UPSC CSE Key – December 20, 2021: What you need to read today

2nd lynching over ‘sacrilege’ in 24 hrs, man killed in Kapurthala

Syllabus:

Main Examination:

• General Studies I: Indian Society

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

• General Studies IV: Human Values and Case Studies on this issue

Key Points to Ponder:

• ‘Sacrilege’ meaning?

• Religious Sentiments Vs Human Life

• Mob Lynching

• Silence on Lynching-is it Justified?

• Laws on Mob Lynching-Are they being enough? What else can be done?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Sacrilege & Silence

 Afghanistan meet: India, Central Asian nations seek peace and stability

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: India and its neighborhood- relations, Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest

Key Points to Ponder:

• Afghanistan Crisis-Background and Current Situation

• India’s strategic Interest in Afghanistan

• Delhi Declaration on Afghanistan- Geopolitical Importance

• The Delhi declaration and its challenges

• India-Central Asia dialogue 2021

• India’s Central Asia Policy- Connect Central Asia Policy

• Central Asia Region-Location (Please refer Map)

• Importance of Central Asian Region for India

• India’s Bilateral Relation with each Countries like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan etc.

• Ashgabat Agreement and International North South Transit Corridor (INSTC)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Afghanistan: To keep foot in diplomatic door, Delhi opens window

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

A weak bulwark

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 -Highlights

• What is Data Protection and why it is required?

• 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

• Data Protection- A balance between individual Privacy and State Security

• Surveillance reform and data Protection

• key features of Data Protection Bill 2021

• Clause 35 of Data Protection Bill 2021-why Contentious?

• Data Protection Authority

• What is data localisation?

• European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act, 2018

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic

📍 ‘Concern areas in Parl panel report: Non-personal info, localisation need’

📍 Explained: JCP prescription for data Bill

THE IDEAS PAGE

How to help the farmer

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices

Key Points to Ponder:

• MSP (minimum support price) and effectiveness of MSP implementation

• Crops Covered under MSP

• Public distribution system (PDS) and MSP

• How MSP is calculated (paid out costs, labour etc.) and Crops covered under the MSP

• What are the demands by Farmers in the context of MSP in the recent scenario?

• Recommendation of M. S. Swaminathan Committee on MSP

• What do you understand by the term ‘comprehensive cost of production of a crop’?

• Demand for legal guarantee for MSP-Pros and Cons

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic

📍 Tackling agricultural reforms after farm laws repeal

📍 Survey in perspective

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.

Main Examination: General Studies‐ II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors, Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Human Resources

Key Points to Ponder:

• Key Findings in National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5)

• National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) on population and Health

• NFHS-5 on sex ratio at birth

• Why NFHS-5 is in News?

• Comparison between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 report

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic

📍 Don’t ignore context of NFHS data

📍 What the latest NFHS data says about the New Welfarism
EXPLAINED

• India’s missile capability

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.

Key Points to Ponder:

• DRDO-organisation and Mandate

• Hypersonic technology

• History of missile technology in India

• What kind of missiles does India have?

• Which of India’s missile systems are most important?

• China and Pakistan-Comparison

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic

📍 Does India have hypersonic missile technology? The country gets ready to strengthen its capabilities: Know more

ECONOMY

• India, Taiwan begin FTA talks; focus on chip facility

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest

Key Points to Ponder:

• Free Trade Agreement Between Different Countries-Types

• India’s Strategic Interest in Taiwan

• Taiwan-Location/Geography (Map Work)

• Taiwan and China-Impact on India

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