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UPSC Editorial Analysis: The Great Nicobar Mega Project

General Studies-3; Topic: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.   Introduction The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are among the world’s most important biological diversity hotspots, home to unique ecosystems — tropical rainforests, mangroves, coral reefs, and rare wildlife species. These islands act as natural carbon reservoirs and climate regulators in the Indian Ocean …

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Amendment of EIA rules

GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Environment: Environmental impact assessment   Source: Indian Express Context:  The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has notified amendment to the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Rules Changes notified: Exempted highway projects of strategic and defence importance: Any project which is 100 km from the Line of Control, among other locations, …

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The ‘Net-Zero’ commitment of India, in relevance to Climate Change presents many opportunities and challenges. Comment

Topic: Environmental Pollution and Degradation. Environmental Impact Assessment 4. The ‘Net-Zero’ commitment of India, in relevance to Climate Change presents many opportunities and challenges. Comment (150 Words) Difficulty Level: Moderate Reference: Indian Express Why the question: Recently, the Indian Prime Minister made a few commitments at the COP26 Key Demand of the question: Highlight the …

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Environment, Biodiversity Material for UPSC Civil Services Main Exam

UPSC Civil Services Mains syllabus actually has less topics on Environment. One should not study a whole book on environment for Mains (I recently mentioned a book on Facebook, but that is for Prelims). Fortunately, topics are clearly mentioned in the syllabus. They are: Conservation Environmental Pollution and Degradation Environmental Impact Assessment Disaster and Disaster …

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Insights Daily Answer Writing Challenge Day – 40

QUESTIONS – DAY-40 (GENERAL STUDIES PAPER-IV) Examine the important features of the National Cyber Security Policy 2013. (250 Words)  How does depreciating Rupee affect the CAD and Fiscal deficit? Explain. (250 Words) Comment on the EIA process for nuclear facilities in India with an example. (200 words)  RULES ARCHIVES REFERENCES: 1) Question – 1 http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/NationalCyberSecurityPolicy2013_stomar_260813 …

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