UPSC CSE Key – December 9, 2021: What you need to read today

Gen Bipin Rawat, highest defence officer, and wife among 13 killed in chopper crash

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 General Bipin Rawat

•  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’

•  The Mi-17V5 helicopter

•  Nilgiri Hills-Geographical Location

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 First CDS, Celebrated Soldier

📍 The helicopter Rawat was in

📍 No clear line of succession, CCS to decide on next CDS

📍 Functions of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)

📍 Explained: What are role, powers of CDS?

GOVT & POLITICS

Cabinet extends PMAY-Rural plan till March 2024, nod to Ken-Betwa river inter-linking

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:

•  Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G)-Features of the Scheme and Nodal Ministry

•  PMAY (Rural or Gramin) and PMAY (Urban)-Difference

•  Other Infrastructure and Rural development related schemes

•  Ken-Betwa River linking project

•  Ken and Betwa Rivers-Source and Location

•  Other tributaries of the Yamuna River

•  Panna Tiger Reserve

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: What is the Ken-Betwa Link Project; which regions will benefit from it?

📍 Varun steers private Bill for MSP guarantee

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance and Economic and Social Development

Main Examination:

General Studies-II: Parliament and State legislatures—structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these.

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

Key Points to Ponder:

•  Who is Private Member?

•  What do you understand by Private Bill?

•  Who decides admissibility of a private member’s Bill?

•  Public Bill vs Private Bill-Difference

•  Has a private member’s bill ever become a law?

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

•  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

Question asked in UPSC CSE Prelims Examination 2017 with Similar/Same Theme:

Q: With reference to the Parliament of India, consider the following statements:

1) A private member’s bill is a bill presented by a Member of Parliament who is not elected but only nominated by the President of India.

2) Recently, a private member’s bill has been passed in the Parliament of India for the first time in its history.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (Please refer UPSC CSE Prelims 2017 Question Paper)

No coercive action against digital media without our approval, says Madras HC

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

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:

•  The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021

•  Indian Broadcasters and Digital Media Foundation

•  Different types of media

•  Why Media Is Called as The Fourth Pillar of Democracy?

•  Freedom of the press in India

•  Facets of Speech and Expression and right to profession under Article 19(1)(a) and 19 (1) (g) of the Constitution respectively

•  World Press Index and India

•  How Media Is Regulated in India?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021

IN PARLIAMENT

Growing voice in favour of reintroducing NJAC Bill, Law Minister tells Lok Sabha

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:

•  National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act 2014

•  Supreme Court on NJAC Act 2014 (99th Constitutional Amendment Act)

•  Collegium system of appointing judges to the Supreme Court and High Courts

•  First Judges Case (1982), Second Judges Case (1993) and Third Judges Case (1998)

•  Executive Vs Judiciary for appointment of judges in higher judiciary

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Supreme Court strikes down NJAC, revives collegium system

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

• State against Constitution

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance and Current events of national importance

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

•  AFSPA a “state of exception”?

•  Framework agreement of 2015

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

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

•  Other States under AFSPA

•  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

ECONOMY

‘Recovery turning broad-based, warrants continued support’

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

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

Key Points to Ponder:

•  Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)

•  Finance Act, 2016

•  Monetary Policy in India

•  Benchmark rate (Repo Rate, Reverse Repo Rate) decided by MPC

•  Accommodative and Tight Monetary Policy

•  Repo Rate, Reverse Repo Rate-Definition and Role in the Economy

•  Impact of excess Liquidity in the Economy?

•  How Central Bank Controls Excess Liquidity in the Economy?

•  What are other Instruments of monetary policy?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 The liquidity challenge

📍 Explained: Why the RBI kept repo rates unchanged

📍 Digital currency: Cyber security, frauds concerns

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

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

Key Points to Ponder:

•  Digital Currency

•  Fiat money

•  Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology

•  Central bank digital currency (CBDC)-Meaning, Issues and Challenges

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Digital currencies and how they work

📍 Cryptocurrency: How the needle moved from ban to regulation

📍 Explained: How are cryptocurrencies regulated in countries around the world?

UPI-based products for feature phones soon

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Key Points to Ponder:

•  Unified Payment Interface (UPI)

•  National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

•  UPI is Regulated by whom?

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