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There has been a paradigm shift in India's economic conditions and cropping patterns in last few decades. Critically discuss why there is an upward trend in horticulture production while downward trend in food grains production? Is it an opportunity or threat?

For the last few years, the horticultutual production in the country has outstripped the food grains output. Currently, horticulture is contributing over one third fraction of India’s agriculture production. This marks a major structural change going on in Indian agriculture. ..

The growth of servitisation" in recent years essentially demands that the government should redefine the term "industry"in its future Industrial Policy." Discuss.

Servitization is a business strategy adopted by manufacturers to provide service component along with traditional products as a package. This is a business mechanism of creating value by adding services to products or in some cases even replacing a product ..

While analyzing the issues and challenges for the handloom industry, discuss the policy initiatives taken by the government towards its protection.|

Indian handloom sector is ancient and has served the economy well in terms of employment. Handloom industry is one of the largest cottage industry in the country. The sector is very important from the point of view of its size ..

Discuss the role played by Fisher Friend Project, mKrishi and other Mobile based initiatives towards Indian Agriculture.

Hint: Fisher Friend Project used mobiles to provide vital livelihood information to fisher folks of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. MKisan Application has been designed and developed by in-house IT team of DAC with the help of C-DAC Pune under project ..

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 ..