Category: Daily Editorials for UPSC IAS Exam Preparation
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Analysis: National Health Policy 2017
Welcome to Daily Editorial Initiative! Following Article analyzes the National Health Policy (NHP, 2017): Context It is 15 years since we had a National Health Policy (NHP) modified. The last policy was formulated in 2002. Now the Cabinet has cleared the latest NHP 2017 to address the address current and emerging challenges rising from changing socio-economic…
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A Report on Analysis of Job Creation in India: Daily Editorial
Context India needs eight percent growth over the next 20 to 30 years to grow the Indian economy from a lower-middle income country to an upper-middle income country The advantage to us is that India has a huge population of youth which if well utilised by providing jobs can reap rich dividends for India-…
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Security Issues- Maoists Strike again: Daily Editorial
Context: 12 CRPF personnel were killed and 4 severely injured in an ambush by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district which is one of the biggest in the past two years. Details of the incident The team was en route to a road construction site in the Bhejji forest area where Maoists rigged the entire area…
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The saga of Pulses in India: Daily Editorial
Context Around this time last year, pulses price was soaring to as much as 200/kg in the backdrop of successive droughts in 2014, 2015. This year situation is somewhat under control but there are heightened concerns at the policy level to find ways and means to augment pulses supplies. The Government has taken several measures…
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No representation to U.N. scientific panel – UNCLOS: Daily Editorial
Context India is strenuously lobbying for the seats in United Nations Security Council and the Nuclear Suppliers Group but for the first time in two decades India may not have a member in a prestigious, U.N. scientific body that decides what portions of the seabed can be exclusively mined for natural resources such as oil,…
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Supreme Court Judgement on Judicial Delays: Daily Editorial
Context Delay in disposal of cases, not only creates disillusionment amongst the litigants but also undermines the capability of the system to impart justice in an efficient and effective manner. Hearing a petition a Bench of Justices A.K. Goel and U.U. Lalit, in their 22-page judgment, said there was no room for non-performers among the…
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Daily Editorial – Supporting Mothers: Maternity Benefits (Amendment), 2016
Context The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 is passed by the Parliament on March 10th. The Bill is an amendment to the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, which protects the employment of women and entitles her to full-paid absence from work to take care of her child. Once the President gives his assent to the Bill,…
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Buy Indian Policy : Daily Editorial
Context There is news floating around that, the government is mulling to propose “Buy Indian” Policy that is similar to Trump’s Buy American policy to promote its flagship Make in India programme through a national government procurement policy. What is the policy about? The policy being considered involves purchases of Rs 2 trillion a year…
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Current Affairs Fodder: Long Pending Police Reforms
Context Last week Supreme Court rejected a plea seeking police reforms and said “Police reforms are going on and on. Nobody listens to our orders.” Let us examine in detail the story of Police reforms in India. Timeline Way back in 1979, the Janata government appointed a National Police Commission (NPC) to report on policing…
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Disaster Management: Taming Forest Fires in India
Introduction The most common hazard in forests is forests fire. Forests fires are as old as the forests themselves. They pose a threat not only to the forest wealth but also to the entire regime to fauna and flora seriously disturbing the bio-diversity and the ecology and environment of a region. Come Feb-March every year,…
