Rajasthan sets up Urbanization Commission

The state Government of Rajasthan has constituted the State Urbanization Commission for assessing status of urbanization and impact of urban development schemes and programmes. Senior IAS officer G S Sandhu is to be first Chairman of the Commission. The commission ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2011

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Hunar se Rozgar

"Hunar se Rozgar" is a scheme of the Ministry of Tourism that was launched for creation of employable skills amongst youth belonging to economically weaker sections of the society. This initiative was taken to bridge the gap of skilled manpower ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2011

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Recommendations of the Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP)

Last year on February 26, 2010, the government had proposed the setting up of a technology advisory group to be headed by UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani for creating reliable and tamper-proof IT projects. The move came when Government of India ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2011

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Successful Test Launch of Nishant

Nishant is India’s indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It has recently completed the series of confirmatory trials carried out by the army at the Chandan ranges in Pokhran, Rajasthan and is ready to be inducted to the Armed Forces of ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2011

India’s GDP at Market Prices

The following graph shows India’s GDP at Market prices and its growth for last few years. The above graphics shows that GDP at Market Prices has grown steadily despite of the Economic Slowdown of 2008-09 and 2009-10. The growth Rate ..

GDP at Market Prices and GDP at Factor Cost

The First Thing we could understand from the above discussion is that GDP (FC) is GDP (MP) minus indirect taxes plus subsidies. Here we can figure out that the more is the subsidy, the more is difference between the GDP(FC) ..