WSDP Bulletin (27/05/2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Police Reform via New Legislation Should Not Dilute State Role READ MORE
2. Green hydrogen: Fuel of the future? READMORE
3. Over 90 million excluded from PDS entitlement: Report READ MORE
4. Cost of ‘service’ READ MORE
5. Why Sustainable Land Use Is Key To Achieve Our Carbon Neutrality Targets READ MORE

GS 1

1. How SRI method of sowing paddy saves 15-20% water, gives better yield READ MORE
2. Icebergs and fog: These unconventional sources can help beat global water scarcity  READ MORE

3. How India’s power crisis is self-made & why we could face another crunch during the monsoon READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. DTE Investigation: CPCB failed to recover fines from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Reliance, and Adani in the last 30 years READ MORE
2. Police Reform via New Legislation Should Not Dilute State Role READ MORE
3. App-based attendance hits rural jobs scheme workers READMORE
4. Sighting the finishing line in measles-rubella elimination Read More
5. Countries agree to sustainably finance WHO amid COVID-19 pandemic READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. National Assessment Survey lays out post-Covid challenges. Teacher- and student-centred approaches are needed READ MORE
2. Discrimination Against LGBTQI+ Persons Has Economic Cost, Says ILO Report READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Security in friendship: On Tokyo Quad summit READ MORE
2. Turmoil in the world, yet India retains its sweet spot READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. India’s GDP to take a big hit due to pandemic-linked learning losses for students: ADB study READ MORE
2. Cost of ‘service’ READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Polluting coal power plants may get blanket 20-year extension of compliance deadlines READ MORE
2. Share of non-CO2 pollutants contributing to global warming almost as much as carbon dioxide: Study READ MORE
3. A Sunscreen Ingredient Becomes Toxic in the Sea. Maybe the Anemones Know Why. READ MORE
4. Why Sustainable Land Use Is Key To Achieve Our Carbon Neutrality Targets READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Break the mould of narrow perceptions READ MORE
2. Cause of this universe Read More

Questions for the MAIN exam

1.COVID-19 is an opportunity to bridge the digital gap and reform the education system in India. Discuss

ESSAY TOPIC

• Discrimination Against LGBTQI+ Persons And its impact
• Education In Post-Covid Era

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• Economies with a significant population of schoolchildren and college-going youth in rural areas and in the poorest and second wealth quintile — have been worst-hit as they lack access to stable Internet connection needed to study online.
• It is important to identify the learning gap and specific learning needs of individuals. Effective learning programs should be devised to offer appropriate support such as tutoring or special classes and help them to bridge the learning gap.
• Governments need to direct adequate funding and resources to young populations most affected by closures, such as those from the poor, rural and socially disadvantaged groups. It is important to keep school-age children in education as much as possible by providing financial support and incentives, while giving additional support for skills training to youth already out of school.
• At a time when the liberal consensus on globalisation has anyway run its course and across the Indo-Pacific, there is, post-pandemic, a strong appetite for deepening regional cooperation for trade and investment. In this context, the Quad is in pole position to shape

50-WORD TALK

NAS 2021 findings of a progressive decline in learning levels of school students confirm our worst fears about what closures during the pandemic did to children. Governments have talked about addressing this. They need to make haste with remedial programmes and also get students who dropped out back to school.

Things to Remember:

• For prelims-related news try to understand the context of the news and relate with its concepts so that it will be easier for you to answer (or eliminate) from given options.
• Whenever any international place will be in news, you should do map work (marking those areas on maps and exploring other geographical locations nearby including mountains, rivers, etc. same applies to the national places.)
• For economy-related news (banking, agriculture, etc.) you should focus on terms and how these are related to various economic aspects, for example, if inflation has been mentioned, try to relate with prevailing price rises, shortage of essential supplies, banking rates, etc.
• For main exam-related topics, you should focus on the various dimensions of the given topic, the most important topics which occur frequently and are important from the mains point of view will be covered in ED.
• Try to use the given content in your answer. Regular use of this content will bring more enrichment to your writing.