Daily Practice Sheet 8 April 2021

Daily Practice Sheet

8 April 2021

Daily Prelims Topic

• Monetary Policy Committee keeps rate unchanged
• ‘Kavu’ (sacred groves) and ‘Gundathopes’ (Wooden groves)
• The Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021
• International Arbiter Tribunal
• Net Zero
• G-SAP
• FCAT
• PLI for white goods, solar modules

Daily Mapping

1. Rwanda
2. Red Sea

Daily Constitution

• Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act, 1976, inserted Article 39A to ensure “equal justice and free legal aid”.
• NALSA vs. Union of India (2014) : Transgender rights

Daily Data

Monetary Policy

Justice Delivery

• As per the National Judicial Data Grid, 16.9% of all cases in district and taluka courts are three to five years old; for High Courts, 20.4% of all cases are five to 10 years old, and over17% are 10-20 years old.
• Furthermore, over 66,000 cases are pending before the Supreme Court, over 57 lakh cases before various HCs, and over 3 crore cases are pending before various district and subordinate courts. Justice V.V.S. Rao, former judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, calculated a few years ago that it will take around 320 years to clear the existing backlog of cases.
• In 2015, the average number of cases settled per NLA was 18,30,940,which came down to 10,81,174 in2017, but rose to 11,75,939 in 2018,and 13,23,319 cases in 2019

Daily Mains Mantra 

GS 1: Society

1. Discuss how the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019 empowers transgender. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS2: Polity

1. Discuss the rationale behind Lok Adalat? Examine their effectiveness. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS2: Governance

1. Abortion is not merely a medico-technical issue but a fulcrum of a broader ideological struggle in which the very meaning of the family, the state, motherhood, and women’s sexuality are contested. In the light of this statement critically examine Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act 1971. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS3: Economy

1. Start-ups can transform India’s military capability and help India achieve tech self-reliance. In this context discuss about role of startups in defence indigenization. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS3: Security

1. Recent Bastar violence by Maoists embarrassing setback to the IS (internal security) capability of India at many levels and highlights the challenge that LWE (left-wing extremism) continues to pose. Discuss. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS3: Environment

1. In the context of Ken-Betwa link project discuss challenges in river-linking project. Should India move forward with the National River Linking Project? [Reference: Indian Express]
2. What do you understand by carbon neutrality? Should India join carbon neutrality declaration like many developed nations? [Reference: The Hindu]
3. What do you understand by carbon budget and carbon debt? [Reference: The Hindu]