Economy « Mrunal

Five Part article series on How to approach UPSC Civil Service IAS/IPS Exam: Prelims, Mains and Interview

Tips on Notes-making, Standard reference books, Yojana Kurukshetra etc. Explained here

Detailed Strategy for General Studies, science-tech, yearbook, economy, history, polity, IR-Diplomacy with booklist, free study material given here.

Mains2013

Strategy, Booklist, Free Studymaterial for the upcoming Mains 2013

Doubts

Basic doubts regarding Coaching, Working professional, time Management and Non-English medium

Backup

Some guidelines for adopting career backup plans incase you can't make it to UPSC

SSC CGL

GK / GA

How to approach General Awareness for Tier-I, explained here with free study material download.

Maths

How to approach Maths, Quantitative Aptitude, Trigonometry, Geometry for Tier I and II? To-the-point strategy n tips given here +free study material

Reasoning

General Intelligence and Logical reasoninig for Tier I of SSC-CGL exam: booklist, tips shared here.

English

How to tackle vocabulary, grammar and comprehension for Tier I and II.

SBI PO

GA/Computer/Marketing

strategy booklist for approaching General Awareness, Computer, Marketing, Current Affairs in SBI PO 2013, includes free material as well!

Reasoning (High)

strategy booklist for approaching Higher Level Reasoning in SBI PO 2013

English (Descriptive)

strategy, free studymaterial, essay list for the SBI PO English MCQ and Descriptive paper!

RBI

RBI Officer Prelims

After long wait, RBI has notified 98 vacancies for 2013, this article provides strategy

RBI Officer Phase II

RBI Grade "B" Officer Phase II (Descriptive) exam strategy, booklist and free download material is provided here.

RBI Assistant

Strategy, booklist, free study material, cutoffs, previous paper for RBI assistant Exam

Others

CAT (IIM)

Ragtag strategy on get 90+ percentile in CAT-prometric test.

LIC AAO

Strategy for the upcoming LIC Assistant Administrative officers' exam with free studymaterial, jobprofile.

CSIR

Studyplan + Free study material for CSIR combined Administrative services (CASE) exam

State PSC

How to approach RAS, MPSC etc explained here

CAPF

How to become an Assistant Commandant in BSF, CISF, CRPF: strategy, booklist, free studymaterial provided here.

SSC (FCI)

Food Corporation Grade III exam

SPIPA

For getting admission in SPIPA, Ahmedabad, which provides free coaching for IAS exam.(Gujarat Only)

ACIO

Assistant Central Intelligence Officer recruitment: booklist, strategy

UPSC tips

India Yearbook

how to efficiently utilize INDIA Yearbook for UPSC prelims, mains, interview= explained in this 6 part series article.

5 Levels

Explains five types of players in UPSC competition and why daydreamers fail in this exam.

100 Days

Why you can't succeed with vague strategies in UPSC Prelims, explained here.

Newspaper?

How to read The Hindu/Indianexpress quickly and efficiently in less than one hour for Current Affairs?, explained here.

Art of Aptitude?

3 Cardinal Rules on How to approach Aptitude section in any competitive exam.

Quotes

Motivational and inspirational quotes for competitive exams.

Essay Tips

How *not* to write an Essay in UPSC Mains exam, explained here

How to prepare India World + International relations (IR) topic, explained + free download material

Stat

Approach to Statistics and Graphs portion of General Studies Mains Paper II+free study material

R.T.I

How to file R.T.I application to UPSC? explained here

Analysis

CSAT'12

Analysis of the GS-Prelims paper and how it broke the backs of Coaching classes.

GSM-12

Analysis of the General Studies (Mains) Paper I and II of 2012 and how they (again) broke the backs of Coaching classes.

Edu Tech

Auto NoteMaker

Mrunal's Autonotemaker for quickly taking notes out of PDF files and Webarticles (Win XP only)

Hindu Reader

How to use Feedly (alternative of Google Reader) to efficiently read The Hindu online, for Free+list of important RSS links for UPSC Exam!.

OneNote

Learn to use Microsoft Onenote software to organized your notes on computer, quickly and efficiently!

[Economic Survey Ch13] Human Development (Part 4 of 4): Physically Disabled, Elderly, Nomadic, Denotified Tribes, Drug junkies and Beggars

Persons with Disabilities
1. Persons with Disabilities: Schemes
  1. ARUNIM
  2. ADIP
  3. DDRS
  4. DDRC
  5. Pvt. Jobs
  6. ALIMCO
  7. Jaipur Foot
2. 12th FYP: PH welfare
  1. Education
  2. Disabled friendly Environment
  3. Review existing laws
  4. Task for individual ministry
(Draft) National Youth Policy 2012 (NYP12): Salient Features
1. New definition of Youth

[Economic Survey Ch13] Human Development (Part 3 of 4): Women and Child Development, Saksham, Priyadarshini, Dhanlaxmi & yes ofcourse SABLA

Prologue Interval
1. Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY)
2. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya karyakram
3. Saksham
Women
1. Schemes: Women n Girls
2. Ahimsa messengers
3. Beijing platform for action
4. CEDAW
5. CSWB
6. Poorna Shakti Kendras
7. Priyadarshini
8. SABLA
9. Saksham
10. STEP
11. Swadhar Greh
12. Ujjawala
13. Schemes: Mother-Child
14. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya karyakram
15. ICDS
16. ICPS
17. Dhanlakshmi
18. Rajiv Gandhi National creche

[Economic Survey Ch13] Human Development (Part 2 of 4): SC, ST, OBC, Minorities: welfare schemes, 12th FYP targets

Scheduled Castes
1. Scholarships: Higher Education (SC+ST)
2. Protection of Civil Rights
3. Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY)
4. Manual Scavenging
5. 11th FYP: SC welfare
6. 12th FYP: SC welfare goals/targets
Scheduled Tribes
1. Constitutional provisions
2. States without ST communities
3. PESA 1996
4. PESA: problems?
5. Forest Rights Act 2006
6. Ashram Schools
7. 12th FYP: ST welfare

[Economic Survey Ch13] Human Development (Part 1 of 4): HDI-2012, HDR-2013, Poverty lines, Aajeevika, Tendulkar, Sreesanth, Saxena, Sengupta

Prologue
Human Development Index (HDI)
1. HDI=Geometric Mean
2. HDR: last three reports
3. HDI index 2012
4. Tie in HDI?
5. Experimental Indexes
  1. #1: Inequality adjusted HDI (IHDI)
  2. #2: Gender Inequality Index?
  3. #3: Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
Poverty
1. Tendulkar vs Saxena?
2. Saxena vs Sengupta?
Rural Infra
Urban Infra

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[Economic Survey Ch12] Sustainable Development, Climate Change (Part 3 of 3): PAT, RPO, REC, Cap-n-trade

Climate financing
1. Taxation
2. Subsidies
3. Funds and Technology Transfers
  1. International Funds
  2. Desi Funds
4. Market Based
  1. PAT
  2. RPO
  3. REC
5. Cap n Trade vs Carbon Tax
Green National Accounts
Clean Energy challanges
1. Nuclear
2. Wind Power
3. Solar Power
Mock Questions

Climate financing

In all

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[Economic Survey Ch12] Sustainable Development, Climate Change (Part 2 of 3): SVA-GRIHA, Bachat Lamp Yojana, SEEP

Industries
1. Eco-industrial parks (EIP)
2. Steel
3. Cement
4. Thermal Power
5. Vs Solar power?
6. Coal gasification
Transport
1. Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Programme
2. Rail freight
3. Water-Borne Freight
4. Public transport
Green Building Codes
1. Energy Conservation Building Code
2. ADARSH
3. GRIHA
4. Sva-GRIHA
Electrical appliances
1. Bachat Lamp Yojana (BLY)
2. Super-Efficient Equipment Program
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[Economic Survey Ch12] Sustainable Development, Climate Change (Part 1 of 3)

Prologue
What is sustainable development?
India and GHG
India and Sustainable development
National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
1. Solar
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Agro
5. Green India (forest)
6. Habitat
7. Knowledge
8. Himalayan Ecosystem
9. Hill Areas
Hill areas: challenges and solutions
Sustainable Agriculture Development
Coastal Zone Management
Forest and Tree Cover

Prologue

This

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[Economic Survey Ch11] Infrastructure (Part 2 of 2) Electricity, Renewable Energy, Bagasse Cogeneration

Electricity
1. The Electricity Act,2003
2. Central Electricity Authority (CEA),
3. PSU under Power Ministry
4. Statutory bodies under Power Ministry
5. Ultra Mega Power Project Initiatives
6. National Grid
7. Nuke Sites in India
8. Hydropower
9. North-East: power problems
10. Rural Electrification
11. RGGVY
12. Private sector participation
13. Finance
  1. IREDA
  2. POWER FINANCE CORPORATION
  3. PXI
  4. Rural Electrification Corporation
  5. National Clean Energy Fund

[Economic Survey Ch11] Infrastructure (Part 1 of 2): Coal, Gas, Fuel Sharing Agreement (FSA), gas hydrate, oil shale

Prologue
1. Infra
2. India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL)
3. Elasticity of energy use
4. Consumption pattern
Energy Pricing
1. Petroleum products pricing
2. Gas pricing
3. Coal Pricing
Coal Sector
1. Types of Coal
  1. Peat
  2. Lignite / Brown coal
  3. Bituminous/ Black-Coal
  4. Anthracite / hard coal
2. SING-rauli vs reni
3. PSUs
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[Economic Survey Ch10] (Part 5 of 5) Railways: Anubhuti, Spart, Project Unigauge, Budget, World Heritage

Introduction
British Legacy: Railways
Gauges
1. Project UniGauge
2. Bigger to smaller
PSU under Railways ministry
1. Konkan Railways
Separation of Railway budget
UNESCO World heritage: Indian Railways
Trains: Luxury
Trains: normal
Railway Police
Metro Rail Amendment Act 2009
Kisan Vision Project
Bullet trains
bio-toilets
Rail Budget 2013
1. SPART

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