UPSC CSE Key – December 22 and December 23, 2021: What you need to read today

Bill to raise marriage age of women seeks to override laws across faith, sent to panel

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies II: Social empowerment

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 and Uniform Civil Code

• The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 for all Religion-Issues and Debate

• The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021- Complex Social Challenges

• Raising Marriage Age of a women and Women Empowerment

• The Law Commission Report of 2008 on Reforming Family Law

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

• Raising legal age of marriage for women- Criticism

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 KNOTTY ANSWER

📍 Wrong on rights

Centre warns states on Omicron: Activate war rooms, curfew if needed

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination:

• General Studies II: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States

• General Studies III: Disaster and disaster management.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Centre State Relations-Devolution of Powers

• Disaster Management and Mitigation Plan

• Omicron and Delta Variant

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: What are Centre’s new guidelines to states for Omicron containment?

THE CITY

Delhi govt plans to develop ‘school hub’ spread over 11 acres

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

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

Key Points to Ponder:

• School Hub-Concept and Rationality Behind It

• What do you understand by ‘STEM’ and why it is necessary?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Higher education system in India grim, needs more investment, reforms: NITI Aayog

IN PARLIAMENT

Rlys’ 98% operating ratio not a reflection of its true financial performance: CAG

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Comptroller and Auditor General of India- Constitutional Provisions

• Indian Railways-Finances, Idea of Privatisation, Infrastructure and Investment

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Why private firms are being invited to run trains in India, and how the model will work

CAG: 78% drinking water units did not have NOC from ground water board

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:

• CAG’s report on “Ground Water Management and Regulation: Union Government, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation”

• Management of Ground Water in India

• Ground Water Regulation

• Implementation of schemes on Ground Water Management and Regulation

• Sustainable Development Goals and Ground Water

• Environment Protection Act 1986 and Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA)

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Providing groundwater solutions in India a complex matter: Experts

📍 What India’s new water policy seeks to deliver

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

A larger circle of diplomacy

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

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

Key Points to Ponder:

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

• Central Asia Region- Location (Please refer Map and have a look at the central Asian Countries, their Capitals, nearby important Lakes etc.)

• 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)

EXPLAINED

Linking voter rolls to Aadhaar

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act

Key Points to Ponder:

• Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021-Key Highlights

• Why Aadhaar-linking is Important or Required?

• Linking Aadhaar with Voter ID-Issues and Challenges Ahead

• Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) Vs Union of India 2017

• Representation of the People Act, 1951-Key Highlights

• The Aadhaar Act, 2016-Key Features

• Election Commission recommendation for electoral Reforms

• Election Commission of India-Constitutional Provisions

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Why linking Aadhaar with voter ID is a dangerous idea

📍 Linking Aadhaar with voter ID among poll reforms cleared by Cabinet

NASA’s flagship telescope, and its successor

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Science and Technology- developments and their applications

Key Points to Ponder:

• James Webb Space Telescope-Key Features

• Differences between James Webb Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Webb telescope prepares to ascend, with eye toward our origins

100 yrs of SAD: movements, political power, and where it stands today

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: History of India and Indian National Movement

Main Examination: General Studies‐I: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Historical Background

• Punjabi Suba movement

ECONOMY

Currency-in-circulation growth falls

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you Understand by the term ‘Currency in Circulation (CiC)’?

• ‘Currency in Circulation (CiC)’-Reason for Stagnation or Decline?

• What are the Macro-Economic Factors for the demand of Currency in an Economy?

• How RBI calculate Currency with Public?

IMPORTANT TOPICS AND RELEVANCE IN UPSC CSE EXAM-23rd December 2021

Front page

WHO sets stage for booster: Prioritize high-risk groups

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Disaster and disaster management.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Disaster Mitigation in the wake of new variant Omicron

• WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE)-Members and Working Groups

• National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), India-Role

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Omicron rising, but Delta still dominant

EXPRESS NETWORK

On discussion table: proposed levy for finished products, a debate, and rejection

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:

• Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill 2021-Proposed Features

• Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill 2021-Contentious Clauses

• Meaning of ‘Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)’ under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Biological Diversity Bill referred to Joint Committee of Parliament

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

The missing debate

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies‐ II: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Electoral Reforms-Why Necessary

• Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021-Issues

• Other Proposed and Implemented Electoral Reforms

• Election Commission of India and State Election Commission-Constitutional Provisions

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Needed: Firewalls

📍 A time for electoral reform

EXPLAINED

Personal laws in marriage

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies II: Social empowerment

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021-Key Highlights

• What does the amendment propose?

• What is the opposition to the amendment?

• Legal implications of enforcing age of marriage

• Parliamentary Committees-Role and Importance

• Types of Parliamentary Committees

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Bill to raise marriage age of women seeks to override laws across faith, sent to panel

Kerala’s Silver Line: why it has been planned, why it is facing protests
Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc

Key Points to Ponder:

• SilverLine project-Key Highlights

• Need for the SilverLine project

• SilverLine project-Issues and Challenges ahead

ECONOMY

Merchants to RBI: Not prepared, extend tokenization deadline

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment

Key Points to Ponder:

• What is tokenization?

• Tokenized card transaction-why it is Safe?

• Digital Payments in India: Definition, Methods, and Importance

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