1. Polity, Rights issue, Education, welfare
  2. Organizations
  3. MCQ/2m
  4. Policies
  5. Laws
  6. Schemes
  7. Other Topics/overview

Polity, Rights issue, Education, welfare

  1. For the “core” polity topics + Constitution, your first weapon of choice should be Indian Polity by M.Laxmikanth.
  2. The basic GK on Polity is given on chapter 1, 2 and 3 of India Yearbook.
  3. The list of ministries/departments given on Pg.37 of India Yearbook = important from MCQ point of view.
  4. I’ve combined the list of “rights issue” and allied topics of poors, women, minorities, SC, ST, OBC, Children, student PH, laborers etc. in following one article. These topics need to be studied from India 2013 (aka India yearbook)

Organizations

Ch Pg no topic
10 232 Role of centre vs State para 1 and 2 in education
10 240 National Council for Teachers Education
10 244 Kendriya Vidhyalaya Sangathan + pg 754 planning
10 244 CBSE
10 244 NIOS
10 245 NCERT
10 245 Navodaya Vidhyalaya + pg 755 planning
10 254 UGC
10 255 IGNOU
10 255 EDUSAT (2m)
10 255 List of technical education org. (last paragraph)
10 256 NBT
17 483 Min. of Housing and Urban poverty removal str function + pg 758 planning
17 483 Constitutional position of State Governments and ULBs
17 490 National building organization (NBO)
17 491 HUDCO
20 624 supreme court
20 625 high courts
20 627 national judicial acadmy : functions
20 628 National legal service authority NALSA+ literacy program on pg 630
20 629 Lok Adalat
20 632 bar Council of India
20 632 Law commission of India
20 634 income tax tribunal
20 635 FEMA tribunal
24 788 Departments under Rural ministry
24 810 National resource centre NRC
28 991  artificial limb manufacturing (ALIMO)
28 985 Ambedkar foundation
28 988 National commission for backward class
28 991  National trust for autism
28 991  Chief Commissioner for persons with disabilities
28 991  rehabilitation Council of India
28 993  social defence bureau
28 1004 AMSY, TRIFED
28 1011 National+ state commission for minorities
28 1011  National commission for religious and linguistic minorities
28 1011 special Ofc for linguistic minorities
28 1012 Central  Wakf Council
28 1024  food and nutrition board
28 1031  National commission for women
28 1032  National commission for protection of child rights
28 1032 Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
28 1033  central social welfare board
28 1034 Central adoption resource authority (CARA)
19 621 national institute of miners’ health (NIMH) (in a way this is under “rights Issue of miners)
28 982 National commission for SC
28 982 National commission for Safai Karmachari
28 981 Ministry of social Justice and empowerment: functions

MCQ/2m

20 626 table:seat of High Courts
20 627 list of subordinate Courts + Constitutional powers of HC over them
20 663 96th Amendment Odisha
24 813 incremental devolution index + PEAIS

Policies

17 483 Policy on Urban Street Vendors
20 634 national commission to review working of Constitution (dig net for its recommendations)
24 818 13th SFC recommendations for ULBs
28 993  national policy for older persons+ National Council for older persons
28 1007-10 Sacchar recommendation: Initiatives taken
28 1014  national policy for empowerment of women
28 1019  national mission for empowerment of women
28 1018 gender budgeting (dig more from net)
28 1023 national policy for children+ charter
28 1029 Convention on the elimination of destination against women CEDAW
28 1030 UN Convention on the rights of child

Laws

10 240 Right to Education (RTE) + pg 749 planning
10 256 Copyright act and enforcement
20 650 election laws + reforms
20 651 delimitation
20 653 women’s Reservation (dig net for more)
20 660 extension of reservation beyond 10 years
20 661 Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu legislative Council act
20 643-650 personal law (marriage, adoption, wife maintanance, succession, anand marriage)
24 788 MNREGA (dig more on net, regarding issues)+ pg 774 planning
24 815 PESA
28 982  protection of Civil Rights act
28 983  prevention of atrocities act
28 1005 Forest rights of ST
28 1013  Act related to women and children (for MCQ)

Schemes

10 234 Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan (SSA) + pg 748 planning
10 235 Alternative Education (2nd Para)
10 235 Education Guarentee Scheme (1st para)
10 235 National prog. For education of girls @Elementary level
10 235 Kasturba Balika Vidhyalaya
10 235 Mid day Meal (+ add Page 417) + add pg 751 planning
10 238 Mahila Samakhya
10 239 DIET, Teacher’s education scheme
10 239 National Bal bhavan
10 241 Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyaan +pg 755 planning + 756 para 4
10 241 ICT @School
10 242 Inclusive Educaton for Disabled.
10 246 Sakshar Bharat + add 753 planning > Adult education
10 248 Jan Sikshan Sansthan
10 248 Constitutional position  + Special provisions for SC/ST education
10 249 Minority Education + pg 753 last para + 754 first two para
10 256 INDEST
10 251 Promotion of Hindi, English, Sanskrit etc.
10 250 North East education development
15 416 TDPS
15 417 AAY
15 419 Annapurna
15 420 emergency feeding program
15 420 Village grain bank
17 485 JNUURM + pg 758-59 planning
17 486 Swarna Jayanti Sahari Rojgari Yojanaa (SJSRY) + pg 759
17 487 Rajiv Awas Yojana + 759 planning
17 488 20 pt program (more given on pg 115+ table on pg 118)
20 628 legal aid to poor
20 631 alternate dispute redressal + its international centre  on pg 635
20 654 electronic voting machine EVM
20 655 Voters card EPIC
23 756-58 higher education initiatives planning
24 790 Pradhan Manstri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY): only first para under the topic
24 791-92 India Awas Yojana (IAY) + pg 777 planning
24 793-94 SGSY/NRLM + pg 776 planning
24 796-96 NSAP and the schemes under it + pg 778 planning
24 796 PURA
24 797 DRDA
24 797 CAPART
24 797 National land record modernization program NLRMP + pg 778 planning
24 798-802 Integrated watershed  Management IWMP (tables are useless)
24 803-10 National rural drinking water program NRDWP
24 811 TSC+ Nirmal Gram Puraskar
24 813 e-Panchayat
24 817 Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashktikaran
24 819-26 JNNURM: + CVTC, PEARL (+ for interview, prepare JNNURM projects in your city)
24 826 City volunteer technical corps
24 830-31 Urban infra in satellite towns/ million plus cities
24 829 lumpsum provision for Urban Development in North East
28 983-85 Educational Development schemes for SC students, Free coaching
28 985 Babu Jagjivan Ram Chhatrawas Yojana
28 986-87 economic Development schemes for SC
28 988 Edu.schemes for BC (scholarship, hostel)
28 989  reservation in services
28 995-998 ST declaration procedure
28 998-1002  tribal sub plan, scholarships
28 1006  Prime Minister’s 15 point programme for welfare of minorities. Already discussed click me
28 1014 SABLA (+pg 418 on ch 15)
28 1015 Indira Gandhi matritva sahyog
28 1015 STEP
28 1016 Priyadarshini
28 1016 Swadhar
28 1018 Ujjawala
28 1017 shortstay homes +  working women’s hostel
28 1021  family counselling centres
28 1023 Integrated Child development scheme ICDS
28 1026  integrated Child protection scheme ICPS
28 1027  Childline service
28 1028 Dhanlakshmi
28 1025 Rajiv Gandhi creches
25 913-15 biotech programs for SC, ST, women
13 376 SGSY, SJSRY, SHG

Other Topics/overview

20 623 Judiciary introduction
24 787 Rural Development Overview+ Panchayati Raj institutions on pg 773
24 817 urban Development overview
24 831-32 Urban Transport initiatives
28 994  scheduled areas and tribal areas
28 994 fifth sch.areas
28 995  sixth schedule tribal areas (table important for MCQs)
25 838 S&T programs for socio-economic Development
21 667 control labour (definition and legal protection)
21 667 child labour
21 669 women labour
21 670 bonded labour
21 671 unorganized sector (definition)
23 780 socially disadvantaged + other vulnegable groups :overview (upto pg 782)
28 981 SC welfare: overview
28 987 BC welfare overview
28 990 PH welfare overview
28 993  drug addicts, alcoholics
28 1006  minorities welfare overview (first para)
28 1013  women and child development: overview
28 1034-38 Pensioners’ welfare+ new Developments