Legal Current Affairs for 01 March 2026

Blue Economy Potential: 11,098-km coastline, resource-rich Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 2.3 million square km, and 14,500 km of inland waterways
Contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP): Currently 4%.
Ports: Nearly 95% of India’s trade by volume and around 70% by value handled through ports.
In FY 2024–25, major ports handled ~855 million tonnes of cargo.
Inland Waterways: Recorded cargo movement of 146 MMT in 2025, from 18 MMT in 2014.

Meaning: They are linear development zones that connect major economic centres through an integrated network of roads, railways, ports, and airports.
They house globally comparable infrastructure; facilitate economic agglomeration; use regional strengths through focussed investments, etc.
National Industrial Corridor Programme (NICDP): Under this various projects across 11 corridors are being implemented, through a sustainability-focused framework supporting Low-Carbon Cities (LCCs).
National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) previously Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited (DMICDC), was incorporated in January 2008; as an autonomous body under Ministry of Commerce & Industry for implementing NICDP.

Launch Year: 2020
Core Objective: To provide free food grains to poor, migrant and vulnerable households to ensure food security during crisis periods.
Eligible Beneficiaries: Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households and Priority Household (PHH) families under National Food Security Act, 2013
Benefit: Free of cost 35 kg of food grains per month per AAY household, 5 kg of food grains per person per month for PHH
Distribution Channel: Public Distribution System (PDS)

Constitutional Provisions: Article 129 grants Supreme Court power to punish for contempt of itself; Article 215 for High Court.
Legislative Framework: Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 classifies it into two types
Civil Contempt: Wilful disobedience of court orders or undertakings.
Criminal Contempt: Publishing or doing anything (spoken, written, signs, etc.) that scandalises/lowers court’s authority; prejudices/interferes judicial proceedings; interferes/obstructs in administration of justice, etc

It is a state-of-the-art vessel specifically designed to address the challenges of the littoral combat environment.
Built by: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata.
Key Features:
Engineered to act as a ‘Dolphin Hunter’, focused on detection, tracking, and neutralisation of enemy submarines.
Has indigenous Anti-Submarine Warfare weapons and sensor package, including Hull Mounted Sonar Abhay.
Features a high-speed Water-Jet Propulsion system.

It is part of approved AIM 2.0, under NITI Aayog’s State Support Mission (SSM) framework.
AIM launched in 2016 under NITI Aayog, aims to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across India.
Key Initiatives: Atal Tinkering Labs, Atal Incubation Centres, Atal Community Innovation Centres, etc.
It is designed as a long-term institutional mechanism to support /UTs in building robust, inclusive, and context-specific innovation ecosystems aligned with national priorities and local strengths.

It is a carbon crediting mechanism under Article 6 of Paris Agreement.
It encourages verifiable emission reductions; attracts funding and allows cooperation among countries.
E.g., company in one country can reduce emission in that country and have those reductions credited to sell them to another company in another country.
Apart from article 6.4, other two components of Article 6 are:
Article 6.2: Provides accounting and reporting guidance for Parties
Article 6.8: Provides opportunities for non-market-based cooperation.

Meaning: It involves testing AI models to protect against harmful behaviour, including leaks of sensitive data and generated content that is toxic, biased, or factually inaccurate.
Origin: Initially popularised by US military during Cold War, the concept has expanded into cybersecurity and now encompasses AI safety.
It involves provoking the model to say/do things it was not trained to and once problems are exposed, new instruction data is created to re-align the model and enhance its security.