IMPORTANT TOPICS: CIVIL SERVICES INTERVIEW 2011

Prepared by vision IAS Academy

  POLITICAL

How to handle agitations? 

• Telengana MP’s fast to drop charges against students

• Gujjar Stir

• Shiv sena protest against removal of Dadoji Konddeo’s statue: 50

buses destroyed

• Loss of public property

• Disturbance to normal life

Corruption and Scams  • 2G Scam

• Commonwealth Games scam

• Adarsh Housing

• Allegation on CVC P. J. Thomas

• Allegation on B. S Yedurappa

• Illegal Mining in Karnataka

• S-Band spectrum issue

• Black Money

• Radia tapes controversy

• Demand for JPC

• Karnataka Lokayukta issue

Internal Security

 • Kashmir Issue

• Naga issue

• Separatist movement in North Eastern states

• Naxalism

• New initiatives for internal security and Coastal Security

Centre State relations 

• Karnataka: Role of governor, anti defection and centre state

relations

Inter state water dispute 

• Krishna tribunal award

• Babli project

Babri verdict 

• What to prevail: Faith or Reason

• Appreciation and Criticism

Civil liability for nuclear damage bill 2010

• The Act

• CSC

Voting Behavior

 • Landslide win of Nithish Kumar

• Return of UPA in power

AFSPA 

• Should it be repealed.

Caste census 

• Why and why not?

• Merging caste  enumeration and head count: pros and cons

Declining Parliamentary behavior

• Disruptions in parliament

Politics of Regionalism

 • Telangana issue

• Srikrishna panel report

Freedom of expression 

• Book ban and freedom of expression

• Freedom of expression and contempt of court

Women Reservation in India

ADMINISTRATIVE

Aadhar: Unique Identification Scheme 

Census 2011

Electoral Reforms

Police reform

 • Narco test & supreme court;

Criticism of planning commission

Judicial reform

 • Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 

• Centres for Advanced Legal Studies and Research Bill, 2010

• The Prime Minister has recently called for a major overhaul of the

legal education system in the country to bring it in tune with the needs of the current socio-economic scenario.

• Impeachment  proceedings against justice Dinakarna and Sukumar Sen

• Uncle Judge syndrome

  Educational reform 

• Higher education and Research bill

• Educational tribunals bill

• Foreign universities bill

• Privatisation of higher education ©VISION IAS                                                   

• FDI in Higher Education

Health Sector reform 

• Medical ethics and clinical trial;

• Bachelor of Rural Health Care course

• Medical Courses in IIT

Industrial disasters

 • Bhopal Gas Tragedy

• Chitra oil spill

Accidents 

• How to reduce accident in IAF;

• Railway Safety

Civil Services Reform

 • ARC

• Civil Services Survey

Social

Death penalty 

• Philosophical Debate

• Mercy plea

Honor killing

 • about 1000 killed every year

Gender equality

 • Gender equality and armed forces

Death of RTI activists;  

Provisions and programs for

persons with disabilities;

Surrogacy in India 

• law and morality superstitions

 Socio-Economic

Naxalism 

• IAP-LWE(Integrated action plan for left wing extremism affected areas)

Food security 

• Food security: Universal or Targeted

• New proposed bill

• Difference between NAC and PM/PC

• Demand for PDS Reform

PDS reform

 • Behind the success story of universal PDS in TN

• Inflation & public investment in agriculture ,universal PDS, Future trading

• Maharashtra using GPS to track kerosene tankers of PDS

• PDS and biometric, GPS, SMS

• PDS reforms conferenceInflation

 • New WPI

• New CPI

• ESMA

Paid news 

• SEBI's direction to PCI(PCI's guidelines) regarding private treaties between media houses and listed or to be listed non media

companies ;

• Corruption in media

• Radia tapes controversy

Environment and Development 

• Jaitpur power plant& peoples protest

• Plan to give tribal a share of mining profits

• potential future value of land must be considered for compensation

• Media hype and reality of new India 

• Implementation of FRA

• Illegal mining

• Commission to probe illegal mining of coal, iron and manganese;

• New Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2010

• action plan to curb illegal mining;

• Climate change and Developing countries.

• POSCO issue

• National Green Tribunal

• GM crops

Decontrol of petrol prices 

• Revenue neutral regime for petroleum tax; Population 

• Population in the era of globalization: asset or liability

Economic

Need for Super Regulator 

• Regulatory bodies : what , why, balance b/w autonomy and accountability

• ULIPs , IRDA and SEBI

• issue of overlapping jurisdiction of regulators

• FSDC

TAX REFORMS:GST&DTC

• benefits and hurdles

FDI in retail 

• Discussion paper

Financial inclusion

  • launch of ‘Swabhimaan', a special campaign for financial inclusion to bring banking to the masses

• New Banking licenses 

• Bank denying Muslim scholarship accounts;

• One rupee bank account;

• Mobile Banking

• Financial inclusion and India post International Issues

Wikileaks :pros and cons

Currency war

Migration, Globalisation etc

MDG

Pro democracy protests in Mediterranean and Arab countries.

• Egypt, Libya, Yemen etc.

Environment issues

 • Global warming/Cancun Summit

• Biodiversity/ Nagoya summit

Middle East peace process  Bilateral

India's Global Leadership

• P5 heads visited India in 2010

• India's Cancun efforts appreciated

• Global reports predict bright Vibrant Economy 

• India in the Security Council

2010 - Scripting a landmark year in Indian diplomacy

Recent Bilateral Updates.

• USA, Russia, France, China, UK, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia etc.