✅Gs-3 : Agriculture- How to read agriculture as a complete issue - Background- Click here
🅾️Focus of present article?- India’s next leap must come not just from production, but from fixing
⚜️1. Inefficiencies in subsidies- Click here
⚜️2. Investing in agri-R&D, building value chains, and ensuring environmental sustainability- Click here
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🅾️Focus of present article?- India’s next leap must come not just from production, but from fixing
⚜️1. Inefficiencies in subsidies- Click here
⚜️2. Investing in agri-R&D, building value chains, and ensuring environmental sustainability- Click here
⚠️VK IAS subject wise channels - Click here
✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- Energy security- Clean fuels
➡️National Biofuel policy and Ethanol blending program- Click here
🅾️Impact of latest govt order- Ethanol blending = win-win bridge strategy: lowers import bill, cuts emissions, aids farmers.
🅾️Risks: water stress, sugarcane over-reliance, global pushback, and consumer efficiency concerns.
🅾️Future lies in: feedstock diversification, 2G ethanol (waste-to-fuel), distillery infra, and balancing ethanol with EV push.
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➡️National Biofuel policy and Ethanol blending program- Click here
🅾️Impact of latest govt order- Ethanol blending = win-win bridge strategy: lowers import bill, cuts emissions, aids farmers.
🅾️Risks: water stress, sugarcane over-reliance, global pushback, and consumer efficiency concerns.
🅾️Future lies in: feedstock diversification, 2G ethanol (waste-to-fuel), distillery infra, and balancing ethanol with EV push.
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✅Gs-1 : Salient features of Indian society
🅾️Caste- link to family- Honor killings
⚠️Alarming paradox : TN has one of the most vibrant anti-caste movements (Periyar’s Self-Respect Movement, Dravidian parties). It also has a strong Dalit assertion in politics, education, and culture. But: This empowerment + high inter-caste marriage rates = heightened reaction from dominant caste groups → frequent honour killings.India is between tradition and transformation → caste is weakening in practice but not in ideology.
🅾️Symbolic reactions: Honour killings = symbolic resistance to loss of caste authority.
🅾️Urban paradox: Cities show individual freedom, but digital networks (WhatsApp groups, caste associations) reproduce caste norms in new ways.
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🅾️Caste- link to family- Honor killings
⚠️Alarming paradox : TN has one of the most vibrant anti-caste movements (Periyar’s Self-Respect Movement, Dravidian parties). It also has a strong Dalit assertion in politics, education, and culture. But: This empowerment + high inter-caste marriage rates = heightened reaction from dominant caste groups → frequent honour killings.India is between tradition and transformation → caste is weakening in practice but not in ideology.
🅾️Symbolic reactions: Honour killings = symbolic resistance to loss of caste authority.
🅾️Urban paradox: Cities show individual freedom, but digital networks (WhatsApp groups, caste associations) reproduce caste norms in new ways.
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SC vs ECI in BIHAR SIR issue-- Natural Justice Explained UPSC
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SC vs ECI in BIHAR SIR issue-- Natural Justice Explained UPSC
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In this video, we break down the ongoing controversy between the Supreme Court of India and the Election Commission (ECI) over the mass deletion of voters' names during the Special Summary Revision (SSR) in Bihar.
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In this video, we break down the ongoing controversy between the Supreme Court of India and the Election Commission (ECI) over the mass deletion of voters' names during the Special Summary Revision (SSR) in Bihar.
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✅Gs-2- Poverty and Hunger
✅Gs-3- Agriculture- Food wastage
🔰Present context : UN FAO’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025- How India's Policy investments in food security & nutrition created a Success Story for India.
🅾️Also read about Issue of food loss and waste (FLW) between harvest and retail- Click here
📍Relate this to SDG-2 : related to Hunger- COP 27 and food systems-Click here
⚠️Larger Challenge : Rising hidden hunger- So Agri food System transformation is needed- Click here and this
⚜️Boost production + affordability of pulses,
⚜️Invest in infrastructure (cold storage, logistics, processing).
⚜️Support women-led food enterprises & FPOs, especially in climate-resilient crops.
⚜️Leverage digital tools: AgriStack, e-NAM, geospatial planning → improve targeting & market efficiency.
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✅Gs-3- Agriculture- Food wastage
🔰Present context : UN FAO’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025- How India's Policy investments in food security & nutrition created a Success Story for India.
🅾️Also read about Issue of food loss and waste (FLW) between harvest and retail- Click here
📍Relate this to SDG-2 : related to Hunger- COP 27 and food systems-Click here
⚠️Larger Challenge : Rising hidden hunger- So Agri food System transformation is needed- Click here and this
⚜️Boost production + affordability of pulses,
⚜️Invest in infrastructure (cold storage, logistics, processing).
⚜️Support women-led food enterprises & FPOs, especially in climate-resilient crops.
⚜️Leverage digital tools: AgriStack, e-NAM, geospatial planning → improve targeting & market efficiency.
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✅Gs-2 : International Relations- India-US-Russia Relations
🔰Lessons learnt from Alaska Summit
🅾️1. Lesson 1: Don’t over-invest in personalities- they cant can’t replace structural foreign policy needs.
🅾️2. Lesson 2: Keep strategic autonomy alive-multi-alignment” (QUAD with US, defence with Russia, trade with EU, energy with Middle East).
🅾️3. Lesson 3: Domestic resilience matters-Diversify defence sourcing (France, Israel, indigenous production).Strengthen economy so tariff shocks don’t destabilise.
🅾️4. Lesson 4 : India cannot count on summits between other leaders to ease its dilemmas.US–Russia tensions spill over onto India in trade (tariffs), defense (CAATSA), and energy (oil prices)- Click here
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🔰Lessons learnt from Alaska Summit
🅾️1. Lesson 1: Don’t over-invest in personalities- they cant can’t replace structural foreign policy needs.
🅾️2. Lesson 2: Keep strategic autonomy alive-multi-alignment” (QUAD with US, defence with Russia, trade with EU, energy with Middle East).
🅾️3. Lesson 3: Domestic resilience matters-Diversify defence sourcing (France, Israel, indigenous production).Strengthen economy so tariff shocks don’t destabilise.
🅾️4. Lesson 4 : India cannot count on summits between other leaders to ease its dilemmas.US–Russia tensions spill over onto India in trade (tariffs), defense (CAATSA), and energy (oil prices)- Click here
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✅Gs-2 : Federalism- centre - state relations- Union territories
🅾️If LG nominates without elected government’s advice → undermines accountability, risks converting majority into minority. In smaller assemblies (J&K, Puducherry), even a few nominated MLAs can shift the balance of power.Codify nomination procedure in Parliamentary law: who nominates, from what fields, under what criteria. LG should normally act on advice of Council of Ministers, except in specific reserved matters.
🅾️Also in similar lines,read this entire article patiently- gives information on background of the Delhi's NCT status evolution- click here
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🅾️If LG nominates without elected government’s advice → undermines accountability, risks converting majority into minority. In smaller assemblies (J&K, Puducherry), even a few nominated MLAs can shift the balance of power.Codify nomination procedure in Parliamentary law: who nominates, from what fields, under what criteria. LG should normally act on advice of Council of Ministers, except in specific reserved matters.
🅾️Also in similar lines,read this entire article patiently- gives information on background of the Delhi's NCT status evolution- click here
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⚠️Today is the 6th anniversary of this channel
🅾️Year 0 - click here
🅾️1st Anniversary - click here
🅾️2nd Anniversary - click here
🅾️3rd Anniversary - click here
🅾️4th Anniversary- Click here
🅾️5th Anniversary- Click here
Last 6 years were challenging. The learning curve was very steep for me- This year, the biggest disruption is going to be the spread of AI tools- In my preliminary observation, instead of helping students its actually making it worse in terms of attention span. Tools can aide learning- not replace it . Remember, if you have the tool, so does everyone else- that makes AI a democratic tool- so the exam will evolve too! 🙂
August to december are usually the times were most aspirants are on a snooze mode. This is also the phase were toppers are born- Do watch this- https://youtu.be/KYtFzIQjIYA
Nevertheless, Always grateful for your relentless support.
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🅾️Year 0 - click here
🅾️1st Anniversary - click here
🅾️2nd Anniversary - click here
🅾️3rd Anniversary - click here
🅾️4th Anniversary- Click here
🅾️5th Anniversary- Click here
Last 6 years were challenging. The learning curve was very steep for me- This year, the biggest disruption is going to be the spread of AI tools- In my preliminary observation, instead of helping students its actually making it worse in terms of attention span. Tools can aide learning- not replace it . Remember, if you have the tool, so does everyone else- that makes AI a democratic tool- so the exam will evolve too! 🙂
August to december are usually the times were most aspirants are on a snooze mode. This is also the phase were toppers are born- Do watch this- https://youtu.be/KYtFzIQjIYA
Nevertheless, Always grateful for your relentless support.
VK 😊🙏
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✅Gs- 4 - Ethics- values -Empathy and Emotional Intelligence as a value
🅾️What do you make out of this? - when human beings fail to offer empathy, even the illusion of empathy feels preferable to the cruelty of indifference.😅
✳️ Dont blame the tech- the problem is the dearth of human warmth and a failure of moral imagination- We reduce life to transactions, judgments, or indifference. And in that vacuum, even a machine’s polite, patient replies feel safer than a human’s coldness.
https://www.tg-me.com/Upsc_ethics_notes
🅾️What do you make out of this? - when human beings fail to offer empathy, even the illusion of empathy feels preferable to the cruelty of indifference.😅
✳️ Dont blame the tech- the problem is the dearth of human warmth and a failure of moral imagination- We reduce life to transactions, judgments, or indifference. And in that vacuum, even a machine’s polite, patient replies feel safer than a human’s coldness.
https://www.tg-me.com/Upsc_ethics_notes
✅Gs-3 : Economic growth- Development -Need for Productivity
🅾️India's official metric for labour productivity is Gross Value Added (GVA) per worker or GVA per person employed- So GVA per worker/year is the key official metric.
🅾️ Sector-wise, tracked by MOSPI (NAS, ASI), Labour Ministry, and used in major national reports and policy documents. This measure is widely used for domestic comparisons (e.g., formal vs. informal, inter-state) and international benchmarking.
🔰Take away from this article ?- These arguments
⚜️1. Formalisation bridges Productivity and Wage Gaps
⚜️2. Mere job creation is not enough; the quality (formal vs. informal, productivity, security, upskilling) matters more for ensuring equitable development
⚜️3. Productivity and wage gaps between formal and informal sectors are wide.
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🅾️India's official metric for labour productivity is Gross Value Added (GVA) per worker or GVA per person employed- So GVA per worker/year is the key official metric.
🅾️ Sector-wise, tracked by MOSPI (NAS, ASI), Labour Ministry, and used in major national reports and policy documents. This measure is widely used for domestic comparisons (e.g., formal vs. informal, inter-state) and international benchmarking.
🔰Take away from this article ?- These arguments
⚜️1. Formalisation bridges Productivity and Wage Gaps
⚜️2. Mere job creation is not enough; the quality (formal vs. informal, productivity, security, upskilling) matters more for ensuring equitable development
⚜️3. Productivity and wage gaps between formal and informal sectors are wide.
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Forwarded from VK IAS by Vikas kanukollu (VK)
✅Can quantum physics calm Your Anxiety!?
I tried to explain the concepts of quantum physics in the shortest possible way. Hope you find it useful!
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I tried to explain the concepts of quantum physics in the shortest possible way. Hope you find it useful!
https://youtube.com/shorts/2vWyUjEkUNo?feature=share
GS-3 Mains 2025.pdf
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✅UPSC CSM 2025 General Studies -3