Forwarded from VK IAS by Vikas kanukollu (VK)
Patience dear friends 🙂
⚠️Alert : The shortcut taken for the success lane is witnessing a heavy traffic jam. Kindly reroute to the road less taken
I have had an unusual query- Sir can you compile some material to cover entire syllabus in 60 days."
✅To the person who messaged and deleted the chat, or any gullible fresher who has similar thoughts : my answer is pic 1,
✅If not, Aapka compilation Munna bhayya ne liya tha.... Aao kabhi haveli pe- miljaayega🙂
⚠️Alert : The shortcut taken for the success lane is witnessing a heavy traffic jam. Kindly reroute to the road less taken
I have had an unusual query- Sir can you compile some material to cover entire syllabus in 60 days."
✅To the person who messaged and deleted the chat, or any gullible fresher who has similar thoughts : my answer is pic 1,
✅If not, Aapka compilation Munna bhayya ne liya tha.... Aao kabhi haveli pe- miljaayega🙂
✅What is the Rule Curve?
🔴A rule curve or rule level specifies the storage or empty space to be maintained in a reservoir during different times of the year.
🔴Here the implicit assumption is that a reservoir can best satisfy its purposes if the storage levels specified by the rule curve are maintained in the reservoir at different times.
🔴It decides the fluctuating storage levels in a reservoir.
🔴The gate opening schedule of a dam is based on the rule curve.
🔴It is part of the “core safety” mechanism in a dam.
🎖The Supreme Court has warned the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary against the failure to give information on the rule curve for Mullaperiyar dam.
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@sciencehighlights for S&T
@upschighlights for prelims news.
🔴A rule curve or rule level specifies the storage or empty space to be maintained in a reservoir during different times of the year.
🔴Here the implicit assumption is that a reservoir can best satisfy its purposes if the storage levels specified by the rule curve are maintained in the reservoir at different times.
🔴It decides the fluctuating storage levels in a reservoir.
🔴The gate opening schedule of a dam is based on the rule curve.
🔴It is part of the “core safety” mechanism in a dam.
🎖The Supreme Court has warned the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary against the failure to give information on the rule curve for Mullaperiyar dam.
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@sciencehighlights for S&T
@upschighlights for prelims news.
#Environment
✅Project RE-HAB
🔴Project RE-HAB stands for Reducing Elephant-Human Attacks using Bees. It is an initiative of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
🔴It intends to create “bee fences” to thwart elephant attacks in human habitations using honeybees.
🔴Bee boxes have been placed on the ground as well as hung from the trees.
🔴The boxes are connected with a string so that when elephants attempt to pass through, a tug causes the bees to swarm the elephant herds and dissuade them from progressing further.
🔴This idea stems from the elephants’ proven fear of the bees.
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@ecologyhighlights for Environment news
@upschighlights for prelims news.
✅Project RE-HAB
🔴Project RE-HAB stands for Reducing Elephant-Human Attacks using Bees. It is an initiative of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
🔴It intends to create “bee fences” to thwart elephant attacks in human habitations using honeybees.
🔴Bee boxes have been placed on the ground as well as hung from the trees.
🔴The boxes are connected with a string so that when elephants attempt to pass through, a tug causes the bees to swarm the elephant herds and dissuade them from progressing further.
🔴This idea stems from the elephants’ proven fear of the bees.
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@ecologyhighlights for Environment news
@upschighlights for prelims news.
#IR
✅What is the Osaka Track- G20?
🔴Related to E- commerce international rules negotiations
🔴Aims at drafting rules on data flows, removal of prohibitions on data localization, and cloud computing
🎖Result : India, South Africa, and Indonesia have boycotted the “Osaka Track" on the “digital economy" at the G20 leaders’ summit in Osaka, Japan in 2019- Fear that plurilateral treaties would deny the “policy space" for digital-industrialization
⚠️1998 Work Program on e-commerce - WTO is a better platform to talk about this issue according to India( Global level body- More democracy- includes concerns of poor countries- Better bargaining power)- This was initiated at the Second Ministerial Conference of WTO in May 1998.
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@Quizhighlights for MCQs
@upschighlights for prelims news.
✅What is the Osaka Track- G20?
🔴Related to E- commerce international rules negotiations
🔴Aims at drafting rules on data flows, removal of prohibitions on data localization, and cloud computing
🎖Result : India, South Africa, and Indonesia have boycotted the “Osaka Track" on the “digital economy" at the G20 leaders’ summit in Osaka, Japan in 2019- Fear that plurilateral treaties would deny the “policy space" for digital-industrialization
⚠️1998 Work Program on e-commerce - WTO is a better platform to talk about this issue according to India( Global level body- More democracy- includes concerns of poor countries- Better bargaining power)- This was initiated at the Second Ministerial Conference of WTO in May 1998.
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@Quizhighlights for MCQs
@upschighlights for prelims news.
#Society #Polity #Reports #Indices
✅National nutrition survey-
🔴In 2019 GOI+ UNICEF conducted 1st time
🔴The survey recorded not only micronutrient deficiencies but also details of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and kidney function in children and adolescents.
⚠️The National Nutrition Survey is different from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) as,
NFHS collects data to measure the prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight and household dietary intake to measure deficiencies.
🎖Moreover, the survey collects data only for the age groups of 1-5 years and adults, and not for school going children between the age of 5 and 19 years
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@Quizhighlights for MCQs
@upschighlights for prelims news.
✅National nutrition survey-
🔴In 2019 GOI+ UNICEF conducted 1st time
🔴The survey recorded not only micronutrient deficiencies but also details of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and kidney function in children and adolescents.
⚠️The National Nutrition Survey is different from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) as,
NFHS collects data to measure the prevalence of stunting, wasting and underweight and household dietary intake to measure deficiencies.
🎖Moreover, the survey collects data only for the age groups of 1-5 years and adults, and not for school going children between the age of 5 and 19 years
🎖Join
@Hinduhighlights for news
@Quizhighlights for MCQs
@upschighlights for prelims news.
Forwarded from VK IAS- UPSC Environment by Vikas kanukollu
#Disaster
✅GS3- Disaster management-Climate change and conservation
✅Causes of deforestation
🔴Impact of deforestation on urbanization- click here
🔴What needs to be done to achieve the objective of land degradation neutrality?
🔴 How to handle land degradation and water scarcity?-click here
🔴🎖🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
✅GS3- Disaster management-Climate change and conservation
✅Causes of deforestation
🔴Impact of deforestation on urbanization- click here
🔴What needs to be done to achieve the objective of land degradation neutrality?
🔴 How to handle land degradation and water scarcity?-click here
🔴🎖🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
🎖There is an important announcement and a request coming up from my side . It shall be a value addition to all of you as well( no, it doesn't cost anything🙂) . Hope you guys support this.🙂
Forwarded from VK IAS by Vikas kanukollu (VK)
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🛑Welcome to Telegram, Frank Rausan pereira sir( Big picture, RajyaSabha TV) . Thank you for taking time to wish all the students at UPSC highlights personally .
🛑Big picture has played a huge part in changing my perception towards governance.
✅ It is a request from all the students on this platform to oblige and support Frank sir in his new endevours.
🔺Here is the youtube link of Bharata First : click here
🛑Please take some time to support Bharata First at
T.me/BharataFirst
Thank you
Vikas
Editor: @hinduhighlights( UPSC highlights)
🛑Big picture has played a huge part in changing my perception towards governance.
✅ It is a request from all the students on this platform to oblige and support Frank sir in his new endevours.
🔺Here is the youtube link of Bharata First : click here
🛑Please take some time to support Bharata First at
T.me/BharataFirst
Thank you
Vikas
Editor: @hinduhighlights( UPSC highlights)
#Geography #Mapping
✅Tiau River
🔴It is a 159 km long river which forms an international boundary river between India and Myanmar.
🔴The Tiau river steadily separates both the countries. The village on the left side is in Myanmar(Chin State) and is known as Khawmawi, meaning 'beautiful side' while the village on the right side is in India (Mizoram State) and is known as Zokhawthar, meaning 'new village'.
🔴🎖🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
✅Tiau River
🔴It is a 159 km long river which forms an international boundary river between India and Myanmar.
🔴The Tiau river steadily separates both the countries. The village on the left side is in Myanmar(Chin State) and is known as Khawmawi, meaning 'beautiful side' while the village on the right side is in India (Mizoram State) and is known as Zokhawthar, meaning 'new village'.
🔴🎖🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
#IR #polity
✅The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol together are the most comprehensive instruments which have been adopted to date on a universal level to safeguard the fundamental rights of refugees and to regulate their status in countries of asylum.
⚠️Note : India is NOT A PARTY of this convention/protocol
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
✅The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol together are the most comprehensive instruments which have been adopted to date on a universal level to safeguard the fundamental rights of refugees and to regulate their status in countries of asylum.
⚠️Note : India is NOT A PARTY of this convention/protocol
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
#Environment
✅Climate finance - 100 billion USD fund for climate change
🎖Which fund is the finance minister talking about- Important for prelims
🔴In 2010- UNFCCC COP- Cancun Agreements recognised that developed country Parties committed to a goal of mobilising jointly US$100 billion per year by 2020-
⚠️The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established in Cancun Agreement and designated it as an operating entity of the financial mechanism
🔴At paris deal-2015- In Article 2.1(c) - Under the Paris Agreement in 2015, developed countries confirmed this goal and agreed that prior to 2025 a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year shall be set.
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
✅Climate finance - 100 billion USD fund for climate change
🎖Which fund is the finance minister talking about- Important for prelims
🔴In 2010- UNFCCC COP- Cancun Agreements recognised that developed country Parties committed to a goal of mobilising jointly US$100 billion per year by 2020-
⚠️The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established in Cancun Agreement and designated it as an operating entity of the financial mechanism
🔴At paris deal-2015- In Article 2.1(c) - Under the Paris Agreement in 2015, developed countries confirmed this goal and agreed that prior to 2025 a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year shall be set.
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
@ecologyhighlights for environment and ecology news
#IR #Geography
✅Indus water treaty
✅A/C to this river sharing treaty waters of :
🔴EASTERN RIVERS: Sutlej Beas Ravi- belong to India
🔴WESTERN RIVERS: Jhelum Chenab Indus- pakistan can use them
⚠️Note : Treaty only says that India should let unrestricted flow of water from western rivers to Pakistan.
‼️It doesn’t mean that India can’t use western river’s water
🔵 India can use the water in western rivers in “non-consumptive” needs(irrigation, storage and for electricity production. But India has not fully utilized this provision so far- look at the infographic)
✅Role of world bank : The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank, which is also a signatory
⚠️ As a signatory to the Treaty, the World Bank’s role is limited and procedural i.e. designation of people to fulfill certain roles for solving conflict( ‼️No funding involved)
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
✅Indus water treaty
✅A/C to this river sharing treaty waters of :
🔴EASTERN RIVERS: Sutlej Beas Ravi- belong to India
🔴WESTERN RIVERS: Jhelum Chenab Indus- pakistan can use them
⚠️Note : Treaty only says that India should let unrestricted flow of water from western rivers to Pakistan.
‼️It doesn’t mean that India can’t use western river’s water
🔵 India can use the water in western rivers in “non-consumptive” needs(irrigation, storage and for electricity production. But India has not fully utilized this provision so far- look at the infographic)
✅Role of world bank : The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank, which is also a signatory
⚠️ As a signatory to the Treaty, the World Bank’s role is limited and procedural i.e. designation of people to fulfill certain roles for solving conflict( ‼️No funding involved)
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
#IR
✅APEC vs East asia summit- click here
✅One big confusion when reading about IR organizations is :
🟡1) Is India a member of that org or not?
🟡2) What is the difference of purpose between multilateral agencies that are present in geographically close areas
🔴ASEAN- formed in 1967 by - East Asian economies- motivated by a common fear of communism- i.e. china.
🔴APEC- in 1970s -japan= phenomenal growth- possibility of monopoly in East Asia- creation of APEC- in 1970s india was a closed economy - so no interest in APEC- India didnt become a member , although it applied recently(still not a member)
🔴EAS-2005-times changed-japan is now less powerful than China- Need to manage china through collective bargaining power-cant exclude china because of its might- so included India, Aus, NZ etc to balance-
⚠️Criticism : Little clarity in difference of purpose between ASEAN and EAS
📣If you like the content on this channel, please spread the message :
Link : https://t.me/joinchat/V4KsjUjHd3Gm4hhw
✅APEC vs East asia summit- click here
✅One big confusion when reading about IR organizations is :
🟡1) Is India a member of that org or not?
🟡2) What is the difference of purpose between multilateral agencies that are present in geographically close areas
🔴ASEAN- formed in 1967 by - East Asian economies- motivated by a common fear of communism- i.e. china.
🔴APEC- in 1970s -japan= phenomenal growth- possibility of monopoly in East Asia- creation of APEC- in 1970s india was a closed economy - so no interest in APEC- India didnt become a member , although it applied recently(still not a member)
🔴EAS-2005-times changed-japan is now less powerful than China- Need to manage china through collective bargaining power-cant exclude china because of its might- so included India, Aus, NZ etc to balance-
⚠️Criticism : Little clarity in difference of purpose between ASEAN and EAS
📣If you like the content on this channel, please spread the message :
Link : https://t.me/joinchat/V4KsjUjHd3Gm4hhw
#SnT
✅Enceladus- saturn Moon- cassini mission
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
✅Enceladus- saturn Moon- cassini mission
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
#GovtScheme
✅Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada yojana
🔴Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana is an umbrella scheme with 2 separate components named as central sector scheme and centrally sponsored scheme and these two components are further divided into non-beneficiary and beneficiary oriented sub-components which were headed by 3 head such as:
🔴Enhancement of production and productivity
🔴Infrastructure and post-harvest management
🔴Fisheries management and regulatory framework
Q) Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada yojana has a relief component in the form of direct benefit transfer?
True or False?
🎖India is the second-largest fish producer (7.7% of global fish production) and 4th largest exporter of fish in the world. (China is the largest producer)
🎖Fish constituted about 10% of total exports from India and almost 20% of agriculture exports in 2017-18.he fisheries and aquaculture production contribute around 1% to India’s GDP
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
✅Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada yojana
🔴Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana is an umbrella scheme with 2 separate components named as central sector scheme and centrally sponsored scheme and these two components are further divided into non-beneficiary and beneficiary oriented sub-components which were headed by 3 head such as:
🔴Enhancement of production and productivity
🔴Infrastructure and post-harvest management
🔴Fisheries management and regulatory framework
Q) Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada yojana has a relief component in the form of direct benefit transfer?
True or False?
🎖India is the second-largest fish producer (7.7% of global fish production) and 4th largest exporter of fish in the world. (China is the largest producer)
🎖Fish constituted about 10% of total exports from India and almost 20% of agriculture exports in 2017-18.he fisheries and aquaculture production contribute around 1% to India’s GDP
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
#Environment
✅Bandhavgarh National Park
🔴Location : Madhya pradesh- northern edges of the Satpura mountain ranges.
🔴Highest number of tigers in MP as per tiger census-2019. Also known for Chinkara and Gaur
🔴There are no elephants in MP and there is no known reason for this disappearance from India’s central region, including MP - but a couple of years ago- this forest saw an elephant colony ( most likely from adjacent chattisgarh forests)
🔴Historical significance : Mentioned in ‘Narad Pancharatra’ and the ‘Shiv Purana’ that this place is being associated with Ramayana.Bandhavgarh Fort is considered a great masterpiece of “Treta Yuga”
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info
✅Bandhavgarh National Park
🔴Location : Madhya pradesh- northern edges of the Satpura mountain ranges.
🔴Highest number of tigers in MP as per tiger census-2019. Also known for Chinkara and Gaur
🔴There are no elephants in MP and there is no known reason for this disappearance from India’s central region, including MP - but a couple of years ago- this forest saw an elephant colony ( most likely from adjacent chattisgarh forests)
🔴Historical significance : Mentioned in ‘Narad Pancharatra’ and the ‘Shiv Purana’ that this place is being associated with Ramayana.Bandhavgarh Fort is considered a great masterpiece of “Treta Yuga”
🎖Join
@hinduhighlights for News analysis
@upschighlights for prelims info