GS-III: Economy & Economic Development [Updated]
Model Questions In India, most part of saving is generated by the households but bulk of those savings is locked into unproductive physical assets. What are the major implications of this on resource mobilization? While elucidating the government action, put forward your policy suggestions. “India has been traditionally a country of mass underreporting of Income […]
anand4upsc
September 23, 2015 at 10:04 amsir, i was trying to answer the questions , what should be the word limit ?
Suresh Soni
September 23, 2015 at 12:40 pmHello Anand, The typical questions coming in exams are 200 words answers.
arvind0308
September 23, 2015 at 8:52 pmSir, how we can identify that our answer writing is in correct way or not?
Suresh Soni
September 24, 2015 at 10:27 amArvind, I have done a test series last year and was able to correct some 700 answer sheets. Based on that experience will write to your group how to go about it.
ahmed786
September 23, 2015 at 11:55 pmSir one general question…
Sir who fix the rate of Sugarcane per ton… Should farmers abide the rate fixed by Govt/A Corporate body…?
& Why there is pending of bill by Sugar factories…. Does Govt has no responsibility to remove grievance of farmers….
Due to pending of Bills many farmers attempted/committed Suicide…
Sir please explain…. This question may be silly but felt like asking….
Suresh Soni
September 24, 2015 at 10:25 amHello Ahmed,
The FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price ) is fixed by Centre (CCEA) on recommendation of Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) after taking into consideration the margins for sugarcane farmers, based on the cost of production of sugarcane, including the cost of transportation. States fix SAP (State Advised Price). Usually states like UP fix this price above the FRP. So problem in that state is not for farmers but for the sugar factories. So, you don’t find much distress in sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh. Currently, most sugarcane farmers suicides are happening in Karnataka I think.
The major issue of conflict of interest between government and industry. Governments want to keep rates higher to support farmers that is good. But then, who will buy sugarcane? Its industry which will buy at price mandated by the Government. They will buy it , but what if they have no money to immediately pay? So payments go into arrears and arrears keep piling up. I hope you got the issue.
ahmed786
September 24, 2015 at 12:06 pmOk Sir…
Thanx for explaining.. Sir
ahmed786
September 24, 2015 at 12:36 pmSir One more question just arise… Plz make it clear…..
Sir Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) has any Constitutional Status….? or is just appointed by Centre to come up with a general consensus for fixing prices….
Suresh Soni
September 24, 2015 at 12:43 pmIt is neither constitutional nor a statutory body. It was established by on the basis of recommendations of LK Jha committee (aka. Foodgrains Price Commitee) in 1965 and at that time it was called Agricultural Prices Commission. It was later renamed as CACP in 1985. This is discussed in next module.
dksharma
September 24, 2015 at 6:11 pmSir, one more question…
In your module one, you have mentioned the percentage of vegetarians as 42 or somewhere near.
How did you get these figures?
I think in Census blank form, there was no mention of food habits of individuals.
Suresh Soni
September 24, 2015 at 6:30 pmHello,
This is not a Census figure, its an NSSO figure rather. The particular numbers in my document appear from this article, which is one of many which I used to write this module.
dksharma
September 24, 2015 at 6:36 pmThnk u sir
ramsmca0609
September 25, 2015 at 3:58 pmSir, I want some clarification on “India’s Agricultural Imports” section in this module. Since edible oil is mentioned as largest import in above section, can we read in this section as import and not export and any other corrections needed here?
Suresh Soni
September 25, 2015 at 4:11 pmHello,
On Page-11 its a correction; export was typo (its import). Please check the document should show correction.
dksharma
September 25, 2015 at 9:03 pmSir,
Regarding sugarcane industry, in the graphics you have shown the comparison after and before rangrajan committee and govt decisions. Just below the graphics, “abolition of the levy system” is mentioned, but it is not crossed/marked in after April 2013 scenario. is it because it has been abolished for 2 years or some other reasons?
Please clarify.
dksharma
September 26, 2015 at 2:56 pmSir,
Where can we post general questions or doubts?
plz tell
maheep2005
September 26, 2015 at 10:08 pmSir
What will be answer for Pulses?
1) Rabi 2) Kharif 3) Zaid
Suresh Soni
October 1, 2015 at 11:49 amHello Maheep, pulses are grown in Rabi , Kharif as well as Zaid seasons. Gram, pea, Khesari and lentil constitute the major rabi pulses, while redgram, blackgram, greengram, horsegram and moth comprise the Kharif pulses. The area as well as production is more in case of Kharif Pulses. Moong and urad are also grown as Zaid Crops.
maheep2005
October 1, 2015 at 7:36 pmSir my question is if pulses is given in option i think one question already asked UPSC in which pulses was mentioned in question.
maheep2005
September 26, 2015 at 10:14 pmI have doubt regarding sesame, as per your module it is Rabi but i think it is kharif crop because i saw it grown in July/aug periods.
maheep2005
September 26, 2015 at 10:29 pmCoarse Cereal include which crops?
maheep2005
September 26, 2015 at 10:41 pmIn module it is mentioned that In 1966, India imported high yield varieties of wheat from use during Green Revolution. My question is which other crops seeds (other than wheat )also imported by India during same period.
Suresh Soni
September 29, 2015 at 8:00 pmHello Maheep, 18,000 tons of HYV wheat seeds were imported from Mexico; and at that time, I believe only wheat was brought from Mexico. Along with this some other such as IR-8 of rice was imported from IRRI but that rice was not suitable for Indian environment.
maheep2005
September 29, 2015 at 8:06 pmThat means sir if both options (Rice & wheat) is mentioned in answer choice, answer will be wheat only.
Suresh Soni
September 29, 2015 at 8:07 pmI think this fact does not make any sensible objective question.
maheep2005
September 29, 2015 at 8:08 pmBut sir one line option may be asked in correct / incorrect type question.
dksharma
September 29, 2015 at 9:31 pmSir,
On page 12, it is mentioned that Brown rice is rich in some vitamins mainly Thiamine and B1.
But vitamin B1 and thiamine are both same, I guess.
Is it a typo?
Suresh Soni
October 1, 2015 at 9:35 amHello, Yes it was error. It could be Thiamine (B1) and others.
sneh.prabha
October 5, 2015 at 11:47 amBrown rice is rich in Vitamin B1, B6 & Vitamin C (water soluble).
dksharma
October 14, 2015 at 10:25 pmThanks
~regards DKS
ravimjpr
October 6, 2015 at 6:39 pmSir can we have a graph of agriculture growth with five year plan? so it will be good I think to write in this way
ravimjpr
October 7, 2015 at 1:38 pmSir regarding question no 4 ..service sector outperformed agriculture exports ..to answer this question I think we need to understand how it outperformed agriculture exports ..can we have data and detailed explanation to this?
Suresh Soni
October 7, 2015 at 1:44 pmWe are moving toward that direction →Manufacturing, followed by Service Sector, followed by Public Finance and Government Budgeting in milestone-1
ravimjpr
October 7, 2015 at 9:10 pmSir regarding question no 6 ..exactly what we have to right I mean right way to write this answer ?
Suresh Soni
October 8, 2015 at 6:19 pmDifferent rice cropping patterns mentioned on page-15.
Sravyasri
October 9, 2015 at 6:30 amSir there is problem in downloading.that link is not opening.plz help
varunias2016
October 9, 2015 at 1:58 pmHi Gktoday Team,
I am unable to download pdf for module1, while downloading it terminates in between.
Please solve this issue .
Thanks
Varun
Suresh Soni
October 11, 2015 at 12:04 amHello Varun, Please take a screenshot and share that to [email protected] . In my side, i don’t see any error in error logs.
monojdas.prep
October 13, 2015 at 7:17 pmWhat is ‘institutional’ credit? can you please elaborate.
Suresh Soni
October 13, 2015 at 7:30 pmHello Manoj,
Institutional credit is credit from banks, cooperatives and other such financial institutions. This is opposite to credit from private money lenders.
ravimjpr
October 14, 2015 at 12:19 pmSir regarding Rangrajan recommandation on sugrcane
I could not understand three points clearly
1.export and import policy ( what was the quantative control and export quotas.)
2In past how they controlled molasses and free up power cells
3.cane area reservation
4 what is the rationalisation of cane pricing policy
Sir just simple explanation so I can understand this
alkarawat
October 15, 2015 at 9:27 amsir i am unable to download any link…
Suresh Soni
October 15, 2015 at 10:51 amHello Alka,
Please check the link or blue download button image below model questions in every document.
pranjal
October 15, 2015 at 9:30 pmDear sir some download link are not working
Suresh Soni
October 16, 2015 at 12:45 pmHello Pranjal, which download link is not working please write here.
Captcha
October 29, 2015 at 3:41 amUnable to download 4 docs: Modules 1,2, 3 and also the worksheet of Agriculture
Suresh Soni
October 29, 2015 at 12:19 pmHello Captcha, please try now.
Captcha
October 29, 2015 at 1:02 pmIt worked. Thanks Sir!
success2016
October 29, 2015 at 11:59 pmSir, unable to download this module…can you help me out
Suresh Soni
October 30, 2015 at 8:15 amplease refresh the page and try again.
IAS
November 3, 2015 at 11:12 pmSIR , UNABLE TO DOWNLOADING …..
iascracker2016
November 5, 2015 at 1:31 pmHello sir,
Could you please tell me whether I have to follow the GS manuals of 2014, or will those be revised in near future ?
Subjects like Ancient History wont be changing I guess, So can I safely start my preparation from old books ?.
Suresh Soni
November 5, 2015 at 3:49 pmHello, minimum changes will occur in history and geography documents. Max changes are in economy documents which shall be finished in next few days. Whatever is new in history part will come as new document only. So, please leave economy part.
ssaurabh0711
November 5, 2015 at 4:17 pmHello
Indian Agriculture-1,2,3 download link not active…
Suresh Soni
November 5, 2015 at 4:20 pmHello Saurabh, Kindly refresh
srikanthkln87
November 6, 2015 at 8:36 pmhello sir, the hyper link of “download link” is not active
iascracker2016
November 9, 2015 at 11:00 pmHello Sir,
I’m thankful that these new documents are made in kindle-friendly format. But the GS manuals 2014 are having some font encoding issues. When I open in Kindle, I see strange characters coming in.
Even on laptop, I cant even search for any text in the main topic, apart from the dialog boxes where the font is different. Little bit of googling helped me figure out the problem is with font-mapping in the pdf. Probably font of main content is not mapped properly.
Is there any viable option for accessing the manual content on kindle ?
Or at least, Can I get the fonts used in the document, which might help me to solve that font-mapping issue ?
And when we are provided with new manuals, please try to minimise usage of icons for bullet points. Kindly try to use default icons ( circle, numbers etc ) instead.
Suresh Soni
November 9, 2015 at 11:54 pmHello, previously we used to work on ms word so many fonts I used. Click control + d on file to see what fonts are there in particular file. The current format has only 5 font and is more tab friendly. looking forward to making it mobile friendly.
shameellamba
November 25, 2015 at 11:30 pmSir, there is no download option.
Suresh Soni
November 26, 2015 at 8:15 pmIt must be working now.
shameellamba
November 26, 2015 at 8:55 pmYes Sir. It is working. Thank You.
rupindersidhu
November 29, 2015 at 3:08 pmSir…aftet downloading file is not opening…please help
Traun
December 3, 2015 at 2:16 pmSir..Please Explain what do you mean by GI-Tag, as there was an information in the document regarding Darjeeling Tea is the 1st Indian product to be rewarded ?
Suresh Soni
December 3, 2015 at 2:19 pmHello Tarun, This link explains in a lucid language about GI tag.
Traun
December 3, 2015 at 4:02 pmMany Thanks Sir..
ajaymotog
December 22, 2015 at 4:17 pmNot Able to Download this Module —please help
Suresh Soni
December 22, 2015 at 4:36 pmHello Ajay, Are you able to see the download link? Please revert.
ajaymotog
December 22, 2015 at 5:13 pmSir….now problem resolved..
ajaymotog
December 22, 2015 at 7:28 pmSir , will you update these pdfs once data and figures mentioned in them changes or any new event occurs??
Suresh Soni
December 23, 2015 at 7:13 pmHello Ajay, If there is a major update like adding new content, you will be notified. Minor changes can be done when some spelling / grammar issues are corrected.
iascracker2016
December 23, 2015 at 2:54 pmHello Sir,
One statement says ….
27% of Total population = Agril workers as per 1951 census and that marginally came down to 21.7 % as per 2011 census ..
But usually we say 60% of people dependent on Agriculture but they contribute ~18% of GDP..
Aren’t the statements contradictory ?.
Suresh Soni
December 23, 2015 at 7:12 pmI have written: The above data also demystifies the false notion that half of India’s population is involved in agriculture. Its a myth actually. The fact is that 54 per cent of total workers and 42% of rural workers is still part of the agriculture sector but they are not all farmers or cultivators.
Kalbhaishaki
February 3, 2016 at 5:40 pmHi Sir,
I suppose this file Indian Agriculture-1 is corrupted. I am not able to download. Can you please look into this.
Thanks
Suresh Soni
February 3, 2016 at 6:06 pmPlease check now. R u able to download the complete file or downloading is dying mid-way. Please reply.