Highlights |IAS Current Affairs 10-07-2019
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- SC to decide if illegal migrants can be given the status of refugees
- CPCB pulls up 52 firms over handling of waste
- DRDO gets clearance for the missile test facility in A.P.
- Honor for ‘Plan Bee’ that helped save jumbos
- 88 manual scavenging deaths in 3 years
- Karnataka offers quota for girl children of trafficked women
- A regrettable conviction
- A shot at economic logic
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SC to decide if illegal migrants can be given the status of refugees
Part of Prelims and mains GS II International Relations
In news
- Two Rohingya men recorded a petition against the administration’s proposition to oust their 40,000-in number network to their local place that is known for Myanmar, where “separation and conceivably outline executions anticipate them”.
- As indicated by the petitions, the Center’s move disregarded the sacred assurance that the Indian State should “secure the life and freedom of each person, regardless of whether resident or not”.
- The Rohingya, who fled to India after viciousness in the State of Rakhine in Myanmar, are settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan.
- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had additionally given notice to the legislature on the proposed extradition.
Do you know?
Status of refugee in India:-
- India isn’t involved with the 1951 Convention identifying with the Status of Refugees or the 1967 Protocol, nor does it have a legitimate structure and national evacuee status assurance framework.
- Accordingly, UNHCR forms claims for outcast status in India.
- The UNHCR does a Refugee Status Determination (RSD) method, which begins with enrollment as haven searchers. Following the enrollment, UNHCR will at that point direct meets with every individual shelter searcher joined by a certified mediator.
- This procedure gives a contemplated choice on whether evacuee status is allowed or not and offers the individual a chance to bid a choice if the case is dismissed.
CPCB pulls up 52 firms over handling of waste
Part of Prelims and mains GS III Environment and ecology
In news
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has pulled up 52 companies, including Amazon, Flipkart, Danone Foods and Beverages and Patanjali Ayurved Limited, for not specifying a timeline or a plan to collect the plastic waste that results from their business activities.
Do you know?
Facts:
- As per CPCB appraises in 2015, Indian urban communities create around 15,000 tons of plastic waste every day and about 70% of the plastic delivered in the nation winds up as waste.
- Almost 40% of the plastic waste is neither gathered nor reused and winds up contaminating the land and water.
The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, (which was amended in 2018)
- Rustic territories have been gotten ambit of these Rules since plastic has come to country regions too. Obligation regarding usage of the guidelines is given to Gram Panchayat.
- The first time, the duty of waste generators is being presented. Individual and mass generators like workplaces, business foundations, ventures are to isolate the plastic squander at source, handover isolated squander, pay client charge according to bye-laws of the neighborhood bodies.
- Plastic items are left littered after the open occasions (marriage capacities, strict social events, open gatherings and so on) held in open spaces. First time, people arranging such occasions have been made liable for the executives of waste produced from these occasions.
- Expanded Producer Responsibility: Earlier, EPR was left to the prudence of the neighborhood bodies. First time, the makers and brand proprietors have been made liable for gathering waste created from their items. They need to move toward nearby bodies for detailing of plan/framework for the plastic waste administration inside the recommended time span.
DRDO gets clearance for the missile test facility in A.P.
Part of Prelims and mains GS III Science and tech, GS II Defence and security
In news
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has conceded condition and Coastal Regulatory Zone clearances for setting up Missile Testing Launch Facility on the Bay of Bengal coast and Technical Facility at Gullalamoda town in Krishna locale.
Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary is in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh
Honor for ‘Plan Bee’ that helped save jumbos
Part of Prelims and mains GS III Environment and ecology
In news
Plan Bee, earned the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) the best development grant in Indian Railways for 2018-19 monetary.
Need for Plan
- There are 29 reserved elephant passageways with the working zone of NFR spread over the north-eastern states and parts of Bihar and West Bengal. Trains are required to back off at these passages and stick to speed indicated on signs.
- Be that as it may, elephants have wandered into the way of trains even in non-hall zones, regularly prompting mishaps bringing about elephant passings.
Plan Bee
- Under this arrangement, a gadget was intended to create the intensified sound of bumblebees discernible from 700-800 meters.
- It is an intensifying framework copying the buzz of a swarm of bumblebees to repel wild elephants from railroad tracks.
- NFR now has 46 such gadgets introduced at defenseless focuses.
88 manual scavenging deaths in 3 years
Part of Prelims and mains GS II Social justice
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In news
- The quantity of passings of sanitation laborers while cleaning septic tanks and sewers has ascended, regardless of a restriction on manual searching, with 620 cases announced since 1993, of which 88 happened in the previous three years, as per the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry.
- On casualties because of manual scavenging, a few States had not detailed and some had revealed nil, prompting the plausibility of the real passings from manual rummaging being higher.
- Forbiddance of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 had set out an instrument of checking its execution through carefulness boards of trustees and observing panels at various levels.
Karnataka offers quota for girl children of trafficked women
Part of Prelims and mains GS II Social justice
In news
As of late Karnataka government has declared for giving 1% reservation to young lady offspring of ladies who were casualties of rape or were Devadasis in all State-run colleges.
It will be upheld by colleges in the 2019-2020 scholarly year in all undergrad and postgraduate projects.
Devadasi system in India
- As indicated by the Indian National Commission for Women(NCW), there are still at any rate 44,000 dynamic devadasi in India.
- In spite of the fact that the numbers are hard to affirm because of the work on being underground as well as hard to separate from non-strict prostitution, the training is especially gathered in a couple of states.
- As indicated by the NCW, most of dynamic devadasis are in Karnataka (22,491 people), Andhra Pradesh (16,624 people), and Maharashtra (2,479 people).
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NATIONAL
TOPIC: General studies 2
- Government policies and interventions and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
A regrettable conviction
Background:
The conviction of unmistakable master LTTE lawmaker Vaiko on the charge of dissidence, in view of a commonly energetic discourse he had made in Chennai 10 years back, is a stressing advancement. Despite the fact that Section 124A, the IPC segment that makes dissidence an offense, draws in either a three-year term or detainment forever, the preliminary court condemned him to a to some degree merciful one-year prison term.
Sedition has been defined in the Indian Penal Code under section 124A:
Whoever, by words, either spoken or composed, or by signs, or by noticeable portrayal, or something else, brings or endeavors to bring into scorn or hatred, or energizes or endeavors to energize antagonism towards the Government established by law, will be rebuffed with imprisonment forever, to which fine might be included, or with detainment which may reach out to three years, to which fine might be included, or with fine.
Article 19:
It ensures the right to speak freely of discourse and articulation subject to sensible impediments under Article 19(2) on the grounds of,
- In light of a legitimate concern for the power and respectability of India,
- The security of the State,
- Well disposed relations with outside States,
- Open request, respectability or profound quality or
- In connection to the disdain of court,
- Criticism or
- Prompting to an offense
Section 124A should be scrapped
- There is more prominent acknowledgment now than in the past that Section 124A is neither important nor required today.
- The Law Commission discharged a conference paper featuring contentions for its reexamination.
- There is a collection of feeling that a cutting edge majority rule government needn’t bother with a free discourse limitation dependent on political ideas, for example, unfaithfulness and antagonism towards the state.
- England, which presented the offense of subversion in India in 1870 to check the utilization of discourse and writing to scrutinize its pilgrim organization, has canceled it.
Conclusion:
As of late, there has been a disturbing ascent in dissidence charges being utilized to suppress political disputes. In a cutting edge majority rule government like India, there no need for limitations on the right to speak freely of discourse dependent on political ideas.
Connecting the dots:
What do you comprehend by subversion? Basically remark in transit area 124a is being utilized politically.
INTERNATIONAL
TOPIC: General studies 2
- Two-sided, local and worldwide groupings and understandings including India or potentially influencing India’s inclinations.
- Impact of approaches and legislative issues of created and creating nations on India’s inclinations, Indian diaspora
A shot at economic logic
Background
The twelfth Extra-Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) which closed on July 8 at Niamey, the capital of the Niger Republic, saw 54 of 55 of its part states marking the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) for products and enterprises.
What is African Continental FTA?
The eighteenth session of the African Union, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2012 received a choice to set up a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017.
The vast majority of the African nations marked the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Protocol setting up the African Economic Community in Kigali, Rwanda in 2018. This prompted the Kigali Declaration.
Objectives of AfCFTA:
- Make a solitary mainland advertise for products and ventures
- Free development of business people and ventures
- Quicken the foundation of the Continental Customs Union and the African traditions association
- Extend-intra African exchange
- Coordination among individuals for exchange help systems and instruments
Hurdles & Roadblocks for AfCFTA:
- The African Union has been to a great extent inadequate in managing the mainland’s different issues and hence, AU past disappointments and ineffectualness raises concerns whether it can effectively actualize AfCFTA.
- AfCFTA needs to neutralize the continuous worldwide protectionist inclines as found in the U.S.- China exchange struggle, Brexit and the issues in WTO working.
- The intra-African exchange right now includes pretty much 15% of the mainland’s exchange. This is very low when contrasted with territorial exchange different landmasses – generally 67% in Europe, 58% in Asia and 48% in North America.
- The fares of most African nations are overwhelmingly essential products. This would be pared down in worldwide exchange and balanced among individuals.
- Most African nations at present need added substance assembling, mechanization, and other fourth mechanical insurgency advancements. This issue is exceptionally un-liable to be settled by CFTA.
- Arrangements on significant issues like protected innovation rights, taxes for certain products, are still on-going among AU individuals.
- Nigeria and South Africa, the two biggest economies of Africa have indicated hesitance for AfCFTA.
AfCFTA impact on India:
- Africa is a significant monetary accomplice for India with complete yearly product exchange evaluated at $70 billion and with India as Africa’s third-biggest exchanging accomplice.
- India’s worldwide fares have debilitated because of the monetary stoppage, anyway, India’s fares to Africa has expanded.
- Africa has a solid interest showcase for merchandise and ventures that India creates, for example, vehicles, pharmaceuticals, purchaser products, IT/IT-Enabled Service, social insurance and instruction, among others.
- AfCFTA would guarantee African economies would turn out to be progressively formalized and straightforward and this would be to India’s greatest advantage.
- Nearby made things and administrations may at last rival Indian sends out, anyway it additionally gives Indian firms a chance to joint adventures with African firms.
- India had given $15 million to Niger to finance the Niamey AU Summit and comparatively India can likewise assist the African Union with preparing the imperative design, for example, basic outside levies, rivalry arrangement, protected innovation rights, and common people’s development.
- India can distinguish different African transnational companies that are bound to assume a more prominent job in a future mainland regular market and connect with them deliberately.
- India can expand its monetary quality in Africa by drawing in with the Indian diaspora in Africa.
- After the AfCFTA is acknowledged and executed in Africa, the two India and Africa can consult for an India-African FTA.
Conclusion
Whenever taken to its obvious end result, this brassy undertaking would inevitably make an African Common Market of 1.2 billion individuals and a GDP of over $3.4 billion — the measurements are tantamount to India’s. The AfCFTA would be the world’s biggest FTA, and in a world reliant on African markets and wares, it would have worldwide effect.
Connecting the dots:
Examine the centrality of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) for India and the world.
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Q.1) Consider the following statements about The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, (which was amended in 2018),
- Rural areas have been brought in the ambit of these Rules
- The first time, the responsibility of waste generators are being introduced.
Select the correct statements
- Only 1
- Only 2
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
Q.2) Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code frequently seen in news is related to,
- Cybercrime
- Sedition
- Child labor
- None of the above
Q.3) “Plan Bee” recently seen in news is,
- Beekeeping plan to enable natural pollination
- It is an amplifying system imitating the buzz of a swarm of honey bees to keep wild elephants away from railway tracks.
- Beekeeping or apiculture to produce honey.
- None of the above
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