WSDP Bulletin (12-12-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. ‘Clean Ganga’ changes course to conservation, tourism, livelihood READ MORE
2. China’s central bank calls for tighter regulation of green finance READ MORE
3. Explained | What does a price cap for Russian oil mean? READ MORE
4. Lending a helping hand to eliminate TB as Ni-kshay Mitra READ MORE
5. Uttarakhand plans genetic enhancement of its indigenous Badri cow READ MORE
6. Arunachal yields a potentially new songbird READ MORE
7. COP15 Montreal: Abalone, dugong, pillar coral threatened with extinction READ MORE
8. Follow ASEAN path on Myanmar, says Indonesian FM, after New Delhi engages military rulers READ MORE

Main Exam

GS Paper- 1

1. Muslim girls’ marriage: Raise their minimum age; it should be same for all READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Why local bodies are financially starved READ MORE
2. Every problem has a solution: Our attempts to resolve any number of socio-economic and political problems have to focus on behavioural changes and social engineering READ MORE
3. To promote competition, CCI should not appear to punish better use of resources by a dominant enterprise READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Expand the food safety net without any more delay READ MORE  

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The role of the ‘China Test’ in India’s grand strategy READ MORE
2. Tectonic shift in the Gulf: Arab states moving away from the US and towards China READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. India needs to bring down its fiscal deficit which is highest among G20 countries READ MORE
2. The PM Fasal Bima Yojana needs an urgent revamp READ MORE

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

1. Apply precautionary principle to biotechnologies, scientists & policymakers urge at COP15 Montreal READ MORE
2. How India’s G20 presidency can help move the needle on climate action? READ MORE
3. Clean Energy Promotion Should Strike Balance With Livelihood, Ecology READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Now science must strive for knowledge of man READ MORE
2. Nothing is more difficult than being successful READ MORE
3. The pursuit of learning READ MORE
4. Absence of persons with impeccable integrity at the helm is the bane of India’s democracy READ MORE

Questions for the MAIN exam

1. Social indices such as women’s nutrition, education and maternal mortality and the health of newborn babies are directly related to the age of marriage. In the context of this perspective, analyse the need for increasing in the rise of the minimum weeding age of girl child.
2. Reforms cannot happen from above. They require the transformation of the people’s consciousness. Comment.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The very essence of the concept depends on leaving no one behind as non – availability of quality healthcare anywhere is a threat to human health everywhere, as seen during the pandemic.
• Our attempts to resolve any number of socio-economic and political problems have to focus on behavioural changes and social engineering.
• Impartiality, effectiveness, sincerity and honesty should be maintained at any cost under strict vigil of Election Commission of India.
• Via the newly initiated Startup-20 Engagement Group, India aspires to help the world develop an inclusive framework to support innovative startups through strategic collaboration across G20 nations.
• The 73rd and 74th Amendments have been ignored. State Finance Commissions in some States are either defunct, or their reports are not acted upon.
• Saudi Arabia is protecting its own interests in a world order in transition by opting for a multifaceted set of relationships. India has a lot to learn from this.
• Social indices such as women’s nutrition, education and maternal mortality and the health of newborn babies are directly related to the age of marriage.
• Fact became fiction and fiction became fact.
• Indian democracy’s weakness is a result of the persistence of feudal consciousness among a majority who easily accept authority.
• A feudal system has its own concept of integrity. The ruler’s interest is broadly the nation’s interest. This congruity breaks in a parliamentary democracy where the consciousness is feudal. In such a case, integrity as defined by national interest is likely to be subverted, as is visible in India.
• Reform requires us to resolve the contradiction between parliamentary democracy and the prevailing feudal consciousness. This cannot happen from above. It requires the transformation of the people’s consciousness – Gandhi’s unfinished agenda.
• It is a rather straightforward one — smart balancing China in Southern Asia and beyond must form a key element in India’s grand strategic planning and decision making.

50-WORD TALK

• The ongoing meeting in Udaipur marks a good start to the 200-meeting agenda set for India’s Presidency of the G20. Policy tracks are clear, diverse, and inclusive. However, while the pomp and splendour can be forgiven since it’s the first meeting, the next 199 should keep substance at the fore.
• The enormous hardships caused to patients by the hacking of the AIIMS hospital-management system is the result of primitive data-security practices and infrastructure. Though computers can be restored, the harm to patient privacy and public confidence can’t. Every citizen of digital India must be served by secure and reliable technology.

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.