What are the major aspects of the so called Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) promoted by Japan? While analyzing the QII collaboration between India and Japan, discuss how it can help the infrastructure policy making in the country.

The Quality Infrastructure Investment, initiated by Japan has contributed heavily towards current growth and prosperity of Asia. Some of the major aspects of this Quality Infrastructure Investment are: Its vision is that along with infrastructure development, the infrastructure should also ..

What do you understand by Aadhar seeding? Discuss its various methods and benefits, particularly in improvement of India's Public Distribution System.

Aadhaar seeding is a procedure by which the Unique Identifications issued by the UIDAI are included in the database of service providers so that they can used the Aadhaar identity for authentication during service delivery. Some of the examples include ..

What are the key recommendations of P J Nayak Committee report on governance problems in functioning of the Public Sector Banks? Critically assess these recommendations and possible implications of accepting them on Indian economy.

Public Sector Banks are in need of a complete reboot. PSBs comprise about 70% assets of the Indian Banking sector which necessitate introducing some quick reforms which are able to revive bank lending and private investment. A Panel headed by ..

The RBI's household finance committee recently showed that only 5% of the average Indian household's wealth is in financial assets. Critically analyze the reasons and its implications for mobilization of resources in economy.

As per the report of the committee on household finance, only 5% of the average Indian household’s wealth is in financial assets. The remaining 95% is in physical assets—77% in real estate, 11% in gold, 7% in durables such as ..

Despite of increased output and productivity, there is a demand –supply gap in the oilseeds in India, particularly in Edible oils. While analyzing the reasons, discuss the steps that should be taken to address the issue.

India is one of the largest oilseeds producers, despite that fact, India is unable to meet its domestic edible oil requirements. Due to huge Demand supply gap, there is import dependency in case of edible oils. Presently, India is world’s ..

India's new civil aviation policy offers an open-sky policy covering the SAARC countries while it seeks a restrictive policy for countries that are within 5,000 kms from India. Examine the rationale while elucidating India's open sky pacts.

An efficient civil aviation sector is important for India as it is inter-linked with other sectors in the economy. In order to provide a boost to aviation sector & to enhance regional connectivity, New Civil Aviation policy introduced the concept ..

Elucidate the functioning of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF). Do you agree that NIIF has been an innovative move for channelizing the big-ticket private funding? Discuss analyzing its potential towards with its reviving private capital inflows into infrastructure in the country.

The functions of NIIF are as follows: To raise funds through suitable instruments including from off-shore credit bonds also in order to attract investors to participate in the NIIF. Servicing of the investors of NIIF To invest in the corpus ..

What are the major issues towards labour reforms in India? Discuss while elucidating the proposed "four labour codes" as a part of the labour law reforms?

As per the seventh schedule, labour and labour welfare are the part of the concurrent list. Government as a part of labour reforms has framed 4 labour codes after rationalisation of the 38 Labour Acts. These labour codes include Code ..

What is hybrid annuity PPP model? How can hybrid annuity PPP bring efficiency and sustainability in sewage treatment?

Hybrid annuity PPP is a mix of the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) and BOT(build, operate, transfer) models. In EPC model, government pay private players to build infrastructure. The private player plays no role in ownership, maintenance. On the other ..

Despite being one of the largest coal producers, India depends on imports to meet its demands. Critically examine the issues which domestic coal industry is facing.

India is one of biggest coal producer in the world. However, since the domestic demand is greater than domestic production, along with that quality of coal is another problem, as most of the Indian coal has high ash content( not ..