Government of India

-- The Structure --

Lecture contents:

1. Structure of GoI

2. All Schemes and Policies

3. Indian Environment Legislations [EnE Lecture 1]

4. Indian Defence, SnT, Internal Security [Lecture 1]

5. Art of Answer Writing [Part 3]

NOTE:

1. Please take one sided printout before following lectures/ making notes.

2. See YouTube Video Description to know covered topics.

Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Annual report: Agricultural Statistics at a Glance

Fertilisers: no.

1. Department of Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare. (~ Ministry)

Co-operation: to promote farmer co-operative movements.

Agriculture Mission Mode Project (MMP): Agricultural e-governance projects.

MSP: SG + other factors .Recommendations of CACP CCEA decides

o Announced for both Rabi and Kharif seasons.

o Not for plantation crops [generally]

o For Sugarcane: MSP = FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price)

o CACP = Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.

o CCEA = Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs

2. Department of Agriculture Research and Education:

Responsibilities: research, technology development.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

3. Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries:

Livestock and aquaculture.

Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (MoCF)

1. Department of Fertilisers

Indigenous and imported fertilisers. [Not Min of Agri.]

2. Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals

Chemical Weapon convention. [Q. What is CWC, BWC?- EnE Lectures]

Bhopal disaster - special laws.

All organic and inorganic chemicals not specifically allotted to any other ministry.

o Petrochemicals, Dye.

o Insecticides, excluding the administration of the Insecticides Act, 1968.

o Molasses, Alcohol (from molasses route) Industrial and Potable.

o Non cellulosic synthetic fibres such as nylon, polyester, and acrylic, rubber, Plastics

[cellulose = fibre, not chemical]

3. Department of Pharmaceuticals

Drugs and pharmaceuticals, excluding those specifically allotted to other departments

All the Government owned drug manufacturing units.

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)

o To fix/ revise the prices of controlled bulk drugs and formulations

o Under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995. [DPCO]

Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI)

First Minister (of independent India): Syama Prasad Mukherjee.

1. Department of Commerce

Foreign trade policy, multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, state trading, export promotion

measures, certain export oriented industries and commodities.

International trade

Foreign Trade

State trading

Management of Indian Trade Services

Special Economic Zones

2. Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP)

Promotional and developmental measures for growth of the industrial sector.

DIPP: overall Industrial Policy. (Individual ministries: specific industries allocated to them)

Facilitating and increasing the FDI.

Intellectual property rights (IPRs): [all type IPRs now]

o Patents, Designs, Trademarks, Geographical Indication (GI), Copyright (earlier MHRD)

Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO)

o [Earlier Department of Explosive]

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

1. Department of Telecommunications

All forms of communications: e.g. Telegraphs, telephones, wireless, data.

Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885)

Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1940 (17 of 1933)

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (TRAI)

BSNL, MTNL

Objectives

e-Government: Providing e-infrastructure for delivery of e-services.

e-Industry: electronics and IT industry.

e-Innovation / R&D: in emerging areas of ICT.

e-Learning: e-Skills and Knowledge network

e-Security: cyber space

e-Inclusion: use of ICT for more inclusive growth

Internet Governance: Enhancing Indias role in Global Platforms of Internet Governance.

2. Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)

Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CAT) [cyber security: IS lecture]

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT- In)

Digital Locker

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

Education and Research in Computer Networking (ERNET) (autonomous)

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) (autonomous)

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB)

Relating to information, broadcasting, the press and films.

Prasar Bharati: Broadcasting arm of Indian Government.

News Services through All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD).

CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification): regulation of motion pictures broadcasted in India.

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

1. Department of Food and Public Distribution

PSUs: Food Corporation of India (FCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)

The remunerative rates for the farmers. [not MSP]

Public Distribution System: Supply of food grains at reasonable prices.

o A national food security system.

o Major commodities distributed include wheat, rice, sugar, and kerosene.

o Statutory body: Food Corporation of India (FCI).

o Fair Price Shops (FPS), largest distribution network of its type in the world

o Non PDS: Annapurna (MoRD)

2. Department of Consumer Affairs

Statutory bodies: Standards of Weights and Measures, The Bureau of Indian Standards

Monitoring of Prices

Availability of essential commodities

The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Consumer Welfare Fund

Internal Trade [not Min of Commerce or Min. of Corporate]

Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)

Responsible for regulating the functioning of the corporate sector in accordance with law.

Following acts:

o The Companies Act, 2013 (1956, 2002)

o The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1969

o The Indian Partnership Act, 1932

o Societies Registration Act 1860: Trust for business.

o Limited liability Partnership Act, 2008

Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)

Earth sciences, Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean Science & Technology and Seismology.

Organisations

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)

India Meteorological Department (IMD)

National Centre for Seismology (NCS)

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)

National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF)

National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) Goa

National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)

Earthquake Risk Evaluation Centre (EREC)

Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC)

Integrated Coastal and Marine Area Management Project Directorate (ICMAM-PD) Chennai

Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE) Kochi

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)

Afforestation and land degradation, Mitigation, Adaptation.

Conservation and survey of the flora, fauna, forests and other wilderness areas,

GEAC: Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee GM crops

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB): Water Act, Air Act.

o Prevention and control of pollution,

Wildlife Protection Act, 1972:

o National Board for Wild Life is a Statutory Organization

o Chairman: PM

Administration of the national parks of India.

One of the three All India Services, The Indian Forest Service (IFoS)

Authorities

o Central Zoo Authority of India, New Delhi

o National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai

o National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA),

New Delhi, Project Tiger, Tiger Reserves in India.

Subordinate offices

o Animal Welfare Board of India , Chennai

o Botanical Survey of India (BSI), Kolkata

o Directorate of Forest Education (DFE), Dehradun

o Forest Survey of India (FSI), Dehradun

o Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun

o National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board

o National Board of Wildlife

o National Institute of Animal Welfare

o National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), New Delhi

o National Zoological Park (NZP), New Delhi

o Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata

GS3: Environment and Ecology. + Many optionals

Topic: Environmental Legislations India [World: ]

Any Act: Structure. [How does it looks like?] [GS2: Answer Writing]

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1. Water Act, 1974: [Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act]

MoEFCC, Whole of India, J&K too

Created: CPCB, SPCB, Joint Boards ( 2 SG/ UT)

1.1. Water Pollution Cess Act, 1977:

Cess: Industry, Domestic, Processing.

2. Air Act, 1981: [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act]

According to Stockholm Declaration, 1972 aka UN Conference on the Human Environment.

MoEFCC, Whole of India, J&K too

Powers given to CPCB, SPCB, Joint Boards ( 2 SG/ UT)

Include Noise

Copy paste Water Act: even sections are also same

3. Environment Protection Act, 1986

Bhopal Tragedy, under Article 253.

To implement UNCHR: United Nations Conference on the Human Environments

o [UNCHR is a convention, UNHRC is a body]

Umbrella legislation = Supreme environment act [Environment = concurrent list]

3 Pillars:

o National Forest Policy [not act]

o Policy statement for abatement of Pollution, 1992

o National Conservation Strategy, 1992

Duty of every citizen [Art. 51 A(g)]

DPSP: Art. 48 (A), 42nd CAA, 1976

4. Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991

Ministry of Law and Justice

Relief fund: by central government.

5. Wildlife Act, 1972 [WLPA, 1972]

Latest amendment: Wildlife Protetion Amendment Act, 2013.

Whole of India, except J&K (they have own wildlife act).

Protection of wild animals, birds and plants;

Six schedules: varying degrees of protection.

o Schedule I, Schedule II (actually part II of sch. 2)

Absolute protection. Offences = highest penalties.

o Schedule III and Schedule IV

Protected, much lower penalties.

SG can declare in public interest: e.g. Bihar- Nilgai, UK- wild boar, HP- Rhesus

Monkey.

o Schedule V: animals which may be hunted. [e.g. Common crow, Fruit bat, mice, rat]

o Schedule VI: Plants = prohibited from cultivation and planting.

6. Biological Diversity Act, 2002

Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) = [Rio, 1992]

NBA: National Biodiversity Authority. HQ: Chennai [MoEFCC]

BMC: Biological management Committee, for each local body. [> 30,000]

Benefit sharing: IPR, Technology Transfer, Compensation.

7. CRZ Notification (Coastal Zone Regulation)

1991: under EPA, 1986.

C.G. can restrict industries etc.

CRZ, 1991 Act

o CRZ 1

o CRZ 2

o CRZ 3

o CRZ 4

o CRZ 5

o CRZ 6

2014: MoEFCC Shailesh Nayak Committee, RTI issue, Urban flooding issue.

8. Noise Pollution Rules

MoEFCC, EPA, 1986, CPCB, SPCB.

Ambient Air Quality Standard mainly by S.G.

Silence zone = Excluded areas: 100 m

e.g. Hospitals, Courts, Educational institutes.

Loud speaker or Public Address System Written permission

Noise level: 10 dB(A) above the ambient noise level or 75 dB(A) [whichever is lower] [Ambient =

background]

Permitted: fire crackers (added in 2010), music/ vocal instrument [not DJ],

Night Time [defined in 2010] = 10 pm to 6 am.

National Green Tribunal: Statutory body (NGT Act, 2010) [Not MoEFCC]

Draws inspiration from Article 21.

Principle of Natural justice.

Recent decisions: Yamuna Conservation Zone, Coal Blocks in Chhattisgarh Forests.

Jurisdiction

o Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974;

o Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977;

o Forest (Conservation) Act,

o Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981;

o Environment (Protection) Act, 1986;

o Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991;

o Biological Diversity Act, 2002.

National Environment Policy, 2006

MoEFCC, Art. 21, Art. 48 (A), 51 A (g).

Challenges: Environment vs. economy

Scope: EIA, CRZ, LMO and GMO, ESZ, Desert habitations.

Principles:

o Human centric [Traditional Approach, human is supreme], problem is inevitable.

o PPP,

o Legal Liability,

o Doctrine of Public Trust [state is not absolute owner, but a trustee of all natural resources]

ART OF ANSWER WRITING: 3 (rank 1, selection surety, minute difference, one liner, 100 key lines, optional v. gs)

Q. What is Environment Policy?

Q. What is Environment Education?

Q. Difference between Conservation and Protection?

Q. Difference between Environment, Ecology and Biodiversity?

Q. What is Environment management approach to save environment, [Environment is supreme]

: Techno centric and eco centric approach.

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), (Foreign Ministry)

Responsible for the conduct of foreign (+ UN) relations of India.

Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs: Merged in MEA

Statutory Body: Haj Committee of India

Development Partnership Administration (DPA)

o As India increased its strategic footprint, DPA was formed in 2013.

Ministry of Finance (Fin. Min.)

1. Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)

Economic policies, internal and external aspects of economic management.

Union Budget, Economic Survey, Macroeconomic policies, fiscal policy

Taxation, market borrowings and mobilisation of small savings.

DEA (not RBI)

o Inflation, Public finance, public debt management. Monitoring foreign exchange

resources including Balance of Payments (not RBI)

o Monitoring and raising of external resources, sovereign borrowings abroad.

o Production of bank notes and coins, postal stationery, postal stamps [Mrunal lecture]

Functioning of Capital Market including Stock Exchanges. (Not SEBI)

FDI: Foreign investment Promotion Board (FIPB): to be abolished.

2. Department of Expenditure

Pre sanction appraisal of major schemes/projects (Earlier: both Plan and non-Plan expenditure),

Handling the bulk of the Central budgetary resources transferred to States.

Finance and Central Pay Commissions. 7th PC (Justice AK Mathur) [not Honorable only]

3. Department of Revenue

Matters of all the Direct and Indirect Union Taxes

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).

Directorate general of safeguards. Recommends safeguard duties.

Q: safeguard duties, countervailing duty, anti-dumping duty.

Ministry of Finance contd.

4. Department of Financial Services (DFS)

Covers Banks, Insurance and Financial Services, Industrial Finance.

Pension reforms, PDRFA. [not DoPT]

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana.

5. Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM)

Department of Disinvestment renamed as DIPAM

Proper management of Centre's investments in equity.

Disinvestment and privatisation of PSUs.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

1. Department of Health

Health Policy

National Health Programmes

Universal Immunisation Programme

AMRIT [not AMRUT: MoUD]

Bodies:

o National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO): Project Sunrise NE India, for AIDS

o Medical Council of India (MCI), Dental Council of India (DCI)

o Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

o Central Drugs Standard Control Organization

2. Department of Family Welfare (FW)

Family planning, reproductive health, maternal health etc.

Bodies:

o Population Research Centres (PRCs)

o National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), Delhi

o International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai.

National Family Health Survey

o Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow

o Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi

founded in 1911, one of the oldest medical research bodies in the world

Ministry of AYUSH

Earlier: a department in Min. of Health, Now: Ministry, Honorable Shri N. Modi Government.

AYUSH

o Ayurveda (Indian),

o Yoga (Indian),

o Unani (Central Asia),

o Siddha (South Indian),

o Homoeopathy (European),

o Naturopathy (Greek/ America),

o Sowa Rigpa (Tibet)

o + Other Indigenous Medicine systems.

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL): collaboration With CSIR

o To prevent grant of "bed" patents on traditional knowledge

o To prevent biopiracy. [Q. Bioprospecting]

o Digital library = traditional knowledge on Indian medicines, formulations ( = * Lakhs )

Project Collaboration: Min. of AYUSH + WHO [WHO: HQ = Geneva]

o Project Collaboration Agreement (PCA)

o WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

Responsible for maintenance of domestic policy and internal security (not MoD).

Controls IPS Cadre.

Intelligence Bureau

NSA [not MHA, but PMO]

1. Department of Border Management

Land borders + coastal borders.

2. Department of Internal Security

Police, law and order and rehabilitation.

3. Department of Jammu & Kashmir Affairs

Deals with the J&K constitutional provisions (Art 1, Art 370)

Excluding those with which the Ministry of External Affairs is concerned.

4. Department of Home

Notification of assumption of office by the Executives

o e.g. President, Vice President, PM, Other Ministers

5. Department of Official Language

Article 350, (all: 343-351), Official Languages Act, 1963.

Hindi language

6. Department of States

Centre-State relations, Inter-State relations,

UTs

Freedom Fighters' pension. [not DoPT, not DFS]

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA)

Responsible for urban poverty, housing, and employment programs.

Scope: Urban Slum, Urban Low Cost Sanitation, Night Shelter.

o Wider scope: Income generation, health, shelter, education, environment, infrastructure etc.

o Responsible for the NCT (Delhi) and union territories.

o (X) Constitution: responsibility for housing and urban development = state,

o (X) 74th CAA: some responsibility to the local governments.

Street Vendors Act, 2014.

Dhanendra Kumar Committee: [not Dhirendra Singh: DPP]

o Streamlining Approval Procedures for Real Estate Projects.

o Concept of single window ease of doing business in the country.

Bodies:

o Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council

o Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation

o National Cooperative Housing Federation of India

o National Buildings Organisation (NBO)

o Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO)

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

Scholarships, loan subsidy, etc.

1. Department of School Education and Literacy

Principle: Universalization of education

Sarva Siksha Abhiyan,

Digital gender Atlas (with UNICEF) [Not in MoWC]

2. Department of Higher Education

Education Policy, Secondary and post secondary education.

Deemed university status on the advice of UGC, [UGC: Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Committee]

International Cooperation: UNESCO India, Book Promotion and Copyrights (earlier)

One of the largest higher education systems in world, after USA and China.

World class () opportunities of higher education and research

Bodies:

o UGC, NCERT, ICSSR (Social Science), ICHR (Historical), ICPR (Philosophical).

o AICTE (Technical Education), IIT, IISER, IIM, NIT, IGNOU.

KVS, NVS [Kendriya, Navodaya Vidyalaya]

NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework)

o Rankings of Indian colleges

Ministry of Labour and Employment

Babu Jagjivan Ram: 1st Minister.

Labour Policy and legislation

Safety, health, Social security of labour

Policy relating to special target groups such as women and child labour

Industrial relations and enforcement of labour laws.

Bodies

o Directorate General of Employment.

o Office of Chief Labour Commissioner

o Labour Bureau

o Directorate General of Mines Safety (Not Min. of Mines)

o Central Labour Institute: Arbitration Body

National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog)

Formation on 1st January 2015

GoI Policy think tank replaced Planning Commission

o PC: Top down approach.

o NITI: Bottom - up approach + cooperative federalism.

Prime Minister = Ex-officio chairman.

Governing council: Replaced NDC. All state Chief Ministers, LGs of UTs, (Coop. Fed.)

SDG 2030 in India.

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

Self-Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU)

Grand Innovation Challenge (GIC)

Women Transforming India: (+ UN + My Gov) Essay

Task Force on Agriculture Development

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Personnel matters, recruitment, training, career, post retirement etc.

1. Department Of Personnel and Training (DOPT)

Formulation of policy, ensuring accepted standards and norms.

Controls the IAS cadres. (IPS cadre: MHA, IFoS cadre: MoEFCC)

Bodies:

o UPSC, SSC, Public Enterprises Selection Board

o Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (= IAS Academy)

o CVC, CBI, Central Information Commission

2. Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare (DPPW)

Post retirement benefits of Central Govt. employees, (not of Ministry of Defence)

Grievance redressal for Pensioners'.

3. Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances

Citizens Charters, award schemes, e-governance.

Improvements in Government structures and processes

Citizen-friendly initiatives including redressal of public grievances

Documentation, incubation and dissemination of best practices

Codification and simplification of procedures

Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD)

Responsible for socio-economic development of rural India.

Focus is on health, education, drinking water, housing and roads etc.

1. Department of Rural Development (~ Ministry)

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)

Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY).

MGNREGA

NRLM

District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)

2. Department of Land Resources

Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP)

National Land Record Modernisation Programme (NLRMP) [not NRLM]

Technology Development, Extension & Training Programme (TDET)

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

For disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society,

Including scheduled castes (SC), Other Backward Classes (OBC),

Elderly (= Senior citizens), Drug abuse victims.

Divyang [= Disabled, GoI: New nomenclature.]

Scheduled Tribes (ST): Ministry of Tribal Affairs

Statutory Bodies

o Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, New Delhi

o Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI)

1. Department of Statistics: aka National Statistical Office (NSO).

Central Statistical Office (CSO):

o compilation of National Accounts

o Annual Survey of Industries

o Economic Censuses

o IIP, CPI, ASI, ISP.

ASI sampling method replaced by MCA 21. (Min. of Corporate Affairs)

o Industrial Classification

o Data input for Economic Survey.

National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)

o Social Consumption surveys (Health, Education etc.)

o Manufacturing Enterprises surveys , Service Sector Enterprises surveys

o Consumer Expenditure surveys, Employment Unemployment surveys

o Land and Livestock Holding Survey,

o Debt and Investment surveys

o Agriculture statistics

2. Department of Programme Implementation

Twenty Point Programme (TPP), 1986. (Improving quality of life, especially BPL)

MPLAD: Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme, 1993

Ministry of Tourism

Incredible India

Cleanliness Index [not SBM]

PRASAD

H* (HSTR)

Swadesh Darshan (13 Thematic circuits)

Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD)

National City Rating: Cleanest cities in India. [Not Cleanliness Index, not SBM]

Smart City Mission. AMRUT City. [Not AMRIT, Min. of Health]

Urban Transport: Metros (Joint ventures), City Buses

Swachh Bharat Misssion (SBM)

o Earlier Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. [UPA]

o To make India clean and open defecation free by 2019 [Gandhis 150th birth anniversary]

o SBM- Urban: MoUD

o SBM- Rural: Ministry for Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Bodies:

o Department of Publication [= subordinate office]: Gazette of India

o Delhi Development Authority (DDA)

o National Capital Region (NCR) Planning Board

o National Building Construction Corporation [Not HUPA]

Ministry of Water Resources, River Development

& Ganga Rejuvenation

Rivers linking project [Ken Betwa issue, 4 lines]

Bodies:

o Central Water Commission (CWC)

o Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)

o Central Soil and Materials Research Station [not MoES]

o Narmada Control Authority

o National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee

Ministry of Women and Child Development

Integrated Child Protection Scheme [Not ICDS]

UJJAWALA [not PM Ujjwala Yojana : LPG]

Ministries in GoI

Part of IS, SnT, Indian Defence Lecture

1. Ministry of Defence

Department of Defence Research & Development: DRDO

Department of Defence

Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare.

Department of Defence Production.

2. Prime Ministers Office (PMO)

Not under any Ministry.

Directly reports to PMO. Head = Prime Minister.

No IAS involved ever.

Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

o Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. (BARC)

o HQ= Mumbai. Not in Delhi.

Department of Space (DoS):

o ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation

o HQ= Bangalore. Not in Delhi.

Important offices

National Security Adviser: Ajit Kumar Doval

Principal Secretary: Nripendra Misra

Internal Security + SnT [ ]

A. INDIAN MISSILE PROGRAMME

Ballistic missile: Full flight is not powered.

Cruize missile: Full flight is powered.

IGMDP (Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme) [under Dr. Abdul Kalam]

o Prithvi: Short range surface-to-surface missile, Ballistic, liquid, now solid

o Agni: Long Range, SAS, Ballistic, Solid (Agni 5: ICBM), Inter-continental Ballistic Missile

o Trishul: Short range low-level surface-to-air missile

o Akash: Medium range surface-to-air missile

o Nag: Anti-tank missile

K family of missiles: submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM)

Version of Agni, nuclear deterrence.

Information = classified. "The classified 'K' missile family" = "Black Project" of DRDO.

K-15 Sagarika:

Part of India's nuclear triad, and will provide retaliatory nuclear strike capability.

K-4: Intermediate-range under development by DRDO

Cruize missiles

1. BrahMos: Short Range, Supersonic, India + Russia

First stage: solid propellant booster

Second stage: liquid-fueled ramjet Engine

2. Nirbhay: Long range, subsonic (all other Supersonic) designed and developed DRDO.

First stage: solid propellant booster

Second stage: liquid-fueled Turbofan Engine

3. Astra: radar homing BVR-AAM, DRDO

Mach 4.5+, the propellant used is HTPB (solid-fuel).

B. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS

INS Viraat: UK (HMS)

INS Vikramaditya: Kiev-class, Russia, STOBAR, Largerst in India

INS Vikrant: STOBAR (retired too)...ban raha hai

INS Vishal : nuclear propulsion, CATOBAR

STOBAR system (Short Take-Off but Arrested Recovery)

o A system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

o Combines elements of both

Short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL)

Catapult-assisted take-off bsysut with arrested recovery (CATOBAR).

C. SUBMARINE

Conventional: diesel powered

o Sindhu class: Kilo-class Class, From Russia, Sindhurakshak : dub Gayi

o Shishumar-class: German

o Scorpne-class: French & Spanish, air-independent propulsion (AIP). E.g. INS Kalvari

Nuclear: Nuclear powered

o Akula Class: Russia nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) : Only one = INS Chakra.

o Arihant Class: Missile launch too = SSBN

D. NAVY SHIPS

INS Astradharanini: Torpedo launched, recovery vessel.

INS Kadmatt: anti-submarine warfare corvettes

Mostly made by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata

NUCLEAR

reactor fuel moderator coolant Control Rod

PHWR Natural U = UO2 D2O D2O

LWR, BWR,

VVER

Enriched U = UO2 H2O H2O

FBR Mox = UO2 +

PuO2

-- Na Boron Carbide

SPACE

PSLV: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

PSLV-G and PSLV-XL variants.

4 stages:

o I& III stage: Solid fuel = HTPB.

o XL variant: Strap-on Motors in I stage, (HTPB). Only in Stage I

o Stage II: Vikas engine, Earth storable liquid rocket engine, UDMH (Fuel) + N2O4 (Oxidiser)

o Stage IV: 2 engines, MMH + MON

Short distance, Earth observing satellite.

Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission, Space Capsule Recovery Experiment, Indian Regional

Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) etc.

Satellites to Low Earth Orbits, particularly the IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) series of satellites. It can

take up to 1,750 kg of payload to Sun-Synchronous Polar Orbits of 600 km altitude.

Also used to launch various satellites into Geosynchronous and Geostationary orbits, like satellites

from the IRNSS constellation.

GSLV: Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

Primarily developed to launch INSAT class,

Being used for launching GSAT series of satellites.

Three stages:

o Stage I: solid rocket motor stage = HTPB,

o Stage II: Earth storable liquid stage, UDMH + N2O4

o Stage III: cryogenic Upper stage (CUS) = H2 + O2.

GSLV-D5 placed GSAT-14, first successful flight of the indigenous cryogenic stage.

Launched various communication satellites e.g. EDUSAT