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Make In India   What it is

• Increase manufacturing
• Manufacturing hub by 2022

  Problems faced by manufacturing sector

• Entry and exit problems
• Red tapism
• Corrupt bureaucracy

  Way ahead

• Quality education
• Employability
• GST
• Land acquisition and labour laws
• Intellectual property law

  THE ESSAY BEGINS… Launched in 2015, this program aims at increasing manufacturing in India, by encouraging domestic production and international investment, so as to make India a manufacturing hub by 2022. Designed to cure the ills Indian manufacturing sector had been suffering, with a stagnant share of 15% of GDP, it lays emphasis on 25 sectors. Entry and exit problems, with red tapism and corrupt bureaucracy were often cited as the major obstacles standing in the way of investment, and a one-stop solution was found for these in the form of digitalization, thus ensuring the more...

Jan Dhan Yojna   Key Points:   What it is

• Mission detail
• Financial inclusion

  Position  

• Banking for the unbanked
• Mobilize saving
• Success of DBT
• Curbed subsidy challenges

  Challenges

• Still many excluded
• Last mile connectivity
• Poor suffering
• Focus on quantity only

  Way ahead

• Financial literacy
• Awareness

  THE ESSAY BEGINS... Launched in 2014, Jan Dhan yojana is a flagship scheme of the government of India to promote financial inclusion. The scheme ensures financial services to '-he unbanked by providing zero-balance bank accounts, thus mobilizing savings in the society Providing banking to the unbanked, this scheme, when coupled with Aadhar and mobile connectivity, creates JAM trinity, which the government mentions as a panacea for all problems ranging from subsidy to connectivity. The direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme has already proved successful in curbing leakages, and more...

India And Saarc   Key Points:   Introduction

• Origin
• Energy security
• Disaster management centre
• Visa exemption
• SAFTA

  Indian’s relationship

• Positives
• Founder member
• Biggest in population and size
• Challengers
• Fear in other countries
• China issue
• Indo-pak issue
• SAARC minus Pakistan policy

  Way ahead

• Peace not hostility
• Neighborhood first policy
• Gujral doctrine
• Development

  THE ESSAY BEGINS Formed with an objective to promote and strengthen collective self-reliance among the countries of South Asia, SAARC has grown beyond the geopolitical and economic organization it was meant to be. Sharing resources to tackle common issues ranging from disaster to energy security, the grouping has more than justified its cause of existence. Diplomatic and trade relations between the eight countries have grown to a new level with the visa exemption treaty and the free trade agreement, commonly known as SAFTA. India's more...

RIT- THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF INFORMATION   Key Points: Introduction

• Origin
• Watershed moment

  Positives

• Transparency and accountability
• Check corruption
• Trust building
• Empower citizen
• Participatory development
• Social audit

  Criticism

• Poor record keeping practices
• Lack of infrastructures
• Delay in appointing offices
• Dilution of power
• Frivolous applications

  Way ahead

• Strong whistleblowers act
• Culture of transparency

  THE ESSAY BEGINS., The enactment of the Right to information act in 2005 came as a watershed moment in Indian governance. The act made the democracy to work for people in real sense, by empowering them to access information about the functioning and forthcoming policies of the government. The trademarks of a working democratic setup are transparency and accountability, and the enactment of RTI strengthened these pillars, thereby fighting against corruption. It gives real power in the hands of people by more...

Swachch Bharat Key Points:   What?

• Mission detail
• Clean India by 2019
• Open-defeaction free
• Leads to diseases
• Previous mission
• TSC and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan

  Action plan

• Eradicate manual scavenging
• 80% subsidy for individual toilets
• Village sanitary complexes
• Finance
• Private sector
• Swachch bharat cess

            Loopholes

• Just increasing number of toilet
• Safe disposal of waste

  Way forward

• Attitudinal change
• Awareness
• Include NGOs

  THE ESSAY BEGINS.. Swachch Bharat is an umbrella mission launched by the government of India to create a clean India by 2019. Covering both rural and urban areas, the mission aims to eliminate open defecation, which results in the spreading of infectious diseases and kill thousands of children every year, and stunt many more. Previous attempts at ensuring sanitation include 'Total sanitation campaign (1999) and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (2014). Apart from eliminating more...

Indian Online   Key Points:   Introduction 

• Growing internet penetration
• Wooed by companies

                Positive aspects

• Simplicity and ease of access
• Connectivity
• Education and health care
• E-wallet services

  Negative aspects

• Lack of infrastructure
• NOFN project
• Cyber securities and cyber laws
• Threat to privacy

  Way ahead

• Closing digital divide
• Right infrastructure
• Efficient utilization

  THE ESSAY BEGINS.., Every second three more Indians experience the internet for the first time. With the crown of the fastest growing economy in the world, no wonder it is wooed by the likes of Facebook and Google. Digitalization has changed the world for better. Reduction in red tapism and corruption has resulted in greater transparency and accountability. Educational opportunities in rural areas have increased with e-schooling initiatives, and medical support is also being given through the same infrastructure. E-wallet services more...

PULSE PRICE VOLATILITY- WAY AHEAD   Key Points: Why

• Low yield
• Food policy
• Low irrigated areas
• Import dependency
• Hoarding and black marketing
• Changing dietary needs

  Measures by government 

• Export ban
• Buffer stock
• Stocking limits
• MSP increased
• Price stabilization

  Way ahead

• Remove export ban
• Remove stoking limit
• Procurement by government
• Technology improvement

  THE ESSAY BEGINS… Pulse price rise is a phenomenon that has been recurring in the past many years. The fact that this has been getting worse in the recent years indicate that there is something really wrong with the way we are dealing it. Pulse price rise can be said to be one of the by-products of green revolution, of the cereal- centric food policy adopted by India. Being grown in low-irrigated fields, it is subjected to monsoon risks and less-preferred by farmers. The more...

UNIFORM CIVIL CODE   Key Points:   What

• Definition
• History
• Compromise- dpsp-art-44

            Why?

• Clear of contradictions
• Gender justice
• At odds with fundamental rights
• Create wide disparity in society

  Why not?        

• Communal politics
• Fear among minorities
• Hamper secular fabric

  Way forward

• Social change
• Have to came from people
• Gradual to be brought in steps

  THE ESSAY BEGINS... Uniform civil code, a common law for all citizens concerning marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance and maintenance, has been a matter of debate right from the time of the making of the Constitution. Its inclusion in the directive principles of state policy, as Art 44, was a compromise between the supporters and opponents. The matter has come back to discussions again with the Union government asking the Law commission to examine all matter related to it. more...

INDO-PAK RELATIONS   Key Points:   Introduction 

• Near in location far in interested

  Relation timeline

• Hot and cold war
• Nuclear weapons
• Transport connection
• Most favored nation
• Bilateral trade
• Inter people communication

  Present scenario

• Uri attack
• Retaliate on diplomatic level
• Diplomatic alienation
• Kashmir question

  Way ahead

• Development
• Bilateral talks
• Develop trust

  THE ESSAY BEGINS... The relations between India and Pakistan, two nations near in location yet far in their interests and world view, has been undergoing much changes in the recent past. Originating from the same undivided India, the two countries have been engaged in a relationship of hot and cold war, on and off, ever since their creation. Having fought three wars in 1947, 1962 and 1971, the countries have escalated international tension by developing nuclear weapons. India being a responsible country more...

DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDIND-BOON OR BANE   Key Points: Introduction

• Definition
• Potential that can be tapped

  Government initiatives

• Skill India
• Startup India
• Make in India
• Digital India

  Challenges

• Education
• SER report
• 1% GDP spent on educate
• Employment
• Employability
• 5% population with any vocational training
• Dependence on public sector
• Geriatric care

  Way ahead

• 4% growth rate
• World fastest growing economy
• Right initiatives on part of government

  THE ESSAY BEGINS... UNFPA defines demographic dividend as the economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population's age structure, mainly when the share of the working-age population is larger than the non-working age population. This implies a potential that can be tapped if we know how to tap it, a transformation which can occur only when certain conditions are fulfilled which can be discussed under two more...