Prologue [Act 1] Coal mining C1: Coal C2: Coal sector: Reforms already taken C3: What is Fuel supply agreement? C4: Survey: coal sector Future reforms C5: What is Coal Mining nationalization Bill? C6: Budget 2014: coal announcements C7: Budget [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Petroleum P1: Refineries in India P2: Survey: Oil production challenges P3: OVL assets abroad P4: Budget 2014: Diesel & LPG P5: Petrol pricing What is under-recovery? Petrol price deregulation Benefits of Deregulation? [Act 2] Clean Energy [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Infrastructure Corridors GK/theory C1: (Rail) Dedicated Freight Corridor Project C2: (Road) Industrial corridors: DMIC C3: Other industrial corridors C4: Golden vs. Diamond Quadrilateral C5: (Road) North South, East West corridor Budget 2014: industrial corridor announcements [Act [...]
What is Project Sagarmala? Port Infrastructure bottlenecks What is Project Sagarmala? China's String of Pearls = aims to surround India by developing ports in neighbor countries and possible convert them in military base at later stage. But Project Sagarmala [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Shipping S1: Major ports on West Coast S2: Major Ports on East Coast S3: Economic Survey: Shipping reforms S4: Budget 2014: Shipping related announcement S4: TAMP: Tariff Authority for Major Ports S5: Sethu Samudram Prologue Economic [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Railways: GK & Static Theory Railway budget vs General Budget Railway Gauges (British Legacy) Railways: Train types [Act 2] Railways: Current / Contemporary topics C1: Pir Panjal Tunnel, Qazigund Banihal C2: What is Cross subsidization in [...]
Prologue Forest Survey Report 2013 Limitations of ResourceSAT in forest survey [Act 1] Forest cover & Tree Cover How does India have 21% forest cover? Ranking: Forest covered area Ranking altitude wise Ranking: growth of Forest cover Forest cover: [...]
[Act 1] MDG, SDG, Kyoto Agreements #1: Millennium Development goals (MDG) MDG & India Budget 2014 on sustainable Development #2: Sustainable Development goals (SDG) #3: Kyoto and WARSAW #4: Fodder: Future agreements #5: Fodder: Emission cuts vs India [Act [...]
Prologue Human Development Report Five indexes under HDR-2014 Index#1: Human development index (HDI) Ranking Tie in Ranking No ranking in HDR 2014 Index#2: Inequality adjusted HDI Index#3: Gender Development India (GDI) Index#4: Gender inequality index Index#5: Multi-dimensional poverty index [...]
Prologue Poverty line Tendu Leopard vs Ranga Khush Urban Poverty line Rural Poverty line Why Ranga NAA-KHUSH (unhappy)? How is 100 million poors increased? Calorie Expenditure Engel’s law & MPCE Centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) CSS classification Poverty removal schemes [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Health National Population Policy 2000 National health profile 2013 Health Schemes National health missions Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) ASHA Safe drinking water PMSSY Economic Survey: Health reform points [Act 2] Women and Children National [...]
Prologue [Act I] Demography related Theories (DT) DT1: Malthusian theory of population growth DT2: Demographic transition DT3: Demographic dividend [Act II] Education Census 2011: Literacy ranking Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyan (SSA) RMSA & RUSA Model School scheme [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Minorities Minorities in India? Jains Minority status Shia vs Sunni: What’s the difference? (New) USTAAD [Act 2] SC/ST/OBC Areas without SC/ST population % SC Population: Top 5 & Bottom 5 % ST Population: Top 5 & [...]