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A Good Article about Circular Economy

🔰Recognising the need to switch from the ‘take ­make ­dispose’ to ‘reduce ­reuse recycle’ model.

🔰To ensure sustainable development and realise the SDG Goals, decoupling resource utilisation from economic growth is the key

🔰India - Guiding the world in the path of Circular Economy

India has embraced four priority areas for the circular economy during its G­20 presidency:

1️⃣Circularity in the steel sector;
2️⃣Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR);
3️⃣Circular bio economy and
4️⃣Establishing an industry ­led resource efficiency and circular economy industry coalition.

Make a note of the steps Which India has taken towards the path of Circular Economy.

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Key takeaways

🔰"The Hamal Model" which lead to the establishment of Mathadi Board, for the welfare of the Hamals (people who carried sacks on their head or shoulders) in Maharashtra.

🔰The Rajasthan campaign for app­based gig
workers borrowed this formulation, and began its
campaign with a demand centered around social
security. It convinced the ruling party to bring this Act.

Read about the Provisions of the Act Here

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🔰Phangnon Konyak becomes first woman MP from Nagaland to preside over Rajya Sabha.

🔰She is also the first woman to be elected to Rajya Sabha from Nagaland (April 2022) and the second woman from the state to be elected to either house of the Parliament or the state assembly.

🔰Recently, Rajya Sabha Chairman has nominated four women parliamentarians to the panel of vice-chairpersons, giving women equal representation in the panel, for the first time in the history of the Rajya Sabha.

🔰On July 17, she became the first ever woman member of Rajya Sabha to be appointed to the panel of vice-chairpersons.

📔Read about the panel of vice-chairpersonshere

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The article analyses, whether the acquittal of persons booked under POCSO on the basis of the HC's perceived notion of Consensual sex is a correct step or it is Ethical ?

Can such interpretations be said to be in the best interests of the child ?

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Rice is a staple food for about half of the world’s population, with Asia consuming about 90% of global supply.

🍚India'sRice export ban: Why India is so crucial to global rice trade ?

🔰Recently, The Indian government prohibited the export of non-basmati white ricewith immediate effect.

🔰Earlier, the Government has already imposed restrictions on wheat and sugar exports.

🔰In September 2022, government banned the exports of broken rice and imposed a 20% duty on exports of various grades of rice.

🔍Reason for the Rice Ban

1️⃣Erratic monsoon

Indian farmers plant paddy rice twice in a year.
Summer-sown crop planting starting in June accounts for more than 80% of the total output, which was 135.5 million tons in the 2022/23 crop year. In winter months, paddy rice is mainly cultivated in central and southern states.

The late arrival of the monsoon led to a large rain deficit up to mid-June. And while heavy rains since the last week of June have erased the shortfall, they have caused significant damage to crops. The area under paddy could drop marginally in 2023 because of erratic monsoon rainfall distribution.

2️⃣ Attempt to curb domestic inflation owing to rise in domestic prices -the retail price of the grain climbed about 15% in Delhi this year while the average nationwide price gained more than 8%.

3️⃣The Centre’s decision comes following tardy progress in paddy showing, which was 8.5 per cent lower than last year at 122.18 lakh hectares (lh) as of July 14.

4️⃣ Rice stocks with the Central pool maintained by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) dropped to a seven-year low of 25.34 million tonnes(mt)

🔍What about the countries which relied on India for it's food security ?

Shipments will be allowed on the basis of permission granted by the government to other countries to meet their food security needs and based on request of their governments.

🔍Why India is crucial to the global rice trade ?

♻️India, the world’s largest rice exporter, accounts for 40% of the global rice trade, with its shipments going to about 140 countries.

♻️ India's rice shipments in 2022 were more than the combined shipments of the Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan and the US, the next four big exporters of the grain.

♻️India exported 17.86 million tons of non-basmati rice in 2022.

♻️However, Indian government has not put any restrictions on the export of basmati rice which stood at 4.4 million tons in 2022. Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia mainly buy premium basmati rice from India.

♻️The ban could reduce rice exports from India by at least 40 per centof the over 17 million tonnes of non-basmati rice shipments in the last two fiscal years.


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Recently, Rajasthan government passed the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023.

It is the first legislation of its kind in India outlining welfare schemes for the State’s approximately three lakh gig workers.

Key Takeaways

1. Creation of Welfare Board - comprising State officials, five representatives each from gig workers and aggregators, and two others from civil society.

2. Creation of Social Security and Welfare Fund - comprising contributions made by individual workers, State government aids, other sources and a ‘welfare cess’ — a cut from each transaction — which the aggregator is required to pay.

3. Duties of aggregators - depositing welfare cess on time, updating the database of gig workers, and documenting any variations in numbers within one month of such changes.

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CSAT which is of qualifying nature is often not given much importance among the aspirants during their preparation. In recent years, the difficulty of the questions has been significantly increased in GS Paper 2 and that has affected many aspirants. Considering the above factors, we have decided to launch a dedicated program of solving one question a day from the previous year questions to give wider exposure on topics on CSAT which in turn takes a very little of your precious preparation time. This will benefit greatly in time-management and also in developing focus for the GS paper. Do join @srvias to boost your preparation.
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Clarification:
⁉️Is the GST compensation extended or not??
1⃣The GST compensation Act provides for compensating of states till 2022.
2⃣Despite demands by states, GST compensation was not extended.
3⃣However last year, GST council decided to levy GST compensation cess till 2026.
Why???
ℹ️During 2020, as Compensation could not be paid, Union Govt asked state Govt's to take loans and promised that the loans will be repaid from Compensation cess.
4⃣ Only for the purpose of repayment of the state loans the Cess period is extended.
5⃣ The GST compensation Act has not been amended or extended.

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