Civil Services Chronicle October 2022

1 Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100

2 NFSA: Need for Comprehensive Coverage

3 Ethanol Blending in India: Prospects & Challenges

4 Air Quality and Health in Cities

1 SEBI proposes Blue Bonds for Sustainable Financing

2 Central Bank Digital Currency

3 SEBI enhances Disclosures Requirements for Credit Rating Agencies

4 SEBI Settlement Scheme 2022

5 Pashmina Wool Development Scheme

6 Multi Modal Logistics Park

7 Specialty Steel

1 Government withdraw Personal Data Protection Bill

2 The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act 2022

3 Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2022

4 Electricity Amendment Bill 2022

5 Creation of New Districts

6 Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog

7 Supreme Court strikes down Provision of 1988 Benami Law

8 Constitution Bench of Supreme Court

1 India-Iran Pact on Seafarers

2 Universal Postal Union

3 India-France Transport Sector Pact

4 9th India-Thailand Joint Commission Meeting

5 6th Meeting of Australia-India Education Council

6 Abolishing CPEC Authority

7 Porcupine Strategy

8 Group of Seven (G7)

1 India's First Commercial SSA Observatory

2 INS Vikrant: First Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

3 Tejas Mark-2 Project

4 India’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Launched

5 Cervavac: First indigenously developed Human Papillomavirus Vaccine

6 Anti-Radiation Pills

7 Cyber Security Exercise “Synergy”

1 New Project to Accelerate Climate Action in India

2 Conservation of Marine Biodiversity

3 11 Wetlands from India Declared Ramsar Sites

4 Forum for Decarbonizing Transport in India

5 Arth Ganga Model: Focusing on Sustainable Development

1 Commodore Vidhyadhar Harke

2 Nallathamby Kalaiselvi

3 Queen Máxima

4 Shashi Tharoor

5 Uday Umesh Lalit

6 Justice D.Y. Chandrachud

7 Simon Stiell

8 Krishnamurthy Subramanian

9 Mary Elizabeth Truss

10 Rear Admiral Guillermo Pablo Rios

11 Samir V Kamat

12 G Satheesh Reddy

13 Vikram K. Doraiswami

14 Debasisa Mohanty

15 Rajkiran Rai G

16 Piyush Goyal

17 Ranjit Rath

18 Rajesh Kumar Srivastava

19 Mikhail Gorbachev

20 Abhijit Sen

21 J. S. Grewal

22 Narayan

23 Shimoga Subbanna

24 Syed Sibtey Razi

25 Samar Banerjee

26 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

27 T. V. Sankaranarayanan

28 Mary Roy

29 Rudi Koertzen

30 Padang

31 Kannauj

32 Haridwar

33 Shokhuvi

34 Markham

35 'Udarashakti'

36 ‘Ex Skylight’

37 'Vajra Prahar' 2022

38 ‘Super Garuda Shield’

39 Vostok 2022

40 Other Exercises

41 Important Days/Weeks (August 2022)

42 Magsaysay Awards 2022

43 Winners of 2022

44 UNESCO Peace Prize 2022

45 Amlan Borgohain: Fastest Indian

46 Fastest Man and Woman at the Commonwealth Games 2022

47 Kalyan Choubey elected as AIFF President

48 UEFA Player of the Year Award

49 AIFF Footballer of the Year

50 ICC Player of the Month (July 2022)

51 BWF World Championships 2022

52 Major Titles

53 5th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2022

1 Manusmriti

2 Godna Paintings

3 Mandala Art

4 Women Freedom Fighters

5 Bijay Chand Mahtab

6 Pandurang Khankhoje

7 Pingali Venkayya

8 Freedom Fighter Ondiveeran

9 Manimahesh Yatra

10 Bharat Rang Mahotsav

11 Menhir

12 Shumang Leela

13 Naukhai

14 Garba Dance

1 Special Marriage Act 1954

2 Tribal TB Initiative

3 Extension of Ayushman Bharat Scheme to Transgenders

4 SMILE-75 Initiative

5 National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem

6 Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022

7 Hukou System

8 Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

9 Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojna (PMAAGY)

10 Paalan 1000

11 PEN PLUS Strategy

12 Ayush Grid Project

Madhya Pradesh

1 Mandla: India’s First Fully ‘Functionally Literate’ District

2 World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

Maharashtra

1 Dahi-Handi: Official Sport of Maharashtra

2 Country’s First Electric Double-Decker Bus

Arunachal Pradesh

1 First Steel Slag Road

2 Medicine From The Sky

3 Donyi Polo Airport

Delhi

1 ‘Make India Number 1’ Mission

Meghalaya

1 2nd Edition of North East Olympics

Odisha

1 MoU with NIOT

Assam

1 Vidya Rath- School on Wheels Project

Andhra Pradesh

1 Winner in Utilisation of Agri-Infra Funds

Haryana

1 Chief Minister Equal Education Relief, Assistance and Grant (CHEERAG) Program

2 2G Ethanol Plant

Uttarakhand

1 Sanskrit Gram

Uttar Pradesh

1 Radio Jaighosh

Tamil Nadu

1 Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme

Chhattisgarh

1 Rural Industrial Parks

Himachal Pradesh

1 Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2022

Kerala

1 Kerala Savari

Nagaland

1 Second Railway Station Inaugurated

Sports Persons In News

1 Neeraj Chopra

2 Linthoi Chanambam

3 Apeksha Fernandes

4 Manoj Prabhakar

5 GM Magnus Carlsen

6 Virat Kohli

1 Info Bytes

1 Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA)

2 Smart India Hackathon (SIH)

3 Floor Test

4 Composite Floor Test

5 Central Universities Endowment Fund (CUEF)

6 National Cancer Grid (NCG)

7 Zonal Councils

8 Cantillon Effect

9 Median Income

10 Soft Peg and Hard Peg Exchange Rate Policy

11 Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)

12 Mithila Makhana

13 Silk Mark

14 Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

15 SUMO Protein

16 Bisphenol A (BPA)

17 Forever Chemicals

18 Standalone and Non-standalone 5G Networks

19 Cloud Seeding

20 Facial Recognition Technology

21 CSA6

22 Arctic Amplification

23 Katchal Island

24 Tasmanian Tiger

25 Bent-toed Gecko

26 Greenland Ice Melting

27 United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year Award

28 Blue Helmets

29 Joint Rivers Commission

30 Supply Chain Ministerial Forum

31 Regional Standardization Forum

1 National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission

2 Grameen Udhyami Project

3 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

4 One Nation One Fertiliser

5 Restructuring of Commerce Department

6 Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022

1 Globalise to Localise: Exporting at Scale and Deepening the Ecosystem are Vital to Higher Domestic Value Addition

2 Getting India to Net Zero Report

General Studies Mains Questions And Answers

1 Prafulla Chandra Ray was a ‘revolutionary in the garb of a scientist.’ Comment

2 ‘Freebies’ can be lifesavers during dire times. In light of this statement, analyze the impact of freebies offered by political parties.

3 Define cooperatives. Critically analyze the role of cooperatives in building a self-reliant India.

4 Enumerate the issues associated with Right to be Forgotten.

5 Model Tenancy Act, 2021 is not apt enough to resolve the issues in rental housing sector. Explain.

6 It is only the people themselves who must utilize law for bringing justice at the doorsteps of the large masses of people of the country. In context of this, highlight the significance of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and the issues associated with it.

7 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is both a boon and bane. Comment

8 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has released a report titled ‘Sustainable use of Wild Species.’ Highlight the significance of sustainable use of wild species. Also, enumerate the challenges associated with their sustainable use.

9 The Private Sector has the potential to boost the space program of India. Discuss.

10 The formalization of Integrated Theatre Command is necessary for transformation of defense. Analyze.
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