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IMPORTANT TOPICS: CIVIL SERVICES INTERVIEW 2011

Topics Pointers

POLITICAL

How to handle agitations? • Telengana MP’s fast to drop charges against students

• Gujjar Stir

• Shiv sena protest against removal of Dadoji Konddeo’s statue: 50

buses destroyed

• Loss of public property

• Disturbance to normal life

Corruption and Scams • 2G Scam

• Commonwealth Games scam

• Adarsh Housing

• Allegation on CVC P. J. Thomas

• Allegation on B. S Yedurappa

• Illegal Mining in Karnataka

• S-Band spectrum issue

• Black Money

• Radia tapes controversy

• Demand for JPC

• Karnataka Lokayukta issue

Internal Security • Kashmir Issue

• Naga issue

• Separatist movement in North Eastern states

• Naxalism

• New initiatives for internal security and Coastal Security

Centre State relations • Karnataka: Role of governor, anti defection and centre state

relations

Inter state water dispute • Krishna tribunal award

• Babli project

Babri verdict • What to prevail: Faith or Reason

• Appreciation and Criticism

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Civil liability for nuclear

damage bill 2010

• The Act

• CSC

Voting Behavior • Landslide win of Nithish Kumar

• Return of UPA in power

AFSPA • Should it be repealed.

Caste census • Why and why not?

• Merging caste enumeration and head count: pros and cons

Declining Parliamentary

behavior

• Disruptions in parliament

Politics of Regionalism • Telangana issue

• Srikrishna panel report

Freedom of expression • Book ban and freedom of expression

• Freedom of expression and contempt of court

Women Reservation in India

ADMINISTRATIVE

Aadhar: Unique Identification

Scheme

Census 2011

Electoral Reforms

Police reform • Narco test & supreme court;

Criticism of planning

commission

Judicial reform • Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill

• Centres for Advanced Legal Studies and Research Bill, 2010

• The Prime Minister has recently called for a major overhaul of the

legal education system in the country to bring it in tune with the

needs of the current socio-economic scenario.

• Impeachment proceedings against justice Dinakarna and Sukumar

Sen

• Uncle Judge syndrome

Educational reform • Higher education and Research bill

• Educational tribunals bill

• Foreign universities bill

• Privatisation of higher education


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• FDI in Higher Education

Health Sector reform • Medical ethics and clinical trial;

• Bachelor of Rural Health Care course

• Medical Courses in IIT

Industrial disasters • Bhopal Gas Tragedy

• Chitra oil spill

Accidents • How to reduce accident in IAF;

• Railway Safety

Civil Services Reform • ARC

• Civil Services Survey

Social

Death penalty • Philosophical Debate

• Mercy plea

Honor killing • about 1000 killed every year

Gender equality • Gender equality and armed forces

Death of RTI activists;

Provisions and programs for

persons with disabilities;

Surrogacy in India • law and morality

superstitions

Socio-Economic

Naxalism • IAP-LWE(Integrated action plan for left wing extremism affected

areas)

Food security • Food security: Universal or Targeted

• New proposed bill

• Difference between NAC and PM/PC

• Demand for PDS Reform

PDS reform • Behind the success story of universal PDS in TN

• Inflation & public investment in agriculture ,universal PDS, Future

trading

• Maharashtra using GPS to track kerosene tankers of PDS

• PDS and biometric, GPS, SMS

• PDS reforms conference


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Inflation • New WPI

• New CPI

• ESMA

Paid news • SEBI's direction to PCI(PCI's guidelines) regarding private treaties

between media houses and listed or to be listed non media

companies ;

• Corruption in media

• Radia tapes controversy

Environment and

Development

• Jaitpur power plant& peoples protest

• Plan to give tribal a share of mining profits

• potential future value of land must be considered for compensation

• Media hype and reality of new India

• Implementation of FRA

• Illegal mining

• Commission to probe illegal mining of coal, iron and manganese;

• New Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2010

• action plan to curb illegal mining;

• Climate change and Developing countries.

• POSCO issue

• National Green Tribunal

• GM crops

Decontrol of petrol prices • Revenue neutral regime for petroleum tax;

Population • Population in the era of globalization: asset or liability

Economic

Need for Super Regulator • Regulatory bodies : what , why, balance b/w autonomy and

accountability

• ULIPs , IRDA and SEBI

• issue of overlapping jurisdiction of regulators

• FSDC

TAX REFORMS:GST&DTC • benefits and hurdles

FDI in retail • Discussion paper

Financial inclusion • launch of ‘Swabhimaan', a special campaign for financial inclusion

to bring banking to the masses

• New Banking licenses

• Bank denying Muslim scholarship accounts;

• One rupee bank account;

• Mobile Banking

• Financial inclusion and India post


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International Issues

Wikileaks :pros and cons

Currency war

Migration, Globalisation etc

MDG

Pro democracy protests in

Mediterranean and Arab

countries.

• Egypt, Libya, Yemen etc.

Environment issues • Global warming/Cancun Summit

• Biodiversity/ Nagoya summit

Middle East peace process

Bilateral

India's Global Leadership • P5 heads visited India in 2010

• India's Cancun efforts appreciated

• Global reports predict bright Vibrant Economy

• India in the Security Council

2010 - Scripting a landmark

year in Indian diplomacy

Recent Bilateral Updates. • USA, Russia, France, China, UK, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia etc.

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