Supreme Court’s Verdict On Demonetisation: The Supreme Court has passed a verdict on the Demonetisation of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in a majority 4-1 by a five-judge Constitution Bench. Majority Ruling: The majority held that Centre’s notification dated November 8, 2016 is valid and satisfies the test of proportionality. The RBI […]
Category: Polity Current Affairs
Remote Electronic Voting Machine
Remote Electronic Voting Machine: The Election Commission of India (ECI) recently said that it was ready to pilot remote voting for domestic migrants through newly devised remote electronic voting machines (RVMs). Remote Electronic Voting Machine: The new RVM prototype will enable a voter, who is listed in constituencies, to exercise voting rights from a single […]
The National Geospatial Policy, 2022
The National Geospatial Policy, 2022: After liberalizing the use of geospatial data under the draft geospatial data policy in February 2021, the Ministry of Science and Technology has notified the National Geospatial Policy, 2022. “The National Geospatial Policy, 2022 is a citizen-centric policy that seeks to strengthen the geospatial sector to support national development, economic […]
Vokkaligas, Lingayats Share In Reservation
Vokkaligas, Lingayats Share In Reservation: Karnataka has categorized the two dominant communities, Vokkaligas and Lingayats, as “moderately backward” from the “backward” category in a move that could increase their share in reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC). Karnataka currently has 32% quota for OBC, and 17% and 7% quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, […]
Triple Test Survey On Reservation
Triple Test Survey On Reservation: The Allahabad High Court had ordered the Uttar Pradesh Government to conduct urban local body elections without the OBC reservations as the “triple test” requirement for the quota has not been fulfilled. The state government has recently constituted a commission to conduct the triple test survey in the urban local […]
Report Card Of RTI Responsiveness : Satark Nagrik Sangathan
Report Card Of RTI Responsiveness : Satark Nagrik Sangathan Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) has released a report card of Responsiveness under RTI (Right to Information) Act 2021-22, which shows that Tamil Nadu has been the worst performing RTI responsiveness, furnishing only 14% of the information sought. Maharashtra was second-worst, sharing 23% of the information asked […]
Congress Foundation Day : December 28
Congress Foundation Day : December 28 The Indian National Congress (INC), India’s largest opposition party, marked its 138th foundation day on December 28. The English bureaucrat Allan Octavian Hume or AO Hume is credited as the founder of the organisation. On December 28, 1885, 72 social reformers, journalists and lawyers congregated for the first session […]
Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2022
Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2022: The Union Government tabled the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2022 in Parliament. The objective is to “decriminalize” 183 offences across 42 legislations and enhance the ease of living and doing business in India. Some Acts that are amended by the Bill include: the Indian Post Office […]
Plastic Waste Management : CAG Report
Plastic Waste Management : CAG Report As per the recent audit by CAG of MoEF&CC, it was found that the ministry has a mechanism to assess the generation of plastic waste, but none for its collection and safe disposal Key findings of the CAG report: MoEF&CC has no action plan leading to ineffective implementation of […]
Marital Rape In India : Report
Marital Rape In India : Report Out of 185 countries in the world, 77 have laws that clearly criminalise marital rape while there are 34 countries that explicitly decriminalise marital rape, or in essence, offer immunity to men who perpetrate rape against their wives. India, is one of the 34 countries that have decriminalised marital […]
