Civil Services Chronicle May 2022

1 AQVERIUM: India’s First-Ever Digital Water Data Bank

2 Women@Work Programme

3 Dishaank App

1 Mukhyamantri Chaa Srami Kalyan Prakalpa Scheme

1 First Drone School

1 India’s First Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Centre

2 Sushma Swaraj Award

3 Haryana Matrushakti Udyamita Yojana

4 35th Surajkund International Crafts Mela

1 Camel Protection and Development Policy

1 Telangana Topped the Country in Terms of Per Capita Net State 2022

1 Mission Indradhanush: Odisha Topped in Full Immunization with 90.5% Coverage

1 Nagaland Assembly First in India to Implement National E-Vidhan Application

1 Tamil Nadu Petroproducts

1 Meghalaya’s MeghEA Project Shortlisted for UN Awards 2022

1 Bihar Diwas

1 PV Sindhu

1 Pankaj Advani

1 Alyssa Healy

2 Mithali Raj

3 Suresh Raina

1 Minimum Support Price

2 Participatory Notes (P-notes)

3 Index of Eight Core Industries

4 Balance of Payment (BoP) & Balance of Trade

5 Balance of Payment (BoP) – Causes of Disequilibrium and Measures to Rectify

6 Convertibility of Rupee

7 India’s Merchandise Exports and Merchandise Imports

8 Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS)

9 Components of Monetary Policy

10 Reserve Bank of India (RBI): Mandate & Appointment

11 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of RBI

12 Money Multiplier

13 Public Debt (Government Securities (G-Sec))

14 Rise of Indian Government Bond Yield

15 Determinants of National Income

16 GST- Coverage (Tax Base)

17 GST- Advantages of Implementation

18 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS)

19 Tax to GDP Ratio

20 Capital Budget

21 Budget Deficit & Measures to Reduce Them

22 Devaluation of a Currency: Effects

23 Inflation

24 Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI)

25 Role of RBI/Govt. in controlling the Inflation

26 Stressed Assets/NPAs

27 Economic Recession

28 Digital Payment System

29 National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)

30 Social Capital

31 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

32 Legal Tender Money

33 Opportunity Cost

34 Human Capital Formation (HCF)

35 IFC Masala Bonds

36 Core Banking Solution

37 Seed Village Concept

38 Global Depository Receipts

1 Prelims 2022: General Studies Paper I MCQs

2 Prelims 2022: Current Affairs Based MCQs

1 75 Years of the Historic First Sitting of Constituent Assembly (CA)

2 Districts Empowered to Grant Citizenship

3 Hate Speech

4 Local Reservation in Private Sector

5 Balance of Rights and Duties

6 Anti-Conversion Laws

7 Institutions’ Right to Government Aid

8 Forest Rights Act, 2006

9 State and Regulation of Temples

10 Right to Information

11 Aadhaar

12 Sedition Law in India

13 Uniform Civil Code

14 Anti-Defection Law

15 Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS)

16 Pardoning Power of President and Governor

17 Public Accounts Committee

18 West Bengal State Legislative Council

19 Special Provisions for Some States

20 All India Mayors’ Conference

21 Panchayats (Extension To The Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996

22 Role of Panchayats in Service Delivery

23 People’s Plan Campaign

24 Urban Local Bodies Reforms

25 One Nation One Election

26 States Oppose Amendment to IAS Cadre Rules

27 CBI vs. States

28 Social Accountability

29 NITI Aayog’s Online Dispute Resolution

30 Freedom of Religion and Attire

31 Online Campaigning

32 Electronic Voting Machines (EVM)

33 The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021

34 Delimitation Commission (DC) proposes Six Additional Seats for Jammu, One for Kashmir Valley

35 Changing Role of Civil Society in Emerging India

36 Inner Party Democracy

37 Sub-Categorisation of Other Backward Classes

38 Registered Unrecognized Parties

1 Seventh Schedule

2 Inter-State River Disputes in India

3 Inter-State Border Dispute

1 Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha

2 Declining Productivity of Parliament

1 National Judicial Infrastructure Authority of India (NJIAI)

2 Women in Judiciary

3 National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms

4 Identification of Minorities

5 Adhoc Judges in High Court

6 Collegium System

1 Role of Research and Innovation in India’s Economic Growth

1 Landslide is a major problem in the Himalayan region. Discuss its causes and mitigation measures.

2 Discuss the importance of solar energy in the future economic development of India.

3 Examine the significance of ecotourism in relation to socio-economic development and biodiversity conservation in India.

4 Recently, India and South Africa gave a clarion call at the World Trade Organization (WTO) demanding that key provisions of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement be temporarily waived. What is the issue? What is your opinion on this?

5 What are the reasons of Russia-Ukraine crisis? What are the likely impacts for India?

6 What do you understand by good governance? Has India achieved the objective of good governance? Explain with examples.

7 What do you understand by financial inclusion? Whether the policies regarding financial inclusion implemented in India have yielded positive results? Comment.

8 How did land reforms in some parts of the country help to improve the socio-economic conditions of marginal and small farmers?

9 Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 has been awarded to climatologists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann for the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming. How will it improve our understanding of climate change?

10 How do the melting of the Arctic ice and glaciers of the Antarctic differently affect the weather patterns and human activities on the Earth? Explain.