SOWA RIGPA

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“Sowa-Rigpa” commonly known as Amchi system of medicine is one of the oldest, Living and well documented medical tradition of the world. It is commonly more popular as Tibetan Medical System. The literal meaning of this Tibetan System is Science of Healing. Gyud-Zi (four tantra) the fundamental text book of this medicine was first translated from India and enriched in Tibet with its own folklore and other medical tradition like Chinese and Persian etc. The impact of Sowa-Rigpa along with Buddhism and other Tibetan art and sciences were spread in neighboring Himalayan regions. In India this system has been practiced in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Darjeeling (West Bangal), Lahoul & Spiti (Himanchal Pradesh) and Ladakh region of Jammu& Kashmir etc.

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Additional Source: Ministry of Ayush

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AYUSH: A Ministry of Government of India

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Ministry of AYUSH:
The Ministry of AYUSH was formed on 9th November' 2014. Earlier it was known as the Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H) which was created in March 1995 and renamed as Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in November 2003, with a view to provide focused attention for the development of Education and Research in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy.

A:Ayurveda

Y:Yoga and Naturopathy

U:Unani

S:Siddha

H:Homoeopathy

Source: The Ministry of AYUSH

12th Five Year Core Data

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Check Here for the core figures of 12th Five Year Plan. Must for everyone.

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Security Concerns of India: Home Ministry Perception

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The hitched report is based on the press conference given the Home Minister P. Chidambaram. The report contains the issues on which the Home Ministry is working. This report is valid for 2011 prelims as well as the interview in 2011.

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Hitched Report: Chidambaram Press Conference Report by The Hindu

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Corruption in Administration: Solutions and Ways

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How can the increasing corruption in the government offices be curbed?

What role can the elected legislators and Executive perform?

Such questions are generally asked in the interview and expect some original ideas and ability to do coherent thinking. The Bihar government is going to come up with a legislation on the accountability of the bureaucracy. It is definitely going to become the issue of debate for a long time. All the issues of corruption which are in news will never be asked directly in written question papers. They can be asked in the interview. Therefore, the aspirants must develop a mature and balanced answer to such queries.

Make a note of the Report " Nitish Kumar's move to curb corruption, red-tapism".

Permanent Commission to Women in Armed Forces

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The women will get permanent commission in armed forces. Consult the report here.

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NREGA Issue: Editorial

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The article by Aruna Roy, member National Advisory Council, titled ‘What’s in NREGA for the middle class’ is written in elusive phraseology but quite suggestive for the aspirants for Civil Services. It is an elusive only to the extant that author has not given facts and figures which actually are required for the preparation of notes for Civil Services as that matters while writing answer. However, even then, it is an article which could be read in order to prepare to develop ones own views about the future development of the scheme MGNREGA. It can be useful for the interview as well writing answers in Mains even in 2011.

The MGNREGA spirit can be well understood and developed for examinations if the aspirants makes an additional study of New Deal of Roosevelt especially the motive of the schemes adopted between 1936 and 1940 in America. The candidates can use Wikipedia to acquire already developed material.

I am bit confused about the use of the term Middle Class as the target section of the society as the goal of NREGA. On the whole, a simple reading this topic is required.

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RTI Website and Logo

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According to the PTI news, the new website of RTI as well as a Logo of RTI has been released by The Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Shri Prithviraj Chavan.

The government act is aimed to make the RTI more popular. After the five years in force by now, the government has observed that RTI is not popular in rural area. The logo has been granted to help the people identify it with their right which empowers them with infromation.

The Centre of Good Governance (CGG)Hyderabad will look after the activities on the portal.

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For reference check:

PTI Press release

(Disclaimer: PTI releases gradually become unaccessable. No surity of continuity of link to be alive.)


Times of India Report

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Data Collection Norms of UDI

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In the hitched report, there are points on the data collection norms which are going to adopt by the UID.
The data will be collected on demographic and biometric figures.

In case of biometric figures, the face, the imprint of ten figures and snap/scan of the iris will be included. The agencies which will collect such data for UIDA, will be called Registrars.

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Hitched Report:
Govt gives nod to data collection norms for Unique ID project

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Mission Liberate India: NLMA

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The Human Resource Ministry has given a policy layout of Women literacy Mission in the 11 Plan under National Literary Mission. The new thrust is towards the Women literacy as there is disparity between male female literacy at national level which is now 65%.

The following report can be easily used to write a short answer on the heading Liberate India Mission.

Guess for Main 2009: Any bid on it!!!

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Link to be used:
Liberty Mission of National Literary Mission.

Declassification of Information and RTI

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The following report there is a brief stand of the government on the declassification of the records.

There is a similar Act in USA which is called Freedom of Information Act. It is being aggressively used by research scholars as well as journalist fraternity there. However, in India, with the advent of Right to Information Act, many loopholes and a peculiar outcry by the executive, are giving different direction to the spirit of the act.

The Freedom of Information Act in America had given rise to many conspiracy theories in the administrative activities of executive in America. In the recent times, it had lead to revealing of the Deep Throat under Watergate Scandal during Nixon Tenure.

In India also, the death of Subash Chandra Bose and that of Lal Bhadur Shastri, and similarly, the reorganisation of states, the 1945 Shimla Conference, 1946 Cabinet Mission plan, the Constitutional Assembly working from 1946 to 1950 and many more are such cases which are being the topics of questions of RTI seekers. Similarly defence deals, the Shimla Summit of 1972 are other issues which are being rejected on the issue of Security of India factor.

On the whole, Declassification of Information on regular basis, well defined policy of declassification and delivery of the information and the RTI Act are important debate issue.

The issue as such can appear in Main 2009 but it is definitely a point to be prepared for Interview in March/April 2010.

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Source to be used:
No clear declassification policy, records lie buried - India - NEWS - The Times of India

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Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of UIAI

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Nandan Nilekani takes over as the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. It is a cabinet rank post.
Kindly use the following link to develop the notes.

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Link to be used
The Hindu : Front Page : Unique ID numbers in 12-18 months

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ADDED REPORT: August 13, 2009:
In the following report, there is enough detail about the modalities and processes, and also the legal status of the UID. Similarly some of the major problems, facing the collection of demographic spread and the legality of UID are also mentioned in the report. The Report after gleaning can be made a good note. UID is definitely a topic to watch for the examination in October 2009 as well as 2010.

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USE the following Reports:
UID: Four Year Project for 60 crore people.

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Dated September 6, 2009:
The following report gives a peep into the working of the UIAI:
Nilekani Drives Indica when in Government

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