This Post contain the Complete Current Affairs from Hindu – Editorial, News PIB News Summary and Other Important Articles from IndianExpress, Livemint, InsightonIndia, Civilsdaily, IASBaba along with Few questions.
Date 09th Sept, 2017 –
Hindu Editorials
- Need of Health Care System In India –
- India is ranked below china, banglabesh and Srilanka in health services.
- With Recent incidents of Gorakhpur tragedy – health has become very important subject to debate, discuss and find out the solution for it.
- Health is state subject and most of Rural Population of India deprive of better health services
- States have reduced the budget for the health spending as well.
- No of primary health care systems have been reduced, government never focuses on health and primary objective.
- Due to public health care system failure – people go to private players, many people impoverished due to medical burden.
- Many people even do not seek medical facility due to lack of assistance.
- Health Sector Focus on Other Countries
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- After world war 2 – European countries have focused heavily on health
- Thailand, Cuba, Costa Rica are countries achieved universal health targets
- UK’s Health Program is praised and followed elsewhere int he world.
- Cuba Story :
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- It has 4.2 per thousand infant mortality rate
- Countries leadership recognized and focused on health care which helped to achieve success.
- Way Ahead :
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- Political Leaders need will to provide universal health.
- Indian Rural Population is most affected by lack of health – take the health care into government hand.
- Article Link : http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/indicators-that-matter/article19647565.ece
- Aadhar vs Right to Privacy – Data that Aadhar Captures
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- Recently supreme court of India declared Right to Privacy as Fundamental right which has lead to discussion and PILS on Aadhar Scheme – whether it breaches the privacy of a person or not.
- What is Aadhar, UIDAI and CIDR
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- Unique Identification Data Authority of India – UIDAI Under ministry of Electronics operate the Aadhar – 16 digit unique number which contain – biometric information, personal information and demographic information, use to provide social security, schemes, Bank services via it.
- CIDR – Central Identities Data Repository : This is central data repository which stores the adhar data and provide details of data match if some service provider esquires for onces adhar verification however it do not share the original data apart from providing yes or not if data matches.
- Information which Aadhar Records
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- Biometric Information – Photograph, Fingerprints, Iris Scan
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- Core Biometric Information – Biometric Information minus photograph
- Indentiy Information – This includes, Name and Demographic Information – like address, phone no, mail id and Aadhar Number itself.
- Aadhar as Threat to Privacy ?
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- ABiometric and Identity informations are protected under adhar act 2016, however Personal Information which is not used in the ACT is real threat to the Privacy which includes- Whom you talk, where you travel etc.
- Section 8 of Adhar Act has liberalized or do not deny to provide demographic information to any government and private parties
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- Mining of Your Information
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- Example : Once you Buy the SIM then service provider will have address, name etc this is once linked with adhar then government will have all your information about call history etc.
- Same with Government Schemes like subsidy, railway ticket etc where once adhar is made mandatory to link then it will lead to sharing of your travel information etc with government
- Safeguard Against the Data Sharing
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- Biometric information can be shared with any body under sec 8 of act.
- Loop Holes or Breach of Privacy
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- Recently 120 million data of jio users being compromised
- One of govt department has published the record with name, address and adhar number.
- Data is New Oil : Commercialization or govt saw huge business angle with Adhar.
- Under National Security Information can be shared or above safeguards do not apply.
- Way Ahead :
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- Need Proper Data protection law and enhenced security of data.
- Instead of Adhar govt can use the smart card which UK has experimented.
- SC results on Adhar validity is still awaited to see whether Adhar breches the FR of Privacy or not.
- Article Link : http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/all-that-data-that-aadhaar-captures/article19647563.ece
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InsightOnIndia,PIB, and Other News Articles
- Womens to be inducted in non-officer range of CMP – Corp of Military Police
- CMP- is a division of army which deals with telecommunication, helps in war prisons etc.
- No-Fly list introduced in Airlines for the misbehaving poeples
- International airlines would also follow the rules under Tokyo Conventions 1963.
- Pluto mountains named after Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary
- The new range of Mountains are found in Dwarf Planet Pluto
- Named after two India and Zewzeland mountaineer.
- Name by by – IAU – International Astronomical Union ( IAU)
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- founded in 1919
- assign celestial bodies – stars, planets, asterioids
- Sahara Project in Jordan
- Used to produced vegatable fromSun and Sea Waters
- Great Initiative to handle the fast increasing desertification around the world.
- Scientist discovered method to create fuel – methanol from atmospheric oxygen.