Prologue [Act 1] Industrial license & reserved sectors [Act 2] Policies and Acts P1: Industrial policy 1991 P2: National Manufacturing Policy 2011 A1: Factories Act 1948 / Bill 2014 A2: Apprentice Act 1961 / Bill 2014 F1: Fodder: Why [...]
Prologue [Act 1] PSU Classification Classification #1: where they operate? Classification #2: How they were born? [Act 2] Disinvestment National investment fund (NIF-2005) [Act 3] CPSE-ETF Exchange traded fund How is CPSE ETF different from Mutual funds? [Act 4] [...]
Prologue [Act 1] MSME Basics Definition: MSME sector Definition: Cottage vs Village industry Definition: organized vs unorganized sector Problems of these industries: [Act 2] MSME – Government initiatives Public procurement policy SIDBI, SIDF and NEF Taxation, Subsidy, Schemes for [...]
[Act 1] Services: theory and statistics Service Tax: theory Services kept out? Service tax: negative list (17 services) Budget 2014: Service Tax provisions Service sector vs GDP, Employment Service sector: FDI [Act 2] Tourism sector Budget 2014: tourism related [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]