Grant in Aid for Rural Local Bodies Subject – Polity Context – Centre releases over ₹13,000 crore aid to Rural Local Bodies Concept – The grants part of the Tied Grant as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission (FC) for the Financial Year (FY) 2020-2021. Recommendation of 15th FC: It recommended the grant […]

    Mission 5000 Subject – Polity Context – ‘Discipline’ lawmakers, says VP Venkaiah. Concept – Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu exhorted voters to discipline the 5,000 elected representatives in Parliament, Legislative Assemblies and Legislative Councils by naming and shaming “disruptors”. Disrupted and dysfunctional legislatures can disrupt the lives of the people and the dreams of the nation. Identify […]

    Oath of Supreme Court Judges Subject – Polity Context – In a first, nine SC judges take oath in one stroke. Concept – A person appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court, before entering upon his Office, has to make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the President, or some person appointed by him for this purpose. In his oath, […]

    Registrar General of India Subject – Polity Context – The Registrar General of India (RGI) has not yet issued a notification on the NRC, which questions the legality of the list. Concept – Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, […]

    National Register of Citizens (NRC) Subject – Polity Context – Two years since NRC draft, lakhs still in limbo. Concept – National Register of Citizens, 1951 is a register prepared after the conduct of the Census of 1951 in respect of each village, showing the houses or holdings in a serial order and indicating against each house or holding the […]

    Externment Order Subject – Polity Context – The Supreme Court has held that the power of the State to pass an externment order or a direction barring certain people entry to specified areas should be exercised only in “exceptional cases”. Concept – Externment orders are laws for preventing a person from going in […]

    Article 15 and 25 of Constitution Subject – Polity Context – Articles 15 and 25 ‘sold off ’, says Rahul Concept – Article 15 – Article 15 provides that the State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. The two crucial words in this provision are ‘discrimination’ and […]