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-Rain centres - resource centres opened by Delhi Jal Board for its compaign to conserve
water. DJB's draft water policy

-NACO has been primarily responsible for ensuring provision of safe blood. According to
law, it is mandatory to screen donors/ donated blood for transmissible infections of HIV,
HBV
and hepatitis C, malaria and syphilis.

-Ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises asks NGT(national green tribunal)
not to extend diesel vehicle ban to other cites
becoz automobile industry is the largest constituent of the manufacturing sector in the
country's economy with 47 percent of the manu
facturing GDP. Fifth largest sector receiving FDI and highest emplyment provider.

-1991 gulf war and ussr disintegration, emergence of us as singular superpower,

liberation struggles in africa, weak third world reason

- HUMINITARIAN INTERVENTION , Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005 as

redecorated colonialism, attrocities prevention board(APB)
Critics of humanitarian intervention are not callous about the horrors of war and
genocide. Sovereignty cannot be a shield for massacre of civilians. Yet, at the same time,
proponents of intervention watch disasters unfold and then wait till the last minute when
a military operation becomes necessary. They do not want to acknowledge the longterm
reforms needed to prevent the escalation of conflict into genocidal territory.
The critics worry that humanitarian intervention of the Western variety ignores causes
and produces terrible outcomes. Mr. Puri warns, in a forthcoming book, of perilous
interventions,
namely military actions that lead to chaos and increased sufering. Could there be other
interventions that are not perilous? Rev. Brockmann suggested that an antidote
to mass atrocities might come from global financial reform, the redistribution of wealth
and U.N. Security Council reform. Violence, he argued, is an outcome of grotesque
inequality. R2P did not address the protection of civilians from the multiple horsemen of

the 21st century apocalypse illiteracy, illness, poverty, joblessness and social toxicity.
These are the authors of crisis. Bombs cannot defeat them.

-CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE - Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior
Citizens Act, 2007. The model Act makes it obligatory for children or relatives to provide
maintenance to senior citizens and parents.
It also provides for the setting up of old age homes by State governments.The Number of
old age homes the Centre supports under the Integrated Programme for Older Persons
(IPOP) has
seen a decline from 269 homes in 2012-13 to a dismal 137 in 2014-15? The Centre has
asked State governments to ensure that there are old-age homes whose functioning can be
supported under IPOP, but since it is optional for the State governments to do so, the total
number of old-age homes remains abysmally low.
Solutions - strengthen the healthcare system
- network of old age homes
- Employment of elderly people for experience, knowledge.
flexible working hours.
financially independent and sense of self- worth.
- increase the avenues for older people to participate in local issues
- more awareness about common degenerative diseases like
dementia

- Safety and security of migrant population. Sensitisation programmes are essential to

reduce the overall atmosphere of hostility and improve the quality of life for
all parties concerned.

-Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP)-

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- Interpersonal conflicts in micro and small medium enterprise

- New Strategic Arns Reduction Treaty (START), Nuclear disarmament, Nonproliferation treaty (NPT)

- Freedom of expression

- anti- conversion law - pecuniary enticements, guard against forcible conversions

- Information Technology Act- stop mischief through social media

- resettlement of IDPs(internally displaced persons) sri - lanka problem

- gross domestic product (GDP), gross value added (GVA) increased - economists termed
a consumption- led recovery.Index of Industrial Production (IIP), fastest-growing major
economy

- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) membership for india. The 21 members of

the APEC forum, which comprises countries bordering the Pacific Ocean including
the U.S., China and Japan, account for about half the worlds trade and almost 60
per cent of global GDP. Among APECs objectives is ensuring that goods, services,
investment and people move easily across borders in the Asia-Pacific region.

2/06/16

-what congress could do= Congress-Mukt Bharat i.e BJP rule from panchayat to
Parliament.Congress story of today is not too diferent from the BJP story of yesterday.
Congress is stuck with its image of a
corrupt, bankrupt party, clinging to a fifthgeneration, moth-eaten dynasty.
solutions
1.rahul gandhi take a cue from Canadian prime Minister Justin Trudeau andapologise for
the Emergency and the 1984anti-Sikh pogrom.
2.he could make smart alliances targeting the BJP, rather than taking on Mamata Banerjee
who is both ideologically compatible and a possible future partner.
3.he could reach out to the youth, many of whom are idealistic and discomfited by the
BJPs extremism

-raghuram rajan win over PM=The rupee weakened against the dollar after RBI governor
Raghuram Rajan was not keen on an extension beyond sep as Mr. Rajan, said that
he is keen to go to the U.S. to pursue research work.

-Shell shock at Pulgaon = all types of ammunition purchased by the Army are stored here.
audit pointed to serious concerns regarding fire safety, transportation and storage of
ammunition.In violation of prescribed safety standards, the Army continued to
transport explosives in ordinary vehicles, not enough had been done to ensure
environmentally friendly and timely disposal of expired explosives,and the storage
facilities were poor.
it is a wake-up call, for the government and the military, to improve the safety of
ammunition dumps and to accident-proof the transport of ammunition

-challenge of sustaining growth= india is among the worlds fastest-growing major

economies

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- India accounts for 10 per cent of global deaths due to road accidents. The existing
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, has been unable to address four of the five risk factors
specified by the World Health Organisation.

- Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), e-waste management rules, 2016.The

proposed rules require electric lamp manufacturers to collect from consumers and dispose
of fluorescent
and other mercury containing lamps on their end-of-life.

- Prakash Singh Committee report on Jat violence. Report has indicted several top State
police and civil oicials for failing to control the riots. It identified about 90 officials
who indulged in deliberate negligence when violence hit the State.

- Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA)

- Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act

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-mathura violence was the result of the failure of local authorities to assess the
situation.
-Swiss help Indias to become nuclear group member
-Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

-A long road to justice

9/06/2016
-A big crack in the glass ceiling realted to drawback of clinton in election.

-never in punjab=film-makers want to landscape realistic depictions of immediate issues,

but face resistance in the form of CBFC recommendations
or outright threats of violence

-quest for another holy grail- india has been tried from last 30 yr to become a permanent
member in UN and simalarily admission to the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) as well as seek membership of the Nuclear Suppliers
Group (NSG).

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- Ministry of panchayati raj on verge of clousure. Backward Regions Grants Fund

(BRGF) and the Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan (RGPSA) are shuttered.
Budget cuts. maybe turned into department of rural development.

- Dual fright policy by railways. CAG audit report tabled in may 2015 estimated that
29236.77 crore. Moving iron ore for exports costs 4 to 5 times more than moving those
for steel making in india.
- more than 300 languages have gone extinct in the country since the time of
independence. languages represent cultural and economical capital. Nations that
neglected indigenous languages sufered extinction of aboriginal culture, he points out.
Languages are a collection of memories, helping to cultivate a science that would help
future generations. Case of Nihali language. Language Isolate- no relation with other
languages.
- Gatka originated in 17th century Punjab is a form of combat training.
- Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 it must reform the fractured driver licensing and training

systems, modernise enforcement, establish minimum safety standards for engineering of

roads and vehicles, and most importantly, protect Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) like
pedestrians, cyclists and children, who are completely ignored by the current legislation.

- state of the world's children, annual report of UNICEF says that the poorest children are
twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday and be chronically malnourished than the
richest . The report points to evidence that investing in the most vulnerable children can
yield immediate and longterm benefits. Inequity is neither inevitable, nor insurmountable,
the report argues. Better data on the most vulnerable children, integrated solutions to the
challenges children face, innovative ways to address old problems, more equitable
investment and increased involvement by communities all these measures can help
level the playing field for children, the report states.
- Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign seeks to address the problems of skewed child sex
ratio, girl education and other issues of women empowerment.
- Income Declaration Scheme those who come forward with their undeclared income will
have to pay a tax and penalty, totally amounting to a rate of 45 per cent.
- india lost the NSG partnership beacuse of the NPT.lack of Indias membership to the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) the cornerstone of NSG membership was the chief obstacle
-issue of decriminalising gay sex among consenting adults an offence under Section 377
of the Indian Penal Code.
-the Shillong Accord signed by the then Naga National Council (NNC) with the Central
government for bringing peace to Nagaland
- New FDI policy. Export led growth. External trade was always discussed as a vehicle
forgrowth, today we see that sector contracting every day, and reducing in value. even the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have admitted that a one size fits all
solution does not exist.
-Brexit referendum on the European Union (EU)
- 4 elite global non-proliferation clubs- nuclear suppliers gropu, the misile technology
control regime, the australia group and the wassenaar group. membership of a multilateral
export control club(MTCR) is likely to yield a rich harvest of state-of-the-art
technologies for ballistic
missile and drone systems, including those that are in theory nuclear-capable.

- Policies for urban india-the Swachh Bharat Mission ; Housing for All which promises
universal housing by 2022; the National Urban Livelihoods Mission; the National Urban
Information System; and the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana
(HRIDAY). Smart Cities project and its implementation problems. under Smart cities
project only parts of cities will be developed and the role of local city government are
unknown.the mission also fails to articulate an institutional framework for urban
development a sustainable blueprint for governance for our cities on two
counts.First, convergence b/t these schemes and smart cities is not known and second, is
the governance. Decision making powers will be given to special purpose vehicle (SPV),
not the local government.
- NSG, UN security council, NPT, Asia- Pacific Economic Coorporation (APEC) are
some of the membership that are in mind of India.

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- Information Technology Act ???
- Project Raahat was initiated by the social entrepreneurship society of SSCBS Enactus. The aim
of the project is to discourage slum dwellers from defecating in the open and encourage them to use
the toilet complex instead.
- no detention policy(NDP).NDP, which came intoforce with the enactment of the Right to Education
Act of 2009, had resulted in widespread complacency and a general lack of accountability and
responsibility in the system.
-Model Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Act being
passed by the Cabinet, businesses will be allowed to remain open 24/7. Small business unhappy as
they wont have enough footfall for profits.Harassment of businesses by the police would also reduce.
But, it would also throw up challenges like drunken driving and public nuisance. only drawback
would be implementation by the State government and the availability of staff to work late shifts.
- Kerala government has launched No helmet no petrol rule.