Category: Daily Editorials for UPSC IAS Exam Preparation

Fiscal Responsibility of States Context It is a grand achievement that the fiscal deficit target of 3.5% of GDP for the past year was met successfully. As a result of which, beyond the 3.2% fiscal deficit target for the current year, the government has accepted a 3% target thereafter. Continuing this trend in the future…

Context 25 CRPF Jawans were killed by Naxalists in frontal attack at Sukma. This is one of the gravest tragedies for our security systems in the recent times. Naxalism was dubbed as the “single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country” by then PM Manmohan Singh in 2006. Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, in his…

  Context Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari visited Delhi recently which was officially termed as a “grand success”. But that India is losing clout and credibility in Nepal is no more a secret. That naturally calls for serious introspection into what has gone wrong in the relations along with corrective measures to address them, especially…

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the award of 31 contract areas as part of the Discovered Small Field (DSF) Bid Round 2016. These fields were offered under new policy for small fields known as Discovered Small Field (DSF) policy, 2015, which offers improved fiscal terms with the aim to enhance Oil and gas…

Senior tribal leader from Chhattisgarh and ex parliamentarian Shri Nand Kuamr Sai assumed charge as the chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST). A large percentage of tribals in our country are still not aware of their rights guaranteed to them by the constitutions. Shri Sai said he will see to it that NCST…

Context China People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is building second aircraft carrier referred to as “Type 001A” and that another carrier, dubbed “Type 002”, is also under construction. The Type 002 represents not only a much bigger class of ship but will incorporate modern design and operational features, including a catapult and early-warning aircraft. Strategic…

Context Recently, the Union government has embarked on reconstituting National Commission for Backward Classes by graduating it to the levels of National Commissions for SCs and STs as a constitutional body. This lay open the faultlines in the reservation policy and how it underlies a political current which sometimes burst in the form of reservation…

Context The Indian Meteorological Department has announced normal monsoon this year in 2017 after two drought years in 2014 and 2015, with respite in 2016. The fact that Indian agriculture is largely dependent on the monsoon reveals the good prospects for Indian economy ahead in the year given agriculture being the base. Simultaneously, it will…