Comprehensive News Analysis - 28 March 2017

A. GS1 Related
Category: SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Suicide no more a crime

Key Points

• The Mental Healthcare Bill, which decriminalizes suicide and ensures the privilege to better human services for individuals with dysfunctional behaviour, was consistently passed in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
• The Bill orders that a man endeavouring suicide might be dared to experience the ill effects of “extreme anxiety” and, along these lines, should not be attempted or rebuffed by law. Encourage, the new Bill commands that people with self-destructive propensities be given assistance and restored.
• The Bill additionally guarantees free treatment for such people in the event that they are destitute or fall underneath the neediness line, regardless of the possibility that they don’t have a BPL card. The Bill unmistakably characterizes dysfunctional behaviour including that the prior definition, under Mental Health Act 1987 was unclear. 

B. GS2 Related
Category: POLITY
1. SC counters push for Aadhaar 

Key Points

• Countering the administration push to make Aadhaar obligatory for access to social welfare plots, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said acquiring the 12-digit Unique Identification number, which requires the holder to part with his own profile metric information, and utilizing it to profit himself of government appropriation was an intentional exercise.
• The court’s perceptions takes after a progression of late government brochures making Aadhaar obligatory to get to welfare plans like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Employees Pension Scheme. The legislature has made Aadhaar obligatory for recipients, numerous from the poorest of poor people, in spite of a Constitution Bench of the court coordinating the administration in October 2015 that a subject can’t be constrained to have Aadhaar as a pre-condition to get to Centrally supported welfare plans.
• To put it plainly, the court had made it clear that the legislature was not allowed to separate between a man who has the Aadhaar card and one who does not.
• In any case, a Bench drove by Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar on Tuesday found no blame with the administration’s decision to make Aadhaar compulsory for “non-welfare” exercises like opening a financial balance or recording Income Tax returns or applying for a portable association.

2. Find alternatives to pellet guns: SC Bench reminds govt. that it is a ‘welfare state’ meant to protect all without causing harm to none

Key Points

• Reminds govt. that a ‘welfare state’ is meant to protect all with harm to none.
• Reminding the government that it is a ‘welfare state’ meant to protect all without causing harm to none, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to come up with alternatives to pellet guns used by security forces against agitators and stone-pelting mobs on the streets of Jammu and Kashmir.

Category: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
1. India disproportionately benefits from H-1B scheme

Key Points

• Indian organizations and specialists are excessively picking up from the present technique for distribution of H-1B visas and this is a twisting of the program, said a U.S administrator at the cutting edge of a continuous battle against charged manhandle of the visa program.
• The present arrangement of choosing H-1B visa beneficiaries is neither reasonable nor effective, and it must be supplanted, said Congressman Darrell Issa, who has as of late acquainted a Bill that proposes with raise the base compensation of H-1B representatives to $1,00,000 every year from the present level of $60,000.

C. GS3 Related

Category: ECONOMY

1. Nod for 101 cold chain projects Leveraging Rs 3,100 crore investment will boost food processing sector

Question 1: Consider the following statements:

Question 2: Digi Dhan Abhiyan is launched by which of the following ministry?

Question 3: Recently H1-B scheme is in news. Which country has brought this bill?

Question 4: Consider the statements about the Mental Healthcare Bill 2016: