The Hindu Editorial Analysis : 1st May 2024

The Hindu Editorial Analysis

We all are aware of the importance of reading The Hindu newspaper with the aspect of improving reading ability, easily comprehending paragraphs, getting updated with the current events, improving essay writing and many more. For a banking aspirant it becomes necessary to read editorials for vocabulary. In this article we are going to discuss the points of today’s editorials with practice questions and important vocabs.

India needs enhanced Animal Protection Bill

• Recently, Croatia reformed its animal protection law and imposed heavy penalties for the acts of cruelty,causing unnecessary pain, suffering and killing or abusing animals.
• In India there is also a need to enhance the punishment laws under the animal protection bill after witnessing many incidents where cruelty can be seen with animals.
• After the enactment of the animal protection law(Prevention of Cruelty to Animals PCA act 1960) India, there has been much discussion about the enhancement and updation of the law.
• The bill faces failures to achieve its main objective which is to protect animals from cruelty because of meager charges and poor enforcement of the law.
• If we talk about the present form of this act,there is a procedure to get bail in most of the offenses and many cruelty are described as non-cognisable means police can neither register the FIR nor investigate without the permission and directions from the court. These points make this law ineffective.
• The amounts of fines under this law are very low and need to be enhanced.
• The law is formed in a way that allows the Court to choose between imprisonment or imposing fines and it makes it easy for the accused to get away.
• In November 2022, there was a draft published by the Department of the Animal Husbandry and Dairying for public opinions. Even though the draft attracted so much support from people still it was not presented in the Parliament.
• This draft bill needs to become a law and it can be a huge step to protect animals from cruelty in a better and stronger way.

Important Questions:

• What is the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals PCA act 1960?
• What are some weaknesses of the PCA bill?

Important vocabs:

• REPRIEVE: pardon, spare, acquit
• UTILITARIAN: practical, functional, serviceable
• CREDIBILITY :plausibility, believability acceptability
• MALIGN :defame
• AVERSION: disinclination, abhorrence, hatred

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