UPSC CSE Key – January 3, 2022: What you need to read today

NEET quota: Rs 8-lakh EWS cap will stay, Govt accepts report of panel

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance

Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation

Key Points to Ponder:

• The Economically Weaker Sections Reservation-103rd Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2019

• Indira Sawhney case 1992

• Supreme Court on EWS Reservation Criteria

• Three Member Expert Committee to review the eligibility criteria of 10% reservations for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)

• Recommendation of Expert Committee

• EWS Reservation-Issues and Challenges

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: Revisiting definition of EWS

GOVT & POLITICS

If you think Pegasus was used against you, contact us by January 7, says SC committee

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance

Main Examination: General Studies III: Basics of Cyber Security

Key Points to Ponder:

• Pegasus -Why in News?

• Justice Raveendran Committee appointed by Supreme Court

• Steps Taken by Government of India and Various State governments against Cyber Attacks

• Personal Data Protection Bill 2019

Other Important Articles/Video Covering the same topic:

📍 Steps Taken to Deal with Cyber Crime and Cyber Security

📍 Explained: How India’s data protection Bill compares with EU regulation

📍 Explained: Why was Pegasus panel needed, what it will do now — and how

📍 What is Pegasus Spyware and How Does It Use Zero-Click Vulnerability?

THE EDITORIAL PAGE

Road to Recovery

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Key Points to Ponder:

• National Statistical Office-Under which Nodal Ministry/Department?

• ‘Headline GDP’-What do you Understand by this?

THE IDEAS PAGE

The fallacy of MSP

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development

Main Examination: General Studies III: Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices

Key Points to Ponder:

• legal backing for minimum support prices (MSP)

• MSP (minimum support price) and effectiveness of MSP implementation

• How MSP is calculated (paid out costs, labour etc.) and Crops covered under the MSP

• What are the demands by Farmers in the context of MSP?

• “Right to MSP”-is it possible to implement and if not, then what are the issues and Challenges?

• MSP and Doubling Farmers Income

• Recommendation of Ashok Dalwai Committee and M. S. Swaminathan Committee

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Swaminathan Report: National Commission on Farmers

📍 MSP is not the way to increase farmers’ income

📍 Explained: The cost of guaranteed minimum support price (MSP)

Time for a green shift

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change

Main Examination: General Studies III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Energy Policy of India

• What do you Understand by “Net-Zero Carbon Emissions”?

• Difference between “Phase down” and “Phase Out” in the context of Fossil Fuels?

• Meaning of ‘Clean Energy’ or ‘Green Energy’?

• Transition to Green Energy-Opportunities, Issues and Challenges for India

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 A green response to natural gas price shock

EXPLAINED

China’s border law and India

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its Neighborhood- Relations.

Key Points to Ponder:

• China’s new law on land borders

• Rationality Behind the New Law on Land Borders

• India and China’s new Law on Land Borders

• India and China Border Dispute

• Map Work-Ladakh

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 A strategy of assertion: Why China is inventing names for places in Arunachal Pradesh

📍 The China hand

Developing Trincomalee oil tank farm: what the deal means for India, Lanka

Syllabus:

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.

Main Examination: General Studies II: India and its Neighborhood- Relations.

Key Points to Ponder:

• Trincomalee oil tank farm-Why in News?

• Sri Lankan economic crisis

• Why is Sri Lanka’s economy in trouble?

• How India is helping Sri Lanka in this crisis Situation?

Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:

📍 Explained: The perfect storm that has led to Sri Lanka’s national ‘food emergency’