Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs January 2019 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of December 2018 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 & GOVERNANCE_______________ 4
1.1 Citizenship Amendment Bill _____________4
1.2 Reservation for Economically Weaker Sections
_______________________________________5
1.3 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) Controversy
_______________________________________7
1.4 Feminisation of Indian politics ___________9
1.5. North-East Autonomous Councils _______10
1.6. Bill for Trade Union Recognition ________11
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 13
2.1. 1st India-Central Asia Dialogue _________13
2.2. India & South Africa __________________15
2.3. Gilgit-Baltistan Issue _________________16
2.4. Draft Emigration Bill__________________17
2.5. Space Diplomacy ____________________19
2.6. Venezuela Crisis _____________________20
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 22
3.1. Status Paper on Government Debt ______22
3.2. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code________24
3.3. GST Regime_________________________26
3.4. Insider Trading ______________________27
3.5. Export-Import Bank of India ___________28
3.6. Technical Textiles ____________________28
3.7. Minimum Basic Income _______________29
3.8. National Agricultural Higher Education
Project (NAHEP)_________________________31
3.9. Uranium Requirements in India ________32
4. SECURITY__________________________ 34
4.1. Integrating the Islands ________________34
4.2. Paris Call ___________________________37
4.3. Space Technology in Border Management 38
4.4. Central Armed Police Forces ___________39
4.5. Climate Change- A Security Issue?_______40
4.6. Women in Combat Role_______________42
5. ENVIRONMENT_____________________ 44
5.1. National Clean Air Programme _________44
5.2. Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Plants __________46
5.3. Access and Benefit Sharing ____________48
5.4. Land Degradation Neutrality ___________49
5.5. Obesity, Undernutrition and Climate Change
Linkage________________________________51
5.6. ‘Cultural Model’ of Conservation _______51
5.7. Flora Fauna in News__________________52
5.7.1. Sarus Crane__________________________ 52
5.7.2. North Indian Rosewood ________________ 53
5.7.3. Mugger Crocodile_____________________ 53
5.7.4. Humpback dolphins ___________________ 54
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY___________ 55
6.1. Rare Diseases _______________________55
6.2. Leprosy in India _____________________56
6.3. Gas Hydrates _______________________57
6.4. Eat Right India Movement _____________58

6.5. Young Scientist Programme____________59
6.6. Unispace Nanosatellite Assembly & Training
programme (UNNATI) ____________________59
6.7. International Year of the Periodic Table of
Chemical Elements ______________________60
7. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________61
7.1. ASER Annual Education Report _________61
7.2. National Health Authority (NHA)________62
7.3. Tribal Health________________________63
7.4. National Action Plan for Drug Demand
Reduction (2018-2023) ___________________64
7.5. Global Report on Trafficking in Persons –
2018 __________________________________66
7.6. Prevalence of Bonded Labour in India____68
8. CULTURE ___________________________70
8.1. Sanskriti Kumbh _____________________70
8.2. Bharat Ratna________________________70
8.3. Republic Day Parade 2019 _____________71
8.4. Couple’s Grave in Harappan Settlement __72
8.5. Gandhi Circuit_______________________73
8.6. International Gandhi Peace Prize _______73
8.7. Monuments of National Importance_____74
8.8. World Capital of Architecture __________74
9. ETHICS_____________________________76
9.1. Sensitizing Youth Towards Gender Issues_76
10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________78
10.1. Report and Index in news _______________ 78
10.2. Institutes of Eminence _________________ 78
10.3. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) ____________ 78
10.4. Raisina Dialogue 2019 __________________ 79
10.5. Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific
Partnership (CPTPP) ________________________ 79
10.6. Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) _____ 79
10.7. Beirut Declaration _____________________ 79
10.8. National Statistical Commission __________ 79
10.9. Industrial Outlook Survey, and Services and
Infrastructure Outlook Survey ________________ 80
10.10. Debenture Redemption Reserve ________ 80
10.11. Share-Pledging_______________________ 80
10.12. UK Sinha Committee __________________ 80
10.13. GAFA Tax ___________________________ 80
10.14. Re-weave.in _________________________ 80
10.15. India’s Largest Startup Ecosystem in Kerala 80
10.16. Jan Shikshan Santhans (JSS) ____________ 81
10.17. Bharatiya Shiksha Board _______________ 81
10.18. Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics
_________________________________________ 81
10.19. Global Solar Council __________________ 81
10.20. Alliance to End Plastic Waste ___________ 81
10.21. Renuka Multipurpose Dam Project ______ 81
10.22. Diffo Bridge in Arunachal ______________ 82
10.23. Atal Setu ___________________________ 82
10.24. Vande Bharat Express _________________ 82
10.25. Asian Waterbird Census, 2019 __________ 82

10.26. Large Forest Fire Monitoring Programme _ 82
10.27. Lake Urmia__________________________ 82
10.28. 106th Indian Science Congress __________ 82
10.29. SALSA ______________________________ 82
10.30. X-Calibur ___________________________ 83
10.31. Ultima Thule ________________________ 83
10.32. PSLV-C44 ___________________________ 83
10.33. Shifting North Magnetic Pole ___________ 83
10.34. Indus Food 2019 _____________________ 83
10.35. Smart Food Executive Council __________ 84
10.36. Web- Wonder Women” Campaign_______ 84
10.37. 2nd World Integrated Medicine Forum 2019
________________________________________ 84
10.38. Celiac disease _______________________ 84
10.39. Triple Drug Therapy for Lymphatic Filariasis84
10.40. Bilateral and Multilateral exercises in news 85
10.41. Howitzer Plant_______________________ 85

10.42. Missiles Testing ______________________ 85
10.43. National Informatics Centre’s Command &
Control Centre (CCC) and Center of Excellence in
Artificial Intelligence (CoE in AI)_______________ 85
10.44. Carnot Prize for Union Minister _________ 85
10.45. PM Receives First Ever Philip Kotler
Presidential Award _________________________ 85
10.46. State Schemes in News ________________ 85
11. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN NEWS _____86
11.1. Atal Jyoti Yojana ______________________ 86
11.2. Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme
(DDRS) ___________________________________ 86
11.3. UDAN 3.0 (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik Scheme)/
Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) ___________ 86
11.4. Scheme for Family Welfare and Other Health
Interventions _____________________________ 87