What do you understand by sustainable sugar Initiative (SSI)? Discuss its main principles and methods?

Model Answer: SSI was jointly launched by ICRISAT and WWF to reduce and optimize the use of water and other inputs in sugarcane production. It is a system of various practices and principles including using single budded sets from healthy ..

With men migrating to cities for better jobs, women are playing a critical role in farming in recent times. What are the key issues created by this phenomenon? Discuss the lapses in policy approach while suggesting remedial measures.

Women have made significant contributions to agriculture in India. After implementation of economic reforms in 1991 and failure of agriculture due to uncertainty in rainfall, Men from rural areas started migrating to cities for better jobs. This makes women to ..

While keeping in foci the religious and national differences, discuss the challenge of developing a global ethical perspective.

The challenge of developing a global ethical perspective involves the fact that each country in the world has its own culture, traditions and religious or national perspectives that shape people’s views on a particular action. For example, the people of ..

To what extent, the river inter-linkage a can be a solution for the drought problems. Critically examine.

The river interlinking project intends to the transfer of water from ‘surplus’ basins to water scarce zones, through interlinkage rivers.  For example, the Ken-Betwa interlink will provide a relief to Bundelkhand region and will help in increasing per capita water ..

No city can be a smart city without a solid waste management plan. Critically analyze why the waste management policies are a failure. Also, suggest solutions for India's garbage problem.|

With increasing urban population, the country is facing a problem of waste management. Although municipal authorities provide waste management services, however, most of the municipal authorities dump waste in dump-yard without any processing. The issues related to poor solid waste ..

Examine the key issues in the present cadre-based organization of Civil Services in India. To what extent, the government's proposed policy addresses these issues? Do you think that such a policy would help in national integration also?

Bureaucracy plays an important part in administration. For administrative convenience Offices of All India Services are organized into cadres. Issues related to cadre based organization One’s a cadre allocation is done the Civil Servant will have to spend a major ..

Critically examine the implications of Lateral exit as well as lateral entry towards improving performance and efficiency of the civil services in India?

Lateral entry can bring fresh insights and innovative solutions to long-standing problems of the government and enable right-minded professionals and the adoption of best practices for improving governance.  Lateral entrants may not only bring specialized expertise, good practices and work ..

While elucidating their formation, account for the distribution of atolls around the globe within tropical and subtropical waters of oceans and seas.

Atolls are formed due to accumulation and compaction of skeletons of lime secreting organisms know as coral polyps. Coral polyps cannot survive above water level so they are always found either up to water level or below it. They always ..

What do you understand by "Glacier mass balance"? While elucidating the factors that affect the Glacier mass balance, discuss its implications for geography and environment.

Glacier Mass Balance is the gain and loss of ice from the glacier system. When glaciers lose more mass than they receive, it will be in negative mass balance and so will recede. When glaciers gain more mass than they lose, ..

South China Sea has assumed great geopolitical significance in the present context. Comment.

In the recent years the south china sea has become very significant in the geopolitical rivalries of the world because of its expected natural resources and the strategic reasons. The south china sea is one of the most disputed sea ..