Prologue What is supply chain management? What is upstream-downstream? What is Forward-Backward Integration? Vertical integration Food Industry: Supply Chain FHEL’s Apple Business: Optimized Supply Chain FHEL’s Apple Upstream FHEL’s Apple Downstream Fruit Veggies Processing (F&V) Fruit-Veggies SCM: Upstream Requirements [...]
Prologue Agriculture Export Tariff Barrier Dumping Non-Tariff Barrier CODEX standards HACCP FDI: Agro, Food Processing, Retail FDI: Agriculture FDI: Food processing FDI: Retail FDI: Multibrand Retail Difference In Single Vs Multibrand Retail? The Diluted Conditions Finance Why can’t Farmer [...]
Prologue APMC Acts: What and Why? Old APMC Acts: Problems? License raj=Lootera-raj Hoarding APMC Definition vs MSP Model APMC Act Model APMC Act: Salient Features Model APMC Act: Limitations/Problems Additional suggestions to reform APMC Contract farming Below APMC-Mandi market [...]
Problems with government schemes 12th FYP: food processing Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) Vision 2015 Food processing National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) #1: Mega Food Parks: Hub and Spoke Model Location Factors: Bhagalpur and Chittor Benefits of [...]
Prologue Indian food processing industry: Significance Increasing Employment Curbing Migration Curbing Food Inflation Crop-diversification Scope/Potential Abundant Raw Material Geographical advantages New Demand Government Initiatives Obstacles to food processing? Economies of scale Lack of organized retail Lack of Food testing [...]
Gold deposit scheme (1999) Gold Exchange traded fund (2006) What is exchange traded funds? How does ETF work? How does Gold ETF work? Gold ETF: Pros Gold ETF: Cons Linking Gold ETF with Gold Deposit Scheme (2013) Gold deposit [...]
What is GI tag? How is GI different than trademark? Mechanism: Internationally Mechanism India: GI Act 99 Problem/issue with GI Act? Pakistani Basmati Meerut scissors Madurai Malli Entire list? Mock Questions What is GI tag? Geographical Indication tag. A [...]
What is Banking Ombudsman (BO)? Appointment & Tenure Jurisdiction Procedure for getting justice? How does BO settle complaint? Punishment Appellate authority for Banking Ombudsman Reforms and Issues #1: Netbanking frauds #2: Need more BOs Location of Offices Mock questions [...]
Why Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC)? Benefits of Dedicated Freight Corridor? High speed Rail Corridor National High Speed Rail Authority Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority Counter arguments: Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority India vs China: Railway success Rail Reforms Required Mock Questions [...]
What is financial inclusion? Why Business Correspondents system? Who/What is Business correspondent? Who can become Business correspondent for Banks? Functions of Banking Business Correspondents? Swabhimaan Reforms in BC model Common BC NREGA payment Kiosk Banking BCA for Direct Cash [...]
What is GMR? Male International Airport, 2009 What is International Financial Corporation (IFC)? Maldives Coup, Feb 2012 Singapore Court, Dec.2012 Indian Government’s response Should India stop giving ca$h to Maldives? Should India be Assertive? Conspiracy Parts Mock Questions What [...]
What was Subprime crisis? What was US-Government’s response to Sub-prime crisis? What is Fiscal cliff? Why is Fiscal cliff bad for US Economy? What will be the Effect of Fiscal Cliff on India? Fiscal Cliff= new kid in the [...]
What is Spectrum? Method #1: First come First Serve basis Method#2: Auctioning method What happened in 2G scam? A.Raja (Telecom Ministry) CAG estimate: 1.7 lakh crore loss Supreme Court verdict Presidential reference on SC verdict Impact of SC verdict [...]