Important topics for 12 july 2019

IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR TODAY 

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BY SUMIT BHARDWAJ               12 JULY 2019                 

1. LABOUR LAWS…..                        (GS-2)

WHY IS IT IN THE NEWS ?

The Union Cabinet approved the introduction of a bill that will codify relevant provisions of four existing laws and intends to increase the legislative protection of minimum wage to the entire workforce……the Union Cabinet has cleared the Occupational, Safety, Health and Working Conditions Codeto include more workers under the purview of minimum wages and proposes a statutory national minimum wage for different geographic regions, to ensure that States will not fix minimum wages below those set by the CentreCode on labour safety and working conditions include                  regular and mandatory medical examinations for workers, issuing of appointment letters, and framing of rules on women working night shifts.

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2.Recycling and Waste Management.     (GS-3)      

WHY IS IT IN THE NEWS ?

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has put 52 producers, brand owners and importers, including big online retailers such as Amazon and Flipkart, and companies such as Patanjali Ayurved and Britannia, on notice, for failing to take responsibility for their plastic waste.

ABOUT CPCB…..The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India is a statutory organisation under the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). It was established in 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of pollution) Act, 1974. CPCB is also entrusted with the powers and functions under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. It serves as a field formation and also provides technical services to the Ministry of Environment and Forests under the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. It Co-ordinates the activities of the State Pollution Control Boards by providing technical assistance and guidance and also resolves disputes among them. It is the apex organisation in country in the field of pollution control, as a technical wing of MoEF. The concept was in the news recently.Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)..In the field of waste management, extended    producer responsibility is a strategy to add all of the environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product.    

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3.ONE NATION ONE ELECTION         (GS-2)

 “One Nation, One Election” envisages a system where elections to all states and the Lok Sabha will have to be held simultaneously. This will involve the restructuring of the Indian election cycle in a manner that elections to the states and the centre synchronise. This would mean that the voters will cast their vote for electing members of the LS and the state assemblies on a single day, at the same time (or in a phased manner as the case may be).

                      

4.Periodic Labour Force Survey          (GS-3)

WHY IS IT IN THE NEWS?

The findings of the latest employment survey, called the Periodic Labour Force Survey (2017-18) has come.

• One of the major statistical hurdles in our country is the estimation of reliable employment and unemployment data. The NSSO (National Sample Survey Office) was historically conducting Employment and Unemployment Surveys as part of its National Sample Surveys. These surveys were the prime source for statistics about employment and unemployment situation in the country.

Starting of PLFS

• But from 2017 onwards, a nationwide Labour Force Survey called Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) was launched by the NSSO. The PLFS was aimed to provide quarterly employment and unemployment data. Report of the PLFS was expected in December 2018 but was postponed.
• The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) was launched from 1st April 2017. Primary aim of the PLFS is to generate reasonably accurate indicators of labour market at a short span for every quarter for which speed of quality data collection and processing are important.

• Quarterly changes of various indicators of the labour market in urban areas as well as to generate the annual estimates of different labour force indicators both in rural and urban areas are the supplementary objectives of the PLFS.
• Results of the PLFS will be brought out in the form of an Annual Key Report, which would contain detailed tables for both rural and urban sectors, and Quarterly Bulletins, which would contain, for the urban sector, estimates of the changes in key labour force parameters like LFPR, WPR and UR in the current weekly status.
• Annual estimates (for both rural and urban areas) would be generated for major parameters like:
• Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR),
• Worker Population Ratio (WPR),
• Unemployment Rate (UR),
• Distribution of workers by industry, occupation, workers employed in informal sector and
• Conditions of employment of the workers.

5. ‘COMPOSITE DELEGATION’          (GS-2)         

THE ABOVE KEYWORD IS RELATED WITH THE NEWS ARTICLE……. ‘U.S., India to begin formal talks on trade on July 12’

•  formal effort to resolve the recent Indo-U.S. trade impasse.

• United States Trade Representative (USTR)+Commerce ministry and the Ministry of External Affairs

• Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) 

• HUAWEI 5G .

6.Foreigners’ Tribunals……..National Register of Citizens (NRC)                             (GS-2)                      

WHY IS IT IN  THE NEWS?
The Assam government will establish 200 Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) for handling cases of people to be excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC). July 31 is the deadline for publishing the NRC.

How do Foreigners’ Tribunals work?These are a key player in the exercise to identify illegal immigrants in Assam, and in focus now ahead of the July 15 publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Foreigners’ Tribunals — 100 existing and 200 more to be functional by September 1 — are quasi-judicial bodies meant to “furnish opinion on the question as to whether a person is or is not a foreigner within the meaning of Foreigners Act, 1946”. In 1964, the Centre passed the Foreigners’ (Tribunals) Order under provisions of Section 3 of the Act. The FTs get two kinds of cases: those against whom a “reference” has been made by border police, and those whose names in the electoral rolls have a D (Doubtful) against them                 

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7.FDI…..FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT     (GS-2,3) 

WHY IS IT IN THE NEWS? IT IS IN THE NEWS BECAUSE U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross HAD SAID THAT changing FDI in e-commerce rules IS troubling American firms

UNDERSTANDING FDI WITH E COMMERCE….. 

• E-commerce companies can operate under two different models in India:

• The first is the marketplace model where the e-commerce firm simply acts as a platform that connects buyers and sellers. FDI is allowed in e-commerce companies in this model.
• The second model is inventory-based where the inventory of goods sold on the portal is owned or controlled by the e-commerce company. FDI is not allowed under this model.

Who  will be affected?

• The main players to be affected will be group companies and affiliates of the biggest e-commerce platforms, Amazon and Flipkart.
• The provision that bars companies — in which e-commerce firms have a stake — from selling on their portals will hurt start-ups as well, since many of these will be barred from selling due to minor equity stakes being held by the e-commerce companies.
• Small vendors will not be as affected because most of them do not purchase more than 25% of their inventory from a single source and so they will be allowed to sell their items on the e-commerce platforms.                

8.Article 190                                       (GS-2)

THE ABOVE ARTICLE IS RELATED TO THE POLITICAL TURMOIL IN KARNATAKA…….

UNDERSTANDING ARTICLE 190.….
Article 190 in The Constitution Of India 1949
190. Vacation of seats
(1) No person shall be a member of both Houses of the legislature of a State and provision shall be made by the Legislature of the State by law for the vacation by a person who is chosen a member of both Houses of his seat in one House or the other
(2) No person shall be a member of the legislatures of two or more States specified in the First Schedule and if a person is chosen a member of the Legislatures of two or more such States, then, at the expiration of such period as may be specified in rules made by the President, that persons seat in the Legislatures of all such States shall become vacant, unless he has previously resigned his seat in the Legislatures of all but one of the States
(3) If a member of a House of the Legislature of a State
(a) becomes subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in clause ( 1 ) or clause ( 2 ) of Article 191; or
(b) resigns his seat by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker or the Chairman, as the case may be, and his resignation is accepted by th Speaker or the Chairman, as the case may be, his seat shall thereupon becomes vacant: Provided that in the case of any resignation referred to in sub clause (b), if from information received or otherwise and after making such inquiry as he thinks fit, the Speaker or the Chairman, as the case may be, is satisfied that such resignation is not voluntary or genuine, he shall not accept such resignation
(4) If for a period of sixty days a member of a House of the Legislature of a State is without permission of the House absent from all meetings thereof, the House may declare his seat vacant: Provided that in computing the said period of sixty days no account shall be taken of any period during which the House is prorogued or is adjourned for more than four consecutive days

9.Foreign Contribution

Regulation Act (FCRA)                      (GS-2)

 WHY IS IT IN THE NEWS?  

CBI teams search premises of Lawyers Collective 
The Foreign Contribution (regulation) Act, 2010 is an act of the Parliament of India, by the 42nd Act of 2010. It is a consolidating act whose scope is to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies and to prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental to the national interest and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.[1] It is designed to correct shortfalls in the predecessor act of 1976.

10.    5T formula……ODHISA CM …….

• transparency,
•  technology,
• teamwork,
•  transformation
•  Time

11.Khadakwasla Dam                           GS-3
THIS  dam on the Mutha River 21 km (13 mi) from the centre of the city of Pune in Maharashtra, India. The dam created a reservoir known as Khadakwasla Lake which is the main source of water for Pune and its suburbs.

In the vicinity of Khadakwasla Dam is the National Defence Academy (NDA), the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), the College of Military Engineering, Pune (CME, Dapodi) and Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS). A few kilometres to the south lies Sinhagad Fort; the twin dams of Panshet and Varasgaon, which mainly supply water for irrigation but also feed into Khadakwasla Lake, lie just 8 km due west of the backwaters of Khadakwasla Lake.

Khadakwasla Dam burst at 7:30 am on 12 July 1961, causing the greatest ever disaster to strike Pune. It was not blown up, as some have been led to believe, it simply collapsed at the point of greatest impulsive force, unable to withstand the destructive forces generated by three times the quantity of water gushing in from upstream than it was meant to store at peak capacity as placid water.

12.Inter-StateRiver Water Hub to come up in Palakkad                                               (Gs-3)   

Palakkad, or Palghat, is a city in Kerala, a state in southwestern India. The 18th-century Palakkad Fort has sturdy battlements, a moat and a Hanuman temple on its grounds. North, on the Kalpathy River, the 15th-century Viswanatha Swamy Temple is the main venue of the famous Ratholsavam chariot festival. Northeast, near Malampuzha Dam, the town of Malampuzha has a rock garden created from recycled materials.               

13. Prehistoric necropolis …….kerela….(gs1,3)

 New menhirs(a tall upright stone of a kind erected in prehistoric times)found……..Pothamala …

14.POCSO                                    (gs-2)

In order to effectively address the heinous crimes of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children through less ambiguous and more stringent legal provisions, the Ministry of Women and Child Development championed the introduction of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.

15.Iran…….Persian gulf……gulf of oman………strait of hormuz………Arabian sea……..                                                  (Gs-1)

16.NHRC…...                                             (GS 2)

The National Human Rights Commission of India is a Statutory public body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance of 28 September 1993. It was given a statutory basis by the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993

17.MANUAL SCAVENGING …….SOCIETAL ISSUE…….                                    (GS2,4)

National Commission for Safai Karamcharis

The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) is a statutory body that looks into matters concerning the Safai Karamcharis’ welfare and makes recommendations to the government. For the first time, NCSK was constituted as a statutory body under the NCSK ACT, 1993. This commission continued till February 2004, when the relevant Act expired. Thereafter, the tenure of the commission has been extended from time to time, as a non-statutory body, the last such extension being up to 31 March 2019.



                                       
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