Daily Mains Practice Questions 09-02-2023

KEY POINTS

·        Union Law Ministry had processed the recommendation concerning a set of candidates with extraordinary speed not displayed in other cases.

·        It was clear that the government wanted to act ahead of any possible interim order from the Court, which had agreed to hear petitions from a group of lawyers against her appointment.

·        The government repeatedly has its way indicates that the conflict over the appointment process has reached a stage in which the collegium is constantly under pressure.

·        The Court on the judicial side could not possibly have gone into a choice made by its top three judges. Indeed, it made no sense to refer the collegium’s decision to a Bench for review.

·        It is apparent that the State government too had not flagged her extreme views. While political affiliation should not disqualify anyone from judicial office, open bigotry ought to.

·        It is also a signal failure of the collegium process that a controversial proposal could get past its scrutiny.

·        What is needed is more than reform in the appointment system: an objective evaluation of the candidates’ credentials with an independent mechanism that ensures public scrutiny of their suitability.

·        What is in place at present is an opaque, closed-door consensus-building that could leave room for unhealthy compromises.

KEY POINTS

·        In India, Amazon shut down Amazon Food and Amazon Academy. It retrenched workers in the Indian facility in a gradual manner.

·        The Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner in Bengaluru served a notice seeking information from the company.

·        Compared to conventional industries such as manufacturing, public utilities, and conventional financial sectors such as traditional banking and insurance, forming unions in modern and emerging sectors is much more difficult.

·        On the demand side, the IT and IT-enabled Services employees felt no need for trade unions as unions are typically associated with manual labour, while IT employees are associated with “elitism” and “professionalism”.

·        Despite this, announcements of massive lay-offs, such as by Tata Consultancy Services in 2015, have led to the birth of labour unions in this sector in India.

·        Start-ups don’t have the ideal conditions for unionisation. Employees would rather accept low-paying jobs than unionise.

·        They are struggling to retain historical labour rights, secure social security for the millions of informal workers and fight the adversities created during and after COVID-19.

·        Industrial accidents, too, are frequent. Many garment and electronics industries, for instance, which have wide supply chains, violate labour rights.

·        Unions have sometimes succeeded in securing marginal rights. But there is only so much that they can do.

KEY POINTS

·        The successive Budgets of the NDA government have emphasised on increased investments to upgrade infrastructure.

·        The Rail Budget outlay will no doubt improve rail connectivity, speed, and passenger traffic.

·        Among the infrastructure segments, investment in transport corridors (land, water, rail, air) has been the focal theme of the government for successive years.

·        This is in tune with the government’s objective to build an efficient logistics ecosystem to make India a hub of the global value chain.

·        In developed countries, this probably does not happen as sufficient attention is paid to projecting traffic volume at the planning stage itself.

·        They make use of Big Data to understand existing volume of traffic on a corridor.

·        By contrast, India stands apart. The country generates Big Data (24x7) on freight transport movement — that is, GST/E-way bill — which are not released by the government for planning purpose.

·        These data can provide information and insights on: (a) the busiest trade corridors; (b) the volume of freight traffic from point A to point B; and (c) where more investment on transport corridors are required.

·        Also, the data must be made available to independent researchers as this will facilitate in more accurate estimation of logistics cost which policymakers are planning to measure on a regular basis.

Q. 1

Please review 

Sir /mam let me know is it Crux to the question.and what are the points to add if it so needed.

Kindly review

KINDLY REVIEW