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Examples to be used in Mains:
1. Social Justice: Need to make inclusive policies: DGCA declared Adam Harry “temporary unfit” on the grounds of gender dysphoria (unease due to mismatch between sex assigned at birth and a person’s gender identity), and because he is undergoing “cross-sex hormone therapy”.
- Being transgender has shattered Adam Harry’s dream to be a pilot
- Even after the SC judgement (NALSA case ) and Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, discrimination against transgender still prevalent in society.
2. Social Justice: Nikshay Mitra: Community initiative for TB
The health ministry is working on an initiative—called Nikshay Mitra— that will allow individuals to adopt Tuberculosis patients and look after their nutritional and medical needs in a bid to break the stigma surrounding the disease in India.
- At 2. 5 million patients, India has the world’s highest TB burden. The government aims to eliminate the disease by 2025.
- Society: Sensitisation for inclusivity: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, plans to introduce a mandatory course on caste awareness and racial discrimination. Last year, it launched a course on Gender sensitisation.
- Environment: Sarojini Vana (Sarojini Forest): Odisha’s Forest Department honours Sarojini’s dedication to transforming barren land into a forest in just two years
- Education: Suggestions by PM
- Curb proxy teachers in village schools: PM has suggested placing photographs of teachers in every classroom, which some states like Rajasthan have experimented with, which can be replicated elsewhere.
- In 2018, a World Bank report on India highlighted the problem of proxy teachers, where teachers employed by the government illegally send others to teach on their behalf.
- To improve the standards of school education in remote areas: PM suggested implementing the practice of private schools adopting schools in remote areas by following a CSR model
- Student exchange: Exchange programme model for anganwadis and schools located close to each other to prepare pre-school students for formal schooling.
- Eliminate single-teacher schools: According to a UNESCO report released in 2021, there are nearly1. 2 lakh single-teacher schools in the country, of which an overwhelming 89 per cent are in rural areas.
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