WSDP Bulletin (31/05/2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. QUAD leaders’ summit Outcomes for future READ MORE
2. NITI Aayog needs a new plan READ MORE
3. PM releases benefits for COVID-19 orphans under PM-CARES READ MORE
4. World No Tobacco Day, and the role of role models READ MORE
5. Declining trend: Public spend on Indian agriculture has shrunk in a decade READ MORE
6. Fuelling federal fights: Bitter Centre-state disputes over tax cuts, GST role show huge trust deficit READ MORE

GS 1

1. How Maharashtra overtook UP to re-emerge as top sugar producer READ MORE

GS 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Warning that wasn’t: UIDAI was right to flag indiscriminate collection of Aadhaar data. It should mandate stronger measures READ MORE
2. PM-KISAN scheme: PM transfers ₹21,000 crore for 10 crore farmer families READ MORE
3. Why is NGT entertaining letters from lawmakers, asks SC READMORE
4. NITI Aayog needs a new plan READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. PM releases benefits for COVID-19 orphans under PM-CARES READ MORE
2. Why climate change hits women harder than men READ MORE
3. World No Tobacco Day, and the role of role models READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Doses of statecraft to meet India’s challenges READ MORE
2. The status of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine READ MORE
3. China, Pacific islands unable to reach consensus on security pact READ MORE
4. QUAD leaders’ summit Outcomes for future READ MORE

GS 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. India’s changing goal posts over coal READ MORE
2. Declining trend: Public spend on Indian agriculture has shrunk in a decade READ MORE
3. Coal India to Import for the First Time Since 2015 Amid Looming Power Crisis READ MORE
4. Prescribe generic drugs to cut costs READ MORE
5. The policy flip-flop on wheat exports READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. 1 in 4 deaths among children could be averted by improving environmental factors: UNICEF READ MORE
2. World no tobacco day: Tobacco impacts environment, not just health READ MORE
3. Etalin hydel: Experts warn of biodiversity loss in Dibang Valley in letter to forest advisory panel READ MORE

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Oneness is essential for society to thrive READ MORE
2. Eastern consciousness READ MORE
3. High-rise and shine READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1.“Though women in post-Independent India have excelled in various fields, the social attitude towards women and the feminist movement has been patriarchal.” Apart from women education and women empowerment schemes, what interventions can help change this milieu?

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• India has a long and a chequered history of planning, with some success but many failures. It has tried three distinct types of planning: directed planning, indicative planning, and now ‘a strategy, but no planning’. It needed to replace the Planning Commission, but not give up on planning altogether. In doing so in August 2014, India may have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.
• The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that GST Council decisions are not binding on states can at one level be seen as a reiteration of the constitutional provision – there is nothing in constitutional amendments relating to GST to force compliance with GST Council decisions. It’s just a healthy convention that has developed that the Centre and states have decided to fall in line with the Council’s collective decisions.
• For decades policymakers have ignored warnings that rigid gender roles make people more vulnerable to extreme weather. Now — with the effects of climate change hammering at their doors — they are being forced to consider how to adapt in ways that reduce those inequalities rather than increasing them.
• People who are marginalized by society because of their gender are less able to adapt to climate change or recover from its effects, scientists concluded in a mega-review of the academic literature on climate impacts and adaptation. Women generally have less money, fewer opportunities and are not prioritized by policymakers, who are disproportionately men.

ESSAY TOPIC

• Why climate change hits women harder than men.

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.