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SOCIAL ISSUES ................................................................................................... 2
POLITY & GOVERNANCE .................................................................................... 9
ECONOMY ....................................................................................................... 14
ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................ 17
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................ 22
SECURITY ......................................................................................................... 23
DISASTER MANAGEMENT ............................................................................... 28
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SOCIAL ISSUES
 Demand for Khalistan in Punjab (Negative example)
 Demand for Dravida Nadu- Dravidian Movement, also known as
‘Self-Respect Movement’ which started in Tamil Nadu in 1925.
Initially focused on empowering Dalits, non-Brahmins, and poor
people.
 Bodoland Demand within Assam- The Bodo agitation is led by the
Assam Bodo Students Union which is demanding a separate state.
 Formation of Jharkhand (Positive example)
 (Formation of Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal, and Jharkhand, reconstituting
Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, respectively.)
 Son of soil movements- Clashes between Bodos and Bengali speaking
Muslims in Assam.
 Under development as a cause of regionalism- Vidharbha,
Saurashtra and Bundelkhand.
 Over development as a cause- Harit Pradesh (Western UP),
Tulunadu (South Karnataka).
 Inter-state regionalism- Cauvery river water dispute.
 Boundary disputes- Between Karnataka and Maharashtra over Belgaum
Regionalism where Marathi speaking population is surrounded by Kannada speaking
people, between Kerala and Karnataka on Kasargod, between Assam
and Nagaland on Rengma reserved forests. There is a dispute over
Chandigarh in Punjab and Haryana.
 Sub-regionalism- Saurashtra in Gujarat
 Supra-state regionalism- Rivalry between North and South India on
issues such as language or location of steel plants.
 Regionalism turning into Sub-nationalism- Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka LTTE examples.
 Local job reservation in states such as Haryana, Andhra Pradesh
and Telangana.
 Delhi hospital revokes ban on Malayalam- An order banning the
nursing staff of the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Postgraduate
Medical Education and Research (GIPMER), a Delhi government-run
hospital, from speaking in Malayalam in the hospital has been revoked.
 Extreme regionalism- include IsacMuivah's National Socialist Council
of Nagaland, Islamic fundamentalist groups in Kashmir and Assam, and
the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in Assam.
 Haj Subsidy, Kailash Mansarovar subsidies.

 Hindus celebrate Makara Sankranti by flying kites and most of the kite
Secularism makers are Muslims.
 Muslims and Hindus respectfully close down their shops during
processions of Muharram and Ganesh Chaturthi.
 Triple Talaq→ShayaraBano case (2017)

 Restrictions on women temple entry: Shani Shignapur, Haji Ali
Dargah.
 Indian cuisine emerging as most popular- Butter Chicken
 KFC do not sell beef items in India.
 Mc Donald going vegetarian during Navaratri.
 Spread of communicable diseases such as AIDS, COVID-19.
 SEWA- Union of women laborers.
 Kutchcraft– Association of craftswomen groups generated over 6,000
job opportunities since India embarked on path of Globalization
(Positive)
 Women silk spinners of Bihar lost their jobs once Chinese and
Korean silk yarn entered the market (Negative).
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 Gujarat- Women gum collectors from Julifera (Baval trees) lost
Globalization their employment due to import of cheaper gum from Sudan.
 Glocalized Saree draping is a rising fashion theme
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 Loss of IPRs- Neem, Ayurveda patent controversies
 MNCs conduct business on a worldwide scale and have branches and
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satellite offices all over the world. Eg: Google, Facebook, Microsoft.
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 Automotive industry- India provides better economies of scale. MG,

Hyundai, Renault, Nissan, Citroën, Jeep, Honda, Toyota, KIA,
Volkswagen, Škoda, Audi, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, BMW
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and MINI are the foreign automotive companies that manufacture and
market their products in India.
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 Banking industry- Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

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Limited (HSBC) is a foreign bank under the Banking Regulation Act,

1949.
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 Kerala->no segregated residences; so strong emotional bond and less

communal conflicts occur.
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 Muzzaffarnagar riots, 2014

 Anti-Sikh riots, 1984
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 Assam communal violence, 2012 (between indigenous Bodos and

Bengali speaking Muslims)
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 Biwandi ‘Mohalla Comittees’- Successful in institutionalizing cross-

Communalism communal interactions.
 Community Policing- Friends of Police in TamilNadu, Janamaithri
Suraksha Project: Kerala; Meira Paibi: Manipur.
 UPSC Jihad program by Sudarshan TV
 Tablighi Jamaat Issue during lockdown last year.
 Nikah halala, Polygamy, Triple talaq
 Pehlu Khan Lynching case
 Lynching of Bangladeshi Nationals in Assam (alleged cattle thieves)
 Soft secularism- Seen in USA; no government funds to religious

bodies etc.
Secularism
 Hard secularism- Seen in France; banning of face covering niqabs and
burqas in France.
 Zomato announced that it would allow female and transgender
employees to take up to ten days of paid “period leave” per year.
 Japan’s 1947 labor standards law inducted provision of
seirikyuuka (menstrual leave) for painful periods.
 SHE-Box→Online complaint management system
 Whenever a girl is born, Haridaspur, a remote village in Telangana,
celebrates by distributing sweets and lighting lamps. All girl
children in the village are going to have accounts of Sukanya
Samriddi Yojana (SSY), a savings scheme being implemented by the
Union government
 Mahila E-Haat: Leverages technology for showcasing products
manufactured/sold by women entrepreneurs.
 Spandana initiative (Andhra Pradesh)- Technology to make police
accessible; three-way communication between person, SP and field
officer.
 An all-women team, piloted the longest non-stop commercial flight
from the United States to India.
 All-women ‘Nirbhaya Squad’ of Jaipur police→The bike-borne
Nirbhaya Squad with women constables are trained in martial arts, who
Women are deployed at schools, colleges, malls and bus stops to extend
(Positive protection to women.
Example)  Women Entrepreneurs- Pepsi by Indra Nooyi, Axis Bank by Shikha
sharma, ICICI bank by Chanda Kocchar.
 International Women’s trade centre at Gender Park, Kozhikode.
 Chuppi Todo Abhiyaan- Awareness campaign about menstrual
hygiene in Nagaur district, Rajasthan.
 Ghar Doghaanche Abhiyan- Joint ownership of housing by husband
and wife in Maharashtra.
 Maharastra government has decided to raise an all women battalion of
the state reserve police police force
 All women crew for Air India commercial flight
 Nirbhaya Vahini by Manasi Pradhan demand ban on liquor trade,
trading of girls
 Bharosa cells by Atul k Kulkarni for women safety
 'Pad Squad', an initiative to distribute free sanitary pads in Mumbai
 Supreme Court of India held that daughters, like sons, have an equal
right to inherit ancestral property
 Women Army Officers are now eligible for permanent commission:
SC
 Janani Auto rickshaws of Odisha (for women delivery)
 Honour Killing in Dausa, Rajasthan

 Kathua, Unnao, Hathras and Hyderabad Rape Case
Women
 Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case/Bihar shelter home case
(Negative
Example)  Rising domestic violence during CoVID-19 lockdowns.
 Earning differentials- Men usually do weaving which is better paid
while spinning, usually done by women, is low paid.
 Arogyakeralam- Palliative care and support for the chronically ill and
infirm in Kerala.
 A medical practitioner in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh has carved a name
for herself by offering medical check-ups to the poor for a consultation
fee of Rs 10.
 Comprehensive annual and total health check-up for healthy Sikkim
(CATCH)
 Janta clinic in Jaipur for urban poor, Rajasthan
 Australia has introduced regulatory reforms to influence prescriber
behavior to combat Anti-microbial behavior (AMR).
 Health A.T.M at railway stations act as point of care devices
Health
 Telehealth model at Ganjam District, Orissa
 Mo Masari, Odissa - successful malaria prevention initiative
 Smart Anganwadi in Gujarat- eliminates use of multiple registers.
 Jan Aushadikendras- Bring down healthcare budget of every citizen
through providing quality generic medicines at affordable prices.
 NGO-
 Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) working for healthcare since
2009 and provides high quality and affordable primary medical care to
low-income and underprivileged groups in West Bengal.
 Can Kids, Kids Can- Founded in 2004 and it is the only national NGO
working across the entire spectrum of childhood cancer care in India.
 Open kitchen concept in Gujarat-Kitchen with glass doors and windows.
 Healthier menus in canteens (Maharashtra)
 Decentralized ICDS supplementary nutrition programme of Odisha.
 Mamata Programme- It provides a cash benefit scheme to pregnant
Nutrition and lactating women to improve nutrition and promote health-seeking
behavioursin Odisha.
 Matri Amrit Ahar: This ceremony is organized in Assam for pregnant
women in last trimester and comprise of providing nutritious food like
locally available fruits, pulses etc.
 Rajasthan ‘Apna Gaon Apna Kaam’
 Jaga Mission in Odisha- Transforming slums into livable habitat; It is
the world’s largest slum land title project under Land rights for slum
Poverty dwellers act, 2017.
 Philippines social protection support project
 China – Yunnan Integrated road network development project
 Bolsa Familia – Brazil → Financial aid to poor Brazilian families.

 Mexico- Opportunidades→Government social assistance in which
Inclusive
cash payments are made from the government directly to families to
Growth
decrease overhead and corruption.
 Sri Lanka- SamruddhiKosh
 Transgender Community desk at Gachibowli, Hyderabad
 Kerala- 1st state to formulate transgender policy
 India’s first transgender sports meet organized by Kerala.
 Ireland, Denmark allows for self-determination of gender without
medical treatment.
 Gender Neutral Toilets in Delhi
 Sameera M. Jahagirdar fight for the rights of LGBT+ to the Medical
Council of India, which has not recognized need to restructure the
MBBS Curriculum
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Manipur has become the first state in the country to have an all-
transgender football team
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LGBT  Sathyasri Sharmila- first transgender lawyer.
Community  Kalki Subramaniam- Sahodari Foundation, helps other transgender
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people like herself.

 Pranathi Prakash- Broken all norms associated with Hindu marriage
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traditions, when he performed all the rituals usually undertaken by a

father at the wedding of his foster daughter.
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 Shanavi Ponnusamy- Wrote to President alleging Air India denied her

cabin crew job despite her clearing written exam.
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 Manabi Bandopadhyay- Appointed as India’s first college principal in

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2015. However, she resigned citing ‘immense mental pressure’

[Negative]
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 Manjamma Jogathi: Received the Padma Shri Award in 2021 for her
contribution to folk dance.
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 Pota cabins → residential schools for the children in LWE affected

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areas of Chattisgarh.
 Delhi Model Virtual School - provide education to students remotely
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through personalised teaching-learning, effective assessments and use

of cutting-edge technology.
 E-Talim → Video recording of lectures by best teachers in
Education Kishangarh district of Bihar.
 The AaoGhar Mein Seekhein (let’s learn at home) programme in
Rajasthan, improved access to education amidst COVID-19 pandemic.
 "Namath Basai" - Kerala Government unique programme of teaching
tribal children in their mother tongue.
 Baste Ka Bojh Kam project (Rajasthan)- Integrated book for
different subjects.
 Mobile libraries ran by girls in MP during CoVID

 Pratibha Parv: M.P-regular assessment of teaching learning and
evaluation of education
 Library Langar Program by Punjab government
 E- takin: Kishangarh district, Bihar - video recording of lectures by
best teacher in district
 Mera Mobile, Mera Vidyalaya: Banka, Bihar
 Ammachi Labs - Mobile vocational education in rural India
 Sonam Wangchuk started New hope revolutionizing education in
Ladakh
 Pune Zilla Parishad has appealed to citizens to donate old
smartphones and used laptops to help poor students continue with e-
classes during the lockdown
 IT club of school at Koothattukulam in Kerala will train students to
blog and post videos on Youtube, Going beyond mere basics of IT
 Distribution of Smartphone by Punjab Government for Students to
access Online education
 Kerala Government became 1st state which helped struggling students
to repay education loan debts after the completion of their course.
 Nirmal grams-open defection free villages in Jharkhand through
community participation
Swachh Bharat
 Ransapara village in Assam got title of cleanest village through
community cleanliness drives
 Increased number of Child Marriages in Tiruchi post lockdown
 Akha Teej Occassion in Rajasthan for mass Child Marriages
Children  Committees led by mothers to ensure better monitoring of services
delivered at Anganwadis in Madhya Pradesh
 Instances of illegal Child Adoption during 2ndCoVID wave
 Sugamya Bharat campaign- Enable persons with disabilities to gain
Disability access for equal opportunities and live independently and participate
fully in all aspects of life.
 Vulnerability- During Chennai floods, elderlies formed a large
proportion of total deaths.
 Google and Telangana government signed MoU to train senior
citizens in using internet.
Elderlies
 Germany- Multi Generational homes
 WHO Brascilia declaration on promoting healthy ageing
 NITI Aayog- Aadhar based smart cards containing health details of
senior citizens
 Dalit man with an unspecified mental illness beaten to death in MP
Scheduled  Dalit boys forced to clean up excreta in Tamil Nadu
Caste  Death of Manual Scavengers in Delhi Patparganj Industrial Area
 Bhima Koregaon violence/Elgaar Parishad Case
 Sharias tribe battling malnutrition due to poverty, delayed

breastfeeding, premature pregnancies and seasonal migrations
 Padma Shri awardees Dr Rani & Abhay Bang's SEARCH is a
voluntary organisation that runs projects on tribal welfare, health,
education.
Scheduled
 Killing of American by Sentinels tribe
Tribe
 Odisha with most diverse tribal population is making efforts on
mulilingual education by supporting more than 21 tribal languages
 Tribals of Mannakumbri of Karnataka had to tie the body of a
woman to a pole and carry it back as their hamlet has no road
connectivity
 Animal Sports like Jallikattu and Kambala
Culture vs  Use of Manja (Kite string) during Makar sankranti
Animal Rights  Kerala Animals and Bird Sacrifices Prohibition Act of 1968 that
prohibits sacrifice of animals and birds in temples to ‘please’ the deity.
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POLITY & GOVERNANCE

 Co-operative federalism- Team India wing of NITI Aayog
 Competitive federalism – Resurgent Rajasthan, Invest Odisha etc.
 GST compensation cess devolution (Complaints of Delayed GST
Compensation Payment)
 West Bengal vs Centre over CBI power
 Centre vs Punjab over increasing jurisdiction of BSF
 Lockdown was implemented by center but responsibility of lifting
curbs left on states
 Current steps by the central government are being taken under the
Federalism Disaster Management Act, 2005, which was not designed to
handle epidemics
 COVID19: Telangana sends team to learn from Kerala [state -
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 Karnataka vs Maharashtra dispute in Belgaum [state - state]
 Autonomy-States (Tamil Nadu, Punjab, West Bengal) and many
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parties (DMK, Akali Dal, CPI-M) have made demands of autonomy
from time to time. (Negative example)
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 Financial powers-In 1977, the Left Front Government in West

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Bengal brought out a document demanding a restructuring of

Centre-State relations. (Negative example)
Examples of Judicial Overreach
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 National Anthem- It directed mandatory playing of national

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anthem in all cinema halls.

 SC directing centre to conduct NEET
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 SC ban on sale of alcohol within a distance of 500 metres from

National Highways by invoking Article 142. Thousands of hotels,
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restaurants forced to close down resulting in loss of jobs.

 Reserving premium seats at five times the normal prices in Delhi
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metro for car users affected by Odd-Even system

Positive Examples
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Judiciary  Cleansing of Taj Mahal (MC Mehta case)

 Rescuing children working in industry
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 Representation of People’s act judgements

Others
 Judicial legislation- Example: Vishaka guidelines.
 Judicial Executivism- Example: National Highway Liquor ban.
 Judicial Governance- Example: Blood Bank
 SC introduces Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic
Records” (FASTER) - ensure that under trials are not made to
wait for days on end behind bars to be released because the
certified hard copies of their bail orders were late to reach the
prison system.
 SC directs installation of CCTC cameras (without audio) inside

district courts on pilot basis.
 Establishment of National Judicial Data Grid
 Australia- Ethics commissioner to ensure Code of Ethics for judges
 Delhi high court imposed fine of rupee 2 lakhs on man for filing
false and frivolous case.
 Recently, SC on two tweets initiated suo motu proceedings for
criminal contempt against Prashant Bhushan
 SC ruled that "Office of Chief Justice of India" comes under RTI Act
 NALSA Judgement provided fundamental rights to the
transgenders in India.
 SC ordered the release of the bonded laborers in Bandhua Mukti
Public Interest Morcha Vs Union of India.
Litigation  Sumit Batra case – SC laid emphasis on right to be protected from
solitary confinement of undertrials.
 SC judgment in Hussainara Khatoon Vs State of Bihar led to the
release of thousands of under-trials who served their maximum period.
 Expanding the scope of Article 21 to include right to clean air,
livelihood etc.
 India needs Parliamentary Budget office akin to US
Congressional Budget office.
 Passing of farm laws in parliament by voice vote [However,
Parliament repealed now]
 Disruption in Parliament's working by MP's
 Privilege motion against ex-Chief Justice of India
 In Britain, every bill is scrutinized by a committee.
 Study by ‘India spend’ reported women panchayat leader
invested 48 percent more than male counter parts for village
Local Government development.
 Fatima Bi, women Sarpanch in Kurnool district (Andhra Pradesh)-
UN's Race Against Poverty Award.
 Augusta Westland VVIP chopper deal
 Narada scam
Corruption/Scams  Vyapam Scam
 Rs 600-crore Unipay2U scam, in which people were cheated
through Ponzi schemes
 Padma Award Portal(to democratise the process)
 Right to Information (RTI) applications seeking information
pertaining to the PM CARES Fund have been stonewalled
Transparency  Jan Soochna portal of Rajasthan :first ever, aims to provide
information to the public about government authorities and
departments
 Resignation of Kerala Higher Education Minister on rounds of
Nepotism
 Recently 2G mobile phone network was installed in Vijaynagar,

one of the remotest administrative circles in Arunachal Pradesh
Digitalization
 Optical fiber launched for A&N island
 Smart Anganwadi - app for aganwaditeachers ,Gujarat
 Jharkhand’s man carried his 100-year-old mother on his back to
bank to withdraw her pension money from Jan Dhan account
 Similarly, In a earlier incident a woman in Odisha had dragged
her 100-year-old mother in a cot to withdraw money from a Jan
Financial Inclusion Dhan account
Poor governance  "Haryana govt has distributed 'Parivar Pehchan Patra' as an an e-
Good Governance governance initiative that will enable the citizens to get the benefit
of various Centre and State government schemes at their door-step
in a fair and transparent manner"
 Andhra Pradesh recently decided to impose hefty fines on illegal
sale and transportation of Sand
 Tamil Nadu's custodial deaths: father-son duo arrested for a
lockdown violation in Tamil Nadu
 Video footage, of the police officials attacking citizens in the name
Police & of enforcing restrictions during Lockdown
Prison Reforms
 Hyderabad police killing of 4 accused in the ‘Disha’ case
 Encounter of Vikas Dubey
 Bhondshi Jail case - nexus between Inmates & Jail officials
 Bhoomi project- Online delivery of land records.
 Project FRIENDS in Kerala- Single window facility providing
citizens to pay taxes and other dues to government.
 TS-iPASS (Telangana State Industrial Project Approval and Self
certification system).
 Khajane project in Karnataka- Comprehensive online treasury
computerization project; tracks from approval of state budget to
point of rendering accounts to the government.
E-Governance  PRAGATI 2.0 – It is a unique integrated and interactive platform
through which PM oversees the implementation of various
government schemes, grievances, state and central related projects
& programmes by directly interacting with all stake holders
through Videoconferencing on a single platform.
 MyGov.org- Draft schemes and policy will be put in public
domain and asked for feedback and suggestions.
 E-BIZ Project- Single window support for all queries related to
business.
 Patanjali Ayurved’s claim of having discovered a “cure” for
Regulation
COVID through Coronil went unchecked
De-Regulation
 Amendments to UAPA Act and NIA Act
Mis-Regulation
 Planned privatization of some services of the Indian Railways
 Centre opens up coal sector, does away with end-use restriction

 Recent Amendment to deregulate Commodities under Essential
commodities Act, 1955
 Association for Democratic reforms (ADR) and Human rights
watch (Protection of human rights).
 Azad Foundation, CERA is a feminist human rights organization;
build leadership in women).
 People’s Union for civil liberties (PUCL) and Right to Food.
 Goonj- relief activities during Rahat floods in Assam.
 Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan- pioneering role in getting the
Right to Information (RTI) law passed in India.
 Naz Foundation- LGBT rights to social inclusion.
 Smile Foundation- Promotes education among underprivileged.
 Helpage India- Focuses on concerns of elders like healthcare &
pension.
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 Reuters- Unbiased NGO in the world.
 Nanhi Kali- Founded by Anand Mahindra; supports education for
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Role of NGOs
underprivileged girls in India.
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 Pratham- By Madhav Chavan and Faride Lambe; works for

provision of quality education for underprivileged children in India.
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 CRY (Child Rights and You)- Helps restore children’s rights to

build a society that promises equality, justice and respect.
 PRS Legislative research- Journal, documentation, research &
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awareness.
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 Samata partnered with Gram panchayat for proper implementation

of FRA, CAMPA act etc.
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 Green peace- Protested against Arctic oil drilling (Russia) and

Whale poaching (Japan)
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 Environmental NGOs in India- Green Peace, WWF, Bombay Natural

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History Society (BNHS), and Energy research institute, Kalpavriksha,

Birdlife International and Centre for Science and Environment.
 Umakant Umrao (collector of Dewas) helped farmers in Madhya
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Pradesh to fight against drought by construction of 16,000 ponds.

 Ritu Maheswari installed new electricity smart meters to tackle
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electricity theft in Kanpur (Facilitated industrial development).

 P Narahari provided barrier free environment for people with
disabilities (Mobilization of human and financial resources).
Role of Civil
Servants  Smita Sabharwal “Fund your city” in Warangal, Telangana-
Secured support of people for development by involving them.
 Chuppi Todd campaign (Break silence)- IPS Arif Shaikh –
Whatsapp number is provided through which women can lodge
complaints with police.
 Devansh Yadav (IAS)- Empowered SHGs to start sanitary pad
making unit and bamboo furniture unit.
 Citizen charter of Delhi Transport Corporation- Focused on

awareness of citizen charters through brochures and publicity
materials
 People of Chandigarh demanded adoption of Citizen Charter in
order to pay taxes like House Tax in order to curb harassment by
administration
 TISCO implemented social audit in 1979.
Citizen Charter &
 Annual social audit by social welfare department revealed
Social Audit
11,700 people missing from the list of pensioners.
 Meghalaya Community participation and public services social
audit act, 2017- First state to legalize social audit for almost all
government programmes.
 Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) conducting audits in
Rajasthan.
 NGO promoting social audits among people in Andhra Pradesh
 SHG volunteers assigned in PDS shops in Tamil Nadu
 SEWA under Ela Bhatt- organized women workers such as home
based operators like weavers, potters and small producers like cattle
rearers, salt workers, gum collectors, cook and vendors.
 Kerala kudumbashree provides training in banking and in skills to
set up micro-enterprises.
 Waiting rooms maintained by SHG at Kollam railway station –
SHGs
Rs. 20 per hour.
 Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat have better empowered SHG than
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
 Members of SHGs across TamilNadu to be trained as mental
health counsellors under ‘ManamInidhu’ initiative.
 Women Self Help Groups forming SakhiMandals in Gujarat to
start business.
 ASSOCHAM research on boosting agri-processing.
 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha- Enable tribals, SC/ST women to voice
Role of Pressure their opinions.
Groups  Important Pressure Groups- FICCI, ASSOCHAM, CII, SIAM,
AIKS and Kisan Mazdoor Shakti Sangathan.
 Informal Pressure groups- Cow vigilantes and communal groups.
 iGOT Karmayogi Platform for training of civil servants
 Arunachal Pradesh demand for 6th schedule status
 171 Hospitals de-listed from PM-JAY(Health insurance scheme)
Miscellaneous after fraud
 Alleged phone tapping scandal in Karnataka
 Maharashtra: Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC)
Act providing 12-13% quota to Maratha community
ECONOMY
 ZBNF- Andhra Pradesh found that ZBNF in paddy farming has led
to a saving of 1,400 to 3,500 cubic meters of water per acre per
paddy cropping period; AP put an ambitious plan to become India’s
first state to practice 100% natural farming by 2024.
 Crop colonies (Telangana)- Plan to divide cultivable land into
crop colonies so as to establish FPIs and provide unadulterated and
quality processed foods at competitive prices.
 Mission Kakatiya- restoring minor irrigation sources of water with
community participation.
 Pani panchayat in Orissa
 R Pappammal, an organic farmer from Coimbatore. She is 105-
years-old and was awarded the Padma Shri this year for
popularising organic farming.
Agriculture (+)  Traditional irrigation techniques such as Tankas, Khadins, Vav,
Ahar and Pynes.
 "Trench farming to grow vegetables in Ladakh during extreme
winters"
 Agriculture technology management agency (ATMA) facilitated
commodity-based groups to partner with private agencies in
production and marketing of basmati rice.
 PPP approach in Patna district brought replacement of traditional
rice varieties with basmati rice.
 Group Farming in Gujarat leading to women empowerment
 Onions were exported from Egypt to curb Inflation
 Kisan Rail by Indian Railways
 ‘Kisan Satyagrah’ Campaign: Online farmers’ Satyagrah
demands better price for produce in Madhya Pradesh
 Feminisation of Agriculture in Gaur Village, Ghaziabad
 Attack by Pink Bollworm insect causing farmer" suicide in Punjab
 Lakhimpur Kheri violence over farmer killings ‘Rail Roko’ stir in
Agriculture (-) Punjab against farm laws
 Stacking paddy on roads in Odisha protesting against “faulty
procurement procedures”
 ‘Chakka Jam’ in Rajasthan to protest against the contentious farm
laws Farmer protest in Singhu border
 Maruti halted production at 2 Haryana Plants
Automobile sector  Harley-Davidson will discontinue its India operations and exit the
world's largest motorcycle market. It cited issue of weak demand
 Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) bank Scam
 Yes Bank Crisis
Banking sector  Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi – Fugitive Economic
Offenders(FEO)
 Insurance limit of DICGC Raised to 5 lac from 1 lac in recent budget
a) First flight from Srinagar to Sharjah

Infrastructure
b) Opening of Kushinagar airport
 Automobile company Ford exiting India (FDI moving Out)
 Lack of diversity in export baskets mainly dominated by basmati
and marine products (Negative of exports)
 Govt Cuts down corporate tax (Positive for FDI)
Positives
 New Income tax regime, Introduced by recent Budget(Positive for
Negatives
wages)
 Rating agency Moody’s downgraded India’s foreign currency and
local currency long term issuer ratings to Baa3 from Baa2
 Depreciation of Rupee
 Chattisgarh- Barcoded ration cards issued at single point in the
state.
 Odisha- Gram panchayats managing PDS.
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GPS based tracking of trucks
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Arun e-PDS: To improve delivery through process re-engineering
Public
and use of ICTs.
Distribution
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System Dilli Annashree yojana- DBT mechanism to provide food security

to households in Delhi.
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 e-Uparjan initiative, Madhya Pradesh- Speedy and transparent

transfer of Minimum support price (MSP) dues into accounts of
farmers directly.
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 Taxman of Tumakuru, T Bhoobalan, IAS officer of Karnataka.
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Fiscal  GIS based property tax monitoring in Surat, Gujarat

Management and  Madamakki gram panchayat (Karnataka)- Gram Panchayat
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Taxation wanted to establish a circle at junction of roads but there was no

special grant for this.
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 Use of LHB coaches (high technology coached by German

company).
 Technology like TRINETRA to reduce dependence on visual sight
Miscellaneous of owner.
 IREDA issuing Green bonds to raise domestic and foreign capital.
 Proposal to setup development bank to fund Infra projects
 Centre new norms for all e-commerce entities, including Amazon,
Flipkart and Snapdeal, have to ensure the mandatory declaration of
country of origin of imported products sold on their respective
sites
 Supreme Court judgment on the Essar Steel case has clearly laid
down the roles of the committee of creditors (CoC) and the
adjudicating authority, and accepted that financial and operational
creditors are distinct and cannot be equated
 Price Deficiency payment- no procurement needed and thereby
preventing the accumulation of unwanted stocks.
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ENVIRONMENT
 Pusa bio-decomposer- Developed byIARI; turns crop residue to
manure in 15-20 days by accelerating decomposition process.
 IKEA uses rice straw as a raw material to make furniture –
solves stubble burning.
 Green crackers
 Turbo Happy Seeder (THS)- It can uproot stubble and also sow
Air Pollution seeds in area cleared; can then be used as mulch for the field.
 WAYU (Wind Augmentation Purifying Unit)- addresses air
pollution at
traffic intersections and dense traffic zones.
 Lockdown in Delhi due to air pollution
 India's first Smog Tower in Delhi
 Jakhni village, Bundelkhand (Uttar Pradesh)- Construction

of farm ponds, raising of farm bunds and intensive plantation of
trees.
 Rajendra Singh- Water Man of India- Use of Johad, rainwater
storage tanks and check dams.
 Maharashtra's 'Buldhana Pattern' of water conservation.
 Ground Water management by local authority in Pimpri
village, Maharashtra
 Avadi sewage treatment plant in Chennai.
 Israel – Desalinization of sea water, recycling of urban waste
water for use in agriculture; Government does accounting for
every drop of water, ensuring good water governance.
 Ken betwa river Interlinking Project; Mahadayi Project
Water scarcity and  Water ATM in Marathwada- Provide water at 25 paise/litre a
other Issues day.
 Neeru Chettu Programme (Andhra Pradesh)
 Kapila Dhara Yojana (Madhya Pradesh)
 Hiware Bazar – Community based governance and
partnerships.
 Apna Talab Abhiyan (Uttar Pradesh)- Farmers are provided
partial funding from government for creation of small ponds.
 Ganga gram Yojana
 Ganga and Yamuna given the status of “legal and living
entities” having the status of legal person with all corresponding
rights and duties.
 Water Use Associations- controlled by users of water who pay
for the services offered by the associations.
 Kuwait- 90% of all water used in the country is derived from
desalinization.
Negative Examples
 Microplastics in Ganga
 Microplastic pollution in Vembanad Lake, Kerala
 Immersion of Ganesh Idols in Sabarmati river and Goddess
Durga Idols in West bengal
 Despite of NGT Prohibhiting Chhath Pooja inside Rabindra
Sarobar Lake, many devotees performed Puja.
 1.Australia- Metered extraction and hefty fines to ensure
compliance
Ground water
 2. Chennai- Roof top harvesting is made compulsory for building
pollution
have more than 3 storeys.
 El Salvador recognises Forests as Living Entities

 1200 new lakes formed in Alps range
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 Pokkali rice seedling - Salt resistance verity
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agriculture, was based on work with tribal farmers in Araku for
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 Direct seeding of rice (DSR) technique to grow Paddy

 Rhino poaching in Kaziranga National Park
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 Etalin Hydropower Project in the biodiversity-rich Dibang

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 NBWL Nod for Coal mining in Assam’s DehingPatkai

Elephant Reserve (which was suspended later)
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 Illegal diamond and stone mining is flourishing under the nose

Negative Steps
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 New Highway project across Pakke tiger reserve

 Illegal coal mining in Meghalaya and Goa
 Untreated solid waste mountains in Deonar(Mumbai) and
Ghazipur(Delhi)
 Rakhis tied to trees in Aravalis (gurugram region) on Raksha
bandhan
 NGT ordered the public sector Oil India Limited (OIL) to
Positive Steps
deposit Rs 25 crores for environmental damages due to the fire
at Baghjan Oil field
 Maradu Flats demolition
 A town in Sikkim, is introducing bottles made of bamboo to

tourists
 Drive to rid Vembanad lake of plastics: State pollution control
board offers to collect 100 plastic bottles and win a relaxing
houseboat cruise on the backwaters of Alappuzha.
 Innovation of Badaut Gram Panchayat (Waste to Wealth)
 Sivaipally village Telangana - a role model for all in
cleanliness, promotion of water harvesting and improvement of
groundwater table
 United Kingdom- First major economy to legislate a law to
make itself carbon neutral by 2050.
 LOHAFEX- Indo German Ocean-Iron fertilization project.
 Building Fake trees- Contain compounds which can react with
CO2 to absorb it and store it in solid form.
 PM praises solo effort at lake cleaning up Vembanad Lake - S.
Rajappan, a differently abled man from Kaippuzhamuttu, near
Kumarakom, Kottayam.
 Elephant Corridors in Delhi-Dehradun highway
 Vulture restaurant in Pong Dam Lake Himachal Pradesh
 Use of satellite phones for officials in Kaziranga National Park
 Tyre park in Kolkata to turn waste into art
 Use of giant 'vacuum cleaner' by Belgium to remove plastic
from nature reserve
 Tamil Nadu setting up Dugong conservation reserve in Palk
Conservation Strait
Efforts  Directions for mandatory use of plastics in highway
construction by Kerala State Pollution Control Board
 Cummin’s India’s initiative of ‘Creating Oxygen Hub’-
planted around 35,000 trees with help of NGOs.
 Jadav “Molai” Payeng is an environmental activist and forestry
worker from Majuli Island popularly known as the Forest Man
of India.
 Sundarbans Mangroves protects Bengal from effects of
cyclones in Bay of Bengal.
 Swaraj Sangathans: Tribal protest in Rajasthan to protect soil
biodiversity
 Tribal protest in Hasdeo forest against coal mine plants
Conservation  Tribal protest in Uttarakhand against Dehradun airport
Efforts expanding project
 Vishnu Society of Rajasthan has sacrifice their lives to save the
local Keladi tree.
 Nylon fencing on Sunderban Islands prevents tigers from
swimming across to inhabited islands.
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PLAN BEE – Unique strategy adopted by Northeast Frontier
railway to keep wild elephants away from railway tracks through
use of buzzers imitating bees.
 Operation Kachhapa- Uniting all stakeholders in turtle
conservation.
 Great Green wall- Initiative by GEF – Focused efforts to fight
against land degradation and revive native plant life to the
landscape.
Positives
 Living with Leopards initiative by NGO's in Tehri,
Uttarakhand
Negatives
 Electrocution of Elephants in Palakkad district of Kerala
 Recent case in Kerala, where a pregnant female elephant was
fed with Bomb filled fruit
 Animals, including cattle, elephants, lions and leopards, have
Animal Human
been killed on railway tracks
Conflict
 Electric fences leading to deaths of Elephant
 A leopard hiding in Dehradun's Shrinagar Medical College
building for two days was shot dead after it attacked a group of
forest department personnel struggling to capture it
 Immune-contraception has been introduced in order to control
the population of nilgai, monkeys and wild boars
 The compensation for human deaths has been increased from
Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh in case of Animal human conflict
 Bowenpally Sabzi Mandi (Hyderabad) generating electricity
Energy Security from vegetables [Waste to Energy Example]
 Largest solar power plant of the world in Bandla, Rajasthan
or Renewable  Drone strikes on Saudi Arbia's Oil facility at Aramco lead to
Energy jump in crude prices
 Biofuel Planes
 Bidadi waste-to-energy plant (Karnataka)- Process 600 tonnes
per day of inorganic waste; inorganic waste which consists of bad
Waste Management quality plastics and used cloth pieces can be processed as Refuse
Derived Fuel (RDF).
 Floral offerings at temples which were earlier dumped as
garbage is now a major source of rehabilitation of widows in
Vrindhavan.
Sustainable  Amur Falcon, Pangti village (Nagaland)- Local nagas once
development used to hunt these birds for sale and meat on massive scale. Due
to NGOs and conservation activist efforts, local turned from
predators to protectors->Pangti village became the “Falcon
capital of the world”.
 First carbon-neutral village, Wayanad, Kerala.

 E-Waste clinic, Madhya Pradesh
 Forest produce tracking system, Karnataka
 India canteens, Karnataka- selling cup of tea for four plastic
bottles.
 Korea- SSR Campaign- Save, Share, Swap and Reuse.
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 Bois Locker Room(was an Instagram scandal, allegedly involving a chat
room of teenage boys)
 Recent incident where pictures of college students were posted on
Social Media porn sites after being lifted from photo and video sharing platform
Instagram
 Armstrong pame through social media collected fund to construct roads
in Manipur
 Railways deploys ‘Ninjas’ Drones for surveillance
 Maharashtra has become the first State in the country to get the goahead
Drones to use drones for aerial surveillance and inspection of extra high voltage
(EHV) power transmission lines
 Survey of India to deploy 300 drones for mapping country
 Mannequins with cameras to scan bengalurutraffic
 Over the top platforms like NetFlix and Amazon prime competing
Cinema
 Chandrayaan -2 Vikram Failure and Chandrayaan-3 Announcement
 Train 18 Project
 Satellites to detect drug cultivation in Odisha.
 Daksha is one of India’s current military robots.
Miscellaneous  WHO ‘Access, Watch and Reserve’ strategy to deal with AMR.
 CSIR Achievements- Solar tree, Indigenous lithium battery, rejuvenated
Digboi refinery.
 STI Development banks- Fund for investing in direct long term
investments in select strategic areas.
 E-Gram Panchayat- Improve quality of governance.
 Meghraj GI Cloud- Optimum utilization of infrastructure and speed up
development and deployment of eGov applications through National
cloud initiative.
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SECURITY
 Estonia became standstill in 2007 due to cyber attacks
 Stuxnet’s alleged involvementin destabilizing Iran’s nuclear
programme.
 Event Bot Trojan horse- Information stealer that abuses
Androids-in-built accessibility features.
 WannaCry ransomware attack (2017)
 Honey trapping- Air Force reported one case of honey trapping in
2015.
 Malware ‘DTrack’ breached a system at Kudankulam power
plant.
 Hacking of emails and twitter accounts by ‘Legion’
 Petya ransomware attack (2017)- Impacted container handling
functions at terminal operated by Danish firm at JNPT.
 Cyber espionage → Titan rain, Moonlight maze, Operation
Shady rat, Red October NSA surveillance program as revealed
by Edward Snowden in USA.
 Cyber heist (2016) of $950mn from Bangladesh-> Bankers
handling over SWIFT codes to hackers.
 USA, Australia and New Zealand have antispam legislations.
 M-Kavach 2 by C-DAC → comprehensive mobile device security
Cyber Security solution addressing emerging threats related to Android based
mobile devices.
 App Samvid: An application whitelisting software.
 USB Pratirodh – Free bot removal tool
 Cyber swachchtakendras- Botnet cleaning and Malware analysis
centre.
 Telangana -1st state with policy on cyber security; established
cybersecurity centre of excellence (CCoE)
 Cyberdome project in Kerala
 Cyber Safe women in Maharasthra
 Tallinn manual- academic, non-binding study on how
international law applies to cyber conflicts and cyber warfare.
 WhatsApp identified Pegasus,a spywaredeveloped by an Israeli
company NSO installing malicious code into users phone.
 Denial of Service- Mirai botnet and UDP flooding
 Rootkit- NTRootkit
 Distributed denial of service attack- Git Hub attack and cloud
fare attack.
 Phishing- Lazarus group targeted nearly 5 million individuals and
businesses in 6 countries including in India.
 Mumbai power system hack
 Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA)- anti-

naxalite/counter-insurgency force.
 ITBP role in Man Sarovar yatra
 Indian Navy deployment of warships for relief operations when
Mozambique hit by Cyclone Idai.
Security forces
 Operation Vijay (annexation of Portuguese India)
 Operation Meghdoot (Siachen)
 Operation Poomalai- Dropping supplies over besieged town of
Jaffna in Sri Lanka
 Operation Cactus (to prevent the 1988 Maldives coupe)
 Tablighi Jamaat issue
 Rumors about Africans on social media affecting their safety and
Fake News
security
 Misinformation about polio vaccination
Media Trials
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judgement of this case was suspected to have been influenced by
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 Jessica Lal case (2010)
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 External state actors- ISI in India, KGB against USA during cold
Role of External war and CIA in Cuba.
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 Non state actors- ISI in Pakistan accused of using NSAs like LeT
and Non state
and JMB to fuel terrorism in India.
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 26/11 attacks
 Isolation of villages in Malkangiri in Odisha because of
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 SAMADHAN – security doctrine to counter naxalism

Development and  Specialized forces like Greyhounds in Andhra Pradesh
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Extremism  Joint command and control centre at Maoist hotspots such as

Jagdalpur and Gaya.
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 Operation Steeplechase (1971) →Joint Army-CRPF police

operation which lead to crackdown of many Naxalites.
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 North East- Extortion, kidnapping and gunrunning

 J&K – Counterfeit currencies
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 Bombay terrorist attacks (1993)- Arms and ammunitions

smuggled into India by sea route.
 Hizbul Mujahideen- Fake currency cartels based in Pakistan.
Organized Crime
 ISIS and Boko Haram activities
and Terrorism
 Financing of Taliban through opium production in Afghanistan
and trafficking in cocaine.
 Maharashtra passed Maharashtra control of organized crime act.
 Dawood Gang- Transnational crimes mainly narcotic drugs and
contract killing.
 Arun Gawli Gang- collection of protection money from rich

businessman and contract killings.
 Indian airlines flight to Kandahar was hijacked where
passengers were held hostage – freed in return for release of
Pakistan based militants.
 Bamboo chicken- Its popularity in Andhra Pradesh’s East
Godavari agency (Maredumilli) has attracted foodies from far and
wide→ mainstreaming area and reducing its remoteness- thereby
Insurgency making it less attractive for Maoists.
 Sri Lanka programme- 6+1 tenets designed→education,
vocation, psychological and creative therapies, society, culture and
family, spirituality and religion etc.
 Ethno nationalist terrorism- Tamil nationalist groups in Sri Lanka
 Narco terrorism- Al Qaeda and Hizballah in Lebanon
Terrorism  State terrorism- Nazi holocaust, Rohingyas in Myanmar, recent
killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi consulate
in Istanbul allegedly by Saudi government agents
 Facebook Data leak (personal data of over 500 million Facebook
users was posted in a low-level hacking forum)
 Government blocked 59 widely used apps, most linked to Chinese
Data Security companies like TikTok, UC Browser, SHAREit etc
 Government blocked PubG Game
 RBI Data localisation Norms
 2020 Kerala gold smuggling case
 INX Media case
Money Laudering
 Aircel-Maxis case
 Daiichi-Ranbaxy case
 JNU Attacks
 Shaheenbagh protests
 2019 Jamia Millia Islamia attack
Protests  Delhi, Meghalaya etc protests over CAA
 Honda Manesar plant employees protest against sacking of
contractual workers
 2 Month strike by Telangana state Road Corporation – Labour strike
 Killing of Security Personnels in Sukma and Bastar (Negative
Example)
 Pota Cabin- residential schools for children in LWE effected
areas of chattisgarh
Maoism  School on wheels - LCD mounted van in LWE affected areas
 SwabhimanAnchal Initiative of Odisha
 Odisha government has planned to connect inaccessible villages
in Odisha's Swabhiman Anchal, a stronghold of CPI(Maoist), in
Malkangiri district by setting up mobile towers for the first time
 Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005 to contain

Maoism.
 Comprehensive Integrated Border Management system
(CIBMS)- robust and integrated system capable of addressing
present gaps by seamlessly integrating human resources, weapons
high-tech surveillance equipment.
 BOLD-QIT (Border electronically dominated quick
interception) initiative- Equip Indo-Bangladesh borders with
Management in different kinds of sensors in unfenced riverine areas of
Border Brahmaputra and its tributaries
areas
 Long range reconnaissance observation systems
 Operation Sadhbhavana (2004)- Electrification of remote rural
villages.
 Israeli firm unveils armed robot to patrol borders- An Israeli
defence contractor unveiled a remote-controlled armed robot it
says can patrol battle zones, track infiltrators and open fire.
 Umeed, Delhi police
Community  Bengaluru- People as Suraksha Mitras
Policing  Friends of Police movement, Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu
 Meira Paibi in Manipur
 Revolving Door arrests in Kashmir: youth picked up and
released under a continuous process
 Gupkar declaration- joint statement issued by main stream
regional parties of J&K to defend Article 370
 Under the "Back to village" program of Jammu and Kashmir,
the entire administrative apparatus of the state government is
Kashmir Related going to visit all the 4483 Panchayat Halqas to get the grassroots
level feedback from general public
 Kashmiri students attacked at university in Rajasthan
 Detention of former CMs under Public safety act in J&K
 Curb on Internet Use post abrogation of Article 370
 Hybrid model of smart fence along LoC
 Smuggling of explosives through Raigad coast in Maharashtra
Coastal security and their use in 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai.
 Infiltration of 10 Pakistani terrorists → attacks in Mumbai (2008)
 Armed gangs and Groups like NSCN-Khaplang undermining
sovereignty of legitimate Government
 Agreement between Government and Bodo Groups to maintain
North East
peace in Assam
instability
 Bru Refugee Issue
 “Operation Sunrise 2” between India and Myanmar :
coordinated operation by armies of India and Myanmar along the
border
 Maharashtra de-radicalization program led by Anti-terrorism

squad; cases led by friend officers.
 Operation Pigeon in Kerala
De-radicalization
 Winning Hearts and Minds (WHAM), Union Government-
reduce alienation of Kashmiris
 Mission Pehalby Indian army and Elixir foundation
 Country's 1st 'Darknet' narcotics operative Dipusingh arrested
 Lone wolf Attacks
 Malegaon blasts, 2006 and Mumbai attacks, 2008
 Khalistan Demand
 Tis Hazari clash: Delhi Police vs lawyers
 Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GCTOC)
Miscellaneous  Israel's Iron Dome technology against Ghaza
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 Robots to patrol borders in Israel
 Killing of jounalist Shujaat Bukhar in Srinagar
 Drone attacks by Houthis on Saudi Arabia's oil plants
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 IFLOWS-Mumbai: State of the art integrated flood warning system
Floods
for Mumbai.
 Flash flood in Ladakh (2010)- Army’s immediate search, rescue
Flash floods
and relief operations mitigated impacts.
 India Tsunami Early Warning Centre: Real time observation
network of seismic stations.
 INCOIS extended GIS based 3D protocol on Tsunami warning to all
Tsunami
vulnerable areas.
 Local knowledge centres developed by MS Swaminathan
Foundation in Pondicherry.
 Bhuj earthquake (2001) – 8.1 on Richter scale.
 India Quake developed by National centre for seismology; mobile
app disseminates real-time EQ information.
 Sagar vani- Mobile app sendalerts to user community in a timely
Earthquake
manner.
 Quake proof technology- jacket method in bridges, seismic
isolation at homes.
 Dhajji-Dewari system of building houses in Kashmir.
 Odisha is the national disaster capital of India as it prone to small
to big cyclones every year.
 Cyclone Fani→Accurate prediction by IMD early warning system
Cyclones saved many lives.
 Japan- Coastal forest as effective barrier.
 GPS buoy system for monitoring the tide levels.
 Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) adopted a heat action
Heat waves
plan→ Building heat shelters, ensuring availability of water etc.
 Bandhavgarh forest fires in Madhya Pradesh
 Near real time forest fire alerts- MODIS and SNPP-VIIRS.
Forest Fires  Fire safety audit
 Mundka fire tragedy: Fire at three-storey building in Delhi. The
building did not have necessary clearances or safety equipment.
 Bhopal Gas tragedy (1984)- release of methyl isocyanate; killed at
least 2,000 people.
 Pune chemical unit fire - flagrant violation of safety norms, labour
laws
Chemical and  Vishakapatnam Gas leak (2020)- release of styrene gas from LG
Industrial polymers.
disasters
 Fukushima nuclear leak
 Explosion in Pune chemical factory
 Baghjan gas leak in Assam
 Beirut (Lebanon) Chemical Fertilizer Blast case
 Bioremediation mechanism developed by National Institute of

Oil Spills Ocean technology – Uses hydrocarbon degrading bacteria extracted
from the ocean sediment.
 Landslides in Kerala Iddukki caused massive damage of lives.
 IIT Mandi + NDMA→ Training program on landslide
Landslides
mitigation.
 Retaining walls
 Mumbai Municipal corporation act (1888)- Every building >30
years must be inspected by qualified structural engineer every 10
Building collapse years.
 NITI Aayog- Continuous quality certifications and audits with
association of Durocrete construction quality rating agency.
 BHEL S-Band Doppler radars
Cloudburst
 Ushahidi- open source platform for crisis mapping.
 Chernobyl disaster (1986)
Nuclear disasters
 Mayapuri radiological accident (2010)
Glacial Lake  Glacial burst on Nanda Devi washed away Rishiganga hydroelectric
Outburst Flood power project.
 Madhya Pradesh Bhagirath Krishakabhiyan
Droughts
 Andhra Pradesh online water dashboard
 Putola Naach in Assam - Promoted by Locals during CoVID
 Bangla Sahib Gurdwara providing free food and medical services
during CoVID
 NGO's organizing Oxygen Langar during CoVID
 In Maharashtra, It Took 2 month to get Power back in Raigad Village
after Cyclone Nisarga
 Kerala village (Eraviperoor Grama Panchayat) deploys robot nurses
for patient care during COVID 19
 India had warning about the COVID-19 epidemic in China spreading
to neighbouring countries well ahead of virus importations; yet, the
nation faltered
COVID-19  The first Nipah outbreak in 2018 helped Kerala to strengthen its
public health system
 Shramik trains to ferry stranded migrant workers to their native
states amid the Covid-19
 Facing a surge in demand for face masks amid the outbreak of
COVID-19, women self-help groups (SHGs) in Kota have supplied
more than 51,000 masks to frontline workers and public
 Plasma donors in Assam may get preference in jobs and government
schemes as a gesture for helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic
 Bhilwara COVID-19 containment “model” refers to the steps taken
by the administration in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district to contain the
disease, after it emerged as a hotspot for coronavirus positive cases
 ‘Special Corona Fee’ on liquor in Delhi

 Kasturba Hospital nurses begin protest over salary
 Doctors and Hospitals greeted with flowers showered from the
helicopter for their selfless service in COVID Outbreak
 Disaster preparedness month in Delhi.
 Chetna initiative in Bihar: Community involvement in
preparedness and mitigation.
Awareness
generation  Agriculture fair with demonstration of earth quake construction
structures organized every year in Satara district of Maharashtra.
 Folk troupes (Uttar Pradesh)- Nukkad Nataks, puppet shows and
magic shows.
 Tamilnadu regional early warning systems, risks and vulnerability
Capacity Building
assessments.
 Integration of DM in training programme of Sarva Shiksha
Institutionalization
of Disaster
Abhiyan in Jajpurdist (Odisha)
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 Sikkim- A dedicated disaster management unit under the State
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Management government.
 Delhi disaster management authority (DDMA)
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 Citizen leaders ensure sustainability, Sitapur dist (U.P) - They

help in increasing local resilience and addressing root causes of
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vulnerability.
Community
 National youth schemes – NSS
participation
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 Lahotighat block, Morigaon district, Assam- Focus group

discussions held in evening hours after labor work over; building flat
in
bank cum community fishery.

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 Puri dist (Odisha) - young women as master trainers to impart

training on first aid techniques.
Gender
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 SHGs linking DM to development - Latur district, Maharashtra.

Mainstreaming
 ASHA workers as role models in Assam- They became members
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of Disaster management teams.

 Gujarat social forum- NGOs and CBOs working on multi sectoral
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Convergence and issues.

Partnerships  Urban Earthquake vulnerability reduction project, Vijayawada -
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Municipal corporation+ Tata Group

Cultural  Disaster management at Pedkai Mata Temple, Dhule.
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 Triple Talaq→ShayaraBano case (2017)

 Automotive industry- India provides better economies of scale. MG,

 Banking industry- Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

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 Soft secularism- Seen in USA; no government funds to religious

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people like herself.

traditions, when he performed all the rituals usually undertaken by a

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2015. However, she resigned citing ‘immense mental pressure’

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through personalised teaching-learning, effective assessments and use

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anthem in all cinema halls.

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restaurants forced to close down resulting in loss of jobs.

metro for car users affected by Odd-Even system

Judiciary  Cleansing of Taj Mahal (MC Mehta case)

 Representation of People’s act judgements

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 Centre opens up coal sector, does away with end-use restriction

 Pratham- By Madhav Chavan and Faride Lambe; works for

 CRY (Child Rights and You)- Helps restore children’s rights to

 Samata partnered with Gram panchayat for proper implementation

 Green peace- Protested against Arctic oil drilling (Russia) and

 Environmental NGOs in India- Green Peace, WWF, Bombay Natural

History Society (BNHS), and Energy research institute, Kalpavriksha,

Pradesh to fight against drought by construction of 16,000 ponds.

electricity theft in Kanpur (Facilitated industrial development).

 Citizen charter of Delhi Transport Corporation- Focused on

a) First flight from Srinagar to Sharjah

System Dilli Annashree yojana- DBT mechanism to provide food security

 e-Uparjan initiative, Madhya Pradesh- Speedy and transparent

 11 year old Santoshi kumara died of starvation in Jharkhand due to

lack of ration for not linking Aadhar.

Fiscal  GIS based property tax monitoring in Surat, Gujarat

Taxation wanted to establish a circle at junction of roads but there was no

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consumer connect and transparency and accountability in coal

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