28 Dec 2023

#GS4: – 01.Dunki & Human Trafficking

Undocumented immigrants usually choose to travel for various reasons. Some flee poverty; some flee violence. Some might even be displaced by development measures such as the building of a large dam. Refugees are usually lured to the border by agents promising easy passage to the US or EU. These agents charge high fees for bogus documents and transport people via sea or flight. However, many end up as pawns in the booming trafficking business. Human rights groups have documented instances where migrant workers’ access to their passports is manipulated to push them into bonded labour. –

Commentary in News

#GS3: –  02. Coal Sector

Rolling out a policy to provide financial support for coal gasification projects, augmenting production And promoting underground mining activities are among The government’s priorities for the coal sector, which is key to meet the country’s rising electricity demand. Besides, efforts will be made to bring more captive and commercial coal mines into operation, improve the quality of the dry fuel and transportation infrastructure for environmental sustainability. Digitization of mine records is also on the cards.
-Coal secretary Amrit Lal Meena

#GS2: – 03. India-Russia Relations

We Agreed on expansion of exports of Russian hydrocarbons to India as well as cooperation in peaceful use of nuclear energy. – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Russian supplies of energy, coking coal, and fertilizers are “significant components” of bilateral trade, and discussions
centred around the long-term arrangements for the commodities. India has a “very substantial” energy relationship including investment in Russian oil and gas, which we seek to expand.
-EAM S. Jaishankar

#GS3: –  04. DeepTech Startups

The government is working On a new policy to financially support deep-tech startups so that India can be globally competitive in technology as well as boost its space, defence, energy, medical sciences and pharmaceuticals Capabilities. You have to be competitive, means You have to have you rown technology. That is where deep tech start ups, which are based on very innovative science and engineering, come. Such startups are very few in India. Most are serviceoriented startups, which is okay. But out of the 100,000 startups(in India), hardly10,000 can be called deep tech.
That’s what we must increase. Digital public infrastructure is an example of success which we should emulate in other areas. PM’s e-vidya programme is already there. Digital education is going to be big as We have a large young population and We have a demographic advantage.
-Ajay Kumar Sood, chair- person of PM-STIAC and principal scientific advisor

#GS3: –  05. Export Curbs on Farm Produce

“Putting curbs on exports is not the best idea. It comes in the way of decisions taken by farmers as they cannot take a
medium-term view.
-BoB Chief Economist Madan Sabnavis

#GS3: – 06. Production in Indian Economy
An economy produces two broad types of output: farm and non-farm. The non-farm sector comprises industry and services. As the economy develops, their expansion drives economic growth. Whether the manufacturing or services sector grows faster depends on the policy environment, domestic and global demand, and the sector’s comparative advantage. In recent decades, services have expanded rapidly in several developing countries, including India, followed by construction, with limited manufacturing expansion. In the early 1980s,the share of services in India’s
economy was around 40%. In 2022-23, it was 58%.
-Commentary in News

#GS4: –  07.Why do we work?

The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with the min to the lap of economic Abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes…Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem—how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.
-John Maynard Keynes

The Buddhist point of View takes the function of work to be at least three- fold: to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego- centeredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence. Again, the consequences that flow from this view are endless. To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people an evil lack of compassion and a soul destroying degree of attachment of the most primitive side of this world existence. equally for strive for leisure as an alternative to work would be considered a complete misunderstanding of one of the basis truth of human existence namely that work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated with out destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

– EF Schumacher