Report of the Competition Law Review Committee submitted
Context
Report of the Competition Law Review Committee submitted to Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister.
Recommendations
Background
The Government constituted a Competition Law Review Committee on 1st October, 2018 to review the existing Competition law framework and make recommendations to further strengthen the framework to inter alia meet new economy challenges.
The Competition Act
The Competition Act, 2002, as amended by the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2007, prohibits anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position by enterprises and regulates combinations (acquisition, acquiring of control and M&A), which causes or likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition within India.
Source: The Hindu
GS- III: CBI Autonomy
Context
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has recommended a comprehensive legislation to make the Central Bureau of Investigation functional as an efficient and impartial investigative agency.
Problems with CBI
CBI Autonomy
SC raised the question of CBI’s independence and said that “The CBI has become the state’s parrot. Only screaming, repeating the master’s voice” The SC had then asked the Centre to make the CBI impartial and said it needs to be ensured that the CBI functions free of all external pressures.
SC over CBI’s autonomy:
In the Vineet Narain case, 1997 The Supreme Court agreed that the CBI had failed in its responsibility to investigate allegations of public corruption. It laid down guidelines to ensure independence and autonomy of the CBI and ordered that the CBI be placed under the supervision of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), an independent governmental agency intended to be free from executive control or interference.
About CBI
Source: The Hindu
GS-II: Notified Disease
Context
A month after Union Health Minister asked the Delhi government to make malaria and dengue notifiable diseases, the local authorities has initiated the work to notify malaria in the capital.
What is a notifiable disease?
Why notify diseases?
Source: Indian Express
GS-III: Global assessment of forest biodiversity by WWF
Context
World Wide Fund for Nature released the first-ever global assessment of forest biodiversity.
Background
Forest biodiversity had never been assessed, but forest area was often used as a proxy indicator. The new findings were based on the Forest Specialist Index, developed following the Living Planet Index methodology an index that tracks wildlife that lives only in forests.
Keys of report
Threaten by Climate Change
Main Concern
Protecting wildlife and reversing the decline of nature requires urgent global action. The need is to preserve harmonious land use in our region, including forest management and protect the most valuable surviving ecosystems.
Source: Indian Express
GS-III: Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA)
Context
Former IAS officer has been detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
What is Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir
Criticism of PSA
Human rights group are almost unanimous in their stand- PSA result wrongful detentions. Amensty International has been aggressively churning out reports on number of people detained over the past . Many innocent people become prey to politician because this act giver power to the ruling party.
According to the rights activist, Jammu and Kashmir uses PSA to keep people they can’t convict through proper legal channels locked up and out of the way.On the other side PSA has been criticized for denying citizen the right to fair trial and justice.
Source: The Hindu
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