Judgements With Regard To Separation Of Power:

✅Kesavananda Bharati Case, 1973: In this case, Sc held that amending power of the Parliament is subject to
basic features of the Constitution.
✅ Indira Gandhi Vs Raj Narain Case, 1975: The Doctrine of Basic Structure was reaffirmed. SC held that to adjudicate any dispute among the parties are purely judicial function and parliament cannot do this function even by using amending power under the constitution.
✅ Swaran Singh Case, 1998: The SC held that the pardon act of the governor to the convicted is unconstitutional.

Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar said any incursion by the three organs of the government into each other’s domains has the potential to upset the governance apple cart and asserted that all should respect the “laxmanrekha”.

🔆Steps the government has taken to manage water stress

✅Master Plan for Artificial Recharge to Groundwater- 2020 envisages construction of about 1.42 crore rainwater harvesting and artificial recharge structures in the country to harness 185 Billion Cubic Metre (BCM) of monsoon rainfall. 

✅Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) with an aim to enhance physical access of water on farm and expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on farm water use efficiency, introduce sustainable water conservation practices etc.

✅Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL) has been launched in 2019 with the objective to improve the management of ground water resources including rainwater harvesting in water stressed areas through community participation in identified priority areas in 7 states viz. Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

✅Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) includes water conservation and water harvesting structures as one of the activities under its natural resource management (NRM) component

✅Financial assistance given to various States under 15th Finance Commission tied grants can be inter alia utilized for rainwater harvesting.

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Social Engineering : Term used for a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.

“Democracy sustains and blossoms when the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive act in tandem and togetherness to fructify constitutional goals and realise aspirations of the people. Judiciary cannot legislate in as much legislature cannot script a judicial verdict.”

Jagdeep Dhankar, Vice-President of India

Kalidas:

✅He was the court poet of Chandragupta Vikramaditya II. He was a great poet and dramatist.

Considered as Shakespeare of the East. His works include:

✅ Abhijanasakuntalam: Love Story of King Dushyanta
and Shakuntala, whose son Bharatha became a famous ruler. William Jones translated this book into English and it filled the romantic imagination of Europe.

✅Malvikagnimitram: It is the Sanskrit play written by Kalidasa in the 5th-century CE. It narrates the love story of King Agnimitra, the Shunga Emperor at Vidisha. Agnimitra was the son of Pushyamitra Shunga, the founder of the Sunga dynasty.

✅Reghuvamsa: Speaks of these found victories of Rama, and may indirectly refer to some Gupta conquests.

✅ Kumarasambhav: Deals with the courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son Skanda.

✅ Meghadutam: Lyrical poem containing the message from the love-lon yaksha to his wife, pining across the northern mountains in Alaka.

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The 'Basic Structure' of the Constitution: A Guiding North Star

The Chief Justice of India, D. Y. Chandrachud compared the ‘basic structure’ of the Constitution to the North Star, an unfailing guide which shows the way when the path appears convoluted.

Socialist: Inserted by 42nd Amendment Act in 1976, the term "Socialist" made explicit the implicit ideals of socialism already present in the Constitution.
✅ Indian socialism advocates a mixed economy with coexistence of public and private sectors.
🔸Example: Providing all people food security, universal access to education, health and housing. To provide them, government has implemented various initiatives such as MGNREGA, Ayushman Bharat Yojana etc.
✅In the case of D.S. Nakara v. Union of India (1983), the Supreme Court held that the primary objective of a socialist state is to eradicate inequality in income, status, and the standard of living.
✅ Regarding the inclusion of 'socialist,' Dr B.R. Ambedkar argued in Constituent Assembly debates that it goes against the essence of democracy to decide within the Constitution the type of society in which the people of India should live.

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Fraternity:

✅ Fraternity means a sense of common brotherhood of all Indians — if Indians being one people.
✅ It is the principle which gives unity and solidarity to social life.
🔸 Example: In ‘AIIMS Students’ Union V. AIIMS’, the court observed that the Preamble to the Constitution of India secures as one of its objects “fraternities” assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation to “we the people of India”.