General Studies Paper -2 Context: India was ranked right at the bottom of 180 countries in the Environment Performance Index (EPI) in 2022. The ranking raises questions about the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission. About The EPI ranks countries on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality. It measures 40 performance indicators across 11 issue categories, such as air quality, and drinking water and sanitation. The government responded to the rank saying the methodology is faulty and does not quantify the Indian scenario objectively. The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) aims to enable better living standards, so the poor....Read More

General Studies Paper -3 Context: According to the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), India has added 21% higher renewable energy capacity in 2023-24 than previous year. About the Renewable Energy Capacity in India India, a country with a rapidly growing economy and increasing energy demands, has made significant strides in its renewable energy sector. It added 18.48 GW of renewable energy capacity in the fiscal year 2023-24, which is over 21% higher than the 15.27 GW added a year ago. It was primarily driven by solar installations (12.78 GW) and wind energy (2.27 GW). The total installed renewable....Read More

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 34 residential hostels across various states and central institutes. Among these, 28 hostels cater to SC students, providing accommodation for 3150 girls and 750 boys and 6 hostels are dedicated to OBC students, offering facilities for 396 girls. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is implementing schemes for Construction/Repair of Educational Hostels for SC students (Under PM-AJAY) and Construction of Educational Hostels for OBC boys and girls.  ABOUT PRADHAN MANTRI ANUSUCHIT JAATI ABHUYDAY YOJANA (PM-AJAY) It is a comprehensive scheme amalgamating three Centrally Sponsored Schemes, including....Read More

The Tomtom Traffic Index 2023 was released by company called TomTom, which specialises in location technology. The report looked at 387 cities in 55 countries, measuring how traffic affected travel time, fuel costs, and carbon emissions using data from over 600 million car navigation systems. It showed that London had the slowest traffic in 2023. Two cities in India, Bengaluru and Pune, were among the ten worst for traffic in 2023, according to the TomTom report. Bengaluru was in 6th place, taking an average of 28 minutes and 10 seconds for a 10-kilometre journey, and Pune was in 7th place,....Read More

General Studies Paper 2 Context The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023, which promises 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha, and in the Legislative Assemblies of States and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, sheds the spotlight on another crucial aspect of representative democracy — the delimitation of electoral constituencies. History Since the 1970s, there has been no change in the number of Lok Sabha seats. The Constitution (Forty-Second Amendment) Act, 1976 froze the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies as per the Census of 1971, up to the Census which was to be conducted in 2001.....Read More