Important Areas for CSP 2015

Important Areas for CSP 2015

Note:

Dear Friends, 

The areas or topics which are covered in my test series may not be appearing in this list.  Best of luck....

                                                           B.Yadagiri, IRS., 

Indian Polity

14^th FC and its recommendations

7^th schedule and division of powers between Centre and states

99^th and 100 constitutional Amendments

Applicability of RTI Act to political parties

Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts (AFSPA)

Bezbaruah Committee

Bharat Ratna and others awards [type of medel, cash prize etc]

Centre-state relations

Child Labour (prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2011 and Child labour issue in India

Co-operative Federalism

CVC and CAG

Decriminalization of suicide attempt by repealing section 309 of Indian Penal code

Different Committees in Parliament [LS and RS], including Select committees

Education as eligibility criteria for political leaders-Rajasthan set educational qualification of LBs

E-voting rights for NRIs

Freedom of Press vs censorship

Governors and powers, especially immunity from criminal proceedings 

GST bill

High courts

Immunity from criminal proceedings against Governor/President/Judges of HC and SC

Interstate council

Interstate water disputes

J and K and article 370

Judiciary-executive co-ordination apparatus [124, 217 and other related articles]

Juvenile justice bill

Kiran Agarwal Committee

Land acquisition bill

Land Acquisition bill, 2015

Latest electoral reform initiatives of EC

Misuse of ordinance or re-promulgation of ordinance, Cabinet vs President 

Nagaligam or demand of greater Nagaland and naga related insurgency

National Registrar of Citizens

NITI Aayog

NJAC and desirable role of Executive in appointment of Judges

OCI and PIO differences and merger of them

Passive euthanasia [Aruna Shanbaug case]

Powers of Union vis-à-vis UTs [art 239]

PRAGATI [Pro-active Governance and Timely Implementation Platform]

Pravasa Bharatiya Divas

Prevention of Atrocities Amendment Bill 2014

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and latest Amendments to it/.

Prime Minister-all the bodies where he is the chairman ex-officio or otherwise

Provision of compulsory voting

Rank of Cabinet Minister or cadre of Cabinet Secretary

Report on electoral reforms by Law commission of India

Right of migrants to vote, SC sets up a committee

Right to childhood

Rights of persons with disabilities, 2014

Salient features of cabinet based governments and role of PM

Special Category States

Standing committee report on strengthening of subordinate courts

Status of Leader of Opposition in LS and prerequisites

The commercial Division and commercial Appellate Division of High Courts and commercial bill 2015

The Rights of transgender persons bill, 2014

Types of treasury bills

Voting rights of the migrants within India and committee appointed by SC on the issue

Whistle blowers bill

XAXA committee

Zonal councils [one of the duties is to help removing the affects of separation]

Geography of World and India

 Bing bang theory-new developments based on scientific studies

Census 2011 and Socio-Economic census 2015

Central Asian countries [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan]- Occupation of the people and their main resources and importance to India]

Claims over arctic, North Pole and South Pole

Coal bed methane reserves and exploration in India and World

Coal reserves in India

Communication satellites versus remote sensing satellites-orbits, mode of launch, and purpose

Composition of air

Continental drift theory

Cropping pattern and crop rotation in India

Cyclones in India-more in Eastern coast than western coast…why?

Dams and rivers

Earth quake proofing measures taken by Japan and their applicability elsewhere

Earth quakes- different waves

Earth quakes, Floods and cyclones-reasons, places of occurrence, frequency, seismic zones in India and world

Elnino- Indian Ocean Dipole [IOD] and impact on Indian monsoon

Empowered Action Group states [EAG states]-members and activities

Environmental Movements in India- Chipko Movement, NBA and Jungle Bachao Andolan

Floods and landslides-reasons 

Glaciers covered in Himalayan Studies by Centre for Himalayan studies and DST

Green Revolution versus Golden revolution

Green Revolution versus Second Green Revolution- differences and strategies

Himalayas- Cordilleras, Mountain peaks, Glaciers, valleys, rivers etc

Imp rivers, passes, mountains across India-China-Myanmar-Bangladesh and Pakistan borders

Indo-Bangla border agreement and swapping of enclaves- states involved

Jinjiram River and other rivers in Indo-Bangla border

Kanhar irrigation project by UP in Chattishgarh and Jarkhand border

Karnataka Western Ghats gets more rainfall when compared to Western Ghats of other western states and the states proper get more rainfall than Karnataka

Katchatheevu Island

Language families and their speaking members/distribution

Map pointing- all existing and proposed Free Trade Agreements such as Trans Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), ASEAN etc.

Map pointing- All the countries visited by Shri. Narendra Modi and adjoining island groups 

Map pointing- Australia and Oceania due to Cricket World cup 2014 and flood disasters in pacific islands

Map pointing Europe- Eurasian Economic Union, Euro zone, countries with Euro currency, Baltic states, Former Warsaw Pact countries etc. 

Map pointing Iran, Iraq, strategic ports etc

Map pointing- SAARC countries, BIMSTEC countries

Meaning of upstream and downstream companies in oil and gas exploration and distribution

Namami Gange-concept, purpose and activities [Ganges, Yamuna, Gomti, Damodara, Mahanada, Chambal, Beehar, Khan, Shipra, Betra, Ramganga and Mandakini rivers in Ganges river system are transferred to new Ministry and their map pointing]

Names of the ports in Eastern India-Bangladesh and Myanmar

Names of Typhoons and cyclones in different countries

National water ways and high ways, including high speed rail network under contemplation

Nitrogen fertilizers vs other manures

Non-renewable sources of energy-types and technology and their percentage in meeting energy demand

North-South Economic Corridor [NSEC] - Countries and ports, places involved and their map pointing  

Oil spill in Sundarbans-its impact on ecosystem

Optimum Population policy

OVL [ONGC Videsh Ltd. and its overseas investments]

Passes and hills in India

Plate tectonics and major tectonic plates of the world

Project Anantha on Quinoa cultivation and others

Protein content in rice, wheat and Quinoa and cultivation of quinoa in India to contain malnutrition

Quake prone areas in India

Rainfall pattern in India and Indian monsoon

Rare Earth metals and their distribution, production and exports and their utility

Reang tribals of Tripura

River basins of Ganga Yamuna and their tributaries 

Rivers flowing through LAC

Role of marriageable age in population control-2001-2011 decadal result

Sea erosion

Solid Rain experiment in Ananthapuramu district of AP

Sources of Nuclear fuels [Thorium, Plutonium and Uranium] in India [Mines, nature and type of fuels availability] and imports, Nuclear Suppliers Group etc

Tig Bigha and states involved in enclave exchange between India and Bangladesh and all the geographical forms such as rivers, valleys, mountains etc in these states. Moor island.

South East Asia map pointing

Spratley and other islands in South China Sea, especially disputed between Philippines and Vietnam and China

Sundarbans-Rivers, Sanctuaries, National parks, biosphere reserves and wild life present

TAPI and its route points

Current Events

APEC

APKM /Knowledge Mission of AP

Arctic Council

ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).

Bandung conference

BCIM economic corridor

Benefits of FTA

Blue water vision

Chinese OBOR initiative

Countries those are eligible for Visa on arrival in India

Different committees on Railways restructuring in India 

Enclave swapping with Bangladesh

Eurasian Economic Union [EEU]

Global Nutrition Report

Golden Quad

Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent

Gross Happiness Index

Gwadar Kashgar Economic Corridor

IBSA meeting

India-aviation sector rating

India-Israel and Pakistan

Indo-Bangladesh Land agreement/ Land boundary agreement with Bangladesh

Indo-France relations [VARUNA]

Indo-Japan agreement on rare earth metals

Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) which now has 13 members

Lima 2014 UNFCCC Summit and ensuing Paris Summit 2015

Longest bridge in Arunachal Pradesh

Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate visually impaired people

Mine ban treaty

Mission Mangrove in Sri Lanka

Monetary Policy Committee [MPC]

National Archives of India [NAI]

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and

North-South regional transport corridor [NSTC]  [Ports Nhava Seva-Mumbai, Bandar Abbas and Chabahar-Iran, Astrakhan-Russia, Baku-Azerbaijan]

Nuclear talks between Iran and P5 plus 1

PDMA [Public Debt Management Agency] in place of Public Debt Office of RBI]

Old Silk Road, new Silk Road, maritime Silk Road and road and belt project of China

Project Maithri- France co-development of naval missile

Project Mausam

RBI turns 80 years in 2015

Rhino Force

Roginyas, minority Muslims in Myanmar

Role of APEDA and MPEDA in Agricultural export promotion

Scrapping of GOMs and EGOMs

Seventh Pay Commission and its status 

Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO]

Swatch Barath Abhiyan 5 norms

TAPI Gas pipe line project

Tripura withdraws AFSPA, 1958 from the state

Universal Service Obligation Fund

Vannamei shrimp or white leg shrimp

Varun- India and France exercises

WHO-5 keys for safe food

World Investment Report, 2015

Yazdis in West Asia

Yemen areas held by Houthi rebels

February 21 as Matribasha diwas

Management of ports: whether under existing National Port trust vs Corporatization: case of Kamarajar’s port or Ennore port which is registered under companies Act  

Gorkha Rifles turns 200 years

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization [GAVI]

Food safety and Standards Authority of India [FSSAI] and its duties

Tier -1 and Tier-2 capital bonds

Perpetual bonds

Indian Economy

Important areas for CSP, 2015 from the subject, Indian Economy.

17 mega food parks

Adjusted net bank credit

AIIB, New DB or BRICS bank

APMC Act and liberalization of Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees [APMCs]

Atal pension yojana

Beti bachao, Beti padao yojana

Bharath bill payment system

Bill on benami transactions

Bill on black money

Competition Commission of India [CCI] and its role

Commodity Futures

CRAR to leverage ratio

Crowd Funding

Currency futures

Currency swap

Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

Defence Manufacturing facilities in India

Devolution Index for Panchayat Raj

Digital Gender Atlas for Girls education Ltd

Digital India programme

Direct Benefit Transfers [DBT] in PDS

Ease of doing business

e-banking

Essential Commodities Act

Fabian Socialism

FDI limits raised in certain sectors

FEMA in the wake of black money issue

GDP and revision of base years

Gender Inequality Index

Gini- co-officient inequality/HDI, GPI etc…

Green Bonds

Green Energy Cess

GST bill and taxes levied by Local Bodies

GST problems and benefits

Housing for all by 2022 Mission

Human Capital Index by WEF

Imp of e-commerce

Implementation Millennium Development Goals [MDGs]

India is 3^rd biggest producer of steel overtaking USA

Insider trading

Islamic banking

Letter of credit

Macro Vulnerability Index [MVI]

Minimum Alternate Tax [MAT]

Merger of SEBI and FMC and issues

Motor vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2015

MSP and procurement prices

MUDRA bank in India and its role

Muni bonds

National e-mandi system and its role

National Pension Systems [NPS] and recommendations of Bajpai committee

National Skill Mission

New labour laws and reforms in Rajasthan, MP and proposed bill at Union level

New retail inflation index

News print and its manufacturing and importing status in India

Non Banking Financial Corporations and latest norms of RBI on them

Organisations–WB, WTO, UN, IMF, WEF etc. and their reports

PAHAL

Proposed PDMA in place of Public Debt Office of RBI

PJ Naik committee

PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana

PM Suraksha Bima Yojana

PM Vidya Lakshmi Karyakram

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

Priority Sector lending

RBI and its policies-Gold monetization scheme; repo cut; inflation cut

RBI-liberalised remittance scheme

Real estate (Regulation and Development) bill

Recommendations of Shanta Kumar committee on FCI and procurement of grains and rationalization of food subsidy etc

Regressive subsidies

Regulation of MFI by RBI

Revamped goals in sustainable initiatives of the GOI

Revised norms for Disaster relief

Revision of the base year

Road transport and safety bill

Role of DIPP in making India an investment friendly

RUSA

Security Paper for printing currency notes-sources in India and supplying countries to India

SETU [Self Employment and Talent Utilisation]

Shadow banking

Small Factories Regulation bill

Small Financial and Payment banks/Niche banking in India

SMART cities

Socio-Economic caste census

Special Notified Zones

Special window for black money

Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]

Taxation in India at Union, State and Local Bodies

Taxation structure, progressive and regressive

The National Waterways bill, 2015

Transfer pricing: Meaning and purpose  

Underground caverns built to store crude oil 3 built and 4 being built

USTAAD scheme for traditional artisans

Van Bandhu Kalyan Yojana

Willful defaulter definition and measure taken by RBI and SEBI

Wither Capital Account Convertibility in India

WPI and CPI-Differences and commonalities 

WTO- Agreement on Agriculture; Trade Facilitation

Dehli-Mumbai Economic corridor [DMEC] and other Economic and Freight corridors

Note: The blocked ones are important than un-blocked ones. This list is not exhaustive as I have not covered certain topics which I covered in our test series.

Biology, Ecology and Science and Technology

3 tiger havens and new tiger reserve in Uttarakhand

3^rd tortoise festival at Hajong Lake, in Assam which is home for unique hill terrapins

Agenda 21

Air Quality Index: Pollutants covered and purpose

Alzheimer’s disease

Animals which use Ultrasonic sounds for detection of prey, objects etc. [Bats and Dolphins]

Aquatic mammals and their distribution in world and in Indian waters

Bats and its types

Beagle 2, a British built lander to land on Mars

Bhabatron

Bharat IV and V vehicular pollution norms

Biodiversity conferences in South Korea

Biosphere reserves, National Parks and Wild life sanctuaries in India

Biospheres, Sanctuaries and National parks, rivers and protected animals in sundarbans

Bird migration and its tracking

Black headed ibis to Mundigekere sanctuary

Blue H20 vision

Brain has an internal GPS-Nobel prize for Medicine

C.N.R. Rao conferred with Japan’s highest civilian award ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star
Union Government launches augmented reality application ‘Sakaar’
Australopithecus deyiremeda 
Molecular pump and artificial molecular Pump in living systems

Carbon tax

Census of tigers and lions

China and USA agreement for reduction of GHG emissions

Commercially allowed GM crops in India

Concept of De-carbonization 

Conservation status of Great Indian bustard

Coral bleaching

Cryogenic rocket engine and its usages 

De-carbonization

Definition of forest and forest cover in India has gone up by 5871 square KM

Designer baby concept and its approval in UK

Dhaka Declaration on conservation of Tiger

Difference 3G, 4G and 5G technologies

Digital India and Optical Fibre network in India: Tele density and mobile usage in India

Digital signature and its purpose

Draft National Health Policy 2015

Drinking water: Sources and technologies in water purification

Eastern Swamp Deer Conservation Project’

Ebola virus and role of fruit bats in spread of the disease

Eco-sensitive zones and latest consultations of the Union with state Govt.s

2015 to be celebrated as “Year of Water Conservation”
“Newton-Bhabha Fund programme” 
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification programme
E-rickshaws recognized as special category three-wheeled vehicles

EQ and volcanic eruptions

Euro-6

E-waste and India’s position

First Environmental Movement or Chipco Movement

Fish Migration, anadromous and catadromous fishes

Forest cover in India-latest figures

GAGAN [GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation] System in India

Ganga Action Plan

GCF commitments at G-20 summit

Gene therapy: concept and applications

Genetic disorders

Global Environment Facility [GEF]

GM crops or transgenic plants and animals

Green Climate Fund [GCF] and its purpose

Green Field and brown field technologies

GSLV technology

GSLV-Mark III and its applications

Guru Ghasidas National Park in Chhattisgarh to be declared as Tiger Reserve

Hemoglobin and its role; Diseases linked to it, including Hb C disease

Himalayan studies

Imp biosphere reserves-ABR [new bioreserve]-Kerala WL sanctuaries

Imp endemic species-vultures, saw-fish, sea cucumbers etc

India signed additional protocol

India’s first coral garden to be set up in Gujarat
National Green Tribunal and its powers

India-Germany Green Energy Pact

Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme [Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) and the Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Missile systems]

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System [IRNSS]

Indo-biometric applications

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

Inventions of various new species of frogs, geckos, butterflies and Fish etc. in India

IRNSS-ID

Kasturirangan panel

Kyasanur Forest Disease Virus [KFDV]

Kyoto Protocol, 1997

Leprosy

Magnetic levitation technology (Maglev) and trains running on that technology

Malaria: distribution in world and reasons; people with blood group A are more vulnerable

Mars-evidence of an ancient Martian ocean found

Micro-plastics and effect on ocean food web

Mines and Minerals [Development and Regulations] Act, 2014 [Ordinance] provisions

Missiles such as Agni 5 and akash

Mission Indradanush

Mitochondrial DNA

MOM and its Mission

Montreal Protocol applicable to India w.e.f. 1.4.2015 and phasing out of HCFCs

Moors Law [turned 50 years] and semi conductor industry

Mutthoot Group’s CSR initiative “Friends for Life project” in partnership with World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature-India for Elephant
Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaption to Climate change (SLACC) Project
India’s 1st solar fenced elephant sanctuary to come up near Bengaluru
3 day Flamingo Festival begins near Pulicat Lake in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh

National Action Plan on Climate Change [NAPCC] and 8 Missions under it

National Adaptation Fund

National Ayush Mission [NAM]

National Board for Wildlife [NBWL]

National Green Tribunal [NGT]

National Tiger Conservation Authority [NTCA], its composition and powers and duties

Nationwide mobile number portability (MNP)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Yeti crab

Net neutrality, concept and its advantages

Neutrino research: India-based Neutrino Observatory [INO] in Teni district [Bodi hills] of TN

Neutrinos- natural and artificial and their usages

Neutrinos project and its link to CERN and LHC… contribution of Bose statistical model

Nuclear cycle and its closure

Nuclear Fusion and Nuclear Fission techniques

Nuclear liability Act and latest status in the matter

Nuclear power projects Jaitapur

Ocean acidification

Operation Cobra-II

Optical microscopes and technology and applications [Nobel in Chemistry]

Pangolins, Monitor lizards, tokay gecko, turtles and tortoises; lorises; Sea cucumbers[ Know the group they belong to and all of them are endangered]

Pent quarks, a new class of particles discovered by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider [LHC]

Physical Nobel for LED inventors; what is LED and technology involved

Pinaka Mark II

PM 10 menace

Rain water harvesting structures

Reasons for destruction of corals-pollution, bleaching, invasion of weed species etc

REDD+ project in Khasihills of Meghalaya to increase forest cover

Relationship between Corals and Algae

Renewable sources of Energy and the technology involved in Solar, wind and biomass energy

Research on recreation of wooly mammoths and the technique CRISPAR

Re-usable launch vehicle and its advantages

Rio –declaration on Environment and Development and Rio+20 [2012]

Road transport and safety bill, 2014

Role of Ocean warming in weakening of monsoon in India

Rotavac-India 1^st indigenously made rotavirus vaccine

SAARC satellite

Satellite launching centers: why they are located in east coasts and near to Equator

Sea Cucumbers

Section 66A of Information Technology Act

Silicosis

Soil Health Card (SHC) scheme
Sundarbans-loss of forest and biodiversity.

Solar Impulse

Solar Power: Technology involved; Leaders of solar power in the world; state wise installed capacity in India; Global exporters and importers of the technology and components

Stem cell technology

Sugarcane biomass as a jet or aviation fuel by using special catalytic converters

Surrogacy and laws governing it in India

Swine flu

TB- India’s approach

Tejas, Indian made Light Combat Aircraft [LCA] and its purpose

Telangana crab spider (Thomisus telanganensis)
Dhanush Missile

The Green Bus project: India‘s first ethanol-run public bus launched in Nagpur
Researchers discover India’s first jellyfish lake in Gujarat
Bor Wildlife Sanctuary: India’s 47th Tiger Reserve
ICRISAT and its role in promotion of coarse cereals

The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities [CBDR] and the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]

Thermal gasification and other techniques of solid and wet waste managements

Top polluters in the world-China, USA, EU and India

TSR Subramanian committee on Environment and Forests and its recommendations

Uranium supply agreements with Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan etc.

Vitamins and related diseases with deficiencies

Warm blooded and cold blooded animals

Water borne diseases

Water intensive crops and water resistant crops

Wi-fi technology

Wild life protection Act, 1972

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