How to Approach Mains Questions? Part-3

Question
Debate the issue of whether and how contemporary movements for assertion of Dalit identity work towards annihilation of caste.

What is Caste
What are the problems associated with castes
Contemporary movements and Dalit Identity
Annihilation of caste

Question
“Caste system is assuming new identities and associational forms. Hence, caste system cannot be eradicated in India.” Comment.

Answer
Caste System is a unique feature of Indian society in which people are hierarchically arranges in a social structure based on purity of it.

Caste system is the main source of oppression of downtrodden in our country even after many initiative by government of India. 

From past to the contemporary world, there are many changes associated with caste system including - 
- Inter-caste marriages
- Improvement in position of lower caste by government initiative
- challenges to orthodoxy

But with the increasing in awareness among the backward classes, specially youth, and benefits that representation of oppressed classes shown in panchayats, state and centre election brought up a new identity of dalit.

The new identity and its associational forms is resulting into the perpetuity of the caste system.

Why is that?
- Caste based and specially Dalit based politics is taking shape in country
- Reservation policy and demand of reservation by other backward classes
- Collective mobilisation of Dalits against other castes


Way forward
- In order for the annihilation of caste in India, caste based politics should be eliminated immediately. The Intercaste marriages should be promoted by the government and the reservation should be given on the basic of economic condition rather than caste. 

Challenge day 3 - 12/11/2018

Days remaining 202


Today's Target
- The hindu Coverage
- The Insights CA Coverage
- The Insights Quiz Coverage
- Revise Test 19 solutions and make notes(Not able to do it yesterday)
- Cover Salient Features Of Indian Society and Mains Questions on Topic (2013-2018)
- Completing Insights Test 2 course which I have left

Hindu Short notes

Global Wealth Report, 2018

- Credit Suisse, India is getting richer but high inequality

- GINI cofficient - 0 denote Total equality, 100 denotes Total Ineuqality

Ease of Doing Business - India’s Leap

- By World Bank

-  India is one of the greatest improvers, Rank 77th from 100th last year

- WB - India is better to do business than Other Brics  and west asian nations

 - Reasons for improvement - Mainly from two business Indicators + securing construction permits and Trading across borders + Small Improvement in starting a business and getting credit 

- Where Need for Improvement - Dismal on Registering Property + Paying Taxes + enforcing contracts

Central Board of Directors - RBI

- Consist of Official from RBI and GOI + Official nominated by GOI

- General superintendence and direction of the affair and business of RBI entrusted to central board, exercise all powers and does all acts exercised by RBI, Recommend design, form and material of bank notes to Govt.

- Composition - Official Directors(Governors + Upto 4 DG) + Non-official directors(Upto 10 from various fields) + Govt. officials(2) + One director from each of 4 local boards of RBI.

Term - Governors + DG - 5years, 10 Directors - 4 years + Govt Officials - uptill govt sees fit.

Qualifications - Director can not be salaried Govt Official + Lunatic or Unsound Mind + officer or employeeof any bank + be adjudicated as insolvent or have suspended payments to creditors

Meeting - at least 6 times a year and at least once each quarter + meeting can be called if min. Of 4 directors tell governor to call meeting + if governor absent, deputy governor assigned by him will vote and preside over meeting

Recent News - Section 7, in which govt. supersedes Board and issue directions in public interest

SIMBEX

- 25th edition, Bilateral naval Exercise b/w Singapore and India

- Port Blair

- Last year two countries signed a naval agreement for mutual logistical support and gives India access to change naval base

EC warns parties on criminal cases(Reforms in politics)

- SC has made it mandatory for the candidates and their parties to publish and broadcast details of the cases against them at least three times ahead of elections, also required to upload details on website

- If anyone failed to broadcast details or provided false details will be charged with contempt of court and section 171(g) of IPC

Laser interferometerr gravitional wave observatory (LIGO)

- These waves are ripples in fabric of space-time + arise from merger of black holes + long pursuit for physics

Cyclone “Gaja”

Konark temple - World Heritage Site

-  ASI protected, Bhuvneshwar

- 13th century, by king langula narsingha deva 

Mullayangiri Hill Range

-  Chikmanglur , Karnataka

Burial urn of Megalithic era unearthed in Kerela

GSAT-29

- 3500 kg communication sattelite, high quality internet services

- lifespan of 10 years

- will provide augment digital communication in remote village rescue centre

- GSLV MKIII - D2 - is the second flight of the heavy lift vehicle carrying satellite,  success will regularise the launch vehicle services and ease dependence on foreign service providers

HySIS - a new variant of earth observatory sateite 

Bannerghatta National Park, Kalkere range

National Green Tribunal

PIB

IIP and CPI

- Both by CSO, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

-  CPI Data Collection. - Urban - NSSO Official Survey and data entered into portal, Rural - NSSO Offical and Postal Data + Only 1200 Villages

- IIP Data Collection - DIPP, Indian Bureau of Mines, iron and steel joint committee, chemical and petrochemical department, textile commissioner, Vanaspati direcorate,Jute Commissioner, petroleum ministry Etc. Total Items - 682

- Components 

  -- CPI - Food, Beverges and tobacco > Misc. health, Edu and Recreation >Housing > Fuel,Light > Clothing, bedding, footwear

  -- IIP - Manufacturing > Mining > Electricity, IIP 8 core industries - coal, fertiliser, electricity, crude oil, natural gas, refinery product, steel, and cement

Source - https://mrunal.org/2014/08/explained-wpi-cpi-iip-index-component-core-inflation-headline-inflation-laspeyre.html

Two Day Global Cooling Innovation summit Inaugurated in New Delhi

- Internation competetion, development of residential cooling tech 5X less climate impact than standard room air-condition 

- Prize supported by mission innovation, DST, GOI

India-morroco signed agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters

- strengthen cooperation and enhance effectiveness,  and provide broad legal framework for prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimes.

- Reduce terror financing

10th anniversary of Indian Ocean naval symposium

- theme - SAGAR(Security and growth for all in the region)

Samudra Shakti

- Naval Exercise between Indian and Indonesia 

- strengthen bilateral relations, enhance maritime cooperation and interoperability, exchange best practices

- strategic partnership enhanced to comprehensive strategic partnership

Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Ltd Signed mou with Abu Dhabi national oil company

- to explore the possibility of storing ADNOC crude oil at ISPRL underground oil storage facility in Padur, Karnataka.

- ISPRL has already built 5.33 million tonnes of underground storage capacity at three locations - Visakhapatnam (1.33 million tonnes), Mangalore (1.5 million tonnes) and Padur (2.5 million tonnes), that can meet around 9.5 days of the country’s oil needs as per consumption data of last financial year. The government of India, in June 2018,announced the creation of two new reserves, a 4 million tonnes storage facility at Chandikhol in the eastern state of Odisha and an additional 2.5 million-tonne facility at Padur. 

Insights Daily Quiz Score (4/5) 

Toughness - Medium

Link - http://www.insightsonindia.com/2018/11/12/quiz-2017-insights-current-affairs-quiz-12-november-2018/

InsightsOnIndia Questions? Part-1

Questions

Examine the role of women in agriculture? Do you think having more effective women in agriculture impacts nutritional security?(250 words)

Answer

There are Five Parts of this question

- Women In Agriculture
- Role of Women in Agriculture
- Effective women and how to create them - Skill development, SHG, govt Initiatives
- Effective women and Nutritional security
- Way forward

How to approach mains questions? Part-2

Question
Discuss the various economic and socio-cultural forces that are driving increasing feminization of agriculture in India.

What is Feminization of Agriculture
 -- Increase in women participation in agriculture sector as cultivator, agriculturer or labourer, Double burden

Any report or data or fact
 -- due to migration of men from rural areas to urban areas in search of alternative source of income as per Economic survey 2017-18
 -- Inclusive transformative Agricultural policy

What are the social, economic and cultural causes?
-- Migration of men
-- Poverty
-- Gender wage differential
-- High demand for agricultural labourer
-- Increasing feminization of old age - Due to greater life expectancy, women outlive
-- Traditionally acceptable work for women in Indian culture 

How to approach Mains Question? Part-1

Question
Why do some of the most prosperous regions of India have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments

Answer Approach
- First Define Sex ratio - Sex Ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 males
- Why This question is asking about relation between prosperity and Sex ratio
   -- Now look at the sex ratio of different states in India with top 5 least sex ratio and top 5 highest sex ratio states
   -- Among them Haryana Delhi Punjab Chandigarh - among the most prosperous region of the country
   -- lowest sex ratio - Manipur Meghalaya kerala, TN - States with tribal area and educated population

The most prosperous region like Haryana, Punjab, Delhi etc have the least sex ratio in India

- If there is any report supporting it or any data or fact
 -- 40% of total labour force, 43 % of total agricultural labour and 50% of total university students
 -- Gender Equality - equal representation
 -- Understading Gender Ineuqality in India - NCW and UN - most Progressive states with least gender ratio
 -- UNDESA - India is the most dangerous place for a girl child to be born
 -- Worst gender differential in child mortality - Girl child between age of 1-5 75% more likely to die as compared to boys


- Arguments - How to give your arguments
 -- What are the facilities comes with prosperity
    -- Easy access to sex determination technology and abortions
    -- Ineffective implementation of anti-sex determination laws due to corruption 
    -- Patrairchial mindset for compulsory preference of boys
    -- With prosperity there is increasing demand in Dowry
    

- How to improve these conditions
 -- Strict implementation of law
 -- Provide old age pension to people with no son
 -- Free and compulsory education for girls
 -- reservation In jobs and parliament
 -- equal share in property and equal responsibility of parents care
 -- moral education to children against dowry, female feteocide and gender bias






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