UPSC CSE Key – January 24, 2022: What you need to read today

Income of poorest fifth plunged 53% in 5 yrs; those at top surged

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

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

Key Points to Ponder:

• What do you understand by K-shaped recovery?

• Is a K-Shaped Recovery Bad?

• What do V, U, L, W-shapes recoveries really mean?

• Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Vulnerable Section of the Society particularly on Women, Children, Elderly,
Minorities, SC and ST Community, Transgender?

• What is Poverty?

• Types of Poverty? (Hint: Absolute and Relative)

• Poverty estimation in India

• Poverty Alleviation Programs in India by Government of India

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Long-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 K-Shaped Recovery

📍 Explained: What is a K-shaped economic recovery, and what are its implications?

📍 Mass poverty is back in India

📍 W-Shaped Recovery

📍 V-Shaped Recovery

📍 What Is an L-Shaped Recovery?

Correcting mistakes of past: PM on Bose statue

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: History of India

Main Examination: General Studies I: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues and The Freedom Struggle — its various stages and important contributors/contributions from different parts of the country.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his role in the independence movement against British rule of India.

• Forward Bloc and Indian National Army

• Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian National Congress

• Political views of Subhas Chandra Bose

• Subhas Chandra Bose and in his Azad Hind Radio message from Berlin-Significance

• Subhas Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Respect despite the discord: Subhas Chandra Bose’s relationship with Nehru, Gandhi and the Congress

📍 Explained: Delhi’s first Netaji statue at a prominent public place, where George V once stood

2 yrs into pandemic, top gene body says virus in community

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

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

Key Points to Ponder:

•‘Community Transmission of Omicron’-What do you Understand by this? what is Community Transmission?

• National Centre for Disease Control- Role and Under which Ministry?

• “Herd Immunity”-Meaning

• The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG)-Role, Under which Ministry?

• Omicron Variant and Delta Variant of Coronavirus-Key Differences

• How Administration in States dealing with Omicron Upsurge?

• What Lessons India learnt from Second Wave of Covid-19?

• Genome Sequencing and How this method confirms the presence of Omicron Variant?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: What is herd immunity?

📍 The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG)

📍 Is Omicron the beginning of Covid’s endgame?

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Side by Side

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: History of India

Main Examination: General Studies I: Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country and Modern Indian history

Key Points to Ponder:

• Amar Jawan Jyoti-Background and Significance

• Why Amar Jawan Jyoti was placed at India Gate?

• India Gate-History and Architectural Style

• What is the National War Memorial and when was it made?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Significance of Amar Jawan Jyoti and why it was merged with National War Memorial flame

📍 From Kingsway to Rajpath: How independent India made a British imperial city its own

The India Shadow

Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its neighborhood- relations.

Key Points to Ponder:

• The National Security Policy (NSP) document and India

• What is the Most-Favored-Nation Clause?

• The Political Implications of the Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Clause in the Context of India-Pakistan Bilateral
Relations

• What is the volume of trade between India and Pakistan?

• What are the pros of Most-Favored-Nation (MFN)?

• What are the disadvantages of Most-Favored-Nation (MFN)?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 The prospects for Indo-Pak relations in 2022

📍 What Is the Most-Favored-Nation Clause?

📍 Most Favoured Nation status to Pakistan: What is it all about?

THE IDEAS PAGE

Unease of doing business

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:

• 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:

📍 Explained: The issues, debate around Data Protection Bill

📍 Explained: The road to data protection law

EXPLAINED

Reining in the subsidy bill

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Government Budgeting.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Annual Financial Statement (AFS) and Article 112 of the Indian Constitution,

• Budget Presentation in Parliament Steps-Presentation of Budget, General discussion, Scrutiny by Departmental
Committees, Voting on Demands for Grants, Passing of Appropriation Bill, Passing of Finance Bill.

• Budget Changes Introduced in 2017

• Components of Annual Financial Statement (AFS)

• Food Corporation of India (FCI)-About, Role, Functions

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Build up to Budget 2022-23: Expenditure push for states to be theme

📍 What the budget needs to do

Economy

CII pitches for additional 1% CSR levy in Budget

Syllabus:

Main Examination: General Studies II: Development processes and the development industry —the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.

Key Points to Ponder:

• What Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?

• Companies Act, 2013-Key Highlights

• How Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is regulated in India?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: How CSR expenditure rules have changed for Indian companies

📍 Explained: Govt’s clarifications on CSR expenditure; what impact will these have?

📍 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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