Background: The Centre recently assured Karnataka that construction on the Mekedatu dam project on the Cauvery river will not begin until the Cauvery Water Management Authority approves the project’s Detailed Project Report (DPR) (CWMA). There are also disagreements between the states of Karnataka and Tamil […]
Context: The Union government told the Supreme Court recently that the caste-based data from the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) was “unusable,” but the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India told the Standing Committee on Rural Development in 2016 that 98.87 percent of the data […]
About the Uniform Civil Code: UCC is a bill that would establish a single law for the entire country, which would apply to all religious sects in personal concerns such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption. According to Article 44 of the Constitution, the state […]
Introduction: Under Prime Minister Morarji Desai’s leadership, the Government of India established the Mandal Commission, also known as the SEBC (Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission), on January 1, 1979. This Commission was presided over by B P Mandal, a Member of Parliament. The Mandal […]
About NTAGI: In 2001, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) issued an order establishing it. The NTAGI, as India’s top immunization advisory council, advises the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on vaccination and immunization services for the country’s successful control of vaccine-preventable […]
Background: The biennial “India State of Forest Report (ISFR)” was released by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The Forest Survey of India (FSI), which has been tasked with assessing the country’s forest and tree resources, including wall-to-wall forest cover mapping on a […]
