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UPSC Current Affairs January 2019 in English www.gradeup.co 1 www.gradeup.co Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Preparation 01.01.2019 2. Cabinet approves Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 1. Kashmir Stag (Hangul) Notification 2018 • Recently The Union Cabinet has • Recently it is found that Kashmir Stag approved the Coastal Regulation Zone has begun using an old migratory (CRZ) Notification, 2018 which was route has given fresh hoped to last reviewed and issued in 2011. conservationists. • In 2014, Ministry of Environment Kashmir stag constituted a committee under the • The Kashmir stag, also called hangul, chairmanship of Dr. Shailesh Nayak to is a subspecies of elk native to India. recommend changes in the CRZ • It is found in dense riverine forests in Notification, 2011 and submitted its the high valleys and mountains of the recommendation in 2015. Kashmir Valley and northern Chamba • CRZ 2018 notification includes many district in Himachal Pradesh. recommendations of the committee. • In Kashmir, it's found in the Dachigam Benefits National Park where it receives • The proposed CRZ Notification, 2018 protection but elsewhere it is more at will lead to enhanced activities in the risk. coastal regions thereby promoting • Earlier believed to be a subspecies of economic growth while also red deer, a number of mitochondrial respecting the conservation principles DNA genetic studies have revealed of coastal regions. that the hangul is part of the Asian • It will not only result in significant clade of the elk. employment generation but also to a better life and add value to the • It is the state animal of Jammu and economy of India. The new Kashmir. notification is expected to rejuvenate Distribution and ecology the coastal areas while reducing their • This deer found in dense riverine vulnerabilities. forests, high valleys, and mountains Silent Features: of the Kashmir valley and northern 1. Allowing FSI as per current norms in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh. CRZ areas: • In Kashmir, it's found in the Dachigam 2. In the CRZ, 2018 Notification, ‘Floor National Park (at elevations of 3,035 Space Index (FSI)’ or ‘Floor Area Ratio meters), Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary, (FAR)’ has been decided to de-freeze Overa Aru, Sind Valley, and in the for CRZ-II (Urban) areas. forests of Kishtwar&Bhaderwah. 3. Earlier, as per CRZ 2011, it was frozen. Dachigam National Park 4. CRZ 2018 permits FSI for construction • The Dachigam National Park (DNP) is projects. This will enable located at Umaria district in Jammu redevelopment of these areas to meet and Kashmir (J&K). the emerging needs. 5. Densely populated rural areas to be • The main animal species that afforded greater opportunity for Dachigam is known for is the hangul development: (or the Kashmir stag). For Rural areas, two separate categories • Other species include Musk deer, have been stipulated as below: Leopard, Himalayan serow, 1. CRZ-III A – Himalayan grey langur, Leopard cat, These are densely populated rural Himalayan black bear, etc. areas with a population density of Topic- GS Paper 3 – Environment 2161 per square kilometer as per Source- The Hindu 2011 Census. 2 www.gradeup.co These areas will have a No 3. Digital Detox: An app to cure your Development Zone (NDZ) of 50 mobile addiction meters from the High Tide Line (HTL) • Doctors at the National Institute of as against 200 meters from HTL in the Mental Health and Neuro Sciences CRZ 2011. (NIMHANS) have come up with a 2. CRZ-III B – mobile app Digital Detox application These rural areas have a population that helps people reduce their mobile density of below 2161 per square usage. kilometer as per 2011 Census. Related Information Such areas will continue to have an • The app asks users to specify their NDZ of 200 meters from the HTL. addiction-related symptoms, such as • Tourism infrastructure for basic sleep disturbance, eye strain, amenities to be promoted: loneliness, boredom, or excess i) Temporary tourism facilities such as Facebook usage. shacks, toilet blocks, change rooms, • It asks users if their mobile usage drinking water facilities etc. have now affects their academics, work or been permitted in Beaches. interpersonal relationships, and has a ii) Such temporary tourism facilities feature where you also have the are also now permissible in the ‘No option of sharing your progress with Development Zone (NDZ)’ of the CRZ- friends. III areas as per the Notification. • The study found that 75.6% of the iii) However, a minimum distance of app’s users changed their mobile use 10 m from HTL should be maintained pattern and showed a significant for setting up of such facilities. reduction in the time spent on • CRZ Clearances in various zones have technology. been streamlined. Topic- GS Paper 2 – Health Issues • A No Development Zone (NDZ) of 20 Source- The Hindu meters has been stipulated for all Islands. 4. Centre extends AFSPA in • All Ecologically Sensitive Areas have Nagaland been accorded special importance. • Recently, the entire State of Nagaland • Specific guidelines related to their has been declared ‘disturbed area’ for conservation and management plans six more months, till June 2019, have been drawn up as a part of the under the controversial AFSPA. CRZ Notification. • AFSPA empowers security forces to a) Ministry of Environment has been conduct operations anywhere and tasked to clear only those projects arrest anyone without any prior which are located in, i) CRZ-I notice. (Ecologically Sensitive Areas) ii) CRZ • Article 355 of the Constitution of India IV (area covered between Low Tide confers power to the Central Line and 12 Nautical Miles seaward). Government to protect every state b) The powers for clearances with from internal disturbance. respect to CRZ-II and III have been Related Information delegated at the State level with Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act necessary guidance. • Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts Background (AFSPA), are Acts of the Parliament of • With the objective of conservation and India that grant special powers to the protection of the coastal environment, Indian Armed Forces in which each act Ministry of Environment and Forest terms "disturbed areas". and Climate Change notified the • According to The Disturbed Areas Coastal Regulation Zone Notification (Special Courts) Act, 1976 once in 1991, which was subsequently declared ‘disturbed’, the area has to revised in 2011. maintain the status quo for a Topic- GS Paper 2 – Governance minimum of 3 months. Source-PIB 3 www.gradeup.co • One such Act passed on September 3. The ancient Neemrana Baori in 11, 1958, was applicable to the Naga Rajasthan's Alwar district Hills, then part of Assam. 4. The Group of Temples at • In the following decades it spread, RanipurJharail in Odisha's Bolangir one by one, to the other Seven Sister district States in India's northeast(at present 5. The Vishnu Temple in Kotali, it is in force in Assam, Nagaland, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand. Manipur excluding Imphal municipal Related Information council area, Changlang, Longding, • In 2016 and 2017, no new monument and Tirap districts of Arunachal was included in the list of sites of Pradesh). national importance. • Another one passed in 1983 and • The last monument to be included in applicable to Punjab and Chandigarh the list, in 2015, was the Vishnu was withdrawn in 1997, roughly 14 Temple in Nadavayal in Kerala's years after it came to force. Wayanad district. History Note: A "Monument of National Importance" • The Armed Forces Special Powers is designated by the Archaeological Survey of Ordinance of 1942 was promulgated India and includes the following. by the British on 15 August 1942 to 1. The remains of an ancient monument. suppress the Quit India Movement. 2. The site of an ancient monument. • Modeled on these lines, four 3. The land on which there are fences or ordinance- protective covering structures for o the Bengal Disturbed Areas preserving the monument. (Special Powers of Armed 4. Land by means of which people can Forces) Ordinance freely access the monument. o the Assam Disturbed Areas Topic- GS Paper 1 – Art and Culture (Special Powers of Armed Source- The Hindu Forces) Ordinance 6. Makaravilakku festival begins in o the East Bengal Disturbed Sabarimala Areas (Special Powers of Related Information Armed Forces) Ordinance • The festival includes the o the United provinces Disturbed Thiruvabharanam (sacred ornaments Areas (Special Powers of of Ayyappan) procession and a Armed Forces) Ordinance congregation at the hill shrine of • These ordinances were invoked by the Sabarimala. central government to deal with the • Makaravilakku is a part of a religious internal security situation in the ritual that is practiced in the past by country in 1947 which emerged due to the tribes in the forest of the Partition of India. Ponnambalamedu (the place where Topic- GS Paper 3 – Defence Makaravilakku appears) and then Source- The Hindu later secretly continued by The 5. ASI declared 6 monuments of Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB). national importance in 2018 • It has been practiced for more than • Recently six monuments declared hundreds of years by the tribes. protected and of national importance Sabarimala by the Archaeological Survey of India • Sabarimala is a temple complex (ASI) in 2018. located at the Periyar Tiger Reserve in These monuments are: the state of Kerala, India. 1. The 125-year-old Old High Court • The temple is dedicated to the Hindu Building in Nagpur, Maharashtra deity Ayyappan also known as 2. Two Mughal-era monuments in Agra Dharma Sastha, who according to — Haveli of Agha Khan and Hathi belief is the son of Shiva and feminine Khana. incarnation of Vishnu. 4 www.gradeup.co • The traditions of Sabarimala are a Island as Shaheed Dweep and the confluence of Shaivism, Shaktism, Havelock Island as Swaraj Dweep. Vaishnavism, and other Śramaṇa Related Information traditions. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Sabarimala Case Verdict • The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, • In response to a PIL filed in 1991, the one of the seven union territories of Kerala High Court had observed the India, are a group of islands at the restriction of entry of women (in the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the 10-50 age groups) to the temple was Andaman Sea.
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