Swami Vivekananda

• 12th January, 1863 -  161st birth anniversary
• National Youth Day
• 1893: Maharaja Ajit Singh of the Khetri State: Vivekananda
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had called him "the maket of modern India"
• Neo-Vedanta
• World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893
• Swami Vivekananda talked about the four pathways of attaining moksha from worldly pleasure and attachment in his books. Which is Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga.

Organisations

• Ramakrishna Mission (1897)
• Belur Math, West Bengal (1899):  He died here in 1902 

“Arise! Awake! And stop not until the goal is reached.”

 “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

Essay

 “Fraternity is only another name for democracy”

Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan

Goal

• eliminating tuberculosis by 2025

Union Health Ministry

Scheme

• Support for 1-3 Years 

Reservation

Article Related to the Reservation for SC and ST

• Article 15(4) and 16(4); Reserve seats in Govt. Service 
• Article 16 (4B): Carry forward Seats
• Article 330 and 332: In Parliament and SLA
• Article 243D: Panchayat
• Article 233T: Municipality
• Article 335

Cases

Indra Sawhney v/s Union of India (1992)

• Creamy Layer
• < 50%

Human Development Index 2021

India 

• Rank: 132/191
• Point: 0.633 lower than the world average of 0.732
• Category: Medium

 

Indicators

• Life expectancy at Birth (SDG 3)
• Expected Years of Schooling (SDG 4)
• Mean Years of Schooling ( SDG 4)
• Gross National Income (GNI)

Compassion towards the weaker section of society

• to suffer with another person.

Venkatesham Burra (IAS)

• Self-Help Groups: Aasara
• NGOs:  Ashraya

Prasanth Nair IAS

• Compassionate Kozhikode and Operation Sulimani 

Question

“Public service is recognized on the basis of tolerance and compassion towards the weaker section of the society.” Explain the values of tolerance and compassion in this context. (UPPSC 2019)

Source: The Indian Express

Essay

 “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” 

                                                                                                      - Fredrick Buechner

SA8000 certificate

• By Social Accountability International
• social certifications for decent workplaces across all industrial sectors

Facts

• In 2007, Medak district administration became the first government agency in Asia to receive SA8000 certificate
• It was one of the world’s first auditable social certifications for decent workplaces across all industrial sectors

Reference:

• Social Accountability International

Police System

• Ideal Police System
• Numerous Tasks Of Police Stations: The Bureau of Police Research& Development (BPR&D): Identified 45 Tasks
• Time Bound Service Delivery: India Justice Report (IJR) 2020: Tata Trusts
• Modernisation of Police: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA): 20000 Crore for the modernization of police (2017-2020)

Technology-driven service delivery

National Crime Records Bureau

Report: Crime in India 2019

• As per the report, 25,023 cases of assault on women, 11,966 rape cases, and 4,197 “dowry deaths” have been pending trial for five to 10 years.

Source: The Indian Express

For Essay

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Gender gap in the STEM field

 Facts

• Women account for over 43 % of all Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in India, one of the highest in the world, according to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) report 2019-20.
•  just 14 % of them pursue scientific research in universities and institutions.

Problem

• Low: Women's Entry
• stereotype
• Career (male dominance)

Suggestion

• Role Model (e.g.Sunita Williams, Kalpana Chavala, Neena Gupta-Indian mathematician and Ramanujan Prize 2021 winner)
• Social Media
• Mentorship program
• Gender Neutral role
• Facilities

Source: The Indian Express

**Gender Gap Index

Mission Shakti

• 15th Finance Commission period 2021-22 to 2025-26
• an integrated women empowerment program is launched as an umbrella scheme for the safety, security, and empowerment of women for the implementation program.

Sambal

• It is for the Safety and Security of Women. 
• It comprises schemes of One Stop Centre (OSC), Women Helpline (WHL), Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP), with a new component of Nari Adalats.

Samarthya

• It is for the Empowerment of Women.
• Ujjwala, Swadhar Greh, and Working Women Hostel.
•  Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)  
• Gap Funding for Economic Empowerment

Nari Adalat

• the for providing women with an alternate grievance redress mechanism to resolve cases of petty nature (harassment, subversion, curtailment of rights or entitlements) at the gram panchayat level, which will be implemented in a phased manner.

Source: The Indian Express

**Essay writing

**Society (Mains)

**Scheme Related to Women

**1098 -Child Line

Gender Gap Index

• released by the World Economic Forum(WEF)
• four key areas: health, education, economics and politics.

For Essay: Quotes, Lines

 Environment

• "Mother can take the most ruthless form when it comes to saving her child, same applies to Mother Nature."                                                                                                                                        

Quotes

1. MS Swaminathan - "Future belongs to the nation with grains and not with guns"

Essay

• Do not use extreme views