DPN Topics

    PMAY – G Subject: Government Schemes Context : Less than 6% of houses sanctioned under the Centre’s flagship rural housing scheme in 2020-21 have reached completion so far this year, with COVID-19 stalling progress, the Rural Development Ministry told a Parliamentary Standing Committee last month. Concept: Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin. Ministry: Ministry of […]

    AVIAN INFLUENZA Subject: Science & tech Context: Avian influenza (H5N1) led to the death of over 5,000 migratory birds in the Pong Dam Wildlife Sanctuary area in Kangra district. Concept: Avian Influenza Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting several species of food-producing birds (chickens, turkeys, quails, guinea fowl, etc.), […]

    ULPIN SCHEME Subject : Government Schemes Context : Centre to Launch Unique ID Number for All Plots of Land by 2022: Report Concept : This plan has been laid out in a parliamentary standing committee report submitted to the Lok Sabha last week, as part of the Digital India Land Records ModernisationProgramme (DILRMP) […]

    PRESIDENTIAL ASSENT Subject : Polity Context :President Ram NathKovind gave his assent to the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021. Concept : Indian President has three approaches to the bill forwarded to him by the central or state legislature: He can either give assent, He can withhold his assent […]

    JUDICIAL REVIEW Subject : Polity Context : A PIL in Supreme Court has sought that 26 verses of the Quran be declared unconstitutional and non-functional. A look at the limitations of judicial review where a holy book is concerned, various aspects of the petition, the deeper context of the verses flagged by the […]

    COMPOSITE WATER MANAGEMENT INDEX Subject : National Report Context : As per the Composite Water Management Index of Niti Aayog (2019), 75% households in India do not have access to drinking water on their premises, and India ranks 120th amongst 122 countries in the water quality index. Concept: CWMI: The Composite Water Management […]

    IFAD Subject : International Organisations Context : “For the rural poor, rice and wheat were aspirational foods. An expanded public distribution system has provided them access to these maheenanaaj (fine grains), which is distinguished from motaanaaj (coarse grains),” says Meera Mishra, Country Programme Officer for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Concept […]

    PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE Subject : Polity Context : Amid the hectic campaigning in West Bengal, Congress leader AdhirRanjan Chowdhury made a dash to Delhi on Friday to chair a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee. Concept : The committee was first mentioned in the Montagu and Chelmsford Reforms or the Government of India […]

    FREE MOVEMENT REGIME Subject: Internal Security Context: In halls, safehouses, Myanmar nationals pray India does not send them back: ‘will be killed’. Concept: Free movement regime (FMR) The formation of Myanmar as a separate State in 1935 and decolonisation of the sub-continent in 1947 divided ethnic communities living along the Indo-Myanmar border. These […]

    KUMBH MELA Subject : Culture Context : COVID-19 casts a shadow over HaridwarKumbhMela. Concept : KumbhMela comes under UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. KumbhMela is the largest peaceful congregation of pilgrims on earth, during which participants bathe or take a dip in a sacred river. It takes place on […]