Subject : Governance Context : India’s digital infrastructure has been a global case study for modernisation and has amazed large tech corporations in private sectors across the globe. Making them more unified, relevant to each region and taking the services to the last mile is UMANG which has been in operation for the last three […]

Subject: Governance Context: The Madhya Pradesh government has issued an order for the appointment of committees led by mothers to ensure better monitoring of services delivered at anganwadi or day care centres across the State. Concept: ‘Matru Sahyogini Samiti’ or Mothers’ Cooperation Committees, these will comprise 10 mothers at each anganwadi representing the concerns of […]

Subject : Governance Context: The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Department of Telecommunications to conduct spectrum auction through which spectrum will be assigned to the successful bidders for providing commercial mobile services. Concept : The auction will be for spectrum in 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 […]

Subject : Governance Context : An eight-member committee appointed by the government for suggesting measures for effective implementation of reservation in students admissions and faculty recruitment in IITs has recommended that the 23 engineering schools should be exempted from reservations under CEI Act, 2019. Concept : Among two sets of recommendations made by the committee, […]