- Leader of Opposition - Statutory recognition in 1977 - Rule as per parliament (facilities) act 1988: 10% seat in LS (LOP should be equivalent to Quorum) - only to party leader not alliance leader - salary equivalent to cabinet minister - LoP role in appointments: CVC, CIC, NHRC, Lok Pal, NJAC (Refer Polity Lakshmikant)
- SIT on Black money - MB Shah- to implement SC decision - Members of High level committee includes: CBI director, IB director, ED director, CBDT director, NCB director, RI director, RAW director, FIU director, RBI Dpty Gov, Secy Dept of Revenue;
- Prachar bharati - PB (Broadcasting corporation of India) Act 1990 - autonomous body setup in 1997 -
- National Crime Record Bureau - HQ New Delhi - part of MHA - established in 1986 - functions: National crime statistics, secure sharable database, enable IT environment, suspect human sketching, interact with foreign police force, pro-active policing;
source: http://ncrb.gov.in/
- Karunya kerelam scheme - mission 676 initiative - free surgeries at Govt. Hospital -
- Official Languages Act 1963 - Official languages Rule 1976 - Region 'A', 'B', 'C';
- communication in hindi - Region "A" comprising the States of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Haryana and UTs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Delhi;
- communication either in Hindi or English - Region "B" comprising the States of Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra and the Union Territory of Chandigarh;
- communication in English - region 'C' comprising all other States and UTs not included in region 'A' & 'B';
source: http://www.archive.
- Sugar pricing policy in India - Mill owner compensate the farmers Fair Remunerative Package(centre) & SAP State Administered price (state) - 10% of the production to the Govt (for PDS) - Rangarajan Committee recommendation - remove reserve area, remove minimum distance norms, Remuneration - double stage strategy (FRP @ 1st stage & 70% value @ 2nd stage), no 10% sale to central govt., ease market control, ease jute packaging; Note (1): Sugarcane - Sugar, Bagasses, Molasses; Note (2) Ratooning Technology;
Source: http://mrunal.org/
- Appointment committee on Cabinet, Officer on Special duty to minister;
- Time-bound service delivery- regulatory approvals - RBI - non legislative recommendation of FSLRC - applicant for private bank licence should be given in-principle approval within 90 days after receipt of report from the independent externaladvisory committee, timelines have been fixed for in principle approval to banks for IPO, preferential issues of capital and qualified institutional placements (30 days) and authorisation for import of gold and silver by banks (60 days).
- Govt direct CIL (Maharatna Company) to improve efficiency - The company’s seven subsidiaries include Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL), Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) and South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL). Note: Produces around 81% of India's overall coal production, meets 40% of the country's primary commercial energy needs, supplies coal to 97/100 TPS; source: https://www.coalindia.
- OFS (Offer for Sales) through P-Notes (Participatory Notes)
- Competition Commission of India - Act 2002 - Amendment 2007
Refer: Newsletter 'Fair Play' for Mains - http://www.cci.gov.in/index.
http://www.cci.gov.in/index.
- Employee stock option scheme (ESOS) and the employee stock purchase scheme (ESPS); Guidelines 1999;
- National Commission on Farmers chaired by noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan would be implemented in phases to overcome issues plaguing farm sector and kindle interest among youth to take agriculture as profession.
National Policy for Farmers
Refer: http://www.kisanayog.
- The Coastal Aquaculture Authority is a ‘fraud’ on the Supreme Court Judgement of 1996 that banned shrimp industry along coasts and is equally a ‘fraud on the public”
- The Union Commerce Ministry to modify the Price Stabilisation Fund Scheme so as to lower the price threshold at which the fund gets activated. Commodity fund was established in 2003 to help industries engaged in producing four commodities —- tea, coffee, tobacco and natural rubber.
- Indian Statistical Institution (ISI) - HQ - Kolkata (Not Mumbai) - 4 subsidiary centre - Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Tezpur (Assam); Established in 1931(Founder: Mahalanobis) - Parliament Act recognized as National Institution in 1959; Logo: Motto: Bhinneswaykyasya Darshanam - Unity in Diversity;
- Insider trading, Lobbying, Underwriter, Front-runner;
- FDI in Insurance - The Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, proposes an increase in foreign holding in insurance joint ventures to 49 per cent from the existing 26 per cent with corresponding voting rights. Note (1): Approval route (Govt Route/FIPB approval) or Automatic route (RBI Route/Permission under FEMA/No approval required) or Share Acquisition (SEBI Approval);Note (2): Both route prohibited for Atomic Energy, Lottery Business, Gambling, Betting, Nidhi company, Manuf. cigars of tobacco, Agricultural (Excluding: Flori, Horti, Seed Dev., Animal Hus, Piscicult., Veg culti, Mushroom culti, Agro & Allied services)
- Sivaramkrishnan Commitee - Capital for Andhra - Kurnool or Royalaseema or Vijayawada or - after bifurcation - pre-1956 situation - Sribagh Pact 1937; Highlights: • Opined the capital could be between Marturu and Vinukonda. • It also proposed Musunuru, Mangalagiri, Macherla, Gollapally, Vinukonda, Marturu, Donakonda, Pulichintala as suitable for Capital regions. •It suggested, to divide, Andhra Pradesh into four parts.They should be Uttara Andhra (Northern Andhra), Madhya Andhra (Central Andhra), Coastha Andhra(Coastal Andhra) and Rayalaseema. •High Court should be set up in Visakhapatnam and a High Court Bench should be in either Anantapur or Kurnool. • Kalahasthi Zone to be set up as the Railway Zone. Guntur-Chennai Central Railway corridor to be set up.
Refer: committee & Reports - http://mha.nic.in/cc
- Fatwa issued by Sharia court (Dar-ul-Qazas) donot have legal sanctity - violates FR of an individual - SC Bench; The Centre said the "freedom guaranteed by Article 26 to every religious denomination or every section thereof to establish and maintain institutions for religious and charitable purposes and to manage its own affairs in matters of religion would include the freedom to establish Dar-ul-Qaza/Nizam-e-Qaza to settle disputes between two persons professing Islam, according to the Shariat." These courts were not a parallel judicial system. Further the Dar-ul-Qaza/Nizam-e-Qaza did not prevent Muslims from reporting matters to the judicial machinery set up under the law of the land. Fatwas just advisory. Muslims not prevented from moving court.
Refer: Uniform Civil Code - Shah Banu case, Mudgal case - (For Mains 2015) http://blog.mylaw.net/the-
- ‘National Institute of Design Bill, 2013’ - Currently, the NID is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and as an autonomous institution under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. 41st Institute of National Importance;
- Question hour of Parliament (Refer Lakshmikant)
- Governor & Lt. Governor (Refer Lakshmikant)
- Pardoning power of Governor vs President (Refer Lakshmikant)
- CPSE - Economic Survey - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC), Fertiliser Corporation of India Ltd, Coal India Ltd and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) were the top five profit—making CPSEs and Meanwhile, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), Air India Ltd, Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Co Ltd, were among the top five loss-making CPSEs during 2012-13.
(Latest Data - Survey 2013-14 Note: Profit making: ONGC, CIL, NTPC, IOC, NMDC; Lose makers: BSNL, AIL, HPFM, Hindustan cables;)
- One Rank, One Pension Scheme;
- Life time license for Ships - five Registrars of Ships in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Goa and Cochin to issue these licenses under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act,1958.
Note (1): Year Ender 2014: Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 amended: Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 has been amended recently to guarantee rights of Seafarers (Maritime Labour Convention) and to protect Marine Environment (Anti Fouling Convention). Note (2): Seafarer: A new term seafarer, meaning any person employed on a seagoing ship except warships and military or noncommercial government ships
- Implementing Supreme court's interim order on Right to food (PUCL Case).
- Threshold limit for the company to come under EPF Act reduced to 10 person; EPFO runs social security schemes including Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme 1952, Employees’ Pension Scheme 1995 and Employees Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme 1976 for the organised sector workers at present.
- Land De-notification issue - Bangalore Development Authority; Note: http://www.saiindia.
- National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) - Statutory body under under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995. ;The Pharma Jan Samadhan (PJS) initiative is part of Goverment of India's Digital India initiative, which aims at empowering the citizen through a transparent, accountable and responsive governance system. Enforcement Agency: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, the FDA/ Drugs Controller of the State, and Drugs Inspector of the District are the enforcing authorities at National / State/ District Levels.
- Panel suggest separate law to protect NE people - M P Bezbaruah committee
| Social media | Government should setup a dedicated helpline and email support for reaching out to North Eastern people living in rest of India. |
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| Awareness |
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| Police | Nodal police stations for North Easterners. So the police officer can immediately register FIR instead of asking the victim to go to other stations. |
| Relief |
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| Sports |
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- CCTNS Network - Crime Tracking - not through foreign satellite - vulnerable to eavesdropping;
- UAN (Universal Account Number) number for employee by EPFO
- Adriyala - Nations biggest under ground coalmine - singerani - Telengana;
- East Coast Economic Corridor (ECEC) for which Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have committed major investments. The ECEC links Kolkata with Chennai and Tuticorin encompassing the Visakhapatnam-Chennai corridor which is on top of the agenda of both the Central and State governments. CII keen on stimulating industrial development across the coast and asserted that Krishna-Godavari-Prakasam-
Eastern Corridor & Western Corridor in Railway budget 2014 is different - That is DFC (Dedicated Freight Corridor)
Summary: Know difference between the following
- North South Corridor or East West Corridor - NHAI;
- Golden Quadrilateral (NHAI) and Diamond Quadrilateral (Railways);
- East Coast Economic Corridor like DMIC, BMEC.
- Eastern Corridor & Western Corridor (DFC by Railways)
Note:
| Industrial corridor | States | Funding |
| Chennai-Bengaluru-Chitradurga | KarnatakaAndhra PradeshTamil Nadu | Japan |
| Bengaluru-Mumbai Economic Corridor (BMEC) | Maharashtra, Karnataka | United Kingdom |
| East Coast Economic Corridor (ECEC) | linking Kolkata-Chennai-Tuticorin | ADB |
| Vizag-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC) | Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu | ADB |
| Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC), 2014 | 150-200 km band on either side of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) in a phased manner. 7 states:
| Govt.ofIndia |
- Saradha Chit Fund Scam -
- Ways and Means of Advance WMA mechanism of RBI;
- Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE); Note(1): Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE) was established in December 2004 as an advisory body to advise the Government on the strategies, measures and schemes for strengthening, modernizing, reviving and restructuring of public sector enterprises. Note (2): Definition of Sick PSEs - A CPSE will be considered ‘sick’ if it has accumulated losses in any financial year equal to 50% or more of its average net worth during 4 years immediately preceding such financial year and/or a CPSE which is a sick company within the meaning of Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA)
Source: http://dpe.nic.in/
- Bihar is the fastest growing State while Tamil Nadu is the worst performer, the latest data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has revealed. The second-best performing State is Madhya Pradesh, which grew at 9.89 per cent. Delhi is third with a growth rate of 9.33 per cent. Note (1): The Central Statistical Office which is one of the two wings of the National Statistical Organisation (NSO) is responsible for coordination of statistical activities in the country and for evolving and maintaining statistical standards. Its activities include compilation of National Accounts; conduct of Annual Survey of Industries and Economic Censuses, compilation of Index of Industrial Production, as well as Consumer Price Indices. It also deals with various social statistics, training, international cooperation, Industrial Classification etc.
- Waltair (Vishakpatnam) Division in East Coast Railway (ECoR) - AP, Chattisgarh, Odisha; The Diesel Loco Shed at Visakhapatnam, is the largest diesel shed in Indian Railways; Note: East Coast Railway HQ: Bhubaneswar;
- The Kamalnathan Committee’s guidelines approved by the Prime Minister for distribution of State-level employees between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have been uploaded in the State Reorganisation portal.
- Tamil Nadu ignored in UDAAN; Note: different from J&K UDAAN; Note: UDAAN is an initiative of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to enable disadvantaged girl students and other students from SC/ST & minorities to transit from school to post-school professional education specially in Science and Math.
Refer Provisions of Beti Bacho Beti Pado, PRAGATI (Providing Assistance for Girl's Advancement in Technical Education Initiative), SAKSHAM ( Scholarship for differently-abled children), Ishan Uday (Special Scholarship Scheme for Students of NE Region), Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat, SWAYAM (Study webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds Programme); Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (Rural Technologies)
Note: IMPRINT INDIA (Impacting Research, Innovation, Technology for India) - 10 Goal posts of research on Nationally relevant themes:
1. Health care: IIT Kharagpur; 2. Computer Science and ICT –IIT Kharagpur; 3. Energy : IIT Bombay; 4. Sustainable urban design IIT Roorkee; 5. Nano-technology hardware: IIT Bombay; 6. Water resources and River Systems , IIT Kanpur; 7. Advance materials. IIT Kanpur; 8. Manufacturing IIT Madras; 9. Defence IIT Madras; 10. Environment Science and
Climate Change IISC, Bangalore;
- The current investment caps, defined by the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006, stand at Rs.25 lakh for micro; more than Rs.25 lakh to Rs.5 crore for small; and over Rs.5 crore to Rs.10 crore for medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector. For MSMEs in the services sector, these limits are less than Rs.10 lakh, over Rs.10 lakh to Rs.2 crore and over Rs.2 crore to Rs.5 crore, respectively.
- India is the fastest growing and third largest start-up ecosystem in the world after the U.S. and the U.K., according to a Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) a study.
- Monetisation of Hydrocarbon discoveries - Minimum Works Programme - detailed exploration survey such as 2D or 3D seismic, gravity magnetic surveys...
- Five schemes launched by the Ministry of Labour: The Ministry of Labour and Employment organised the Shramev Jayate Karyakram, which launched five main schemes, these schemes are:
- Shram Suvidha Portal: This is a dedicated portal which will allot Labour Identification Number (LIN) to approximately 6 lakh units and allow these units to file online compliance for 16 out of 44 central labour laws.19
- Random Inspection Scheme: Human discretion in selecting units for inspection will be eliminated through the use of technology, and objective criteria will be used to generate a random list. All inspection reports will be uploaded within 72 hours.
- Universal Account Number: A Universal Account Number (UAN) has been allotted to all Employee Provident Fund holders. The UAN is being seeded with the bank account, Aadhaar card and Know-Your-Customer details. This is to make the Provident Fund account portable, hassle-free and universally accessible.
- Apprentice Protsahan Yojana: This scheme will support manufacturing units by reimbursing 50% of the stipend paid to apprentices during the first two years of training.
- Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana: A new smart card for the unorganised sector workers will be provided, which will also include the details of two other social security schemes.
- Post Sachar Evaluation Committee (Chair: Prof. Amitabh Kundu) - Report; Note: Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities; Target Group: Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis)
- Equitable availability of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
- Improving access to School Education
- Greater resources for teaching Urdu
- Modernizing Madarsa Education
- Scholarships for meritorious students from minority communities
- Improving educational infrastructure through the Maulana Azad Education Foundation.
- Self-Employment and Wage Employment for the poor
- Upgradation of skill through technical training
- Enhanced credit support for economic activities
- Recruitment to State and Central Services
- Equitable share in rural housing scheme
- Improvement in condition of slums inhabited by minority communities.
- Prevention of communal incidents
- Prosecution for communal offences
- Rehabilitation of victims of communal riots.
- Bankruptcy Reforms Committee (Chair - T K Viswanathan) - The Committee will examine the corporate bankruptcy legal framework in India, including (i) early detection and resolution, (ii) protection of interest of stakeholders, and (iii) examine the role of institutions involved in liquidation and rescue.
- Corporate Scam and Related Keywords
- Satyam case
- Aircel -Maxis deal
- Saradha chit fund scam
- Sahara Scandal
- NSEL Scam
- DLF case
- Black money Issue
- Union Tribal Welfare Minister Jual Oram launched the Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY), aimed at improving the infrastructure and human development indices of the tribal population. the government had granted approval in principle to recognise Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan as a centre of excellence in the field of tribal language and literature. A proposal to set up a national research centre in the Tribal Research Institute, Bhubaneshwar, to promote studies on the socio-economic development and culture of the tribal people had also been approved. The Ministry would take steps to strengthen the existing institutions for delivery of services to tribal people. The prices of (Minor Forest Products) tendu leaves, bamboo, mahua seeds, sal leaf and seed, lac, chironjee, honey, myrobalan, tamarind, gums and karanji were posted in Website;
- Bangalore Development Authority - Land Issue - HC stand on the report - people retain land under 'G' Category;
Note (1): 'G' Category sites? Rule 5 of the BDA (Allotment of Sites) Rules, 1984, lays out the various categories under which these stray sites can be disposed of. There are seven categories the rule specifies: A (those to be disposed of by way of auction), B (for sportspersons), C (for those who excel in the fields of arts, science, literature, education, medicine and public administration), D (for ex-servicemen); F (for dependents of government servants who die in the line of duty) and G (for persons in public life as may be directed by the government).
- Dual Citizenship issue in Goa;
- Section 5,6,7,8 &13 of National Tax Tribunal (NTT) Act 2005 is unconstitutional - Supreme Court; In the aspects of Efficacy & Convenience (as it is in NCT Delhi), Independence & Fairness, Appointment & Qualification; Note: Transfer of Judicial power permissible only if all conventions & practices of the court to be replaced must be incorporated in the new tribunal;
- Water shortage in large parts of the Capital could finally be on the way out, with the Centre intervening in a long-standing dispute between Delhi and Haryana over commissioning of the Munak Canal.
- The hill State of Himachal is all set to become the ODF (open defecation free) State by 2019 and would aggressively pursue the “Swatch Bharat Mission”; Swacch Bharat Mission replace Nirmal Bharat - It has two component - Gramin (Rural) & Urban unlike NBA which was implemented only in the rural areas; Under the SBM-G, funds will be provided for the following activities: (i) construction of household toilets, (ii) construction of community sanitary complexes, (iii) solid liquid waste management, and (iv) information, education, communication (IEC) activities. For Urban Programme, it will provide for the following: (i) Individual household toilets, (ii) Community and public toilets, and (iii) Municipal Solid Waste Management. The programme will be monitored by a National Advisory and Review Committee, headed by the Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development.
- Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Ordinance 2014
Categorisation - Schedule I (204 blocks) cancelled by SC judgement; Schedule II & III are subset of Schedule I; Sch.II consist of Blocks where production started; Sch.III earmarked for specific end-use by the government; Note: Amendment to other Acts: The Ordinance amends the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973, and the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 to allow for the changes proposed.
- New rate of royalty and dead rent for minerals
- Amendment to Citizenship Act, 1955 - A merger of the Persons of Indian Origin and the Overseas Citizenship of India schemes as “Overseas Indian Cardholders”. (Refer PRS Summary)
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