Overview What Is Fiscal Marksmanship? Why Poor Fiscal Marksmanship? Steps taken in Budget 2012-13 #3: GAAR (but delayed) #4: SERVICE TAX: negative approach Issues: Tax Buoyancy Issue: COLLECTION RATES Issue: Non-Tax Revenue Issue: SUBSIDIES Public debt 14th finance commission [...]
Those of you, who’ve been preparing for last one or two years know the R.T.I stonewallingTM move of UPSC = whenever you ask UPSC to give official answerkey for IAS prelims or CDS or NDA or APFC or any [...]
Introduction Constitutional provisions abt. Education Scheme: Food Schemes: infra/Services Organizations Schemes: CASH/scholarship/award Mock Questions Introduction List is not exhaustive. Article is written mainly keeping the competitive exam MCQs worthy information and skimming the rest. Article is subject to revision. [...]
What is Delegated Legislation? Advantages of Delegated Legislation Lack of Time Lack of Expertise More flexible Anti-Arguments Safeguards #1L Parliamentary Safeguards: #2: Judicial Safeguards: Mock Questions What is Delegated Legislation? MP/MLAs make the law only in a broad skeletal [...]
What is Inner Line Permit (ILP)? What’re the Implications of ILP? Why ILP in MiNA but not in Manipur? Pro ILP arguments for Manipur #1: competition increased #2:social problems #3: Valid demand Anti ILP argument The case of Meghalaya [...]
Introduction This R.T.I was filled by a reader Mr. Rakesh Singh, seeking official answerkeys for various competitive exams held by UPSC in last five years. UPSC on its part, continued playing Lord Curzon, said we keep answerkeys for last [...]
Introduction Recap: 2 statement Complimentary case Approaching 4 statement syllogism Case#1 : Stick, lamps, power, dresses, shirts Case#2: Bird, Horse, Tiger, Lion & Monkey Case#3: Bench, Wall, House, Jungle, Road Case#4: (Complimentary Pairs): Cups, Bottles, Jugs, Plates & Tables [...]
Introduction What is Prime number? What is LCM? LCM4 EXam How to find LCM using Prime-Factorization? LCM of two numbers (56, 96) LCM of three numbers: (12,15,20) LCM of prime numbers LCM of co-prime numbers What is HCF or [...]
Liquidity? What is Cash reserve ratio (CRR)? WHY CRR: Cash reserve ratio? WHY SLR: Statutory liquidity ratio? Bank Runs: SLR+CRR WHY Priority Sector lending? What is NDTL? Reverse repo rate? What is repo rate? Repo rate vs Bank rate? [...]
Who are the Jawaras? What is Andaman Trunk Road (ATR)? Human Safari? Road: To shut or Not to Shut? Dancing Video controversy Buffer Zone Case Chronology Tribal Commissions Mock Questions Who are the Jawaras? They are tribal people living [...]
This articles needs to be tweaked further in the light of actual papers of Mains-2013. However should give the basic idea to new players. Prologue What is not changed? Prelims approach What about the current affairs? Mains Exam: Change [...]
What is a Citizens’ charter? Components of a Citizens’ Charter: Advantages of Citizen charter? Indian Experience Recommendations of 2nd ARC: Citizens’ Charter Bill 2011: Salient Features Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Penalty Criticism Mock Questions Citizens’ Charter & The Right of [...]
SECC-2011: WHY needed? Census Difference: Regular vs SECC Confidential? BPL: SECC vs Planning Commission Poverty: UN Definition Poverty Line: India Tendulkar SECC-Players involved Procedure Data collection SECC: Methodology #1: Automatically Excluded #2: Automatically Included #3: Deprivation indicator 7 deprivation [...]