It will lead to sustainable mining sector development in future. It will address the issues of project affected persons especially those residing in tribal areas. The new changes include the focus on make in India initiative and Gender sensitivity in Read More …
Category: Economy
DMPQ- SATAT Initiative
SATAT initiative is aimed at providing a Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) as a developmental effort that would benefit both vehicle-users as well as farmers and entrepreneurs. Compressed Bio-Gas plants are proposed to be set up mainly through independent Read More …
DMPQ- It is imperative to raise the agricultural competitiveness of farmers with small land holdings. Outline the suggestions to improve the agricultural competitiveness.
Promotion of commodity-based farmers’ organisations such as Small Cotton Farmers’ Estates to combine decentralised production with centralised services such as post-harvest management, value addition and marketing, for leveraging institutional support and facilitating direct farmer-consumer linkage. Improvement in implementation of Read More …
DMPQ- What is Ways and means Advance?
The Reserve Bank of India gives temporary loan facilities to the centre and state governments as a banker to government. This temporary loan facility is called Ways and Means Advances (WMA).The WMA scheme for the Central Government was introduced on Read More …
DMPQ- Farmer suicides have increased in the recent past. Give suggestions to prevent farmer suicides.
In the last few years, a large number of farmers have committed suicide. Cases of suicides have been reported from states such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Some of measures suggested include: Provide Read More …
DMPQ: Give possible suggestions for credit enhancement for farmers.
Possible solutions are: Expand the outreach of the formal credit system to reach the really poor and needy. Reduce rate of interest for crop loans to 4 per cent simple, with government support. Moratorium on debt recovery, including loans from Read More …
DMPQ: PM-KISAN
PM-KISAN stands for Pradhan Mantri KisanSamman Nidhi. The scheme announced to provide income support to the marginal and small farmers. To provide an assured income support to the small and marginal farmers, the Government is launching the Pradhan Mantri KisanSamman Read More …
DMPQ:What possible solutions do you suggest for Land reforms and irrigation? (ECONOMY)
Land reforms: Distribute ceiling-surplus and waste lands; Prevent diversion of prime agricultural land and forest to corporate sector for non-agricultural purposes. Ensure grazing rights and seasonal access to forests to tribals and pastoralists, and access to common property resources. Establish Read More …
DMPQ- What are the problems faced by agriculture sector in India? (ECONOMY)
The major problems are as follows: Rudimentary infrastructure and policies leads to slow agricultural growth. The average size of landholding is small. Poor socio economic conditions of farmers. Use of technology is inadequate. No proper management of irrigation. Vulnerability of Read More …
Quick Revision- MONETARY POLICY TOOL
MONETARY POLICY TOOL: There are several direct and indirect instruments that are used for implementing monetary policy. Repo Rate: The (fixed) interest rate at which the Reserve Bank provides overnight liquidity to banks against the collateral of government Read More …