Social auditing can be used as an efficient tool for addressing the monitoring and implementation bottlenecks in success of government schemes in India. Enumerate the steps that have been taken by the government recently in this regard.

Implementation of government schemes have often been marred by monitoring and implementation challenges. Challenges: Lack of independent monitoring agencies. Lack of awareness among people about schemes and its modalities. Vast size and huge population of India makes monitoring a tough ..

The New Code on Industrial Relations (2019) was brought to reduce labour disputes and improve ease of doing business but it has restricted the collective bargaining power of the workers. Analyse.

Code on Industrial Relations (2019) was brought to incorporate various laws on labour unions and employee-employer relationship to provide a single comprehensive code. Code on Industrial Relations reduced labour dispute as well as increased ease of doing business through: Implementation ..

‘Tribunalization’ of justice may lead to ‘Trivialization’ of justice. In this context, discuss the objectives and issues associated with tribunals. Also suggest measures.

Tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies, which adjudicate dispute, between parties, but not courts in the traditional sense. Objective: Offer specialization, as expert knowledge is involved with judicial wisdom. Reduce costs of dispute settlement. Tackle “Docket explosion” of cases. As they are ..

Throw some Light on the issues associated with functioning of the central information commission. Suggest measures to address these issues.

Central information commission is a Quasi judicial body, which is an appellate for the RTI process. It consists of Chief Information Commissioner and 10 information commissioners. Issues in functioning: Vacancies and delay in appointment of CIC and ICs. RTI act ..

Arsenic pollution has become a severe environmental problem in India. Enumerate its various source, also discuss the consequences and measures to tackle it.

Arsenic is a heavy inorganic metal pollutant that causes great damage to humans and various other ecosystems. Sources: Iron and steel smelting plants. Car plants. Mining sites due to leaching. Electronic plants as arsenic is used in circuits and semiconductors. ..

Medicine : India’s dependence on API

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) notified a one time increase of 50% in price of 21 essential drugs. The pharmaceutical policy aims to regulate the drug prices with most of the formulations priced below Rs 1 and only two ..

What do you understand by Food Insecurity? Differentiate between Chronic and Transitory Food Insecurity.

Hint: Food insecurity exists when people lack sustainable physical or economic access to enough safe, nutritious, and socially acceptable food for a healthy and productive life. Food insecurity may be chronic, seasonal, or temporary. Nutritional consequences of insufficient food or ..

Harmful pesticides are one of the major reasons behind farmer's deaths. Critically discuss the provisions of Pesticide Management Bill in this context.

Recent deaths of children who consumed Mid-day meal in Bihar due to high level of pesticides has again brought the attention to pesticide regulation. Pesticide management bill would replace the Insecticide act 1968 which regulates the manufacturing, storage, distribution and ..

Do you agree with the argument that the Anti-defection law violates the right to free speech? Highlight the key issues related to law and suggest reforms.|

The Anti-defection law(10th schedule) was added through 52nd amendment of the Constitution which provides for disqualification on ground of defection. Soon after the passage, the law was challenged on the grounds that it violates the right to free speech of ..

What do you understand by "Data Science" and "Big Data"? Discuss while analyzing their potential in changing the way politics and governance is conducted.

Data Science is a technique of data extraction for information that uses a combination of mathematics, programming, problem solving, statistics and capturing data for cleansing, preparing and aligning the data. Big data refers to that data which is so huge ..