WSDP Bulletin (16-06-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. Demolition drives may challenge the rule of law READ MORE
2. Cabinet approves mega 5G auction READ MORE
3. Mammoth plan to sow 11 lakh seed balls through drones near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh READ MORE
4. Doval in virtual NSAs’ meet in run-up to BRICS meeting READ MORE
5. TRIPS Waiver: How India Abandoned its Own WTO Proposal READ MORE
6. British govt set to deport asylum-seekers of various nationalities to Rwanda READ MORE
7. PM inaugurates Jagatguru Sreesant Tukaram Maharaj Shila Mandir at Dehu in Pune READ MORE
8. President Ram Nath Kovind dedicates ISKCON Sri Rajadhiraja Govinda Temple built on Vaikunta hills in Bengaluru READ MORE

Main Exam    

GS Paper- 1

1. Caste genie threatens to come out of bottle READ MORE
2. South India challenges the notions of medieval Islam—lessons from Deccan history READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. A ground plan for India’s COVID-19 response READ MORE
2. An Alternate Justice System Shames India’s Constitutional Democracy READ MORE
3. Whistle-Blowers in J&K Need Legal Protection READ MORE
4. Aadhaar advisory: the continuing saga of UIDAI’s breach of privacy rights READ MORE
5. Laws, flaws and accountability READ MORE

SOCIAL JUSTICE

1. National Disability Policy Draft Lacks Budgetary Allocations Towards Welfare of Disabled People: NPRD READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. Win-win cooperation key to Asia-Pacific READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Upsurge affects poor the most, govt must retool policy to ensure that inequalities do not deepen READ MORE
2. What commodities should be distributed free or at a subsidised level READ MORE
3. WTO lurches to another crisis READ MORE
4. Regional imbalance: Focus on equitable growth READ MORE
5. To bridge the urban-rural divide, India should accelerate economy’s structural transformation READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Environmental fallout of the Ukraine war READ MORE
2. Interview: Why Our Cities Need To Have Their Own Net-Zero Plans READ MORE
3. Even if humans put a complete end to emissions, the world may not stop warming READ MORE

SECURITY

1. Securing Kashmir against emerging terror threats READ MORE
2. Making data privacy policies and ‘consent’ work READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Attaining life in all its fullness READ MORE
2. The power of words READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. ‘The demand for equitable access to quality education and healthcare should complement agriculture reforms in the country’. Analyse.
2. Discuss the importance of short-term services like ‘Agnipath’ to solve the unemployment crisis in India.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don’t know very much.
• Accountability jurisprudence must take root in our justice delivery system so that the culture of impunity that our officials have grown up with gets obliterated from our lexicon.
• Inaction is condoned even if there is loss of life, and high-handed action is acceptable even if it means loss of livelihood and shelter.
• Since our legal luminaries are busy rewriting laws, it might be a good idea to rewrite them in a manner that gives power in the hands of the poor and marginalized sections of our society, by making brazen officials accountable to the Constitution and the law, and by making the rich, powerful and politically influential also accountable to the law.
• The demand for equitable access to quality education and healthcare should complement agriculture reforms in the country.
• Most research and development initiatives in agriculture have either become redundant or lack basic infrastructure.
• Indeed, one could argue that premodern India’s economic muscle derived from its ability to integrate and leverage people of many ethnic, linguistic and cultural backgrounds, similar in some ways to the West today.
• Indian democracy has easily been able to grow beyond the region’s occasionally-violent medieval past; indeed the past has hardly been relevant to forging a new relationship between them.
• In our modern digital ecosystem, instead of farm produce, today, the new asset class is data (with personal data becoming the world’s most precious commodity) – which is created by us (the users) but seized by digital landlords (dominant tech companies).
• Digital Feudalism is getting established day by day. If left unchecked, this will restrict our future innovation and participation. As we progress, we must ensure that technology is our servant, not the other way around.
• Once again the Asia- Pacific region stands at another historical crossroad. In the face of the new situation, the Asia-Pacific has assumed a more important place in the world and has a greater role to play.
• The population-wide application of the pandemic response can be transitioned to be focused on individual protection.
• Inflation is here to stay because it has much to do with the decline in value of the rupee that has fallen to its lowest, which makes imports of oil and gas more expensive.
• If caste is to become the sole criterion for the distribution of power, opportunities and resources in a society and legitimised by the state, then we need to redraft our constitution and replace the dream of a casteless society of modern citizens with one in which people’s identities will be reinforced only by their castes.

50 WORD TALK

• Facing out-of-control military pensions, the government will now recruit soldiers on four-year contracts. By freeing funds for modernisation, the government is laying foundations for a smaller but smarter army, designed for future wars. The government must address concerns about motivation, regimental cohesion and post-career prospects which experts have raised.
• India needs new jobs but do they have to be in the traditionally inefficient and bloated government departments and ministries? That’s the big question after PM Modi’s announcement to create 10 lakh jobs in 1.5 years. The politics of the timing is not lost, and the minimum government is obviously history.

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 in 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.