The Hindu
GS2: Issues Relating to Development & Management of Social Sector/Services
- The importance of the booster dose to plan ahead The execution of such a vaccination campaign is what will help get India out of COVID-19’s stranglehold
GS2: Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
- An urban jobs safety net It is time to formulate a wage employment-based national urban livelihood scheme similar to MGNREGS
GS2: Parliament and State Legislatures—Structure, Functioning, Conduct of Business, Powers & Privileges and Issues Arising out of these.
- LS adjourned two days ahead of schedule, sees 22% productivity Speaker hosts senior leaders, including Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi for tea party.
GS2: Statutory, Regulatory and various Quasi-judicial Bodies.
- Fill consumer disputes panel vacancies in eight weeks: SC It asks Centre to do ‘legislative impact study’ on Consumer Protection Act
GS3: Indian Economy, mobilization of resources
- Centre to soon free up untapped space in SEZs The government will soon free up unused built-up area worth about ₹30,000 crore and idle land inside Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for other economic purposes.
GS3: Government Budgeting, Mobilization of resources
- Govt. to completely exit erstwhile PSUs DIPAM’s Pandey says awaiting court orders for other divestments, hinting at Hindustan Zinc, Balco
GS2: Schemes for vulnerable sections
- Debate on OBC Bill shows new avatar of Mandal politics. Demands by regional parties are seen as ways to seize the political momentum from BJP
- Parliament passes Bill on OBC lists In RS, in a break from its protests on Pegasus and farm laws, Opposition joins discussion and supports Bill
GS2: Govt. policies and interventions for development of a sector
- Building consent A consensus on the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations 2021 is a must
Indian Express
GS3: Infrastructure
- Why central government schemes to improve financial position of discoms have not worked Due to all the problems associated with reform-linked assistance schemes, an alternate approach is providing only transitional financial support to all discoms, which are privatised under the private-public partnership mode.
- Why Indian Railways failed to attract private players to run trains The Indian Railways wants capital and technology without giving up control, while the concessioner wants a far more equal relationship
GS2: Schemes for vulnerable sections
- Explained: Why NCPCR has recommended that minority schools be brought under RTE The Commission’s objective was to assess the impact of this exemption of minority educational institutions from various guidelines that are mandatory for non-minority institutions.
GS2: Parliament and State Legislatures—Structure, Functioning, Conduct of Business, Powers & Privileges and Issues Arising out of these.
- Explained: Productivity of Parliament The Monsoon Session that ended on Wednesday was the third least productive for Lok Sabha, and the eighth least productive for Rajya Sabha in over two decades. Both Congress and BJP have been responsible for the disruptions.
GS3: Science and Technology
- Explained: What to watch in launch of EOS-03 today Though work on the big ticket projects like the human spaceflight mission has continued in the background, the pandemic has upset the schedule of the launches, pushing back many keenly-awaited missions.
PIB Corner
GS2: Govt. policies and interventions for development of a sector
- National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The Rajyasabha on Wednesday passed the National Commission for Homoeopathy (Amendment) Bill, 2021 and the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Amendment) Bill, 2021.The two bills were cleared by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Down To Earth
GS3: Environmental conservation
- Investing in degraded forest land for the health of our economic system India is on track to restore 26 million hectares (mha) of degraded land in order to achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030,
