Category: Social Justice

Context: The Supreme Court asked the Government to justify reservations in promotions and asked what exercise it had undertaken to justify its decisions. The Government has said that…

Context: The Health Benefit Package (HBP) Master under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) scheme has been revised. Relevance: GS-II: Social Justice and Governance…

Context: The Supreme Court said the tragedy of medical education in the country was that it had become a business – while examining the National Eligibility-cum- Entrance Test-…

Context: The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), launched in September 2021 will not only simplify processes of hospitals but also increase ease of living according to the Prime…

Context: The first and historic United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021 which was held in September 2021 concluded after an intense ‘bottom-up’ process conceived in 2019 to…

Context: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in the past, has denied Right to Information requests related to the PM-CARES Fund on the grounds that providing it would “disproportionately…

Context: The Tamil Nadu Assembly has passed a Bill to dispense with the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) and allow admission to medical courses based on Class…

Context: In 1854, when a deadly outbreak of cholera affected London, John Snow (1813-1858), a British doctor and epidemiologist, used the health statistics and death registration data to…

Context: The GST Council met in Lucknow on 17th September 2021, the first physical meeting in nearly two years, to take key decisions. Relevance: GS-II: Social Justice (Government…