November 2022

Important Institutions: CVC

  The Central Vigilance Commission is the leading vigilance organization independent of all executive authorities. It oversees all vigilance activity by the Central Government and guides various authorities within Central Government organizations on how to plan, carry out, evaluate, and reform their vigilance work. According to the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption,

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Co-operative Banking

  Why is it in the News? The recent fiasco related to the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC) has brought to the fore the problems associated with Cooperative banks and the need for regulating them.   Cooperative Banks The cooperative banks are the institutions that operate on a cooperative basis, where in the customers

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Minority Institutions and Supreme Court Judgement

News Excerpt Recently the Supreme Court held that States can regulate minority institutions i.e, the state is well within its rights to introduce a regulatory regime in the “national interest” to provide minority educational institutions with well-qualified teachers in order for them to “achieve excellence in education.   ARTICLE 30 Article 30 grants the following

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NIA Act Challenged by Chhattisgarh Government

News Excerpt The Chhattisgarh government recently filed a petition, citing Article 131 to challenge the Constitutional validity of the National Investigation Act, 2008. The petition contends that the NIA Act is ultra vires the Constitution and beyond the legislative competence of Parliament.   Doctrine of Colourable Legislation This doctrine is based on the principle that what cannot

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Sub-Categorization of OBC

News Excerpt The Union Cabinet recently approved a six-month extension in the tenure of the commission to examine sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBC), which had been appointed in 2017 with the initial deadline of 12 weeks. Pre-Connect The Cabinet has also approved an addition to the commission’s terms of referencee now the commission will also study

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