2021-03-26T02:51:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In the last 50 or 60 years, rigid master plans have been the way to plan India’s cities. And what has this resulted in? “The urban dysfunction,” according to Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Advisor, Government of India. […]
2021-03-21T03:20:27+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Deepor Beel, a Ramsar site near Guwahati in Assam, known for its fish and bird diversity and rich aquatic vegetation that attracts wild elephants, faces conservation threats from garbage dumping, quarrying, and the construction of a railway line, besides a smart city project. […]
2021-03-25T14:51:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
For Women’s History Month, it is important to highlight the contributions of women across society. It is also important to remember women throughout history and understand that while many history texts would have us remember them simply as wives and mothers, women of the past were rulers, warriors and cultural [...]
2021-03-24T11:30:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
TOWARDS NEW DIMENSIONS OF ETHICS Fostering “sunshine” in public administration is one of the finest methods of ensuring higher standards of administrative ethics. Openness is the enemy of corruption. Almost all countries of the world have Freedom of Information or Right to Information Acts. In the U.S., at the federal [...]
2021-03-21T01:31:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
ISSUE OF ETHICS: FOCI AND CONCERNS It is a truism that the crux of administrative morality is ethical decision-making. The questions of facts and values cannot be separated from ethical decision-making. Thus, the science of administration gets integrated with the ethics of administration. And in this integrated regime, only that [...]
2021-03-23T01:52:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP and IR|
India’s negotiators ought to be commended for their efforts in ensuring a successful border disengagement at Pangong. […]
2021-03-19T18:12:35+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
CONTEXT OF ETHICS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Ethics, whether in an entire society, or in a social sub-system, evolves over a long period of time and is influenced, during its nurturance and growth, by a variety of environmental factors. Administrative ethics is no different. It is the product [...]
2021-03-22T10:58:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
INTRODUCTION:- ‘Ethics’ is a difficult term to define. The meaning, nature and scope of ethics have expanded in the course of time. ‘Ethics’ is integral to public administration. In public administration, ethics focuses on how the public administrator should question and reflect in order to be able to act responsibly. [...]
2021-03-21T14:11:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The story so far: Earlier this month, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to respond to a petition that challenges the constitutional validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. The law was enacted to freeze the status of all places of worship in the country as on August 15, 1947. [...]
2021-03-21T14:10:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
WE live in a dark phase filled with adversity. As dark and unpredictable as it gets. At this moment in the world, whatever flows, ruptures. Be it the flow (spread) of coronavirus, the flow of migration, the flow of money or the egregious flow of dis/information. […]
