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Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

Context

Recently, Antyodaya Diwas was observed on 25th September, 2024 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.

About Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Ji

• The Pandit Ji born in Mathura, UP in 1916, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay is an Indian politician.
• He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party.
• He qualified the civil services examination, where he got his nickname as Panditji for appearing in the examination hall wearing traditional dhoti-kurta and cap.
• He however did not join the service, but became in 1942, a life-time volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
• However, Upadhyaya is seen to have played a larger role in India’s thought process and political life, transcending party lines.

About the Ideals of Pandit Ji

• The concept of Integral Humanism he propounded envisages remedies for the post-globalization maladies of the world.
• The Upadhyaya Ji conceived a classless, casteless and conflict-free social order. 
• He stressed on the ancient Indian wisdom of oneness of the human kind.
• For him, the brotherhood of a shared, common heritage was central to political activism. He emphasized on coexistence and harmony with nature.
• He conceptualized an alternative approach which was free from the dialectics of competition and envy, a third way from the inertia of Capitalism and Communism.
• He was a pioneer of many political experiments. He was the architect of the first coalition phase in Indian politics.
• The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Ji was an advocate of less government and more governance.
• He believed in self-sustaining autonomous units, more power to states and decentralized and competitive federalism, solidly cemented on the cultural mosaic of our tradition, heritage and experience of the past.

About Major Schemes in the name of Pandit Ji

• The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY) – integrating the NULM and NRLM for alleviating poverty.
• The Deendayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas – to diversify the incomes of rural poor families and to cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.
• The Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana – to provide electricity to rural homes.
• The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shramev Jayate Karyakram – to create a conducive environment for industrial development primarily through  skill training.
• The Deendayal Upadhyaya Swaniyojan Yojana (DUSY) – the rural version of the Start Up India scheme.

CSIRT-Power

Context

Recently, the union Minister for Power inaugurated the Computer Security Incident Response Team for the power sector (CSIRT-Power) in New Delhi.

Overview of CSIRT-Power:

• Initiated in collaboration with CERT-In, aligning with the National Cyber Security Policy of 2013.
• Functions as the central agency for managing and coordinating responses to cyber incidents.

Objective:
Cybersecurity Resilience: Aims to strengthen the cybersecurity resilience of India’s power sector by adopting a structured approach. This includes:

• Preventing and responding to cybersecurity incidents.
• Coordinating responses to sector-specific cyber threats.
• Gathering, analyzing, and sharing threat information.

Additional Functions:

• Awareness and Security: Implements cybersecurity awareness measures, improves the sector’s cyber posture, and promotes best practices and security policies.
• Expertise and Cooperation: Provides cybersecurity expertise to utilities and encourages stakeholder cooperation for better security management.
• Oversight: Set up under the Central Electricity Authority.

About CERT-In:

• National Nodal Agency: CERT-In is India’s national agency responsible for managing computer security incidents.
• Ministry of Information & Technology: Functions under the Ministry of Information and Electronics Technology to secure India’s cyberspace.
• Operational History: Active since January 2004, dealing with cybersecurity incidents across the nation.