Lecture 51 : L7/P3: Mining Infrastructure: Deveopment & regulation-

MMDR 2015, Coal auction

1- Overview

self study

2- Mining bill and coal bill

a- Mines bill - MMRD

eg of good cooperative federalism

License
-- Single prospecting & mining license

2 organisations
2- Coal Mining
a-

b-

c- Types of coal mines acc. to bill

d- Major coal blocks

e- Pros & cons of coal auction

1-

a-Union

b-States

c- Companies

d-Consumer
 e- Criticism of coal bill on environment

Lecture 52 : L7/P4: Rural infrastructure: roads & electrification- Din Dayal Gramin
Vidhyutikaran
1- Self study content

2- % of Indian Population

a-Rural Statistics
3- Govt. policy for rural infrastructure

a- Din Dayal Gram jyoti yojana

eligible areas for development

b- Pradhan Mantri gram sadak yojana (PMGSY)

c- Drinking Water
Lecture 53 : L7/P5: Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Indira Awas, GRAM,
BRGF, RGPSA
1- Swatch Bharat (Rural + Urban) : Its not completely central govt. funded scheme

a- Sanitation Evolution

b- Ministries involved

For Housing

For tourism

c- Pillars of Swatch Bharat mission

a-Rural Areas organization

1- 2- 3-

4-

b-Urban Areas - organization

1-

c- funding
1- 2-

d- Toilets
1-Rural Areas Toilets
 2- Urban Areas Toilets
Summart of swachh bharat mission

2- Housing

a- Indira Awas Yojana -- Rural Infrastructure

Its now deprecated & new gramin mission was started by Modi Govt.

b- National Gramin Awas Mission

c- Diff. b/w Gram Yojana & IAY

SECC: Socio-economy caste centre
3-Macro

a- BRGF

b- RGPSA
Lecture 54: L7/P6: RURBAN Mission & Sansad Adarsh Gram for overall Rural
development in India
1- Macro

c- Sansad Adarsh Gram 2014

Why this scheme?

What value system need to be changed for developement?

-- Questions
d- Rurban Mission

Understanding Gujarat rurban

-- Question
 Content taken from L-71
How to select village for Rurban mission?

These numbers are the population counts

Rurban 14 components

--Questions asked in UPSC related to Rurban

1-

2- created question based on upsc trend

2- Historical Figures

Take care of abbreviations like pt. , dr. etc

a- Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya

b- Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukharjee

c- Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya

Lecture 55 : L7/P7: Urban: Housing & legal reforms to provide houses to all on
Amrut Mahotsav
1- Lecture Overview

2- Housing
a- Town Types

b-Census definition depends on population size

c- Housing Problems

d- solution to deal with housing problems

1-
e- Housing reforms
1- Legal reform

2- Why reform?

3- Draft Tenancy Act

 4- Real estate development bill

3- Amrut -- Urban Infrastructure

a- JNNRUM
Lecture 56 : L7/P8: Smart Cities-Meaning, Benchmarks, Funding, Criticism;
Prasad, Hriday Tourism
1- Smart Cities -- What & why
a-

b- Why ?

c- Urbanization economic problems

d- Urbanization environment problems

 e- What is smart city?

end goal of smart cities

1- Quality of life improved
2- employment
3- New opportunity for investments
by maintaining environmental & social sustainability

f- Eg of smart cities

2- Smart cities -- benchmark, pillars

a- overview

b- Electricity
c- Pillar water, Sanitation
ICT, smart sewage

d- Smart city - transport

e-housing

f- Educational infrastructure
g- Medical infrastructure

h- Communication

i-Economic infrastructure

j- Documents needed for Smart city

 j-Finance

k----REITS

SEBI guidelines for REITs

Benefits of REITs, INVITs

l- Ghost smart citites

 m- Criticism
Smart city summary

3- Tourism
a- Diff. b/w prasad and Hriday
 b-Hriday

c- Prasad

d- outcomes

-- Criticism of smart city & its counter points

1-

2- Inclusiveness
3- Political biasness
Lecture 57 : L7/P9: IT infrastructure: Digital India Mission, E-Kranti, Digital Divide
-India vs. Bharat

1- IT Infrastructure -- overview

a- Digital India Mission

1- Broadband Highway

2- Public Internet Access

USOF: Universal service obligation fund
 3- E-governance - Improvements

4- E-kranti
CERT: computer emergency response team

5- Info to ALL

6- Zero import by 2020

a- Micro - ATM
 7- IT Job -- Training

8- Early Harvest programs

NKN:National Knowledge Network

--Outcome of digital India mission

--- Questions

1- 2-
 9- Criticism for digital india mission

10 - White - Fi

imp. for interview mainly

--- Self study matters

Lecture 58: L7/P10: Communication Infrastructure: Spectrum Auction 2015 & its
implications
1- communication Infrastructure - spectrum

a- Why spectrum allocation/auction ?

b-How to run a transport service ?

c - What happened in 2g scam ?

d- Eg of selling to 3rd party

e- 2g scam : Fallout?

f-Polices to improve telecom

g- Implication of 2015 spectrum auction

 h- TRAI

i - TRAI Functions

--Self study - from Indian year book 2024

Lecture 59 : L8/P1: Environment- Biodiversity Hotspots, Go No-Go areas, law &
Polity angles
1- overview

Environment- clash of idea => whether environment protection > economic developement

2- Environmental Areas

a- Types of Areas

1-

Biodiversity hotspot

4 hotspots of India
 UNESCO World Heritage sites

coastal & marine biodiversity areas- ICMBA

2- Protected Areas

a-National Parks

Map of national park in geo.

 b- Wildlife sanctuaries

c- Conservation reserve & community reserve

3- Go & No Go Areas for mining?

acc. to Green Law panel

Separation done here for highlighting list of protected areas

as no go areas. The conservation sites mentioned here are
also protected areas only.

canopy
---- Self study cornor

b- Legal & Constitutional Angles

1- Laws before independence

2- Constitution laws on environment

3- 7th schedule List

--- Question

4- Laws & policies after independence

Lecture 60 : L8/P2: Green law panel- purpose, reforms in Wildlife protection Act,
Schedule 1-6, WII
1- Environment - Associated problem
a- People problem

b- Uneven separation of Power

2- Solution -- Green Panel Law

a- Committee

--Question
b- Nag Panchami

c- Eco-sensitive zone

d- Trap Instruments

e- Poly bags uses in Protected Areas

f- Personnel

h- Conclusion
 Lecture 61 : L8/P3: Environment Clearance- ELMA, NEMA, SEMA, Public
hearing, Linear infra.

1- Environment clearance

a-problem in present structure

b- Solution to the problem

c-

d- NEMA
d.1- NEMA- Appeal structure

d.2- Additional duties

d.3-Approach for Fast tracking

To solve infrastructure bottleneck issue

e- Linear Projects fast Track

 f- Some miscellaneous reforms

2- Compensatory Afforestation

--- conclusion
3- Pollution
a-Municipal waste

b- vehicle pollution

c-Noise Pollution

d- Higher Education
 e- New All India Service

f- GM CROPS

4- Criticism - TSR Green Law Panel

--Questions
solution
Lecture 62 : L8/P4: IPCC-5th Assessment Report Summary, UNFCCC, Rio Earth
Summit 1992

1- Lecture - overview

2- Earth Summit

3-Climate change Org.

 a- IPCC

b- Ecological overshot

No fixed date to celebrate earth shoot day, it keeps on

changing.

--Question
 c-IPCC fifth assessment report

1-

2-

2019 data

3- 4-

5-
Lecture 63 : L8/P5: Kyoto Protocol to Lima Summit to Paris Post-2020 Climate
Change framework
1- Kyoto Protocol --Lecture overview - Big picture

a-

b-

c-

2- Kyoto - GHG
a-N2o

b- SF6
 c- PFCs

d- HFCs

e- Global warming potential of gases

--Self study materials

 3- Montreal Protocol WEF'29

--Questions

4- Roadmap for climate change (UNFCCC)

b- Lima Summit

1-

2-
 3-

5- Criticism of Lima Summit

5- India's Stand on climate change?

a-CBDR

1-
 2-

3- India's 3 long term interests behind CBDR

4-

b- Funding

1-Difference b/w Mitigation & adaptatioj

 2- India's Stand

c- Tech Transfer
1-

-- Questions
Lecture 64 : L8/P6: Climate Finance mechanisms: National & International level,
carbon credit,PAT
1- International Climate Finance

a- Kyoto: clean development mechanism (CDM) --carbon market

1-

2-Carbon market & UNFCCC

b- GEF - Global Environment facility
operated by world bank

World bank provide money to curb all these

1-

2-

c- Green climate fund - GCF

2- National Finance, funding against climate change

a- Overview

b- Taxation for clean developement

-- Check from Budget survey 2024

coal cess

Fossils fuels-- carbon tax

Higher taxes on fuel => Lower CO2 emission

BootleNeck : Very high fuel price eg:coal => electricity price increased => unaffordable to many.

c- NAPCC : National Action Plan on Climate Change

1-

2- NAPCC Missions
3-

a- PAT

Eg:

b- Nehru Solar Mission

Bundling Plan:
 c- Renewable energy
Update from economic survey

d- Adaptation Fund

e- CAMPA- Afforestation

-- self study
Lecture 65 : L2/P10: Social Security, ESCI, EPFO, NPS and Atal Pension scheme
1- Lecture Overview --self study

2- Social security, NPS etc

a- overview

b- Social security & its importance

1-

2-

c- ESIC
d- EPFO

1-

2- 3 parties board

3- EPFO : 3 Schemes

4- Why EPFO remains in news ?

Annual return announced each year

 e- NPS - National Pension scheme & PFRDA

1-

2- EEE

f- Atal Pension Yojana

1-

2-

3-
Lecture 66 : L2/P11: Insurance- History and nationalization in India

1- Lecture overview

2- What is insurance ?

3- How it is diff. than other MF/banks ?

4- Why insurance imp. for economy ?

5- Principles of insurance

can be used in ethics

6- Types of Life insurance

7- Issues with life insurance

8- New Amendments regarding life insurance

9- Non-life / general insurance

10- Issue with general insurance

11- Challenges in both life and non-life(general) insurance

12- Insurance penetration & insurance density

Lecture 67 : L2/P12: Insurance Evolution and Nationalization in India
1- The big picture

2- Insurance history - ancient India

a-

b- Insurance = similar banking

c- General insurance in British India

1-

2- Need for supervision

3-
 4-

3- Public sector insurance co.

a-

b- LIC

1- LIC subsidiaries

c- Public sector general insurance Co. LTD

1-

2-
3-

4- Malhotra Committee

5- Changes after malhotra committee recomendations & 2015 amendments

6- 5th Govt. company

7- 6th Agriculture insurance company ltd. (2002)

a-
 b- Crop insurance

c- DICGC - does not belong to crop insurance, but work as insurance company only

--conclusion

d- Privatisation of insurance companies

1-

2- Malhotra on private insurance com.

paid up capital = supplied by shareholders = Paid-up capital is money that a company

receives from selling stock directly to investors.
e- Amendments to bring FDI in insurance

a-

b- Benefits/criticism of insurance amendments

1- How Public ltd. improve accountability?

Eg
f- Re-insurance
1- Why Needed?

2- Who launced it?

3- What ?

4- Amendments for entry of foreign RE.

Lecture 68: L2/P13: IRDAI: structure function and reforms under Insurance
amendment 2015

1- IRDAI
a- Birth of IRDAI

b- Structure of IRDAI

c- Functions of IRDAI
 d-Backup/safety/emergency

1- Investment Patterns - Gives lesser flexibility to insurance companies.

Life insurance - investment pattern

non-life/ general insurance pattern

2- How FDI improve infra ?

a- Positive

b-Negative
3- Financial inclusion : PMJJ & Surksha

a- Financial Inclusion - norms for insurance companies

b- Rural & social obligation

- Will amendments will help in rural penetration?

Positives Negatives
Lecture 69 : L2/P14: MicroInsurance, PM Jeevan Jyoti & Suraksha Bima Yojana
1- Microinsurance
a- What includes microinsurance

2- 2 insurance schemes by Modi govt.

Criticism & positives of these schemes

3- Insurance sector intermediaries & ombudsman

a- Types

1- Agents/corporate brokers

a-

b- Bancassurance
eg:

c- Rules to control intermediaries Agent

 2- Surveyor/Loss Assessor

-- Claim settlement

3- 3rd Party Administrator

--- Alternate distribution channels

-- Insurance council
-- Tariff advisory committee

--Ombudsman & customer ease protection

1-

2-

3-Difference between banking ombudsman & Insurance ombudsman

4- How about protecting company from client ?