UPSC CSE Prelims 2024 postponed from the scheduled 26 May to 16 June 2024

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🔆Index of Industrial Production (IIP)

✅ It is a composite indicator measuring changes in the volume of production of a basket of industrial products over a period of time.
✅ It measures the growth rate of industry groups classified under,

🔸 Broad sectors - Mining, Manufacturing and Electricity
🔸 Use-based sectors - Basic Goods, Capital Goods and Intermediate Goods

✅ Base year - 2004-05
✅ It is compiled and published on a monthly basis by the CSO (now known as National Statistics Office (NSO)) with a time lag of 6 weeks from the reference month.

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Socialistic Principles DPSP

✅Art. 38 : State to secure a social order for the promotion of welfare of the people (Added by 44th CAA 1978)
✅Art. 39 : Certain principles of policy to be followed by the state.
✅Art. 39 (b) and (c) are exceptions to Art. 14 and 19.
✅Art. 39 A :Equal justice and free legal aid. (Added by 42nd CAA 1976)
✅Art. 41 : Right to work, education and public assistance in certain cases.
✅Art. 42 : Provision for just and humane conditions of working and maternity relief.
✅Art. 43 : Living wage for workers. (Living wage includes
education, health and insurance etc.)
✅Art. 43A : Participation of workers in management of industries. (Added by 42nd CAA 1976)
✅Art. 47 : Duty of the State to raise the level of nutrition, standard of living and improve public health.

🔆Chemical Weapons Convention

✅ Founded in 1993
✅The Chemical Weapons Convention is officially known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.
✅The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is the implementing body.
✅ The CWC is open to all nations and currently has 193 parties
o Israel has signed but not ratified the agreement.
✅ Egypt, North Korea and South Sudan have neither signed nor acceded to the treaty.
✅ The CWC is the world’s first multilateral disarmament agreement to provide for the elimination of an entire
category of weapons of mass destruction within a fixed time frame.
✅India and CWC - India signed in 1993 and enacted Chemical Weapons Convention Act in 2000.
✅National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention (NACWC) has been established under the Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 for implementing the provisions of the Convention.

Consider the following personalities with reference to Indian History :
1. Aurobindo Ghosh
2. Bipin Chandra Pal
3. Rajnarayan Bose
4. Ashwini Kumar Dutt
5. Surendranath Banerjee

🔆Rakhigarhi

✅The NCERT recently introduced certain revisions to the history syllabus of Class 12 students, highlighting that Harappans were based out in Rakhigarhi.
✅It is an archaeological site located in Hisar district, Haryana, just 27 km from the Ghaggar river, in the Ghaggar-Hakra river plain.
✅It is one of the oldest and largest cities of the subcontinent’s earliest known Bronze Age urban culture—the Indus Valley or Harappan Civilization, going back to about 6500 BCE.
✅It is one of the five known biggest townships of Harappan civilization on the Indian sub-continent.

📍Findings:

✅The exploration around this site has clearly identified seven archaeological mounds.
✅Rakhigarhi primarily yields evidence of occupation during the Early and Mature Harappan periods, with the site being completely abandoned during the Late Harappan period.
✅The archaeological excavations revealed the mature Harappan phase, represented by a planned township with mud-brick as well as burnt-brick houses with a proper drainage system.
✅The ceramic industry represented by red ware, which included dish-on-stand, vase, jar, bowl, beaker, perforated jar, goblet and handis.

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🧌The 6th schedule of the constitution provides for the administration of tribal areas in Assam Meghalaya Tripura and Mizoram to safeguard the rights of the tribal population in these States.
✅The special provision is provided under article 244 (2) and article 275 (1) of the constitution.
✅In Assam, the hill districts Dima hasao, Karbi anglong and West Karbi territorial reason are under this provision.
✅The Governor is empowered to increase or decrease the areas or change the names of the autonomous districts.
✅While executive powers of the union extend in scheduled areas wrt their administration in 5th schedule, the 6th schedule areas remain within executive authority of the state.


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