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Daily Current Affairs – 11 September, 2026

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    Proposed New Seed Act: Strengthening India’s Seed Regulation

    Context

  • Recently, the Union Agriculture Minister is consulting farmer organisations on a proposed new Seed Act to curb fake seeds, improve traceability and strengthen accountability across India’s seed supply chain.

    • About the Proposed New Seed Act

  • The proposed legislation seeks to replace the Seeds Act, 1966, and create a stronger, uniform and technology-enabled regulatory framework for seeds and planting material.
  • The existing law is nearly six decades old, while the Seeds Control Order came into force in 1983.
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    Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPP) Regulation

    Context

  • A ‘BBC News Hindi’ investigation has revealed that six Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPP) had received donations of around ₹1,700 crores for the year 2023-24. 

    • About Political Parties

  • Political parties are an association or body of individuals that can be formed by citizens. 
  • Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (RP Act) lays down the requirements for registration of a political party with the Election Commission (EC).
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    Collaborative Governance for Viksit Bharat

    Context

  • The complexity of development challenges calls for collaboration among the government, communities, markets and civil society to ensure good governance.

    • From Government Delivery to Impactful Governance

  • Government-centric governance often focuses on schemes, expenditure and administrative processes, whereas impactful governance focuses on whether interventions actually improve citizens’ lives.
  • Wicked problems such as poverty, malnutrition, sanitation, etc. involve multiple interconnected social, economic and institutional factors.
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    India’s Blue Economy

    In News

  • The fisheries sector is an important pillar of the Blue Economy in India providing nearly three crore livelihoods and enhancing production, exports and coastal development. 

    • Background 

  • The economic philosophy of the Blue Economy was first introduced in 1994 by Professor Gunter Pauli at the United Nations University (UNU) as a sustainable development approach that seeks to generate economic growth while reducing waste, emissions, and environmental damage.
  • It gained global importance after the Rio+20 Summit (2012) and the adoption of UN Sustainable Development Goal 14, which promotes the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and marine resources.
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    News In Short 11-09-2026

    Context

  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have launched “Demat 2.0”.

    • About Demat 2.0

  • It is a pilot programme to test the tokenisation of corporate bonds and quicker settlement using the central bank digital currency and blockchain technology.
  • It explores whether distributed ledger technology can integrate the securities and settlement layers to enable faster settlement and automate parts of asset servicing.
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