Value Added Article: Do We Need a Neutral Bureaucracy | Category – Civil Service | Source – EPW

Bureaucracy serves as the third and neutral term that can be socially effective without the aid of politics or ideology. The neutrality principle  has a moral function to prevent public officials from becoming slaves to the government of the day.

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Value Added Article: The Constitutional Case against the Citizenship Amendment Bill | Category – Polity & Governance | Source – EPW

The bill violates the Constitution because the classification it adopts is manifestly arbitrary and unjustified. Citizenship law defines a country’s political and constitutional identity.

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Value Added Article: Carving Out The Coasts | Category – Environment | Source – EPW

By facilitating the large-scale intrusion of commercial and industrial activities into the fragile coastal territories, the new CRZ policy would upset the prevailing human–ecological balance.

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Value Added Article: Are India’s Laws on Surveillance a Threat to Country | Category – Constitution and Polity | Source – The Hindu

Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order granting authority to 10 Central agencies, to pry on individual computers and their receipts and transmissions.

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