Polity and Governance Current Affairs For UPSC IAS Mains 2025 Examination

Synopsis: E-governance holds the promise of improving local governance, but only if we pay attention to the basics. Introduction To have a smart city, there is a need to make all the departments of the city smart. In such cities, good governance is dependent on good service delivery. This requires good availability of data. Thus,… Continue reading Make departments smart, first

Synopsis: The CAG’s auditing standards highlight the importance of performance audits for promoting transparency and evaluating outcomes. Contents1 Introduction2 What is the Public accounts Committee (PAC)?3 What is the work of PAC?4 What are the citizen scorecards?5 How can the scorecards be made?6 How these scorecards will prove beneficial? Introduction Soon, Parliament is going to… Continue reading Citizen scorecards for better accountability

Synopsis: Despite Prakash Singh’s judgement on police reforms, the reforms largely remain on paper. Thus, this demands a closer and deeper analysis. Contents1 Introduction2 What are the challenges facing police reforms?3 What were the recommendations given by the Supreme Court?4 What should be the way forward? Introduction On September 22, 2006, in the historic Judgement… Continue reading Creating citizen centric police

What is the News? Meghalaya chief minister and Union Information and Technology (MeitY) Minister has jointly launched ‘MeghEA- Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture’. About MeghEA- Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Aim: To improve service delivery and governance for the people of Meghalaya using the power of digital technologies. Pillars: MeghEA initiative is spread across 6 pillars namely:  Governance, Human… Continue reading Meghalaya Enterprise Architecture Project (MeghEA) launched by IT Minister and CM Meghalaya

Source: This post is based on the article “The next step in democratic evolution is overdue” published in The Hindu on 1st September 2021. Relevance: The article highlights the importance of democracy and the base or structure on which it is built i.e constitutions and laws. Synopsis: India must change, from elected authoritarianism towards participative… Continue reading The next step in democratic evolution is overdue

Source: PIB What is the news? In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions stated various administrative reforms brought by the government, to encourage greater efficiency, to transparency and create corruption free governance by increasing accountability and reduce scope for discretion. Reforms Initiated Launch of… Continue reading Major Administrative Reforms by the govt

Source: Business Standard Relevance – How the new Ministry of Co-operation can make a significant positive impact on the ground Background On July 6, the Government of India announced the creation of a new Ministry of Co-operation. Over 300 million people are members of around 800,000 co-operatives in India today. Read more – Ministry of Cooperation… Continue reading Co-operation ministry: Harbinger of hope?

Source: Indian Express Synopsis: Ministry of Cooperation cannot always guarantee price stabilisation and growth. Do cooperatives guarantee growth? Firstly, in 1991 it improved the terms of trade for agriculture and benefitted millions of farmers. Agri-exports zoomed, but this led to higher domestic prices. Secondly, in 1991, the finance minister wanted to delicense the dairy sector… Continue reading Areas of Cooperation and Competition

Source: Business Standard Relevance: Understanding government’s role in furthering growth of media and creative industry Synopsis: The state is tightening its control over what we read, watch, hear or laugh at. Why not facilitate our soft power instead of clamping down on its strengths? Tightening the state control Draft cinematograph bill 2021: In June 2021,… Continue reading Hard knocks for soft power

Source: The Indian Express Relevance: The new government rules restrict free speech and impact the transparency and accountability of the government. Synopsis: The new government rules restrict the free speech of retired bureaucrats. About the new rules: The central government recently prohibits officers who retired from 25 critical organisations not to publish anything without taking… Continue reading Why ex-bureaucrats speak up

Context: Undercounting of COVID-related deaths in India  What is the issue?  Due to gaps in the civil registration data, the actual death toll due to COVID is still a mystery. There’s no way to know it because the aggregated all-India civil registration data is only available until 2018.  What is the impact of lack of data? Or… Continue reading Counting the dead

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