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[Question 9, 21st July, 2020]

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Please find below today's question for the daily answer writing practice:

"Shared Strategic concerns, deeper people-to-people contacts and economic ties are driving the Indo-Australia cooperation" Elaborate [10 marks, 150 words]

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[21st July 2020]: Daily Answer Writing Practice
"Shared Strategic concerns, deeper people-to-people contacts, and economic ties are driving the Indo-Australia cooperation" Elaborate [10 marks, 150 words] [#GS2 #IR]

Later half of the 20th century saw emergence of an indifference and sometimes hostility in Indo-Australian relations. This was mostly due to cold war politics, India’s Nuclear ambitions and absence of economic content in the bilateral ties.

This has changed over the last decade and the relations between the two countries has been intensifying mostly because of the following factors:
1) Strategic Reasons – China’s aggressive & assertive foreign policy; and vacillation of Trump led USA’s commitment to Indo-Pacific, have left middle powers like India and Australia worried. This has brought them closer which is clearly manifested in the recent upgradation of ties to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, Increased military exercises (e.g. AUSINDEX in 2019), upgradation of 2+2 dialogue to ministerial level, finalization of Mutual logistic support agreement and most importantly the beginning of Quad Security Dialogue.

2) Increased People to People Contact: Around 3% (more than 7,00,000) of Australia’s population is of Indian origin, more and more students from India are going to Australia for higher studies, Tourism and cultural contacts have also enhanced.

3) Economic Cooperation – Though, the current bilateral trade (around $20 billion) is way below potential, but both the countries see a bright economic future with each other. India Economy Strategy, 2035 – a report recently published by Australia have identified India as economic partner with highest potential in coming decades. The recent decision to resume discussions on Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement also reflects the same

The successful virtual summit in June 2020 was a manifestation of this strengthening of relations b/w the two countries. Dedicated attention and political leadership will take the bilateral ties to the next level.

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[Question 10, 22nd July 2020]

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Please find below the question for daily answer writing practice for today.

Q10. What do you understand by patriarchy? Explain the difference in the manner in which it influences the rural and urban women respectively. [10 marks, 150 words]

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Q10. What do you understand by patriarchy? Explain the difference in the manner in which it influences the rural and urban women respectively. [10 marks, 150 words]

Patriarchy is a social institution marked by the supremacy of the male members. Fathers hold power over the families in general and male members exercise authority over female through property rights, social privileges and moral authority.

Although it affects all women in one way or another, its impact varies from place to place and class to class; and largely depends upon the difference in the nature of economic activities and the extent of traditional culture. In some way, its impact on urban and rural women is similar, while in other ways it's different.

• In rural areas, women generally live in joint families and are subjected to multiple structures of dominations. In city-based nuclear families, such domination is less acute.
• Many traditional patriarchal norms like dowry, child marriage, preference to male heir etc. are more prevalent in rural society compared to urban India.
• Patriarchy majorly works through the caste system in rural societies while in urban society, class norms dominate.
• Rural to urban migration of the male population leads to changes in the roles and responsibilities of women. They have to manage the household as well as agricultural activities. Yet they don’t assume the role of the head of the families in villages.
• Rural women rarely stay at home but they are principally engaged in unpaid labour (household as well as agricultural works). In cities, one finds middle-class women either stay at home or are engaged in all domains of work. However, such activities are paid employments.
• In villages, there is a trend of feminisation of agriculture while in the cities, the women tend to be segmented in certain service sector jobs more often.

However, as the cities generally provide better education, less societal control and paid employment, women get more options for social mobility and empowerment.

As the world gets more connected, various global feminist movements also make a direct impact in the cities first. Yet, it’s a long way to go to abolish completely the institution of patriarchy which is as old as human society.

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[Question 11, 23rd July, 2020]

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[Ques-11]: "Allowing private players to operate passenger trains in India will negatively hamper the inclusive and welfare approach of the Indian Railways" Critically Analyze [10 marks, 150 words]

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Model Answer: [23rd July 2020]

[23rd July 2020][Ques-11]: "Allowing private players to operate passenger trains in India will negatively hamper the inclusive and welfare approach of the Railways" Critically Analyse [10 marks, 150 words]

Indian Railways have recently invited Request for Qualifications (RFQ) proposals for operation of passenger train services on 109 routes with 151 modern trains.

But, this initiative towards increasing the participation of private sector is facing criticism on the following grounds:
1) Profit Motive of private players will hamper inclusive and welfare approach of Indian Railways
2) Higher Fares may make private trains unsuitable for the poor and vulnerable
3) Private players may only be interested in running trains on busy and congested routes, and may ignore the remote and unserved areas.

But a careful analysis would negate the above concerns:
1) Operation by both public and private sector would promote competition and should hinder unfair fare increase.
2) More investment would mean more trains which would reduce demand supply deficit.
3) Efficient models of operations by private players may actually reduce cost of operations and provide better services.

Therefore, a liberalization of train services (not complete privatization) may actually be more inclusive and welfare oriented.

Government of India should also work towards setting up of an independent regulator and a route dispersal guideline (like that of airways sector). These would make operation of trains by private players more attractive and would make the services more inclusive for passengers

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[Question 12, 24th July, 2020]

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Please find below today's question for the daily answer writing practice:

[Ques-12]: "A wise man's morality is the ethics of society". Do you agree? Also, explain with the help of examples difference between morality and ethics. [10 marks, 150 words]

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