UPSC CSE Key – December 17, 2021: What you need to read today

• CEC, ECs interacted with PMO after Govt note sought presence of poll panel chief

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 and Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions

Key Points to Ponder:

• Election Commission-Constitutional Provisions (Article 324)

• Election Commission-Members and their appointment

• Office of Election Commission-Independence, Powers and Functions

• Why Independence of the Election Commission from the Executive is Required

• Supreme Court on Independence of EC- TN Seshan v Union of India and Ors (1995)

• Electoral Reforms suggested by Election Commission

• Common Electoral Roll and Simultaneous Elections-Issues and Challenges

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Why this raises questions and breaches a red line

📍Data breach to be reported in 72 hours: House joint panel

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination:

• General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

• General Studies III: Basics of cyber security

Key Points to Ponder:

• Joint Committee of Parliament Report on the Personal Data Protection Bill

• What is Data Protection?

• What do you understand by the term ‘Personal and Non-Personal data’?

• Supreme Court on Right to Privacy (Justice K.S. Puttaswamy vs. Union of India, 2017)

• Justice B N Srikrishna committee recommendation on Data Protection

• Personal Data Protection Bill 2019- how this Bill propose to regulate data transfer?

• key features of Personal Data Protection Bill 2019

• What is data localisation?

• European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

• Other Initiative/steps taken by Government of India for Data Protection and Data Privacy

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Report Summary on A Free and Fair Digital Economy

📍 Explained: The issues, debate around Data Protection Bill

📍 Explained: The road to data protection law

📍 Govt starts process to identify next CDS, Gen Naravane heads COSC

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies III: Internal Security and challenges to internal security

Key Points to Ponder:

• Chief of Defence Staff

• Need for Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)- Kargil Review Committee (KRC) 1999, Naresh Chandra Task Force on National Security 2011

• Appointment of Chief of Defence Staff-Who Appoints?

• Office of the Chief of Defence Staff-Role and Functions

• CDS-A ‘dual-hatted role’

• Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC)-Role and Importance

THE CITY

• SC asks pollution body to figure out permanent solution for Delhi

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

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

Key Points to Ponder:

• Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM)-Composition, Powers, Functions,

GOVT & POLITICS

• SC Collegium drops judge who gave skin-to-skin order

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:

• Appointment of High Court Judges

• Second Judges Case (1993), Third Judges Case (1998) and 99th Constitutional Amendment Act of 2014

• Required qualifications of Judges for High Court Judges

• Additional and Acting Judges-Appointment (Article 224 of the Constitution)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Supreme Court: ‘Sexual intent’, not ‘skin-to-skin’ contact, key in POCSO assault case

EXPRESS NETWORK

• Bullock cart racing: Maharashtra gets Supreme Court nod

Syllabus:

Main Examination:

• General Studies I: Indian culture, Indian Society

• General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation

Key Points to Ponder:

• Bailgada Sharyat or Bullock Cart Race in Maharashtra- cultural heritage of people

• Jallikattu

• Animal Welfare Board of India vs A. Nagaraja & Ors 2014

• Article 29 (1) of the Constitution

• Why was there a ban on the bullock cart races?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Supreme Court allows bullock cart races in Maharashtra, here is why

📍 Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu: pride & politics

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

• Borders and Red Lines

Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Cross-border insolvency

• UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency by United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

• Cross-Border Insolvency Rules and Regulations Committee by Ministry of Corporate Affairs

• New York Convention or United Nations Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards

• National Company Law Tribunal and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

THE IDEAS PAGE

• Preparing for Omicron

Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies III: disaster management

Key Points to Ponder:

• Omicron variant and India’s Preparedness to handle another Covid Wave

ECONOMY

• All four Labour Code draft rules finalised by 13 states/UTs: Govt

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

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

Key Points to Ponder:

• Labour Reforms in India and recommendation of Second National Commission on Labour (2002)

• Organised Sector and Unorganised Sector-Difference

• Industrial Relations Code Bill 2020-Key Features

• Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code Bill, 2020-Features

• Code on Social Security Bill, 2020-Key Features

• ‘Code on Wages Act- 2019’-Key Features

• Benefits of Labour Codes

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: In the three new labour codes, what changes for workers & hirers?

EXPLAINED

• Enforcing age of marriage

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Union Cabinet’s decision to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years

• minimum age of marriage

• Why is there a minimum age

• Uniform age of marriage for boys and girls

• Marriage age and women’s health-How they are related?

• The Age of Consent Bill, 1927 and Sharda Act 1929

• The Law Commission Report of 2008 on Reforming Family Law

• Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee on Marriage age

• Raising legal age of marriage for women-Issues, Challenges and Criticism

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Why raise legal age, or why not

• ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ of Kolkata’s Puja

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you understand by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists?

• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists-Importance

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