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✅Gs-3 : Internal security
🅾️For a brief background on AFSPA-NAGA insurgency- watch this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcg9YL7A_9Q
🅾️The three main ethnic groups in Manipur are the Meitei, the Naga, and the Kuki-Zomi-Mizo. The Meiteis form about 53% of the State's population, and the Naga and Kuki-Zomi communities constitute 17% and 26% respectively.
🅾️The recent ethnic violence has roots in complex socio-political issues and has been exacerbated by actions such as the suspension of operations agreements with certain insurgent groups. This turmoil has led to clashes, including staged protests and skirmishes with police.
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🅾️For a brief background on AFSPA-NAGA insurgency- watch this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcg9YL7A_9Q
🅾️The three main ethnic groups in Manipur are the Meitei, the Naga, and the Kuki-Zomi-Mizo. The Meiteis form about 53% of the State's population, and the Naga and Kuki-Zomi communities constitute 17% and 26% respectively.
🅾️The recent ethnic violence has roots in complex socio-political issues and has been exacerbated by actions such as the suspension of operations agreements with certain insurgent groups. This turmoil has led to clashes, including staged protests and skirmishes with police.
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✅Gs-2- IR : India- Iran relations- Explainer
🅾️Background- Chabahar port issue
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🅾️Background- Chabahar port issue
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- Productivity
🅾️It is the key for economic growth, job creation, and improved quality of life. India’s productivity has grown 5.6% annually since 1997, doubling GDP per worker from $6,200 in 1997 to $21,800 in 2022, second only to China
🅾️MGI reports 70% of productivity improvement is due to capital growth per worker, but India's capital stock per worker is still lower than China's and Central/Eastern Europe. Indian companies must better utilize capital, as 1000 firms account for 70% of market capitalization but show poor returns on invested capital (ROIC)
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🅾️It is the key for economic growth, job creation, and improved quality of life. India’s productivity has grown 5.6% annually since 1997, doubling GDP per worker from $6,200 in 1997 to $21,800 in 2022, second only to China
🅾️MGI reports 70% of productivity improvement is due to capital growth per worker, but India's capital stock per worker is still lower than China's and Central/Eastern Europe. Indian companies must better utilize capital, as 1000 firms account for 70% of market capitalization but show poor returns on invested capital (ROIC)
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✅Gs-3 : Conservation- Illegal mining
🅾️Context : SC has attempted to halt illegal mining in and around Sariska since 1991, hindered by unclear reserve borders. Recent orders by SC to enforce a 1km periphery around Sariska’s critical tiger habitat (CTH) revive efforts to curb mining activities.
🅾️ SC's consistent rulings emphasize the urgency of protecting Sariska’s tiger habitat.
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🅾️Context : SC has attempted to halt illegal mining in and around Sariska since 1991, hindered by unclear reserve borders. Recent orders by SC to enforce a 1km periphery around Sariska’s critical tiger habitat (CTH) revive efforts to curb mining activities.
🅾️ SC's consistent rulings emphasize the urgency of protecting Sariska’s tiger habitat.
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✅Gs-3 : Conservation- Household Environmental Footprints
🅾️Essential for addressing global concerns like water scarcity and pollution.Focuses on localized or regionalized environmental issues.
🅾️Urgency in addressing high consumption by affluent households to align with global sustainability goals. Encourages protective measures and initiatives focusing on broad and multi-footprint analysis. Need for policies that equitably address the disparity in environmental burden among different socio-economic groups.
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🅾️Essential for addressing global concerns like water scarcity and pollution.Focuses on localized or regionalized environmental issues.
🅾️Urgency in addressing high consumption by affluent households to align with global sustainability goals. Encourages protective measures and initiatives focusing on broad and multi-footprint analysis. Need for policies that equitably address the disparity in environmental burden among different socio-economic groups.
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✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- India's macroeconomic performance since 2014
🅾️Plus:
⚜️1. Employment and Real Wages: Despite the rise in the working-age population, real wages for regular workers increased marginally.
⚜️2. Infrastructure Growth: Significant infrastructure projects launched.
⚜️3. Capital Expenditure: Grew at over 20% annually for the last four years, with 37.4% growth in the fiscal year ending March 2024.
⚜️4. Job Security: MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) registrations increased, indicating job security for rural workers.
🅾️Minuses : Unemployment Rate+ Real Wage Growth+ Job Creation from Infrastructure + Fiscal Situation + Inflation
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🅾️Plus:
⚜️1. Employment and Real Wages: Despite the rise in the working-age population, real wages for regular workers increased marginally.
⚜️2. Infrastructure Growth: Significant infrastructure projects launched.
⚜️3. Capital Expenditure: Grew at over 20% annually for the last four years, with 37.4% growth in the fiscal year ending March 2024.
⚜️4. Job Security: MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) registrations increased, indicating job security for rural workers.
🅾️Minuses : Unemployment Rate+ Real Wage Growth+ Job Creation from Infrastructure + Fiscal Situation + Inflation
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✅Gs-2 : IR- IMEC- Issues and solution.
🅾️During the course of Gazar war, the Houthis in Yemen have blocked the ships of Israel and its western allies from accessing the Red Sea, despite naval deployment by the U.S. Navy and Europe. As a result, Israel and its western allies have been forced to take the longer route across the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, increasing shipping time and costs.- Click here
🅾️What is the point made here?- Overcoming missing links and insulating IMEC from regional conflicts is essential for its success as a trade facilitator across regions- For this Oman provides an alternative route, with its ports accessible from the Arabian Sea, avoiding the Persian Gulf region. Read about India Oman relations- Click here
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🅾️During the course of Gazar war, the Houthis in Yemen have blocked the ships of Israel and its western allies from accessing the Red Sea, despite naval deployment by the U.S. Navy and Europe. As a result, Israel and its western allies have been forced to take the longer route across the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, increasing shipping time and costs.- Click here
🅾️What is the point made here?- Overcoming missing links and insulating IMEC from regional conflicts is essential for its success as a trade facilitator across regions- For this Oman provides an alternative route, with its ports accessible from the Arabian Sea, avoiding the Persian Gulf region. Read about India Oman relations- Click here
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#Geography #Placesinnews #IR
✅Important topics for Prelims 2024- Places in news- IR.
⚜️1. Amhara Region- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/489
⚜️2. Gaza cities- Rafah- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/509
⚜️3. Odesa and other major cities in Ukraine- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/485 and https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/454 , https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/269 , Pripyat River , Nord Stream 2 Pipeline (NS2P) project
⚜️4. Bucharest Nine (B9) Countries- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/300
⚜️5. Finlandization- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/295
⚜️6. IMEC- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/548
⚜️7. Myanmar- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/549
✅Important topics for Prelims 2024- Places in news- IR.
⚜️1. Amhara Region- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/489
⚜️2. Gaza cities- Rafah- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/509
⚜️3. Odesa and other major cities in Ukraine- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/485 and https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/454 , https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/269 , Pripyat River , Nord Stream 2 Pipeline (NS2P) project
⚜️4. Bucharest Nine (B9) Countries- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/300
⚜️5. Finlandization- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/295
⚜️6. IMEC- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/548
⚜️7. Myanmar- https://hottg.com/Geohighlights/549
✅Gs-2 : Criminal Justice system- Prison reforms
🅾️What is the Model Prisons Act announced by the MHA?- Click here
➡️Read about Prison reforms and other reforms
🅾️India Justice Report (IJR)- click here
🔰Present context : Prison reforms- Impact of poor prison conditions on women prisoners- Menstrual Hygiene in Indian Prisons- National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB): Reports 23,772 women in Indian prisons, 77% in the reproductive age group (18-50 years) likely to menstruate. But Sanitary napkin distribution varies among different prisons. Many facilities do not meet satisfactory standards.
🅾️For recommendations read the article- Immediate measures are required to ensure equity and dignity for women prisoners, addressing both policy implementation and practical access to facilities and products.
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🅾️What is the Model Prisons Act announced by the MHA?- Click here
➡️Read about Prison reforms and other reforms
🅾️India Justice Report (IJR)- click here
🔰Present context : Prison reforms- Impact of poor prison conditions on women prisoners- Menstrual Hygiene in Indian Prisons- National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB): Reports 23,772 women in Indian prisons, 77% in the reproductive age group (18-50 years) likely to menstruate. But Sanitary napkin distribution varies among different prisons. Many facilities do not meet satisfactory standards.
🅾️For recommendations read the article- Immediate measures are required to ensure equity and dignity for women prisoners, addressing both policy implementation and practical access to facilities and products.
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✅Gs-3 : Conservation - Kerala Eucalyptus
🅾️Eco-Restoration Policy of kerala (2021):
⚜️What is it for?- Addressed the "proliferation of invasive species unsuitable for our environment."
⚜️It noted depletion of natural forests, forcing wild animals into human-occupied areas, increasing human-wildlife conflict.
⚜️Rationale: Mitigate climate change effects and restore natural habitats.
🅾️Issue : Kerala Government Issued an order allowing Kerala Forest Development Corporation (KFDC) to plant eucalyptus trees for financial livelihood.Environmentalists argued that allowing KFDC to plant eucalyptus contradicted the eco-restoration policy.
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🅾️Eco-Restoration Policy of kerala (2021):
⚜️What is it for?- Addressed the "proliferation of invasive species unsuitable for our environment."
⚜️It noted depletion of natural forests, forcing wild animals into human-occupied areas, increasing human-wildlife conflict.
⚜️Rationale: Mitigate climate change effects and restore natural habitats.
🅾️Issue : Kerala Government Issued an order allowing Kerala Forest Development Corporation (KFDC) to plant eucalyptus trees for financial livelihood.Environmentalists argued that allowing KFDC to plant eucalyptus contradicted the eco-restoration policy.
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✅Gs-2 : Governance- Delegated legislation.
🅾️What is delegated legislation? Importance of Proper Legislative Process?-Legitimacy through comprehensive and transparent procedures. Now there is a Worldwide trend to limit the executive's power to issue subordinate legislation
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🅾️What is delegated legislation? Importance of Proper Legislative Process?-Legitimacy through comprehensive and transparent procedures. Now there is a Worldwide trend to limit the executive's power to issue subordinate legislation
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✅Gs-3 : Climate change- Impact on food security
🅾️Context : Climate change affects food systems by altering plant metabolism, soil fertility, and increasing pest erosion. This article also talks about why institutional mechanisms are important for food security?
🅾️Problem : How food systems are linked with anthropogenic disruptions -Click here
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🅾️Context : Climate change affects food systems by altering plant metabolism, soil fertility, and increasing pest erosion. This article also talks about why institutional mechanisms are important for food security?
🅾️Problem : How food systems are linked with anthropogenic disruptions -Click here
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✅Gs-2 : RPA- The right to vote and get elected.
🅾️UPSC official Answerkey for 2017 says that Right to vote and to be elected in India is a constitutional right. Not a legal right but this Indian express article says that they are statutory rights.
🅾️Even NCERT is vague on this.
I will give my interpretation here
1. Legal rights= Statutory Rights: Rights granted by legislation, such as the right to vote under the Representation of the People Act, 1951 + Common Law Rights: Rights developed through judicial decisions, such as the right to privacy+ Constitutional Rights: Rights enshrined in the Constitution, such as the right to equality under Article 14.
So-all statutory and constitutional rights are legal rights, not all legal rights are statutory or constitutional.
UPSC in 2017 should have ideally given the answer as a legal right. But UPSC is the Boss.
So in case of prisoners - they cant vote, But they can contest election and this is regulated by RPA-1951.
🅾️UPSC official Answerkey for 2017 says that Right to vote and to be elected in India is a constitutional right. Not a legal right but this Indian express article says that they are statutory rights.
🅾️Even NCERT is vague on this.
I will give my interpretation here
1. Legal rights= Statutory Rights: Rights granted by legislation, such as the right to vote under the Representation of the People Act, 1951 + Common Law Rights: Rights developed through judicial decisions, such as the right to privacy+ Constitutional Rights: Rights enshrined in the Constitution, such as the right to equality under Article 14.
So-all statutory and constitutional rights are legal rights, not all legal rights are statutory or constitutional.
UPSC in 2017 should have ideally given the answer as a legal right. But UPSC is the Boss.
So in case of prisoners - they cant vote, But they can contest election and this is regulated by RPA-1951.
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✅Gs-3 : Infra- Energy sector- Minerals- Grades of coals
🅾️ Here is a detailed story of the history of coal reforms Coal sector reforms- Explained in Aasan Bhasha- https://qr.ae/pNK4pD
🅾️General points for power sector - Click here
🅾️Understanding India's coal exports- Click here
👆Dont treat this present article as current affairs- it is a static topic discussed again in news- so it is relevant for prelims, just glance through- also coal production is a very imp theme for prelims - therefore go through this website- you might find a question- https://coal.gov.in/en/organisations ( CIL and CCO especially)
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🅾️ Here is a detailed story of the history of coal reforms Coal sector reforms- Explained in Aasan Bhasha- https://qr.ae/pNK4pD
🅾️General points for power sector - Click here
🅾️Understanding India's coal exports- Click here
👆Dont treat this present article as current affairs- it is a static topic discussed again in news- so it is relevant for prelims, just glance through- also coal production is a very imp theme for prelims - therefore go through this website- you might find a question- https://coal.gov.in/en/organisations ( CIL and CCO especially)
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#IR
✅GS2- IR- Two state solution-palestine ( Hamas )vs Israel - click here for the background
🅾️What is the Impact of Abraham accords on India?- Click here
🅾️Problems with India- Israel- Dehyphenation policy- Click here
🅾️UNSC resolutions on GAZA-Role of the UN- Click here
🔰Focus of this article?- Hurdles to a Two-State Solution, Reasons for Israel Holding on to the Status Quo and Prospects of War Leading to Peace
🛑Conclusion- War is unlikely to lead to peace, as it tends to exacerbate tensions rather than resolve them. Diplomatic efforts and international involvement are essential for progress towards a sustainable resolution.
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✅GS2- IR- Two state solution-palestine ( Hamas )vs Israel - click here for the background
🅾️What is the Impact of Abraham accords on India?- Click here
🅾️Problems with India- Israel- Dehyphenation policy- Click here
🅾️UNSC resolutions on GAZA-Role of the UN- Click here
🔰Focus of this article?- Hurdles to a Two-State Solution, Reasons for Israel Holding on to the Status Quo and Prospects of War Leading to Peace
🛑Conclusion- War is unlikely to lead to peace, as it tends to exacerbate tensions rather than resolve them. Diplomatic efforts and international involvement are essential for progress towards a sustainable resolution.
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✅Gs-2 : Centre - state relations
🅾️Special category Status- This is now back in news after many years. Please keep a tab on this and implications for the 16th finance commission.
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🅾️Special category Status- This is now back in news after many years. Please keep a tab on this and implications for the 16th finance commission.
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✅Gs-3 : Environment- Plastic treaty
🅾️Q) Discuss the significance of including the informal waste and recovery sector (IWRS) in the formulation of the Global Plastics Treaty. How can this inclusion ensure environmental sustainability and social justice? Illustrate your answer with examples from international and Indian contexts.
⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance - click here
⚜️Urbanization and its Problems:Impact of inadequate municipal solid waste management on urban environments- Example- Legacy wastes in landfills
⚠️What this article focuses on?- Social Issues:Role of informal sector workers in urban economies-Socio-economic challenges and vulnerabilities of waste pickers and India's role in global environmental governance and diplomacy
🅾️Technological innovations in waste management and recycling : Bio mining
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🅾️Q) Discuss the significance of including the informal waste and recovery sector (IWRS) in the formulation of the Global Plastics Treaty. How can this inclusion ensure environmental sustainability and social justice? Illustrate your answer with examples from international and Indian contexts.
⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance - click here
⚜️Urbanization and its Problems:Impact of inadequate municipal solid waste management on urban environments- Example- Legacy wastes in landfills
⚠️What this article focuses on?- Social Issues:Role of informal sector workers in urban economies-Socio-economic challenges and vulnerabilities of waste pickers and India's role in global environmental governance and diplomacy
🅾️Technological innovations in waste management and recycling : Bio mining
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