Social Justice IAS Current Material GS II

Social Justice IAS Current Material GS II

1.   SC decision on refugee status must be welcomed, India not signatory of UN convention on status of refugee 1951, but after independence we accept it on humanitarian principle,  positive ruling needed from SC for prevent their forcible deportation. 

2.   One Nation One Card: For ration Card , getting access to public distribution system across the nation from any PDS shop of their choice.  This will provide freedom of  the beneficiaries , not to tied to any shop and reduce their dependence on shop owners and curtails instance of corruption . Integrated management of PDS already operated in AP, Guj, HR , JH, KR, 

KL, MH, RJ, TL, Tripura, beneficiary can avail his share of from any dist.

3.   Consolidated code on labour laws: Union cabinet has cleared the Occupational, safety, Health and Working Condition code , a week after it approves the code on wages bill, more workers under the preview of minimum wages and propose a statutory national minimum wage for different geographic region, to ensure states will not fix minimum  wages below those set by the center. This include- Regular and mandatory medical examination for workers, issuing of appointment letters, framing of rules on women working night shifts.Other code awaiting cabinet approval: Code on industrial relation, social security(Link point 9 )

4.   Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthan Mahabhiyan(KUSUM),aim to provide energy sufficiency and sustainable irrigation  access to farmers. , till today 30 million farmers especially marginal landlords use expensive diseal for thir irrigation , no access to electricity.  Half of India’s net sown area remains unirrigated. (Scheme under approval)  proposals are – indtallation of grid connected solar powere plants each of capacity up to 3 MW in rural area, Installation of standlone off grid solar water pumps to fulfil irrigation needs of farmer not connected to grid, solarisation of existing grid connected agriculture pumps to make farmers independent of grid supply and also enable them to sell surplus solar power generated to DISCOM and get extra income.

5.   HRD launched the UGC scheme of Paramarsh. Scheme for Mentoring National Accreditation and assesment council (NAAC) accreditation Aspirant Institution to promote Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

6.   Rashtriya Aajeevika Mission – Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelyhood Mission (DAY-NRLM) of Ministry of Rural Development. Sub sheme under it- 1) Rural Self Employment Training Institute ( RSETIs) enable a trainee to take bank credit and start his/her own micro-enterprise, 2) Start up Village Entrepreneurship programme(SVEP) for facilitating the rural poor for setting up micro enterprises.

7.   Forest Rights Act(FRA) is a piece of social legislation which aims to address the historical injustice that our forest dwelling communities have had to face for nearly 150 years by providing them with security of tenure over land for cultivation and habitation through individual rights.  Also provides access to a variety of resources through more than a dozen types of community forest rights.  It empowers forest dwelling communities to protect, regenerate, conserve and manage any community forest resource. Legal Challenges- FRA was challenged in SC in 2008 by about half a dozen conservation organizations.

8.   Deputy commissionar M deepa formally launched the rural development and panchayat raj department’s Varsha Dhare cloud seeding project at Hubballi International Airport. The three month long project is aimed augmenting rainfall in north karnataka.

9.   (Link point 3 )Govt fails to support labour standards is the ministry of labour’s proposal to fix the national minimum floor wage at Rupee 178 without any defined criteria or method of estimation. Rightly called starvation wage espacilly given that the ministry’s own committee recommmened rupee 375 as the minimum.  Another issue is that th e four codes excluded over 95% of the workforce employed in informl units and small enterprises , no clarity on who constitutes an employer an employee or an eterprise giving the owner greatet discretion to interpret the provision while making it more difficult for the workers  to draw any benefit from them.Most—Code on industrials relation too is replete (bhara huaa) with restriction on- Forming opr registering unions , Calling a strikes ( which would entails prior permissions and notices) and seeking legal redressal for workers.

10.               HM Amit Shah launched the Shram Yogi Prasad Scheme. Under this Scheme industrial and construction workers will get nutritious breakfast and meals at subsidized rates at their workplace on a regular basis.

11.               (Connect With Point 2) One Nation One Ration  Card- India runs the world’s largest food security programme, distrubuting more than 600 lakh tonnes of subsidised food grain to mare than 81 crare beneficiaries every year. This is done through a vast network of mare than five lakh ration or fair price shops. Under the National Food Security Act(NFSA), each beneficiary is eligible for five kg of subsidised grains per month at tha rate of rupee 3 Kg for rice, Rupee 2 Kg for wheat and Rupee 1 Kg of Coarse cereals.

12.               Union minister for Panchayati Raj shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Launched a spatial planning application called ‘Gram Manchitra’ which is a Geo Spatial based decision support system for the panchyats.  Panchayats can utilize this app to plan, develop and monitor development activities on real time basis.

13.                The Jan Soochana Portal (JSP) launched by the government of Rajasthan, a remarkable achievement in furtherance of the right to information (RTI) – especially section 4 of the RTI Act – that deals with proactive disclouser of information.  Transparency accompanied by accountability , several access points – every activity of goovt such as- Availability of food grains and ration shops and their distribution, Implementation of various shaeme and their beneficiaries and a varity of other information are available in a real time basis.

14.               National Statical; Office (NSO), Ministryy of Statics and Programme Implementation has conduicted a survey on Drinking water, Sanitation, Hygiene and housing condition as a Part of 76^th round of National Sample Survey(NSS). Majopr source of drinking water was hand pump in rural area (42.9%) and piped water in dwelling in urben area(40.9%).

	Rural(%)	Urban(%)
Access ot Bathroom	50.3	75.0
Latrin	71.3	96.2
Pour flush to septic tank type latrin	50.9	48.9
Bath and Latrin within permises	48.0	86.1
Electricity  for domestic use	93.9	99.1
LPG for cooking	48.3	86.6

15.               NSO, Ministry of Statics and programme Implementation has conducted a survey of persons with Disability during July 2018 to Dec 2018 as a part of 76^th round of National Sample Survey.

	Rural(%)	Urban(%)
% of persons with disabiolity in the  population	2.3	2.0

16.               Niti Aayog planning to include protein rich food items in PDS like fish, chiken and eggs in upcoming 15 years vision documents to be published in 2020. It will a bid to help improve the country’s nutrition ranking.Concern- India’s ranking are low when it comes to nutritionand hunger alleviation.India constitutes ¼ of global hunger burden.food subsidy bill for FY20 has bee pegged at RS 1.8 lkh crore as compared to revised estimate of RS 1.7 crore during FY19.