WSDP Bulletin (13-12-2022)

(Newspapers, PIB and other important sources)

Prelim and Main

1. New India Literacy Programme READ MORE
2. Water Conservation Literacy Campaign READ MORE
3. Centre not to make public RBI report stating reasons for breach of inflation target for three quarters READ MORE
4. to turn 36,428 villages as ‘model tribal villages’ READ MORE
5. Cholera resurgence? Several countries record case surge, deaths since October READ MORE
6. to turn 36,428 villages as ‘model tribal villages’ READ MORE
7. Rupee likely to weaken ahead of key U.S. inflation data READ MORE
8. ISRO Successfully Completes Hypersonic Vehicle Test Run, Meets All Targets READ MORE

Main Exam

GS Paper- 1

1. Pasmanda Muslims and Their Decades-Long Fight for Equality READ MORE

GS Paper- 2

POLITY AND GOVERNANCE

1. Big Tech and the need in India for ex-ante regulation READ MORE
2. For judiciary to remain independent, appointments of judges should be left to SC collegium READ MORE
3. On Pocso cases, CJI has a point READ MORE
4. Uniform Civil Code: An idea whose time has come READ MORE
5. UCC to Election Commission: Parliament’s winter session has seen a rush of private member bills READ MORE

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Curbing individualism in public health READ MORE
2. Mint Explainer: India’s road to becoming a higher education hub READ MORE

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

1. The real promise of India-Australia FTA READ MORE
2. Chinese influence: Pak reliance on Beijing should make US wise up READ MORE
3. Critical security dilemma for Central Asian states READ MORE
4. Challenges of G20 presidency READ MORE

GS Paper- 3

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Towards a meaningful market economy READ MORE
2. Connectivity in the Northeast can’t just be a security issue. It has to be economic too 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

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

1. Ready for the worst: on government’s better preparedness for cyclones READ MORE

GS Paper- 4

ETHICS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDY

1. Continue on the steep path to faith READ MORE
2. Stoical in all situations 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 rise of minimum weeding age girl child.
2. Reforms cannot happen from above. They require the transformation of the people’s consciousness. Comment.

QUOTATIONS AND CAPTIONS

• The world is like a multiplication table, or a maths equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
• Separate personal laws are a legacy of the British empire, which based its administrative strategies on the classical principle of divide et impera or divide and rule.
• To the extent that we are, we need to move towards a meaningful and sustainable market economy, and not just a market economy. There is a long journey ahead.
• A private member’s bill seeking to amend the Constitution is scrutinised and approved by a committee before it is tabled in Parliament for consideration.
• All forms of individualistic approaches in public health need to be resisted to safeguard its original principles of practice, viz., population, prevention and social justice.
• In any free economy, market dominance is natural. But things get hazy when it is abused to prevent competition.
• Leaving the dominant power in appointment of judges to the executive could leave India without an independent judiciary. But judiciary should address concerns regarding opacity of the collegium.
• While a currency depreciation in general benefits the exporting sector, such benefits might not materialise given the current global and domestic conditions.
• With economic uncertainty looming, controlling costs is likely to continue to remain at the top of the list of corporate concerns. The challenge for companies focused on cost is to not neglect trust as they engage more with AI.
• With its outside contacts no longer under Russian observance, China is rapidly emerging as a major arms supplier and security partner in the region, though Russia still has a large military presence in the region. The Russians do resent China exploiting their economic Achilles’ heel.
• Hope, harmony and the power of healing are the three H to deal with the global challenges. A focus on developing countries and the Global south seems to be the only way forward.

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.

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