What is alter-globalisation? Do you think it's a viable alternative to globalisation? Justify your answer.

Alter-globalization is referred to as alternative globalization that is a social evolution whose main objective is to support global cooperation and interaction and at the same time, it opposes the negative effects of economic globalization. It looks forward to making ..

How Planning has helped in building an robust base for Indian Economy?

Influenced by the Soviet Union India adopted 5 year plans to give a direction for the economy and realise the goals of modern India. These plans made a significant contribution towards empowering India. Planning in India: India’s planned approach led ..

For the last few years, non-major ports in India are gaining more share of cargo handling in comparison to the major ports. While analyzing the reasons of this trend, discuss what policy measures should be taken towards development of non-major ports in India.

India has 7516 km long coastline dotted with 12 major and around 180 minor ports. Major ports are under the jurisdiction of Central government while non-major ports are under state governments. The Economic Survey 2016-17 has observed that share of ..

After three years of announcement of the 100 gigawatt (GW) solar capacity target for March 2022, discuss the progress made so far while highlighting the issues and challenges.

Clean energy has been the central pillar of India’s energy policy. Working in this direction Center government under National Solar Mission, enhanced the target by five times from 20,000 MW to 100 GW by 2022. There has been good growth ..

To what extent the government strategies have been able to change financial literacy / inclusion bank driven model to customer driven model? Discuss critically.

Despite of several steps including priority sector norms, easy branch licensing policy, focus on rural branches, no frill accounts, easy KYC norms, promotion of use of IT and intermediaries , introduction of DBT, Aadhaar platform and so on. However, despite ..

Agriculture sector cannot become resilient unless various risks in agriculture are reduced, profitability is increased and stable income flows to farmers is ensured. Enumerate various reforms in agriculture India needs towards these issues.

Agriculture has a major role to play in the growth of Indian economy as it employs around half of the workforce and is important for food security, source of raw material to many agro based industries. Government aims to double ..

While analyzing the threats caused by Agri-piracy and Bio-piracy on Indian Economy, discuss the taken so far as well as proposed measures towards handling these threats.

Piracy refers to the use of intellectual property systems to legitimize the exclusive ownership and control over biological resources and biological products and processes that have been used over centuries in non-industrialized culture”. India facing problem with Bio piracy and ..

Discuss the extent, issues and possible remedies towards problems of Rail Finances in India

Extent and issues with Rail Finances About 94 percent of the system’s revenues are spent on operating costs leaving little to modernize its creaking infrastructure. Under investment in railways Social service obligations like subsidizing passenger services. As per recent report ..

What are the features of the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019?

Both the houses of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have passed the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019. The features of the bill are: The bill amends the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 which provides for the establishment, development ..

Tax reforms Needed to Increase Tax Mobilization

Under-reporting and tax evasion are one of the major hurdles in resource mobilisation. This needs to be addressed by plugging the loopholes in the tax laws. Tax reforms Individual tax mobilisation The law does not require filing of returns if ..