PIB – January 2 , 2020


General Studies-III

Topic – Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM)

Context

DAY-NULM organises consultative workshop with States /UTs on DAY-NULM Pakhwada “SHEHRI SAMRIDDHI UTSAV 2020″.

About

  • Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) is a scheme under Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
  • DAY-NULM is organizing SHEHRI SAMRIDDHI UTSAV 2020 (SSU-2020).
  • The SSU 2020, scheduled from March 28 to April 12, 2020.

Shehri Samriddhi Utsav

  • Shehri Samriddhi Utsav is a platform of making a more significant, out of the ordinary impact in the lives of the most vulnerable and the poorest of the poor urban natives.
  • Shehri Samridhi Utsav (SSU) is a pan- India initiative of Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
  • It aims to extend the outreach of Deendayal Antyodaya Mission – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM), to the most vulnerable.
  • It further aims to showcase its initiatives and facilitate access of Self-Help Group (SHG) members to the other government schemes.

About DAY-NULM

  • Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) is one of the flagship schemes of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
  • It works – towards alleviating urban poverty through strong community institutions, skill training, access to affordable credit for self-employment, support for street vendors and provision of permanent shelters for the urban homeless.
  • It replaced the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY).

Objectives

  • The NULM will focus on organizing urban poor in their strong grassroots level institutions.
  • To create opportunities for skill development leading to market-based employment and helping them to set up self-employment venture by ensuring easy access to credit.
  • To provide the shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner.
  • The Mission is aimed at providing shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner.
  • The Mission would also address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors.

Key Features of DAY-NULM

  • CoverageUnder the scheme urban areas extends the coverage to all the 4041 statutory cities and towns, there by covering almost the entire urban population.
  • Target Population– The primary target of NULM is the urban poor, including the urban homeless.
  • Sharing of funding- Funding will be shared between the Centre and the States in the ratio of 75:25.
  • For North Eastern and Special Category States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand), this ratio will be 90:10.

 The scheme has two component one for urban India and other for rural India.

The Urban component

  • The Urban component is named as Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana will be implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
  • Under this Government will Setup City Livelihood Centres with Rs. 10 lakh grant
  • Form Urban Self Help Groups (SHG) and give Bank linkage and Rs.10,000 to each group
  • Setup Vendor markets and give skill training to vendors as well
  • Construction of permanent shelters for urban homeless & other essential services
  • Help the poor to setup enterprises & give them loan at 7% interest rate

The rural component

  • The rural component is named as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana will be implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development.
  • Under this Government will setup training centres in rural areas.
  • Training syllabus will be designed on international standards, so that rural youth can work in the foreign companies coming to India under Make in India.
  • Special attention will be given to physically disabled persons.

General Studies-III

Topic- Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)

Context

The outgoing Army chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat, has been appointed as the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).

About

  • The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved the creation of a chief of defence staff (CDS) for the three services – the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force.
  • The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) will act as the single-point advisor to the Government of India.
  • The creation of a CDS to act as a single point military adviser to the Prime Minister on strategic issues was one of the key recommendations of the Kargil review committee.
  • The Kargil review committee was constituted to recommend on higher military reforms after the 1999 conflict.

About Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)

  • CDS will be the single-point military adviser to the government as suggested by the Kargil Review Committee in 1999.
  • CDS oversees and coordinates the working of the three Services.
  • CDS will be a Four-star General with salary and perquisites equivalent to a Service Chief.
  • The Chief of Defence Staff will also head the Department of Military Affairs (DMA), to be created within the Ministry of Defence and function as its Secretary.
  • He will not be eligible to hold any Government office after demitting the office of CDS.
  • He cannot take any private employment without prior approval for a period of five years after demitting the office of CDS.

“As per the notification by the government, the upper age limit for the CDS has been fixed at 65 years. However, the tenure of CDS has not been fixed.”

Functions

The following areas will be dealt by the Department of Military Affairs headed by CDS

  • The Armed Forces of the Union, namely, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
  • Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence comprising Army Headquarters, Naval Headquarters, Air Headquarters and Defence Staff Headquarters.
  • The Territorial Army.
  • Works relating to the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
  • Procurement exclusive to the Services except capital acquisitions, as per prevalent rules and procedures.
  • Promoting jointness in procurement, training and staffing for the Services through joint planning and integration of their requirements.
  • Promoting use of indigenous equipment by the Services.

Other key function of CDS

  • The Chief of Defence Staff, apart from being the head of the Department of Military Affairs, will also be the Permanent Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee.
  • He will act as the Principal Military Adviser to Raksha Mantri on all tri-Services matters.
  • The three Chiefs will continue to advise RM on matters exclusively concerning their respective Services.
  • CDS will not exercise any military command, including over the three Service Chiefs, so as to be able to provide impartial advice to the political leadership.

Need for Chief of Defence Staff

  • Incoherency– In general, the policy formulation is done by Defense Secretary, who is a bureaucrat, while its execution rests with Chiefs of armed forces. This makes defence policy incoherent.
  • Modern Warfare– The emergence of modern warfare domains like Space, Cyber etc, requires a more integrated approach to defense strategy.
  • The fundamental reason for Integrated Commands is the imperative need for a single headquarters coordinating diverse elements in the same geographic space.
  • The underlying rationale for appointing a CDS is to separate management and command of the Armed Forces.

Significance

  • The creation of the CDS will eventually lead to the formation of tri-service theatre commands intended to create vertical integration of the three forces.
  • This is expected to save money by avoiding duplication between the Services, at a time of shrinking capital expenditure within the defence budget.
  • After formation of this post (CDS), all the three forces will get effective leadership at the top level.
  • It will help India in Defense diplomacy.
  • It will synergise long term planning, procurement, training and logistics of the three Services, and ensure better coordination between them.

General Studies-I

Topic- Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.

Sexual Harassment electronic–Box (SHe-Box)

Context

Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India has developed an online complaint management system titled Sexual Harassment electronic–Box (SHe-Box).

About SHe-Box

  • The Government of India (GoI) has enacted the Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (the SH Act), 2013.
  • This Sexual Harassment electronic Box (SHe-Box) is an effort of GoI to provide a single window access to every woman, irrespective of her work status.
  • It will facilitate the registration of complaint related to sexual harassment.
  • Any woman facing sexual harassment at workplace can register their complaint through this portal.
  • Once a complaint is submitted to the ‘SHe-Box’, it will be directly sent to the concerned authority having jurisdiction to take action into the matter.

Objective

  • To create a safe and secure workplace for women free from sexual harassment.
  • This Act caters to women working both in organised and unorganised sector and establishes a redressal mechanism for the disposal of their complaints.

Features

  • It defines “sexual harassment at the workplace” in a comprehensive manner.
  • It cover circumstances of implied or explicit promise or threat to a woman’s employment prospects or creation of hostile work environment or humiliating treatment, which can affect her health or safety.
  • This Act is unique in its broad coverage which includes all women irrespective of their work status, whether working in organised or unorganised, public or private sectors, regardless of hierarchy.
  • The domestic workers are also included within its ambit.

For prelims

Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)

  • The government has launched a web portal, ‘Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)’.
  • It will facilitate blocking and tracing of stolen/lost mobile phones in Delhi.
  • The web portal was first launched in Mumbai.
  • A Central Equipment Identity Register ((CEIR)) is a database of the IMEI numbers of blacklisted handsets.
  • If a device’s ESN or IMEI number is listed on a CEIR, it is not supposed to work on member service providers’ networks; only paying members may access the database.

Indian History Congress

  • The 80th session of the Indian History Congress (IHC) was held at Kannur, Kerala.
  • It called upon political and administrative authorities to pursue the constitutional duty of promoting composite culture, which is vital to promoting the territorial unity of India.
  • The Indian History Congress (IHC) was founded in 1935.
  • It is the largest association of professional historians in South Asia.

Leave a Reply