Civil Services Chronicle February 2019

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Issue Analysis :- G-20 Summit 2018

Issue Analysis :- Climate Change Rulebook

Spotlight :- Land

Spotlight :- Forest

Spotlight :- Water

Spotlight :- Minerals

Spotlight :- Growth

Spotlight :- Employment and Labour Reforms

Spotlight :- Technology and Innovation

Spotlight :- Industry

Spotlight :- Doubling Farmers’ Income (I): Modernizing Agriculture

Spotlight :- Doubling Farmers’ Income (II): Policy & Governance

Spotlight :- Doubling Farmers’ Income (III): Value Chain & Rural Infrastructure

Spotlight :- Financial Inclusion

Spotlight :- Housing For All

Spotlight :- Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

Spotlight :- Minerals

Spotlight :- Energy

Spotlight :- Surface Transport

Spotlight :- Railways

Spotlight :- Civil Aviation

Spotlight :- Ports, Shipping and Inland Waterways

Spotlight :- Logistics

Spotlight :- Digital Connectivity

Spotlight :- Smart Cities for Urban Transformation

Spotlight :- Swachh Bharat Mission

Spotlight :- Water Resources

Spotlight :- Sustainable Environment

Spotlight :- School Education

Spotlight :- Higher Education

Spotlight :- Teacher Education and Training

Spotlight :- Skill Development

Spotlight :- Public Health Management and Action

Spotlight :- Comprehensive Primary Health Care

Spotlight :- Human Resources for Health

Spotlight :- Universal Health Coverage

Spotlight :- Nutrition

Spotlight :- Gender

Spotlight :- Senior Citizens, Persons with Disability and Transgender Persons

Spotlight :- Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Other Tribal Groups and Minorities

Spotlight :- Balanced Regional Development: Transforming Aspirational Districts

Spotlight :- The North-East Regi

Spotlight :- Legal, Judicial and Police Reforms

Spotlight :- Civil Services Reforms

Spotlight :- Modernizing City Governance For Urban Transformation

Spotlight :- Optimizing the Use of Land Resources

Spotlight :- Data Led Governance and Policy Making

1 SDG India Index: Baseline Report 2018

2 Climate Vulnerability Assessment

3 Gender Gap Index 2018

4 Ten Big Factors Causing Farmers’ Distress

5 Gas-based Economy

1 India’s Longest Rail-Road Bridge, Bogibeel Inaugurated

2 Logistics Development Committee to Suggest Reforms in Logistics Development

3 Panel to Review RBI’s Economic Capital Framework

1 Coastal Regulation Zone

2 Jammu & Kashmir Scraps Roshni Scheme

3 Child Protection Policy

4 Centre Amends Rules for Minorities from Three Nations

5 J&K law to Stop ‘Sextortion’ of Women

6 Government Moves to Access and Trace all ‘Unlawful’ Content Online

1 State Visit of Prime Minister of Bhutan to India

2 India, Iran Sign Pact for Rupee Payment

3 Qatar Leaves OPEC

4 India-Japan-US Focus on ‘Inclusive’ Indo-Pacific

1 Indigenous Gun Trials of the Army to Enter Next Stage

2 Space Agencies

3 India’s Heaviest Communication Satellite GSAT-11 Launched

4 ISRO Launches GSAT-7A

5 NASA’s InSight lands on Mars and its calendar is full until 2020

6 ISRO all Set for Launch of HysIS Satellite

7 IIT Bombay Proposes Spintronics Device

8 An Algorithm to Detect Rare Cells

9 International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography Inaugurated

10 IISER Develops Method to Simulate, Predict Solar Activity

11 Global Hackathon on Artificial Intelligence

12 National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems

1 River Dolphins Go Missing in Sunderbans as Water Salinity Rises

2 NGT Bans Mining Close to Sariska Reserve

3 Government Launches Asiatic Lion Conservation Project

4 SC Directs Centre to Declare Area around National Parks as Eco-Sensitive

5 Revised Guidelines for Ground Water Extraction Notified

6 Bio Plastics Not an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Plastic

7 Govt Targets 20-30% Drop in Air Pollution in 102 Cities By 2024

8 Meghalaya Mining Disaster

9 India’s Second Biennial Update Report (BUR) to UNFCCC

1 PERSONS IN THE NEWS

2 ON THE HOT SEAT

3 FACES ONLY IN MEMORY

4 AWARDS

5 CONFERENCE

6 REPORTS/ INDICES

1 Three Central Schemes have Generated 2.7 Million Jobs

2 NITI Aayog Releases Second Delta Ranking of the Aspirational Districts

3 National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2018

4 Surrogacy Bill, 2016

5 No Rise in Working Women Despite High Literacy Levels

6 Boost to Educational Infrastructure in Tribal Areas

7 National Medical Devices Promotion Council to be Set up under DIPP

8 No Fund Allotted to Treat Rare Diseases

1 Online portal “ENSURE” to connect with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) launched

2 The First Ever Swadesh Darshan Project in Nagaland

3 UN Project to Pool Oceans of Data to Map Sea Floor

4 Bangladesh President Invites Hasina to Form Government

5 Morocco Ranks High in Climate Action

6 Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremesinghe Sworn-in as Prime Minister

1 States’ Startup Ranking 2018 Announced

2 NITI Aayog Ineffective in Curbing Inequality: Report

1 Agriculture Export Policy, 2018

2 SEZ Policy Review Committee Suggests a Liberal SEZ Policy

Model Test Questions

1 Current Affairs Prelims 2019 Question

Bio–Diversity And Environment

General Studies Paper III

1 Environmental Flows of Ganga

2 Eastern Ghats Face Loss of Forest Cover, Endemic Plants

3 Global Geopark Network Status

4 eDNA

5 Kerala Floods and the Fragile Ecosystem of Western Ghats

6 Impact of Sand Mining and Alternatives to Sand

7 Notification on Clean Fuel

8 Law to Define a River’s Edge

9 e-Mobility Programme

10 SC Seeks Details of Green Funds

11 Joint Research Projects for Clean Water, Energy

12 Tiger Extinction Risk

13 Questions in Parliament on Plastics

14 Development of Solar Cities

15 Drought in Maharashtra

16 Role of Water & Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience

17 New Trend in Floods

18 Classifications of Disasters

19 Apps for Disaster Info

20 National Disaster Risk Index

21 Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project

22 Formaldehyde in Fish

23 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO

24 Biomass Pellets

25 Cleaning the Ganga

26 SATAT Initiative to Promote Compressed Bio-Gas

27 WAYU: New Device to Tackle Pollution

28 CFC-11 in Atmosphere

29 Shale Oil or Gas Extraction by Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

30 Herbicide Glyphosate

31 Plastic Road Surfacing

32 Protecting Bay of Bengal

33 Uranium Contamination of Water

34 Iron Ore Mining Leases in Goa

35 National Aquifer Mapping Programme (NAQUIM)

36 Dust Mitigation Plan

37 Ambient Air Quality Standards in India

38 Moss that can Remove Lead from Water

39 Global E-waste Monitor 2017

40 Soil Crisis in India

41 Sensor Network to Map and Predict Pollution, Effluents in Godavari

42 Black Carbon

43 Chemicals in Firecrackers

44 Bharat Stage Norms

45 National Air Quality Index (AQI)

46 Methanol as Cooking Fuel

47 Moss : A Cheap Pollution Monitor

48 Furnace Oil and Pet Coke

49 Bio-CNG

50 Carbon Capture Utilization Storage (CCUS)

51 Microbeads

52 Odisha Beach is Asia’s first to get ‘Blue Flag’ Tag

53 Just Six Sub-species of Tiges Remain

54 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be released with Tracking Devices

55 Genes of Machhli to be Mapped

56 Agarwood Facing Extinction

57 Kulik Bird Sanctuary

58 Woolly Mammoths to be brought from the Dead

59 Gene Banks of Wild Animals

60 Ocean’s Dead Zones

61 Biodiversity of Manipur’s Loktak Lake under Threat

62 Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR)

63 First Inter-State Tiger Translocation Project

64 Nilgiri Hills

65 World’s Smallest Land Fern in Western Ghats

66 Illegal Wildlife Trade Restrictions Recognised

67 Conservation of Animals: Smaller Species are Neglected Lot

68 Orang Tiger Reserve

69 Three New Sites Recognised as Biodiversity Hotspots in Goa

70 Nine more Bird, Biodiversity Areas in Kerala

71 SECURE Himalaya

72 National Wildlife Action Plan

73 Floating Treatment Wetland

74 Celebration of World Wetlands Day at Deepor Beel in Assam

75 Climate Change Threatens Nilgiri Tahr

76 Survival Threat to Sher Mahi Fish

77 Rise in Population of Asiatic Lions

78 Snow Leopard

79 Olive Ridley Sea Turtle

80 Sawfish

81 Flamingo

82 Chiru Goat

83 Nilgiri Marten

84 Zygaenid

85 New Species of the Genus Nasikabatrachus

86 A New Snake found in Western Ghats

87 New Species of Large Gecko Discovered from Eastern Ghats

88 New Ant Species Discovered in the Western Ghats

89 New Night Frog Species

90 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer

91 Two New Gecko Species Discovered

92 Black-necked Cranes

93 Hornbill Watch Initiative

94 Red Data Book

95 Discovery of Nine Plants in Western Ghats

96 New Plant Species Found in Western Ghats

97 Gandheli Rediscovered

98 Gleadovia konyakianorum

99 Retrotransposons

100 Musa paramjitiana

101 Sunderbans is Losing its Mangrove Forest

102 Cobra Lily

103 Bihar’s Shahi Litchi gets GI Tag

104 GI Tag for Alphonso Mango from Konkan

105 Nilambur Teak

106 Kirunji Flowers Bloom

Sustainable Development

1 India Bans 18 Pesticides