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Subject: Polity Context: On the agenda of the ongoing monsoon session in Parliament is a bill to introduce Hindi, Kashmiri and Dogri as official languages in Jammu and Kashmir, in addition to English and Urdu. Concept: Part XVII of the Constitution deals with the official language in Articles 343 to 351 The Constitution does not […]
Subject: Acts Context: In the last five years, there have been no inter-State migrant workers registered in the Delhi, Dehradun or Patna regions. Nationwide, there were less than 34,000 workers registered in 2019-20 under the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (ISMW) Act, 1979, according to a response to a recent Right to Information Act request. Concept: Inter-State […]
Subject: Acts Context: Lok Sabha passed the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 Features of the Bill: The Bill will replace the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance which was promulgated on 5th June this year. The Bill seeks to amend the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and empowers the central government in terms of production, supply, distribution, trade, […]
Subject: Polity Context: Opposition demand for restoration of MPLADS funds in parliamentary session. Concept: The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) is an ongoing Central Sector Scheme which was launched in 1993-94.The Scheme enables the Members of Parliament to recommend works for creation of durable community assets based on locally felt needs to […]
Subject: Acts Context: The Aircraft (Amendment) Bill 2020, which has already been cleared by the Lok Sabha in March this year, was passed by Rajya Sabha. Features of the Act The Bill converts three existing bodies under the Ministry of Civil Aviation into statutory bodies under the Act. These three authorities are: (i) the […]
Subject: Polity Context: The Supplementary Demand for Grants 2020-21, introduced in the House included Rs 40,000 crore for enhanced expenditure under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program Concept: The additional grant required to meet the required expenditure of the government is called Supplementary Grants. When grants, authorised by the Parliament, fall short of the […]
Subject: Economy Context: FC chairperson N.K. Singh said that the pandemic has necessitated reconsideration of 42% devolution assigned in the 2020-21 Concept: The Finance Commission is a constitutional body set up by the President of India, every five years or earlier to decide the share of the Union government and state governments in the divisible […]
Subject: Economy Context: Banking Regulation Bill introduced in Lok Sabha. Concept: The Bill, which seeks to replace an ordinance issued by the Government in last week of June It likes to empower the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to effectively handle the mishaps in private banks without allowing any loss of public confidence and disruption […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: An announcement by an international team of astronomers about the discovery of phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus triggered global excitement. Concept: Phosphine is a colourless but smelly gas, known to be made only by some species of bacteria that survive in the absence of oxygen. Scientists have discovered this […]
Subject: Polity Context: The decision to go without “Question Hour” during the Monsoon Session of Parliament has evoked serious concerns about the democratic functioning of the institution. Concept: The right to question the executive has been exercised by members of the House from the colonial period. The first Legislative Council in British India under the Charter Act, […]