Daily Practice Sheet 9 January 2021

  • January 9, 2021
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Daily Practice Sheet 9 January 2021

By

Santosh Sir

All 6 Prelims qualified

4 CSE Mains qualified

If I can do it, you can too

Daily Prelims Topic 

  • Impeachment of the President: Procedure in USA vs India
  • Kathak/Sangit Natak Akademi
  • Institute of Eminence
  • Bird Flu
  • Gross value Added
  • SWAMIH scheme (Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing—scheme
  • Follow on public offer
  • State election Commission
  • H1 B visa
  • Article 179

Daily Constitution

  • Article 179

Daily Mapping

  • South Asia countries and CPEC

Daily Facts:

Women Security:

  • In 2019, the NCRB data show 88 rape cases were recorded every day in India with U.P. reporting the second-highest number at 3,065 cases

Agriculture role in economy

  • All four GVA contraction years before 2020-21 (1979-80 (minus 5.2%), 1972-73 (minus 0.3%), 1965-66 (minus 3.7%) and 1957-58 (minus 1.2%) ) saw the farm sector (agriculture, forestry and fishing) registering minus 12.8% growth in 1979-80, minus 5% in 1972-73, minus 11% in 1965-66 and minus 4.5% in 1957-58.

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Society

  1. Recognizing women’s unpaid care role at homes can be a great tool for women empowerment. Critically examine. [Reference: Indian Express]

Approach

In the Introduction, define care economy and explain why care economy is an indispensable part of every human life. (The demand for care work is set to surge by 2030 due to a number of factors).

In the body add ILO findings on how women contribute more to the Care economy in household.

(International Labour Organization (ILO) published a report titled ‘Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work’ in 2018).

Now examine the reasons for recognizing care economy at homes:

  • Domestic violence
  • Unpaid labour
  • Patriarchy and women subjugation
  • Time use data (Time-use data from 2019 gathered by the National Sample Survey Organization revealed that only about a quarter of men and boys above six years engaged in unpaid household chores, compared to over four-fifths of women. Every day, an average Indian male spends 1.5 hours per day in unpaid domestic work, compared to about five hours by a female)
  • Women are always in the receiving end
  • Climate change and women ( Women takes the burden more since they are confined to household chores)
  • Gender inequality(care work has an undisputable gender burden with two-thirds of all care workers being women who dedicate themselves to unpaid care work 3.2 times more often than men)
  • The 2019 ILO report ‘A Quantum Leap for Gender Equality’ identified unpaid care work as the biggest impediment to women’s formal employment, as it engaged 21.7 per cent of women between 18-54 years of age, as opposed to 1.7 per cent of men.

Possible outcomes:

 Women empowerment (Putting money in the hands of women)

Gender equality

  • Basic income
  • Rise in nutritional status of family and children
  • Decision making
  • Breaks the notion of receivers
  • Why recognising alone will not work?
  • It doesn’t ensure quality education and skill training Breaks the very notion of care in the household
  • Becomes an entitlement rather than a service

What should be done?

  • Providing skill training
  • Empowerment through education
  • Gender sensitive and harassment free household and work place
  • Awareness creation

What Government should do?

Gender budgeting, Strengthening Domestic violence act, Providing more benefits for women through various schemes, Moral education on school syllabus emphasizing on Gender equality.( Article 14,15,16, DPSP)

In the conclusion, Summarize why mere recognition will not add value unless the patriarchal mindset changes. Emphasise the need for gender equality based education and practices which should start right from household.

  1. Patriarchal culture values “control and domination”. Comment. [Reference: Chicago Unbound]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Compare and contrast impeachment process of the President in India and USA? [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: IR

  1. India-Sri Lanka in recent years has been in flux. In this context challenges of the relationship and what it means for India’s Indian Ocean strategy. [Reference: Indian Express]

Approach:

Introduction:

Throw light on the relationship in flux pointing to constant irritants as well as willingness for cooperation, while relationship status comes in question with the change in government.

Body:

1. What are the challenges in relationship?

  • India’s Concern over 13th amendment and Tamil issue
  • Developing port with Japan in Colombo
  • Fisherman issues
  • China’s increasing role
  • Currency swap
  • Domestic politics of Tamil Nadu influencing relations

2. Focus on why Indian Ocean is central to Indian geopolitical and security (Draw a map with Sri Lanka in it)

Show how Sri Lank important for:

  • Security
  • Addressing Chinese threat
  • Trade through Indian Ocean
  • Other Indian Ocean initiatives in which Sri Lank by its location as role

Conclusion:

End with supporting an approach of talks, aid in the wake of Cocid-19 (vaccine diplomacy), separating India’s approach to Sri Lanka from Tamil Nadu’s politics prism

  1. WTO needs to reform if it has to be the beacon of multilateralism. Elaborate. [Reference: Financial Express]
  2. What do you understand by Neighborhood Policy of India? Critically assess its effectiveness in the context of growing presence of China in South Asia. [Reference: The Hindu, The Hindu]

Context: China holding South Asia multilateral meets

GS 3: Economy

  1. Discuss the challenges in making India a $5 trillion economy? [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Security

  1. Social media has evolved into a hydra-headed creature threatening security of individual as well as state. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]

Approach:

Introduction

Media is the fourth estate of democracy with the advent of ICT the use of social media has increased and is being used as a platform for dissent in democracy

Role of social media

Media is used tool

  • It provides multidimensional accountability
  • It keeps a check over the arbitrary use of power
  • It enhances the quality of governance and acts as a link between the citizens and the government eg Twitter handle of PM
  • Quote the role in policy making agenda setting awareness creation Eg. Digital signature against / for EIA
  • Addresses the needs of citizens in the nook and corner of the country (give example)
  • Explain how social media is widespread across regions and sections of the society

Media is a double edged sword

  • ( Give the points below under different heading individuals, national threat, international threat in a systematic pattern for better organisation of points)
  • Medium usually used for arbitrary power against the government has become a tool for the government to put forward its control over the people Eg. Internet shut down
  • Explain the fake news issues
  • Issues related to mob lynching due to social media
  • Explain how media can make and break a nation
  • The case study of role of social media in Hong Kong protest
  • Explain the sensationalization of news with the recent examples
  • Media for likes and share leading to dangerous life threatening act, selfies
  • Morphing and deep fake pornography leading to suicide, creation of false speech of leaders
  • Example code the recent capitol protest in Washington DC after Trump post
  • Explain how media is being used for recruitment and training by ISIS example of case in South India especially in Kerala
  • Media create views and counterviews through their debates and discussions without actual knowledge this question influence people over the recent legislations
  • false news of disasters and spread of diseases causing panic cause in the society example quote the current covid situation
  • how the data protection bill is certainly necessary to protect the data of the citizens by the social media corporate owners who sale the data ,steal the data for the corporate profit interest and to please the politicians of the developed Nations (the example of Hawaii the cyber espionage caused by China)
  • Quote how social media is being used by the leaders of various Nations to give their opinions on the other Nations affecting the sovereignty of the Nations (quote the example of Canada prime ministers Court on Indian farmer protest)

Recommendations

  • Educating the people (PIB fact check in Instagram during covid lockdown)
  • Using AI tools for eliminating the false news.
  • Government owned media must be used for effective information delivery

Positive note 

  • Explain how social media is helpful in handling the present pandemic situations disaster management and how it assist government and NGO in creating awareness and service delivery
  • Explain the attitude changed by social media especially in case of swachh Bharat mission
  • How media helps in service delivery, in the schemes to reach the marginalized people

Conclusion

Give the need for a reform and self-regulation   without the interference of the government for a healthy and successful functioning of social media and for sustainability of the democracy

Daily Ethics:

  1. Leader’s words at their best can inspire, at their worst they can incite. Explain with examples. [Reference: NY Times]
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