Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) Subject – Governance Context – Revamped CGHS website, app launched Concept – For the last six decades Central Government Health Scheme is providing comprehensive medical care to the Central Government employees and pensioners enrolled under the scheme. In fact CGHS caters to the healthcare needs of eligible beneficiaries […]
Custody Laws in India Subject – Governance Context – With access to courts in child custody matters getting tougher with the return on restrictions on court hearings during the pandemic, non-custodial parents and children are again at the receiving end Concept – While the concept of shared parenting is a reality in countries […]
Conjugal Rights Subject – Governance Context – Petition on conjugal rights pending for months in SC Concept – Conjugal rights are rights created by marriage, i.e. right of the husband or the wife to the society of the other spouse. A petition questioning a law that forces a woman to return to her husband and denies her sexual autonomy has […]
District Good Governance Index Subject – Governance Context – Union Home Minister Amit Shah virtually launched the District Good Governance Index (DGGI) in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday Concept – The Union Minister of Home and Cooperation virtually released India’s First “District Good Governance Index”, prepared by DARPG in collaboration with Government of […]
Section 4 of RTI Subject – Governance Context – SC seeks reply on suomotu RTI disclosure Concept – Section 4 of RTI The Section prescribes that it would be the “constant endeavour of every public authority to take steps to provide as much information suomotu to the public at regular intervals. Right to Information RTI is an act of the parliament which sets out the rules and procedures regarding citizens’ right to information. Under the provisions of RTI […]
Inheritance of Daughters Subject – Governance Context – The case involved a dispute over the property of one Marappa Gounder who died in 1949 leaving behind a daughter Kupayee Ammal who also died issueless in 1967. Concept – The Supreme Courtruled that the property of a man who had died without executing a […]
IAS officers and central posting Subject – Governance Context – The Centre has proposed to amend the rules for central deputation of IAS officers. Concept – The Centre has proposed amendments to the IAS (Cadre) Rules in order to exercise greater control in central deputation of IAS officials, which has often been at […]
IAS (Cadre) Rules 1954 Subject – Governance Context – Proposed Amendment of IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954: Changes against cooperative federalism, Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Concept – As per the current guidelines, the Centre every year asks states for an “offer list” of officers from the All India Services (IAS, IPS and Indian […]
Gokak Agitation Subject – Governance Context – Organisations decry ‘step motherly treatment’ meted out to Kannada Concept – The Gokak agitation was a successful language rights agitation in the 1980s that fought for the first-language status of the Kannada language in the South Indian state of Karnataka. It was named after the committee […]
Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine Subject – Governance Context – 3 infants die after MMR vaccination in Karnataka Concept – The MMR vaccine is a vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles). After two doses, 97% of people are protected against measles, 88% against mumps, and at least 97% against rubella. The vaccine […]