Polity

Why the Supreme Court. Adjudged that the CJI Comes Under the Ambit of RTI Act?

The five-judge bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice NV Ramana, Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Deepak Gupta, and Justice Sanjiv Khanna pronounced the verdict with a 3:2 majority. The verdict comes in a plea filed by the Supreme Court Secretary-General challenging the Delhi High Court’s 2010 order holding that the CJI’s office is a “public […]

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Polity, UPSC

Why did the Salary Cut and Suspension of MPLADS take place in India?

In the year 1993, the Government of India announced the guidelines of funds allotted for the MPLAD Scheme, under the control of “The rural development ministry”. In the year 1994, in the month of October, this decision was transferred to the Ministry of Programme Implementation and Statistics. There are various objectives of the MPLAD Scheme,

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Polity, UPSC

Why Is the Central Government Celebrating Good Governance Week Every Year?

‘The Union Government’ launched a nationwide good governance week, celebrated every year from 20th to 25th December, to dispose and redress the public grievances, promoting public delivery at the grassroots level. The union government has selected 25th December to celebrate “good governance day” in order to celebrate the birth anniversary of the former prime minister

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Polity, UPSC

Why Did Maharashtra Place Under President’s Rule in 2019 November

The emergency provisions are mentioned in Part 15 of our Constitution ranging from Article 352 to 360. These provisions have been added that the government gets a tool to manage any abnormal security threatening situations. State Emergency or President’s rule forms one such kind of emergency provision wherein the central government, through the President of

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Why Central Government Rejected UP Government’s Move To Shift 17 OBCs To SC List

The Uttar Pradesh government’s proposal to put 17 OBC communities on the Scheduled Castes list has sparked a debate. A similar directive was issued by Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) government in 2005. The Allahabad High Court, on the other hand, ordered the order stayed. The BJP administration in Uttar Pradesh ordered district magistrates

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