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Civil Services Monthly June 2021 CIVIL SERVICES MONTHLY JUNE 2021 “AMBITAG“ Delta variant of covid-19 Dihing Patkai is Assam’s 7th National Park UNDP Report Lauds Aspirational Districts Programme ‘Jivan Vayu’ ‘ITAT E-DWAR‘ Nuclear-capable Agni-P missile test-fired ONE STOP SOLUTION FOR CIVILONE STOP FOR SERVICES SOLUTION NATRAX- the High Speed Track(HST) in Indore A Greener Urbanscape Opening the UAPA Box DO NOT HARM: conversion therapy Delhi’s sea blindness Bad Bank lessons from China restoration of degraded land in India INDEX PRELIMS "AmbiTAG" 01 Centre's fiscal deficit for FY21 settles at 9.2% of GDP 01 India's GDP contracted by 7.3% in 2021 as per NSO 02 Recent MOU on Digital ecosystem of Agriculture 02 Initiatives around Compressed Bio Gas to give filip to SATAT scheme 03 ‘India Cycles4Change’ 04 “Cooperation in the field of Mass Media” among SCO members 05 Union cabinet approved the Model Tenancy Act 06 Wheat procured with all time high MSP value 06 Delta variant of covid-19 07 Indian Railways on way to become “Largest Green Railways” in the world 08 India’s First Indigenous Tumour Antigen SPAG9 09 INS Sandhayak decommissioned 09 Punjab, T.N. and Kerala top education index ranking 10 Niclosamide for treatment of Covid-19 10 Van Dhan Yojana in the Union Territory of Ladakh 11 Maldives wins UNGA election 11 World Bank sees India growing by 8.3% 11 Rengma Nagas demand autonomous council 12 first commercial consignment of GI certified Jardalu mangoes is exported 12 First CAR-T cell therapy conducted 13 India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) 13 Centre announces hike in MSP for paddy, pulses, oilseeds 14 Dihing Patkai is Assam’s 7th National Park 14 Biden, Johnson seek to sign ‘new Atlantic Charter’ 14 CHIME telescope yields unprecedented results 14 Maharashtra govt. clears action plan to protect heritage trees 15 Prime Minister’s participation in 47th G7 Summit 15 COMSOL Platform through I-STEM for academic researchers at no cost 16 Centre takes steps to engage with J&K parties 16 Farm Mechanization – A mandatory change 17 3-D seismic data can help apprehend precursors of marine geohazards 17 UNDP Report Lauds Aspirational Districts Programme 18 G7 agrees to boost climate finance 19 Tree of coffee family discovered in Andaman and Nicobar 19 Rare earth metals at the heart of China-U.S. rivalry 19 New waste water treatment technology can reduce costs 20 Tigray crisis: A new ‘famine’ in Ethiopia 20 ‘China, India, Pak. Expanding nuclear arsenal’ 21 Consumer inflation quickens to 6.3% 21 ‘Jivan Vayu’ 22 Cancer causing virus affects the glial cells in central nervous system 22 FCI rice to be used for ethanol production 23 NAFED launches Fortified Rice Bran Oil 23 improved method of imaging objects through fog 24 India to launch deep ocean mission 24 Cabinet approval for OFB corporatisation 24 Direct tax receipts jump 100% this FY 25 Development of National Maritime Heritage Complex(NMHC) at Lothal 25 'AdiPrashikshan Portal' 25 Government releases Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India 26 Space-time induces neutrino oscillations 26 Climate change to increase sea level in Lakshadweep 26 Work begins on Krivak class frigate 27 Pact signed to conserve rare turtle in Assam 27 India organised a two-day summit on green hydrogen involving BRICS 27 nations Bt cotton adoption showed benefits: study 28 EU-INDIA joint naval exercise 28 4 theatre commands likely this year 28 ARCI develops cost-effective catalysts for metal-air battery 29 Pakistan to remain on FATF greylist 29 Tap water supply increases four-fold in 117 Aspirational districts 30 DRDO tests enhanced range Pinaka rocket 30 Tibet gets first bullet train links Lhasa to India border 30 'ITAT E-DWAR' 31 Drones are now a favoured terror tool 31 Nanogenerators can harvest electricity from vibrations 32 Govt. unveils ₹6.28 lakh crore stimulus post 2nd COVID wave 32 ‘CoWIN’s open-source version to be provided to 50 nations 32 Nuclear-capable Agni-P missile test-fired 33 P. Sainath selected for 2021 Fukuoka Grand Prize 33 India to become Aatmanirbhar in Phosphatic Fertilisers 33 APEDA facilitated exports of Burmese grapes ‘Leteku’ to Dubai 34 NATRAX- the High Speed Track(HST) in Indore 34 Discovery of a new source of gravitational waves 35 SEBI brings in new ‘investors’; stricter independent directors norms 35 Study indicates association of cloud bursts with forest fires 36 Centre expedites capacity of the fortification of rice to increase 36 GENERAL STUDIES – 1 INDIAN HERITAGE AND CULTURE, HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD AND SOCIETY The lessons for India from China’s restrictive One-Child policy 36 A Greener Urbanscape 38 the legalisation of same sex marriages and government's stand 39 Why the Monsoon is early? 41 Equality is everyone’s work 42 GENERAL STUDIES-2 GOVERNANCE, CONSTITUTION, POLITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Belligerence and pushback 44 The promise and perils of digital justice delivery 45 The road from Galwan, a year later 46 America’s mistakes in the ‘forever war’ 48 The Kedar Nath sedition ruling 50 DO NOT HARM: conversion therapy 53 The Cornwall Consensus: relevance of the G-7 for India 54 Opening the UAPA box 57 Losing the soft touch 58 Emergency: A story that needs to be retold 60 Treating the hidden pandemic 61 COVID diplomacy 2.0, a different order of tasks 62 Staging a comeback, re-energising India’s Africa policy 64 The comrades and their divergent perspectives 66 GENERAL STUDIES-3 TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BIO-DIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENT, SECURITY AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT Information Technology Rules: a case of overreach? 68 Saving biodiversity, securing earth’s future 69 Cyber-attacks and the vulnerability of nations 70 Planning for a biosecure future 72 Delhi’s sea blindness 74 Re-examine Agri-export basket 76 Bad Bank lessons from China 78 Ration Card Reform, so far 79 improving financial positions of discoms 80 restoration of degraded land in India 81 GENERAL STUDIES-IV ETHICS, INTEGRITY & APTITUDE The power of an apology 83 CHAHAL ACADEMY PRELIMS "AMBITAG" IIT Ropar develops "AmbiTAG"- India's first indigenous temperature data logger for the cold chain management. a. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT Ropar) in Punjab has developed a first-of-its-kind IoT device – AmbiTag that records real-time ambient temperature during the transportation of perishable products, vaccines and even body organs and blood. b. Features: i. Shaped as USB device, AmbiTag continuously records the temperature of its immediate surroundings “from -40 to +80 degrees in any time zone for a full 90 days on a single charge. ii. Most of the similar devices available in the international market record data only for duration of 30- 60 days. He said it generates an alert when the temperature goes beyond a pre-set limit. iii. The recorded data can be retrieved by connecting the USB with any computer. iv. The device has been developed under Technology Innovation Hub – AWaDH (Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub) and its Startup ScratchNest. c. Uses: i. That recorded temperature further helps to know whether that particular item transported from anywhere in the world is still usable or perished because of temperature variation. ii. This information is particularly critical for vaccines including Covid-19 vaccine, organs and blood transportation. CENTRE'S FISCAL DEFICIT FOR FY21 SETTLES AT 9.2% OF GDP Centre's fiscal deficit for FY21 settles at 9.2% of GDP vs target of 9.5% a. The Centre’s fiscal deficit for the financial year 2020-21 settled at 9.2% of the gross domestic product, marginally below the government’s revised target of 9.5%. b. This was on the back of better-than-expected revenue receipts with expenditure staying broadly at the level targeted in the revised estimates of the Budget. c. In absolute terms, India’s fiscal deficit was Rs 18.21 trillion, about Rs 27,194 crore lower than the projected Rs 18.48 trillion, as per the provisional estimates released by Controller General of Accounts. 1 OUR BRANCHES: New Delhi | Mumbai | Kolkata | Chennai | Ahmedabad | Bengaluru | Bhilai | Bhubaneswar | Chandigarh | Dehradun | Gandhinagar | Guwahati | Hyderabad| Kanpur | Lucknow | Mehsana | Nagaland | Patna | Raipur | Rajkot | Ranchi | Surat | Vadodara | WhatsApp no: 7284911227 - 7284811227 [email protected] CHAHAL ACADEMY d. The fiscal deficit of 9.2% has been estimated based on provisional estimates for FY21 GDP of Rs 197.46 trillion. INDIA'S GDP CONTRACTED BY 7.3% IN 2021 AS PER NSO India's GDP contracted by 7.3% in 2021 as per NSO. a. News: India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 7.3% in 2020-21, as per provisional National Income estimates released by the National Statistical Office, marginally better than the 8% contraction in the economy projected earlier. i. GDP growth in 2019-20, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was 4%. ii. The Gross Value Added (GVA) in the economy shrank 6.2% in 2020-21, compared to a 4.1% rise in the previous year. iii. Only two sectors bucked the trend of negative GVA growth — 1) Agriculture, forestry and fishing, which rose 3.6%, and 2) Electricity, gas, water supply and other utility services (up 1.9%). b. Though this is the bleakest performance on record for the economy, the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020-21 helped moderate the damage, with a higher-than-expected growth of 1.6% in GDP. This marked the second quarter of positive growth after the country entered a technical recession in the first half of the year. c. GDP had contracted 24.4% in the April to June 2020 quarter, followed by a 7.4% shrinkage in the second quarter.
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