Important topics and their relevance in UPSC CSE exam for February 7, 2022. If you missed the February 4, 2022 UPSC CSE exam key from the Indian Express, read it here FRONT PAGE Lata Lives Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance. Key Points to Ponder: • Personality in News-Lata Mangeshkar • Lata Mangeshkar-Undisputed queen • Lata Mangeshkar-Awards and recognition Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 INDIA’ S SONG 📍 Our inner voice 📍 Lata ji 📍 The Lata phenomenon GOVT & POLITICS 10 J&K Assembly seats with less than one lakh people each Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance Mains Examination: General Studies II: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act, Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies. Key Points to Ponder: • Draft Paper of the Delimitation Commission-key Proposal • Current Status of the J&K delimitation commission • Delimitation Commission of India and Delimitation Commission Act • Delimitation Commission-Members, Power and Independence • Delimitation commissions in the past (1952, 1962, 1972 and 2002) • Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 • Key Proposal by the Delimitation Commission-Pros and Cons • Delimitation Commission Recommendation binding on Government? • The orders issued by the Delimitation Commission can be challenged in any court? Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir: how, why 📍 Linking electoral roll to Aadhaar: Opp objects, Govt pushes Bill through Assam carries out eviction to clear Sattra land of ‘encroachers’ Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: History of India Mains Examination: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. Key Points to Ponder: • Know about Barpeta Sattra, a 16th-century Vaishnavite monastery • Ekasarana Dharma and Vaishnavite • Neo-Vaishnavite reformist movement and Srimanta Sankaradeva • What is Sankardeva’s philosophy? • What is the relationship between the Sattra and the State? Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Explained: The political significance of Assam’s Sattras THE IDEAS PAGE Plugging power reforms Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development Mains Examination: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc. Key Points to Ponder: • Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme-Key Highlights • Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS)-Key Highlights • Rural Electrification Corporation Limited-Role and Mandate • Revamped Distribution Sector Reform Scheme (RDSS)-Pros, Cons and significance • Various other schemes for rural electrification Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Progress of Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme Branding faith Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: History of India Mains Examination: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. Key Points to Ponder: • ‘Statue of Equality’-Why in News? • Why is it called the Statue of Equality? • Who was Ramanujacharya? • Ramanuja and Bhakti movement Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Philosopher-saint Ramanujacharya, and the Statue of Equality in his honour EXPLAINED The ecological cost of creating artificial snow for Winter Olympics Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Key Points to Ponder: • What is artificial snow? • How is artificial snow produced? • Why is it problematic that Beijing is producing artificial snow? • What has China said about this water usage? Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Winter Olympics: Will the Beijing Games be ‘green and clean’? ECONOMY Retail investors, MFs cushion FPI exit impact, raise holdings to record high Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development Mains Examination: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment. Key Points to Ponder: • What do you understand by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs)? • Foreign Portfolio vs. Foreign Direct Investment: What's the Difference? • What do you understand by 'Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs)? • How do Indian Mutual Funds operate abroad? Other Important Articles Covering the same topic: 📍 Foreign Portfolio vs. Foreign Direct Investment: What's the Difference? 📍 Lumpsum investments in MF schemes with overseas exposure has been paused. Here’s why Note: There will be no UPSC Key on 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th February 2022. It will be resumed from 14th February 2022. Get an e-paper subscription via our special offer – click here For any queries and feedback, contact priya.shukla@indianexpress.com The UPSC KEY Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel and stay updated with the latest Updates.
