Saturday, July 11, 2015

News Summary : July 06

1: mKisan portal is step towards integrating mobile based services for farmers. This is under ministry of Agriculture.

2: MUDRA bank is step towards providing easy credit to start new business and self employment. MUDRA bank has been started with initial money of rupee 20,000 crores.

3: SECC perspective : This is step to have comprehensive data about citizens. SECC contains information down to family level. This will help to identify economic condition of people and policy can be framed for uplifting. Tendulkar ( 2009 ) and Rangarajan ( 2012 ) estimates had come in recent past directed towards knowing criteria for poverty estimation in India.
Highlight suggesting distress in rural areas :
a) less than 3% households have graduate in their families.
b) 50% depend on casual manual work
c) less than 10% have salaried job

Observation : Society should have information about all and should work towards equal opportunities for all.

4: Critic on Good Governance : Idea of transparency , accountability , participation , empowerment can get distorted in market led economy. People should get priority rather than economic gains for few who control neo-liberal economy.

5: Bhopal tragedy can be remembered in backdrop of BP paying compensation of 18.7 bn $ for deepwater horizon oil spill. Bhopal gas leak victims were not compensated adequately . It was example of failure on multiple fronts e.g. Political , administrative , judiciary .Lack of seriousness can be seen in fact that site clearance has not been completed at accident site.

We should be extra cautious so that no such accident happen in future and update our institutions to handle the situation if it happens.


Expert observation : SECC is significant report and was long awaited. This brings to front the distress condition in rural India. How government moves forward will decide future of population in rural India. In other important article , Good governance is important topic in syllabus of Mains. One can easily end up writing its components in multiple places in mains answers . The components should be prepared in terms of government initiatives in the direction of good governance. Precaution should be taken so that cherished idea of Governance gives prominence to citizens needs and aspiration.



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