Tag: political science

All the given three authorities are involved in inquiring, investigating and prosecuting corruption cases.

• Central Bureau of investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of India. It serves as the Nation’s prime federal law enforcement agency under the jurisdiction of the Government of India. The CBI was established in the year 1941 as a special police establishment and was changed to CBI In the year 1963.
  
• Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) was created in the year 1964 to work against governmental corruption.
  
• Respective states have State Anti-Corruption Bureau. This agency is a specialized in fighting corruption in various departments of the Government against Public Servants and Private Persons.
  

Both Prevention of Corruption Act and Jan Lokpal Bill are the anti-corruption bills.

• Prevention of Corruption Act was enacted in the year 1988. This act was enacted to combat corruption in government agencies and public sector businesses in India.
  
• Jan Lokpal Bill is an anti-corruption bill drawn up by civil society activists in India seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body to investigate corruption cases.
  

Deciding factors of the quality of population are all the factors given in the options.

• Literacy is nothing but the education of the people living in particular area.
  
• Sex composition is the distribution of the male and female population in particular area.
  
• Occupational structure is the distribution of population based on the occupation of the person. There exists a relation between occupational structure and development.
  
• Higher literacy rate, equal ratio of male and female population and increased occupation in the field of secondary and tertiary structure implies the healthy and quality population.
  

CPI stands for Corruption Perception Index. This index has been publishing the rank of countries according to levels of corruption since 1995. According to 2015 rankings given by Corruption Perception Index, India ranks 76th.

Anna Hazare is an Indian social activist. He led a number of movements on rural development and to increase government transparency, and investigate and punish corruption in public life. He started hunger strike against corruption on 5th April 2011. The aim of this strike is to pressurise government to enact a stringent anti-corruption law, ‘The Lokpal Bill, 2011’.

Eleventh five year plan was in action from the year 2007 to 2012. The plan endeavoured to increase the enrolment in higher education of the 18 to 23 years age group to 15%. It also aimed to Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or more to 85%.

• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is a Government programme aimed at the universalization of elementary education in a time-bound manner. The programme was pioneered by former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
  
• According to this programme, all the children between the age group of 6-14 years are provided with compulsory education.
  

CPI stands for Corruption Perception Index. This index has been publishing the rank of countries according to levels of corruption since 1995. India ranks 76 according to 2015 rankings given by Corruption Perception Index.

• If a shop owner keeps his shop open during a hurricane, at personal risk, and sells bottled water at a higher price compensate for his risk-taking, he can be called as a profiteer.
  
• A profiteer is someone who makes an unreasonable profit especially during times of emergency like cyclones, floods etc. it is considered unethical.
  

Prevention of Corruption Act was enacted in the year 1988. This act was enacted to combat corruption in government agencies and public sector businesses in India. This was amended in 2013 which framed the guidelines for commercial organizations to prevent their employees/associates from giving bribes to public servants and average trial period of cases is decreased to 2 years from 8 years.