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# Any delimitation exercise would itself take years to conclude after the 2026-27 Census, and therefore not be ready even for the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, the government appears to be in a tearing hurry to proceed with delimitation on the basis of the last completed Census, that of 2011.

# It replaces the existing constitutional definition of “population”, which specifies the 1971 Census for seat allocation and the 2001 Census for boundary demarcation, with an open-ended formulation: population shall mean the Census “as Parliament may by law determine.”

# The choice of which Census to use is no longer left to the Constitution but will depend on ordinary legislation, changeable by simple majority.

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# Based on 2011 Census data, a purely population-proportional allocation to an 850-seat House would produce sharply unequal increases across regions.

# The Hindi-heartland States (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, and Delhi), which currently hold 207 of 543 seats, would secure 366 — a 77% increase, with their share rising from 38.1% to 43.1%.

# The southern States (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, and Puducherry), with 132 seats now, would receive only 176, a 33% increase, while their share would drop from 24.3% to 20.7%.

# The eastern States would slip from 14.4% to 13.7%; the North-East from 4.4% to 3.8%.

# The west and the northern non-Hindi States would remain roughly unchanged.

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# Gender Justice in India should not be at the cost of Federal Justice / Equity.

# MPs from States that stand to lose proportional representation in the Lok Sabha must resist the bulldozing of legislation on an issue that strikes at the federal foundations of the Indian Union.

# States that spent decades building their health infrastructure, educational access, and women’s agency that brought fertility down now face a reduction in their share of democratic power, while States that lagged on these indicators stand to gain the most seats.

# The already weakened fiscal federalism would now be compounded by diminished political representation for socio-economically advanced States.

# A freeze on seat allocation that has been in place since the 42nd Amendment of 1976, and extended by the 84th Amendment of 2001, guaranteed States that had stabilised their populations that they would not lose parliamentary seats as a consequence.

# This safeguard is now removed.

# The Union government’s insistence on bundling women’s reservation with delimitation suggests that the former is being used as political cover for the latter: a sweeping reallocation of Lok Sabha seats that would reshape the federal composition of Parliament to the advantage of States where the Ruling Party enjoys electoral dominance, and at the expense of States where it has been historically weak.

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# Bengaluru needs to become a ‘sponge city’.

# This includes restoring the connections between lakes and wells to capture monsoon runoff, thus aligning land-use planning with the recharge capacity of each taluka, and overall sealing the ground less and increasing absorption on the surface.

# It seems Bengaluru is treating supply as infinitely expandable when it is not.

# Its preference for grey over green infrastructure has sealed the ground against replenishment while the increasing demand liquidates ecological capital.

# The city does not manage its pipeline supply, groundwater, and wastewater together, allowing consumers to default to the most convenient solution: tankers.

# Authorities in Bengaluru / State of Karnataka ---- need to minimise distribution losses and penalise overextraction and mandate 100% decentralised wastewater recycling for all non-potable uses.

# The Bengaluru region lies on crystalline rock that already stores little water and recharges slowly.

# The city further concentrates demand in areas with higher population density and per-capita consumption, including ‘tech parks’ and apartment complexes.

# The Concrete Jungle --The built-up area of such urban infrastructure also suppresses recharge by percolating rainwater.

# A growing fraction of the population depends on water from the Cauvery, which comes with a high expansion cost.

# The Water Crisis in Bengaluru -----the problem has a natural basis but has been compounded over the years by inconsiderate urbanisation, where the costs — monetary and, increasingly, existential — are being passed on to the populace.

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# Recent Elections & Trend in Hungary provide a check to the authoritarian single-party rule that a whole range of leaders have tried to implement using illiberal policies, politically motivated cases against the opposition, the denigration of democratic Institutions and a clampdown on free speech.

# The world has witnessed the rise of many populist leaders through elections in the 2010s, Hungary’s election verdict denotes that voters worldwide may be tiring of the hard-right, anti-pluralistic, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric they favoured.

# Similar outcomes have been seen in elections in Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, the U.K. and Poland.

# The opposition leader Peter Magyar’s Tisza party has won about 138 seats, to Mr. Victor Orban’s Fidesz party’s 55, in Hungary.

# The massive 2/3 majority in the Hungarian parliament is enough to help Mr. Magyar overturn many of the Orban-era shifts on education and health, judicial independence & the controversial National Cooperation System that the opposition said had led to an economic downturn, widespread corruption and crony capitalism, as well as an anti-European Union stance.

# The real test of any democratic leader is not just winning elections, but in pursuing inclusive policies, representational of the entire population and providing accountability for their actions, long after forming the government.

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# The Union government’s ₹92,000 crore mega-infrastructure project for the holistic development of the Great Nicobar Island (GNI) by building it up as a port and tourism-led economy has gathered speed in the last 6 months, even as concerns remain about its impact on the Island’s ecology and the rights of local populations, the Nicobarese and the Shompen — two indigenous tribal groups.

# The draft is planned for a projected population of over 3.36 lakh by 2055, by which time the expected tourist inflow will be a million a year.

# Over 70% of the direct employment the government hopes to create will be in tourism and allied sectors.

# The current population of the GNI is a little less than 10,000. This transformation of the GNI, aided by the ICTP, is crucial to leverage the “strategic importance” of the Island’s location at the western entrance to the Malacca Strait.

# The draft plan has said the port will help India achieve its “aims to capture a significant share in global sea trade”.

# Consensus is vital in leveraging the strategic importance of GNI.

# The project aims to irreversibly alter the demography, and ecology of the GNI, the most prudent path for the government is to take the time needed to build a more holistic consensus over it.

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# The 2 week ceasefire announced by POTUS Donald Trump on April 8, after 39 days of war, looked shaky from day one as Israel stepped up air strikes on Lebanon, killing hundreds.

# Both Iran, and Pakistan, which mediated the truce, claimed that Lebanon was covered by the ceasefire, while Israel wants to continue the war.

# There was no mutually agreed framework for the Islamabad talks either.

# Iran claimed that its 10-point proposal was accepted as the basis for discussion, while the White House said that the 10 points that it received were different from those in the proposal that Tehran had released.

# Despite differences, the meeting between U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance and the Iranian delegation headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the first face-to-face senior-level meeting between the two sides since the 1979 revolution, marked significant progress.

# Acc. to Mr. Vance and Iranian officials, three issues remain contentious — Iran’s nuclear programme, its control over the Strait of Hormuz, and Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

# Iran was willing to make a deal on its nuclear programme, the strait was fully open, and the Lebanon situation had not escalated into a full-scale ground invasion before the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on February 28.

# U.S.-Israeli bombings have not met their stated objectives.

# On the contrary, the war has hardened Iran’s position and triggered a whole new crisis over the Strait of Hormuz.

# POTUS Mr. Trump, who unilaterally sabotaged the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal in 2018, should not have started this war.

# The war has turned out to be a strategic setback for the U.S. and its regional allies, Washington must focus on a negotiated settlement without ultimatums.

# Iran, for its part, realises that it holds significant leverage, but it should avoid overplaying its hand.

# Tehran needs credible security guarantees against future aggression and support for reconstruction, while the wanton Israeli killings in Lebanon must end.

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