ARCHIVES January 24, 2014 NATIONAL & SOCIAL ISSUES POVERTY ESTIMATION & INDICATORS (Continued from yesterday’s post) OBJECTIVES OF POVERTY ESTIMATION To build awareness on poverty and to keep it in the agenda of discourse; To design policies, programs and institution to alleviate poverty To monitor and evaluate these policies, programs and institutions that are associated …
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Our third test of 2014 Mock Exams will be sent to you tomorrow at around 5.30 pm. We carefully send everyone but still few people don’t get them (don’t know why) If you don’t see the tests in your inbox by tomorrow 6 pm, please mail us immediately (insights.exams at gmail dot com) and we …
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Topic: Models, Theories & Laws in Human Geography Question 1 Write shote note : Gravity Model. (200 words) Question 2 Write a note on Weight Triangle. (200 words) Next Topic Models, Theories & Laws in Human Geography
Question 1 “India’s solar power policy is now entering round two. And there is much that needs to be reviewed and reworked as the business of solar energy has seen massive turbulence in India as well as globally”. Comment in the light of challenges Indian Solar mission is facing. Source: THE TIMES OF INDIA LIVEMINT.COM …
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Question 1 Examine the nature of Social Facts as understood by Emile Durkheim. (300 words) Question 2 Describe the salient features of the poverty alleviation programmes. What modifications would you suggest to make them more effective? (200 words)
Question 1. Compare the economic, social and religious life of the Indus Valley people with that of the early Vedic people and discuss the relative chronology of the Indus and the early Vedic cultures. (200 words) Question 2. Position of women in the Rigvedic society. (200 words) Next Topic Aryans and vedic period
Question 1. Leadership is the ‘influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organization’ [Katz and Kahn]. Analyze. (150 WORDS) [CSM 2012] Question 2 Human relations approach urges co-operation over competition and inter dependence over individualism. Examine [200 words] Tomorrow’s Topics Functions of the executive (C.I.Barnard)
Rishave Verma It’s hard to defeat an enemy who has an outpost in your own head. (Sally Compton) When motion pictures became popular, a group of country people went to watch their first movie. Upon viewing a scene in which a band of robbers was kidnapping a young child, one guy in the audience stood …
ARCHIVES 24, January 2014 1. Critically comment on the contribution of Subhas Chandra Bose to India’s freedom struggle. (200 Words) The Hindu 2. What do you understand by money supply? What are the measures adopted in India to measure money supply? Explain. (200 Words) The Hindu 3. What are the implications of the Reserve Bank of …
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Question 1. Enumerate the role of deficit financing as a mode either of productive mobilisation of domestic factor endowments or of generating effective demand for domestic goods and services in Indian Economic context since 1970s. (200 words) Question 2. Write an account of the problem of increasing unemployment and under-employment in the Indian Economy. Are the …
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