Current Affairs 09 September 2022 – IAS Current Affairs
Current Affairs 09 September 2022 focuses on Prelims-Mains perspective. Major events are :
National Cooperation Policy (NCP)
Source: The Hindu
GS II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation
What is discussed under National Cooperation Policy (NCP)?
- About NCDC
Why in News?
The government constituted a 47-member committee, headed by former union cabinet minister Suresh Prabhu to draft a new national cooperation policy document .
Key Facts
- This Policy is being formulated to realize the government’s vision of ‘Sahakar Se Samriddhi’.
- It will have a holistic approach from primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) upwards.
- It will fulfill the mandate given to the new Ministry of Cooperation, which includes strengthening cooperative movement in the country and deepening its reach up to the grassroots, and promoting cooperative-based economic development model.
- The existing National Policy on Cooperatives was formulated in 2002.
- Significance: It will promote a cooperative-based economic development model.
- The new policy will go a long way in strengthening the co-operative movement in the country.
Reviewing EWS Quota
Source: The Hindu
GS II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation
What is discussed under 103rd Amendment Act?
- About NCDC
Why in News?
A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court is examining whether the 10% quota for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) violates the basic structure of the Constitution.
Key Facts
- The Supreme Court’s bench will consider whether the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, which introduced the 10% EWS quota, breaches the fundamental principles of the Constitution when it hears petitions challenging it in government hiring and admissions.
- SC Examines :
- Whether the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, which allows the State to implement exceptional rules, including reservations, depending on economic factors, violates the Constitution’s fundamental principles.
- Whether allowing the State to impose specific rules for admittance to private universities without financial assistance violates the Constitution’s fundamental principles.
- Whether the exclusion of the SEBCs (Socially and Educationally Backward Classes), OBCs (Other Backward Classes), SCs (Scheduled Castes), and STs (Scheduled Tribes) from the ambit of EWS reservation may be argued to violate the fundamental structure of the Constitution.
103rd Amendment Act
- To provide for a 10% reservation in education and government jobs in India for a section of the General category candidates.
- Amendment introduced economic reservation by amending Articles 15 and 16 and inserted Article 15 (6) and Article 16 (6)
- Article 15 (6) : To admit students, up to 10% of seats in educational institutions may be set aside for EWS. Minority educational institutions will not be subject to such restrictions.
- Article 16 (6) : Government to reserve up to 10% of all government posts for the EWS.
National Centre for Disease Control
GS II: Policies and Developmental Studies
What is discussed under National Centre for Disease Control?
- About NCDC
Why in News?
Union Health Minister virtually laid the foundation stone for National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) branches in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tripura, and Uttar Pradesh.
Key Facts
- The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), formerly National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), had its origin as the Central Malaria Bureau, established at Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1909.
- NICD was transformed into the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with a larger mandate of controlling emerging and re-emerging diseases in 2009.
- It functions as the nodal agency in the country for disease surveillance facilitating prevention and control of communicable diseases.
- It is also a national level institute for training specialized manpower for public health, laboratory sciences and entomological services and is involved in various applied research activities.
- The Institute is under administrative control of the Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The Institute has its headquarters in Delhi. - It has eight branches located at Alwar (Rajasthan), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Kozikode (Kerela), Coonoor (Tamil Nadu), Jagdalpur (Chattisgarh), Patna (Bihar), Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh) and Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh).
Functions of NCDC
- NCDC’s primary duty is to conduct investigations into disease outbreaks around the nation.
- The institute is anticipated to offer the States and Union Territories (UTs) expertise in laboratory-based diagnostic services and quick health evaluation.
- It generates and disseminates information in a variety of fields, including surveillance, laboratories, epidemiology, etc.