UPSC had conducted Civil service and Forest service (combined) preliminary exam aka CSAT-2014, on 24th August 2014. Here are the scanned copies of Booklet no.”C” for both papers: Download CSAT-2014 General studies Paper Download CSAT-2014 Aptitude Paper In above [...]
Correction in the Economic survey summaries No corrections Parting words Next order of business Updates from UPSC Updates from SSC Correction in the Economic survey summaries Last updated on Aug-22-2014 evening. Ch4: measures of money supply Banks receive more [...]
Prologue Nominal vs Real interest rate Inflation index bonds: Salient Features IIB: How do they protect against inflation? IIB: principal also protected Prologue Economic Survey Chapter 4: Prices and Monetary Management. FIVE subparts Inflation indexed bonds measures of money [...]
Prologue Factors affecting money supply WHY should we measure money supply? M0: Reserve money M1: Narrow Money M2 M3 (Broad Money) M4 Liquidity and ranking Money multiplier Velocity of money circulation Factors affecting Velocity of money circulation Assertion reasoning [...]
Prologue Why RBI's monetary policy fails to control inflation? Urjit Patel: reforms in monetary policy Rajan Reforms in Monetary policy Monetary Policy Trend 2013 Monetary Policy trend Jan 2014 onwards Why Rajan decreased SLR? Rajan Wisdom during press conference [...]
Prologue [Act 1] WHO calculates WPI, CPI, IIP? [Act 2] WHEN they publish WPI, CPI, IIP? [Act 3] WHERE do they get data for WPI, CPI, IIP? WPI Data Collection CPI Data collection IIP Data Collection [Act 4] WHAT [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Theory recap [Act 2] WPI inflation trend: Survey points [Act 3] CPI inflation trend: Survey points [Act 4] IIP Trend: survey points Mining and Power Manufacturing 8 Core industries in IIP [Act 5] Trend in international [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Fertilizers: Botany /Chemistry angle (NCERT) [Act 2] Subsidies: Where is it counted in budget? [Act 3] What is Nutrient Based subsidy (NBS)? Disadvantages of NBS? Urea smuggling [Act 4] Budget-2014 on Agriculture Soil Health card National [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Minimum support prices (MSP) What is Open Ended Procurement? How is MSP determined? [Act 2] Sugar pricing problem SEFESU-2014 C.Rangarajan on Sugar pricing [Act 3] Food Corporation of India (FCI) FCI: procurement problems Open Market Sale [...]
Prologue National Food security Act Prices and Entitlements under NFSA Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Deadlines under Food security Act Implementation in States/UT Targeted PDS system reformed Limitation of NFSA: Prologue Economic Survey Chapter 8: Agriculture and Food Management. SIX subparts: [...]
Prologue WTO: Structure and functions Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade WTO agreements Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) Green. Blue and Amber subsidies Amber box: De Minimus limits What is Bali summit and Peace clause? What is Trade Facilitation Agreement? [...]
DoPT has clarified that English marks (Class X Level) will not be counted in the CSAT merit. Candidates are advised NOT To attempt them. and use that time for question questions. IMPORANT: This is only for those 8-9 easy [...]
Prologue Indian Agriculture: Strength/potential Why focus on Agriculture R1: APMC Act Why do we need a National Market for Agriculture? How to setup national market for Agriculture? Budget 2014 announcement R2: Commodity market What is NSEL crisis? Who is [...]