06-10-2021

06-OCTOBER-2021

The Hindu News Analysis – 6th October 2021 – Shankar IAS Academy
S. Page Number*
News Articles
No. C B D H T

1 Climate experts, theorist get Physics Nobel 1 1 1 1 1

2 People paid for treatment despite PM-JAY 5 5 7 5 5

3 Health benefit package under Ayushman Bharat revised 10 10 12 10 10

4 Vallalar’s birth anniversary is benevolence day 2 - - - -

5 Karnataka Cabinet panel to study Bababudangiri shrine issue 5 5 7 - 5

6 Two held for abetment of suicide 2 - - - -

7 ‘Scolding not tantamount to abetment of suicide’ 10 10 12 10 10

8 Prelims Practice Questions

@ end of the video
9 Mains Practice Question
*C – Chennai; B – Bengaluru; D – Delhi; H – Hyderabad; T – Thiruvananthapuram

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• Nobel Prize for Physics

 Klaus Hasselmann

 Syukuro Manabe

 Giorgio Parisi

• Contribution of Mr. Klaus Hasselman and Mr. Syukuro

Manabe

 Physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying

variability and reliably predicting global warming.

• Contribution of Mr Giorgio Parisi

 Discovery of the interplay of disorder and

fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to
planetary scales. Source - https://pbs.twimg.com/

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Previous Year Question – Mains 2017

Previous Year Question – Mains 2014
GS – III
GS – I
Q17. ‘Climate Change’ is a global problem.
Q20. Bring out the relationship between the
How India will be affected by climate
shrinking Himalayan glaciers and the
change? How Himalayan and coastal
symptoms of climate change in the
states of India will be affected by
Indian sub-continent.
climate change?

Previous Year Question – Mains 2020

GS – I
Q17. Examine the status of forest resources
of India and its resultant impact on
climate change.

Indian Nobel Laureates

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Sir C V Raman

• Mother Teresa

• Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

• Amartya Sen

• Kailash Satyarthi

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Pg: 10 – C, B, T, H
Pg: 12 – D

Pg: 5 – C, B, T, H
Pg: 7 – D

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Ayushman Bharat
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
• Flagship scheme of the Indian Government.
• Benefit cover - Rs. 5 lakh per family per year.
• Recommendations of the National Health
• Beneficiary - Cashless benefits from any
Policy 2017.
public/private enrolled hospitals across India.
• Purpose - To achieve the vision of Universal
Health Coverage.
Benefits of the scheme
• Anchored to the Ministry of Health and
• Portable across the country.
Family Welfare.
• Both pre- and post-hospitalization expenses.
• Two components.
 Pre-existing conditions - covered from day one.
 Health and wellness Centres.
• Payment - Transport allowance per hospitalization.
 National Health Protection Scheme.
• No upper limit on the family size.

Entitlement - Deprivation criteria in the

Socio-Economic and Caste Census database.

Implementation

• National level - National Health Agency.

• States/ UTs - Dedicated entity called State

Health Agency.

Funding

• Centrally Sponsored Scheme.

• Central sector component under Ayushman

Bharat Mission.

• Expenditure - shared as per the guidelines

of the Ministry of Finance.

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News

• The National Health Authority - Apex

Implementation body.

• Revised the Health Benefit Package - HBP

2.2

HBP 2.2

• Increase in package rates by about 20%

to 400%

• Revision in the rates of around 400

procedures.

• Additional medical management package

related to black fungus.

Study - Efficacy of the PM-JAY

scheme

• States - Andhra Pradesh,

Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil
Nadu.

• Findings - Sizable amount

beneficiaries bore the
hospitalization expenses for
COVID-19 treatment from
personal funds or borrowings.

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Practice Question – Prelims

Q. Who among the following are eligible for the
benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana ?
1. Families having only one room with kucha walls
and kucha roof.
2. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
household.
3. Female headed households with no adult male
member between age 16 to 59.
4. Disabled member and no able bodied adult
member in the family.
Choose the correct answer from the code given
below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

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Pg: 2 – Chennai edition

Ramalinga Adigalar

• Born in 1823 in Marudgur Village near

Chidambaram, TN.

• Great Tamil saint and poet.

• Questioned then Hindu religious orthodoxy.

• Jeevakarunya Philosophy.

• Arutperunjothi - the god - graceful

universal light that caused creation of
all and governs the universe.

Image source: https://www.himalayanacademy.com/

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• Samarasa Suddha Sanmarga Satya Sanga

Propogated the philosophy of Jeevakarunya

• Sathya Gnana Sabha

Hall of true knowledge

• Sathya Dharma Salai

Serving free food with any distinction

• Prinicples

 Feeding all people - without any discrimination on

• Authored books:
the basis of religion.
1. Thiruvarutppa (holy book of grace)
 Non-violence in words and deeds is the way of life.
- contains more than 6000 verses
 Everyone has equal rights to live on earth and inculcating wisdom.
enjoy their life.
2. Manumurai kanda vaasagam -
 Professed vegetarianism. describes the life of Manu Needhi

 Wisdom alone can bring peace to a man. Cholan.

 Opposed to superstitions and rituals. 3. Jeevakaarunya ozhukkam

• Later called as ‘Arutpragasa Vallalar’ Ramalinga

Adigalar or Vallalar.

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• Leaders of Tamil Renaissance movement:

1. Maraimalai Adigal

2. Parithimar Kalaignar

3. F.W.Ellis

4. Robert Cladwell

5. Manomaniam Sundaram Pillai

6. Abraham Pandithar

7. M. Singaravelar

8. Iyotheedasa Pandithar

. Practice Question – Prelims

Q. Consider the following statements with
reference to the Tamil saint and poet
Ramalinga Adigalar.
1. He preached that feeding the poor is
the highest form of worship.
2. He established Samarasa Suddha
Sanmarga Satya Sangam.
3. He authored Thirukkural.
Which of the statements given above
is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 2 and 3 only

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Pg: 5 – C, B, T
Pg: 7 – D

Bababudangiri Shrine issue

• Karnataka Government - Entrusted the

• Response - Formation of a committee
religious ceremonies of the Bababudangiri
cave shrine to a Muslim Mujawar.  Study the pros and cons of the court ruling

• Issue - Shrine is shared by both Hindus and  To find ways to proceed further on the
Muslims. issue.

• Karnataka High Court

 Quashed this order

 Direction - To reconsider its decision.

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Bababudangiri Dargah/Guru Dattatreya Peetha

• Cave shrine - Chikkamagaluru district of

Karnataka.

• Chandra Drona Range

Religious tussle

• Muslims – Abode of the Sufi saint Sheikh Abdul

Azeez Mecci (Dada Hayath Meer Qalandar)

 Companion of Prophet Muhammad.

• Hindus - Abode of Dattatreya

 Incarnation of Lord Brahma, Vishnu &

Maheshwari.

Baba Budan

• Sufi saint - Syed Shah Jamaluddin Maghribi.

• Disciple of Dada and established his spiritual

lineage.

• Plantations in south India - Cradle of Indian

coffee.

Baba Budangiri

• Place of this shrine - Birthplace of Coffee

Plantations in India.

• Reason - Brought the first coffee seeds to

India from the Yemeni port city of Mocha.

• Story - Part of the official histories of coffee

in India.

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Practice Question – Prelims

Q. Coffee cultivation is found to be
predominant in which of the following
states?
1. Telangana
2. Karnataka
3. Kerala
4. Tamil Nadu
Choose the correct answer from the code
given below:
a) 1 and 4 only
b) 2 only
c) 1, 2 and 4 only
d) 2, 3 and 4 only

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Pg: 2 – Chennai Pg: 10 – C, B, T, H

edition Pg: 12 – D

Suicide Deaths

Supreme Court Judgement

• Schools’ Disciplinary measures - Not considered

equivalent to provoking a student to commit
suicide.

 Unless - Evidences of repeated and specific

allegations of harassment or insult
deliberately without any justifiable cause or
reason.

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Section 309 of the IPC

Section 115 - Mental Healthcare Act (MHCA), 2017

• Supreme Court - Gian Kaur Case (1996

Judgement)

Right to live with dignity did not include the Practice Question – Mains
right to die. GS – II
• Present - The two provisions continue to Q. Discuss the issue of rise in suicidal deaths
remain conflicting. post the COVID induced lockdown.
Mention some steps than by the
• Section 309 exist in the statute book despite government in this regard. Suggest some
many attempts. remedial measures.
(150 Words, 10 Marks)

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Practice Question – Prelims

Q1. Coffee cultivation is found to be
predominant in which of the following
states?
1. Telangana
2. Karnataka
3. Kerala
4. Tamil Nadu
Choose the correct answer from the code
given below:
a) 1 and 4 only
b) 2 only
c) 1, 2 and 4 only
d) 2, 3 and 4 only

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Practice Question – Prelims

Q2. Who among the following are eligible for the
benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana ?
1. Families having only one room with kucha walls
and kucha roof.
2. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
household.
3. Female headed households with no adult male
member between age 16 to 59.
4. Disabled member and no able bodied adult
member in the family.
Choose the correct answer from the code given
below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

• families having only one room with kucha walls and kucha roof

• families having no adult member between age 16 to 59

• female headed households with no adult male member between age 16 to 59

• disabled member and no able bodied adult member in the family

• SC/ST households

• landless households deriving major part of their income from manual casual labour

• Families in rural areas having any one of the following: households without shelter, destitute, living on
alms, manual scavenger families, primitive tribal groups, legally released bonded labour

• For urban areas, 11 defined occupational categories are entitled under the scheme - Occupational
Categories of Workers, Rag picker, Beggar, Domestic worker, Street vendor/ Cobbler/hawker / Other
service provider working on streets, Construction worker/ Plumber/ Mason/ Labour/ Painter/ Welder/
Security guard/, Coolie and another head-load worker, Sweeper/ Sanitation worker / Mali, Home-based
worker/ Artisan/ Handicrafts worker / Tailor, Transport worker/ Driver/ Conductor/ Helper to drivers
and conductors/ Cart puller/ Rickshaw puller, Shop worker/ Assistant/ Peon in small establishment/
Helper/Delivery assistant / Attendant/ Waiter, Electrician/ Mechanic/ Assembler/ Repair worker,
Washerman/ Chowkidar

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. Practice Question – Prelims

Q3.Consider the following statements with
reference to the Tamil saint and poet
Ramalinga Adigalar.
1. He preached that feeding the poor is
the highest form of worship.
Answers
2. He established Samarasa Suddha
Sanmarga Satya Sangam. Q1. Option (d) 2, 3 and 4 only

3. He authored Thirukkural. Q2. Option (d) 1,2,3 and 4 only

Which of the statements given above Q3. Option (c) 1 and 2 only
is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 2 and 3 only

Practice Question – Mains

GS – II
Q. Discuss the issue of rise in suicidal deaths
post the COVID induced lockdown.
Mention some steps than by the
government in this regard. Suggest some
remedial measures. .
(150 Words, 10 Marks)

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