examination: General Studies II: Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021, and the Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Bill, 2021-Highlights

• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-Organisation, Role and Functions

• Santhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption

• Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946

• Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

• Issues and Challenges associated with CBI

• Director of CBI-Appointment and Tenure

• Directorate of Enforcement (ED)-Role and Function

• ED comes under which Ministry or Organisation?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 The Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Bill, 2021

📍 The Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021

📍MP seeks 6th Schedule safeguards for Ladakh

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity

Main Examination: Indian Constitution-Significant Provisions

Key Points to Ponder:

• Ladakh Hill Development Council Act, 1997

• Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and its Benefits

• Fifth and Sixth schedules of Indian Constitution

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Very little is understood about Fifth and Sixth schedules of Indian constitution

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

• The refugees of 1971

Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies I: Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Bangladesh Liberation War 1971

• Assam Movement (1979-1985) and Assam Accord

• Terms like “Suffrage non-citizens”

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Bangladesh@50: A timeline of the 1971 Liberation War, as it unfolded

THE IDEAS PAGE

• Seeding the next revolution

Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers,

Key Points to Ponder:

• Agritech-Concept

• Agrifood life sciences ecosystem in India

• Agrifood life sciences-definition and its Components

• Definition of Agricultural (Ag) biotechnology, novel farming systems, bioenergy and biomaterials, and innovative foods

• New approach to accelerate Agrifood life sciences in India-why?

• Funding for Agrifood life Sciences like Venture Investment

• Agrifood life sciences-Issues, Challenges and Way Ahead

EXPLAINED

• Climate assertion at UN

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change

Main Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment

Key Points to Ponder:

• Why India voted against a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) linking climate to international security.

• What is so contentious about Draft Resolution?

• From “phase-out” of coal to “phase-down” of Coal-India’s Stand at the annual climate change conference in Glasgow

• Role and Functions of United Nations Security Council

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC

• Climate Change as a Security Issue-justified? If yes then why?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Russia blocks UN resolution on climate change fearing unwarranted western intervention

📍 NDPS Act: a drafting error, its implications, and an amendment

Syllabus:

Main Examination:

• General Studies II: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.

• General Studies III: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021 and Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985

• Essential Narcotic Drugs (ENDs)

• Narcotics Control Bureau- Role and mandate

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Amendment Bill, 2021

ECONOMY

• RBI brings NBFCs under prompt corrective action frameworkSyllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Key Points to Ponder:

• Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCS)

• RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework.

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