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Toppers Talk
Polity
- Should Election Campaigns be made virtual?
- What is Lok Adalat Analysis of the performance of Lok Adalats
- Indian federalism and its impact on Covid-19 Pandemic management
- What is Ordinance? How frequent re-promulgation of ordinances violates the spirit of the Constitution?
- Live in relationships Morally, Socially Unacceptable says Punjab and Haryana High Court
- West Bengal Government to set up Legislative Council – Pros and Cons of Legislative Council
Indian Society
Governance & Social Justice
- Method to evaluate students academic performance amid Covid 19 pandemic
- India to takeover China to become Most Populated Country by 2025 – China’s population declines
- Smriti Irani on protection of children orphaned by Covid 19
- Impact of lockdown on lives and livelihoods of informal sector workers
- What is Doomsday Scrolling? Impact of Doomsday Surfing on Mental health and wellness?
International Relations
- Israel vs Syria – Why the Middle East is constantly in a war like situation?
- India Pakistan Backchannel Diplomacy
- Digital Data Revolution and New Global Order – Role of India in a hyper-connected world
- India Bhutan Friendship – BRO’s project DANTAK completes 60 years in Bhutan
- Why the United Kingdom is tilting towards the Indo Pacific?
- Israel Palestinian conflict is heading towards a full-scale war warns United Nations
- Why BIMSTEC must reinvent itself? India and its Neighbourhood
- UK invites India to G7 Summit 2021 – Why India is important for G7?
- Impact of Covid 19 on India’s Foreign Policy
- KP Sharma Oli reappointed as Prime Minister of Nepal – Opposition parties failed to muster majority
- What is Diplomatic Immunity? Belgian ambassador’s wife slapped shopkeeper in South Korea
- Permanent Court of Arbitration – Composition, functions, and members – Difference in PCA, ICJ & ICC
Economy
- Elon Musk Tesla will not accept cryptocurrency – Bitcoin plunges 17%
- GST collection at all-time high of over Rs 1.41 Lakh Crore
- Covid 19 Vaccine Patent Waiver – Can it solve the global vaccine shortage problem?
- Mamata Banerjee vs CBI – What is Narada bribery case?
- RBI approves transfer of Rs 99122 crore as surplus to Centre
- Impact of Covid 19 on Indian Steel Industry
Defence & Security
- Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed injured in ISIS-led bomb blast
- Cyber Warfare and Biowarfare explained – Difference in Modern Warfare and Conventional Warfare
- Jammu and Kashmir Police ban LIVE coverage of encounters – Impact on freedom of press?
- What is Havana Syndrome Mysterious disease caused brain injury in 130 US officials
- What are Non-State Actors? Role and impact of Non-State Actors in International Relations?
- Police Encounters in India – Rule of Law vs Police Impunity
Disaster Management
- 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake jolts Assam – Why North East India is prone to frequent earthquakes?
- Israel religious festival stampede kills 44 and leaves more than 100 injured
- State of Working India 2021 One year of Covid 19 report by Azim Premji University
- Lightning kills 18 elephants in Assam – Is it scientifically possible?
- Why Cyclone Tauktae is unique? Is climate change making cyclones in the Arabian sea more dangerous?
Science & Technology
Environment
- Forest Conservation Act and proposed amendments by MoEF&CC
- New Zealand Climate Change Law for Financial Firms explained
- What is Ecocide? French Parliament passed ECOCIDE offence to punish environmental damage
- Covid 19 Vaccine Wastage in India – How Kerala managed Zero Wastage of Covid vaccine?
- First time in India 8 Asiatic lions test Covid positive at Hyderabad zoo – Battling Covid in animals
- How Global Food Waste is choking our Planet?
- Sunderlal Bahuguna – Leader of Chipko Movement and noted environmentalist dies of Covid 19
Prelims bits

Relevance:
- GS 3 || Society || Women || Development Approaches to Women
Why in the news?
The Ministry of Rural Development recently organized the Gender Samvaad Event
About Gender Samvaad:
- Gender Samvaad Gender Samvaad event, a joint attempt between DAY-NRLM and the Initiative for What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy (IWWAGE) to create a common platform to share experiences emerging from this effort, was organised by the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India
- The attempt is to generate greater awareness on gender related interventions best practices, with a focus on hearing under DAY-NRLM across the country and voices from the states and the field.
Samvaad will provide states with opportunities to:
- Understand best practices/initiatives that other states have been undertaking to improve women’s agency (e.g. facilitating women’s access to land rights, their engagement in farmer producer organizations (FPOs), best practices around FNHW, in establishing strong institutions for public service delivery, in protecting and providing redress to vulnerable groups within women (e.g. practices against witch hunting) etc.)
- Understand gender interventions globally;
- Engage with experts and other colleagues on suggestions regarding how to handle issues/implementation barriers;
- Contribute to creation of a ‘gender repository’ with resource materials on best practices for gender interventions across the country/other countries; and
- Build advocacy around the need to focus on gender issues across SRLMs and the NRLM.
Activities under Gender Samvaad: Gender Samvaad provides states with opportunities to-
- Understand gender interventions globally engage with experts and other colleagues on suggestions regarding how to handle issues/implementation barriers;
- Contribute to creation of a ‘gender repository’ with resource materials on best practices for gender interventions across the country/other countries; and
- Build advocacy around the need to focus on gender issues across SRLMs and the NRLM.
- The event was launched by Nagendra Nath Sinha, Secretary, and Rural Development as part of the ongoing Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
- The online launch event brought together a distinguished panel of experts, including senior officials of the Ministry of Rural Development.
- In addition, voices of women from the field, who shared their experiences on how gender mainstreaming efforts within the DAY-NRLM have helped enhance their agency were also included.
- A compendium of case studies presenting inspiring stories of SHG members was also released at the event.
About DAY NRLM:
- Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). The DAY-NRLM is essentially a poverty relief programme of the Central government.
- It was launched as ‘Aajeevika – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)’ by the GOI’s Ministry of Rural Development in the year 2011. It was renamed as DAY-NRLM in 2015.
- The scheme is an improved version of the earlier Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY).
- The programme is supported partially by the World Bank.
- Aim: It aims at creating effective and efficient institutional platforms to enable the rural poor to increase their household income by means of sustainable livelihood enhancements and better access to financial services.
- Additionally, the poor would also be enabled to attain improved access to rights, public services, and other entitlement
- The Union Cabinet has approved a special package worth Rs. 520 crore in the Union Territories (UTs) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Ladakh for a period of five years under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM).
- The package has been approved for a period of five years till the financial year 2023-24.
- It has been decided to ensure funding on a demand-driven basis without linking allocation with poverty ratio during the extended period.
About Initiative for What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy (IWWAGE):
- It is an initiative of LEAD, an action oriented research centre of IFMR Society.
- It aims to build on existing research and generate new evidence to inform and facilitate the agenda of women’s economic empowerment.
- It is an action-oriented research centre of IFMR Society (a not for profit society registered under the Societies Act).
- It is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Why is a scheme like gender samvaad needed in India?
- Such scheme is needed to hear the voice of women and make them more empowered
- Women empowerment in the economy and closing gender gaps in the world of work are key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Women’s economic empowerment boosts productivity, increases economic diversification and income equality in addition to other positive development outcomes.
- Women still are facing many issues like gender discrimination, illiteracy, sexual violence, and many other health issues such steps can fill the gap between women and its empowerment
Conclusion:
Even after so many years of independence still gender discrimination is one of most serious issue. India is developing to and fro but yet many issues related to women is still untouched both in urban and rural area, women still needs support and initiative to get access to their rights, initiative taken to provide women exposure to their rights or to empower them is very positive step, but it is also should be matter of concern that women is still more victim them empowered in developing country like India.
Mains oriented question:
“Women are more victims then they are empowered in the present world”. Comment (200 words)