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25 Nov, 2019
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Syllabus subtopic: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections
News: The latest National Statistical Office (NSO) survey on sanitation debunked the claims of an open defecation free or ODF India made by the Centre’s flagship Swachh Bharat scheme, although it did record great progress in toilet access and use in rural areas.
Prelims focus: about NSO, its findings on ODF status in India
Mains focus: about Swachh Bharat Abhiyan , challenges and achievements so far
What did the results show?
State wise results:
Background
Way forward
The 71% access to toilets was still a significant improvement over the situation during the last survey period in 2012, when only 40% of the rural households had access to toilets.
The NSO’s statistics on toilet usage were also encouraging. It said 95% of people with access to toilets in rural India used them regularly, indicating that the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’s efforts to change behaviour had borne fruit. Only 3.5% of those with toilet access in rural India said they never used them.
About Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
National Statistical Office (NSO) (under Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation)
The NSO has four Divisions:
Source: The Hindu
Syllabus subtopic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.
News: Arunachal Pradesh, India’s easternmost State, wants a separate cadre of bureaucrats because of its cultural and topographical diversity.
Prelims and Mains focus: Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, Problems faced by the region in governance, challenges and ways to address them
Context:
Frequent transfers affecting governance
Source: The Hindu
Syllabus subtopic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.
News: Very soon, Cabinet meetings in Uttarakhand government will go “green” as no paper will be used for the meeting; even confidential documents of the Cabinet will be circulated to the Chief Minister, the chief secretary, and the concerned departmental heads through email only.
Prelims and Mains focus: about the recent move by UK govt, e-governance and its benefits, challenges and achievements so far
Context:
Present scenario:
At present, copies of the agenda are delivered at a minister’s office or residence a day before the meeting and often they are not able to study it in advance , especially if they are out of town. But this will soon change.
How will the process go through?
Source: Indian Express
Syllabus subtopic: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
News: Lenders seek exemption from RBI to relax the large exposure framework requirements for state-run firms
Prelims and Mains focus: on the recent disinvestments made by the govt and its impact on the credit flow and growth
What is the issue?
What the RBI said:
All these entities are exceptions and only a few such companies are there with such large requirements and RBI’s objective is to de-risk large exposures of banks, said former RBI deputy governor R. Gandhi. “These entities are to raise capital and debt directly from the market. They have good ratings and can raise funds at competitive terms. Further, the merger of banks into international size can also help take care of these large requirements. These merged banks will have higher net-worth and, therefore, would be able to sanction larger limits to these entities,” he said.
Does disinvestment really helps?
Way ahead
Credit has to flow and move and while there is 2 trillion in the system, banks and the financial sector are sitting on extra credit. It is important that they get diverted. NPAs are part and parcel of any credit delivery system but that cannot be allowed to paralyse the flow of money.
About Basel Committee on Banking Supervision(BCBS)
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is an international committee formed to develop standards for banking regulation; as of 2019, it is made up of Central Banks and other banking regulatory authorities from 28 jurisdictions. It has 45 members.
Formed without a founding treaty, BCBS is not a multilateral organization. Instead, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision seeks to provide a forum in which banking regulatory and supervisory authorities can cooperate to enhance the quality of banking supervision around the world, and improve understanding of important issues in the banking supervisory sphere. The BCBS was formed to address the problems presented by the globalization of financial and banking markets in an era in which banking regulation remains largely under the purview of national regulatory bodies.
Primarily, the BCBS serves to help national banking and financial markets supervisory bodies move toward a more unified, globalized approach to solving regulatory issues.
Source: Livemint
Syllabus subtopic: Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism
News: More than 35% of the cases registered under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) were recorded in Manipur, show the National Crime Records Data (NCRB) provided by the Home Ministry in the Rajya Sabha last week.
Prelims Focus: about UAPA, NCRB
Mains focus: about the recent NCRB data, implications for internal security of India
Key figures in the data:
About UAPA
Under the UAPA, the investigating agency can file a chargesheet in maximum180 days after the arrests and the duration can be extended further after intimating the court. The antiterror Act has death penalty and life imprisonment as maximum punishment.
The NCRB is yet to publish the crime report for 2018. The data reveal that though U.P. has recorded only 12% of the cases, it topped the states in the number of arrests made.
According to rules, the competent authority in the Home Ministry or the State government has to give sanction to file a chargesheet in seven days after being approached by the investigating agency.
Source: The Hindu
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