Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs February 2019 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of January 2019 bearing relevance to Civil Service Examination. News and events from all domain i.e. National, Business, International etc. have been dealt in brief. The magazine is brought out monthly by renowned Delhi based IAS coaching institute VISION IAS.

Table of Contents

1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE ____________ 4
1.1. Falling Productivity of Rajya Sabha _______4
1.2. National Security Act __________________5
1.3. Section 124-A of The Indian Penal Code ___6
1.4. Judges and Post Retirement Positions ____7
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ___________ 9
2.1. India-Saudi Arabia Relations ____________9
2.2. Chabahar Port ______________________10
2.3. Geneva Convention 1949______________11
2.4. ICJ on Decolonization of Mauritius ______13
2.5. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty14
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 16
3.1. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN) ________________________________16
3.2. Policy Bias Against Rainfed Agriculture___18
3.3. National Mineral Policy 2019___________20
3.4. Draft E-Commerce Policy ______________21
3.5. National Policy for Software Products ___22
3.6. National Policy on Electronics, 2019 _____24
3.7. Setting up of India Post Bank as Payment
Bank __________________________________25
3.8. Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions
(OSDT) ________________________________26
3.9. National Minimum Wage______________27
3.10. PM Shram-Yogi Maandhan Yojana
(PMSYM) ______________________________28
3.11. Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of The
NSSO _________________________________29
3.12. Public Sector Undertaking ____________30
3.13. Department for Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade (DPIIT) ____________________31
3.14. Draft National Logistics Policy _________31
3.15. River Information System ____________33
3.16. New Angel Tax Rules ________________34
3.17. Fame India Phase II _________________35
3.18. Printing Presses Declared as Public Utility36
3.19. International Financial Services Center
Authority Bill ___________________________36
3.20. Pricing of Drugs ____________________37
3.21. Strategic Petroleum Reserve __________40
3.22. Global IP Index _____________________41
4. SECURITY__________________________ 42
4.1. Terror Activities and Mutual Distrust in
India-Pakistan Relations __________________42
4.2. Project 75-I _________________________44
5. ENVIRONMENT_____________________ 45
5.1. Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Report 45
5.2. Polar Vortex ________________________47
5.3. Indian Sundarbans- A Wetland of
International Importance _________________48
5.4. Kelp Forests ________________________49

5.5. Landscape-Level Approach to Address
Human-Elephant Conflicts ________________50
5.6. Cheetah Reintroduction_______________51
5.7. Indus Dolphin _______________________52
5.8. The New Delhi Declaration on Asian Rhinos
2019 __________________________________52
5.9. Low Carbon Strategy for Renewable Energy
Integration_____________________________53
5.10. Rainwater Harvesting in Metropolitan
Cities _________________________________54
5.11. Pradhan Mantri Ji-Van (Jaiv IndhanVatavaran Anukool Fasal Awashesh Nivaran)
Yojana ________________________________55
5.12. Eviction Order of Forest Dwellers ______56
5.13. Environmental Rule of Law ___________57
5.14. Small Grants Programme (SGP) ________59
5.15. Repeated Earthquakes in Palghar ______59
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________61
6.1. Cleaning Up Space Debris _____________61
6.2. Progress of Digital Literacy Programs in India
______________________________________62
6.3. Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) ________64
6.4. Param Shivay _______________________64
6.5. Measles-Rubella _____________________65
6.6. National Action Plan for Viral Hepatitis
Control ________________________________65
7. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________67
7.1. Defining Minorities in India ____________67
7.2. Development and Welfare Board for
Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic
Communities ___________________________68
7.3. Operation Digital Board _______________70
8. CULTURE ___________________________71