UPSC Economy by Vikas Kanukollu

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✅Gs-3 - Internal security ✅Gs-3- Economic growth 🅾️GS-3, 2020: Discuss different types of cyber crimes and measures required to be taken to fight the menace. Although commercial spam is not always cybercrime, spam infrastructure is frequently used for impersonation, phishing and financial fraud. So this news becomes important that way 📌Telecom providers must identify high-probability spam numbers using AI/ML and share that intelligence across operators. 📌Action can begin when a sender receives three unique complaints within ten days and is also flagged by the AI system. 📌Five or more associated numbers flagged within ten days can trigger KYC reverification, physical verification, outgoing-service restrictions and, for repeated misuse, disconnection. 📌Automated or application-to-person calls must be pre-declared; 📌If you are worried about CONSISTENT and STRUCTURED coverage of Current affairs- please do consider the VERITAS program of VK IAS-Click here

✅Gs-3 - Labor and unemployment 🅾️India does not have one labour market; it has hundreds of locally differentiated labour ecosystems. 🅾️Upsc previously asked a question: Most of the unemployment in India is structural in nature. Examine the methodology adopted to compute unemployment in the country and suggest improvements. 🅾️The revised PLFS design, introduced in January 2025, treats districts rather than larger NSS Regions as the basic sampling stratum across most areas. This has enabled district-level estimates for the first time.The new design addresses one methodological weakness—State and national averages could not adequately reveal geographically concentrated employment problems. 📌If you are worried about CONSISTENT and STRUCTURED coverage of Current affairs- please do consider the VERITAS program of VK IAS-Click here

✅Gs-3 : Economic growth - Energy atmanirbharta- Why E20?- Click here ⚠️Impact ⚜️1. E20 may reduce petroleum use, but lower mileage and diversion of agricultural produce can offset gains.Achieving a blending target establishes implementation progress; it does not by itself establish net welfare gains. ⚜️2. Ethanol’s lower energy content can reduce mileage; the effect depends on vehicle design and calibration.The NITI Aayog–MoPNG Roadmap estimates different efficiency losses across vehicle categories: 6–7% for certain 4-wheelers designed for E0 and calibrated for E10, compared with 1–2% for four-wheelers designed for E10 and calibrated for E20. ⚜️3. Crop carbon uptake can offset some combustion emissions, but fertiliser use, irrigation energy and distillery operations still affect the overall balance.Renewable does not automatically mean carbon-neutral. 📌If you are worried about CONSISTENT and STRUCTURED coverage of Current affairs- please do consider the VERITAS program of VK IAS-Click here

✅Gs-2 : IR 🅾️India should use BRICS to expand its development choices- But we should also make sure that the grouping is not going to become an instrument of Chinese strategic influence. The New Development Bank offers a practical route for making sure of this. ✅Gs-3 : Mobilization of resources- BRICS-NDB ⚜️Strategic Goal: The NDB's 2022-26 General Strategy commits to conducting 30% of its lending and borrowing in member countries' local currencies to reduce reliance on the US dollar. ⚜️India's Next Step- it is time for India to push forward a long-delayed rupee bond, which is tentatively scheduled for a debut issuance by the end of March 2026. 🛑Link between Bond Yields and liquidity?- Click here 🎖VK IAS subject wise channels - Click here ⚠️Subscribe to VK IAS's YouTube channel : Click here