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Spotlight/News Analysis (12 May):

• Topic of Discussion: 2013 Year of Water Conservation
• Expert Panel: Ashvin B. Pandya (Member Central Water Commission), Prashant Sood (Indo - Asian News Service)

The Union Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on 19 March 2013 approved the National Food Security Bill. The food security bill approved is directed towards giving the right to food to around 67 per cent of India’s 120-crore population. The amendments to the Bill will guarantee 5 kg of foodgrains per person per month, while families in the poorest of the poor will continue to get 35 kg of grains per month. As per the bill around 800 crore people will be entitled to get five kilos of subsidised grain per month. Rice will be made available at 3 Rupees per kilo; wheat will cost 2 rupees a kilo and cereal will be sold for 1 Rupees per kilo. The beneficiaries are supposed to be decided by state governments, while the criteria to exclude 33 per cent of population would be provided by the Planning Commission, Thomas said. The scheme will be linked to the Aadhar scheme which provides every citizen with a unique identification number that’s linked to a database that includes the biometrics of all card-holders. It is also evident from the present year budget, that 90000 crore Rupees is allocated for spending on food subsidies with the government setting aside an extra 10000 crore Rupees for the bill. In earlier versions, the Food Security Bill assigned subsidised grains on the basis of priority and general groups, which were demarcated on the basis of poverty levels. The Cabinet gave its nod to the 71 amendments proposed by the Food Ministry, including the one that said the 2.43 crore Antyodaya Anna Yojna beneficiary households will continue to get their quota of 35 kg grains a month under the public distribution system.

Economic Survey is presented every year, just before the Union Budget. It is a flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months. It summarizes the performance on major development programmes, and highlights the policy initiatives of the government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term. The economic survey 2012-13 was prepared by a team of economists led by Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan, and pitches for speeding up economic reforms to activate a sluggish economy. It serves as an indicator of what is likely to be contained in the General Budget proposals.

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• Hypertension Major Contributor to Avoidable Deaths in India: WHO

• No Capital Gains Tax for NIMZs

• Vienna Meet Sees Divisions on India’s Entry into NSG

• The P-5 Club

• Antarctica Concerns Grow as Tourism Numbers Rise

• Abel Prize for Belgian Pierre Deligne

• Universal, Rights-based Goals

• Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Eights

• India up in Arms against ‘Imbalance’ in ATT Draft

• BRICS and Mortar for India’s Global Role

• ISRO Plans a New High-resolution Earth Satellite

• UNDP Brackets India with Equatorial Guinea in Human Development Index

• Police Reforms Gender Equality

• Black Carbon from South Asia Melting Tibetan Glaciers

• Nuclear Cooperation, Key to Multiple Projects: Kazakhstan

HYPERTENSION MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO AVOIDABLE DEATHS IN INDIA: WHO

• The World Health Organisation (WHO) is finalising a set of nine voluntary global targets that will help in reducing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), particularly hypertension which is a major contributor to cardio- ascular diseases.

• The voluntary targets being discussed are reduction in premature mortality from NCDs by 25 per cent by 2020 — by reducing intake of alcohol and physical inactivity by 10 percent each and intake of salt/sodium by 30
  per cent. This will reduce high blood pressure incidence by 25 per cent.

• Use of tobacco is targeted to be brought down by 30 per cent in addition to improving medicines, technology and counselling.

• Hypertension is a major contributor to avoidable death and disease in India, too, with an increasing impact in the rural areas.

• Over 140 million people are believed to be suffering from high blood pressure in the country and the number is expected to cross the 214 million mark in 2030. Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardio-vascular diseases that killed 2.7 million people in 2004 and will result in the death of over 4 million people by 2030.

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Table of Contents:

Articles:

• Economic Survey 2012-13: Expecting Turnaround
• From Hunger to Food Security
• Is It Enough
• Budget 2013-14: No Pain No Gain
• Railway Budget 2013-14: On Recovery Path
• Selected Articles from Various Newspapers & Journals

Result: 130 airworthiness Officer Rectt Result - 253 Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner

Union Public Service Commission had advertised 253 posts of Assistant Provident Fund  Commissioner in Employees Provident Fund Organization vide SPL. Advertisement No.  51/2012, Item No. 03 dated 14.04.2012 (Vacancy No. 12045103714). The Commission  conducted Recruitment Test on 23.09.2012. On the basis of the Recruitment Test, the  Commission have shortlisted the following Roll Nos. for interview ‘‘Provisionally”.

Spotlight/News Analysis (10 May):

• Topic of Discussion: New Cyber Security Policy
• Expert Panel: Dr. Gulshan Roy (Director General Indian Emergency Response Team ministry of information & technology), Manoj Gairola (Hindustan Times)