EDITORIALS
Insights into Editorial: Chalk and cheese in private vs. government schools Context: Pratham, a well-known Non-Profit Organization has released the Annual Status of Education Report 2019. The report shared several key insights and interesting observations about the state of education, especially school-level education in the country. One of the big debates in early childhood education […]
Insights into Editorial: A government that chooses its critics Context: Recently, the Central Bureau of Investigation raided Amnesty International’s offices in Bengaluru and Delhi based on allegations that the NGO had violated provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, and of the Indian Penal Code. Amnesty has been vocal about human rights abuses, notably […]
Insights into Editorial: How Swami Vivekananda became the ‘messenger of Indian wisdom’ to West Context: January 12 is the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the famous Hindu spiritual leader and intellectual from the late 19th century. An important religious reformer in India, Swami Vivekananda is known to have introduced the Hindu philosophies of Yoga and […]
Insights into Editorial: Supreme Court not to review Sabarimala case, to examine ‘larger issues’ Context: Supreme Court said its objective was not to review the Sabarimala women entry case but examine “larger issues” of law arising from practices such as the prohibition of women from entering mosques and temples, female genital mutilation among Dawoodi Bohras […]
Insights into Editorial: India’s under-5 mortality of girls exceeds that of boys Context: According to the ‘Levels and Trends in Child Mortality’ report by the United Nations (UN) inter-agency group for child mortality, India is among the few countries in the world where, in 2018, the mortality under-5 years of girls, exceeded that of boys. […]
Insights into Editorial: Mining deep: on Cabinet easing mining laws Context: The Union cabinet approved opening up of coal mining and further disinvestments. The Centre’s decision to liberalise norms for entry into coal mining and relax regulations on mining and selling coal in the country is significant in many respects. Apart from deciding that the […]
Insights into Editorial: Amidst a tragedy, an opportunity Context: The writer David Horne once described Australia as “the lucky country”, with its abundance of natural resources, good weather, and its relative geographical isolation from the turbulence of the world. Today, with wildfires burning more than 12 million hectares of land, destroying native flora, killing thousands […]
Insights into Editorial: Reform of grain management system Context: With GDP growth rate plummeting to 4.5 per cent and with the agriculture GDP (GDPA) growth at 2.1 per cent in the second quarter of this fiscal year, everyone concerned with the economy is anxious. The question being asked is whether the Indian economy can be […]
Insights into Editorial: A case for including Tulu in the Eighth Schedule Introduction: According to the 2001 Census, India has 30 languages that are spoken by more than a million people each. Additionally, it has 122 languages that are spoken by at least 10,000 people each. It also has 1,599 languages, most of which are […]
Insights into Editorial: All India Judicial Service no panacea, says study Introduction: Currently, the appointments of District Judges and Subordinate Judiciary are done by the respective State governments. But in recent years, there have been an invigorated push for creation of a unified pan-India judicial service for appointing them. AIJS has been pitched as a […]
Insights into Editorial: What Railways restructure means Context: Cabinet has approved the merger of its eight services into one: The Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS). The decision to merge the services is to ensure that officers put railways first instead of their service which had become the case under the present system. This is in […]
Insights into Editorial: Middle East braced for backlash after killing of Qassem Soleimani Context: U.S. kills top Iranian General in air strike: The U.S. killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, in an air strike near Baghdad airport, the Pentagon and Iran said. Top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, […]
Insights into Editorial: The need for a single energy ministry Context: Five different ministries along with a multitude of regulators govern India’s energy sector. Petroleum and natural gas, coal, renewable energy and nuclear energy have separate ministries or departments. We also have a Ministry of Power, along with State-level bodies that regulate electricity distribution companies, […]
Insights into Editorial: Total tree, forest cover in India increased by 5,188 sq km Context: The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, released the biennial “India State of Forest Report (ISFR)”. The report is published by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) which has been mandated to assess the forest and […]
Insights into Editorial: India needs a bottom-up growth model Introduction: China and India, the two most populous countries in the world, both embarked on new journeys around the same time. More than 70 years later, China has progressed much faster. India, other the other hand, is yet to reach the development indicators that China attained […]
Insights into Editorial: Governance Index: On study of States on governance Context: Minister of State for Personnel launched the Good Governance Index (GGI). December 25, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was declared Good Governance Day by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. The GGI had been “scientifically designed” to reflect […]
Insights into Editorial: Decisive shift: On Chief of Defence Staff Context: Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved the creation of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) post. It will be a four-star post. The country will soon get its first Chief of Defence Staff. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced to create this post from Red […]
Insights into Editorial: Atal Bhujal Yojana — Why a scheme for groundwater Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Atal Bhujal Yojana on the occasion of 95th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Central Government has allocated Rs. 6000 crores for this scheme. According to government, the Atal Bhujal Yojana has been […]
Insights into Editorial: Key steps to kick-starting the economy Current status of the Economy: From the level of 8.1% in the fourth quarter of 2017-18, quarterly GDP growth fell to 4.5% in the second quarter of 2019-20, a fall of 3.6 percentage points. This steady decline must have had an adverse impact on employment […]
Insights into Editorial: What connects the NPR, NRIC and Census? In News: As protests spread all across the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and the proposed National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC), West Bengal and Kerala suspended work related to the preparation and update of the National Population Register (NPR) in their […]