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Today's Important News: 24 December 2011
(News) Mumbai varsity breaks up coaching fee for MPSC/UPSC students
(Article) Draft Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011
(Article) Credit Risk Guarantee Fund (CGFS)
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Today's Important News: 24 December 2011

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 02:44 AM PST

Today's Important News (24-12-2011)

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(News) Mumbai varsity breaks up coaching fee for MPSC/UPSC students

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 12:16 AM PST

Mumbai varsity breaks up coaching fee for MPSC/UPSC students

University of Mumbai announced on Tuesday that only Rs3,000 fee will be charged for MPSC/UPSC coaching. The fee will be taken for preliminary exams initially. The entrance exam form, however, still costs Rs500.

Dr Ambadas Jadhav, head of academy of administrative career, said, "Initially only Rs3,000 will be taken. If someone clears prelims, then Rs5,000 will be charged for further coaching for the main exams. Those who clear mains and go for the interview preparation, need to give Rs2,000 more."

In the November 26 issue, DNA had carried a story, "Mumbai University chases money, opens for profit centre" where it gave details of how city colleges are giving MPSC/UPSC coaching free with the help of UGC grant, while varsity is asking for Rs10,000 from students." Many students returned from the academy office at Kalina campus, when they were told the fee is Rs10,000.

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(Article) Draft Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 12:02 AM PST

Draft Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011

(Notes Useful in all Interviews conducted by UPSC; Civil Services (Exclusive): GS (CS Pre, CS Mains- Polity, National Affairs, Social Issues) & in optionals like Public Administration, Sociology, Geography (Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Regional Planning), Political Science, Law etc)

Rationale for New Law:

Slum Free India: The Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Ministry proposed the strengthening of its Slum redevelopment strategy by working towards a slum free India, and assigning property rights to Slum Dwellers, under the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY). – Poverty Alleviation, Remedies for ill Effects of Urbanisation, Integration with Earlier Schemes

Inclusive Urban Development: RAY proposes decisive action for inclusive urban development that acknowledges the presence of the poor in cities, recognizes their contribution as essential to the city's functioning, and redresses the fundamental reasons for inequity that ties them down to poverty. – Recognizing Importance of Poor,

Global Practice: The conferment of property title is a new direction for national policy that aligns national approach to the global practice. It sees ownership of property as the best investment in democracy, by creating for the household due space within the formal system, and thereby a vested interest in peace and legal order. – Peace & Legal Order

Reforming Formal System: The Model law is aimed at bringing within the formal system, those who are forced to live in extra-formal spaces and in denial of right to services and amenities available to those with legal title to city spaces, and at correcting the deficiencies of the formal system of urban development and town planning that have failed to create conditions of inclusiveness and equity, so that, henceforth, new urban families, whether by way of migration or natural growth of population, have recourse to housing with civic amenities, and are not forced from lack of options to create encroachments and slums and live extralegal lives in conditions of deprivation of rights and amenities. – Inclusive Growth, Equity, Justice,

Capital Flow: The Model law intends to enable the household to access the formal channels of credit; it draws the entire extralegal economy of slums out of the informal market; it enriches the slum dweller by giving him access to mortgageable rights for housing construction, and the formal economy by enabling a quarter of its population to participate in its growth. – Crushing Informal Markets & thus Black Money Circulation

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(Article) Credit Risk Guarantee Fund (CGFS)

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 03:59 AM PST

Credit Risk Guarantee Fund (CGFS)
(Applicability of Notes in GS, Sociology, Pub. Ad., Geography, Economy, Law etc)

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Rationale:

To address the issue of credit enablement of EWS and LIG households, the Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Ministry proposes to create a Credit Risk Guarantee Fund Scheme (CGFS) under Rajiv Awas Yojana.

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