UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 29-08-2017

1. Critically analyze the Draft Pharmaceutical Policy 2017 suggestion to improve the quality of drugs in India.

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Category – GS-III: Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.

2. The RBI’s household finance committee recently showed that only 5% of the average Indian household’s wealth is in financial assets. Critically analyze the reasons and its implications for mobilization of resources in economy.
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Category – GS-III: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

3. “While the PAHAL scheme appears to be successful, Direct Benefit Transfer in food is much more complex and appears to be in doldrums.” Discuss critically.
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Category – GS-III: Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices

4. Why India has neither signed nor ratified the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol? Justify the government stand.

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Category – GS-II: Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests

5. Do you agree with the view that role of the Central Board of Film Certification should be limited to certification and not to censorship? Give arguments.

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Category – GS-II- Statutory, Regulatory and Quasi-judicial bodies