CSE 2023

Registration of 99th FC will open from today and close on July 28th, 2024.
Please note that at this point, it would suffice to fill in the Descriptive Roll component of the registration form. (Other forms may be filled and documents uploaded post the allocation of service by DoPT.


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Intangible Cultural Heritage of India: Beyond Monuments and Landscapes

✅The term ‘cultural heritage’ has changed content considerably in recent decades, partially owing to the instruments developed by UNESCO.

✅Cultural heritage does not end at monuments and collections of objects. It also includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts

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Right to Internet :

✅ Faheema Shirin v. State of Kerala: Kerala High court recognized that mobile phones and internet access through it are part and parcel of the day-to-day life. The court took the view that right to be able to access the internet has been read into the fundamental right to life and liberty, as well as privacy under Article 21. The court added that it constitutes an essential part of the infrastructure of freedom of speech and expression.

✅Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India: The Supreme Court held that right to freedom of speech and expression and right to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business over the medium of internet is constitutionally protected under Article 19(1)(a) and 19(1)(g).

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Demographic Dividend : Economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population’s age structure, mainly when share of working-age population is larger than non-working-age share of the population.

Freedom of religion

S.R Bommai v. Union of India: The Court observed that while freedom of religion is guaranteed to all persons in India, from the point of view of State, the religion, faith or belief of a person is immaterial. To the State, all are equal and are entitled to be treated equally. The Court held that secularism is one of the basic features of the Constitution.

🔆BLUE ECONOMY

According to the World Bank, the blue economy is defined as the sustainable development of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem.

✅ The blue economy emphasises the integration of the development of the ocean economy with social inclusion
and environmental sustainability, combined with innovative business models.
✅ The blue economy encompasses a diverse range of activities – Renewable energy, Fisheries, Maritime Transport, Tourism, Climate Change, Waste Management.

▪️Why Blue Economy?

✅ Oceans are considered future growth engines, even with the changing climate and other anthropogenic pressures.
✅ The ocean works as a huge reservoir of heat and plays an important role in moderating the weather and climate.
✅ The ocean is responsible for almost half of the oxygen that is inhaled and also plays a pivotal role in the carbon cycle.
✅ It is home to most of the earth's biodiversity and is the main source of protein for more than a billion people around the world.
✅ With at least 3-5% of global GDP derived from oceans, the blue economy, has great potential for boosting economic growth.
✅ The United Nations has promulgated the period 2021-2030 as the 'UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable
Development'.

▪️India's Potential :

✅ India has a coastline of more than 7500 km and an EEZ of more than 2.2 million sq km.
✅ Nine of India's states have access to the coastline.
✅ India comprises 200 ports, of which 12 are major ports that handled 541.76 million tonnes in FY21, the highest being Mormugao Port, located in Goa.
✅ The coastal economy sustains over 4 million fishermen and coastal towns. India is the second- largest fish-producing nation in the world and has a fleet of 2,50,000 fishing boats.
✅ India's blue economy accounts for roughly 4% of the GDP and is estimated to increase once the mechanism is improved.

▪️Ocean Resources :

✅Fisheries and aquaculture: Fisheries can be sub-categorised into two categories: marine fisheries and inland fisheries.
🔸 Fisheries have contributed Rs. 46,663 crore to the economy through exports in 2019-20. In 2019- 20, it was 14.2 MMT. Out of 14.2 MMT production, marine fish production was 3.7 MMT, and inland fish production was 10.4 MMT.

✅Minerals: The continental margins of India contain heavy minerals like ilmenite, magnetite, monazite, zircon,
and rutile.
🔸 Biogenous sediments are reported from shallow offshore areas of the Laccadive Islands, the Gulf of Kutch, the outer shelf of Mumbai, and the backwaters of Kerala.
🔸 Homogenous deposits like phosphorites are reported from the southwestern and western continental shelves manganese crust is found in the Andaman Islands.
🔸 Evidence has been found of reserves of Manganese, cobalt, and hydrothermal sulphides in the deep ocean in the Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB).
🔸 Also, marine gypsum is found in salt pans during the processing of common salt in the coastal regions of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
🔸 Ocean also contains huge rare earth minerals.

✅Hydrocarbons:
🔸 India has 26 sedimentary basins, spread across a total area of 3.4 million square kilometres.
🔸 There are 16 inland basins, seven located both inland and offshore, and 3 completely offshore. India hosts about 34 MMT of oil and 33 BCM of gas production.
🔸 The current annual oil and natural gas consumption is about 1.3 billion barrels and 65 billion cubic metres.

✅Renewable Energy: The generation of oceanic renewable energy has tremendous scope. Commercialisation of tidal energy has gained momentum.

✅ Ports, Shipping, and Marine Tourism :
🔸 Services India has a network of 12 major ports and 187 non-major ports.
🔸 Approximately 95% of the country's trade by volume and 68% by value is moved through maritime transport.
🔸 The Indian Maritime Sector comprises ports, shipping, marine biotechnology, shipbuilding and repair, and inland water transport systems.

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Mppsc prelims 2024 final answer key

Contract Farming: Agreement between farmers and processing/marketing firms for production and supply of agricultural products under forward agreements, frequently at predetermined prices.

Judicial Activism: It is an approach to the exercise of judicial review, or a description of a particular judicial decision, in which a judge is generally considered more willing to decide constitutional issues and to invalidate legislative or executive actions.

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Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) : is a type of investment fund that holds a collection of assets like stocks, bonds, or commodities and is traded on stock exchanges, much like individual stocks. ETFs offer investors a way to diversify their portfolios with a single investment and are known for their lower fees and ease of trading