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Additional notes based on 2015 PYQ with respect to 2023 current affairs :
Fair and Remunerative Price ( FRP for Sugarcane)

- Recommended by Commission for Agri costs and Prices
- Approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
- (Note: Directorate of marketing & Inspection of MoAgri approves AGMARK)
World Bank
Global partnership of 5 institutions to provide sustainable solutions for
reduced poverty and shared prosperity in developing countries. 5
Institutions are listed below
- Int’l Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD)
- Gives Loans, credits and grants
- Int’l Development Assistance (IDA)
- Low/no interest loans to low-income countries
- Int’l Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Investment, advice, and asset management to govt & companies
- Multilateral Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
- Insures lenders and investors against political risks
- Int’l Centre for Settlements of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
- India is not a member of ONLY this organization of WB
Some Polity notes

- Executive power of Union of India is vested in President of India
- Cabinet Secretary: Ex-officio chair of Civil Services Board (CS has 2 yr
tenure)
- FRs give the political democracy while DPSPs give Socio-economic
democracy
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Facts or Self explanatory
Additional notes based on 2017 PYQ with respect to 2023 current affairs :
- 180k households in India are engaged in manual scavenging in 2011 census

- International Atomic Energy Agency
- Estd. 1957, HQ Vienna, Austria
- Int’l center for cooperation in nuclear field (u/ UN)
- Promotes safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear tech
- Got Nobel Peace Prize of 2005 for its contributions to global safety
- Independent International Organization reports annually to UNGA
- Reports to UNSC whenever needed
- International Panel on Fissile Materials
- An independent group of arms control (Jan 2006 founded)
- Has experts from both nuclear & non nuclear weapon states
- 18 members, India is a member
- Carbon Sequestration
- Long term storage of carbon in plants, soils, geologic formations & ocean
- Occurs both naturally and due to anthropogenic activities
- Genome Seuqencing:
- Can be used to identify genetic markers for disease resistance & drought
tolerance in various crop plants
- Helps in reducing time needed for to develop new varieties of crop plants
- Can be used to decipher host-pathogen relationships in crops.

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Checkout all 12 jyotirlingas on map of India, Q seen in 2022 too!

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Additional notes based on 2018 PYQ:
- India third in silicon wafers manufacturing (china>russia>india)

- Article 293 allows states to borrow only from domestic sources
- Order of quantity of Seed oil import: Palm oil>soybean>sunflower
- Veeresalingam Pantulu, Anand Charlu, Subramnyam Iyer: Madras Mahajan Sabha
1884
- G. Laxminarasu Chetty made Madras Native Association 1852
- CP Ramaswami Iyer: then PM of state of Travancore. Punnapara-Valayar revolt held
by CPI in 1946
- Swaraj Party
- Estd 1923 by CR Das as President and ML Nehru as one of its secretaries
- Had good success in legislature
- Exposed weakness of GoI Act 1919
- CR Das expired in 1925, party declined by 1927
- IRNSS
- 7 navigation satellites: 3 in geostationary orbit and 4 in geosynchronous orbit
- Offer position, navigation and timing services over India and its neighborhood
- 1500km radius range over Indian subcontinent
- FRBM Review Committee 2017

- Headed by NK Singh (current Finance Commission chair)
- Recommended debt to GDP ratio of 60% for (combined govt) by 2023
- Same ratio for GoI to be 40% and States to be 20%
Name of Personality Some details
Aurobindo Ghosh ● Propounded philosophy of divine life on earth

● Jailed in 1908 (Alipore Bomb Case)
● Wrote English Newspaper: Bande Matram
Bipin Chandra Pal ● Father of revolutionary thoughts in India

● Wrote ‘Soul of India’ book
● Founder of Journal ‘Bande matram’
Motilal Nehru ● INC President in 1919 (Amritsar) and 1928 (Kol)

● Served as secretary to Swaraj Party
● Authored Nehru Report pro dominion status for India

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Bodhisattva Details
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva of compassion, depicted as female
Lokesvara Considered as Lord of the World Lok+ishwar
Maitreya Future Buddha, Laughing buddha is an incarnation
Padmapani Form of Avalokiteshvara holding lotus
Lake Features
Kodaikanal ● Dindigul district, TN

● Man made lake since 1863 by Madurai Collector
Kolleru ● Andhra Pradesh, b/w Krishna-Godavari delta

● One of largest shallow freshwater lake in Asia
Nainital ● Tectonic origin lake in Uttarakhand

● Natural Freshwater lake
Renuka ● Largest natural lake Himachal Pradesh

● Named after goddess Renuka
School of Painting Features
Bundi School ● Shows local vegetation

● Krishna inspired (patrons Krishna devotees)
● Red ribbon is often visible in the sky
Jaipur School ● Not much prominent, considered u/ RJ school
Kangra School ● Represents one of several pahari schools

● Inspired by Vaishnavite trends
● Done in watercolor on cloth or paper
Kishangarh School ● Inspired by Bundi school

● Shows amorous relationship b/w Radha-Krishna

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Countries around Black Sea

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Additional notes based on 2019 PYQ :
- Global Competitiveness Report by WEF (Revise all reports here)

- GDPR: Related to European Union, data protection & privacy bill
- Cirrus Cloud thinning technique and sulfate aerosol used in stratosphere to reduce
the global warming
- Cirrus Cloud thinning related to climate engineering
- Sulfate Aerosol related to atmosphere cooling
- Artificial rain: needs Potassium and Silver Iodide (dry ice)
- PVTGs
- 18 states and 1 UT (Andaman), 75 total
- Most in OD (Revise all about PVTGs here)
- Irular (KL) and Konda Reddi (AP) are in PVTGs
- A bit on bamboo and MFP
- Indian Forest Act 2018 permits falling of bamboo on non-forest areas
- SC & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (RFA) Act 2006 calls bamboo MFP
- Same act allows ownership of MFP to forest dwellers
- Food Corporation of India
- A PSU u/ Dept of Food & Public distribution w/ Ministry of Consumer Affairs
- Set up in 1965 u/ FCI Act 1964 to deal with wheat shortage primarily
- HQ: New Delhi, 5 zonal offices and 20 regional offices
- Objectives
- To provide remuneration to farmers
- Distribute grains through PDS system
- Maintain operational buffer stocks for India
- Ensure food security for India
- Some pointers on Kharif crops
- Area u/ rice cultivation in India is highest
- Area u/ cotton cultivation is more than that of sugarcane
- Area u/ oilseed cultivation is more than jowar cultivation
- (Note that aloof these are kharif crops)
- Hormonal Replacement Therapy (Menopause, transgender, HRT)
Mahayana Hinayana
Have faith in idol worship No faith in idol worship
Scriptures in Sanskrit Scriptures in Pali
Faith in universal liberation Faith in individual salvation
Found in China, Japan etc. Found in Myanmar, Lanka, SE Asia

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Term Description
DNA Printing Pieces of artificial functional DNA can be created in lab
Test Tube/Cloning DNA piece taken out from animal cell made to replicate outside living
cell in a lab
Tissue Culture Cells of plants & animals made to undergo cell division in lab petri
dishes
Sites Famous for
Chanhudaro (Harappan) ● Now in Pakistan, bead makers shop found here

● Other findings: footprints of dog chasing cat, cart with
seated driver
Kot Diji (Harappan) ● Now in Pak

● Found tar, bull statue and mother goddess here
Sohgaura (not Harappan) ● Ashokan era copper plate found here

● Text written in Prakrit in Brahmi script
Desalpur (Harappan) ● Gujarat, India

● Pottery ware, terracotta seals found here

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Additional notes based on 2020 PYQ :
- Revise Fly Ash

- Gandhi Irwin Pact (Q canceled but revise)
- Portland cement is not sustainable environmentally
- Indian coal has high ash, high fusion, low sulfur
- Some Polity Notes

- LS Session at least 2x a year ie without a gap more than 6 months between
two sessions. No minimum times mentioned
- Revise disqualification of MPs and MLAs on CSE Why Blog
- No min days of parliament meeting recommended/mentioned in constitution
- Preamble is a part of constitution but has no legal effect independently of the
other parts
Name Description
Birds Warm blooded, egg laying, vertebrate with wings and feathers
Primates Most intelligent and developed group of mammals including

humans, monkeys, apes
Reptiles Cold blooded animal with scaled part body and lays eggs
Amphibians Any organism able to live on both land and water

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- Revise Indus River system here

- International Seabed authority
- HQ: Jamaica
- 1994 Intergovernmental body u/ UNCLOS
- To regulate, control and organize all mineral related activities in international
seabed area beyond national jurisdiction limits
- Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)

- Pneumococcal disease: caused by bacteria damaging lunch, brain and blood
- Vulnerable: 2<x>65 (age)
- Also includes: Ear, blood, meningitis
- PCV protects against 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria
- UN Habitat
- UN Human Settlements Program estd. in 1978 at Vancouver Conference
- HQ: Nairobi, Kenya and is member of UN Development group
- Habitat Agenda of Istanbul 1996 gives mandate to UN-Habitat w/ twin goals
- Adequate shelter for all
- Develop sustainable human settlements in urbanizing world
- Rare Earth Minerals
- Called so ‘cz it is tough to extract them from their oxidized form & present in
low concentrations to be refined easily
- Magnetic, Luminescent and Electrochemical properties
- High use in the futuristic technologies related to tech, healthcare,
communication, mobility etc.
- China has global domination in REMs
- 17 minerals in total (15 Lanthanides+Scandium+Yttrium)
- Cerium (Ce)
- Dysprosium (Dy)
- Erbium (Er)
- Europium (Eb)
- Gadolinium (Gd)
- Holmium (Ho)
- Lanthanum (La)
- Lutetium (Lu)
- Neodymium (Nd)
- Praseodymium (Pr)
- Promethium (Pm)
- Samarium (Sm)
- Scandium (Sc)
- Terbium (Tb)
- Thulium (Tm)
- Ytterbium (Yb)
- Yttrium (Y)

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Members of Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly

● Dr. BR Ambedkar (chairman)
● KM Munshi
● GS Ayyangar
● Md Saadullah
● N. Madhav Rao
● TT Krishnamachari
● Allahadi Krishnaswamy Ayyar
Indian Members of the Interim Government of 1946 (All INC Members)

● Jawahar Lal Nehru
● Sardar Patel
● Rajendra Prasad
● C Rajagopalachari
● CH Bhabha
● Baldev Singh
● John Matthai
● Jagjivan Ram
● Asaf Ali
● Syed Ali Zaheer
● Sarat Bose
River Details
Brahmani ● Made by confluence of Sankh and South Koel rivers in Odisha

● Origin of the tributaries is in Chhota Nagpur Plateau
● Major seasonal river of Odisha; forms large delta w/ Baitarani
● Flow into Bay of Bengal
Subarnarekha ● Origin: Ranchi Plateau in Jharkhand

● Acts as boundary b/w WB and Odisha for a while
● Flows into Bay of Bengal
Nagavali ● Origin: Kalahandi District, OD

● Shared by North AP and South OD
● Aka Langulya; between Rushikulya and Godavari Basins
Vamsadhara ● Origin: Kalahandi District, OD

● Dispute b/w OD and AP on water sharing of this river
● BR Rao Project on this river by AP

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Pre-Independence Acts
- Regulating Act 1773
- EIC director asked to present all documents and correspondence pertaining to
administration of the company
- Parliamentary supervision over EIC
- Gov gen of Bengal + 4 member council
- Gov gen had casting vote
- Charter Act 1813
- Attempted to codify the laws
- It was pro a uniform court system
- Trade monopoly of EIC was ended except chai and china
- Asserted the sovereignty of British Crown over Indian territories held by company
- Charter Act 1833
- Trading activities of EIC abolished
- All law making powers on Gov Gen in the council
- Supreme authority to be changed as Gov Gen in the council
- Indian law commission in 1833 and Lord Macaulay made the law member
- Councils Act 1861
- Portfolio system u/ Lord Canning
- Indian Councils Act 1909 // Morley Minto
- Rep to Indians first time in the legislature (limited tho)
- Ended official majority in the SLA
- Separate electorate for muslims
- Non officials were elected to local bodies despite 1909 act
- GoI Act 1919 // Montford
- No Universal Vote but some women given right to vote
- Brought in reservation for Anglo Indians and Christians
- Dyarchy (few subjects to provincial ministers and rest with executive council
- Objective: extension of provincial assemblies ie decentralization
- In reserved lists were Justice admin, land revenue and police
- GOI 1947
- 2 independent dominions
- Constitution by legislative will of Indian constituent assembly
- Unlimited powers to CA of both dominions to enact any constitution
- GOI 1935:
- Reservation to women ie separate electorate to women
- Provincial Autonomy
- Proposal for federation of India
- Abolish post of Secretary of State
- All India federation
- Bicameral legislature & dyarchy at centre
- Powers to Governor to veto legislative action and legislate on their own
- Communal rep increased
- Federal court & FPSC
- Separate electorate for SC
- Distribution of power
- 15/08/1947 - 25/01/1950 Govt ran on this act.

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- UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative

- Voluntary global partnership b/w banks, insurers and investors
- Purpose: to catalyze action across finance system to deliver sustainable
global economies
- UNEP initiative with global financers and founded in 1992
- Secretariat: Geneva, Switzerland (UNEP HQ: Nairobi Kenya
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- UN body to asses the climate change related science
- Estd. 1988 by WMO and UNEP to offer scientific basis of climate change,
impacts and risks etc. for policy makers on the regular basis
- TL based image towards end in this document
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- UN entity tasked to support global response to climate change threat
- Signed in 1992 at the Rio Conference, Parent treaty of Paris Agreement ‘15
- Revise in detail here
- Ghadar Party
- San Francisco based revolutionary group publishing weekly newspaper with
same name. Estd in 1913
- Purpose: Revolution leading to establishment of national government
- Members were mostly the ex soldiers from Punjab (migrated to N. America)
- Some names associated with Pre-Ghadar era
- Lala Hardayal, SS Bakna, Ramdas Puri, Taraknath Das, GD Kumar
- Swadesh Sewak Home (Vancouver) and United India House (Seattle)
established before Ghadar
- Key Participants
- Bhai Parmanand, RB Bose, SS Bakna, TN Das, Lala Hardayal, Kartar
Singh Sarabha, AHM Baraktullahm, Gulab Kaur
- Organization of Turkic States
- Estd. 1992 as Turkic Council
- It is an int’l organization comprising prominent Turkic speaking countries
- TURAN: Central Asian regions to north of Iran (Persian word)
- Members: Shown in an image towards the end
- Some Economy notes
- On capital flight
- Tight monetary policy of US Fed could lead to capital flight
- May increase interest cost of firms with existing ECBs
- Currency devaluation increases risk associated with ECBs
- Household Savings: currency, bank deposits, PF, MF, investments in SSF
- Debt Govt Securities:
- Long term Govt security/Bond w/ 5-30 years of tenure
- Can be issued by both state and union governments for funds
- A mode of financing the fiscal deficit and these are diff from T-bills
- Government Securities (G-Secs)
- Tradable instrument offered by Central or State govt (not just GoI)
- Issuance managed by RBI for GoI which auctions them every Friday

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Company/Figure Details
Dutch EIC ● Estd. 1602 by Dutch parliament charter

● Purpose: Establish domination in India/SE Asia merchandise
power
● Factories in Masulipatnam (1605), Pulicat (1610), Surat
(1616), Bimbipatnam (1641), Karaikal (1645)
● Lost battle of Colachel in 1741 from Travancore
● Corruption charges led to dissolution of DEIC in 1800
English EIC in ● Vijayanagara rulers had chieftains- Nayaks

South ● Nayakas ruled almost independently in diff parts
● English EIC estd factory in 1639 in Madras on land leased
from a Nayaka chieftain
A de Albuquerque ● Real founder of Portuguese power in India

● Persecuted Muslims in his area of control
● Captured Goa from Bijapur Sultanate w/ help of Krishna Deva
Raya
● Banned Sati in his area of influence
Gajapati Rulers ● Rulers of Kalinga, parts of AP, WB etc.

● Ruled from 1435-1541 (not in sync with Dutch years)
Dynasty Features
Chandela ● Nannuka & Jayashakti were Chandelas

● Known for their art and architecture
● Prominent Nagara style temples at Khajuraho
Pratihara ● Nagabhata II and Mihir Bhoja were Gurjara-Pratihara rulers
Rashtrakuta ● Dantivarman/Dantidurga was the founder of this dynasty

● Krishna I built famous Kailasa Temple at Ellora

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Department/Org Details
Dept of Consumer Affairs ● u/ Ministry of Consumer Affairs
Expenditure Mgmt ● Constituted in 2014 via resolution

Commission ● To look into expenditure reforms for GoI
● Mandate includes evaluating 3 major subsidies (food
oil, fertilizers)
Financial Stability and ● Set up in 2010 by GoI

Development Council ● Chair: Finance Minister of India
● Monitors macroprudential supervision of the economy
● To work as coordination agency between RBI, SEBI,
IRDA, PFRDA
● Seen in 2016 PYQ
Central Statistics Office ● Revise in detail here
DPIIT ● u/ Ministry of Commerce and Industry

● Work: General industrial policy, admin of industries,
industrial management, e-com related matters,
promote internal trade, welfare of traders, EoDB,
startups facilitation
Labour Bureau ● u/ Ministry of Labour and Employment

● Tasked to collect, compile etc. data on diff labor
aspects
● Compiles info on industrial disputes, closures,
retrenchments and layoffs in factories employing
workers
● Survey: Quick Employment Survey
National Technical ● 1983 scheme u/ then MoHRD

Manpower Info System ● To provide up-to-date and meaningful manpower
information to concerned authorities

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Reservoirs in India (mapped with states) Credits: The Hindu

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IPCC over the years (credits to respective owner)

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Generated for #12233 Harshdeep Kaur harsh.kaur269@gmail.

com Sunny Enclave, , Kharar, Punjab,

Fair and Remunerative Price ( FRP for Sugarcane)

Some Polity notes

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Facts or Self explanatory

- 180k households in India are engaged in manual scavenging in 2011 census

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Checkout all 12 jyotirlingas on map of India, Q seen in 2022 too!

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Additional notes based on 2018 PYQ:

- India third in silicon wafers manufacturing (china>russia>india)

- FRBM Review Committee 2017

Name of Personality Some details

Aurobindo Ghosh ● Propounded philosophy of divine life on earth

Bipin Chandra Pal ● Father of revolutionary thoughts in India

Motilal Nehru ● INC President in 1919 (Amritsar) and 1928 (Kol)

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva of compassion, depicted as female

Lokesvara Considered as Lord of the World Lok+ishwar

Maitreya Future Buddha, Laughing buddha is an incarnation

Padmapani Form of Avalokiteshvara holding lotus

Kodaikanal ● Dindigul district, TN

Kolleru ● Andhra Pradesh, b/w Krishna-Godavari delta

Nainital ● Tectonic origin lake in Uttarakhand

Renuka ● Largest natural lake Himachal Pradesh

School of Painting Features

Bundi School ● Shows local vegetation

Jaipur School ● Not much prominent, considered u/ RJ school

Kangra School ● Represents one of several pahari schools

Kishangarh School ● Inspired by Bundi school

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Countries around Black Sea

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Additional notes based on 2019 PYQ :

- Global Competitiveness Report by WEF (Revise all reports here)

Have faith in idol worship No faith in idol worship

Scriptures in Sanskrit Scriptures in Pali

Faith in universal liberation Faith in individual salvation

Found in China, Japan etc. Found in Myanmar, Lanka, SE Asia

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

DNA Printing Pieces of artificial functional DNA can be created in lab

Sites Famous for

Chanhudaro (Harappan) ● Now in Pakistan, bead makers shop found here

Kot Diji (Harappan) ● Now in Pak

Sohgaura (not Harappan) ● Ashokan era copper plate found here

Desalpur (Harappan) ● Gujarat, India

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Additional notes based on 2020 PYQ :

- Revise Fly Ash

- Some Polity Notes

Primates Most intelligent and developed group of mammals including

Amphibians Any organism able to live on both land and water

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Courtesy: Drishti ias

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Additional notes based on 2021 PYQ:

- Revise Indus River system here

- Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)

Follow @CSEWhy on YouTube, Twitter and Telegram

Members of Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly

Indian Members of the Interim Government of 1946 (All INC Members)

Brahmani ● Made by confluence of Sankh and South Koel rivers in Odisha