UPPCS Pattern Current Affairs - May 2020 Target PCS Lucknow https://targetpcslucknow.com/ Whatsapp/Call US@ 7390023092 UPPCS Pattern Current Affairs - May 2020 Contents National & Polity ..................................................................................................................................... 3 International News ............................................................................................................................... 26 Economics ............................................................................................................................................. 46 Environment ......................................................................................................................................... 81 Science and Technology ........................................................................................................................ 89 Government Schemes ......................................................................................................................... 135 Person, Place, Awards in News ........................................................................................................... 156 Uttar Pradesh News ............................................................................................................................ 207 Workplaces will be monitored through the ‘Safety app’ ................................................................ 207 Yogi government distributed 2002 crore loans to small entrepreneurs ........................................ 207 UP will build a township to woo Japanese investors ...................................................................... 207 Help desk for European Union will be created in UP ...................................................................... 207 'EPF contribution should not be reduced below 24 percent' ......................................................... 208 Government will create employment by raising "60,000 crores in MSME accounts" ................... 208 10 percent more loan on KCC ......................................................................................................... 209 Now farmers will be able to sell wheat at the purchase center without token ............................. 209 Terracotta of Gorakhpur won the brand title ................................................................................. 209 Lifetime imprisonment if you intentionally infect someone .......................................................... 209 State epidemic control authority to be formed .............................................................................. 209 Speeding up the business of the affected state due to lockdown .................................................. 210 Subhead- Division Bench of High Court upholds UP Government's mandate................................ 210 Yogi government is making arrangements for more than 20 lakh migrants .................................. 210 Promotion of startup in the state ................................................................................................... 210 58 thousand women will get employment ..................................................................................... 211 2,572 art units to be set up in the state ......................................................................................... 211 Labor welfare commission .............................................................................................................. 211 Target PCS Lucknow Page 1 UPPCS Pattern Current Affairs - May 2020 Dear students, We have made few changes in this month's current affairs compilation. As we all know a building and a strong foundation both are of use only when both are strongly held together. Same is the case with Current affairs. You have to be strong in Current affairs and equally strong in static part as well. This is why we have come up with the idea of interlinking current and static parts in this month's magazine. Based on the feedback, we will tweak things in future as well. Now you will slowly adapt to linking static with current and with time this will help you develop a thought process of your own. Now onwards, studying Current affairs will not be a separate part but it will help you revise your different subjects along side. We not only strive to give you test series and current affairs magazine but we strive to bring out the best in you. So go for the best as even sky is not the limit. All feedbacks are most welcomed. Target PCS Lucknow Page 2 UPPCS Pattern Current Affairs - May 2020 National & Polity NEWS A joint team of Nagarik Suraksha Mancha, mostly representing Bengali people displaced from erstwhile East Pakistan post-partition in 1947, and the Mizo Convention have submitted a memorandum to Tripura Chief Minister protesting the proposed settlement of the displaced Brus in Kanchanpur Sub-Division of North Tripura district. Important points for Prelims The centre, in January 2020, signed a historic pact for permanent solution of Bru refugees’ issue. The agreement was between Union Government, Governments of Tripura and Mizoram and Bru-Reang representatives to end the 23-year old Bru- Reang refugee crisis. Opponents, now, do not want the Brus to settle in Kanchanpur Sub- Division of North Tripura district. The two organisations, however, clarified that they have no objection to the settlement of Brus in 22 other sub- divisions of Tripura Background: More than 30,000 Bru tribes who fled Mizoram, are residing in Tripura’s refugee camps. The Brus, also referred to as the Reangs, are spread across the northeastern states of Tripura, Assam, Manipur, and Mizoram. In Tripura, they are recognised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group. In Mizoram, they have been targeted by groups that do not consider them indigenous to the state. The issue: A bout of ethnic violence forced thousands of people from the Bru tribe to leave their homes in Mizoram. The displaced Bru people from Mizoram have been living in various camps in Tripura since 1997. In 1997, the murder of a Mizo forest guard at the Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mizoram’s Mamit district allegedly by Bru militants led to a violent backlash against the community, forcing several thousand people to flee to neighbouring Tripura. The Bru militancy was a reactionary movement against Mizo nationalist groups who had demanded in the mid-1990s that the Brus be left out of the state’s electoral rolls, contending that the tribe was not indigenous to Mizoram. Implications to static GS topics Major Tribes of North East India. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- NEWS Target PCS Lucknow Page 3 UPPCS Pattern Current Affairs - May 2020 Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu recently held a meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla and discussed the issue of feasibility of various Committees of Parliament holding their meetings at the earliest in the prevailing situation and in the context of restrictions on travel across the country. They also discussed pros and cons of Parliamentary Committees holding meetings by video conferencing. Important points for Prelims What are the types of committees? ‘Standing’ committees: Their existence is uninterrupted and usually reconstituted on an annual basis. Some standing committees are departmentally related. ‘Select’ committees formed for a specific purpose, for instance, to deliberate on a particular bill. Once the Bill is disposed of, that select committee ceases to exist. Finance committees are considered to be particularly powerful. The three financial committees are the Public Accounts Committee, the Estimates Committee and the Committee on Public Undertakings. Powers: Parliamentary committees draw their authority from Article 105 (on privileges of Parliament members) and Article 118 (on Parliament’s authority to make rules for regulating its procedure and conduct of business). Significance: Committee reports are usually exhaustive and provide authentic information on matters related to governance. Bills that are referred to committees are returned to the House with significant value addition. However, Parliament is not bound by the recommendations of committees. Why have parliamentary committees? Parliament is the embodiment of the people’s will. Committees are an instrument of Parliament for its own effective functioning. The smaller cohort of lawmakers, assembled on the basis of the proportional strength of individual parties and interests and expertise of individual lawmakers, could have more open, intensive and better- informed discussions. Members of Parliament may have great acumen but they would require the assistance of experts in dealing with such situations. It is through committees that such expertise is drawn into lawmaking. Executive accountability to the legislature is enforced through questions in Parliament also, which are answered by ministers. However, department standing committees go one step further and hear from senior officials of the government in a closed setting, allowing for more detailed discussions. Target PCS Lucknow Page 4 UPPCS Pattern Current Affairs - May 2020 This mechanism also enables parliamentarians to understand the executive processes closely. How can these committees be made more effective? Parliamentary committees don’t have dedicated subject-wise research support available. The knowledge gap