Daily Practice Sheet 16 September 2020

Daily Prelims Topic

• Adjournment motion
• Impossible Trilemma
• Capital gain Tax
• Gold monetisation Schemes
• MPs salary cut
• UN turns 75
• Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2020
• MPLADS
• Essential Commodities Amendment Bill
• Inter-State Migrant Workmen (ISMW) Act, 1979
• Trade deficit
• Consumer Welfare Fund
• National Fisheries Policy

Daily Mapping

• Rohtang

Daily Constitution

• Art 293

Daily SC judgment

• High Court does not have jurisdiction to initiate contempt in respect of an order passed by the Supreme Court, going by the apex court’s verdict in Vitusah Oberoi (2017) and Article 215.

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 2: Polity

1. In ‘Kesavananda Bharati’ case, Supreme Court redefined the relationship between judiciary, executive and legislature. Discuss. [Reference: Indian Express]
2. Constitutional dismemberment cannot be not allowed in the name of amendment. Discuss in the light of Kesavnanda Bharti Case. [Reference: Indian Express]
3. The recent decline in the role and performance of standing committees is part of a larger trend visible even before the lockdown. Critically examine the effectiveness of standing committees in parliament. Suggest measures to improve their working. [Reference: Business Standard]

GS2: Governance

1. Does India truly inclusive and participative for the differently-abled? In the context, examines problems of differently-abled and government welfare policies and interventions. [Reference: The Hindu, The Hindu]

GS 3: Economy

1. The Centre’s latest plan to promote 10,000 new Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) by 2023-24 is well intended as it aims to help small farmers reap benefits of collective selling. However, at present FPO’s are dogged by various problems. Discuss these problems. Will the new FPO policy be able to solve these problems? [Reference: Business Line]
2. What do you understand by impossible trilemma in economic management? Is RBI able to manage it? [Reference: Indian Express]