O F F I C E R S ' P U L S E Issue no. 08| 18th July to 24th July, 2021 NOTHING GREAT COMES EASY A T A G L A N C E & I N D E P T H . Polity and Social Issues C O V E R A G E . The Hindu Economy The Indian Express International Relations PIB Environment Rajya Sabha TV Science and Tech All India Radio Culture CURRENT AFFAIRS WEEKLY THE PULSE OF UPSC AT YOUR FINGER TIPS 1 News @ a glance POLITY ................................................................................. 3 2) Asian Development Bank ................................... 14 1) Privilege Motion ........................................................ 3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ................................. 16 2) Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 ................ 4 1) AI tool NBDriver ..................................................... 16 3) Mid-Day Meal Scheme ............................................ 5 2) Project 75-I ................................................................ 16 3) Lokpal ............................................................................. 6 DEFENCE .......................................................................... 17 ENVIRONMENT ............................................................... 9 1) Indian Multirole Helicopter .............................. 17 1) Nil to 48 in 20 years; Assam’s Manas sees 2) Akash-NG and MPATGM ..................................... 17 amazing rise in tiger numbers ............................ 9 PIB ANALYSIS................................................................. 20 2) Microplastics in River Ganga .............................. 9 1) Corporate Social Responsibility ..................... 20 ECONOMY ........................................................................ 11 2) Special Economic Zones (SEZ) ........................ 20 1) GST Compensations .............................................. 11 3) Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati .................. 21 2) Central Bank Digital Currency ........................ 11 4) Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement 3) India Inequality Report 2021 .......................... 12 Project Scheme ......................................................... 21 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS .............................. 14 1) China-South Asia grouping ............................... 14 For free learning, visit www.officerspulse.com 2 News in Depth AIR NEWS ........................................................................ 23 3) India must directly engage with Taliban 1) Members of Parliament Local Area 2.0 .................................................................................... 29 Development Scheme ........................................... 23 4) Pegasus is India’s Watergate moment ........ 30 2) Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme24 INDIAN EXPRESS EXPLAINED............................... 33 3) LaQshya....................................................................... 24 1) The Great Indian Bustards of Kutch: their 4) G20 & Paris Agreement ...................................... 25 habitats, existential threat ................................. 33 THE HINDU EDITORIALS ........................................ 27 2) The challenge of skilling India ......................... 34 1) The crisis ahead, from learning loss to INFOGRAPHIC OF THE WEEK ............................... 36 resumption................................................................. 27 1) Purchasing Managers Index ............................. 36 2) Surveillance reform is the need of the hour ............................................................................... 28 For free learning, visit www.officerspulse.com 3 News @ a glance POLITY 1) Privilege Motion proceedings of the House without the What are Parliamentary privileges? permission of the House. Parliamentary privileges are certain rights . The Parliamentary houses also have and immunities enjoyed by members of consequential powers necessary for the Parliament, individually and collectively, so protection of its privileges and immunities. that they can “effectively discharge their These powers are: functions”. When any of these rights and 1. To commit persons, whether they are immunities is disregarded, the offence is members or not, for breach of privilege or called a breach of privilege and is contempt of the House; punishable under law of Parliament. 2. To compel the attendance of witnesses and . It should be noted that the parliamentary to send for persons, papers and records; privileges do not extend to the President 3. To regulate its procedure and the conduct who is also an integral part of the of its business; Parliament. 4. To prohibit the publication of its debates Legal provisions and proceedings and . The powers, privileges and immunities of 5. To exclude strangers. either House of the Indian Parliament and What constitutes a breach of this privilege? of its Members and committees are laid . While the Constitution has accorded special down in Article 105 of the Constitution. privileges and powers to parliamentarians . Article 194 deals with the powers, and legislators to maintain the dignity and privileges and immunities of the State authority of the Houses, these powers and Legislatures, their Members and their privileges are not codified. committees. Thus, there are no clear, notified rules to . Apart from the privileges as specified in the decide what constitutes a breach of Constitution, the Code of Civil Procedure, privilege, and the punishment it attracts. 1908, provides for freedom from arrest and . Any act that obstructs or impedes either detention of members under civil process House of the state legislature in performing during the continuance of the meeting of the its functions, or which obstructs or impedes House or of a committee thereof and forty any Member or officer of such House in the days before its commencement and forty discharge of his duty, or has a tendency, days after its conclusion. directly or indirectly, to produce such . In addition to the above mentioned results is treated as breach of privilege. privileges and immunities each House also . It is a breach of privilege and contempt of enjoys certain Privileges based on Rules the House to make speeches or to print or of Procedure and precedents such as: publish false information reflecting on the 1. The Chairman has a right to receive character or proceedings of the House, or its immediate information of the arrest, Committees, or on any member of the detention, conviction, imprisonment and House for or relating to his character or release of a member on a criminal charge or conduct as a legislator. for a criminal offence. Procedure to be followed 2. Members or officers of the House cannot be . The Legislative Assembly Speaker or compelled to give evidence or to produce Legislative Council Chairman constitutes a documents in courts of law, relating to the Privileges Committee consisting of 15 members in the Assembly and 10 members in the Council. For free learning, visit www.officerspulse.com 4 . The members to the committee are religious or political beliefs, or any other nominated based on the party strength in category of data specified by the the Houses. government, in consultation with the . The Speaker or Chairman first decides on Authority and the concerned sectoral the motions. If the privilege and contempt regulator. are found prima facie, then the Speaker or Obligations of data fiduciary Chairman will forward it to the Privileges . A data fiduciary is an entity or individual Committee by following the due procedure. who decides the means and purpose of . The Committee, which has quasi-judicial processing personal data. Such processing powers, will seek an explanation from all will be subject to certain purpose, collection the concerned, will conduct an inquiry and and storage limitations. For instance, will make a recommendation based on the personal data can be processed only for findings to the state legislature for its specific, clear and lawful purposes. consideration. Additionally, all data fiduciaries must Punishment undertake certain transparency and . If the Committee finds the offender guilty of accountability measures such as: (i) breach of privilege and contempt, it can implementing security safeguards (such as recommend the punishment. The data encryption and preventing misuse of punishment can include communicating the data), and (ii) instituting grievance displeasure of the state legislature to the redressal mechanisms to address offender, summoning the offender before complaints of individuals. They must also the House and giving a warning, and even institute mechanisms for age verification sending the offender to jail. and parental consent when processing . In the case of the media, press facilities of sensitive personal data of children. the state legislature may be withdrawn, and Rights of the individual a public apology may be sought. The Bill sets out certain rights of the Why in News? individual (or data principal). These . Opposition party in the Parliament moved a include the right to: (i) obtain confirmation privilege motion against a Member of from the fiduciary on whether their Parliament. personal data has been processed, (ii) seek correction of inaccurate, incomplete, or out- 2) Personal Data Protection Bill, of-date personal data, (iii) have personal 2019 data transferred to any other data fiduciary in certain circumstances, and (iv) restrict About the Bill continuing disclosure of their personal data . The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was by a fiduciary,