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Back on track

 Aborted attempt in February
 Tax net from April 1. No major execution challenges
 IT backbone that generates the e-way bills
 1 st two days of the e-way system, which included a Sunday, 5.5 lakh e-way bills
were generated, and the GST Network has said that the system is now geared to
cope with a much higher capacity
 Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia expects collections to pick up further as the a
uthorities get a better sense of who is regularly filing returns and paying taxes.
 Schedule for rolling out e-way bills for intra-State trade in a few States at a
time is expected soon

Launch lessons

 There is no such thing as total failure; ISRO should learn from its satellite launch problem
 GSAT-6A was first raised to elliptical orbit marked by the following parameters
: its perigee, or point of closest approach to Earth, was 5,054 km; and its apogee,
or point of farthest approach, was 36,412 km

How the data sets stack up

 Why measuring inequality is not the same as measuring changes in the level of poverty in India
 Recent years, there has been a lot of discussion on
 increasing inequality within several countries of the world, including India, particularly after the publication of Thomas Piketty’s book on inequality-French
 It is true that rising inequality has adverse economic and social consequences.
 Gini coefficient or other measures of inequality are being used to examine trends in inequality Gini coefficient, which lies between 0 and 1

 Consumption inequality
 Study shows that inequality in rural declined while it increased in urban areas in the post – reform period, particularly in the high growth period
 Gini coefficient of consumption expenditure for rural areas declined marginally between 1983-84 to 1993-94 (from 0.304 to 0.286) while it recorded a marginal rise during the high growth period of 2004-05 and 2011-12 (from 0.304 to 0.311).
 In urban areas, it stayed the same from 1983-84 to 1993-94 (0.344) while it increased modestly from 2004-05 to 2011-12 (0.376 to 0.390).
 Income inequality
 Income and wealth inequalities are higher than consumption inequality.
 Some estimates, consumption Gini coefficient was 0.36 in 2011-12 in India.
 On the other hand, inequality in income was high with a Gini coefficient
of 0.55 while wealth Gini coefficient was 0.74 in 2011-12.
 NSSO surveys have been studied for long & have gone through critical analysis
 Trends in poverty ratio
 Any household failing to meet level of consumption expenditure can be treated as a poor household
 Rate of decline in poverty was 0.8 percentage points per annum- 1993-2005
 Poverty declined faster in the post – reform period, particularly in the 2004-2012 period as compared to 1993-2005
 Post-reform period, overall poverty as defined by the Tendulkar Committee
 Declined faster from 45.3% in 1993-94 to 21.9% in 2011-12 – an annual decline of 1.3 percentage points.
 Growth and distribution
 The impact of higher growth on poverty reduction can also be seen from the
decile-wise growth in per capita consumption expenditure
 The decline in poverty is much higher particularly in the period 2004-05
to 2011-12 in spite of rise in inequality

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1- No affront to Dalit rights, says SC
 Defends its ruling on SC/ST Act as it only protects an innocent person from arbitrary arrest

 Page-1- Class 10 maths re-exam plan dropped
 Ministry of Human Resource Development and the CBSE have decided not
to re-conduct the Class 10 mathematics examination anywhere in India.
 A few days ago, School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said government
 Would take a call within 15 days on whether the exam should be held in
Delhi/NCR and Haryana
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
 Page-1- National institutional ranking identifies top universities
 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2018
 The third edition of the NIRF Rankings, released by the Ministry of Human
Resource Development on Tuesday, included overall rankings across disciplines
and category-wise ranking for
 engineering, pharmacy, medical, management, architecture, law, university
and colleges.
 IISc, Bengaluru, retained its position as India’s topranked university for the
third year in a row.
 JNU was ranked second, followed by BHU in the third place.
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
 Bridge gap between rural, urban education: Anil Kakodkar
 Anil Kakodkar Committee-?
 SC to hear Cauvery case on April 9- Centre’s application along with Tamil Nadu
 French workers begin strike
 Agitation to go on for three months, testing Macron’s resolve to bring in reforms
 ‘China appreciates N. Korea’s peace efforts’
 Mukesh Ambani-led Jio Payments Bank Limited has commenced operations
as a payments bank with effect from April 3, 2018, the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) said in a statement.