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Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: TH Context: The next Census form in India will only include six religion options: Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain, despite demands from several communities to be counted as separate religions. Changes introduced in the upcoming Census: On religion: The Census officials dropped the detailed codes for religion …
GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation Source: TH Direction: The article highlights the NRC exercise in Assam and the issues raised in a recent CAG report. The article also covers the exercise of delimitation of constituencies that recently …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Government policies and related issues. Context: The Centre has proposed amendments to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered birth and deaths at the national level”. Presently, the registration of births and deaths is done by the local registrar …
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GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Internal security related issues. Context: The latest form of the National Population Register (NPR) appears to have retained contentious questions such as “mother tongue, place of birth of father and mother and last place of residence”, according to a document compiled by a committee under the Registrar General of India. …
