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Women Empowerment is the process which confers power on individuals over their own lives, in their society, and in their communities ,  it is an exercise in enhancing their educational, economic, social, political, and health status National Crime Records Bureau 2017 data crimes against women - assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty comprised 21.7%, and rape 7%. phases of women’s movement in India  Before 20th century 1900 to 1950 1950 to 1970 1970 to 2000 2000 to - #Metoo  women’s organisations have throughout history played an essential role in women empowerment in ensuring equal rights. They have played not only legal, economic and social roles but also have a historic importance.  Health Empowerment Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY ): maternity benefit programme provides cash transfer (conditional) for expecting and lactating women to compensate for wage loss. fosters care and utilization of institutional services during child birth...

Role of youth in Nation Building

India is a nation with large demographic dividend which has potential to contribute towards nation building, but realizing this potential requires overcoming prevalent challenges and creating an ecosystem to channelize this potential. What is Nation Building? Economic Prosperity: standard of living and availability of critical goods and services Political stability: at national, regional as well as local level is robustness of the democratic processes of the nation. Democratic processes in turn strengthen the institutional capital and governmental stability in a nation. Human Development: encompasses education as well the collective health of people. Development of citizens of a nation directly correlates to development of the nation itself. Social cohesion: society plays a key role aligning individual energies. Environmental Sustainability: direct bearing on all of nation’s entities. Need to strength Role of youth in Nation Building Energy and vitality that they bring: From constr...

Social security scheme

Objective of providing insurance services to the economically weaker section of society.  Keeping in mind the lower income group, premium of these schemes have been kept fairly low, so that benefit of these schemes can reach far and wide to the unreached. Schemes launched by GOI Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) financial inclusion program for 10 to 65 years age group, that aims to expand and make affordable access to financial services such as bank accounts, remittances, credit, insurance and pensions. Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojna (PMJJBY) is a one year Life Insurance Scheme, which is annually renewable, and it provides coverage of Rs. 2 lakh in case of death due to any reason. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) is one year Personal Accident Insurance Scheme.coverage of Rs.2 lakh in case of death or permanent total disability and rs one lakh for permanent partial disability due to an accident. Atal PensionYojna (APY) provides income security, ...

SC ST Act

Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989  1955- Protection of Civil Rights Act to protect the fundamental and socio-economic, political, and cultural rights Features Special Courts for the trial and for the relief and rehabilitation of the victims Central Government to frame rules for carrying out the purpose of the Act. lists 22 offences relating to various patterns of behaviours inflicting criminal offences for shattering the self-respect and esteem of SCs and STs, denial of economic, democratic and social rights, discrimination, exploitation and abuse of the legal process, etc implemented by the respective State Governments and Union Territory Administrations amended in 2016 to add new offences to atrocities such as garlanding with footwears etc., & a chapter on the ‘Rights of Victims and Witnesses ’, defining ‘willful negligence’ of public servants clearly Supreme Court in March 2018 diluted the Act in Subhash Kashinath Mahajan vs State of Maharas...

Minorities

NITI Aayog Strategy for India @75 Objective To bridge the gap between minority communities and the rest of the population with respect to various socio-economic and human development indicators through affirmative action. Current Situation Census 2011 total population of 121 crore , Hindus constitute 79.8%, Muslims 14.25%, Christians 2.3%, Sikhs 1.7%, Buddhists 0.7% and Jains 0.4%. religious minorities lag behind on indicators pertaining to educational attainment, gender equality and workforce participation. Constraints Data on development indicators not generated at regular intervals. Some also included under SCs, STs and OBCs resulting in duplication of schemes Way Forward Enhance pre-matric scholarships, post-matric scholarships, merit-cum-means scholarships, Maulana Azad National Fellowships and National Overseas Scholarships with a 15 per cent increase annually from 2019-20. Increase the number of scholarships for girls from minority communities by 10 per cent every year. Prov...

Utkarsh Dwivedi AIR-5 PSIR Notes, Strategy and ANSWER COPIES

Utkarsh Dwivedi IAS   air-5 UPsc cse 2021 PSIR STRATEGY, NOTES AND MY ANSWER COPIES If there is one factor that has helped me achieve a single digit rank in CSE, it is my optional. I have scored 168 in paper 1 and 146 in paper 2, making it 314 in total. I have still not come across somebody with a score more than this and hence a comfortable claim can be made that this is one of the highest score this year. In this blog, I would mention what helped me achieve this score.  I DID NOT refer to any other source than Shubhra Ma'am's notes. There are two reasons to it.  Firstly, since I had reached the interview stage in all my three attempts, I never had the luxury of time to refer to any book.  Secondly, I believe Ma'am's notes are more than enough to form the core aspect of the subject's preparation. I did value addition from multiple sources so as to get an edge in my answers: I referred to copies of toppers of the respective tests that I attempted during my mains ...