Sunday 9 February 2014

Answer Writing Practice

On what grounds can a member be disqualified from either house of Parliament. (200 Words)


















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Saturday 8 February 2014

Sunday 2 February 2014

General Studies - 3 (Mains Practice Questions)

Analyze the functioning of PDS in India and bring out its limitations.

India’s public distribution system to some extent  has helped in reduction of  rural poverty. Evaluate the performance of PDS and analyze what ails it. (250 Words)

What do you think has been the impact of Targeted Public  Distribution System in India on food security for the poor? Justify your answer.(200 Words)

Evaluate the track record of land reform in India in its various aspects, bringing out inter state differences. How would you interpret this record? (250 Words)

Analyze the impact of MGNREGA on rural and urban wages and rural migration. (200 Words)

“The APMC Act, designed to protect farmers from the vagaries of the market, has been turned on its head to enrich traders and harm farmers.” Critically comment. (250 Words)

What is malnutrition and undernourishment? Why is India according to some reports, in spite of surplus food grain production, home to a large number of stunted, wasted and underweight children in the world?  Explain. (300 Words)

“The continuing tragedy is that the Indian system is not able to deliver the ‘surplus’ food grain to the hungry.” Comment. (200 Words)

“Over two thirds of the crop land of the United States is devoted to feed crops and only slightly over one-fifth to food crops.” Discuss the implications of the above statement. Explain with reasons why the conditions are totally different in India. (250 Words)

“Food security bill is a populist, but much-needed legislation, enacted without laying the foreign policy foundations for its continued existence.” Examine. (200 Words)

“In India, the fragmented and unreliable supply chain corrodes the profitability of food processing sector and makes it unattractive for large investments.” Critically comment. (250 Words)

“Crops in their centres of origin and diversity often have a deep cultural significance that can easily get lost when utilitarian issues dominate the discourse”. Examine the statement in the backdrop of the controversy over allowing  field trials of Bt transgenics in certain food crops in India.

 “In India, the fragmented and unreliable supply chain corrodes the profitability of food processing sector and makes it unattractive for large investments.” Critically comment. (250 Words)

“Infrastructure is India’s biggest supply chain challenge.” Comment.(200 Words)

Critically examine the impact of New Industrial policy initiated in 1991 in India. (150 Words)

“The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision not to prohibit corporate/industrial houses from applying (unlike in 1994 and 2001) for banking licences threatens to take us back to the days before bank nationalisation.” What is the ‘threat’  involved in giving new bank licences to corporate/industrial houses? Comment. (200 Words)

Examine how ‘smart grids’ can be a solution to India’s power woes. (200 Words)
Examine in what ‘unique’ ways  India’s Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Act, 2010 (the Act) deals with supplier liability? Also throw light on how the present act impacts nuclear commerce. (250 Words)

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