Society Watch

Social Issues/Problems in India

1 Low Representation of Women in STEM Faculty

2 Supreme Court’s Observations on Hindu Marriage

3 Khula under Islamic Law

4 India’s declining Fertility Rate & its Impact

5 Right to adopt Child not a Fundamental Right

6 Muslim Women’s Right to Maintenance

7 Deletion of Kuki-Chins Tribe from ST List

8 Delhi High Court reaffirmed the ban on Incestuous ‘Sapinda’ Marriages

9 Bubble Baby Syndrome

10 WHO declares ‘Noma’ as Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD)

11 Supreme Court's Verdict on Section 498A of IPC

12 Assessment of National Policy on Child Labour

13 Right of the Unborn Child

14 Protocol for Management of Malnutrition in Children

15 Justice Amitava Roy Committee

16 Law Commission Report on POCSO Act, 2012

17 Hmar Community

18 Nikah Halala and Nikah Mut’ah

19 Legal Provisions Related to Abortion in India

20 Self-respect Marriages

21 Supreme Court Judgment on Inheritance

22 Hindu Undivided Family & Uniform Civil Code

23 Manual Scavenging

24 Horizontal Reservation for Transgender Community

25 International Pathogen Surveillance Network

26 UNICEF Analysis on Child Marriage

27 PRET Initiative

28 Menstrual Hygiene in School

29 ‘Triple Tests’ for Altruistic Surrogacy

30 Karnataka re-classifies the Definition of ‘Backward Classes’ for Reservation

31 Guidelines for Blood Donor Selection & Blood Donor Referral 2017

32 Affinity Test & Caste Claims

33 NHRC Flags Implementation Gap in Mental Healthcare Act 2017

34 Child Marriage

35 Right against Self-incrimination

36 Right to be Forgotten

37 JJ Act: Draft Guidelines on Conducting Preliminary Assessment

38 Supreme Court Simplifies Procedure for Passive Euthanasia

39 CAG Audit Report on Assam’s NRC

40 Growing World Population: Implications and Opportunities

41 All Women Bench of Supreme Court

42 Debate around Surrogacy in India

43 Nikah-Halala

44 Conversion Therapy

45 SMILE-75 Initiative

46 Special Marriage Act 1954

47 Abortion Laws in India

48 ‘Hyderabad Declaration’ on Human Trafficking

49 Self-Help Groups

50 First International Day for Countering Hate Speech

51 Juvenile Justice Amendment Act 2021

52 Multi Hazard Vulnerabilities in Jaipur: UN Habitat

53 Surrogacy

54 SC Directives on Rehabilitation of ‘Children in Street Situation’

55 Decline in Maternal Mortality Ratio

56 Determination of Minority Status

57 Misuse of Section 498A of IPC

58 National Commission for Safai Karamcharis

59 Decline in Fertility Rate

60 The National Anti-Doping Bill 2021

61 Bhima Koregaon Commission

62 Mental Health Issue in India

63 National Fund to Control Drug Abuse

64 PoshanVatika: Addressing Malnutrition

65 Hate Speech

66 e-Prison Project

67 Chakma and Hajong Communities

68 Adoption (First Amendment) Regulation 2021

69 Moral Policing

70 Dying Declaration

71 Constitutional Validity of Restitution of Conjugal Rights

72 Assam to Implement Two-Child Policy

73 Disability Early Intervention Centres

74 SAGE Initiative

75 Highest Demand under MGNREGA

76 Commitment to Reduce Inequality Index 2020

77 Swachh Survekshan (SS) 2021

78 Global Gender Gap (GGG) Report

79 World Happiness Report 2021

80 Denial of Justice to Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Rampant: A Study

81 Three Umbrella Schemes of Ministry of Women & Child Development

82 Upliftment of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups

83 COVID 19: A Threat to Progress Against Child Marriage

84 Ease of Living Index and Municipal Performance Index 2020

85 Survey to Address Data Gap on Migrant Workers

86 Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge

87 EdTech Entities for Online Lessons

88 Corruption Perception Index 2020

89 UN Report: Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition

90 NHRC Recommends Special Act Against Manual Scavenging

91 Anthropological Survey of India Policy Document on Sentinelese Tribe

92 1.7 million Indians Died due to Air Pollution in 2019: Lancet Report

93 World Malaria Report 2020

94 Priority Beneficiaries for COVID-19 Vaccine to be Identified by Electoral Rolls

95 Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge

96 NITI Aayog’s Third Progress Report on Poshan Abhiyan

97 UN Launches Food Coalitionto Prevent Food Crisis

98 Global Tuberculosis Report 2020

99 Global Hunger Report 2020

100 NHRC Advisory on Women’s Rights during Pandemic

101 Decade of Healthy Ageing Initiative Launched on International Day for Older Persons

102 Ambedkar Social Innovation and Incubation Mission

103 NCRB Report: ‘Crime in India’ 2019

104 UN’s Levels &Trends in Child Mortality Report 2020

105 Village Poverty Reduction Plan

106 UN Guidelines on Access to Social Justice for People with Disabilities

107 New Population Projections for India

108 ARIIA 2020 Rankings

109 Swachh Survekshan 2020

110 MANODARPAN Initiative for Mental Health and Counselling of Students

111 PRAGYATA Guidelines For Digital Education

112 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020

113 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020

114 National Institutional Ranking Framework Rankings 2020

115 COVID-19 Widened Educational Divide: UNESCO Report

116 NHRC Asks Centre to Provide Interim Aid to Stranded Migrants

117 Annual India TB Report 2020

118 COVID 19 Pushed 45 million Globally into Food Insecurity: FAOReport

119 Government Announces Several Initiatives to Boost Education Sector

120 Over 42,000 Undertrials Released to Unclog Prisons: NALSA Report

121 National Infant Mortality Rate at 32 as per Sample Registration System Data

122 New POCSO Rules Make the Law Against Sexual Offences More Stringent

123 Contact Tracing to Help Control Disease Outbreaks

124 Cabinet Gives Stimulus to Domestic Manufacturing of Medical Devices

125 ‘A Future for the World’s Children’ Report

126 Happiness Curriculum

127 School Health Ambassador Initiative Curriculum launched under Ayushman Bharat

128 NITI Aayog Report Flags Discrepancies in Maternity Benefit Scheme

129 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020

130 Crime in India Increased by 1.3% in 2018: NCRB

131 SDG Index 2019

132 PM Matru Vandana Yojana: Insufficient Coverage, Dismal Approach

133 77 million Diabetics Reported in India

134 FSSAI Seeks to Clampdown on Junk Food Served in Schools

135 National Health Profile, 2019

136 India Slips to 112th Rank on Gender Parity Index

137 Swachh Survekshan League (SSL) 2020

138 SDG Gender Index

139 Hike in National Defence Fund Scholarship Assistance

140 Amendment to Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964

141 Swachh Bharat Helped Reduce Ground Water Contamination: UNICEF

142 ICMR Recommends Ban on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

143 Prison Statistics India, 2016

144 Government reduces ESI contribution rate to 4 per cent

145 E-Governance Initiatives for ST Welfare Schemes

146 Meghalaya Launches Aroma Mission

147 NPPA Slashes prices of 9 Non-Scheduled Cancer Drugs

148 NOTTO’s Nod must for Organ Allocation to Foreign Nationals

149 Supreme Court disapproves Assam’s Foreigner’s Tribunals Plan

150 SC Upholds Constitutional Validity of Consequential Seniority

151 First Global Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

152 Research Begins on Zika Virus

153 Multi-drug Resistant Yeast Present in India since 2011

154 Ministry of AYUSH, CSIR sign MoU to Promote Traditional Medicine

155 Know Your Medicine

156 Annual Surveillance Reports on Antimicrobial Resistance

157 ICMR Launches ‘MERA India’

158 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

159 India on the Brink of a Dry Eye Disease Epidemic

160 Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019

161 FeFA Girls: Initiative to Tackle Malnutrition

162 National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS 2018-19)

163 Adoption of Girl Child

164 Gender Gap in Wages

165 National Survey on Extent and Pattern of Substance Use

166 Fertility Gap and Religion

167 Guidelines for Operation Greens Issued

168 Falling Sex Ratios at Birth

169 Poor Living Conditions Responsible for New Leprosy Cases

170 Progress towards Malaria Control

171 No Fund Allotted to Treat Rare Diseases

172 National Medical Devices Promotion Council to be Set up under DIPP

173 Boost to Educational Infrastructure in Tribal Areas

174 No Rise in Working Women Despite High Literacy Levels

175 Surrogacy Bill, 2016

176 Anaemia among Girls, Women Still Prevalent

177 National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2018

178 Lexicon for Rare Tribal Languages

179 Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2018

180 India Accounts for 27% of the Global TB Burden: WHO Report

181 State of the World’s Children Report

182 Government launches SUMAN Scheme

183 NCRB Data Decoded

184 India Child Well-being Index Released

185 Project SU.RE launched by Textile Ministry for Sustainable Fashion

186 Rotavirus Vaccine expanded to Entire County

187 POCSO (Amendment) Bill, 2019

188 “State of the Education Report for India: Children with Disabilities”

189 10-year Sanitation Plan to Focus on Waste Management

190 Two out of Three Child Deaths in India due to Malnutrition: Lancet

191 All India Survey on Higher Education Report (2018-19)

Social Justice

1 Committee to Examine Concerns of Queer Community

2 Childcare Leave: A Constitutional Right of Women

3 Kutia Kondh Community Attended Republic Day Parade

4 NHRC Advocates Implementation of Idate Commission Report

5 Enhancing Outreach of Self-Help Groups

6 ECI Issues Guidelines to Move towards Respectful Discourse for PwDs

7 Employment Opportunities for Transgenders in Armed Forces

8 Judgments by Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities

9 Enhancing Corporate Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities

10 Supreme Court Directions on Eradication of Manual Scavenging

11 Habitat Rights of PVTGs

12 The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023

13 Justice Gita Mittal Committee

14 Parliamentary Panel on Persons with Disabilities

15 Meira Paibis

16 UNDP and DAY-NULM for Women Entrepreneurs

17 Supreme Court’s Directions Regarding POSH Act

18 Centre Revises Nutritional Criteria for Children’s Food Safety Scheme

19 Silver Jubilee of Kudumbashree

20 Anubhuti Inclusive Park

21 Mahila Samman Savings Certificate

22 Panda Task Force

23 Ranganath Mishra Commission

24 International Day of Rural Women

25 Extension of Ayushman Bharat Scheme to Transgenders

26 Tribal TB Initiative

27 Mission Shakti – An Initiative towards Women Safety, Security and Empowerment

28 Mission Vatsalya

29 National Initiative for Promoting Upskilling of Nirman

30 One Nation One Ration Card

31 Eklavya Model Residential School

32 Residential Education For Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas

33 Community Forest Resource Rights

34 Hattis of Himachal Pradesh

35 National Conference on Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals

36 NITI Aayog and UNICEF India Sign SoI on SDGs Focusing on Children

37 POSH Act

38 Ujjwala Effect

39 New India Literacy Programme

40 SEED Scheme

41 SMILE Scheme

42 Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on MGNREGA

43 Guidelines for Universal Accessibility in India 2021

44 National Commission for Women

45 Supreme Court Judgment on Inherited Property

46 Vulnerable Witnesses: A Broader Definition

47 Separate Wards for Transgender Jail Inmates

48 Government forms Panel to Review EWS Quota

49 Registration of Births and Deaths Act (RBD) 1969

50 New Guidelines for Air Travel of Differently-abled Passengers

51 Acute Shortage of Funds under MGNREGA

52 Forest Rights Act

53 PM-DAKSH Scheme

54 Kapu Community to get Reservation

55 Extension to OBC Sub-Categorisation Commission
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