MAINS DAILY QUESTIONS & MODEL ANSWERS
Q1. Programmes for skill development have been successful in boosting the availability of human resources across industries. Examine the connections between education, skill, and employment in the context of the statement.
GS II – Government Policies and Interventions
Introduction:
- Three closely related activities—education, skill development, and employment—are essential for both individual growth and national development.
Connections between work, skill, and education:
- A person’s education serves as a foundation for a civil life. It is essential for a person’s proper growth and provides the foundation for a citizen to obtain legitimate job.
- Both basic and higher education are important in providing people with a foundation of information from which they can build specialised knowledge for a particular vocation.
- The process of acquiring the technical or vocational abilities required for a job that may be successfully used in a certain industry is known as skill development. For instance, obtaining a C++ certification may increase one’s employment prospects.
- A subset of skills known as “soft skills” have gained popularity in recent years and are now crucial in the contemporary employment market.
- Developing one’s skills can also lead to entrepreneurship, which finally allows one to create jobs, in addition to employment.
- The ultimate aim of education and skill development is employment. Employment is essential to a country’s development. One essential measure of an economy’s health is employment. Increased employment indicates better growth possibilities for the country.
- Both education and skill development provide a person with the necessary training to enable them to find employment.
- Nowadays, employers tend to upskill newly hired employees in order to improve their performance.
- The industry has benefited from a number of skill development initiatives, including the National Skill Development Mission and the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, which have increased the availability of human resources to a variety of industries.
Q2. Describe a handful of India’s internationally significant wetlands that are included in the Ramsar Sites and provide your thoughts on the government of India’s National Wetland Conservation Programme.
GS III – Environmental Conservation related issues
Introduction:
- An international agreement for the preservation and sustainable use of wetlands is known as the Ramsar Convention. Wetlands of international importance are those that are included in the Convention’s list. India’s significant Ramsar sites include the following:
- In Tamil Nadu’s Karikili Bird Sanctuary, cormorants, grey herons, and open-billed storks can be found.
- The enormous mangrove forest of Pichavaram Mangrove is located on an island in Tamil Nadu.
- Chandra Taal is one of the two Ramsar wetlands located at a high altitude.
Body:
- In order to preserve wetlands and their many advantages—including freshwater supply, resource pooling, biodiversity, flood management, groundwater recharge, and climate change mitigation—the National Wetland Conservation Programme (NWCP) was established. The NWCP aims to preserve wetlands and stop their degradation while granting the surrounding populations access to the advantages they offer.
NWCP’s significance:
- 115 wetlands have been identified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MOEFCC) as needing immediate management and conservation.
- It uses the same definition of wetlands as the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
- State governments are in charge of managing wetlands, but federal funding, technical support, and general coordination fall within this purview.
NWCP’s goals:
- establishing policy standards for wetland management and conservation.
- creating and keeping a wetlands inventory.
- financial support given to the states.
- observing how the programme is being implemented.
- supporting institutions’ interdisciplinary research.
- The Ramsar Site designation and the National Wetland Conservation Programme demonstrate India’s dedication to protecting ecologically fragile regions for present and future generations.
