Legal Current Affairs for 17 April 2026

Scheme Type: Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Fund Allocation: 1 Lakh crore (this will facilitates a total investment of ₹4 lakh crore in next five years)
Funding pattern:
25% of the project cost will be provided through the fund.
At least 50% must be mobilised from market sources, ensuring private participation.
The remaining 25% can be contributed by States/UTs/ULBs or raised from the market.
Focus areas: Creative development of cities’, Cities as growth hubs’, and Water and sanitation’.

Scientific name: Pantholops hodgsonii.
Habitat: Average annual temperature is below freezing like Tibetan plateau and in the Xinjiang and Qinghai provinces of western China.
The population of chiru in India are migratory.
There have been many attempts to breed the chiru with no success.
Conservation status:
WPA, 1972: Schedule I and IV.
CITES: Appendix I.
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened.
Threat: Illegal poaching, loss of habitat, harsh natural environment they live in.

Code on Wages, 2019 : Sets minimum wages to all workers.
Too low wage can cause wage suppression. Eg. Noida protests or job cuts.
Code on Social Security, 2020 : Expands Social security to unorganized workers, defines Gig workers etc.
Lack of Universal Coverage: Due to size thresholds for coverage. Eg. 20 for EPFO and 10 for ESIC
Issues Faced by GIG workers
Opaque algorithms: Ratings, pay without transparency, limiting workers’ ability to challenge penalties or changes.
Precarious Earnings which do not account for fuel costs, or loss of incentive for rejected order.
Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions Code, 2020: Improves workplace safety, health, and working conditions
Disproportionate burden: Small/Medium enterprises face heavier compliance burdens than large firms, offsetting gains.
Industrial Relations Code, 2020: Regulates Unions, disputes, employment conditions.
Dwarf Firms: Threshold-based rules incentivise firms to stay small, reducing productivity e.g. minimum 300 workers needed for prior government approval for layoff, retrenchment or closure.
Weak enforcement: Informal sector comprises more than 90% of workforce where these codes are hardest to monitor.

Classification: Belongs to a class of medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists (Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists).
They mimic natural GLP-1 hormone, helping regulate blood sugar levels and appetite.
Treatment: Used for treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Weight loss, Kidney and cardiovascular diseases.
Administration: Can be injected or taken as tablet
Brand Name: Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus

It is a fiord type marginal sea.
A fjord is a long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
It is connected to the Gulf of Aden via Strait of Bab El Mandeb and to the Mediterranean sea via Suez Canal.
Bordering Nations: Egypt ,Sudan and Eritrea (West), Israel & Jordan (North East) via the gulf of Aqaba and Saudi Arabia & Yemen (East).
It receives very little precipitation and no water enters the Red Sea from rivers.