Highlights |UPSC Exam Current Affairs 31-12-2019
Current Affairs and News (31-12-2019)- The following article contains all the updated events and news for IAS Preparation. Our daily IAS Current Affairs and News cover the most important topics to give precise information to the reader and IAS Aspirants.
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Kerala is in the top slot
- Chief of Defence Staff: Gen. Rawat Appointed as first CDS
- Regional Reservations: Karnataka Students in National Law School
- Electro-kinetic streaming: To produce energy from flowing or stagnant water
- Indian State of Forest Report 2019 (ISFR)
- Inter- state border dispute : Maharashtra-Karnataka Belgaum tension (Part-1)
- Internet rights: Internet shutdown in India
Importance of Current Affairs in IAS Coaching
Watch Video – UPSC Exam Current Affairs 31-12-2019
Video Source – Shankar IAS Academy
find top institutes for IAS coaching
UPSC Exam Current Affairs 31-12-2019 are followed in the part below:
UPSC Exam Current Affairs and News Analysis (31-12-2019)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Kerala is in the top slot
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II- Federalism; GS-III- Sustainable Development
In News
- NITI Aayog has discharged its most recent SDG India Index 2019, which surveys each state and Union Territory’s accomplishment on 16 feasible improvement objectives (SDG).
- A score of 100 suggests that the state/UT has accomplished targets set for 2030
- Kerala is in the top opening with a score of 70, while Bihar is at the base with 50.
- Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim have joined the four southern States among the leaders, which scored more than 65 calls attention to of a potential 100
- Closure hunger and accomplishing sexual orientation correspondence are where most States miss the mark, with the all-India scores at a horrid 35 and 42 focuses separately.
Value Addition for Prelims
- The SDGs are a lot of 17 expansive based worldwide objectives received by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, and planned to be accomplished by 2030
- The UN has created 232 pointers to quantify consistence by part countries. The NITI Aayog has adjusted the checking way to deal with the Indian setting, with 100 pointers of its own for the Index.
Chief of Defence Staff: Gen. Rawat Appointed as first CDS
Part of: GS Prelims and GS Mains III- Security
In News
- The Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) is a high military office that supervises and organizes the working of the three Services
- He offers consistent tri-administration perspectives and single-direct exhortation toward the Executive ( Prime Minister) on long haul guard arranging and the executives, including labor, hardware and technique, or more all, “jointsmanship” in tasks.
- The upper age limit for the CDS has been fixed at 65 years.
- Administration boss have a residency of three years or 62 years, whichever is prior. In any case, the residency of CDS has not been fixed
Regional Reservations: Karnataka Students in National Law School
Part of: GS Prelims and GS Mains II- Federalism, Development
In News
- So as to give reservation to those understudies who have read in Karnataka for in any event 10 years, Karnataka government is reflecting on passing a bill that give 25% reservation to such understudies in National Law School of India University (NLSIU)
- A comparable Bill, proposing half reservation to Kannadigas, was passed in 2017. In any case, the Governor sent it back, saying that such a provincial reservation couldn’t be acknowledged.
- NLSIU at Bangalore was built up was set up by a rule passed by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Karnataka (NLSIU Karnataka Act 22 of 1986). The resolution expresses that Chief Justice of India fills in as the school’s chancellor.
Electro-kinetic streaming: To produce energy from flowing or stagnant water
Part of: GS Prelims and GS III- Science & Technology
In News
- Specialists at the IIT-Guwahati (IIT-G) has created materials that can deliver vitality from streaming or stale water in family units.
- Electro-dynamic spilling potential: When liquids stream through little channels(made up of extraordinary semiconducting material) that are charged, they can produce an electrical voltage, which might be tackled through scaled down generators.
- Gadgets with doped graphene pieces was additionally manufactured for producing power by dunking it in a can of water or any stale water source to “integral charge move exercises”
- Graphene is the sheet delivered by oxidation followed by decrease of regular graphite chips.
Value Addition for Prelims – Graphene:
- Graphene is a type of carbon and a super-solid, ultra-light material found in 2004
- Graphene comprises of a solitary layer of carbon iotas masterminded in a hexagonal cross section, every molecule bound to its neighbors by concoction bonds.
- It empowers adaptable electronic parts, upgrades sunlight based cell limit, and vows to change batteries.
Indian State of Forest Report 2019 (ISFR)
Part of: GS Prelims and GS II- Governance; GS-III- Environment
In News
- The ISFR is a biennial distribution of Forest Survey of India (FSI) an association under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change Government of India
- The report surveys the woodland and tree spread, bamboo assets, carbon stock and timberland fires.
- At 7,12,249 sqkm, the woodland spread established 21.67% of the country’s topographical region or 0.12% more than a year ago.
- The woodland spread in the nation expanded by 3,976 square kilometers (sqkm) however with the most keen decreases in the northeastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Mizoram.
- In any case, these states have higher extent of backwoods than most States — Mizoram (85.4%), Arunachal Pradesh (79.63%) and Nagaland (75%
- The best three States demonstrating an expansion in woods spread are Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
- Tree spread, characterized as patches of trees under 1 hectare and happening outside the recorded woods zone, developed by 1,212 sqkm
- Tree and woods spread together made up 25.56% of India’s zone. In the last appraisal it was 24.39%.
- Nature of woods — as far as the shelter thickness of the trees containing backwoods patches — is faltering.
- National Forest Policy, 1988 had conceived 33% of absolute region to be under tree and timberland spread.
- Ujjwala conspire, which gives free cooking gas to very poor families, has positively affected decreasing the interest for fuelwood.
(MAINS FOCUS)
HISTORY
TOPIC: General Studies 1:
- Post-autonomy combination and redesign inside the nation
Inter- state border dispute : Maharashtra-Karnataka Belgaum tension (Part-1)
In news:
- As of late Bus benefits among Kolhapur and Belgaum were suspended after the decades-old fringe contest among Maharashtra and Karnataka erupted once more.
- Different Kannada associations had organized a dissent in Belgaum and copied the model of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Do you know?
- The question among Maharashtra and Karnataka over Belgaum and other fringe territories is a longstanding issue between the two states, and has been pending under the steady gaze of the Supreme Court for a long time.
History:
- In 1947, the Belgaum area turned into a piece of the Bombay State.
- In 1948, the Belgaum Municipality that was commanded by Marathi talking lawmakers mentioned Indian Constituent Assembly and the Boundary Commission to remember the Belgaum for the proposed Maharashtra state for the Marathi speakers.
- In agreement to the set up approach of bifurcation on phonetic greater part premise, in 1956, the Belgaum region was fused into the recently shaped Mysore state (presently Karnataka) with the entry of the States Reorganization Act(The Act, redesigned India’s states along etymological and regulatory lines)
- Abutting zones which had greater part of Marathi talking residents were remembered for the recently framed Maharashtra state. included Belgaum in the Kannada-dominant part Karnataka, the region had the majority of the Marathi-talking populace subsequently the ‘question’ arised.
Data:
- In the 1881 evaluation, Belgaum had 864,014 individuals of which 556,397 were Kannada-talking (64.39%), while 225,008 were Marathi-talking (26.04%)
Mahajan committee:
- The Government of India established Mahajan Committee in 1960 to investigate the case,But it neglected to agree
Summary of the Mahajan committee report:
- Belgaum to proceed in Karnataka
- Around 247 towns/places including Jatta, Akkalakote, Sholapur to be a piece of Karnataka
- Around 264 towns/places including Nandagad, Nippani Khanapur to be a piece of Maharashtra
- Kasaragod (of Kerala) to be a piece of Karnataka
Response to the report:
- The Maharashtra and Kerala government invalidated the proposals of the report and requested another audit of the issue.
- Maharashtra government named the discoveries of the reports as one-sided and self-conflicting in light of the fact that the “equation” applied for Kasaragod was not applied for Belgaum.
- Maharashtra Government demanded that the report is against the “wish of individuals” of Belgaum.
- Kerala, then again, would not hand over Kasaragod to Karnataka. The Karnataka government, kept on squeezing for the usage of the report or keeping up the state of affairs.
What Maharashtra wanted?
Maharashtra needed to apply following focuses and consented to hand over Kannada dominant part towns to Karnataka:
- Towns as a unit
- Geological vicinity/trustworthiness
- Marathi or Kannada speakers “relative greater part”; if there should be an occurrence of towns with no populace, it ought to be converged with that state where the proprietors of that land live
- Individuals’ desire
Karnataka Government, needed business as usual to be kept up.
Connecting the dots:
- Do you think this question is inconvenient for the uprightness of the nation?
- How would you figure the contest can be settled?
TECHNOLOGY
TOPIC: General Studies 3:
- Mindfulness in its fields, Space, Computers, mechanical technology, nano-innovation, bio-innovation and issues identifying with licensed innovation rights.
Internet rights: Internet shutdown in India
In news:
- In Kashmir, the administration forced a total.
- The order of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act prompted fights everywhere throughout the nation and State governments reacted by suspending the Internet.
- The Software Freedom Law Center information says there have been in excess of a 100 Internet shutdowns in various pieces of India in 2019 alone.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Globally, the privilege to access to the Internet can be established in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which expresses that “everybody has the option to opportunity of conclusion and articulation; this privilege incorporates opportunity to hold suppositions without obstruction and to look for, get and bestow data and thoughts through any media and paying little respect to boondocks.”
Human Rights Council
- The Human Rights Council of the United Nations Resolution dated 2018, noted with concern the different types of undue confinement on opportunity of supposition and articulation web based, including where nations have controlled or smothered online articulation infringing upon global law.
Recommendation by: Justice BN Srikrishna Committee
- The propriety of a privilege to be overlooked in explicit conditions would necessitate that the privilege to security be offset with the ability to speak freely
- It called right to affirmation, access and redress to be remembered for the information assurance law.
Kerala High Court:
- In Faheema Shirin v. Province of Kerala, the Kerala High Court announced the privilege to Internet access as a key right shaping a piece of the privilege to security and the privilege to instruction under Article 21 of the Constitution
- This judgment recognizes the job of the privilege to get to Internet in getting to other essential rights
Observations by the Court
- The Court saw that the web goes about as a learning apparatus and no one can force confinements on it, refering to train.
- The applicant contended that the confinement on the utilization of web added up to an infringement of the essential right to the right to speak freely of discourse and articulation under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
- The Kerala HC accordingly refered to the Supreme Court judgment in the S. Rengarajan and others v/s P. Jagjivan Ram case (1989) that the central opportunity under Article 19(1)(a) can be sensibly confined uniquely for the reasons referenced in the Article 19(2).
Conclusion:
- Web broadband and versatile Internet administrations are a help to individuals in India from varying backgrounds. While the Internet is surely a fundamental wellspring of data and correspondence and access to online life, it is far beyond that. Subsequently ample opportunity has already past to perceive the privilege to Internet access as an essential right.
Connecting the dots:
- Do you think Internet access ought to be a fundamental human right?
- What’s your opinion about Kerala high court choice?
(TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE)
Model questions: (You can now post your answers in comment section)
Q.1) Consider the following statements about Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)
- The upper age limit for the CDS has been fixed at 65 years.
- Similar to Service Chiefs, the tenure of CDS has been fixed at three years.
Which of the above statement(s) given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
Q.2) Consider the following statements about Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- The SDGs are a set of 17 broad-based global goals adopted at Rio+2- conference in 2012, and intended to be achieved by 2030
- Kerala tops the States in progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while Bihar is at the bottom of the NITI Aayog’s SDG Index.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
Q.3) Consider the following statements
- The Indian State of Forest Report is a biennial publication of NITI Aayog which assesses the forest and tree cover, bamboo resources, carbon stock and forest fires
- National Forest Policy, 1988 has envisaged 33% of India’s total geographical area to be under tree and forest cover.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
Q.4) Consider the following statements about Graphene
- Graphene is a form of silicon and a super-strong, ultra-light material discovered in 2004
- It enables flexible electronic components, enhances solar cell capacity, and promises to revolutionise batteries.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
Importance of Current Affairs in IAS Coaching
Check out more IAS Coaching Current Affairs
Also, Check Out the All the Details about the IAS Exam
