Challenge Day 2 - 11/11/2018

Day Remaining - 203

Today's Target
- The hindu Coverage
- The Insights CA Coverage
- The Insights Quiz Coverage
- Revise Test 19 solutions and make notes
- Cover Salient Features Of Indian Society and Mains Questions on Topic(2013-2018)
- Complete Economy And IR section from Vision Sept. Notes
- Completing Insights Test 2 course which I have left

Today's the Hindu Short Notes - 11/11/2018

Air Pollution and Child health: Prescribing Clean air

- WHO report

- states that 98% of child under 5 exposed to toxic air in countries like India

-  Killing around 16% of under five death of 5.56 million in 2016

- another report Fighting for breath by Save the children - Pneumonia kill 2 children per minute in under 5 more than malaria + diarrhoea + measles

- 80% of children having death is severely malnutrition unable to fight infection

- To realise SDGs need focus on most disadvantaged children including born in poverty, live in hardest place to reach and facing discrimination

-  IAEA report Energy Access Outlook - 63% of households in india use biomass for cooking, major cause of indoor air pollution 

Calimere Wildlife sanctuary

- Nagapattinam, TN

- A protected area and a Ramsar Site

Ecological sensitive zone - Read EPA section 3(2) and section 5

-  https://www.gktoday.in/gk/eco-sensitive-zones/

Central ground Water Board

- constituted under section 3 of EPA, 1986

- to regulate and control, development and management of ground water resources

- powers and functions - Issue directions and taking measures + Resort to penal provisions + regulate and control, development and management of Ground water resources 

Atala Masjid, Jama Masjid and Lal Darwaza

- Jaunpur

- Sharqi architecture  Mosques

- Main feature - Huge rectangular pylon with arches

Land Acquisition Act

- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/five-years-on-has-land-acquisition-act-fulfilled-its-aim/articleshow/65639336.cms

Missoin venus -  isro + 2023

Advisory committee on space sciences

Tipu Jayanti 

EPCA -  SC empowered EPCA, constituted by MoEFCC + Protecting and controlling the quality of environment + controlling environment pollution in NCR + assist apex court in various environment related issues + to enforce GRAP in NCR as per pollution levels 

PIB

Inspire-2018

- International Symposium to promote innovation and research in energy efficiency

- Second Edition by EESL and WB

-  Enhance Grib Mobility, e-mobility, financial instruments and technologies for energy efficiency

- #innovatetoinspire challenge organised by EESL and WRI - Invited participants to submit sustainable and scalable solutions for above 4 categories

- To support investment for them - EESL and ADB signed an agreement for a GEF grant to Enstablish energy efficiency evolving fund - To expand and sustain energy efficiency market in India + build market diversification + scale up existing technologies

EESL 

- Under Ministry of Power

- Mainstreming Energy Efficiency and Build world’s largest energy efficiency portfolio

- Driven by Mission of Enabling More - More Transparency + More Efficiency + More Transformation + More Innovation

- To create market for efficient and future ready transformative solutions

World Bank

- Not only a bank but unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development

 - 2 goals by 2030 - End Extreme poverty + promote shared prosperity

- Comprise of 5 institutions  - IBRD + IDA + IFC + MIGA + ICSID

- India is a member except ICSID

- IBRD

   — Loan and Other Assistance to Middle Income and Poor  but Credit Worthy + Lower rate of interest + Long term Maturity

   — in 1944 to help Europe rebuild after world war 2

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International Development Bank

- To help the world’s Poorest countries

https://www.civilsdaily.com/international-org-part-6-bretton-woods-institutions-world-bank-group/

Challenge Day 1 - 10/11/2018

204 days to go



- The Hindu Coverage
- Insights Current Affairs Coverage
- Insights Quiz Coverage
- Economy Section of Vision Sept 2018 Magazine Coverage
- Revise Insights Test 19 Syllabus
- Cover Border Disputes And Border Management(Mains)

Today's The Hindu Short Notes(10/11/2018) -

International Vaccine Access Centre - Recently Released Report Named “Pneumonia and Diarreha Progress Report” + India has highest burden of Pneumonia and diarrhoea + SDG goal of reducing under 5 Mortality to at least 25 per 1000 by 2030

Toraja tribe - Indonesian Sulawesi island + Live among dead

RCEP

NCLT

Moscow Format

India-Iran and US sanctions -

- Waived India

- India’s Energy Security

- Strategic importance of Chabhar port

- connectivity to Afganistan and central and west Asia

Zika and Birth Defects

- context - recent outbreaks in Jaipur, Rajasthan, recent announcement Jaipur strain won’t cause birth defects(foetal microphely) + measures to control transmission + monitor pregnancies

- Problem - No Knowledge of paticularity of Zika strain causing birth defect and all are possibly can cause

- Not known long term effects on children + still birth and miscarriage + why neurological disorders

- ICMR - announced Jaipur strain not linked to microcephaly + Based on genetic sequencing of virus from outbreak

Problem - Based on mutation impact on Mouse +. No Epidemiological or clinical support

Precautions - Pregnant women to avoid mosquito + Vaccine development + Pregnancy monitoring for birth defects

No double jeopardy Bar

- Article 20(2) person can nit be prosecuted or punished twice for the same offence

Long Cohabitation is presumed marriage - SC

HTT-40 - Indegenouslu built basic trainer aircraft + By HAL + cleared first spin test + DAC Approved 70 HAL Built trainers +

Defence Acquisition Council. -

M777 Ultra light howitzer(US) and K9 vajra T(South Korea) + common gun tower
- Recently inducted thesis two after bofors + devlali field firing range Maharastra

- Foreign military sales programme - Nov 2016 + $737 Million with US + 145 M777 Howitzer guns

- The Army field artilery rationalisetion plan

Bannerghatta National Park - protective Layer smaller + new notification trims down Economic Senstive zone + for mining and commercial development

Economic sensitive zone

National Health Mission

Speed up border work in Bengal

- acquired 300 acres of land across Bangladesh border + security grid + illegal infiltration and cattle smuggling

Kolleru Lake - Tokallapalli village, Andhra

Insights Quiz Score - (2/5)

Link - http://www.insightsonindia.com/2018/11/10/quiz-2017-insights-current-affairs-quiz-10-november-2018/

 Local Self Government

Panchayati Raj

• Constitutionalisation
• 73rd CAA 1992, came into force 1993, by Narasimha Rao Govt.
• What is 73rd CAA
• Added New Part IX, named “The Panchayats” and 11th Schedule - 29 Functional Items of Panchayats
• Shaping Article 40 of DPSP - State Orgainise Village Panchayats, endow them with power and Responsibilities function as unit of Self Government
• Constitutional Status, Justiciable, State have Consitutional Obligation
• Provision Of 73rd CAA has two Parts, a revolutionary concept to build democracy at grassroots level
• Compulsory(Included compulsorily in state laws) 
• Voluntary(at discretion of state) 
• Features
• Gram Sabha - Persons enrolled in electoral rolls of a village, functions determined by state legislature
• Three Tier System - village, block and district level, State < 2M population, No Intermediate
• Election of Members and Chairpersons - Members directly by the People at all level, Chairpersons Indirectly at intermediate and district level and At Village Panchayat level determined by SLA
• Reservation of seats - SCs and STs in Proportion to their population In panchayat area, and Chairpersons Reservation at all levels determined by SLAs, >= 1/3rd to women
• Duration - 5 year term, In case of Dissolution - will complete remaining term
• Disqualification - under any law in force for the purpose of election in SLA + Under any law made by SLA + all question of disqualification defined by SLA
• State Election commission - State election commissioner by Governor, condition of service and tenure of office by Governor, can remove from office following the same procedure of removal for Judge of HC
• Powers and Functions - 29 matters listed in 11th schedule
• Finances - State Government Authorises  
• Finance Commission - Consitute Every 5 years by Governor + SLA define Composition and required qualification and manner of selection
• Audit of Accounts - SLA may make provisions
• PESA Act (Provision of the panchayats(Extension to the scheduled areas))
• Can not extended to schedule 5 areas but Parl can extend these provisions to such areas, subject to such modification and exceptions as it may specify
• Objective
• Extend Part IX provisions to schedule 5 areas with modifications
• Provide self rule for tribal population
• Village governance with participatory democracy and Gram Sabha as nuclus
• Suitable administrative framework consitenet with traditions
• Safeguard and preserve customs and traditions
• Empower panchayats, preventing panchayats at higher level assuming powers of lower level
• Features
• SLA legislation of Panchayat in Scheduled areas in consonance with customary laws, social, religious and traditional practices + gram Sabha and people and elecotral rolls + competent gram Sabhain safeguarding tradition and customs + Gram Sabha to plans programmes and projects before taken up by village panchayat for economic and social development + gram Sabha to provide certification of utilisation of funds to village panchayat + Reservation in proportion to communities in scheduled areas +  state government may nominate such STs with no representation in panchayat and intermediate level or district level but only up to 1/10th of seats + Gram Sabha or panchayats consulted before making any land acquisitions in Scheduled areas + 
• Finances
• 2nd ARC summarised sources of revenues of PRIs and their financial problems