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It is targeted at UPSC – Prelims & Mains.

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THE HINDU - TH

INDIAN EXPRESS - IE

BUSINESS LINE - BL

ECONOMIC TIMES – ET

TIMES OF INDIA - TOI

INDEX

Essay Paper

1. China’s strategic objectives....………………………………..……..…..03

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Social Justice 1. Welcome relief for migrant returnees ………………………..……04

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Technology

1. New drug ‘Covifor’……………………………………………….……….…05

Snippets

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Social Justice 1. Additional funds sought for Jal Jeevan Mission…………...……06

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Essay Paper

Editorial Q – Has India failed to comprehend China’s strategic objectives?

Discuss?

INTRO = The events in the run-up to the 1962 war, the debacle in

that war was rightly blamed on the Nehru government for its

military unpreparedness and for its inability to fathom China’s larger

strategic objectives. In fact, the former failure was but a corollary of

the latter.

In both cases New Delhi failed to fully understand China’s

fundamental strategic objectives regarding India. Nehru could be

impugned for his idealistic notion of Afro-Asian solidarity and his

suspicion of America’s strategic designs that influenced his thinking

on China. However, the present government, which by its own

admission is firmly committed to national security above everything

else and whose foreign policy actions are driven by transactional

rather than idealistic considerations, seems to be equally naïve

about Beijing’s long-term strategic objectives. India’s Wrong steps

are -

1) New Delhi’s rhetoric about liberating Aksai Chin and recovering PoK, while justifiable in terms of India’s legal rights to these territories, were ill-timed. They were made when Beijing was feeling alarmed at the Indian government’s decision to separate Ladakh from Jammu and Kashmir that augmented its perception that it was a prelude to India’s attempt to change the status quo in Aksai Chin.

2) Beijing was also worried about India’s renewed assertion of its claims on PoK that in China’s perception threatened the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project.

But these missteps were merely the icing on the cake. The political

leadership, has failed to fully comprehend China’s strategic

objectives. Which include -

a. Ensuring that India understands that it is not in the same league as

China and driving home the lesson by periodic localised assaults

across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) if it tries to assume a position

of equality.

b. Warning India not to actively oppose Chinese designs to dominate

the Indo-Pacific region by aligning with the U.S. and its allies — Japan

and Australia, in particular — in an attempt to contain China.

c. Keeping India preoccupied with problems in its immediate

neighbourhood so that it cannot act as an alternative pole of power

to China in the broader Asian region.

d. As part of the last objective, supporting Pakistan economically and

militarily, including the sharing of nuclear weapons designs, to

neutralise India’s conventional power superiority vis-à-vis that

country.

An understanding of these objectives is essential to fashioning a

realistic Indian response to China’s aggressive policies in Ladakh and

elsewhere along the LAC. Pakistan is at best an irritant for India,

whose challenge has become magnified because of its nexus with

China.

Way Forward –

India’s main strategic goal should be the adoption of carefully

calculated policies that neutralise China’s diplomatic and military

clout in the Asia-Pacific region without making India appear as a

surrogate for other powers and without sacrificing India’s autonomy

of decision-making in foreign policy.

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GS 2 Social Justice

Q – What are the measures taken to provide Welcome relief for

migrant returnees?

BACKGROUND = The government has decided to offer assistance to

the migrant workers who have returned in their millions to their

native villages. The returning migrant workers will add themselves

to the rural workforce, already underemployed for the most part.

Therefore, fresh employment opportunities have to be created. The government has increased the outlay for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) schemes by an additional Rs 40,000 crore. Now, the government has decided to launch a new employment scheme for the returning migrants offering them work for 125 days. It would have been better to simply increase the scope for MGNREGA as per the demand for work, instead of launching a new scheme. 3 reasons for this include –

1) The new scheme seeks to combine 25 ongoing programmes of rural development for a total outlay of Rs 50,000 crore, to generate work for 125 days. If these are ongoing schemes, they already envisage creating a certain quantum of work. Returning migrants require additional work, they do not want to displace their brethren who had never left the village and would have been employed in the 25 rural infrastructure programmes in the normal course.

2) Creating a new scheme, registering workers for this, opening bank accounts for them, making sure these workers are the intended beneficiaries, identifying the infrastructure projects that should be

taken up under the new scheme and the related paperwork will take up time, whereas the returnees need relief at the earliest, having abandoned their sources of income back in the town.

3) Finally, these migrants need to go back to the towns, which face a worker shortage. Depressed rural wages and elevated wages in the town create the incentive for workers to return. There is no need to create an artificial disincentive against their return to the towns. This is worth bearing in mind.

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Technology Q – Explain all about the new drug ‘Covifor’?

BACKGROUND = Hetero, drug-maker with headquarters in Hyderabad has received approval from the Drug Controller-General of India (DCGI) to manufacture and sell a generic version of Gilead’s Remdesivir drug for the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the country. The generic version will be marketed under the brand name ‘Covifor’ in India. Amid the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Covifor could prove to be a game-changer given the positive clinical outcomes.

a) Covifor (Remdesivir) will be available in a 100-mg vial (injectable) which has to be administered intravenously in a hospital setting under the supervision of a healthcare practitioner

b) the product has been approved for emergency use and in hospital/institutional set up only, it will not be retailed through chemists.

c) Each 100 mg vial is likely to be priced between 5,000 and 6,000. d) The drug is to be administered only after getting the consent of

patients. e) The product is being launched under a licensing agreement with

Gilead Sciences Inc to expand access to COVID-19 treatment in low and middle-income countries.

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Social Justice Additional funds sought for Jal Jeevan Mission

Faced with a financing shortfall for the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), the Jal Shakti Ministry is pitching for additional funding of 82,000 crore from the 15th Finance Commission for the project to provide drinking water tap connections to every rural household by 2024. Only 18% of households are currently covered.

There had been a 45% shortfall in financing the JJM by both the Centre and the States in its first year of 2019-20.

These additional funds are requested to meet the need for capital intensive projects in water scarce areas, and areas where the water has been contaminated by arsenic or flouride, or has high-salinity levels.

The Ministry also wants to control the flow of the Commission’s funds to panchayats for water and sanitation

Criticism – There were proposals that the money be placed with the Jal Shakti Ministry instead, which would in turn release it to the panchayats, to ensure that they follow the JJM’s five-year village action plans.

But this kind of centralisation would be a regression from the 14th Finance Commission’s move to empower panchayati raj institutions.

How about this today!?

The endangered species of monkey – Golden Langur, are endemic to the semi-evergreen and mixed-deciduous forests straddling in? 1. Assam, India 2. Orinoco Basins, South America 3. Bhutan 4. Africa a. 4 alone b. 1,2 c. 2,4 d. 1,3

Hey from yesterday….

According to the RIC grouping, Good relations between

India and China are central to the rise of?

1. Eurasia 2. BRICS 3. Shanghai Cooperation Organization 4. SAARC

a. 1 alone b. 2,3 c. 1,2,3 d. 1,2,3,4 Answer: c

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