1: SECC : The census brought to fore
the reality of rural India example : ½ households are landless.
Problems like bad infrastructure , limited irrigation , lack of
credit facility is ensuring persistent poverty. Employment
opportunities are not being created. The challenge is formidable as
overwhelming population is unskilled.
2: S.P Mookerjee founded Jan Sangh . He
worked towards elimination of Art 370 which gives special status to
J&K.
3: Subsidy issue for fertilizer :
Government is discussing towards DBT for fertilizer subsidy. Urea is
out of NBS. Presently subsidy amount in given to producers . DBT will
give it to farmers. The problem is how to identify the beneficiaries.
Land ownership can be one criteria but it will lead to exclusion of
landless farmers.
4: EEU : Eurasian economic union
members are Russia , Belarus , Armenia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan .
Tajikistan will be next country to join this. India is looking for
possibilities to join the union. Other regional Economic unions which
India in considering to join are American Integration Association (
ALADI , 13 members group ) , NAFTA , ASEAN Free trade area.
5: Governors enjoy immunity against
criminal proceedings while in Office. Article 156( 1) of
constitution.
6: Palestine joined ICC in March 2015
. India abstained recently from UNHRC resolution against Israel .
This has been policy change of India Vis-a-Vis Palestine. India in
not signatory of Rome statute under which ICC has been created. ICC
looks into war crimes committed by nations.
7: BRICS : Two economic arrangements
under BRICS in recent times are contingency reserve arrangement( CRA
) and NDB . In future Yuan will play key role in international
currency arrangement. Increasing assertiveness of China in pointer
towards future economic set up e.g. AIIB . Currently Dollar , Pound ,
Yen , Euro are part of IMF SDR. Yuan in not a convertible currency
and is not used in SDR basket for now.
8 : Education : Debate over national
education framework has come up recently. Notable commissions in past
have been in form of Kothari commission , University education
commission 1950 , Secondary education commission 1952 , Education
commission 1964. NPE ( 1986 ) , NCF( 2005 ) , RTE( 2009 ) etc which
provide guidelines for national education arrangement. The need is to
work towards coherent progress on agreed principles . Past should be
guide for future to come.
Expert comment : SECC is
supposed to be input source to help government frame and implement
policies. State governments are to decide their parameters from the
census . This is long awaited census data and more information for
observations made in it should be obtained in fact sheet. BRICS is
important for India's foreign relations specially on economic front .
Issue of fertilizer subsidy is hard to crack nut and this will remain
a hot topic in government's agenda.
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