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How far is Integrated Farming System (IFS) helpful in sustaining agricultural production?

Integrated Farming System (IFS) provides for an interrelated and interlocking production system based on cropping, animals and related subsidiary enterprises in such a way that maximize the utilization...

October 26, 2023

Despite the huge upbeat around the Make in India campaign the initiative has failed to deliver in the last 5 years since its launch. Examine

The Make in India campaign was launched by the government to strengthen the industrial sector and to attract foreign investments. It had challenging objectives like increasing the share...

October 25, 2023

Why India needs Foreign Direct Investment Policy 2.0?

In 1978, the government of India adopted a policy that required equity dilution by 100% foreign-owned companies. This led to the ‘Listing of MNCs’, and many of which...

October 24, 2023

What are the objectives of Make in India campaign? Examine how the initiative has fared in attaining these objectives.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Make in India campaign on September 25, 2014, to attract foreign investment in a bid to industrialise India. The foreign investors...

October 24, 2023

Elaborate the impact of National Watershed Project in increasing agricultural production from water stress areas.

The National Watershed Project implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development is an umbrella scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana. The initiative aims to enhance the...

October 24, 2023

Can political instability at the state level disrupt the India growth story by disrupting the Indian Infrastructure buildup and discouraging foriegn investment in the country?

PM Modi and FM Nirmala Sitharaman have made it their mission to ensure that the country’s economy reaches the 5 trillion dollar mark by 2024-25. Infrastructure building, both...

October 24, 2023

Describe the nature of the current ‘economic slowdown’ that India is experiencing and how it’s different from the previous economic slowdowns that India has experienced.

Economic slowdowns aren’t something that India has only started experiencing since 2014. Since India gained its freedom from the British, the country has experienced numerous episodes of ‘economic...

October 22, 2023

RCEP is opposed vehemently from the dairy sector. What are the concerns of the dairy industry against the RCEP deal?

India is the largest producer of Milk. Milk provides for an alternative income for farmers. Milk also provides the animal protein/fat requirements of a significant portion of the...

October 21, 2023

‘In the context of neo-liberal paradigm of development planning, multi-level planning is expected to make operations cost effective and remove many implementation blockages.’-Discuss.

Post LPG reforms there was a drastic shift in the planning of the developmental process. The government which was in the driver seat took a stepped backward and...

October 19, 2023

Explain the approach Randomised Control Trial which was the tool used by the Nobel laureates in their study of poor Economics.

The Randomised Control Trial (RCT) which was inspired by the use of RCTs in medical science was used by the Nobel laureates to test the effect of small interventions...

October 18, 2023

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