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🔆 Base Revision of GDP, CPI & IIP — MoSPI 📍 What’s happening? ✅ MoSPI to hold Pre-release Consultative Workshop on 23 Dec 2025 ✅ Venue: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi ✅ Objective: Share methodological & structural changes and seek expert feedback 📍 Key Timelines ✅ CPI (Base: 2024 = 100) → 📅 12 Feb 2026 ✅ GDP / National Accounts (Base: FY 2022–23) → 📅 27 Feb 2026 ✅ IIP (Base: 2022–23) → 📅 28 May 2026 📍 Why important? ✅ Reflects current consumption patterns & production structure ✅ Improves accuracy of inflation, growth & industrial output data ✅ Strengthens policy credibility & transparency 📍 Mains Question 📝 Why is periodic base revision of GDP, CPI and IIP essential for economic policymaking in India? #GS3 #IndianEconomy

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🔆 Transgender Entrepreneurship Training — PIB Update 📍 What happened? ✅ 25 transgender persons completed entrepreneurship development training ✅ 2nd batch concluded with valedictory function (Dec 2025) 📍 Who organised? ✅ Department of Social Justice & Empowerment (DoSJE) ✅ NIESBUD (under Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship) 📍 Key Highlights ✅ Focus on job creators, not job seekers ✅ Training + post-training handholding ✅ Participants already running small businesses (bakery, artificial jewellery, etc.) ✅ More such trainings planned nationwide 📍 Why it matters? ✅ Social inclusion through entrepreneurship ✅ Aligns with Skill India & inclusive growth ✅ Supports economic empowerment of transgender community 📌 UPSC Mains (GS-II) How can entrepreneurship-led skill development promote social justice and economic inclusion of transgender persons in India? #socialJUSTICE

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🔆 Celebration of Intergenerational Bonds — PIB 📍 What happened? ✅ Programme held on 22 Dec 2025 at Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh ✅ Organised by Department of Social Justice & Empowerment 📍 Objective ✅ Strengthen emotional, social & cultural bonding between generations ✅ Promote active & dignified ageing 📍 Key Highlights ✅ Interaction between senior citizens, youth & children ✅ Cultural performances, dialogue sessions & walkathon ✅ Emphasis on values, tradition & social cohesion 📍 Government Focus ✅ Intergenerational engagement as pillar of inclusive society ✅ Link with schemes like Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana & Elderline 14567 📌 UPSC Mains How can intergenerational bonding initiatives contribute to social cohesion and active ageing in India? #society

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🔆 INS ANJADIP Delivered to Indian Navy 📍 What? ✅ ‘Anjadip’ — 3rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) ✅ Delivered on 22 Dec 2025 ✅ Built by GRSE, Kolkata under PPP with L&T Shipyard (Kattupalli) 📍 Key Features ✅ Length: ~77 metres ✅ Waterjet propulsion (largest in its class) ✅ Equipped with Lightweight Torpedoes, ASW Rockets & Shallow-water SONAR 📍 Significance ✅ Boosts anti-submarine, coastal surveillance & mine-laying capability ✅ 80%+ indigenous content → Aatmanirbhar Bharat ✅ Named after Anjadip Island (off Karwar, Karnataka) #GS3 #Defence

🔆 NITI Aayog Report: Internationalisation of Higher Education in India ✅ Focus on “Internationalisation at Home” (NEP 2020) ✅ Targets 1 lakh foreign students by 2030 ✅ Push for global academic mobility, research collaboration & branch campuses ✅ Positions higher education as soft power tool for Viksit Bharat 2047 ✅ 22 policy recommendations + 76 action pathways for global hub ambition 📍 Mains Question 📝 How can internationalisation of higher education strengthen India’s soft power and knowledge economy? #GS2 #Education #goverment_schemes Join https://t.me/PIB_UPSC https://t.me/upsc_government_scheme

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🔆 30 Years of PESA Act, 1996 (1996–2025) 📍 What is PESA? ✅ Extends Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to Fifth Schedule Areas (Article 244) ✅ Ensures tribal self-governance in Scheduled Areas ✅ Applicable to 10 States: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan & Telangana 📍 Constitutional Background ✅ PRIs granted constitutional status by 73rd Constitutional Amendment (1993) ✅ Scheduled Areas initially excluded → addressed through PESA Act, 1996 📍 Salient Features of PESA ✅ Gram Sabha Empowerment: Mandatory consent for land acquisition, development projects, minor forest produce & minor minerals ✅ Regulatory Powers: Control over intoxicants, land alienation, village markets & money-lending ✅ Cultural Protection: Safeguards customary laws, traditional institutions & tribal identity ✅ Legal Supremacy: Overrides conflicting State laws in Scheduled Areas 📍 Why PESA Remains Under-Realised? ✅ Absence of mandatory timelines for framing rules ✅ Bureaucratic dominance over Gram Sabhas ✅ Inadequate devolution of Funds, Functions & Functionaries (3Fs) 📍 Recent Initiatives to Strengthen PESA ✅ PESA–GPDP Portal (2024) for planning & monitoring ✅ Dedicated PESA Cell under Ministry of Panchayati Raj ✅ Centres of Excellence in universities (e.g. IGNTU) ✅ Training manuals translated into regional & tribal languages (Santhali, Gondi, Bhili, Mundari) #goverment_schemes Join https://t.me/PIB_UPSC https://t.me/upsc_government_scheme

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PESA Mahotsav Celebrating Community-Led Governance under the PESA Act

🔆 Energy Independence & Clean Transition 📍 Key points: • Energy independence = economic + strategic + geopolitical necessity • Clean & diversified energy mix aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat • Nuclear energy critical for 24×7 power (AI, data centres, advanced computing) • Hybrid model → renewables + nuclear + hydrogen • Target: Net Zero 2070 | 100 GW nuclear capacity by 2047 📝 Mains Question: Why is nuclear energy important for India’s clean energy transition and energy security in a geopolitically uncertain world? Discuss. #GS3 #Energy

🔆 India–Netherlands Trade Boost ✅ India–Netherlands Joint Trade & Investment Committee (JTIC) set up via MoU ✅ Institutional platform for regular trade & investment dialogue ✅ Focus on removing trade barriers, promoting two-way investments ✅ Special thrust on MSMEs, technology transfer & supply chains ✅ Annual meetings, co-chaired at senior official level 📝 Mains Question: How do institutional mechanisms like JTIC strengthen bilateral trade, investment flows and supply-chain resilience? #GS2 #GS3

🔆 SHANTI Bill, 2025 📍 Why in News? Introduced in Lok Sabha, the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025 seeks to open nuclear power to private players while reforming India’s liability and regulatory architecture. 📍 What the Bill Does (Big Picture) ✅ Replaces Atomic Energy Act, 1962 + CLND Act, 2010 → single, unified nuclear law ✅ Ends operational monopoly of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited ✅ Aligns India with global nuclear liability norms to attract capital & technology ✅ Enables SMRs & advanced reactors for clean baseload power 📍 Key Provisions (Added Nuance) ✅ Private & Foreign Entry: Build, own, operate & decommission plants (PPP/JVs allowed) ✅ Strategic Areas Reserved for State: ▪ Nuclear fuel cycle ▪ Heavy water production ▪ Radioactive waste management ✅ Independent Regulator: ▪ Statutory status to Atomic Energy Regulatory Board ▪ Accountability to Parliament (not executive control alone) ✅ Liability Reform: ▪ Supplier liability removed ▪ Operator liability capped by plant capacity (predictability for investors) ▪ Govt steps in beyond cap → risk socialisation ✅ Atomic Disputes Tribunal: Faster dispute resolution, investor confidence ✅ Technology Push: ▪ SMRs, Bharat Small Reactors ▪ Molten Salt & HTGRs → grid stability + decarbonisation 📍 Why Reform Was Needed (Extra Context) 🔹 Capital Intensity: ~₹15 lakh crore needed for 100 GW by 2047 🔹 NPCIL Constraints: Delays (e.g., Kudankulam), limited EPC bandwidth 🔹 Climate Imperative: Nuclear as 24×7 low-carbon baseload, unlike intermittent renewables 🔹 Energy Security: Reduces fossil fuel import dependence 📍 Core Concerns (Governance Lens) ⚠️ Dilution of “Polluter Pays” principle ⚠️ Risk of moral hazard with capped liability ⚠️ Public trust deficit due to memories of Bhopal Gas Tragedy ⚠️ Long-term waste disposal & decommissioning clarity still evolving 📍 What Must Be Strengthened (Way Forward) ✅ True operational autonomy for AERB ✅ Periodic review of liability caps (inflation & risk-indexed) ✅ Mandatory safety audits & public disclosure ✅ Robust Centre–State nuclear emergency protocols ✅ Clear financing responsibility for waste & decommissioning 📝 Mains Question (GS-3) Private participation in nuclear energy can accelerate India’s clean energy transition but also raises governance concerns. Discuss. #GS3 #prelims #science_technology #science_and_technology Join https://t.me/PIB_UPSC https://t.me/upsc_science_and_technology