A survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy has revealed that: Poor’s biggest concern is water: While the middle and upper class mostly lament about traffic congestion, which dominates public discourse, the poor’s biggest concern is access to water. Poor state of municipal civic participation: It also highlighted that only two in …
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Gs Paper-3 Syllabus: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilisation of resources, growth, development and employment. Context: Last week the US central bank (Fed) announced that it will raise interest rates by 75 basis points (or 0.75 percentage points) to bring down inflation to its target rate of 2% from 9%. However, there is a fear …
Gs Paper-3 Syllabus: Government Budgeting Context: RBI in its ‘Monthly Economic Review’ report highlighted two key areas of concern for the Indian economy: the fiscal deficit and the current account deficit (or CAD). What does the report say? On Fiscal deficit: Fiscal deficit may be high due to cuts in excise duties on diesel and …
Gs Paper-2 Syllabus: Functions and responsibilities of various constitutional bodies. Context: The Election Commission of India issued an order to nudge the Registered Unrecognized Political Parties (RUPPs) for ensuring due compliance. Chief Electoral Officers were directed to initiate action for enforcing due compliances by RUPPs for relevant sections 29A and 29C of the RP …
Gs Paper-2 Syllabus: Parliament and state legislature structure, functioning and conduct of business. Context: In light of the events unfolding in Maharashtra, with the government facing internal dissent from a block of 22 MLAs, the anti-defection law has again come into the spotlight. The events in Puducherry highlight, yet again, the absurdity of the …
Gs Paper-1 Syllabus: Geomorphology: Context: Recent news has highlighted the desert in Tamil Nadu. It has dunes that are red. The red dunes are called theri in Tamil. They consist of sediments dating back to the Quaternary Period and are made of marine deposits. Features of the dunes: They have very low water and nutrient retention …
