SSC CGL Study Materials https://sscportal.in/study-kit/cgl Weekly Current Affairs for SSC Exams 01 JUL 2019 - 07 JUL 2019 NATIONAL 5 #1 Analysis of Free Legal Aid Services in India 5 #2 Most see free legal aid as last-ditch option 7 #3 Centre to streamline labour laws into set of 4 codes 8 #4 The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill 8 #5 The Malankara Church 9 #6 Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy (STRIDE) 9 # 7 WHO launches its first guidelines on self-care interventions for health 11 #8 Cabinet clears Bill banning Commercial Surrogacy 12 INTERNATIONAL 15 #1 How US coined Indo-Pacific to redefine geo-politics 15 #2 US law to give India NATO ally-like status 16 #3 Cabinet approves MoU between India and Maldives for Shipping 16 #4 27% of children with disabilities have never been to school: UNESCO 17 #5 Iran says it has breached stockpile limit under nuclear deal 17 #6 Korean Demilitarized Zone 18 #7 India-assisted IT-biotech park inaugurated in Cote d’Ivoire 18 www.SSCPORTAL.IN Weekly Current Affairs 1 SSC CGL Study Materials https://sscportal.in/study-kit/cgl #8 First Ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) 18 #9 French lawmakers approve 3% tax on online giants 19 BUSINESS AND ECONOMY 20 #1 Chief minister inaugurates two units of Chhabra Power Plant 20 #2 National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 21 #3 Ramayana Circuit 22 #4 Centre ratifies convention to curb company profit shifting 22 #5 Money in Swiss banks: India ranked 74 23 #6 Kisan Credit Cards for Fishermen 23 #7 High trading costs impact liquidity of Indian equities: study 24 #8 One Nation, One Grid 25 #9 RBI sets up panel to review CICs 25 #10 Govt hikes Minimum Support Price of Kharif crops for 2019-20 season 25 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 27 #1 NASA’s PUNCH mission 27 #2 Cosmic waves discovery could unlock the mysteries of space 28 #3 AYUSH GRID Project 28 #4 Lithium-ion giga units mooted 28 #5 What is artificial gravity? 29 ENVIRONMENT 30 #1 Tamil Yeoman declared Tamil Nadu’s state butterfly 30 #2 India could lose the equivalent of 34 million jobs in 2030 due to global warming: ILO 30 #3 Japanese whalers bring home 1st commercial catch in 31 years 31 #4 MOSAiC Mission 31 #5 Arctic mission will trap scientists in ice to study climate 32 www.SSCPORTAL.IN Weekly Current Affairs 2 SSC CGL Study Materials https://sscportal.in/study-kit/cgl SPORTS 34 #1 Max Verstappen won 2019 Austrian Grand Prix 34 #2 Vaibhav Yadav, Indian pro boxer won World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia title 34 #3 Hima Das won the women's 200m gold in the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix in Poland 35 #4 Elavenil Valarivan won the gold medal in 10m women's air rifle at ISSF World Cup 2019 35 Current Affairs MCQ 36 1. Who was appointed the Governor of Manipur? 36 2. Which state approved a 10% reservation for the economically weaker section (EWS) in 2019? 36 3. Which state government has launched a free crop insurance scheme for farmers? 36 4. National Statistics Day is celebrated on which date? 36 5. Who is the author of the book "The New Delhi Conspiracy"? 37 6.Which state government has launched a knockout campaign for Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) and Japanese encephalitis (JE) disease ? 37 7. International Olympic Day celebrated on which day? 37 8. First International Co-operative Trade Fair will be organized in which city? 37 9. Mohammad Baji died recently, he was the freedom fighter from which state? 37 10. Which Indian scientist has been selected as the co-investigator for NASA's "Punch Mission"? 37 11. In which city "Garuda VI" practice began between India and France? 37 12. In which state the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, AFSPA has been extended by 6 months? 38 13. India has signed a deal worth 200 million rupees for the purchase of the Struem Ataka anti-tank missile with which country? 38 14. Padma Shri awardee Jaya Arunachalam hailed from which state? 38 15. Which city of Rajasthan has been declared as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019? 38 www.SSCPORTAL.IN Weekly Current Affairs 3 आप या ात करगे ? 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There are about ● A majority of the people who are entitled 1.8 million lawyers in India which means to the free legal aid system see the there is one lawyer for every 736 people. service as an option only when they ● The same report also stated there are cannot afford a private lawyer. 61,593 panel lawyers in the country, which translates to just one legal aid Background lawyer per 18,609 population or five ● In 1987, the Legal Services Authorities legal aid lawyers per 1,00,000 (LSA) Act was enacted to give free and population. competent legal services to the poor. ● Free legal services under LSA Act are The Act paved the way for the available to a person belonging to constitution of National Legal Service Schedule Tribe and Schedule Caste, www.SSCPORTAL.IN Weekly Current Affairs 5 SSC CGL Study Materials https://sscportal.in/study-kit/cgl woman, child, victim of human for free legal aid because they had no trafficking, differently abled person, means and resources to hire a paid industrial workman, and person in private practitioner. custody in a protective home and the ● “They would never have approached the poor. legal aid services if they had resources ● According to the statistics provided by to engage private legal practitioners. NALSA, about 8.22 lakh people across ● Also, 22.6% of the beneficiaries India benefited through legal aid responded that they won’t opt for free services from April 2017 to June 2018. legal aid services for the second time. ● The study also found that 60% of Genesis of the research women, who were aware of the free ● Prof. Mann said his research project has legal aid services, chose to opt for focused on the functioning of LACs as private legal practitioner because they they could have better control over their ● play a pivotal role in the dissemination lawyer. of legal aid services. ● These women have no faith and ● His research project was funded by confidence over the quality of services Indian Council of Social Science offered under the legal aid system, the Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Human study said. Resource Development. ● The survey found that 56% of LAC ● He said the data was collected from 18 spends an average of 1 to 10 hours per States and 36 districts. The primary data week on legal aid cases. On the was collected from 3,029 legal aid contrary, around 58% LAC spend on an beneficiaries, 609 judicial officers, 1,007 average of 20 hours and above per week empanelled legal aid advocates, 33 on private cases. regulators/secretaries, and 3120 ● Although the services offered by LAC women. are absolutely free, the ground reality is that around 16.30% of beneficiaries Key highlights of the study claimed their LAC often demand money ● The study demonstrated that before or after every court hearing. beneficiaries opt for free legal aid ● Also, around 33% of the judicial officers service due to the dearth of resources to said complaints were received against engage a private lawyer. About 75% of beneficiaries responded that they opted www.SSCPORTAL.IN Weekly Current Affairs 6 SSC CGL Study Materials https://sscportal.in/study-kit/cgl LACs for demanding money from to the free legal aid system see the beneficiaries. service as a last-ditch option. Private lawyers Vs LAC About: ● Majority of judicial officers (52% ) rated ● Professor Jeet Singh Mann of National the overall skill set of a private legal Law University, Delhi (NLUD) has practitioner as of fairly good quality and released a research report titled ‘Quality that of LAC as of moderately low quality. of Legal Representation: An Empirical Analysis of Free Legal Aid Services in Full-time empanelment India’. ● Currently, the engagement of LAC is ● His research project was funded by usually on an ad-hoc basis. Around 45% Indian Council of Social Science of the regulators opined that making Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Human them full time will definitely improve the Resource Development. level of commitment among the LAC. Key findings: ● LAC can withdraw from an aided case by submitting a reason to ● In this first-of-its-kind pan-India research member-secretary. In this scenario, a he has found that people don’t have beneficiary has to go through the faith over the services of legal aid painstaking task of retelling their case counsel (LAC) under the free legal aid history to newly allotted LAC. services due to a variety of factors. ● This problem can be tackled by ● Although the services offered by LAC increasing the honorarium given to LAC.