29th May 2021 (5 Topics)
29th May 2021
GS-II:Polity and Governance
- Mechanisms, Laws, Institutions and Bodies constituted for the Protection and Betterment of the Vulnerable Sections.
Context
The Assam government recently created the Welfare of Bodoland Department for dealing with issues related to four districts under the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).
What are the broad demands of people residing in north eastern part of the country? Do you think that 3rd Bodo Accord will strike a balance between national integrity and aspirations of our citizens in those areas?
GS-III:Environment
- Conservation, Environmental Pollution and Degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment.
GS-III:Security
- Linkages between Development and Spread of Extremism.
Context
The slew of regulations to be brought up by the Administrator of UT of Lakshadweep, on the account of pushing developmental measures, has raised environmental concerns in the region.
“Our efforts to divert a fair share of tourism from Maldives towards Lakshadweep overlooking the nefarious player in the Indian Ocean Region has the conspicuous potential to challenge the sovereignty of our nation amid rising separatist movement throughout the country.” Critically comment
GS-II:Polity and Governance
- Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
GS-III:Science and Technology
- Awareness in the field of Biotechnology
Context
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) filed a fresh complaint against a yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his alleged statements against allopathy medicines amid the raging coronavirus pandemic in the country.
“The nation where Corona Warriors and their skills are subjected to defamation is already on its death bed in this ongoing pandemic.” Critically comment highlighting the challenges Corona Warriors have faced in recent rimes.
GS-II:International Relations
- Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
Context
The QUAD was initially formed as an ad hoc grouping after the 2004 Tsunami, with an aim to provide humanitarian relief to the effected region—it was an informal Quadrilateral Security Dialogue forum which became a diplomatic dialogue in 2007. However, QUAD 1.0 disintegrated in its nascent stage in the year 2007 due to Australia’s reluctance.
After a gap of almost 10 years, in 2017, QUAD was revived under the new name of QUAD 2.0. Although QUAD 2.0, in principle, maintains that the grouping is not against any country, but on the other hand have made it clear that, China’s expansionist designs have manifested the counter-china approach of the QUAD.
What are the circumstances that have led to the formation of Quad? How can it help India to have strategic autonomy in the present global order?
GS-III:Security Issues
- Challenges to Internal Security through Communication Networks, Role of Media and Social Networking Sites in Internal Security Challenges, Basics of Cyber Security; Money-Laundering and its prevention.
Context
As we move towards a data driven economy, there is an exponential increase in critical information infrastructure (CII).
The entire digital ecosystem of CII in India is imported and is vulnerable to backdoors, malwares and cyber-attacks.
Startup India, Make in India and Digital India are required to promote an indigenized ecosystem for all of our CII.
In the interim, there are certain security steps that are required to be undertaken by all organisations to protect their CII.
Warfare in information domain is a ‘blue ocean’ as international bodies are yet to identify the complete nature of threats that can possibly be posed by information warfare. Considering this, discuss about the cyber threats to the India’s critical information infrastructure and its preparedness.
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