🔆BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE

✅Why in the news : Kesavananda Bharati judgement, 1973 which propounded the basic structure doctrine completed 50 years.
🔸13 judge bench - largest ever

✅Meaning : Certain features of the Constitution are so essential to it that they cannot be abrogated. (PYQ 1994)

Basics

✅ Judiciary decides what comes under basic structure
✅ NOT defined in the Constitution (no mention of the term “Basic Structure” anywhere in the constitution) (PYQ 2020)
✅ CANNOT be amended by special majority in the Parliament

✅Basic Structure includes : (Remember these 2 points. For other points, just think of a bill trying to remove that feature)
(i) Powers of SC under Articles - 32, 136, 141, 142
(ii) Powers of HC under Articles - 226, 227

Various elements of Basic Structure

✅Some principles that are presently part of the ‘Basic
Structure’ are stated below
✅sovereignty of India
✅essential features of the individual freedoms secured to the citizens
✅mandate to build a welfare state
✅supremacy of the Constitution
✅republican and democratic form of government
✅secular and federal character of the Constitution
✅separation of powers between the legislature, executive & the judiciary
✅unity and integrity of the nation
✅power of Judicial review
✅harmony & balance between FRs & DPSPs etc.
✅Parliamentary system
✅Rule of law
✅Principle of equality
✅Free and fair elections
✅Independence of Judiciary
✅Limited power of Parliament to amend the Constitution
✅Effective access to justice
✅Principles (or essence) underlying fundamental rights
✅Powers of the Supreme Court under Articles 32, 136, 141 & 142
✅ Powers of the High Courts under Articles 226 and 227

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🔆PM participates in the Outreach session on AI and energy

📍Key takeaways

✅India’s AI Mission "AI for All”
✅Global Partnership for AI.
✅NET ZERO by 2070.
✅Mission LiFE [Lifestyle for Environment].
✅Plantation campaign launched by him on World Environment Day – "Plant4Mother” [ Ek Pedh Maa Ke Naam]
✅Global South
✅AU - permanent member of G20

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All the best for tomorrow’s CSP-2024 Paper

Tomorrow is the test of whatever you have given to this examination in the last one year or maybe more.

So first of all be Proud of yourself that you have dared to face this examination

Some suggestions:

1) A lot can change with confidence and active mind. It can easily decide whether one is getting 80 marks or 100 marks (difference of around 5 ques)

2) Don’t ever judge yourself while still giving your paper. Be in present and give 100%

3)Don’t rush towards the end of examination. 10 minutes is more than sufficient to solve 20-25 questions in 2nd or 3rd iteration/reading.

4) It is generally noticed that we miss the chances of our selection not because of tough questions but due to blunders that we do in easy questions (especially Polity and economy). So don’t rush in easy questions

5) Don’t match/analyse your answers during break, even if you are strong in CSAT. Take CSAT as seriously or may be more than the first paper.

6) I consider attempting around 50 questions in CSAT as best. Temptation to attempt more might lead to silly mistakes.

Also remember that if the paper is tough than it is tough for everyone. Questions are now generally asked to check your analytical skills and static knowledge.

Believe in yourself and take a good nap to remain most active during the vital hours of tomorrow.
Even if you are not able to sleep, in morning convince your mind that you have slept well and you are very active now. (Psychology can play a very important role sometimes)

All the best for the D-day !! 😇

Credit : Shubham Kumar [Rank-1, UPSC'20]

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Link for Online Question Paper Representation Portal for CS(P) 2024 is active for the candidates to make representations to the Commission portal on the questions asked in the Papers of CS(P) 2024

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Last date: 23-06-2024 (6PM)

🔆Transnational organized crime (TOC).

✅Recently, the heads of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Interpol, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have emphasised the urgent need to intensify efforts to target the massive illicit profits generated by transnational organized crime (TOC).

✅Additionally, the recent revelations from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a division under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), have shed light on the escalating threat of cybercrime targeting Indian citizens.

📍What is Transnational Organised Crime?

✅Organised crime is defined as illegal activities carried out by groups or networks working together, often involving violence, corruption, or related actions to gain financial or material benefits.

✅Transnational organised crime (TOC) occurs when activities or groups operate in multiple countries.

📍Different Forms:

✅Money Laundering: It disguises financial assets to use them without detection of the illegal activity that produced them. Criminals transform the proceeds of criminal activity into funds with a seemingly legal source.
🔰The estimated amount of money laundered globally exceeds 2% to 5% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or approximately USD 800 billion to USD 2 trillion in just one year.

✅Drug Trafficking: It continues to be the most lucrative form of business for criminals,
Global drug trafficking is estimated to be worth USD 650 billion, contributing 30% of the overall illicit economy.

✅Human Trafficking: A global crime where men, women, and children are used for sexual or labour-based exploitation.
Human traffickers  are in it for the money, with estimated annual global profits of USD 150 billion.
🔰They victimise an estimated 25 million people worldwide, with 80% in forced labour and 20% in sex trafficking.

✅Smuggling of Migrants: A well-organised business moving people around the globe through criminal networks, groups, and routes.
🔰In 2009, USD 6.6 billion was generated through the illegal Smuggling  of 3 million migrants from Latin America to North America.

✅Illicit Firearms Trafficking: Arms trafficking or gunrunning is the illicit trade of contraband small arms, explosives, and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal activities often associated with transnational criminal organisations.
🔰Brings in around USD 170 million to USD 320 million annually.

🔆ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ORGANISATIONS

✅ Social capital helps groups work together effectively to achieve common goals. It's based on trust, shared identity, norms, values, and mutual relationships.

✅Functional contribution of civil society to society:
🔸Educator;
🔸Agitator;
🔸Service Provider;
🔸 Watchdog;
🔸Advocate.

✅Classification of social capital organizations in India : According to the 2nd ARC Classification of Civil Society based on Law and Activities: Registered Societies are formed for specific purposes:
✅Charitable organizations and Trusts;
✅Cooperatives;
✅Bodies without formal structure;
✅Government-promoted Third Sector organizations;
✅ Local Stakeholders Groups, Microcredit and Thrift Enterprises, and SHGs;
✅ Student Government promoted Third Sector organizations;
✅Professional Self-Regulatory Bodies.

National Policy on the Voluntary Sector 2007:

✅Independence of voluntary organizations; Importance of independence for social capital organizations; Explore alternative paradigms of development; Challenge social, economic, and political forces; Find new ways to combat poverty; National Policy on Voluntary Sector (NPVS) of 2007; Autonomy and accountability of voluntary organizations; Definition of voluntary organizations.
✅ Covered under the Policy, Voluntary Organizations should broadly have the following characteristics: Non-
profit organizations are private; Self-governing; Registered or informal groups that do not return profits to their
owners or directors.

✅Objectives of the policy:
🔸Creating an enabling climate for voluntary organizations;
🔸Safeguarding the identity and autonomy of voluntary organizations;
🔸Mobilizing financial capital for voluntary organizations;
🔸Promoting collaboration between the government and the voluntary sector;
🔸Encouraging good governance in voluntary organizations.

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🔆JIMEX Exercise-24

✅Recently, JIMEX exercise–24 commenced at Yokosuka in Japan.
✅This is the eighth edition of JIMEX, since its inception in 2012.
✅The exercise includes both harbour and sea phases.
✅The harbour phase will comprise professional, sports and social interactions.
✅During the exercise, navies of both the countries will jointly hone their war fighting skills at sea and enhance their interoperability.
✅Indian Navy’s indigenous Stealth Frigate INS Shivalik is participating in the bilateral maritime exercise. Japan is being represented by the Guided Missile Destroyer JS Yugiri.
✅It provides an opportunity to learn from each other’s best practices and facilitates operational interactions between India and Japan.
✅The exercise also reaffirms their shared commitment towards maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region.

📍Other Exercises between India and Japan:
✅Malabar: India and Japan with the United States and Australia participate in the naval war gaming exercise named Malabar.
✅SHINYUU Maitri (Air Force)
Dharma Guardian (Military Exercise)


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