Suggest amendments to Model Tenancy Act to address housing sector woes.

The model tenancy act is criticized for ignoring the ground realities. If suitable amendments are made it can be a great tool in addressing the housing sector woes of the country. Focus on the upper end of the housing market ..

Nothing grows fast in finance without storing trouble for the future and so is also true for India�s exotic funds. Comment.

Exotic funds of India which are meant for the wealthy investors have grown to around $40 billion from a bare nothing in a short span of seven years. The funds have expanded by 71% in the last 12 months. It ..

Despite the fact that services share a huge fraction of India's GDP, there is no index of service production similar to Index of Industrial Production so far. While explaining how measuring production of services is different than measuring production of goods; suggest the key heads which should be placed in the Index of Services Production (ISP) for India.

Over the years, services have become the most dynamic sector of the economy. They contributed nearly 60% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Yet the services sector in India does not have a separate index to measure services production. ..

Is Indian economy heading towards slowdown?

The estimates for the second quarter have shown that the GDP growth rate has reduced to 7.1% from the robust growth of 8.2% witnessed during the first quarter. Heading for a slowdown? Gross value added (GVA) for the five of ..

Despite huge demand for palm oil, why the the area under cultivation of palm has not increased in India?

Even though India is the fourth-largest grower of oilseeds India relies on imports to meet over 70 per cent of its vegetable oil requirements and about 60 per cent of the requirement is met through palm oil. Measures to increase the ..

How under-reporting (of income) is a major concern for mobilization of resources despite growing tax collection?

The Central Board of Direct Taxes has released the latest data on income tax collections. Key findings from the CBDT report The number of tax returns filed has increased to 6.85 crore in FY 2017-18. This is an 80% growth ..

One of the biggest failures of Indian Economy is that it has not been very successful in establishing employment-intensive industries. Can the proposed Coastal Employment Zones bring substantial success towards this? Discuss highlighting the salient features of Coastal Employment Zones.

In recent years, India has seen jobless growth whereby the employment growth was around 2 lakhs per year, much below the desired value. NITI Aayog has proposed Coastal Employment Zones (CEZ) – one on eastern coast and other on western. The key ..

Why India lacks way behind Sri Lanka and Singapore in development of Trans-shipment ports? Discuss the geographical / political reasons along with highlighting the government efforts so far.

The Indian port sector plays a vital role in sustaining growth in the country’s trade and commerce. But Indian ports are missing out on one of the most promising areas in the international maritime business-cargo transshipment Transshipment is the act ..