Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs October 2017 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of September 2017 bearing relevance to Civil Service Examination. News and events from all domain i.e. National, Business, International etc. have been dealt in brief. The magazine is brought out monthly by renowned Delhi based IAS coaching institute VISION IAS.

Table of Contents
1. POLITY AND CONSTITUTION ___________ 4
1.1. Centre Panel Recommendations on Hate
Speech _________________________________4
1.2. Inner Party Democracy ________________5
1.3. Underutilization of MPLAD Funds ________6
1.4. Rajashtan’s Bill to Shield Public Servants __7
1.5. Law Panel on Tribunals ________________8
1.6. SC Collegium Proceedings in Public Domain 9
1.7. E-Samiksha _________________________10
1.8. Public Finance Management System_____10
1.9. Law Commission Proposes Anti Torture
Legislation _____________________________11
1.10. Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016___12
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 14
2.1. India-EU ___________________________14
2.1.1. India-Italy ___________________________ 14
2.2. Chabahar Port ______________________15
2.3. India-Africa _________________________15
2.4. Iran Nuclear Deal ____________________16
2.5. Catalonia’s Independence Referendum __17
2.6. The Kurdish Independence Referendum__17
2.7. US Withdraws from UNESCO___________18
2.8. Palestine Joins Interpol _______________19
3. ECONOMY_________________________ 20
3.1. Recapitalisation Plan for Banking Sector _20
3.2. Ease of Doing Business: World Bank _____21
3.3. Information Utility ___________________22
3.4. Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister
______________________________________22
3.5. SEBI Panel on Corporate Governance ____23
3.6. State of Commodity Dependency 2016:
UNCTAD _______________________________25
3.7. Edible Oil Import ____________________25
3.8. Boosting Silk Production ______________26
3.9. Telecom Sector______________________28
3.10. Bharatmala Project _________________30
3.11. Hydropower Generation in India Challenges
and Prospects __________________________30
3.12. Ro-Ro Ferry Service Launched _________31
3.13. Sankalp & Strive Schemes: Skill India
Mission _______________________________32
3.14. Sampoorna Bima Gram Yojana ________32
3.15. Panel on Market Infrastructure Institutions
______________________________________33
3.16. Bharat Net Project __________________33
3.17. Gold Options on Multi Commodity
Exchange ______________________________34
3.18. Price Capping of Medical Devices ______34
3.19. Linking Bank Lending Rates to External
Benchmark_____________________________35
3.20. Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending ___________36
3.21. Land Bank for Industrial Allocation _____37
3.22. Project Chaman ____________________38
3.23. Nobel Prize in Economics_____________39
3.24. Abu Dhabi to Invest in NIIF’s Master Fund
______________________________________40
3.25. Start-Up Sangam Initiative____________40
3.26. Saathi Scheme _____________________40
4. SECURITY___________________________42
4.1. Urban Terror________________________42
4.2. Comprehensive Integrated Border
Management System (CIBMS) _____________43
4.3. Digital Police Portal under CCTNS _______44
4.4. Free Movement Regime with Myanmar __44
4.5. Creation of Space, Cyber and Special
Operations Commands ___________________45
4.6. Integrated Check Posts _______________46
4.7. INS Kiltan __________________________47
5. ENVIRONMENT______________________48
5.1. Pesticide Poisoning __________________48
5.2. Disaster-Related Displacement in India __49
5.3. Pollution Related Death_______________50
5.4. Outcome of PAT Scheme ______________51
5.5. CO2 in Atmosphere Hits Record High: UN_51
5.6. Illegal Sand Mining___________________52
5.7. Guideline for Ground Water Usages by
Industry _______________________________53
5.8. Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild
Animals _______________________________54
5.9. National Wildlife Action Plan and Secure
Himalaya ______________________________55
5.9.1. National Wildlife Action Plan (NWAP) for
2017-2031________________________________ 55
5.9.2 Secure Himalaya ______________________ 56
5.10. Water Management Committee Set Up in
North-East _____________________________56
5.11. Rapid Warming of Arabian Sea ________56
5.12. Emission Norms for Power Plants in India57
5.13. Turtle Sanctuary in Allahabad _________57
5.14. Ichthyosaur Fossil Discovered _________58
6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________59
6.1. Nobel in Chemistry___________________59
6.2. Nobel Prize in Physics_________________59
6.3. Nobel Prize in Medicine _______________60
6.4. USFDA Approves Gene Therapy ________60
6.5. Embryo Transfer Technology ___________61
7. SOCIAL_____________________________62
7.1. Double Burden of Malnutrition in India __62
7.1.1. Childhood Obesity ____________________ 62
7.2. Therapeutic Food ____________________64
7.3. One Million Children Saved ____________65
7.4. Global Hunger Index _________________66
7.5. Public Health Cadre __________________67
7.6. Index for Tracking Performance of Hospitals
______________________________________68
7.7. Passive Euthanasia ___________________69
7.8. Sex with a Minor Wife Amounts to Rape _70
7.9. Sex Ratio Increase: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
(BBBP) ________________________________72
7.10. Evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima
Yojana ________________________________72
7.11. Echo Clinic_________________________73
8. CULTURE __________________________ 74
8.1. Paika Rebellion______________________74
8.2. World Monuments Fund Names 25 At-Risk
Cultural Sites ___________________________74
8.3. Adopt A Heritage Scheme _____________75
8.4. International Dialogue on Civilisation____75
9. ETHICS_____________________________77
9.1. Ethics of Death Penalty _______________77
10. MISCELLANEOUS ___________________78
10.1. Meenakshi Temple Gets ‘Cleanest Iconic
Place’ Tag______________________________78
10.2. Paryatan Parv ______________________78
10.3. Nobel Prize in Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro 78
10.4. Nobel Peace Prize 2017 Awarded to ICAN79
10.5. Climate Change Policy _______________79
10.6. Value Engineering Programme ________79
10.7. Delamanid- New TB Drug_____________80