12-10-22 Daily-Himachal Pradesh-HPPSC Current Affairs

Himachal Pradesh Affairs

Old pension scheme to cost Himachal Pradesh 450% of tax revenue, Punjab 242%

Underlining the hidden cost of sops andpoll-centricannouncements, forHimachal Pradesh, which is slated to go to polls later this year, the promise of reverting to the old pension scheme will come at a spend of 450% of its own tax revenue, according to the Special Report on Towards A New India Freedom fromFreebiescompiled bySBIResearch. In case ofPunjab, the liability of re-introduction of old pension regime, which the is considering, will be amount to 242% of state’s tax revenue.

The re-introduction of the old pension scheme, which was discontinued in 2004, has been one of the key poll planks in Himachal while the Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab on September 20 announced that it is looking at the possibility of going back to the old pension regime under which an employee used to get 50% of the last drawn salary and the entire amount was paid by the government.

National and International Affairs

Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit nominates Justice D.Y. Chandrachud as his successor

Chief Lalits recommendation to the government would start the process for appointment of Justice Chandrachud as the 50th Chief Justice of India.If the government approval comes through, Justice Chandrachud would be the first second-generation Chief Justice of India. His father, Justice Y.V. Chandrachud, was the 16th Chief Justice of India and one of the longest serving ones.

Justice Chandrachuds years in The Supreme Court has seen his hand in almost every notable judgment of the court. His erudite verdicts and dissents on the Bench were marked by a reformist approach, especially in the arena of civil liberties, individual and womens rights.

His latest judgment had held thatsingle Women are equally eligible to the protection of abortion laws. Justice Chandrachud had decriminalised adultery, upheld the right of women short service officers in Army and Navy to be considered for permanent commission and stood by a womans right to marry a partner of her choice. Justice Chandrachud upheld theright of women of menstrual age to enter the Sabarimala temple.

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