1: Employment : Government
initiative can be seen in terms of National policy on skill
development which envisions 500 million trained youth by year 2022.
National skill development mission ( NSDM ) has been working
on this front. Employment opportunities will get boost with
initiatives like Make in India , Digital India , Skill India .
2: Harper Lee's new book is Go set a
watchman. Lee is known for other book To Kill a Mockingbird.
3: Iran-US : Artificial crisis
persisting for long has been resolved over Iran's Nuclear program.
Iran has agreed to limit its nuclear Program in return for lifting
economic sanctions.
4: Science : New horizon , an
unmanned spacecraft , did pass in close range of Pluto. This was
launched in year 2006 . Pluto has five satellites , charon is one of
them.
5: International Maritime governance
: UNCLOS 1982 has provided one framework. Issue of trial of Italian
Marines has been persisting since long. Other legislation are
Suppression of unlawful Activities Act Against safety of maritime
navigation and Fixed platforms on continental shelf Act 2002.
6: Environment : Air quality is
measured in terms of contents of PM10 , PM2.5 , SO2 , CO , O3 , NO2 ;
AQ1 with range in 401 to 500 falls in severe category. Recent debate
has been on quality of air people in Indian cities are breathing.
7: Indo-US : Bilateral relation
can be seen on fronts like Nuclear energy , Patent ( medicines ) ,
climate change ( GHG emission ) , defense , clean energy , space
co-operation . Patent negotiations did involve interpretation of
article 3d of Indian Patents act.
8: SECC : Government has held
back on caste specific information from the SECC report. One
observation has been that responsibility to do SECC was given to
states which has in a way compromised on quality . This has also led
to diffused responsibility . Census falls in union list and same can
not be transferred to states which is responsibility of center.
Census activity mandate has got legislative framework with census act
1948 .
9: Corruption : Justice R M
Lodha committee report has come on IPL match fixing scandal. Earlier
Mukul Mudgal committee had come up with report. Chennai and Jaipur
Franchises have been suspended for two years due to participation of
owners in the betting scandal.
10 : Water security : River
linking project is set to start with Ken-Betwa link in madhya
Pradesh. Other link projects are Damanganga-PINJAL , Koshi-Ghaghra ,
Manas-sankosh-Teesta-Ganga . Linking will involve a lot of
implications of the environment front . Altering the flow of water
comes at own cost which should be understood before proceeding with
the link projects.
Expert comment : Water
security is topic of importance. The importance has increased with
growing water demand and depleting water resources. River linking has
been visualized to use excess water of one region in deficient
region. India's foreign policy leadership should come up with
comprehensive response in light of Iran-US deal . This has economic
had ego-political implications in the region.
International maritime government is
important topic from mains perspective as question was asked in
previous years mains paper.
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