Page-7 of GS-II: Social Justice
Despite that "living will" seems to be a corollary to passive euthanasia, why there is opposition to living will? Critically examine.
Passive euthanasia, is the act of withdrawing life support to a terminally-ill patient. The Supreme Court of India legalised passive euthanasia by means of the withdrawal of life support to patients in a permanent vegetative state in 2011 as as part of the verdict ..
Enumerate the features of Mission Indradhanush and challenges in progressing towards full immunization coverage. Suggest remedial measures to address these challenges.
Mission Indradhanush was launched by the Ministry of health in 2015 to attain full immunization of children and pregnant and lactating women. Features of Mission Indradhanush: Greater role of ASHA and midwives in delivering vaccines. To search out for mothers ..
Increasing the scope of skilling is imperative for changing economic and demographic structure in India. Assess the success of skill India mission till now.
Skilling is instrumental in converting the mere population of a country into a human resource. Importance of the skilling: Changing economic structure – World is moving towards more sophisticated technologies, the skilling gap is increasing. Provide employment to the unemployed ..
Examine how the PMAY-G has been considerably successful and marked improvement over previous rural housing schemes in India.
The PMAY-G or Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Grameen is aimed to provide pucca-houses to every household in rural areas. So far, it has been very successful in achieving its aim and objectives. The scheme differs from its previous schemes ..
Hunger and Poverty are the biggest challenges for good governance in India still today. Evaluate how far successive government have progressed in dealing with these humongous problems. Suggest measures for improvement.
Hunger and poverty have been a great concern for India over the decades. About 5.5% of the total population of India are living in extreme poverty. As the fastest growing economy, a declining trend has been noticed in the country ..
While taking example of Delhi-NCR region, critically elucidate the effects of swift urban development over urban climate and public health.
World is witnessing rapid increase in urbanization due to growth of secondary and tertiary activities based economy and are land of opportunities for millions with hope to have better standard of living. Urbanisation has also been accompanied by certain undesirable ..
What are the two major legal initiatives by the state since independence addressing discrimination against Scheduled tribes (STs).
MN Srinivas’ study on Coorgs of Mysore made it pertinent that the hierarchically superior group would oppose the introduction of an alien group within its strata and that the alien group would have to adopt the practices of the superior ..
It’s time to shift focus on other facets of Swachh Bharat Mission, other than construction of toilets as a part of solution for clean India. Discuss.
Swachh Bharat Mission was launched in 2014 with an over arcing goal of achieving total sanitation and hygiene in the country. Components: Construction of toilets. Achieving ODF status for India. Increasing adoption of toilets drastically. Promoting waste management and cleanliness. ..