29 August 2023 Daily Current

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child sexual abuse
❖ Context :- Children are being subjected to neglect, abuse, violence and
exploitation. A society cannot ignore child abuse as it is biggest crime
and malaise in the society. Rather it must proactively work to prevent it.
Thus it is important in changing times to provide children with sexual
education so that they must be able to tackle any situation if may arise
Rising child sexual abuse and need of Sex Education in India:
❖ Nearly 50% of boys and girls, each, face sexual abuse in their young lives,
in India, according to a survey by the Ministry of Women and Child
Development. It is the responsibility of adults to empower these young
people with the knowledge to protect themselves against such abuse.
❖ It is important to sensitise child about women and others and to teach
them what is right or wrong. It is important to teach children about their
role and responsibility towards one another, their role towards their
families, and towards society, as a whole.
❖ A young boy or girl who is just entering teens, needs to learn all aspects
about physiological and emotional changes that he or she will be going
through while growing up. This information and awareness is absolutely
essential for that young individual, in order to ensure that he or she can
protect themselves from being sexually abused.
❖ It is due to this lack of information and awareness that children go
through traumatic experiences that range from sexual abuse to
emotional and physical abuse, without knowing the implications of these
or what recourse to take and this leads to the victim being emotionally
and sometimes, physically, scarred for life.

❖ Therefore, it’s the responsibility of society to ensure that every boy and
girl is provided with the necessary information and is taught all the
preventive and corrective measures to be taken in case of any
eventuality.
❖ There is a compelling need to increase the awareness of providing
children with sexual education so they can be equipped with the right
vocabulary to talk about sexual abuse.
❖ Skills learnt through sexuality education will prepare children to
recognise potentially inappropriate behaviour and disclose abuse
promptly.
Challenges to sex education in India:
❖ A deep-rooted sense of morality binds the sentiment of a large
population from seeing the benefits and necessities of launching such an
education program throughout the country.
❖ It is largely believed that talking about sexuality and its awareness may
instead corrupt young adolescents.
❖ It must be recognized there cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach. Given
the sensitivity of the topic, each state or region would need to be
handled specific to their value systems and cultures.
❖ Socially acceptable norms in one region could be a taboo in another. So it
is difficult to design a nationally acceptable curriculum on sex education.
❖ Role of family, school and teachers in preventing child sexual abuse in
the society:
❖ Role of family: Parents should equip children with information and skills
to build self-protective behaviour. They must be available when children
need to talk.
❖ Parents must keep visiting their child school to ensure accountability of
teachers and staff.
❖ They must teach their child about how to keep themselves safe and what
is an abuse.
❖ It is important that family must keep a vigil on their relatives and
neighbourhood to prevent any kind of misbehave with the child.
❖ It is important that parents must also keep a watch on child’s peer group
and friend circle and must ask tough questions from school teachers and
principal.
❖ Role of Schools: Schools are at the frontline of child protection since
they have the potential to both teach protective behaviours effectively
and to a greater number of children than any other system, including
parental instructions.
❖ Schools must make interview process of teachers rigorous and must do
proper background checks on them, as teacher can also abuse.
❖ Abusers must be punished harshly.
❖ Further schools must appoint a counsellor to counsel students about
right and wrong and also to help child post-traumatically.
❖ Role of teachers: Teachers have a special role in combating child sexual
abuse, as they possess the knowledge, training and opportunity to
observe and respond to children’s behaviour and physical conditions
over a period of time.
❖ Additionally, because of the close daily contact they are in a unique
position to identify these children who need help and protection.
❖ They must impart sex education to children based on their age and level
of maturity.
❖ Creating and strengthening a protective environment for children
requires many levels of engagement, which in turn demand dialogue,
partnerships, and coordination based on a shared analysis.
❖ Child abuse is a stigma to whole society. It is our duty to protect children.
The life of a child can be saved from abuse and can be changed with
one’s positive intervention. We all must have to prepare ourselves for it
and know more about their problems as well as what you can do to help.
 Daily Mains Question

❖ Q- In light of rise in child sexual abuse, discuss the need and

challenge of providing sexual education to children. Also,
mention role of family, school and teachers in preventing child
sexual abuse in the society. (250 Words)

❖ प्रश्न- बाल यौन शोषण में वृद्धि के मद्दे नजर बच्ोों को यौन शशक्षा प्रदान
करने की आवश्यकता और चुनौती पर चचाा करें । साथ ही, समाज में
बाल यौन शोषण को रोकने में पररवार, स्कूल और शशक्षकोों की भूशमका
का भी उल्लेख करें । (250 शब्द)

India’s First Solar Mission

❖ Recent News :- Visible Line Emission Coronagraph (VLEC), the primary
payload on board Aditya-L1, was handed over to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA).
❖ Aditya-L1 Mission
Launch Vehicle:
❖ Aditya L1 will be launched using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV) with 7 payloads (instruments) on board.
The 7payloads include:
❖ VELC
❖ Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT)
❖ Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS)
❖ Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX)
❖ High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS)
❖ Plasma Analyser Package for Aditya (PAPA)
❖ Advanced Tri-axial High Resolution Digital Magnetometers
Objective:
❖ Aditya L1 will study the Sun’s corona, Sun's photosphere, chromosphere,
solar emissions, solar winds and flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections
(CMEs), and will carry out round-the-clock imaging of the Sun.
❖ The mission will be launched by ISRO to the L1 orbit which is about 1.5
million km from the Earth. The orbit allows Aditya-L1 to look at the Sun
continuously.
What is L1?
❖ L1 refers to Lagrangian/Lagrange Point 1, one of 5 points in the orbital
plane of the Earth-Sun system.
❖ Lagrange Points are positions in space where the gravitational forces of a
two-body system like the Sun and Earth produce enhanced regions of
attraction and repulsion.
❖ These can be used by spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to
remain in position.
❖ A Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the L1 has the major
advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/
eclipses.
❖ The L1 point is home to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite
(SOHO), an international collaboration project of National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
❖ Features and Significance of VELC Payload
Features:
❖ VELC will be the main payload among seven designed to study various
aspects of the sun and is one of the most precise instruments made in
India.
❖ It was conceptualised and designed in 15 years which will help in solving
mysteries related to solar astrophysics.
Significance:
❖ It will help in studying the temperature, velocity and density of the
corona, understand the processes that result in heating of the
corona and acceleration of the solar wind, aid studies on drivers of space
weather, measure the magnetic field of corona and study the
development and origin of coronal mass ejection.

Indian Council of Social Science Research

❖ It was established in the year of 1969 by the Government of India to
promote research in social sciences in the count ry on the
recommendation of Prof. V. K. R. V. Rao Committee.
❖ It is an autonomous organisation funded by the Ministry of Education
(India).
❖ Functions: It provides grants for projects, fellowships, international
collaboration, capacity building, survey, publications etc. to promote
research in social sciences in India.
❖ The Council aims to:
❖ Review the progress of social science research and give advice to its
users;
❖ Sponsor social science research programmes and projects and
administer grants to institutions and individuals for research in social
sciences.
What are Public policy initiatives?
❖ It refers to the actions, programs, and strategies that governments,
organizations, and institutions implement to address various social,
economic, and environmental challenges.
❖ These initiatives are designed to influence and guide the behavior of
individuals, communities, and businesses while achieving specific policy
goals.

UPSC PYQ - 2015

❖ Which of the following brings out the ‘Consumer Price Index

Number for Industrial Workers’?

❖ The Reserve Bank of India

❖ The Department of Economic Affairs
❖ The Labour Bureau
❖ The Department of Personnel and Training

Answer

Ans: (c)

Exp:

❖ Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) is

an index designed to measure a change, over time, in prices of a
given basket of goods and services consumed by a defined
population (i.e. Industrial Workers).

❖ CPI-IW is compiled by Labour Bureau, an attached office under the

Ministry of Labour and Employment.
❖ The current series of CPI-IW (base 2016 = 100) is compiled for 88
selected centres in the country. The All-India Consumer Price Index
for Industrial Workers is the weighted average of these 88 centre
indices.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission
❖ Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third moon mission and is a follow-up
of Chandrayaan-2 of July 2019, which aimed to land a rover on the lunar
South Pole.
❖ The mission is scheduled to be launched later in 2023 by Launch Vehicle
Mark 3 (LVM3) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
❖ The Mission will have three major modules- the Propulsion module,
Lander module and Rover.
❖ The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration till
100 km lunar orbit.
❖ The Lander will have the capability to soft land at a specified lunar site
and deploy the Rover which will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the
lunar surface during the course of its mobility.