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Mrunal Economy PCB-9 2023 (Upscmaterial - Online)
Mrunal Economy PCB-9 2023 (Upscmaterial - Online)
10.2.1 🏛🏛🏛🏛 What has UPSC asked from Economy in recent years?
Mrunal’s Prelims P1 (GS 100 🔠🔠❓MCQs) Mains GSM-1-2-3 (750 Marks) Remarks
Economy: 6
PillarsTM
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
💳💳1_Money 0 Most useful
Banking, in Prelims
6 6 7 7 9 6 8 25 0 0 0 15 15
Finance & but less in
Insurance Mains
0 Second
🍋🍋2_Budget, lowest
3 3 4 1 1 1 3 12.5 30 25 25 15 20
FC, GST, FRBM utility after
5_Infra
0 Third
💱💱3_Intl_Trad lowest
11 4 4 7 7 2 4 25 0 30 0 15 15
e, BoP utility after
2_Budget.
🛒🛒4_Sectors, 85 Useful for
GDP, Inflation, both
4 8 3 8 5 5 4 25 60 50 65 55 60
Microeconomic prelims
s and Mains.
20 Lowest
🏗🏗5_Infrastuctu utility
2 4 1 3 1 0 2 37.5 10 15 15 15 30
re among 6
pillars.
20 Useful for
both
�6_HRD 3 4 6 2 0 0 0 50 40 60 75 85 45
prelims
and Mains.
29Q 29Q 28Q 23 14 21 200 185 125
Total 25Qs 175m 140m 180m 180m
s s s Qs Qs Qs m m m
10.3 🍅🍅🍅🍅 BARTER SYSTEM & ITS DISADVANTAGES: (व�ु �व�नमय प्रणाली)
Barter system was introduced by Mesopotamian tribes. It has following challenges: (चुनौ�तया )
- 😰😰Double co-incidence of Wants (आव�कताओ का दोहरा सं योग नहीं होगा तो �ापार असं भव).
- 😰😰Search Cost & Transaction cost is high. (सही दाम पर चीज ढूँ ढने व लेनदेन क� लागत बढ़ जाती है)
- 😰😰Storage of perishable commodities is difficult, results in loss of value. (नाशवान व�ुओ का मू�हास)
- 😰😰Doesn’t encourage specialization and division of labour (श्रम �वभाजन को प्रो�ािहत नहीं करता).
⇒ RBI issues: Currency notes other than ₹ 1 Note under RBI Act 1934.
⇒ Currency notes have Governor’s sign: “I promise to pay bearer…”
😤😤 FAQ: why is it like this!!!??? WHY CAN’T RBI ISSUE BOTH coins & currency notes!!?
Ans. Send your suggestion to PM, to merge above two laws. Until it’s implemented, remember table
for passing exam. प्रधानमं त्री को कागज �लखो- दोनों कानूनों का एक�करण करने के �लए. जब तक वह नहीं होता तो इस handout को रटो।
10.5.6 💵💵⚖Legal Tender (वैधा�नक �न�वदा)
To become a ‘legal tender’, a given coin/currency MUST fulfil two conditions SIMULTANEOUSLY:
एक साथ दो शत� को पूरा करना होगा.
1. It must be a FIAT MONEY (जो हमने ऊपर के से�न म� पढ़ा). AND SIMULTENOUSLY और साथ ही साथ
2. It must be legally valid for all debts & transactions throughout the country. Other party can’t
refuse to accept. (लेनदार उसको अ�ीकार नहीं कर सकता)
Bitcoins ✅ ✋ ✋ ✋## ✋
⇒ Bitcoin is not a Fiat money, yet it is legal tender in El-Salvador nation. But it is an exception.
##
(�बट-कोइन का अल-सा�ाडोर देश म� वेध�नक �न�वदा होना के वल एक अपवाद है, वो पूरी दू �नया के �लए �नयम/�ा�ा नहीं है।)
⇒ Commemorative Coins = Fiat money yes but not legal tender unless notified by
RBI/Government to be used as legal tenders. (�ृ�त�च� �प �स�े - सामा� भुगतान म� इ�ेमाल निह हो सकते, �सवाय के
सरकार/आरबीआई उसक� अनुम�त दे।)
� FAQ: we can use cheque / credit card to pay fees. So, why are they not fiat money/legal tender?
� FAQ: I did not understand this thing and/or I want to engage in intellectual debate why “X”
thing is legal tender? Ans. Please watch lecture’s recorded video again, more peacefully.
🚩🚩� FAQ# my shopkeeper doesn’t accept 50 paisa. Then how it is legal tender? मेरा दुकानदार नहीं लेता
50 पैसा का �स�ा। तो आप कै से कह सकते है वो वैधा�नक �न�वदा है?
Ans. as per RBI notification, 50 paisa is legal tender. So, accept it for MCQ & move to next topic.
Further, feel free to file police case against shopkeeper, if you have plenty of free time/outrage for it.
🔠🔠❓MCQ: Which correctly describes the meaning of legal tender money? (Pre-2018)
(a) The money which is tendered in courts of law to defray the fee of legal cases
(b) The money which a creditor is under compulsion to accept in settlement of his claims
(c) The bank money in the form of cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, etc.
(d) The metallic money in circulation in a country
🔠🔠❓MCQ: Consider the following statements (Asked in UPSC-CDS-2011-II)
1. In India the minimum denomination coin acceptable for transaction is 50 paise.
2. Coins below 50 praise is not a legal tender for payment.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) Only 1 (b) Only 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
Which note has what colour, which note has Red Fort / Sun Temple photo etc? General Knowledge
�Less important for UPSC-exams, more IMP for Non-UPSC Exams. So I’m removing it from
Raftaar-Handout. You can learn such general knowledge from https://paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in/
New rupee ₹: selected through a competition by Dept of Economic Affairs in 2010. Designed by
symbol D.Udaya Kumar, a Professor @IIT Guwahati.
Nation - Lion Emblem: Sarnath Pillar, Uttar Pradesh से �लया गया है
Symbol - “Satyamev Jayate”: slogan from Mundaka Upanishad से �लया गया है
Languages While Constitution’s 8th Schedule has 22 languages, but currency note has only 17.
(15 on Reverse + Hindi & English on frontside (obverse) = 17)
🤯🤯FAQ: Why it is like this? Ans. Either some Indian languages have similar fonts
and/or send suggestion to RBI.
Museum Budget-2020: a museum on numismatics and trade (�स�ाशा� और �ापार का सं ग्रहालय) will
be built at the historic ‘Old Mint Building’ in Kolkata .
- Overdraft: When person has insufficient bank balance, still he may withdraw money from his
account (as a loan). Such facility is called Overdraft. Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan account has
Overdraft upto Rs 10,000/- with certain conditions. (More in Pillar1D: Financial Inclusion).
o Overdraft is mainly for short-term operating expenses. (अ�ाई �प से लघु अव�ध के �लए कजर्)
o Loans is mainly for longer term higher value expenses. (दीघर् अव�ध के �लए मोटी रकम का कजर् लेना)
10.7.3 🐷🐷🔖🔖 Cheque → NPCi’s Cheque Truncation System (CTS) & Positive Pay Mechanism
- Basically, scanned image of cheque electronically sent to the drawee branch for faster clearance
without theft or tempering. <see diagram given on next page>
🚩🚩🚩🎓🎓 FAQ I didn’t understand this. Ans. Watch lecture, sufficiently explained in it.
🚩🚩🚩🎓🎓 FAQ: What is the difference between Core Banking Solution (CBS) versus Core Banking
System (CBS)? Ans. Fundamentally it is the same thing. Dictionary word difference/legal
pedantry/academic pedantry/hairsplittery= notimp4exam. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
🔠🔠❓MCQ: The term ‘Core Banking Solutions’ correct term? (UPSC Prelims-2016)
1. It is a networking of a bank’s branches which enables customers to operate their accounts
regardless of where they open their accounts.
2. It is an effort to increase RBI’s control over commercial banks through computerization.
Table 4: Digital Payment Systems- transaction limits may differ, depending on banks
RBI's centralised payment systems (CPS)## NPCi’s IMPS
⏰RBI’s NEFT:
RBI’s RTGS: Real Time Immediate
� Type National Electronic
Gross Settlement Payment Service
Funds Transfer
₹ 1 to maximum
💸💸 Transfer Min ₹2 lakh to ₹2000
upto ₹10 lakhs (SBI). ₹5 lakhs
Amount crores (SBI).
Above is not hundred percent technically correct explanation, but it is just to help you visualise.
Figure 1: बेटी मेरे नोिकया के non-smart phone पे UPI आसानी से कै से इ�ेमाल क�ँ ?
�वदेशी ��� भारत म� ब�क खाता खोलकर यूपीआई वाली मोबाइल ऐप द्वारा भारत म� खरीदारी कर सके ऐसे �रजवर् ब�क कदम उठा
रहा है.
BEFORE From 2023
if such non-resident/foreigner came to India, he could not do This facility made available to
shopping using UPI money transfer from their NRE/NRO** G20 nations ke tourists coming
bank account, to India.
** Non-Resident Indians/foreigners can open bank accounts in Indian banks. Such accounts are
known as NRE/NRO/FCNR (Foreign Currency Non-Resident Account). NRE/NRO/FCNR=
internal difference is not imp. For our exam.
10.11.4 � 🤳🤳NPCI → UPI BHIM Full form: Bharat Interface for Money (2016)
⇒ Money transfer app designed by NPCi. It works on Android, iOS/Apple mobiles as an APP,
⇒ Works even on non-smart (=basic feature) phones using *99# USSD- Unstructured
Supplementary Service Data.
⇒ Bank to bank / peer to peer transaction using mobile phone (xyz@upi). No need to install
multiple apps for each bank account (SBIBuddy, AxisPay etc) just one BHIM app to use all such
bank accounts. App has 3 factor authentication system.
⇒ Your money stays in bank account and earns interest. It’s not stored in ‘wallet outside your bank
account’ as it happens in Mobikwick, Phonepe etc. (PS: in later stage, PhonePe etc private apps
also included UPI type mechanism so storing money in ‘wallet’ became optional but we need not
engage in Hairsplittery/PHD.)
⇒ No cards involved so no MDR or such hidden charges.
⇒ Rupee + Payment = RuPay card is world’s 7th payment gateway similar to Mastercard, Visacard,
China’s Union Pay. Rupay charges less fees than other companies.
⇒ Works in 3 channels: 1) ATM, 2) Point of Sale Device (PoS/card reader machine), 3) Online
portals.
⇒ Rupay debit card given free with PMJDY (Jan Dhan) Bank account (Refer Pill#1D).
⇒ Rupay has signed collaboration agreements with some digital payments companies in Singapore,
Japan etc. So, it may be used in those countries. But presently Rupay is not having the widest
reach across all the countries unlike MasterCard and Visa.
- Can be used to provide 1) Food for mother, child, poor families under various schemes. 1)
Medicines for TB, Corona etc. 3) Fertilizer subsidies for farmers [खाद्य दवाइयां उवर्रक क� स��डी]
- Even private sector companies can issue it for 1] employees e.g. Gym membership, golf club
membership, hotel tourism travel. 2] use it for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs
(What is CSR? Ans. Big companies have to spend a portion of their profit for social service. Ref
Pillar#1C2). [�नजी कं प�नयां भी कमर्चा�रयों को �व�वध चीजों के �लए दे सकती ह�. कारपोरेट सामा�जक दा�य� अदायगी म� भी इसका
इ�ेमाल हो सकता है]
- Following reforms taken in E-Rupi in 2022-Feb
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What are those technical Rules to improve interoperability? NOTIMP #RAFTAAR.
UPI QR code Generated by UPI app of NPCi. 🤩🤩It can be scanned by all Apps which are
developed using UPI technology.
Bharat QR code Developed by NPCi with help of Visa and Mastercard. 🤩🤩It can be
scanned by all Apps which are developed using UPI technology.
⇒ RBI has ordered all the Payment System Operators (PSOs e.g. Paytm, PhonePe, MobiKwik,
Google Pay etc) to shift to UPI QR or Bharat QR by March 31, 2022.
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit? All Payment apps will be able to scan these QR codes → 'interoperability'.
10.14.2 � Third Party Application Providers (TPAPs): Google Pay, Whatsapp Pay
Delhi HC court case going on about their registration. But NOTIMP/outdated. #RAFTAAR �
�जसको IAS/IPS बनना है वह आगे का Next topic पढ़े….
10.15.1 💳💳 Card Types based on Security Features: (सुर�ा प्रणाली के िहसाब से काडर् के प्रकार)
⇒ Tokenisation = creates a set of numbers called ‘token’ to replace/hide the sensitive card data
such as the 16-digit account number, expiry date and security code. (हैिकंग से बचने वा�े असली काडर् नं बर
क� जगह टोकन/का��नक-नं बर बनाकर दे दो एसी बात है। तािक �वक्रेता का आपके काडर् क� गु� जानकारी �मले नहीं)
⇒ This ensures your card information is not disclosed to merchant website= protection from
hacking.
⇒ Card owner can generate Tokenization through visiting card-issuer’s/banker’s website/App
through laptops, desktops, tablet, wearables (smartwatch) etc.
⇒ From 1/10/2022, this became effective.
⇒ 2017: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI, a statutory body under Highway ministry)
launched 2 mobile apps MyFASTag and FASTag Partner to facilitate Electronic Toll Collection
(इले��ॉ�नक मा�म से पथकर/टोल वसूली के �लए रा��ीय राजमागर् प्रा�धकरण द्वारा अलग अलग एप बनवाए गए ह�).
⇒ NPCi’s has developed National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) technology to aid this.
⇒ Persons loads up ₹ ₹ in his mobile app → actives RFID tag in his car → when it passes through
highway toll-booth, the money is automatically deducted. (गाडी टोल नाके से गुजरेगी अपने आप पैसा कट जाएगा)
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit? faster traffic movement, tracking stolen cars.
⇒ From 2021, it became mandatory for all vehicles passing through tolls to have FASTags. Vehicles
without FASTags will have pay up more fees/toll at the gates. (ये लगाना अ�नवायर् �आ, अ�था �ादा फ�स)
⇒ Automated Teller Machine (ATM) allow bank customer to withdraw money or check balance
without visiting any branch of a bank. (�चा�लत �प से नकदी मुद्रा देने वाला यां�त्रक िड�ा)
⇒ ATM network works on NPCi’s NFS (National Financial Switch) technology.
Bank label Bank itself owns and operates the ATM network.
Brown label Bank owns but operations outsourced (cash refilling truck, guard)
⇒ Note: Some books offer different definition, but I’ve taken above definition
from Economic Times Article 2015.(कु छ िकताबों म� �ा�ा अलग है म�ने इधर से ली है)
White label - Non-Bank owns & operates. E.g. Muthoot Finance, Tata Comm, Prism
- 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What is on-tap licensing system for White-label ATM? Ans.
Outdated topic for 2023.
Micro-ATM Bankmitra manually makes entries of deposit and withdrawal for customer. He
uses handheld device for using card & Aadhar biometrics. NPCi’s AEPS
technology gives backend technological support.
In above photo, MDR fees % is not actual number but for illustration/example.
🚩🚩🚩🎓🎓 FAQ: "I've 500 jaat ke PHD doubts & counter arguments about this MDR subsidy" Ans.
Plz waste your precious time reading egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2021/231960.pdf
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following best describes the term “Merchant Discount Rate”
sometimes seen in news ? (Pre18 Set-D)
A. The incentive given by a bank to a merchant for accepting payments through debit cards
pertaining to that bank.
B. The amount paid back by banks to their customers when they use debit cards for financial
transactions for purchasing goods or services.
C. The charge to a merchant by a bank for accepting payments from his customers through the
bank’s cards.
D. The incentive given by the Government, to merchants for promoting digital payments by their
customers through Point of Sale (PoS) machines and debit cards.
10.17.2 � 💳💳📡📡:📵📵 Offline Retail Payments Using Cards and Mobile Devices
While mobile phones, cards, e-wallets, etc. available but, internet connectivity issues especially in
rural/remote areas😰😰😰😰(ग्रामीण और दुगर्म प्रदेशों म� इं टरनेट क� ख़राबी/सम�ाएँ )
2021: RBI allowed offline mode of payments using cards, wallets or mobile devices upto Rs.200
per transaction. HOW? Ans. 🚩🚩🚩🎓🎓 James-Bond-girl not important)
10.18.3 �(Proposed but NOT YET DONE) Payment Regulatory Board (PRB)
Outdated for 2023-24. Deleted for #Prelims-RAFTAAR🏎🏎
��REPORT RBI's Payment and Settlement Systems in India Vision 2019 – 2021
��INDEX/Ranking RBI Digital Payments Index– to check level of digital payment in various areas
of India. (DPI िड�जटल भुगतान सूचकांक)
��INDEX/Ranking RBI’s Financial Inclusion Index– to check whether every poor person is having
access to banking, loan, insurance pension, etc. (�व�ीय समावेशन सूचकांक)
��Competition RBI’s Harbinger Hackathon 2021 competition for innovation in digital
payment.
** ��FAQ: FAQ: How is Bitcoin not traceable, we can trace it using XYZ technology?
⇒ ✅Ans. Using HTML, we can create Wikipedia website and using HTML we can also create
gmail website. While everyone can read Wikipedia, I can’t read your gmail page, unless I know
your username password. Blockchain is similar. It depends on designer to make database “open”
or “private/encrypted”. Beyond that, we are not here for B.Tech (Computer Science) Semester
exam/James Bond recruitment. We just have to memorize 3-4 negative points for exam.
⇒ Ans. Big Newspapers using such headlines. I didn’t bother to write/ask to their chief-editors. If
asked in Exam, then tick MCQ depending on options.
⇒ China, Britain, Japan, Singapore, Sweden have also started such experiments.
⇒ 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022 announced issuance of Digital Rupee using blockchain technology).
10.23.1 🐯🐯🔗🔗🔗🔗=👌👌👌👌Benefits of CBDC (क� द्रीय ब�क �ड�जटल मुद्रा के फायदे)
CBDC/ Sovereign Digital Fiat Money / Digital Base Money will provide following benefit
1. ⏬ Cost printing and transporting physical currency. (नोट छापने क� लागत और प�रवहन खचर् म� कमी)
2. ⏬ Scope for counterfeiting. (जाली नोट बनाना मु��ल)
3. ⏫Traceability, ⏬Anonymity: (ढूँ ढना आसान, गुमनाम/अ�ात रहेना मु��ल)
a. Whether money is reaching the intended beneficiary or not? (लाभाथ� को योजना का पैसा �मला िक
नहीं)
b. From where did the businessman accumulate this money, did he pay an appropriate
amount of tax or not? Else auto-alert to the Income tax department for tax evasion.
(करचोरी पर �नगरानी आसान)
+ many other things but they are more relevant for Mains rather than Prelims.
(Batch: PCB9-RATFAAR) Mrunal’s Economy Pillar#1A-2: Money Supply & RBI’s Monetary Policy → Page 36
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12.14.5 �� � Enhanced Reverse Repo Rate for Hardworking Bankers .................................... 55
12.14.6 ��� MonPolicy → Quant Tools → Rates → MSF (2011) .......................................... 55
12.14.7 ��� MonPolicy → Quant Tools → Rates → Bank rate (ब�क दर): ................................ 55
12.14.8 ��� Quanti. Tools → SDF (=Reverse Repo walla game Without Collaterals) .......... 56
12.14.9 MSF Repo vs Reverse Repo vs SDF ............................................................................................. 56
12.14.10 Policy Corridor / LAF Corridor ................................................................................................... 57
12.14.11 ��� Tri-Party Repo (�त्र-प�ीय पुन: क्रय-अनुबंध): ................................................................... 58
12.14.12 �� BPLR, MCLR, External Benchmarks, etc:...................................................................... 58
12.14.13 ��� Market Operations (OMO): (Inflation → Sell G-Sec, Deflation → Buy) .......... 58
12.15 ����MonPolicy: Quanti Tools: OMO → Operation Twist ............................................. 59
12.15.1 ��: Security → Debt → G-Sec & Bonds (ऋण के �लए जारी क� गई प्र�तभू�तयां).......................... 59
12.15.2 � (�
��: ��) Deepening of G-Sec market- Retail investors’ RDAG @RBI............ 59
12.15.3 �Corporate Bonds: factors that determine its interest rate ..................................... 59
��:�
12.15.4 ��: � Bond Yield (बांड म� �नवेश करने पर होने वाली आय या मुनाफा) .............................................. 60
12.15.5 ��: � Bond Yield ∝ 1/Price (स�े म� खरीदा= तो मुनाफा �ादा) ................................................ 60
12.15.6 ��: � Bond yield: other factors affecting it (अ� कारक) ................................................... 61
12.15.7 ����Operation Twist: why? ......................................................................................... 61
12.15.8 ����RBI’s Operation Twist: methodology (2019-Dec) ........................................... 61
12.15.9 �� ��: � Bond Yield & Inverted Yield Curve: poor benefit for exam ................. 62
12.16 ���: � MonPolicy: Quanti Tools: OMO → G-SAP........................................................... 63
12.16.1 ���:�
� OMO → G-SAP : Benefit? ................................................................................ 63
12.17 ��� Monetary Policy: Qualitative Tools (गुणा�क साधन) .......................................................... 64
12.17.1 � Moral Suasion (नै�तक दबाव / सलाह) & Publicity (प्रचार) ........................................................... 65
12.17.2 �� Direct Action (सीधी कायर्वाही: �ोिक लातो के भुत बातो से नहीं मानते) .......................................... 65
12.17.3 � Margin Requirements / Loan to Value (LTV) (सीमा अ�नवायर्ता) ........................................... 65
12.17.4 Selective Credit Control (चयना�क ऋण �नयं त्रण) .............................................................................. 66
12.18 ��� Priority Sector Lending (PSL: प्राथ�मकता �ेत्र के �लए ऋण मानक) ............................................. 66
12.18.1 ��� PSL Reforms-2020: on RRB/SFB/UCB? .................................................................. 68
12.18.2 ��� PSL Reforms-2020: Startups, Renewable Energy and Healthcare ....................... 68
12.18.3 ��� PSL Reforms-2020: Weightage to poor districts (गरीब/�पछड़े �जलों को भारांक) .......... 68
12.18.4 �PSL Shortfalls: RIDF and UIDF ............................................................................................... 69
12.18.5 ���:�
� Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLC) from 2016 onwards ................ 69
12.19 � � Monetary Policy Tools: A Ready Reckoner Table ................................................................ 71
12.20 � Monetary Policy in Present-Day India .......................................................................................... 72
12.20.1 � Monetary Policy Making under RBI Act since 2016 .......................................................... 72
12.21 � Review of Bi-Monthly Monetary Policies ..................................................................................... 74
12.21.1 �� Stance: Calibrated Tightening / Neutral / Accommodative ........................................ 74
12.22 ���RBI’s Monetary Policies: Before 2020-Corona ................................................................. 75
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12.23 ���RBI’s Monetary Policies: Corona 2020 .............................................................................. 75
12.24 ���RBI Monetary Policies: April-2022 Onwards ................................................................... 76
12.24.1 ���Monetary Policy: April-2022 (SDF).......................................................................... 76
12.24.2 ���Monetary Policy: May-2022 Repo�
� ...................................................................... 77
12.24.3 ���Monetary Policy: 2022 so far upto 2023-Feb � ................................................... 77
12.25 ���Monetary Policy: Governors other regulatory announcements..................................... 77
12.26 ���� Banks’ Lending Rates % (ब�क ऋण क� �ाज दर� ) ............................................................... 78
12.27 ���� Bank’s loan interest rate: External Benchmark (बाहरी ब�चमाकर् ) .................................. 79
12.27.1 ���� External Benchmark: Formula Components: .................................................. 79
12.27.2 ���External Benchmark system: Which borrowers eligible? ...................................... 79
12.27.3 ���:�
��External Benchmark system: FAQ .............................................................. 80
12.27.4 Banks’ Lending Rates % → Fixed vs Floating interest loans, teaser loans, NPA etc. ........... 80
12.28 �� Limitations of Monetary Policy in India (मौिद्रक नीती क� मयार्दाए) ............................................. 80
12.28.1 �� Monitory policy: liquidity deficit in banking system .................................................. 81
12.28.2 �� Monetary policy limitations: Cheap loans causing inflation? .................................... 81
12.28.3 ��US Fed Tapering & Impact on India ............................................................................... 82
12.28.4 �� Monetary policy limitations: Black Swan Events ......................................................... 83
12.29 Monetary policy observations by �ES23 ........................................................................................... 83
12.29.1 Rate hikes: RBI vs Other Central banks ....................................................................................... 83
12.29.2 Monetary Policy: Soft landing vs Hard Landing ........................................................................ 84
12.29.3 �� Monetary policy limitations: Cantillon Effect............................................................... 84
1. 🌽🌽 Transaction motive (सं �वहार उद्दे�): For using money as a medium of exchange e.g. for
buying daily milk, vegetables and fruits. (रोजाना क� खरीद के �लए कु छ पैसा हाथ म� रखा जाता है सारा पैसा ब�क म�
नहीं जमा करते)
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2. 💊💊 Precautionary motive (एह�तयाती): To protect against sudden / unforeseen expenditure e.g.
medical emergency or impulsive purchase during a holiday trip. (घर म� कोई बीमार हो गया, प्रवास म� जाना
है)
3. 📉📉 Speculative motive (सट्टा-उद्दे�): Investors hold cash to make the best use of any investment
opportunity that arises later e.g. waiting for gold / land prices to fall, then “I will use my cash to
buy it”. Also known as "Asset Demand of Money". (जो सं प�� मुझे खरीदनी है उसका दाम थोड़ा �गर जाए उसक�
राह देख रहा �ँ )
The amount of money held in cash form vary inversely with (deposit) interest rates. If higher
interest available in Bank Deposits etc. → people would invest money in banks, instead of keeping
money in liquid form (cash). (ब�क वाला अगर बचत खाते पर अ�ा �ाज देगा तो लोग हाथ म� नकदी पैसा कम रख�गे ब�क म�
�नवेश �ादा कर�ग)े
11.12 💸💸📥📥SUPPLY OF MONEY (मुद्रा क� पू�त)
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11.12.1 ☔💸💸 Liquidity of assets
- Liquidity= ease of converting an asset into cash. Cash is the most liquid asset.
- ☔☔Highly liquid assets = Gold, Demand deposits, G-Sec/T-Bill, shares/bonds of reputed
companies. (अ��धक तरल सं प��: तुरंत खरीदार �मल जाते ह�. आप सं प�� को नगदी धन म� आसानी से प�रव�तत कर सकते ह�)
- ☂Relatively illiquid assets= Home/Real estate, Paintings/Sculptures etc. Because difficult to
find buyers at right price instantly. खरीदार आसानी से नहीं �मलता इस�लए इन सं प��यों क� तरलता थोड़ी कम है
- 💸💸 💉💉Liquidity injection / infusion refers to phenomenon when RBI buys Bank/NBFCs’ G-
Sec/T-bill/financial assets to give them cash. (HOW? Ans. Watch Video) (तरलता अ�ः�ेपण)
- M3 is the most commonly used measure of money supply, also known as Aggregate Monetary
Resources / Aggregate Money Supply” (सम� मौिद्रक सं साधन) because out of all the money supply
indicators (M0-M4) this is the indicator RBI will focus the most for its analysis while designing
of monetary policy. (अपनी मौिद्रक नीती बनाते व�, �व�ेषण के �लए �रज़वर् ब�क इस आंकड़े पर खास �ान रखती है)
- In above formulas for money supply, we are only counting the “NET Demand / NET Time
deposits” i.e. only public’s deposits in bank. We are not counting inter-bank deposits i.e. one
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commercial bank’s deposit in other commercial banks. एक ब�क से दू सरे ब�क म� पैसा िडपॉ�जट िकया हो तो उसे
इधर नहीं �गनते.
- Corona-2020: Initial months of lockdown (May2May-2020) → deposit⏬⏬ because people
withdrew money in panic / precautionary motive. Although in the later months → Unlockdown
and normalcy → ⏫⏫ bank deposit by Dec-2020. तालाबं दी के शु�आती महीनों म� लोगों ने एह�तयाती कारणों से
ब�कों से अपनी िडपॉ�जट �नकाली हालांिक प�र���त सामा� होने पर, बाद के महीनों म� वापस बचत क� मात्रा म� बढ़ोतरी होने लगी है
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. If you withdraw Rs. 1 lakh in cash from your Demand Deposit Account at your bank,
the immediate effect on aggregate money supply in the economy will be _ _ . (UPSC-Prelims-2020)
[a) to reduce it by ₹ 1,00,000 [b) to increase it by ₹ 1,00,000
[c) to increase it by more than ₹ 1,00,000 [d) to leave it unchanged
🚩🚩🚩🚩 FAQ: I’ve 500 jaat-ke doubts in above MCQ ✅Ans. Watch entire pillars’ videos.
11.13💸💸💸💸💸💸 MONEY SUPPLY [M3]
💸💸📥📥📥📥Indicator Situation in 2021
M0 = also known as reserve money /high Quantity ⏫increased but % growth lower
powered money than 2020. वृ�द्ध दर �पछले साल क� अपे�ा कम रहा
<formula in separate section>
M3 = “Aggregate Monetary Resources / Quantity ⏫increased but % growth lower
Aggregate Money Supply” (सम� मौिद्रक सं साधन). than 2020
Money multiplier 5.6 in 2020 and 5.2 in 2021. So, Money
= M3 divided by M0 Multiplier decreased than 2020 . (Reason:
(मुद्रा गुणक) Bankers couldn’t find enough loan taker, so,
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💸💸📥📥📥📥Indicator Situation in 2021
parked large quantity of deposits with RBI
<more explanation in next section> under Reverse Repo Window.)
11.14💸💸⚡MONEY MULTIPLIER (मुद्रा गुणक)
RBI’s Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) leads to Fractional Reserve Banking & Credit Creation by the
commercial banks, which creates money multiplier effect as following:
Table 2: this process is called 'Fractional Reserve Banking & Credit Creation'
High Powered money (M0) = 100 Deposits Loaning 10% Reserve (‘R’)
Bank#1 100 90 10
Bank#2 90 81 9
Bank#3 81 72.9 8.1
Bank#.. .. .. ..
Total Money (here M3) Total sum = ₹1000**
𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇 𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀 (𝑀𝑀3) 1000
𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴 𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴 = = =10
𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻ℎ 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚(𝑀𝑀0) 100
🚩🚩🚩🚩 FAQ: How is this possible/ I didn’t understand? ✅Ans. Watch the video.
- In above example, 10% CRR (CRR) generated 10x times of M0 money. [ब�क कजर् देने से पहले यिद 10%
रकम आर��त रखती है तो 10 गुना �ादा पैसों का �नमार्ण]
- 4% reserve ratio will generate [1/(1/25)]= 25x times (in theory). See formula below:
𝟒𝟒 𝟏𝟏
𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪 𝟒𝟒% = =
𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏 𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐
𝟏𝟏 𝟏𝟏 𝟏𝟏
𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎 𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒎𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊 𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒆 = = = = 𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐 𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕𝒕
(𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪𝑪) (𝟒𝟒%) ( 𝟏𝟏 )
𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐
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- ✋however in reality the multiplier may be lower than 25x, due to poor banking penetration.
(गांव गांव तक ब�क क� सु�वधा नहीं है इस�लए वा��वक जीवन म� इतना मुद्रा गुणक नहीं होगा)
- In a functional economy, money multiplier (MM) is always greater than 1 & CRR will always be
less than 100%. WHY? Ans. Watch video.
- MM directly improves with ⏬reduction in CRR. (सीआरआर घटेगा तो मुद्रा गुणक बढ़ेगा)
- MM indirectly improves as economy develops, consumption / loan demand increases, banking
penetration, digital economy, less-cash economy etc.
- MM improves with the ⏫in banking penetration, financial inclusion (�व�ीय समावेशन)
- Boom period, Whenever loan demand ⏫ (तेजी का माहौल → लोन �ादा �लए जा रहे हो)
- When RBI adopts Cheap / Easy / Dovish / Expansionary monetary policy to combat deflation.
(जब स�ापे/ अप���त से लड़ने के �लए �रज़वर् ब�क लोन के �ाज दर स�े कर दे)
- In 1960s = less than 2x, 90s = more than 3x, At present = more than 5x.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What will be the impact of SLR changes on Money Multiplier? Ans. Can’t be written
mathematically. Reason given in Video.
Money multiplier (MM) fallen from 5.6 on 31/3/20 to 5.2 on 31/3/21 because
⇒ if banks kept loaning to households & business firms then (M3/M0)=Money Multiplier would
grow thru lending-deposit activity from One bank account to another bank account.
⇒ But this deposit-to-lending activity seems to have slowed down in Corona & afterwards so MM
did not improve.
⇒ Then between 2021-22, the money multiplier remained stable in the range of 5.2 (2021) → 5.1
(2022). (मुद्रा गुणक म� कु छ खास बदलाव नहीं आया)
✋Note: There may be 500 other factors as well affecting these indicators but gives poor:cost benefit
learning all those things from MCQ point of view. वा��वक �जदं गी म� और भी 500 कारकों के चलते इन आंकड़ों पर
असर होता है लेिकन उन सब क� पं चात करने बैठे तो परी�ा के �लए उपयोगी नहीं #⏳📚📚थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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11.14.2 💸💸⚡Money Multiplier From 1981 to 2020
Figure 1: source- Economic Survey 2020, zigzag pattern means 'not increasing steadily'.
- 📘📘📘📘ES20 observed that between mid-1990’s to 2016-17: Money multiplier (measured as a
ratio of M3/M0) was mostly ⏫.
- But 2017-18 onwards: Money Multiplier is ⏬. Could be attributed to the lack of growth in
loaning activities & slowdown in economy.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Money Multiplier in an economy increases with _ _ _? (UPSC-Prelims-2019)
A) Increase in the cash reserve ratio B) Increase in the banking habit of the population
C) Increase in the statutory liquidity ratio D) Increase in the population of the country
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- * such as PM Garib Kalyan Yojana (2016) under which Blackmoney holder was required to
deposit 25% of his blackmoney in RBI for a lock-in period of 4 years. More in Pillar#2B
- M0 ⏫increases when RBI’s asset side increases ⏫ e.g. Govt borrowing more from RBI using
G-sec. जब सरकार �रज़वर् ब�क से �ादा पैसा कज� मे ले तब �रज़वर् ब�क क� प�रसं प��यों म� बढ़ोतरी होती है
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Can Govt borrow as much ₹₹ as they want via G-Sec? ✅Ans. No! There are legal
limits on govt borrowing under the Fiscal Responsibility And Budget Management act (FRBM).
(More in 📑📑Pillar#2D) (सरकार अंधाधुंध तरीक़े से उधारी नहीं कर सकती FRBM क़ानून के अंतगर्त उस पर कु छ सीमाएं ह�.)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: RBI’s money supply is limited by above Asset-liability balance method. But what if govt
issues large number of coins and one rupee notes before election to keep voters happy? Will it not
create problems in the M0 & economy? ✅Ans. Too much money supply without enough goods-
supply → inflation. So, a sensible govt will not do such drama. Beyond that I’ve no interest in
engaging in further PHD-intellectual debates. Not important for exam. Move to next topic. (झं डे वाले
बाबूशोनो को ये ख़ास प्र� होता है यिद सरकार अपनी तरफ़ से अंधाधुंध तरीक़े से �स�े छाप देगी तो �ा M0 पे ख़राब असर निह होगा?
जवाब: अगर ब�त �स�े छापे लेिकन बाज़ार म� माल सामान क� िक़�त होगी तो महँ गाई बढ़ी जाएगी इस�लए एक �ज़�ेदार सरकार ऐसी
नौटंक� नहीं करेगी. इससे �ादा मेरे को इसक� चचार् नहीं करनी है �ोंिक वो परी�ा के �लए काम क� निह है।)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: How did RBI print money in British times? Ans.✅ Watch the lecture videos
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Where is the repo, where is the RBI’s profit in above table? Ans.✅ Watch the videos
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🚩🚩🚩FAQ: If RBI’s gold/G-sec gets stolen/burned/lost then will M0 decrease? ✅ Watch the videos
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: I’ve 500 jaat-ke other doubts. Ans.✅ then u keep looking for answers on Google until Saif’s son
Taimur grows up & gets married. I am done with this topic from Exam point of view.#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
- What is CIC’s exact formula? Ans. Economic Survey didn’t give, so I didn’t bother to Google.
- CIC is an indicator to measure cash as a payment instrument i.e. instead of other payment
instruments such as Cheque, NEFT/RTGS, Card etc. (भुगतान के �लए नक़दी का िकतना प्रयोग हो रहा है)
- 2021: Currency in Circulation (CIC) growth (%) declined from Reason: Corona-led
precautionary demand for cash has reduced/subsided → People are keeping less qty of cash in
hand, and depositing more qty in Banks. (लोगों म� कोरोना का ख़ौफ़ कम �आ है इस�लए जनता अब एह�तयादी �प म�
हाथ म� नक़दी कम मात्रा म� रखती है।)
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- 2022: Russia-Ukraine war → temporary increase in ⬆ precautionary cash holdings →
Currency in Circulation (CIC) increased. (�स यूक्रेन के युद्ध के चलते एह�तयाद/सावधानी के �लए लोगों ने हाथ म�
नगदी /रोकड़ा रखना �ादा मुना�सब/उ�चत समझा।)
It is the average number of times money passes from one hand to another, during given time period.
e.g. you bought pen worth Rs.10 from shopkeeper, he uses same ₹10 note to buy tea from another
shop → same currency note performed function of Rs.20. िकतनी बार एक नोट एक हाथ से दू सरे हाथ म� जाता है?
This “Velocity of money circulation” is affected by following factors:
- Income distribution: Money in the hands of poor people has higher velocity than the rich
people. Why/HOW? Ans. Watch Video.
- If more people borrow money for purchase → higher velocity. Hence developed countries =>
higher velocity, because people save less and spend more because of consumerist lifestyle and
confidence in Government’s social-security e.g. USA. (जब लोगों म� बचत क� भावना कम हो)
- Boom period in economy = more raw material purchase & hiring = higher velocity. (तेजी का माहौल)
- Other 500-jaat-ke permutation-combination-PHD = poor cost:benefit for exam
- What is its scene in Corona? Answer not given in 📔📔📔📔ES21 so no point in SELFPHD.
- [Definition] Monetary Policy is a macroeconomic policy (सम�� आ�थक नी�त), designed by Central
bank of a country, to manage money supply & interest rates. It helps shaping variables such as
inflation, consumption, savings, investment, & capital formation (मुद्राआपू�त व �ाजदरो को �नयं �त्रत कर
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मुद्रा���त/महंगाई, मांग/खपत, बचत, �नवेश, पूंजी �नमार्ण को आकार देना- क� द्रीय ब�क द्वारा बनाई गई इस प्रकार क� नीती को
मौिद्रक नीती कहते ह�).
- [Significance] Monetary policy plays an important role in price stability [inflation control],
economic growth, job creation and social justice in any economy. (महंगाई-�नयं त्रण, आ�थक वृ�द्ध, रोजगार
सृजन, सामा�जक �ाय के �लए मह�पूणर् साधन है ये मौिद्रक नीती)
- Milton Friedman: This American economist’s research on monetary policy made this subject
more popular, he also won a Nobel in Economics in this regard (1976).
- Philip Curve: Inflation ↑ = unemployment ↓ (and vice versa). मं हगाई बढ़ेगी तो बेरोजगारी घटेगी. मं हगाई कम
होगी तो बेरोजगारी बढ़ेगी. (More in Pillar#4C)
- So, stable & moderate inflation is good for the economy. (��र व म�म�र महंगाई अथर्तंत्र के �लए अ��)
So, RBI tries to keep inflation with 2-6% Consumer Price Index (CPI: All India) using its bi-monthly
monetary policy made by its 6- member statutory Monetary Policy Committee. (छ:-सद�वाली वैधा�नक
स�म�त द्वारा िद्व-मा�सक मौिद्रक नी�त �नमार्ण करके �रजवर् ब�क महंगाई दर को उपभो�ा मू� सूचकांक के िहसाब से २-६% म� �नयं �त्रत
करने क� को�शश करता है)
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- CRR and SLR are collectively known as “Variable Reserve Ratios” or “Statutory Reserve Ratios”
(इन दोनों को प�रवतर्नीय आर��त अनुपात / वैधा�नक आर��त अनुपात भी कहा जाता है)
CRR SLR
Full form: Cash Reserve Ratio Full form: Statutory Liquidity Ratio
(नकद कोष अनुपात) (वैधा�नक तरलता अनुपात)
Banks must keep this much deposits (or Banks must keep this much deposits in liquid
balance) with RBI. RBI doesn’t pay interest on assets such as cash, gold, G-Sec, T-Bills, State
this deposit, except in extraordinary Development Loan Bonds and other securities
circumstances like 1999’s Banking slowdown. notified by RBI. (ब�क ने जमाकतार्ओ ं से हांसील क� �ई रकम
(ब�क ने जमाकतार्ओ ं से हांसील क� �ई रकम का कु छ िह�ा �रजवर् का कु छ िह�ा, �रजवर् ब�क द्वारा मा� तरल प�रसं प�तमे �नवेश
ब�क मे जमा करना पड़ेगा।) करना होगा)
Bank earns no profit / interest, as such. Some profit may be involved. (मुनाफा हो सकता है)
- CRR: first suggested by British economist Mandated under Banking Regulation Act, 1949
J.M. Keynes & first introduced in US (ब�िकंग �व�नयमन अ�ध�नयम के अनुसार इसे लागू िकया जाता है)
Federal Reserves (=Central Bank of USA).
- Mandated under RBI Act, 1934
⇒ RBI can fix any amount of CRR, legally ⇒ Presently it is 18.00% of NDTL.
there is no minimum or maximum limit. ⇒ Legally, SLR can’t be made more than 40%.
Although in real life, RBI will not keep (कानूनन �प से �रज़वर् ब�क इसे 40% से �ादा नहीं रख
CRR@100% otherwise, no bank can give सकतीं.)
loans then economy will stop functioning.
⇒ Corona-2020: it was 3% of Net Demand &
Time Liabilities of a bank (NDTL: �नवल मांग
और समय देयताएँ )
⇒ 2021: CRR be gradually increased to 4%
⇒ 2022: CRR increased to 4.50%
- All Banks must keep CRR. Similar to left cell of this table.
- However, RBI may prescribe separate % (सभी प्रकार के ब�क के �लए अ�नवायर्. हालांिक �ेत्रीय ग्रामीण ब�क
norms/slabs for Regional Rural Banks तथा सहकारी ब�को के �लए इसक� प्र�तशत मात्रा �रज़वर् ब�क, अ�
(RRBs) and Cooperative Banks. ब�को क� तुलना म� थोड़ी �भ� रख सकती है)
- More in 📑📑Pillar1B1: classification
🚩🚩🚩🚩 ✋Difference between NDTL, ODTL, Total DTL?= NOT IMP4IAS. If you want to satisfy
your curiosity, do google search yourself but I don’t t think it as best use of time.
- CRR-SLR are counted on fortnightly basis. If not maintained, bank will have to pay penalty
interest rate to RBI. This Penalty rate is linked with Bank Rate%. (हर 15 िदनों के �लए �गना जाता है. यिद
ब�कर ने निह नहीं माना तो जुमार्ना लगेगा.)
- CRR-SLR ensure monetary stability of India through two primary functions:
1) CRR assists in money multiplier effect. (HOW? Watch lecture video.)
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2) CRR-SLR provide buffer/protection during a Bank Run (ब�कों म� से जमारा�श वापस लेने क� दौड़)
i.e. an emergency when every depositor wants to pull out money from his bank account
at once, mainly due to fake news / rumours sometimes due to war e.g. in Russia-Ukraine
- While in theory CRR/SLR can be used for inflation control but RBI primarily relies on REPO
Rate (=its Policy Rate) to combat inflation, and not CRR/SLR. (हालांिक, सीआरआर और एसएलआर महंगाई
�नयं त्रण के मु� साधन नहीं है. �रज़वर् ब�क महंगाई से लड़ने के �लए मु�ता रेपो रेट का इ�ेमाल करती है)
��FAQ: What will be the impact of SLR changes on Money Multiplier? Ans. Can’t be written
mathematically. Reason given in Video.
Ans. Wait till we reach Pillar3A: Currency Exchange Rate. Presently we are in Pillar1A2.
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Graph is self-explanatory. Not adding any text-explanation. IF not understood then watch video.
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12.13🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 MONPOLICY → QUANT TOOLS → RATES → LAF REPO
RBI’s Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF, तरलता समायोजन सु�वधा): has two windows:
® LAF-Repo Rate (�रपो दर/पुन: क्रय-अनुबंध) ® ® LAF-Reverse Repo Rate
(उलट �रपो/ पुन: क्रय-अनुबंध)
The Interest rate at which RBI lends short-term It’s the interest rate that clients earn when
loans to its clients, keeping their G-Sec as parking their surplus funds with the RBI for
collaterals. (�रजवर् ब�क अपने ग्राहको को लघु अव�ध के ऋण short periods, to earn interest. (ग्राहक अपना
देता है। उसपर लागू �ाज दर को �रपो दर कहेते है। ग्राहक ने अ�त�र� धन, �रजवर् ब�क मे लघु अव�ध के �लए जमा कर जो
अपनी सरकारी प्र�तभू�तयों को �रजवर् ब�क मे �गरवी रखना पड़ता �ाजदर कमाते है, उसे उलट-�रपो-दर कहेते है)
है)
⇒ Clients enter into an agreement with RBI to Mechanism similar to Repo, RBI gives its G-Sec
repurchase their G-sec at a future date at a as a collateral to client.
(higher) pre-determined price.
⇒ Banks can’t pledge their SLR-quota-G-Secs
for this borrowing.✋
⇒ Repo also called ‘Ready Forward Reverse Repo Rate = Repo% MINUS x%
Transaction’.
⇒ Repo Rate is our Policy Rate to control
inflation. (मौिद्रक नी�त दर)
⇒ Repo = RBI lends short term loans its clients, & demands G-Sec/T-bill as collateral. ✋ At every
place, I’ve not mentioned T-bill, as it just reduces the speed of revision.
⇒ Market Repo = Players other than RBI (such as bank, NBFCs) loaning short money to other
Banks/NBFCs/Corporate Companies, and demanding financial securities (G-Sec/T-
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Bill/shares/bonds/commercial paper etc.) as collateral. What do those terms mean? Ans. Ref the
table given in topic Operation Twist.
Figure 2: कोरोना प�ात लोन म� �ादा पैसा घुमाके अथर्तंत्र को वापस खड़ा करने के �लए �रज़वर् ब�क ने ये नई �खड़िकयाँ खोली है
#In above chart, All Banks doesn’t include Payment Banks. PB can’t give loans (Ref:📑📑Pillar#1B1)
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Tools Changes in Corona-2020 upto 2022-Feb
AIFI RBI loaned large amount of money to All India Financial Institutions
(AIFI) i.e., NABARD, NHB, SIDBI, EXIM, NaBFID (Ref: 📑📑Pillar#1B1)
12.14.2 🚩🚩🚩RBI’s Special Windows: Useless Doubts by flag-carrying Babushonas
1. 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Why would bank borrow ₹₹ in TLTRO / On-Tap windows, when many conditions
are imposed on it? Ans. maybe the bank feels it will earn profit from such loan/investment. (ब�कर
को ज�रत होगी तो ल�ग,े वरना नहीं ल�गे. �रज़वर् ब�क के गवनर्र उसको बं दू क िदखाकर ज़बरद�ी नहीं दे रहे)
2. 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Why would bank borrow ₹₹ in REPO rate (Short term) when LTRO offering long
term loans? Ans. depends on the requirement of the bank. RBI not point gun on them.
3. 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: How does LTRO/TLTRO involve “flight of foreign investors & its impact on
exchange rate & bond yield” etc.? Ans. Such long-winded-financial-cause-effect = no
importance in UPSC, even though private mock-test-walla design useless MCQs from it. इतनी दू र
क� बीरबल क� �खचड़ी अपने को पकाने क� ज�रत नहीं है!
4. 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: I want to do PHD on this until Saif son Taimur grows up & gets married. Ans.
Good luck to you! But, I’m finished teaching this topic here. शुभकामनाएँ , आप लेके बैठे रहो.
Figure 3: sir, जब तक आप loan के �लए हाँ नही कं ह�गे, हम आपको telemarketing spam-calls करते रह�गे!
Corona led Economic Slowdown → Loan demand ⏬ → banks parking their excess funds in RBI to
earn interest in the form of reverse repo rate. (कोरोना महामारी के दौरान ब�क वाले अपना अ�त�र� धन �रज़वर् ब�क म�
डाल के बैठे �बठाये �ाज कमा रहे थे. ग्राहकों म� लोन का पैसा घुमाने क� मेहनत नहीं कर रहे थे.)
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12.14.4 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 MonPolicy → Quant Tools → Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR)
Outdated/technical for 2023-exam cycle, so removing from latest handout.
12.14.7 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 MonPolicy → Quant Tools → Rates → Bank rate (ब�क दर):
Bank Rate MSF Repo Rate
Introduced in RBI Act, 1934** 2011 2000
What is the % Since 2012: Monetary Policy
MSF = Repo% + “x”%
rate? Bank Rate% = MSF% Committee decides
Who can All clients of RBI:
borrow from Only banks bank, non-bank,
the RBI? Union & State Govt
Collateral Bank can pledge securities Yes, G-Sec/T-bill. But
**Yes and No
required? from its SLR quota not from SLR
Loan duration Longer than repo Short term usually overnight to 14 days
Emergency borrowing by
Nowadays mainly
Primary bank, using their securities Short term borrowing
for deciding penalty
Utility? from SLR quota subject to by all clients of RBI.
on errant banks
certain limits.
⇒ **RBI Act, 1934: “Bank rate is the standard rate at which RBI buys or rediscounts first class
securities, bills of exchange or other commercial papers.(-NCERT)” rediscounting basically
means the “repo-walla game= RBI buys @x price, re-sells@y price where y>x”
⇒ But, since the introduction of the Repo rate in the 2000s, the Bank rate has become a dormant
tool (�न��य उपकरण) =not frequently used by RBI for lending or by banks for borrowing).
⇒ So, reference books/websites differ in its present operational status e.g. some of them would say:
⇒ Bank rate requires no collateral and is meant for long term loans.
⇒ Bank rate accepts collateral which can be both GSec/T-bill as well as private companies’
securities.
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🚩🚩🚩🚩✋So, in the real exam, it depends on which book/web source the examiner has copied the
statement(s) and accordingly you’ve to take a judgement call in ticking the answer. (�व�भ� और िकताबों
और वेब साइटों पर ब�क दर क� �ा�ा/अथर् गठन अलग अलग है इस�लए असल परी�ा म� जो पूछा जाए तो ��ती/�ववेक के िहसाब से
आपने जवाब tick करना है.)
12.14.8 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 Quanti. Tools → SDF (=Reverse Repo walla game Without Collaterals)
⇒ 2013: Urjit Patel Committee on Monetary policy proposed standing deposit facility (SDF)
⇒ SDF = Clients park/deposit their extra money in RBI. RBI pays them interest. RBI doesn’t give
any collateral (unlike in REVERSE REPO). (�ायी जमा/िडपॉ�ज़ट सु�वधा = �रज़वर् ब�क के ग्राहक अपना अ�त�र�
पैसा �रज़वर् ब�क म� जमा करेगा. �रज़वर् ब�क ग्राहकों को िडपॉ�ज़ट के �लए �ाज देगा. �रज़वर् ब�क ग्राहक के पास �गरवी कु छ नहीं रखेगा.)
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit of SDF: To combat inflation → RBI can suck extra money supply via SDF window.
RBI will not have to pledge G-Sec as collateral to clients. (महँ गाई से लड़ने वा�े बाज़ार म� से पैसों क� अ�त�र�
आपू�त को चूसने/हटाने/कम करने के �लए �रज़वर् ब�क एसडीएफ़ का इ�ेमाल कर सकता है- �बना कु छ �गरवी रखे।)
⇒ 2018: RBI act amended to add SDF facility. (�रज़वर् ब�क क़ानून म� सुधार िकया गया).
⇒ 2022-April: RBI started/launched SDF. RBI also made changes in Policy corridor. <REF: NEXT
SECTION>
> Reverse Repo rate not discontinued. Reverse Repo will remain as part of RBI’s toolkit. RBI will
continue to use it at its discretion from time to time. Presently Reverse Repo is 3.35%
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: what is the deposit time duration of SDF and Reverse Repo?
> Sufficient to know these are for short-term. Now what exactly is short-term? Is it 1 day, 7 day, 14
day? = Not important for exam. Why overburden the memory card of the brain with unnecessary
information?
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: IF SDF and Reverse Repo both present, then why would Bankers go for SDF where no
collateral given?
> The time period and interest rate offered on SDF and Reverse Repo are different. So, it depends on
bankers’ business-requirement, cash-flow management. RBI is not pointing in gun their head to use
it. (ब�कर को ज़�रत होगी तो इ�ेमाल करेगा. �रज़वर् ब�क उसक� कनपटी पर �प�ौल नहीं रखा है.)
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Tool MSF Repo Reverse Repo SDF
Lender RBI RBI Banks+some Banks+some
NBFCs NBFCs
Borrower ONLY Scheduled Banks+some RBI RBI
Commercial Banks NBFCs
(SCB) & RRB
Borrower need to Yes Yes Yes Not required.
give Collateral?
##Facility Client (SCB) RBI RBI Client
available at (Banks+Some
Discretion of NBFC)
⇒ ## Discretion = here means suppose a client (Bank/NBFC) comes for Reverse Repo= It's not
compulsory for RBI to entertain him. (�रज़वर् ब�क क� मज़� क� बात है िक उसको सेवा देगा या नहीं देगा.)
⇒ But, If client (Banker) comes for MSF = RBI will not say "NO" to him. RBI will help him.
⇒ What is SCB? Ans. Refer Pillar1B1: Classification of Banks
⇒ Policy Corridor also known as Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) corridor. (नी�त ग�लयारा / तरलता
सु�वधा ग�लयारा)
⇒ BEFORE 2022-April: Policy Corridor = total width between: MSF <—> REPO <—> Reverse
Repo. (इन तीनों उपकरणों के बीच क� कु ल चौड़ाई)
⇒ After 2022-April: Policy Corridor = MSF (Repo+0.25%) <—> REPO <—> SDF (Repo-0.25%)
⇒ Thus total width is 0.25+0.25= 0.50%
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Upper end of Center Lower end of Corridor Total width
Corridor / Floor (फ़शर्)
/ Ceiling (छत/ऊपरी
सीमा)
Tool? MSF REPO Before: Reverse Repo. (RR)
After: SDF
Before MSF= R+25 bps R% RR = Repo-25 bps 25+25=50bps
Corona
In Corona MSF= R+25 bps R% RR = Repo - 65bps 25+65=90bps
2020-21
2022-Apr MSF = Repo + 25bps R% SDF = Repo-25bps 25+25=50bps
Note: 100 base point system (BPS) = 1% So 25 bps = 0.25%. 50 bps = 0.50%
⇒ SDF has replaced the Reverse Repo Rate as the floor of the Policy corridor.
⇒ However, Reverse Repo was not discontinued.
⇒ Reverse Repo will remain as part of RBI’s toolkit
⇒ Reverse Repo will be used as per the mood/discretions of the RBI from time to time
12.14.13 🐯🐯🐯🐯📁📁 Market Operations (OMO): (Inflation → Sell G-Sec, Deflation → Buy)
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III. Sterilization / Forex Swap: Their primary objective is to control the currency exchange rate
volatility (e.g. $1=₹65,70,80… मुद्रा �व�नमय दर क� ��रता के साथ जुड़ा �आ मामला). <More in 📑📑Pillar#3 >
IV. Operation Twist (2019): a special type of OMO. Explained in next segment.
12.15.1 🔪🔪🔪🔪: Security → Debt → G-Sec & Bonds (ऋण के �लए जारी क� गई प्र�तभू�तयां)
A ‘Security’ means a certificate/document indicating that its holder is eligible to receive a certain
amount of money at a particular time. This could be a…
Table 3: प्र�तभू�तयों के �व�भ� प्रकार
Borrower 🦁🦁Govt 🤵🤵Corporate (�नगम)
Short term Treasury bills, Cash Bill of Exchange, Commercial Papers,
(less than 1 year) Management bills Promissory Notes.
→
Long term G-Sec, Sovereign Bonds Bonds / Debentures
(1 year/>) →
Usually lower than Corporates’ Depends on following factors →
Interest rate
because risk is low
12.15.2 🛒🛒 (🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🧔🧔🧔) Deepening of G-Sec market- Retail investors’ RDAG @RBI
- RBI launched “Retail Direct Scheme” in 2021.
- Under this scheme, RBI permits “Retail Direct Gilt (RDG) account” for retail investors on its E-
Kuber online platform. (आम �नवेशक �रज़वर् ब�क म� आरडीजी नामक खाता खोल पाएं गे)
- Both Resident Indians & non-resident Indians (NRIs) can open this account. (गैर �नवासी भारतीय भी)
- Then Retail investors can directly buy Treasury Bills (T-Bill), G-Secs (of Union Government),
State Development Loans (SDL are ‘G-secs’ of State Govts) and Sovereign Gold Bonds, from RBI
directly. (आम �नवेशक सीधा �रज़वर् ब�क से इन प्र�तभू�तयों को खरीद सकता है.)
- Application fees to open the account = ₹ ZERO
− 🤩🤩Benefit? 1) Earlier retail investors bought G-sec “indirectly” through mutual funds wherein
mutual fund manager (MF) charged commission/fees. Now retail investor can buy directly so
does not have to pay such commission/fees to MF managers. (�बचौ�लयों को दलाली/कमीशन नहीं देना होगा)
− (More in 📑📑Pillar#1C- SEBI Share market, DEMAT account etc)
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Factor (कारक) How it determines corporate bond interest rate?
(Risk) Credit rating Lower credit rating (e.g. CCC or D) → higher interest rate needs to be
of company offered because risk of default is high. जब िदवा�लयेपन का जो�खम �ादा हो
Inflation why/how: Ans. Ref: 📑📑Pillar1C → Inflation Indexed Bonds
Bank deposit interest Higher the (Bank) deposit interest rate, higher bond interest rate needs to
rates be offered to attract households to shift money from bank savings/FD to
corporate bonds. (अगर ब�क जमाकतार्ओ ं को अ�ा �ाज दे रहा है तो कं पनी ने �ादा �ाज
ऑफर करना होगा)
Yield on G-Sec If G-Sec yield ⏫, then corporate will have to offer even higher bond
interest rate to attract the investors from G-Sec investment towards C-
Bond investment.
12.15.4 🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🤑🤑 Bond Yield (बांड म� �नवेश करने पर होने वाली आय या मुनाफा)
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12.15.6 🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🤑🤑 Bond yield: other factors affecting it (अ� कारक)
⇒ If the economy is booming (तेजी), companies are making great profit, investors may sell bonds at
lower prices in a hurry to unlock their money to invest it in shares of companies, because they
think it’ll get them more dividend. Then bond’s current selling price in the secondary market
⏬ → yield ⏫.
⇒ If the economy is facing recession (Continuous decline in growth rate: मं दी) → companies will
NOT make great profit → investors sell shares, and prefer to buy bonds hoping they’ll get
secured fixed interest. Then bond’s demand ⏫ in the secondary market → selling price ⏫ →
yield ⏬.
⇒ Inflation. (How? Explained in video).
⇒ Political instability. (Self-explanatory from SriLanka example.)
⇒ Actions of the central bank. (Explained below).
Figure 5: figures are only for illustration. ✋No need to memorize numbers.
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⇒ And we’ve already learned, Corporate bonds are priced (benchmarked) keeping G-sec yields in
mind.
So, Op Twist → Lower G-Sec yield means →
Cheaper borrowing for Private sector Companies. Because
o They can borrow money by issuing their (long term) Corporate-Bonds at much cheaper
interest rate than before. (�नजी �ेत्र क� कं प�नयों के �लए बॉ� जारी कर- ऋण लेना �आ स�ा🤩🤩)
o When a private company meets a bank manager to borrow money, it can negotiate the
loan price, “If your bank does not lend me money at this cheaper interest% then I will
issue my own corporate bonds.” → Even the bank lending rates for corporate loans could
be reduced.
Cheaper borrowing for Government. For reasons similar to above. (How? Explained in Video)
Investor of long term G-Sec will feel discouraged to hold the G-Sec till maturity (10-14 years),
He will try to sell it to another party/RBI and pull out his money, then he may park ₹₹ it a
Corporate Bond / Bungalow / car / Goa-vacation etc. Thus, it helps boost the consumption →
economy grows.
समज म� आ गया हो तो ब�ढ़या है, नहीं तो रट्टा मारो �जदं ाबाद (if not understood then memorize by Rot-learning)
1. 1961: "Operation Twist" was first used by the US Federal Reserve.
2. 2019: RBI used also done it. Officially called “Special Open Market Operation (OMO) wherein
the Central bank simultaneously buys and sells G-sec of varying maturities to adjust their yields.
Which helps reduce interest rates on corporate bonds/debentures → easier to mobilize
investment → factory expansion → jobs, GDP growth. (यह एक खास िक� क� खुले बाजार क� िक्रया है, जहाँ
अगल अलग �मयादी क� सरकारी प्र�तभू�तयाँ खरीद-व-बेच कर �रजवर् ब�क उनक� उपज को कम करता है, तािक कॉप�रेट कं प�नया
स�े �ाज मे पैसा बाजार से हा�सल कर सके , तािक रोजगार और आ�थक वृ�द्ध मे मदद �मले)
3. Objectives of Op-Twist=
a. To make borrowing cheaper for Companies and Govt. कं पनीओ/�नगमों और सरकार के �लए कजर्
स�ा करवाना (HOW? Ans. Explained in Video).
b. It was NOT MEANT For fighting inflation. महंगाई से लड़ना इसका उद्दे� नहीं है
4. It ensures better Monetary Policy transmission for economic growth. (because, earlier, simply
reducing the repo rate has not helped much in making loans cheaper, for corporates. इससे पहले रेपो
दर कम करने पर भी बाजार म� लोन स�े नहीं हो रहे थे, तो �रज़वर् ब�क ने सोचा ये ऑपरेशन �ट्व� नामक नया साधन आजमाते ह�)
✋🎓🎓 🚫🚫 Beyond this, further PHD on what/why/how = poor cost:benefit for MCQs.
12.15.9 ✋🎓🎓 🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🤑🤑 Bond Yield & Inverted Yield Curve: poor benefit for exam
1. Inverted Yield curve = ✋🎓🎓 इस मुददे को पढने म� हम व� बबार्द नहीं कर�गे
2. Negative Bond Yield = ✋🎓🎓 इस मुददे को पढने म� हम व� बबार्द नहीं कर�गे
3. Chinese Bond Yield ki News, Italian Bond Market crisis = ✋🎓🎓NOT IMP.
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🔠🔠❓ India Government Bond Yields are influenced by which of the following? (Prelims-2021)
1. Actions of the United States Federal Reserve [अमे�रक� फे डरल �रजवर् क� िक्रयाओं द्वारा]
2. Actions of the Reserve Bank of India. [�रजवर् ब�क क� िक्रयाओं द्वारा]
3. Inflation and short-term interest rates [महंगाई और लघु अव�ध के �ाज दर]
Answer Code: a) 1 and 2 Only b) 2 Only c) 3 Only d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. 'Open Market Operations' refers to: (Prelims-2013)
a) borrowing by banks from the RBI b) lending by commercial banks to industry and trade
c) purchase and sale of government securities by the RBI d) None of the above
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which would result in an increase in money supply in economy? (Prelims-2012)
1. Purchase of G-Sec from the public by the Central Bank.
2. Deposit of currency in commercial banks by the public.
3. Borrowing by the government from the Central Bank.
4. Sale of government securities to the public by the Central Bank.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 1 and 3 (d) 2, 3 and 4
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which of them is/are part of Monetary Policy? (Prelims-2015)
1) Bank rate 2) Open market operations 3) Public debt 4) Public Revenue
Answer Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2, 3 and 4 (c) 1 and 2 (d) 1, 3 and 4
⇒ Every person may not be interested in taking new bank loans. Some investors may be interested
in selling their previous investments in G-Sec to unlock the money. (हर ��� ब�क से कज़र् लेगा ये ज़�री
नहीं है। कु छ �नवेशक अपना पुराना G-sec �नवेश बेचकर पैसा बटोरना चाहते हो तो जी-सेप म� आ सकते है)
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⇒ if RBI ⏬decreases the repo rate too much→ it can result in A) inflation and B) ⏬decrease in
the deposit interest rates offered by the bankers on savings account → middle-class and
pensioners affected negatively. (रेपो दर म� ब�त �ादा कटौती �ई तो नई सम�ाए खड़ी होंगी)
Table 4: To Sum up, OMO, GSAP, OP-TWIST (कु ल �मलाकर बात ये है िक)
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⇒ Whereas, qualitative tools (PSL,LTV etc.) control “distribution” of loans to a particular sector of
economy. गुणा�क साधन कज� के �वतरण को तय करते ह�
- e.g. how much loan to a particular sector e.g. agriculture, renewable energy.
- how much loan to a particular segment of society (e.g. farmers, women, SC/ST).
- So, qualitative tools also known as SELECTIVE (चयना�क) or DIRECT (प्र��) Tools.
Figure 6: “म�ने तो अपनी repo-दर कम कर दी लेिकन ये लालची ब�क वाले अपने loan-दर कम नही कर रहे , कम से कम मेरा �लहाज/स�ान रखने के �लए भी उ�े थोड़ा तो स�ा
करना चािहए।“ - RBI Governor
- Moral suasion meaning applying “Persuasion” without applying punitive measures. RBI
governor tries this tactic via conferences, informal meetings, letters, seminars etc
- E.g. RBI-Governor asking banks to transmit repo-rate cuts, open new branches in rural areas,
spread financial literacy, give loans to farmers beyond PSL quota etc.
- E.g. RBI Governor requesting CM or Finance Minister to control fiscal deficit & subsidy leakage
to enhance the efficacy (प्रभावका�रता) of RBI’s monetary policy.
- Publicity: RBI governor could give media statement, speech during university convocation (दी�ांत
पदवीदान समारोह), memorial lectures… “Look I reduced repo rate but banks are not passing the
benefit to customers…and xyz”. By doing so, he can create an effective public opinion which also
pressurizes the banks to stop their thuggery.
12.17.2 �🚯🚯 Direct Action (सीधी कायर्वाही: �ोिक लातो के भुत बातो से नहीं मानते)
- RBI can punish banks (and even non-banks) for not complying with its directives under RBI Act,
Banking Regulation Act, Payment and Settlement Systems Act, Prevention of Money Laundering
Act (PMLA), Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). �रजवर् ब�क के िदशा �नद�शों का पालन न करने पर
�व�भ� कानूनों म� सजा/दंड
- 2019: RBI ordered the banks to have a “Clawback” provision in their CEO & Top executives’
salaries. E.g. If the CEO did any scam/fraud, he’ll have to return his previously paid salary /
bonus, even if he had retired/left the job afterwards. (िकसी ब�क का सीईओ कांड म� पकड़ा गया तो उस सीईओने
पुरानी तन�ाह भी लौटानी होगी.)
12.17.3 💍💍 Margin Requirements / Loan to Value (LTV) (सीमा अ�नवायर्ता)
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⇒ RBI can mandate Loan to Value (LTV) for a gold-loan, home loan, auto loan or business loan
etc. so a Bank/NBFC can’t lend more than x% of the value of the collaterals. RBI can change this
x% to boost / curb demand. (�गरवे रखी चीज के मू� के सामने ब�क या गैर-ब�क सं �ान ��� को िकतना कजर् दे सकते
है? �रजवर् ब�क उसके मानदंड म� बदलाव द्वारा, बाजार म� चीज-व�ुओ क� मांग को बढ़ा या कम कर सकता है)
LTV reforms in 2020-Aug Before After
Gold Loan 75% value of gold/gold- 90%
jewellary
🤩🤩Benefit? More quantity of loan by pledging same qty of gold → 😷😷 post-corona-biz-revival.
12.18 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 PRIORITY SECTOR LENDING (PSL: प्राथ�मकता �ेत्र के �लए ऋण मानक)
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⇒ 2015: some reforms in PSL. → 2019: RBI's UK Sinha Committee on MSME loan reforms
suggested some more reforms in the PSL. →2020-Sept: RBI reformed PSL guidelines as
following: (�न� सुधार िकए गए)
Priority Sector Loans norms → minimum quota after 2020-Sept Reforms BEFORE AFTER
� Weaker Sections (कु ल लोन का कम से कम 12% जाना चािहए कमजोर वगर् को): 10 % ⏫12%*
⇒ SC, ST, Women, PH, Minorities, Manual scavengers, Artisans,
⇒ PM-Jan DhanYojana Overdrafts upto Rs.10,000
⇒ Beneficiaries of Govt's National Rural/Urban Livelihood Mission
Schemes (NRLM/NULM: More in 📑📑Pill#6: HRD →Poverty Removal
Schemes)
🌽🌽 Agriculture (कृ �ष) (all farmers: small and big) 10% 8%
🌽🌽 Agriculture: सीमांत िकसान और छोटे िकसान 8% ⏫10%*
⇒ Marginal Farmer (owns upto 1hectre land) सीमांत िकसान
⇒ Small farmer (>1 upto 2ht) छोटे िकसान
🧵🧵 Micro Enterprises (अ�त लघु उद्योग), Khadi-Village industries 7.50% 7.50%
Above categories (Weaker section, agriculture, micro-enterprise ) 4.50% 2.50%
plus, other categories such as
⇒ Small & Medium Enterprises, Affordable housing loans to beneficiaries
under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
⇒ food processing companies, Vermi compost, biofertilizer, seed
production,
⇒ Exporters, Student-Education loans (upto Rs.10lakh),
⇒ Social Infrastructure (schools,drinking water, sanitation facilities,
health care, COVID related hospitals/labs etc);
⇒ Renewable Energy Projects (wind mills, biomass generators, solar
street light, micro-hydel plants etc.) etc. (नवीकरणीय ऊजार् प�रयोजनाएं )
Total PSL for Indian Scheduled Commercial Banks and 40% 40%
(Foreign Banks with 20 or more branches).
* Above quota reforms to be implemented in Phase-Wise by 2023-24. (क्र�मक �प से नए सुधार होंगे)
🤩🤩Benefit? It will ⏫ loan-availability for the weaker section and small farmers thus helping in the
United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty removal. (📑📑Ref: HDT-Pillar#6)
कमजोर वगर् और छोटे िकसानों को �ादा मात्रा म� कजार् �मल पाएगा. गरीबी �नवारण, सं यु� रा�� के सतत �वकास ल�ों क� प्रा�� म� मदद.
⇒ PSL quotas are ‘minimum (�ूनतम/कम से कम)’ & not maximum. So, if bank wishes, it can EVEN
give even 60% of its loans to weaker sections, instead of just 12% “minimum quota” meant for
weaker section.
⇒ Bank’s Loans given to Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) who are lending to above PSL
categories = such ‘indirect loan’ to PSL sectors will also be counted for bank’s quota. (ब�कर द्वारा
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गेरब�क �व�ीय कं पनी को िदया गया कजार् यिद परो� �प से प्राथ�मक �ेत्र को जाता है तो वह रा�श भी कवोटा-सफलता म� �गन ली
जाती है। )
⇒ Bank + NBFC’s joint lending / co-lending/ co-origination loans – what does it mean? #PHD-
NOT-IMP. (ब�क और गेर-ब�क का साथ मे �मलकर पीएसएल �ेत्र को कजर् िदया, तो उसमे ब�क ने िदया कजर् इस �ोटे म� �गन �लया
जाता है, कु छ शत� के आधीन)
⇒ NOTE: PSL Norms donot apply to NBFCs. PSL Norms apply ONLY to Bankers.
12.18.3 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 PSL Reforms-2020: Weightage to poor districts (गरीब/�पछड़े �जलों को भारांक)
RBI will classify the districts based on previous PSL loans given by all banks:
Type of district if Axis bank gives ₹100 PSL loan in this district →
RBI will count Axis’s quota-fulfillment as _ _ .
Low Credit penetration e.g. Tawang, ₹125 (आरबीआई ने एक ऐसी भारांक प्रणाली बनाइ है �जसमे ब�क
Dantewada etc. जहां भूतकाल म� ब�क-कजर् क� प�ँ च �पछड़े �जलों म� लोन देकर ब�त आसानी से अपना पीएसएल ल�ं क
कम रही है हा�सल कर सकती है।)
High Credit penetration e.g. Ahmedabad, ₹90 (तािक ब�क जो पहले से स�� �जले है, उसे �ादा स�� बनाने
Pune etc. जहाँ पहले से ही काफ� कजार् िदया जा चूका है क� जगह �पछड़े �जले पर �ान दे)
Thus, RBI’s PSL weightage system will passively discourage banks from giving more PSL-loans to the
developed districts and it will encourage banks to give PSL-loans to backward districts. This will help
in more balanced regional development. (�ेत्रीय �प से सं तु�लत �वकास म� यह कदम फायदेमंद होगा.)
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🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Priority Sector Lending by banks in India constitutes loans to _ _ _ _ . (Pre-2013)
a) Agriculture b) Micro and Small Enterprises c) Weaker Sections d) All of the above
⇒ If a bank can’t fullfill its PSL-quotas then such Underachiever bank will have to deposit PSL-
shortfall money to NABARD’s Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), or other funds
under SIDBI, National Housing Bank (NHB), MUDRA Ltd. etc as per the norms decided by RBI
from time to time. (ल�ं कों को हा�सल नहीं कर पाने वाली ब�क ने आरबीआई द्वारा �च��त अलग-अलग सं �ाओं म� पैसा
�नवेश करना पड़ेगा)
⇒ Underachiever bank will earn interest from such deposited money, but it’ll be (usually) linked
with Bank-Rate & their money will be locked-in a long-term project. ( पैसा लं बे समय तक अटक जाएगा)
⇒ �Budget-2023: announced setting up one more such fund called UIDF, to receive money from
PSL-shortfalls.
Rural Infrastructure Development Urban Infrastructure Development Fund
Fund (RIDF) (UIDF: शहरी बु�नयादी अवसं रचना �वकास �न�ध)
When? 1995–96 2023-Budget
Where? under NABARD- National Bank for under National Housing Bank (NHB)
Agriculture and Rural Development.
for for Agriculture, Social sector and Rural for urban infra projects especially in
What? connectivity projects. Tier-2 cities (population from 50,000 to
99,999) and
Tier-3 cities (population from 20,000 to
49,999).
12.18.5 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯:📜📜 Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLC) from 2016 onwards
Figure 9: भाई आ�मर/Rancho हमने अपना assignment नही िकया, तू अपना "EXTRA-walla" हमे बेच दे!
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⇒ In this arrangement, the overachieving Banks can sell their excess PSL in form of ‘certificates’ to
underachieving banks. (ल�ं कों से �ादा उपल�� हांसील करने वाली ब�क, अ� ज�रतमं द ब�क को स�टिफके ट बेचती)
⇒ If an underachiever bank can’t fulfil its PSL-quota through PSL-certificates purchase then
ultimately, it’ll have to deposit PSL-shortfall money to RIDF, UIDF etc funds, as explained in the
previous section.
🔠🔠❓ Which of the following is not an instrument of Selective Credit Control? (Pre-1995)
a) Regulation of consumer credit b) Rationing of credit
c) Margin requirements d) Cash reserve ratio
🔠🔠❓ An increase in the Bank Rate generally indicates that _ _ _ (Pre-2013)
a) Market rate of interest is likely to fall.
b) Central Bank is no longer making loans to commercial banks.
c) Central Bank is following an easy money policy.
d) Central Bank is following a tight money policy.
🔠🔠❓ If RBI adopts an expansionist monetary policy, which would it not do ? (Pre-2020)
1. Cut and optimize the Statutory Liquidity Ratio
2. Increase the Marginal Standing Facility Rate
3. Cut the Bank Rate and Repo Rate
Answer Codes: [a) 1 and 2 only [b) 2 only [c) 1 and 3 only [d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find Correct Statements: (Prelims-2022)
1. If the inflation is too high, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to buy government securities.
2. If the rupee is rapidly depreciating, RBI is likely to sell dollars in the market.
3. If interest rates in the USA or European Union were to fall, that is likely to induce RBI to buy
dollars.
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
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12.19📢📢 � MONETARY POLICY TOOLS: A READY RECKONER TABLE
Table 6: समज म� आ गया हो तो बिढ़या है, नहीं तो रट्टा मारो �जदं ाबाद (If understood then well & good, else memorize by Rot-Learning)
Tools & Strategy? <2%CPI= Fight deflation (अप���त) >6%CPI= Fight Inflation (मुद्रा���त)
⇒ Deflation: ↑ money Easy, Cheap, Dovish, Expansionary Tight, Dear, Hawkish,
Moral Suasion / Nudge / Force the banks to Enforce the Hawkish policy
Direct Action enforce Dovish Policy
Margin Requirement Increase e.g. Do reverse of left cell.
/ Loan to Value (LTV) Gold-LTV: 60% → 90%
Qualitative Tools
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12.20📢📢 MONETARY POLICY IN PRESENT-DAY INDIA
There are 3 strategies / ways of making a monetary policy: (तीन तरीके से मौिद्रक नीती बनाई जा सकती है)
1. 💸💸 Exchange rate stability (�व�नमय दर ��रता): Singapore & other export-oriented economies use
this. They try to keep their local currency at certain rate against US-dollar to boost exports.
(How?Ans📑📑Pillar#3)
2. 🎳🎳 Multiple Indicators (एका�धक सं के तक): Central Bank tries to focus on Economic Growth,
Employment, Inflation Control and Exchange rate stabilization. India's RBI followed this
strategy upto 2016.
3. 🧄🧄 Flexible Inflation Targeting (FIT) / Price Stability (मुद्रा���त ल�ीकरण): Central Bank only
aims to keep inflation controlled, THEN other indicators (growth, employment, exchange rate)
will automatically fall in line. Model successful in Western nations → RBI’s Urjit Patel
Committee Report (2013-14) recommended it for India → adopted from 2016-October, by
amending RBI Act Section 45. (2016 म� �रज़वर् ब�क के कानून म� सं शोधन कर भारत ने यह रणनी�त/तरीका अपनाया है)
Figure 10: जाने �ा होगा रामा रे..... सोचना है �ा? जो होना है होगा, चल पड़े है िफ़क्र यारो….
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Table 7: composition of the ⚖� statutory Monetary Policy Committee (MPC: वैधा�नक मौिद्रक नी�त स�म�त):
🐯🐯 RBI side (3 members) 🦁🦁 Govt. Side (3 members)
1. RBI Governor, as the Ex-officio Chairman. 1. Dr. Shashanka Bhide from National
2. Dy.Governor responsible for Monetary Council for Applied Economic Research
Policy. Michael Patra (from 2020-Jan). (NCAER, Delhi)
Earlier Viral Acharya. 2. Dr. Ashima Goyal from Indira Gandhi
3. One person nominated by RBI Central Board: Institute of Development Research
Mridul Saggar (Executive Director, RBI). (Mumbai)
3. Dr. Jayanth R Varma from IIM-A
Their tenure tied with their ex-officio job tenure Tenure: 4 years, no re-appointment. (4 साल का
(पदेन कायर्काल) E.g. Shaktikanta’s shakti (powers) कायर्काल और उसके बाद पुन:�नयु�� असं भव)
will be gone after his 3-years tenure as RBI-
Governor expires, unless he is reappointed.
(Note: Shaktikanta is reappointed till Dec-2024.)
RBI Governor & Dy.Gov are selected by Financial They’re selected by Search-cum-Selection
Sector Regulatory Appointment Search Committee headed by Cabinet Secretary
Committee (FSRASC) is headed by Cabinet (IAS)
Secretary (IAS)
⇒ Meeting quorum 4 persons, incl. Governor. (कायर्साधक सं �ा: कम से कम चार लोगों क� हाजरी ज�री)
⇒ Legally required to hold minimum four meetings in a year. (सालाना कम से कम 4 बार �मलना ज�री)
⇒ In practice, they meet every two months to decide bi-monthly monetary policy updates.
(Although during 😷😷Corona-lockdown met more frequently).
⇒ Repo rate=Policy rate= benchmark interest rate: decided by Majority vote. (मौिद्रक नी�त दर ब�मत से
तय)
⇒ When they vote for the first time, all members, including the Governor, will vote. If tie →
Governor can vote again for second time as casting vote (यिद मतों म� बराबरी �ई, तो गु�ी सुलझाने के �लए
�नणार्यक मत गवनर्र द�गे).
⇒ To ensure transparency / accountability (पारद�शता / जवाबदेही):
⇒ Govt can send message only in writing. (सरकार के वल �ल�खत म� सं देश भेज सकती है)
⇒ Committee must publish its minutes of the meeting on the 14th day, and “Monetary Policy
report” at every 6 months.(�नयत समय पर कु छ द�ावेज प्रका�शत करने होंग)े
⇒ 🎯🎯 Inflation target decided by Union Government, after consulting with RBI Governor. (गवनर्र से
�वमशर् करने के बाद महंगाई �नयं त्रण का ल� सरकार तय करेगी)
⇒ 🎯🎯 Present target: Keep Consumer Price Index (CPI:All India) within 2-6%.[alternate way of
saying= 4% +/- spread of 2%] (More about CPI/Inflation in 📑📑Pillar#4C)
⇒ 📅📅 Target was Valid for: Originally from 2016-2020 (ending at 31/03/2021). Now same target
extended till 31/3/2026.
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⇒ 😰😰Target fail: if inflation not kept in this 2-6% zone for 3 consecutive quarters (=9 months)
then Committee must send report to Govt with reasons and remedies (यिद सतत नौ महीनों तक महंगाई
इन सीमाओं के बाहर रही तो स�म�त क� असफलता मानी जाएगी → असफलता के कारण-उपचार क� �रपोटर् �रज़वर् ब�क ने सरकार को
भेजनी होगी).
⇒ 2022-Nov: the inflation has remained more than 6% for more than 9 months continuously so
now the MPC committee drafting a report to Govt. But it is not released public domain yet. We
will learn about it in Win23 FREE Series in 2023-Feb, depending on observations of Eco Survey.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. With reference to inflation in India, find correct statement: (Prelims-2015)
a) Controlling the inflation in India is the responsibility of the Government of India only
b) The Reserve Bank of India has no role in controlling the inflation
c) Decreased money circulation helps in controlling the inflation
d) Increased money circulation helps in controlling the inflation
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find correct statements about Monetary Policy Committee: (Prelims-2017)
1) It decides RBI’s benchmark interest rates.
2) It is a 12-member body including the Governor of RBI and is reconstituted every year.
3) It functions under the chairmanship of the Union Finance Minister.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 2 and 3 only
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Who is responsible for maintaining price stability by controlling inflation ?
(a) Department of Consumer Affairs (b) Expenditure Management Commission
(c) Financial Stability and Development Council (d) Reserve Bank of India
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Stance= what RBI will do Will they Will they Will they hold/keep
in next meeting hike/increase cut/decrease repo unchanged?
⏫repo? ⏬Repo?
Calibrated Tightening ✅ Possible ✋No they’ll not cut ✅ Possible
Neutral ✅ Possible ✅ Possible ✅ Possible
Accommodative ✋No they’ll not ✅ Possible ✅ Possible
hike
⇒ This provides guidance to the investors/borrowers/bankers about future action of RBI.
⇒ However, RBI MPC is not legally bound to follow the stance. E.g. Dec-2018 Governor Urjit-Patel
led MPC announced Calibrated Tightening, yet in next meeting Feb-2019 Governor Shaktikanta
led MPC decreased⏬ repo rate, because they felt it was necessary to combat deflation. (कानून �प
से बा� नहीं. कभी कभी स�म�त इसका उ�ं घन भी कर देती है)
⇒ 2022-May-June: Even though MPC said Accommodative Stance, still they kept increasing the
Repo Rate to fight inflation.
12.22🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯RBI’S MONETARY POLICIES: BEFORE 2020-CORONA
📢📢 Policy Decisions & Regulatory Announcements
[We will study in appropriate pillars/sections, so DONOT LOSE SLEEP YET]
2018 -era ⇒ Inflation was high/rising ⏫ so, Governor Urjit Patel led MPC kept ⏫Repo in
pattern the range of 6-6.50% (मुद्रा���त/महंगाई बढ़ रही थी इस�लए रेपो दरों को ऊंचा रखा गया था)
- Stance: Calibrated Tightening.
2019-era ⇒ Inflation was falling below 2%⏬ so, Governor Shaktikanta Das led MPC kept
pattern decreasing Repo from 6.##% to 5.##% to boost economy (अप���त/स�ाई बढ़ रही थी
इस�लए �रपो दरों म� कटौती)
- Stance: Accommodative.
2020-2021 ⇒ Corona lockdown = supply chain disruption = inflation was rising. in such
Corona Era situation, making a loan is expensive, will not fix the problem. (आपू�त श्रृंखला प्रबं धन
म� सम�ा के चलते खाद्य महंगाई बढ़ी थी- तो �रपो दरों म� बदलाव द्वारा उस महंगाई का समाधान असं भव)
⇒ So, instead, RBI decreased Repo to 4% and CRR to 3% boost demand/shopping
in the corona slowdown. (कोरोना के बाद अथर्त� को वापस खड़ा करने के �लए स�े लोन अ�नवायर्)
⇒ Stance: Accommodative.
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⇒ The gist of above March-April-May announcements are as following (and they’re considered to
be part of 👻👻ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT initiative to revive Indian Economy after Corona.
We’ll learn more about it in Pillar#2D and #4C):
👻👻ATMANIRBHAR → Reforms by RBI 2020-2021 We’ll learn in 📑📑Pillar#
Reduced CRR to 3% and Repo to 4% Present handout
Opened new loan windows such as TLTRO, On-Tap Present handout
Window etc.
Gold Loan LTV: Before 75% → AFTER 90%. �benefit? Present handout
More quantity of loan can be taken by pledging same
quantity of gold → post-corona economic-revival.
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12.24.2 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯Monetary Policy: May-2022 Repo⏫
⇒ RBI required to control inflation in 2-6% CPI and RBI MPC usually meets every 2-2- months.
⇒ but inflation crossed 7% (Because Russia Ukraine crisis → imported fertiliser & crude oil prices
increased etc.)
⇒ so emergency MPC meeting held → outcome → (वैसे तो हर दो महीने �मलना था लेिकन महँ गाई हद से �ादा बढ़
गयी तो आपातकालीन मीिटंग बुलायी)
⇒ Repo increased from 4% to 4.40% to combat inflation.
⇒ Automatically, as per the formula: MSF = 4.40% + 0.25% = 4.65%
⇒ Automatically, as per the formula: SDF = 4.40% - 0.25% = 4.15%
⇒ Reverse Repo Unchanged at 3.35%
⇒ Separately, RBI Governor announced to increase CRR from 4% to 4.50%. This will reduce the
loanable funds to by more than ₹85,000 crore. ⏬loanable funds→ ⏫ loan interest rate →
⏬demand/shopping → ⏬inflation. (NOTE: MPC can’t decide CRR. Only RBI Governor
alone can decide CRR.)
⇒ Stance: Accommodative but in future we will ‘withdraw’ this stance.
🚩🚩�FAQ: Isn't this repo-increase a violation of the Accommodative stance announced earlier?
Ans. MPC has no legal obligation for accommodative stance. MPC has only 1 legal obligation-
control inflation in 2-6% range. (अकोमोडेिटव-रवैये के िहसाब से ही काम करना होगा ऐसा क़ानूनन �प से अ�नवायर् नहीं है।)
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🔠🔠❓ MCQ. RBI recent directives relating to ‘Storage of Payment System Data’, popularly known
as data diktat command the payment system providers that : (Prelims-2019)
1) They shall ensure entire data relating to their payment systems are stored in a system only in
India.
2) They shall ensure that the systems are owned and operated by public sector enterprises.
3) They shall submit the consolidated system audit report to the comptroller and Auditor General
of India by the end of the calendar year.
Find Correct Statement(s): codes: (a) 1 only (b)1 and 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 1,2 and 3 only
Ans. After April-2018’s monetary policy RBI governor announced certain regulatory reforms. One of
them was :- Payment System data must be stored in India within next 6 months, to ensure its safety
against misuse / Russian-Chinese-hackers. So, for Prelims-2019, this was D-1 year current affairs. Now
we are targeting 2023, so need not put so much efforts behind 2018’s current affairs.
RBI’s 6-member statutory MPC decides policy rate (=repo rate) to keep inflation within 2-6%CPI
(All India) but who decides lending rates of individual banks, & how? Ans:
Govt began nationalization of private banks, and ‘administered interest rates’ (प्रशा�सत �ाज
1969 दर�) on them i.e. Govt would decide how much loan interest rate the banks should charge on
borrowers?
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M.Narsimham suggested deregulation: Govt should not dictate / administer individual
1991 banks’ interest rates. RBI should only give methodology to banks. (सरकार ने अपने मनमाने �ाज
दर थोपने नहीं चािहए)
2003 RBI introduced Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) system
- RBI introduced formula “BASE Rate + formula = bank’s loan interest rate”;
- update frequency on individual banks’ discretion (अपनी मज�/ �ववेकाधीन). So, it did not
2010 help transmission of monetary policy much.
- So, Even If RBI reduced repo rate, the banks would not update their formula figures
regularly. �रजवर् ब�क ने अपनी �रपो दर कम करी िकंतु ब�कोने लोन स�े नहीं िकए😰😰
⇒ RBI introduced formula “Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR) +
Spread” system. (how exactly it worked? Outdated info. NOT IMP)
⇒ 😰😰Limitation? From January to Oct 2019, RBI ⏬ repo rate by 1.35% but banks
2016 reduced their loan interest rates by merely 0.40%.
⇒ Thus, even though RBI reduced its repo rate, banks are not quickly reducing their loan
interest rates. So MCLR system was ineffective. (�रजवर् ब�क ने अपनी �रपो दर कम करी िकंतु ब�कोने
लोन स�े नहीं िकए, इस�लए ये प्रणाली प्रभावी नहीं)
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5. It is applicable to old/previous loans in above categories, if borrower fills the application form.
🤩🤩🤩🤩External Benchmark Benefits? = Better/faster transmission of Monetary Policy; transparency
& accountability to borrowers. (मौिद्रक नी�त का प्रभावी प्रसार म�, लोन ग्राहकों के प्र�त पारद�शता और जवाब देही)
12.27.4 Banks’ Lending Rates % → Fixed vs Floating interest loans, teaser loans, NPA etc.
Refer to 📑📑Pillar1B-2: burning issues → NPA
Figure 11: मै काम तो कर रहा �ँ , लेिकन उसक� सकारा�क असर, अथर्�व�ा पर िदख नही रही। 😢😢
Even though monetary policy updated is every 2 months, its efficacy in controlling inflation &
boosting growth is restricted by following factors: (मौिद्रक-नी�त मं हगाई-�नयं त्रण और आ�थक वृध्धीमे असरकारकता
नही िदखा पायी �ोंिक:)
1) 😰😰Western countries’ households → consumerist lifestyle → don’t save large amount of
money in Banks. So their banks borrow more quantum of money from US Federal reserve and
European Central Bank respectively. Whereas in India, Repo is not major source of funds for
Indian banks, due to higher level of savings & deposits. (पा�ा� देशो मे उपभो�ावादी जीवनशैली. जबिक
भारतीयो मे ब�क-बचत क� भावना के चलते हमारे ब�कों के �लए आरबीआई के रेपों लोन, पैसो का मु�य �ोत नहीं है। अंत: �रपो दर
स�े होने पर भारतीय ब�को को खास फकर् नहीं पड़ता। )
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2) 😰😰Before the External Benchmark System: Indian Banks did not immediately pass on the RBI
rate cuts to customers, citing NPA/Bad loans / profitability problem. According to RBI’s own
research, it took minimum 6-12 months for repo rate cut to benefit end-customers and it took
about 24 months for repo rate changes to impact inflation. (बाहरी-ब�चमाकर् से पहेले के समय मे,भारतीय ब�क
तुरंत अपने �ाजदर कम नही करते थे।)
3) 😰😰Poor management in Public Sector Banks (PSB), scams in the private sector banks, large level
of Non-Performing Assets (NPA) also stymie the impact of monetary policy. (सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के ब�कों म�
बेअसर प्रबं धन, �नजी �ेत्र के ब�कों म� घोटाले, अनजर्क प�रसं प��या) 📑📑 More in Pill1B2
4) 😰😰Supply Side Issues: El-Nino/Poor monsoon hurting crop production → food inflation; Wars
& Geopolitical issues ⏫ global crude oil & raw material prices, protectionism by China-US
denting our exports. RBI can’t control them. (कम बा�रश + म�पूवर् क� भूराजनी�तक तनाव= भारत मे क�े माल
क� आपू�त को असर करते है, चीन-अमरीका का सं र�णवाद भारतीय �नयार्तमे बाधा डालता है। इ�े �नयं त्रण मे रखना आरबीआई के
�लए मु��ल।) 📑📑Refer Pill3&4A
5) 😰😰While cheap loans can boost consumption, investment and growth but because of poor-
monsoon-fear and oil-price fear, RBI (during Raghuram Rajan and Urjit Patel’s governorships)
was usually apprehensive of inflation and more inclined to keep repo rate high. Then RBI was get
criticized for not facilitating cheap loans & economic growth because of its ‘Hawkish policy’.
(महंगाई-�नयं त्रण के च�र मे कभी कभी खुद �रजवर् के मं हगे �रपो-�ाजदारों ने अथर्त� को आगे बढ्ने से रोका है।)
6) 😰😰Government Side Issues: Fiscal deficit, Subsidy leakage, Populist Loan-waivers etc. (राजकोषीय
खाध, सब�सडी का �रसाव, लोकलुभावन के �लए िकसानो क� ऋण-माफ�) 📑📑 Pill#2D → FRBM Act
7) 😰😰Structural Issues in Economy: lack of Ease of Doing Biz, electricity-road infrastructure =
production /supply affecting inflation trends. (�ापारमे सुगमता क� कमी, �बजली-सड़क क� अवसं रचना आिद
बु�नयादी मसलो के चलते उ�ादन/आपू�त क� कमी। �रजवर् ब�क जादू क� छड़ी चलाकर इसे द�ु � नहीं कर सकता) 📑📑More in
Pill4B&5
8) 😰😰Presence of Informal moneylenders in rural areas who circulate black money at exorbitant
interest rates. Poor penetration of banking sector, lack of financial inclusion, cash-intensive rural
economy etc. (�ाजखोर/सा�कार जो कालाधन ऊंचे �ाज पर घुमाते है, सभी गरीबो के �व�ीय समोवेशन क� कमी, नगदी मुद्रा
पर �ादा आधीन है हमारी ग्रामीण अथर्�व�ा। �रजवर् ब�क अपनी रेपो दर कम भी कर�, इधर कु छ फकर् नहीं पड़ता) 📑📑More in
Pill1D
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And there is a possibility that Covid-19 will haunt us for the next 3-5 years. (�य रोग /टीबी म� भी
सालाना कई लोग मरते ह� लेिकन उससे अथर्तंत्र को कोई नुकसान नहीं होता। भ�व� म� कोरोना भी एसा हो जाएगा। इस�लए कोरोना के
डर से पूरी �जदं गी हम लोन स�े नहीं रख सकते.)
⇒ But we can't continue to keep cheap loans (4% repo) for so long, else it'll cause asset price
inflation. (e.g. suppose rich men buying 3-3 bungalows using cheap loans for 'investment'
→ demand for bungalows increased → home prices increased = inflation in asset prices.
Similar problem in Sharemarket Ref#1C). (वरना यही स�े लोन भ�व� म� मकान, शेयर इ�ािद सं प��यों म� महंगाई
का कारण बन सकते ह�)
⇒ This could also result in Stagflation= Persistent high inflation, high unemployment and low
growth. (अंततः उ� महंगाई दर, उ� बेरोजगारी दर हो सकती है और आ�थक वृ�द्ध दर म� �गरावट हो सकती है)
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FAQ: What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the Video lecture.
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12.29.2 🐯🐯🛬🛬Monetary Policy: Soft landing vs Hard Landing
�What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the video lecture�.
12.29.3 🐯🐯🐯🐯 Monetary policy limitations: Cantillon Effect
⇒ Given by the 18th century French economist Richard Cantillon.
⇒ When the money supply is increased, the purchasing power of people who first receive the
freshly-created money is increased at the cost of the rest of people. What does it mean? Ans.
Watch video lecture.
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Pillar#1B-1: Classification of Financial Intermediaries: Bank & NBFC
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: This handout is very lengthy, contains lot of Banking GK😰😰!!.
✅Ans. I’ve such Banking-GK for helping UPSC aspirants trying for Bank-exam as backup/Plan-B.
Which GK is imp/notimp for UPSC = Watch lecture, you’ll get idea.
Table of Contents
13 🏛🏛 Financial Intermediaries → Banks .......................................................................................................... 86
13.11 🐯🐯🐯🐯 ₹ 🖨🖨 Banks → Reserve Bank of India (RBI): भारतीय �रजवर् ब�क............................................... 87
13.11.1 🏦🏦 ₹ 🖨🖨 RBI Governor & Dy Governor ......................................................................................... 88
13.11.2 🏦🏦 ₹ 🖨🖨 RBI Offices & Departments .............................................................................................. 88
13.11.3 🏦🏦 ₹ 🖨🖨 RBI: Functions of ............................................................................................................... 88
13.12 🏦🏦 � Scheduled Banks (अनुसू�चत ब�क) ................................................................................................. 90
13.13 🏦🏦 �FI⇒ Commercial Banks⇒ Pre-Independence...................................................................... 91
13.13.1 🦄🦄 → 🦁🦁 Nationalization of Banks After Independence (आजादी के बाद �नजी ब�कों का रा�ी� यकरण) 92
13.14 🏦🏦 � 🔂🔂Consolidation of PSBs [एकत्रीकरण] ..................................................................................... 93
13.14.1 🔂🔂Consolidation of PSBs → A) Merger (�वलीनीकरण)..................................................................... 94
13.14.2 🔂🔂Consolidation of PSBs → B) Privatization (�नजीकरण) .............................................................. 95
13.14.3 PSB Privatization: Banking Investment Company (BIC-ब�िकंग �नवेश कं पनी) ............................... 95
13.15 🏦🏦 �Commercial Banks ⇒ Pvt. Sector Banks (PvB) �नजी-�ेत्र के ब�क.............................................. 95
13.15.1 🏦🏦 � 🚗🚗🚗🚗 ‘On-Tap’ License to open Private Sector Banks (जब मन चाहे तब अज� डाल दो) ...... 96
13.15.2 🏦🏦 �Steps or procedure to open a bank (एक ब�क �ा�पत करने के क� प्रिक्रया �ा है?) ................... 96
13.16 🚫🚫🚫🚫 � 🚗🚗🚗🚗 Allowing NBFC/Large Corporate to setup Banks ............................................ 97
13.17 🏦🏦 � 🈶🈶 Commercial Banks ⇒ Foreign Banks (�वदेशी ब�क) .......................................................... 97
13.18 🏦🏦 � 🌎🌎🌎🌎Commercial Banks ⇒ Differential Banks ................................................................. 98
13.18.1 🏦🏦 � 🌎🌎🌎🌎 Commercial Banks ⇒ Differential Banks⇒ RRB and LAB ............................. 98
13.18.2 🏦🏦 � 🌎🌎🌎🌎 RRB’s Shareholding pattern / IPO ................................................................... 98
13.18.3 🏦🏦 � 🌎🌎🌎🌎Commercial Banks ⇒ Differential Banks ⇒ SFB & PB..................................... 99
13.18.4 🏦🏦 � 🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎 On-Tap Licenses for starting SFB (मन चाहे तब अज� डालो) .......................101
13.18.5 Commercial Banks → 📬📬India Post Payment Bank (IPPB)......................................................101
13.18.6 📮📮 (Yearbook) Dept of Post: POSB vs IPPB.................................................................................101
13.18.7 🚐🚐 ⏳ (Proposed) Wholesale & Long Term Finance Banks (WLTF) .....................................103
13.18.8 💸💸💸💸: Digital Payments- (Proposed) Digital Banks by NITI Aayog (2021) ....................103
13.18.9 💸💸💸💸: Digital Banking Units in Budget 2022 .......................................................................103
13.18.10 💸💸💸💸: Digital Payments- NeoBanks (�चकने चुपड़े श�) ............................................................104
13.19 🏦🏦 �FI ⇒ Banks ⇒ Cooperative Banks (सहकारी ब�क)....................................................................104
13.19.1 🏦🏦 �😥😥 Cooperative Banks: Negative News (2019): PMC Bank (कांड हो गया)......................106
13.19.2 ⚖🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance/Act, 2020 .......106
13.20 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫 Formal FI ⇒ Non-Banking Financial Institutions ......................................................107
13.20.1 Development Finance Institutions (DFI: �वकास �व� सं �ान) ...........................................................107
1913 Commercial banks were required to register under the Companies Act, but monitoring
was lax. No CRR, SLR, BASEL Norms. (उन पर पहले �नयम स� नहीं थे)
1926 Royal Commission on Indian Currency Hilton Young Commission) recommends setting
up a central bank named 'Reserve Bank of India'. (एक �ब्रिटश आयोग ने �सफा�रश क� �नगरानी के �लए �रज़वर्
ब�क बने)
1929 Great Depression in USA leads to collapse of 450+ banks in India. So British Indian Govt
becomes serious about setting up RBI. अमे�रक� महामं दी के बाद क� द्रीय ब�क क� �ापना क� आव�कता महसूस �ई
1934 Reserve Bank of India Act was enacted. (इसक� �ापना के �लए कानून बनाया गया)
1935, RBI becomes operational from 1st April, with 1st Governor Sir RBI Gov: Osborne Smith.
April India’s Viceroy: Willingdon. Government ownership was ~4.4% only.
1935, Commercial Banks fulfilling certain conditions were listed in the 2nd Schedule of RBI Act,
July & such “Scheduled Banks” were required to keep CRR with RBI.
1943- C.D. Deshmukh 2nd FM of India becomes the first INDIAN Governor of RBI. He had also
49 participated in the Bretton Woods Conference, USA (1944).
1948- All private investors’ shares transferred to Govt of India under the RBI transfer of
49 ownership act 1948. Therefore, RBI governor answerable to Parliament, has to pay
dividend to Govt from its profits. (�रज़वर् ब�क अपने मुनाफे मे से सरकार को लाभांश �वतरण करता है)
1949
When RBI is satisfied with TWO conditions simultaneously (दो शत� का एक साथ पालन होना चािहए)
⇒ #1: That a public sector or pvt sector bank has (Paid Up Capital + Reserves#1) = Min ₹5 Lakhs
⇒ #2: Bank is not conducting business in a manner harmful to its depositors. (जमाकतार्ओ ं के िहतों का
नुक़सान न हो इस िहसाब से ब�क अपना कायर् कर रहा है)
then such bank is listed in the 2nd Schedule of RBI Act → then it is known as a Scheduled Bank.
⇒ NEXUS between Banks and Industrialists: From 1950s to 60- only 188 elite people controlled
the economy by being in board of top 20 banks, 1452 companies.
⇒ This led to reckless lending to directors and their firms. So, Banks failed frequently, RBI had to
close them. (रसूखदार लोग के क�े म� थी ब�िकंग �व�ा. भाई भतीजावाद म� अंधाधुन कजर् देते थे)
⇒ Private Banks unwilling to open in rural areas- this did not help in financial inclusion of poor,
farmers, MSME or achievement of Five Year Plan (FYP) targets or reducing regional imbalance.
(�व�ीय समोवेशन, पं चवष�य योजनाओ के ल�ाक हा�सल करने म� �नजी �ेत्र के ब�क मदद नहीं करते थे. �ेत्रीय असमनाताए बढ़ी)
Table 3: Nationalization & Merger of Banks after Independence
1948 RBI Transfer of Ownership Act.
1948 1948: Op. Polo, Hyd. → 1951:1st FYP, → 1953: Air India nationalized from Tata
1955 Imperial Bank nationalized and became SBI.
1955-56 LIC Act took over private life insurance cos.
57: 1st Communist Govt in Kerala
61: Operation Vijay for liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu.
1963 State Bank of Jaipur and Bikaner merged together.
1969 ⇒ 'Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Ordinance,
1969: 14 Private banks with ₹ 50 cr/> deposits were nationalized e.g. Bank of
Baroda, PNB, Dena, Canara etc. (बड़ी जमा-रा�श वाले �नजी ब�को का रा�ी� यकरण)
⇒ Catholic Syrian Bank (1920, Kerala), Ratnakar Bank, Dhanlaxmi Bank, etc., did
not have such large deposits, so they were not nationalized. So, they are called
“Old Private Banks”.
While the nationalization of banks was done with the lofty objectives, but politicization in Public
Sector Banks (PSBs) created new set of problems:
- Govt administered loan interest rates for populism= Low profitability for PSBs. (मुनाफा कम)
- Political Interference= Low recovery difficult (राजनी�तक ह��ेप के चलते दबं ग त�ो से ऋण वसूली मु��ल)
- Employees Unions hampering innovation or customer delight. (नवाचार, ग्राहक सु�वधा कम)
- 1991: Balance of Payment crisis (BoP: भुगतान सं तुलन,More in Pill#3) finally forced Govt. to set up a
committee for Banking Sector Reforms under The former RBI Governor M.Narasimham. He
suggested:
o Govt should ↓ its shareholding in Public Sector Banks. (सरकार अपनी शेयर िह�ेदारी कम करे)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: In early 90s- UTI Bank & IDBI Bank were not private sector banks, then why have you
kept them here in table? Ans. Because presently, they’re private sector banks. I don’t have to submit
this handout as evidence in the Supreme Court so I don’t care being so pedantic about everything.
You need to change your approach towards studies, to finish syllabus faster. #RAFTAAR
13.15.1 🏦🏦 � 🚗🚗🚗🚗 ‘On-Tap’ License to open Private Sector Banks (जब मन चाहे तब अज� डाल दो)
A private entity can open Bank only after getting license from RBI under Banking Regulation Act,
1949. Previously, one had to wait till RBI invited applications. But in the On-Tap system (from
2016), one can apply to RBI whenever he wishes (like a driving license), provided that he meets the
eligibility requirements e.g. min. 10 years’ XP in banking finance, minimum 500 crore capital etc.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: isn’t above Rs.500 cr capital conflicting with Scheduled Commercial Bank Definition?
Ans, given below
13.15.2 🏦🏦 �Steps or procedure to open a bank (एक ब�क �ा�पत करने के क� प्रिक्रया �ा है?)
Ans. If you open a commercial bank at present, the steps are as following
⇒ First you have to register the company with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, under Companies Act
🚩🚩🚩FAQ#: M.Narasimham committee was made in 1990s so how can he be in 1970s? Ans. Same
gentleman was chairman of many committees ✅(1) Financial inclusion (1970s) ✅(2) banking
reforms-I (1990s) ✅(3) banking reforms-II (1990s).
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: I’ve 500 jaat-ke Doubts about Local Area Banks. Ans. Not Important for UPSC. I’ve
only given short-note of LAB for helping UPSC aspirants trying for Bank-exam as backup/Plan-B.
Parameters Small Finance Banks लघु �व� ब�क Payment banks भुगतान ब�क
Examples Capital Small Finance Bank (Punjab), 6 at present: Airtel, India Post, FINO,
Ujjivan (Karnataka), Utkarsh (UP): Paytm, Jio, NSDL. (Total 11 were
Total 10 list at selected; but AdityaBirla-Idea & other
rbi.org.in/scripts/banklinks.aspx withdrew later)
Eligibility Min.100cr. capital-walla Resident Min.100cr. capital-walla resident
during 1st Indian, Local Area Bank, NBFC, Indians, NBFCs, PPI-wallets (pre-paid
round of Micro-finance, with 10 years exp. in payment instrument), mobile telephone
licensing banking / finance companies, super-market chains,
cooperatives & companies controlled by
resident Indians
📌📌Area RBI Committee gave selection Anywhere
preference North East & Central
India clusters where Universal Banks’
penetration is poor
🚩🚩�FAQ: You wrote that Payment Banks can't accept FD or give loans or credit card but Paytm
is doing that!!?? Ans: Paytm doing FD/Credit Card/Loan activities as “an Agent” of a federal bank,
IndusIndia bank etc. Similarly, Although India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) cannot give loans
because it is a payment bank but signed a deal with HDFC Bank to give home loans as an ‘Agent’.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: if payment banks cannot give loans, then what do they do with deposit money? Ans. It
is answered within the above table itself. Read properly. If you’re going to glance over this handout
casually & carelessly like a WhatsApp message then handout cannot help you in the UPSC exam.
Dept of Post → Post Office Savings India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
Bank (PoSB)
foundation Govt Savings Bank Act Companies act 2013 → Public ltd
1873 company registered in 2016
Accept demand Savings account only 1. Current account
deposits? 2. Savings account
Accept time YES No, bcoz it is a payment bank
deposits?
Can keep more than YES No, bcoz it is a payment bank. But u can link
₹2 lakh balance? IPPB account with PoSB account to auto-
transfer (=SWEEP) excess balance to PoSB.
E-Banking and Not directly but you can yes , UPI, BHIM, NEFT, IMPS and BBPS
online bill payment do it by linking PoSB (Bharat Bill pay) available.
account with IPPB
account
Sukanya Smriddhi Can be opened Not possible. Because time deposits are not
(daughter’s fixed allowed in Payment Banks.
deposit account)
loans to individual? No. ₹₹ goes to NSSF. Not until it becomes Small Finance Bank
More in Pillar2A.
Objective? Promote savings habits Remittance & digital payments
among poor
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find correct about India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)? [Asked in UPSC-CDS-2018-1]
1) It has been incorporated as a Public Limited Company.
2) It started its operation by establishing two pilot branches at Hyderabad and Varanasi.
Answer codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
13.18.8 💸💸💸💸: 🏦🏦 Digital Payments- (Proposed) Digital Banks by NITI Aayog (2021)
⇒ 2021: NITI Aayog proposed setting up 'full-stack digital banks’.
⇒ This will be new type of banks under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (BR Act).
⇒ Digital Banks will not have physical branches. They will rely on internet for delivering banking
services. 🤩🤩Benefit? financial inclusion of rural area. (नी�त आयोग ने ऐसा प्र�ा�वत िकया है िक नए िक़� के
िड�जटल ब�क बनाए जाएं जो क� भौ�तक भौगो�लक �प से ब्रांच न हो िक�ु इं टरनेट के ज़�रए ब�िकंग सु�वधा दे इसे गाँव गाँव तक
�व�ीय समावेशन म� मदद �मलेगी)
⇒ 🎓🎓✋But since it’s not yet formed, so we need not loose sleep about how exactly it’ll work.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: How NeoBanks are similar or different than “DIGITAL BANKS”? Ans. ✋Not
important. When Startup-wallas want to attract inventors, they plant a lot of paid/PR/embellished
news items & columns with fancy terms like “NEOBANK” → it doesn’t automatically become
“exam worthy current affairs”…First of all let RBI/NITI/Finance Ministry/HC-SC etc make repeated
big headlines around this, then we’ll see. Observe previous years question papers. (�नवेशकों को आक�षत
करने के �लए �ाटर्अप क�नीओ द्वारा �चकने चुपड़े श�ों वाले समाचार �ांट िकए जाते ह�. तो वो अपने आप परी�ा के �लए काम का नहीं
बन जाता. पहले बड़े सरकारी सं �ानों द्वारा कु छ बड़ी बड़ी सु�खयां बटोरने दो िफर देख�गे.)
13.19.1 🏦🏦 �😥😥 Cooperative Banks: Negative News (2019): PMC Bank (कांड हो गया)
Outdated for 2023. So removed. Brief idea given in the video lecture.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Recently the RBI has imposed limitations, initially for a period of six months, on the
withdrawal of amount by account holders of this banks: (UPSC-CDS-i-2020) (a) IndusInd Bank
(b) Dhanlaxmi Bank (c) Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (d) South Indian Bank
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct Statements about ‘Urban Cooperative Banks’ in India (Pre-21)
1. They are supervised and regulated by local boards set up by the State Governments. [रा� सरकार
उनक� �नगरानी और �नयं त्रण करता है]
2. They can issue equity shares and preference shares. [वे इ��टी शेयर और वरीयता शेयर जारी कर सकते ह�।]
3. They were brought under the purview of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 through an Amendment
in 1966. [उ�� 1966 म� एक सं शोधन के मा�म से ब�िकंग �व�नयमन अ�ध�नयम, 1949 के दायरे म� लाया गया था।]
Codes: a) 1 only b) 2 and 3 only c) 1 and 3 only d) 1, 2 and 3’
⇒ are meant for Medium to long term loans to industries, including support services like arranging
foreign currency, underwriting, technical / management consultancy, Bank guarantee etc.
⇒ They don't accept DEPOSITs from ordinary people.
⇒ Previously the financial intermediaries (�व�ीय म��) were classified into three categories 1) Bank,
2) Non-Bank 3) DFI
⇒ But M.Narasimham-II Committee on Banking sector reforms (1998): recommended only two
categories: Bank or non-bank. DFI were required to join either one category.
Table 11: Exact Years, Full Forms not very important but Chronology is important.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Whether NABARD is 100% owned by govt or 100% owned by RBI- what difference
does it make? Ans. Shareholders vote for selecting board of directors. Shareholders receive dividend
from the profit of the organization. So Govt or RBI gets power/benefits depending on who owns
majority shareholding.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Who grants direct credit assistance to rural households? (UPSC-Pre-2013)
1) RRB 2) NABARD 3) Land Development Banks
Answer Codes:(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 only (b) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓Find Correct Statement(s) (Asked in UPSC-Prelims-2004)
A) NHB, apex institution of housing finance in India, was setup as a wholly owned subsidiary of RBI
B) SIDBI was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Industrial development bank of India
C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B
2021: NaBFID: National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development was setup by an
law/act of Parliament, with an initial capital of ₹20,000cr capital.
⇒ NaBFID will get funding from RBI, Govt, Financial institutions, World Bank etc. It’ll also issuing
bonds in market etc
⇒ NaBFID will give loans worth ₹5 lakh crore in 3 years. It’ll help in National Infrastructure
�Ref: HDT-Pillar#5:Infrastructure)
Pipeline (NIP) project.(�
⇒ Chairman: K.V. Kamath.
⇒ HQ: Mumbai (Presently it is working from the office of SIDBI in Mumbai)
⇒ They deal in "primary" market i.e. directly buy fresh G-sec from RBI’s E-Kuber platform and sell
it in the secondary market. Total 20+ PD licensed by RBI: 14 of them are Banks. E.g. Standard
Chartered Bank, HSBC (HongKong), SBI, Kotak etc. (Numbers not important)
Related Topic: Retail/Ordinary Investors also buy G-Sec directly from RBI by opening a ‘Retail
Direct Gilt Account’ (RDG Account). (More in 📑📑Pillar#1C: Deepening of Capital Market)
Sr Organization Examples
1 giving loans online and regulated by RBI Banks, P2P lenders
2 Giving loans online but regulated by Non-RBI bodies Venture Capital Funds (VCF)
regulated by SEBI
3 Giving loans online but not regulated by anyone / Some goonda/mafia opening
unauthorized digital lenders = their App will be shut online mobile app for giving
down. Legal action will be taken. online loans.
Note: RBI keeps releasing guidelines for digital lending. But daily-commentary not important.
Sufficient to know that such guidelines mostly deal with customer protection.
- Unlike banks/NBFCs, they provide loans without formal application procedure, etc but require
Property/Vehicle/Home/Goods/Crop/Gold etc. as collaterals/pawn. (सं प�� �गरवी रखवा के कजर्)
- They charge very high compound interest rates & use muscle power for recovery (ऊंचे �ाजदर,
वसूली के �लए धमकाना-बलप्रयोग करना.)
- For every Rs.100 borrowed by a rural household, 33% from informal money lenders, remining
from banks, friends-family etc. (2012 data)
- They don’t fall under RBI purview, but State Govts have individual laws to regulate them e.g.
Bombay Moneylenders Act 1947, Kerala (1958), Gujarat (2011). These laws require such
informal lenders to register, impose ceiling on the interest rate & prohibit strong-arm tactics.
(�रजवर् ब�क क� �नगरानी म� नहीं िकंतु रा� सरकारों ने �नयं त्रण के �लए कानून बनाएं - पं जीकरण, �ाज क� मह�म सीमा �नधार्�रत
करना, बलप्रयोग/जबरन वसूली पर रोक)
Table 14: Following Examples/Differentiation not imp for IAS Exam but Banking Exams
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14.24.1 �(�
� ��): � Bad Bank Structure................................................................................136
14.24.2 � ��) Bad Bank: 🗃🗃 functioning .............................................................................137
�(�
14.24.3 �(�
� ��) Bad Bank: Benefits & Challenges? ..............................................................138
14.24.4 �(�
� ��) Bad Bank: �Conclusion (�न�षर्) ................................................................138
14.25 ������ Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) Framework ...........................................138
14.25.1 ������ RBI’s Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) for NBFCs .........................139
14.25.2 ������ Supervisory Action Framework for Urban Co-operative Banks ....139
14.25.3 RBI’4-tiered regulatory framework for urban cooperative banks (2022-Dec).....................139
14.25.4 �: �Regulations Review Authority (RRA 2.0)- for Ease of implementing RBI rules ...139
14.25.5 �: �RBI supervision: Utkarsh-2022” roadmap .................................................................140
14.25.6 �: �RBI supervision: Daksh web system 2022 ..................................................................140
14.25.7 Digital lending norms by RBI (2022-Nov) ................................................................................140
14.25.8 Digital lending → FIRST LOSS DEFAULT GUARANTEE (FLDG) norm by RBI ...........141
14.26 ��
� BASEL-III Norms (बेसेल-3 मानदंड) ............................................................................................141
14.26.1 ��
� � BASEL-III norms: Capital Tiers ............................................................................142
14.26.2 ���Additional Tier 1 (AT1) Bonds ...............................................................................143
14.26.3 �🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃�Zero Coupon Bonds ...............................................................................................143
14.26.4 ��
� D-SIB: Domestic Systematic Important Banks ...........................................................144
14.27 ��: BASEL Norms deferred / Suspended in Corona .................................................................144
14.28 ��� Banks’ Balance sheet / Audit Norms (तुलन पत्र लेखा परी�ण) .............................................144
14.28.1 ��� IndAS Accounting Norms deferred (लेखा मानदंड ��गत/टाल िदये) ............................144
14.29 ��
�� Recapitalization of PSBs: [सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के ब�को का पुन:पूंजीकरण]..........................................145
14.30 �Banking Sector: Governance / Administrative Reforms ............................................................145
14.30.1 �Gyan-Sangam-I, 2015, Pune .................................................................................................145
14.30.2 � Personnel Selection → Bank Board Bureau (BBB), 2016 ................................................146
14.30.3 � Personnel Selection → FSIB replaces BBB (2022) ............................................................146
14.30.4 �PSB Banking Personnel Reforms→ ES20 suggestions ......................................................146
14.30.5 �Enhanced Access and Service Excellence (EASE) Agenda 2018 .....................................146
14.30.6 ��:🛡🛡Staff Accountability Framework for PSB-NPA ......................................................147
14.31 ��: �(�
��) NEGATIVE News: ILFS & Shadow Banking ...............................................147
14.31.1 �(���) NBFC: Shadow Banking (आभासी / प्र�तछाया ब�िकंग प्रणाली) ......................................147
14.31.2 �(�
��) Shadow Banks → IL&FS & NBFC Liquidity Crisis ..........................................148
14.31.3 � ATMANIRBHAR → �: �(�
��) RBI Helping NBFCs/ Shadow Banks ...........148
14.31.4 � ATMANIRBHAR → ���� Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme (PCGS) 2.0 ..149
14.31.5 � ATMANIRBHAR → ���� Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFC/HFC.........149
14.31.6 �(� ��) �� Shadow Banking → Remedies by RBI..................................................149
14.31.7 Shadow Banking: More reform points by Government and SEBI .........................................149
14.32 ��� Negative News: PNB, LoU, SWIFT, & Nirav Modi ......................................................149
14.32.1 �Financial Messaging Systems: SWIFT- Russia gets banned .............................................150
14.33 �� RBI Dividend, Reserves, Economic Capital Framework ....................................................150
14.33.1 �� RBI’s Bimal Jalan panel (2018) .....................................................................................151
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14.33.2 � RBI’s Financial / Accounting Year (�व�ीय वषर् म� बदलाव) ......................................................151
14.33.3 ��Section-7 Directive & Urjit Patel’s Resignation (इ�ीफा).............................................151
14.33.4 � Mains Answer Writing .........................................................................................................152
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14.13🔪🔪🔪🔪NON-PERFORMING ASSETS (अनजर्क प�रसं प��यां)
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**SCBs = scheduled commercial banks. (अनुसू�चत वा�ण��क ब�क)
- Loan write off= banker removes a loan amount from the ‘asset-side’ of the
bank balance sheet, to save corporation tax (How? = we-are-not-here-for-
CA-exam).
- Loan write-off doesn’t waive bank’s right to recover that bad loan, it’s
merely an accounting exercise for tax-benefits. (कराधान म� कु छ �रयायतों के �लए
Loan write-off िहसाबी प्रिक्रया क� जाती है। हालांिक ऐसा करने के बावजूद भी ब�कर कजर्दार से पैसा वापस तो मांग ही
सकता है)
- Loan write-off⏬ reduces the NPA% of the Bank (Because amount is
written-off/cancelled from balance sheet)
- 2022-Dec: Government replied in Parliament that Banks write off loans
worth Rs 11.17 lakh crore in last six years
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Restructured When principal / interest rate / tenure of the loan is modified. Banks may do it
loan when borrower facing difficulty in repaying loans. (पुनगर्िठत कजर् / ऋण)
Stressed Asset NPA + Loans Written-Off + Restructured Loans = Stressed Assets (तनावपूणर् सं प��)
For example, If bank allows the borrower to pay 60% of dues & forgoes 40% as
OTS with
loss, then bank has offered “One time Settlement (OTS) with 40% haircut”
Haircut
कजर् का कु छ िह�ा ब�क खुद ही नुकसानी समझकर माफ कर दे।
Evergreening When a borrower taking a new loan to pay off his old loan.
of loans पुराना कजर् चुकाने के �लए नया कजर् िदया जाए।
💡💡Note: In last handout, I had kept a very big short note here discussing how some banks
demanded compound interest rate for 6 months / matter went to SC / Govt gave subsidy to those
banks. But for 2023-24 exam-cycle all that microscopic details are outdated / faded/not grabbing
headlines anymore. so I am deleting.
🔠🔠❓ ‘Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A)’ is related to: (Prelim-2017)
a) procedure for ecological costs of developmental schemes.
b) ✅scheme of RBI for reworking the financial structure of big corporates with genuine
difficulties.
c) disinvestment plan for Central Public Sector Undertakings.
d) Provision in ‘The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’.
Answer is B. But we’ll not study topic, scheme is discontinued, and topic outdated for 2023.
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14.16.2 🦁🦁 🔪🔪RBI’s KV Kamath Report Resolution Framework for Corona-related Stress
⇒ 2020: RBI had setup this Committee to look into loan restructuring for large companies, who
are hit by Corona pandemic.
⇒ KV Kamath identified 26 vulnerable sectors (e.g. power, construction, steel, road, cement etc..)
He and gave various technical guidelines for loan restructuring.
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o 2) loan given is at least ₹20 lakhs.
For example Bajaj Finserv, Reliance Capital, Muthoot Finance, IL&FS.
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⇒ Within that period, an Insolvency Professional (IP: शोधन-अ�मता सं बं धी पेशेवर) will make a resolution
plan e.g. ⏬ loan interest, extend loan tenure, or IP could even find another investor to finance
the pending project etc. (वो पेशेवर लोन-पुनगर्ठन क� कोशीश करेगा िक जैसे �ाज दर कमी, समयाव�ध म� बढ़ोतरी, नया
भागीदार ढूँ ढना)
⇒ IP will present the plan to Committee of Creditors (CoC: लेनदारों क� स�म�त) madeup of the Financial
Creditors (FC). In this Committee. FCs’ voting power is based on amt of loans given by lender.
⇒ If x% of the FCs agree with such resolution plan, then it will be set in motion, otherwise, IP will
liquidate the assets to recover the loan. (यिद �व�ीय कजर्दाताओं क� स�म�त ब�म�त से पुनगर्ठन प्र�ाव पा�रत न करे तो
नीलामी/ प�रसमापन)
⇒ Appeal Structure? (इस प्रिक्रया के �खलाफ़ कजर्दार अपील म� िकधर जा सकता है?)
A. If Borrower is individual / partnership firm: @DRT → DRAT of SAFAESI Act. OR
B. If Borrower is a Company: @ National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT: रा��ीय
कं पनी कानून अपीलीय �ाया�धकरण) of the Companies Act.
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🔪🔪 � Wilful Defaulter A borrower who has the capacity to repay, but he’s not repaying the
(जान-बूझकर बकाएदार) : loan. E.g. Vijay Mallya was declared wilful defaulter by SBI (2017).
Total number of wilful defaulters 2,017 (Year 2019), 2,208 (Year
2020), 2,494 (2021).
🔪🔪 � Incapable A borrower whose loan account is in NPA for more than a year, and
Defaulter (असमथर् बकाएदार): he has no capacity to repay even partial loan amount. (िजसक� औकात
ु ाने क�, उसके साथ क्या समजौता करोगे?)
ही नही लोन चक
Above two categories of borrowers are not eligible for I&B resolution process. Their assets will be
directly liquidated under SARFAESI Act. (उनक� तो बस सं प�� ज� करके नीलामी होगी, इनके साथ कोई समझौता िकया
नहीं जाएगा)
14.18.3 ⚖🔪🔪🔪🔪:🤫🤫 IBC Pre-Packs (पद� के पीछे ज�ी से के स सुलटा लेते है!)
Figure 1: इज्ज़त क� इतनी परवाह थी, तो आप टाइम पे ही लोन चुका देते, भाई!
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Corporate Insolvency Pre-packaged Insolvency Resolution Process (PIRP)
Resolution Process (CIRP)
- e.g. Anil proposes, “I’m unable to repay loan but I’m
getting new partner/investor Mahindra. Together we’ll
revive the biz & repay 80% loan.”
- If this is agreeable to lenders, they’ll send letter to NCLT,
“We’ve internally agreed for this plan. Plz give judicial
approval to it.”
Time limit: upto 330 days Time limit = 120 days = faster than CIRP (ज� �नपटान)
More number of days = more - 🤩🤩Benefit? a quick (speedy) and discreet (confidential)
negative headlines in newspaper way of completing the insolvency resolution process. ��रत
= ⏬confidence of customers & और गु� �प से मसले को समेट �लया जाए
investors (e.g. Customer may - 🤩🤩Prevents the stigma/bad publicity/damage to brand
not buy Videocon refrigerator, if image associated with formal IBC proceedings. else in
he continuously sees negative future difficult to get investors/customers/clients. मामला
news & starts to fear that औपचा�रक �प से कोटर् तक नहीं प�ंचेगा= अखबारों म�/जनमानस म� कं पनी
company will shut down, he’ll बदनाम/कलं िकत ना हो वरना भ�व� म� �नवेशकों/ग्राहकों को आक�षत करना
not get warranty/repair service मु��ल हो जाता है.
after 3-5 years) - least disruptive to the businesses. Cost-effective. Helps in
workers’ job preservation (compared to a scenario where
company is shut down)
CIRP applicable to all small and Only available to micro, small and medium enterprises
big enterprises. (MSMEs) as per 2021’s IBC Ordinance / Amendment Bill.
(के वल चु�नदं ा श्रेणी के �लए है)
14.18.4 ⚖🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🥱🥱 IBBI directive on Avoidance Transaction and 500 other technical things
✋Such technical topics not important for the scope of the exam. If any teacher teaching it / private
quizmaster is asking MCQ on it then please ask them to first go through previous years official
papers and ask him to prove where's the pattern of such questions being asked in real
exam?#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
14.18.5 👻👻� (⚖🔪🔪🔪🔪) ATMANIRBHAR → IBC Ordinance/Act 2020 to suspend new cases
⇒ 2020: Govt issues ordinance to amend IBC Code. (अ�ादेश)
⇒ Corona = business is down, difficult to work out any resolution plan. So, No fresh case will be
registered in IBC code for next “X” months Because Corona (नए के सों के दा�खले को ��गत िकया गया.)
⇒ “X” = 24 March 2021 ✋Exact dates notIMP
IBC Ordinance / Act 2020 Case can start if loan default of minimum _ _ amount
BEFORE Minimum ₹1 lakh/>.
AFTER Minimum ₹1 crore/>**
**So even after suspension is lifted, most of the small businessmen will be spared from IBC
proceedings. (रोक हटाने के बाद भी नए के स दजर् िकए जाएं गे, तो �सफर् बड़े लोन के �लए के स दजर् िकए जाएं गे)
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14.18.6 �(⚖🔪🔪🔪🔪) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
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14.18.9 💪💪 Project Sashakt by Finance Ministry (2018)
2018-Jul: Finmin’s Project Sashakt for PSB-NPA on report by Sunil Mehta (PNB CEO).
Gave guidelines to resolve the NPA problem in a timebound manner in Public Sector Banks.
What were those guidelines? Too outdated. So, I’m removing it from latest handout.
🔠🔠❓What was the purpose of the Inter-Creditor Agreement signed by Indian banks and
financial institutions under Project Shashakt? (UPSC-Prelims-2019)
a) To lessen the Government of India’s perennial burden of fiscal deficit and current account deficit
b) To support the infrastructure projects of Central and State Governments
c) To act as independent regulator in case of applications for loans of ₹ 50 crore or more
d) ✅To aim at faster resolution of stressed assets of ₹ 50 cr or more which are under consortium
lending.
Answer to Above MCQ is Option D. but now it is outdated current affairs so we will not study the
exact matter.
- Cross-border insolvency has two facets: [1) foreign creditors should be able to recover money
lent to Indian corporates & VICE VERSA. [2) During Indian company's insolvency in India, the
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Indian lenders should be able to recover money from Indian company's foreign assets easily,
AND VICE VERSA.
- IBC sections 234 & 235 have provisions for it, BUT they are not notified yet, so they are not
enforced.
- This leads to uncertainty of outcomes for creditors and debtors.
2018: Corporate Affairs Ministry's Insolvency Law (reforms) Committee under Injeti Srinivas
recommended
- We should create a separate law for Cross-border Insolvency. अलग से कानून बने
- More than 40 nations use United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
(UNCITRAL)'s Model Law of Cross Border Insolvency (1997) So, we can use it as a template
while making our own law → 📙📙📙📙ES22 also recommended the same.
- 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022: - We will amend IBC Code to facilitate cross border insolvency resolution.
Liquidation is the process of shutting down a company. Two type of liquidations (प�रसमापन दो िक़�) →
1) �Involuntary Liquidation: Due to loan default → it can be conducted either through I) IBC
code or II) SARFAESI Act depending on the case. (अनै��क प�रसमापन- जब कं पनी कज़र् म� िदवा�लयापन िदखा
दे)
2) �Voluntary Liquidation: when the owner has not committed any loan default but wants to
shut down the business. Voluntary liquidation can be done through
A) sending application to the registrar of companies under Companies Act, 2013
B) sending application under the insolvency bankruptcy code.
However Method-A is more popular than B at present. (�ै��क प�रसमापन. कं पनी ने अभी तक कज़र् म�
िदवा�लयापन नहीं िदखाया लेिकन उसके धं धे/�ापार म� अ�ा भ�व� निह िदख रहा इस�लए क�नी का मा�लक ख़ुद क� कं पनी �यं
बं द करना चाहता है.)
👜👜👜👜Budget-2022: we’ll setup a Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit (C-PACE)-
to faster voluntary liquidation / winding-up of the companies.
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14.21👁👁👁🗨🗨🗨🗨🗨🗨- 🐯🐯 CREDIT RATING / MONITORING- VARIOUS ORG/INITIATIVES
Following portals are meant to collect the information related to borrowers
Portal Description
CIC and CRA Learned in the previous section the previous session.
Information Utility (IU). Created by Insolvency and bankruptcy board of India (IBBI) with
help of National e-governance services Ltd (NeSL)
CRILC RBI has setup “Central Repository of Information on Large Credits
(CRILC)” for Loans above Rs 5 cr.
Banks & NBFCs have to submit weekly updates in this portal.
Public Credit Registry Proposed by RBI’s Yeshwant M. Deosthalee Committee. RBI yet to
(PCR) set it up. (ऋण क� सावर्ज�नक र�ज��ी)
NFIR Proposed in the Budget 2023. <Next section>
राष्ट्रीय िव�ीय सचू ना रिजस्ट्री बनाएंगे िजसमें व्यि�यों और कंपिनयों द्वारा िविभन्न संस्थानों से िलए गए कज� क� संपणू र् जानकारी होगी। तािक
भिवष्य में जब वह वापस लोन के िलए अज� डाले, तो िव�ीय संस्थान आसानी से और ज्यादा सटीकता से उनक� अिजर्यों का िनपटान कर सकें -
ऐसा बजट 2023 ने कहा
14.21.2 👁👁👁🗨🗨🗨🗨🗨🗨- 🌐🌐 Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Number: (कानूनी इकाई पहचान सं �ांक)
Figure 2: �वदेश मे नयी कं पनी बनाकर �वदेशो क� ब�कों को चुना लगाएं गे तो �ा उखाड़ लोगे?
- Objective? Even if a company is blacklisted by Indian banks, it could apply for loans overseas,
and those overseas bankers may not be aware of company’s history.
- So, there should be a global “Aadhar card” number for companies, and they must be forced to
quote that number during every financial transaction.
- After USA’s Sub-Prime Crisis and Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the G20 and its Financial
Stability Board (FSB: �व�ीय ��रता बोडर्) came up this LEI concept- a 20-digit alphanumeric code.
- LEI’s Global Boss: Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), Frankfurt, Germany. LEI’s
Indian agent: Clearing Corporation of India.
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- From 1/10/2022 RBI has ordered all companies undertaking crossborder transactions of Rs 50
crore or more to quote this number in financial transaction.
- RBI has power to issue such directives under: Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 &
Banking Regulation Act 1949. (�व�ीय लेन देन के दौरान कं पनी ने अ�नवायर् �प से ये नं बर �लखना होगा)
14.22🔪🔪🈶🈶🈶🈶🈶🈶- ⚖ FUGITIVE ECONOMIC OFFENDERS ACT, 2018
Figure 3: देश छोड़ के भाग जाऊं गा, 9 लाख का लेधर जेकेट पहेनके लं डन क� ग�लयो मे घूमँ गू ा, तो �ा उखाड़ लोगे मेरा?
भगोड़ा आ�थर्क अपराधी अ�ध�नयम: This act targets economic offenders accused of cheque dishonor, loan /
investment / chit-fund scam, money laundering etc. worth ₹ 100 crores /> & left India to avoid
facing prosecution / arrest.
- Special courts under the PMLA (Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002) will order the
villain to appear within 6 weeks, if not then he is declared “Fugitive Economic Offender”⇒ His
Indian & Overseas & Benami properties will be attached (भगोडे आ�थक अपराधी क� भारतीय तथा �वदेशी
सं प��यों को ज� िकया जाएगा).
- Once property attached- the Union Govt will oversee its administration / liquidation
(नीलामी/प�रसमापन).
- No ordinary civil court / tribunal can give stay order. Villain can make appeal only in High Court
and Supreme Court. (भगोड़ा आ�थक अपराधी के वल उ� �ायालय और सव�� �ायालय म� जाकर मदद मांग सकता है).
If Borrowers don’t repay, SARFAESI auctions give little recovery, CRR-SLR insufficient
to repay deposits then bank collapse imminent. Then, how to protect the depositors? →
- 1961: Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation Act - mandates that all types of
banks must buy insurance on their deposit accounts from DICGC. Banks have to pay premium
for this insurance. (�न�ेप बीमा और प्र�य गारंटी �नगम: प्र�ेक ब�क ने अ�नवायर् �प से अपनी जमाकतार्ओ क� िडपो�जत को
बीम� द्वारा सुर��त करना होगा)
- DICGC is 100% owned by RBI. RBI Dy. Governor acts as chairman of DICGC. HQ: Mumbai.
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- When a bank shuts down, DICGC will pay upto ₹ 1 lakh insurance to every deposit holder for
his principal and interest. (यिद ब�क बं द हो गया तो जमाकतार् के नुकसान क� भरपाई यहां से होगी)
- 💼💼Budget-2020: announced ⏫the insurance coverage to ₹ 5 lakhs (नुकसान भरपाई क� रा�श म� बढ़ोतरी)
- 2021: Government introduces Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Corporation
(Amendment) Bill →
BEFORE (सुधार/सं शोधन �वधेयक से पहले) AFTER REFORM (सुधार प�ात)
Upto ₹1 lakh deposit insured Protection increased upto Rs 5 lakh
When will depositors get back above amount? When RBI imposes (withdrawal) moratorium
No clear timelines. Often they had to wait for on a weak bank → within 90 days of that event,
many years (पैसा/मुआवजा कब आएगा उसक� समय सीमा DICGC will pay depositors. (�रज़वर् ब�क जब कमजोर
तय नहीं थी) ब�क म� से ग्राहकों के पैसे उठाने पर रोक लगाए उसके 90 िदनों के
भीतर ही मुआवजा �मल जाएगा)
Banks had to pay premium/fees to DICGC at DICGC can ⏫increase the premium fees to
the rate of ₹10 paise to insure every ₹100 worth ₹12-₹15 paise (i.e. 20%-50% more than the
of deposits. (ब�को ने हर ₹100 के िडपॉ�जट का बीमे के �लए original fees) ✋Exact figures NOTIMP. (बीमा
10 पैसे क� बीमा िक�/फ�स देनी होती थी) िक� म� बढ़ोतरी क� गई)
All types of Banks covered Same as left cell. (सभी प्रकार के ब�क के ग्राहकों को सुर��त
But NBFCs not covered. करता है, िकंतु ग़ैर ब�क �व�ीय सं �ान के ग्राहकों को सुर��त नहीं
करता.)
- Previously, DICGC provided guarantee cover to bank on the loans granted to Priority Sector
Borrowers.
- E.g. if Micro enterprise owner did not repay PSL-loans → DICGC would cover losses of the
banks, hence its name contains the word ‘Credit Guarantee Corporation’.
- But, with formation of SIDBI (1990), National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Ltd.
[NCGTC, 2016] etc, this credit guarantee work divided among many organizations
(REF:📑📑Pillar#1D), but we need not PHD over it.#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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- Govt had proposed the FRDI bill in 2017, but too much opposition in media & public, so
withdrew it in 2018. It’s a defunct topic. We’ll not WASTE TIME learning its salient features.
#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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NARCL-ARC (founded in 2021) IDRCL-AMC (founded in 2021)
Full Form National Asset Reconstruction Company India Debt Resolution Company Ltd.
Limited (NARCL) (IDRCL) =
Type Registered company under companies Registered company under
act. (So not a statutory/constitutional companies Act. (कं पनी क़ानून म� पं जीकृ त
body) कं प�नयां है. ये कोई वैधा�नक या सं वधै ा�नक सं �ाएं
Given license by RBI for ARC. नहीं है)^^
Function To purchase bad loan assets from banks. To manage/value addition/ auction
(यह ब�कों से अनजर्क प�रस���यां ख़रीदेगा) those bad loan assets which were
purchased by NARCL. (e.g. factory,
airplanes, bulldozer). (ख़रीदी �ई सं प��यों
का प्रबं धन, मू� वधर्न, नीलामी करेगा)
Ownership/ ⇒ 51% PSBs like SBI, BoB, PNB** ⇒ 49% (Public Sector Banks,
Shareholding ⇒ 49% by Pvt banks and NBFCs# NBFCs)
⇒ 51% (private sector bank,
NBFCs).#
Tenure This organization will exist for five years. Same as left cell
** NARCL Ownership 51% shareholding/ownership among 8 public sector banks (PSB) viz. SBI
(13.17%), Punjab National Bank (12%), Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Union
Bank of India, Indian Bank, Bank of India. (Note: Future Some of these PSBs may get merged so the
% may change.)
🚩🚩🚩FAQs:
⇒ #what are their names? Ans. Not explicitly mentioned in Pressnote. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
⇒ ^^AMC got license from RBI or SEBI? Ans. Same as above
⇒ Bad Bank means “ONLY NARCL” or (NARCL+IDRCL) Ans. Same as above. But from how
📙📙📙📙ES17 had given the vision of Bad bank, it should be the combined work of
(NARCL+IDRCL)= Bad Bank.
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⇒ Then those new SR-holders will receive the money (₹85) from Bad Bank in future.
⇒ IF Bad Bank faces problems in honoring the SR payment deadlines→ then, Union Govt has
given sovereign guarantee of Rs.30,600 cr to Security Receipts (SR). This sovereign guarantee
valid for 5 years.
Under PCA framework, RBI classifies the scheduled commercial banks (SCB) into Risk threshold #1,
#2, #3 based on its capital, loan-asset quality etc. Higher the number, higher the risk. Then,
accordingly, RBI will take corrective actions such as: (जो�खम के िहसाब से ब�कों को वग�कृ त करता है)
⇒ RBI giving strict warning, conducting deeper audit & supervision. (�ादा कड़ी �नगरानी)
⇒ Restricting bank’s directors’ salaries and dividend distribution to its investors. (वेतन, लाभांश �वतरण
पर रोक)
⇒ Restricting bank’s branch expansion & lending operations. (शाखा �व�ार और ऋण देने पर रोक लगाना)
⇒ Forcing merger / shutdown (under Banking regulation Act 1949). (कमजोर ब�क को बं ध करना)
If a PCA-listed bank wants to get ‘whitelisted’, it’ll have to ⏬its NPA, obtain additional capital,
⏫its profitability. (इस सचू ी से बाहर िनकलना है तो अनजर्क संपि�यों को कम करना होगा, ज्यादा पंजू ी बटोरनी होगी, ज्यादा मनु ाफा
लाना होगा)
⇒ PCA is “Monetary Policy → Qualitative / Selective Tool → Direct Action”. (मौिद्रक नी�त →
गुणा�क → सीधी कायर्वाही का यह एक साधन है)
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⇒ As of 2020-Feb: 4 PSBs in this list viz. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), Central Bank of India, UCO
Bank and United Bank of India. ✋Dynamically changing info so we need not remember / loose
sleep for MCQs.
14.25.2 😼😼😼😼😼😼😼😼😼😼� RBI ‘s Supervisory Action Framework for Urban Co-operative Banks
Outdated for 2023-2024 exam cycle. Deleted from handout.
14.25.4 🐯🐯: 🦋🦋Regulations Review Authority (RRA 2.0)- for Ease of implementing RBI rules
- RBI has setup RRA 1.0 (in 1999, for one year) and RRA 2.0 (in 2021, for one year)
- Chairman: RBI’s Dy. Governor M Rajeshwar Rao. Who are other members? NOTIMP.
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- Objective: To give suggestions to RBI to simplify its rules/regulations so Bank/NBFCs have ease
of doing business. (�नयं त्रण समी�ा प्रा�धकरण जो िक �रज़वर् ब�क को सुझाव देगा िक कै से �रज़वर् ब�क के �नयमों म� सरलीकरण
िकया जाए तािक उनके अनुपालन मे ब�क और एनबीफ़सी को आसानी रहे।)
⇒ A lending/Loan Service Provider (LSP) is financial technology (Fintech) company that connects
borrowers with lender (Banks & NBFCs). e.g. Lazypay, Bank Bazaar, Paisa Bazaar
⇒ LSP helps the customer get the loan digitally.
⇒ RBI has issued guidelines to regulate this ‘digital lending’ market.
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Exact guidelines are not important. Sufficient to know that RBI requires
⇒ 1) exorbitant interest cannot be charged.
⇒ 2) Such organisations have to appoint grievance redressal officers & clear the complaint within
stipulated time limit.
कु छ �व�ीय प्रौद्यो�गक� (�फन-टेक) कं प�नयां एक तरफ़ कज़र् लेने वालों को, और दू सरी तरफ़ ब�क- एनबीएफसी के साथ �ड�जटल मा�म
से जोड़ती है। इस �ड�जटल कज़र् प्रणाली पर �रज़वर् ब�क कु छ स��या कर रही है।
14.25.8 Digital lending → FIRST LOSS DEFAULT GUARANTEE (FLDG) norm by RBI
What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the video lecture.
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Figure 5: We need not bother with Tier-1 Tier-2 Capital etc, #थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
✋FAQ. How exactly do CCB, CCCB, LR, NSFR, HQLA, LCR etc work? Ans. Not
important for exam, beyond the basic ‘word-association’ that they’re related to BASEL
Norms. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
⇒ Each member country’s Central Bank can prescribe different %, ratios depending on their
country’s situation. (हर देश क� क� द्रीय ब�क अलग-अलग िदशा �नद�श जारी कर सकती है)
⇒ As Bad loans (NPA) ⏫ = bank’s asset quality degrades ⏬= its Risk-weighted assets (RWA)
⏫ → bank must arrange more capital to comply with these ratios, norms and buffers.
⇒ If a bank can’t comply with BASEL norms → RBI puts it in PCA list. In worst case, bank will
have to merge/ sell off its business to another bank or shut down. (इन मानदंडों को नहीं माना तो अंत म� ब�क
बं द हो सकता है)
⇒ BASEL Norms also apply on Differential Commercial Banks (LAB, RRB,
SFB, PyB), Cooperative Banks, AIFI (EXIM, NABARD, NHB, SIDBI) and certain category of
NBFCs, but RBI can prescribe separate norms / limits / deadlines for them. (�व�भ� प्रकार क� �व�ीय
म�� ऊपर सं �ाओं पर इन मानदंडों क� सीमा अलग-अलग ह�)
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14.26.2 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪Additional Tier 1 (AT1) Bonds
They have no maturity date (i.e. bank has to pay interest for infinite time / perpetuity and principal
will not be returned). However, bank may ‘buyback’ them after certain years.
If / when a bank makes huge losses → AT1 Bonds’ liability may be
A. written off (खा�रज कर देना) OR
B. converted into shares (process called ‘Bail-In’).
AT1 Bonds are in news due to loan-scam in Yes-Bank. What exactly is that scam? =NOT-IMP.
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(a) Indian standards for pollution measurement and prevention
(b) International guidelines to control the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes between
different countries
(c) Indian standards for the disposal of municipal and industrial wastes
(d) International standards to categorize pollution in air and wastewater
⇒ In 2010, G-20’s brainchild Financial Stability board (HQ: BASEL) asked countries to identify
Systematically Important Financial institutions and put framework to reduce risk in them. [Side
note: Same parents responsible for birth of Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)]
⇒ Each year, RBI identifies banks that ‘too big to fail’ (=if they fail, it’ll severely hurt the economy)’
and labels them as Domestic Systematic Important Banks (D-SIB), & orders them keep
additional equity capital against their Risk Weight Assets (RWA) & other technical norms.
⇒ Presently, 3 D-SIBs in India: SBI, ICICI, HDFC (Latest Entry).
14.28🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 BANKS’ BALANCE SHEET / AUDIT NORMS (तुलन पत्र लेखा परी�ण)
14.28.1 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 IndAS Accounting Norms deferred (लेखा मानदंड ��गत/टाल �दये)
⇒ Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) ordered all the companies to keep their balancesheet as per
the format prescribed in the Indian Accounting Standards (IndAS).
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit? IndAS accounting format makes it easier for the local and global investors and
regulators to compare, analyze and understand a company’s financial position from its
balancesheet. (इस �रपोटर् को देखकर �नवेशक को आसानी से कं पनी क� �व�ीय �मता का अंदाज़ा लग जाता है.)
⇒ IndAS is not part of BASEL norm. But, since commercial banks are basically ‘companies doing
banking activity’, so they also have to comply to IndAS norms. But, only RBI has the power to
notify its implementation deadline on banks. (ब�कों के ऊपर भी इ�ी �नयमों को लागू करना है.)
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⇒ 2020- Critics demanded RBI should implement it. What is the deadline? NOTIMP.
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14.30.2 � Personnel Selection → Bank Board Bureau (BBB), 2016
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2. Responsible Banking: Reduce NPA, prevent frauds. (धोखाधड़ी पर अंकुश)
3. Credit Off Take: Try to reach out to potential borrowers for home, auto, education, loans. (�यम
ब�क ही उधारकतार्ओ को खोज �नकाले)
4. Help MSME entrepreneurs via SIDBI’s Udyamimitra.com portal. Approve/reject loans in not
more than 15 days. (लघुउधोगों क� मदद)
5. Deepening Financial Inclusion & Digitalization. (�व�ीय समोवेशन)
6. Employees’ Human Resource Management (HRM: मानव सं साधन प्रबं धन): improve with training,
performance linked promotion-salaries-posting-transfers etc.
Implementation? Each whole-time director of a PSB will be entrusted with one pillar of the EASE-
framework. Their performance will be checked by the PSB’s board of directors. An independent
agency will be tasked to check public perception. Finally PSB banks will be ranked: E.g. 2018: PNB#1.
Year Framework Theme/focus area
2020-21 Ease 3.0 Tech-Enabled Banking
2021-22 Ease 4.0 clean and smart banking.
2022-23 Ease 5.0 Common reforms agenda e.g. digital customer experience, supporting
small businesses and agriculture etc.
(सरकारी ब�क और लोन पास करने से डरते ह� �ोंिक उ�� तो CBI, CVC, CAG क� कारर्वाई का डर लगता है तो अब �वत् मं त्रालय ने
कु छ नए “सावर्ज�नक ब�क कम� जवाबदेही ढांचा” िदशा�नद�श जारी िकए ह� तािक ईमानदारी से �लए गए फै सलों म� अगर लोन का पैसा
वापस न आए तो सरकारी ब�क के ईमानदार ब�कर पर अनाव�क �प से कोई कारर्वाई न हो)
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⇒ They mobilize funds by borrowing from banks, issuing Commercial Papers (CP) and Bonds
(Non-convertible debentures)
Table 3: Three important segments of the shadow banking system in India
HFCs Housing Finance Companies. E.g. Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL)
LDMFs - Liquid Debt Mutual Funds invest clients money into short term debt instruments
such as T-bill (of Govt) and Commercial Papers (of companies).
- e.g. certain schemes by UTI, Kotak, L&T, Tata mutual funds
- 2019: Some of these LDMFs had invested clients money in IL&FS and DHFL, but
failed to get the money back. Nearly ₹4000 crore of investors’ money is stuck,
triggering the NBFC crisis in India.
Retail- Retail Non-Banking Financial Companies such as Gold loan companies, asset finance
NBFCs companies etc.
Shadow banking system’s assets are risky and illiquid. If there is a ‘bank run’ like situation
(depositors / investors demanding the money bank) these shadow banks can’t honour the
obligations. As seen in the ILFS crisis (2019) →
14.31.2 👹👹(🚫🚫🚫🚫) Shadow Banks → IL&FS & NBFC Liquidity Crisis
- Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) is a Systemically Important Non Deposit
Taking Non - Banking Finance Company (NBFC - ND – SI: प्रणालीगत �प से मह�पूणर्- िडपॉ�ज़ट न
लेनेवाली- गैर-ब�िकंग �व� कं पनी) Setup in 1987 HQ@Mumbai.
- Shareholders: LIC > Japan’s Orix group > Abu Dhabi’s group > Central Bank of India > SBI.
- Challenge? 1-2-3 of above diagram. + loans given to unworthy borrowers with forged
documents, bribes were paid to IL&FS board directors & auditors.
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14.31.4 👻👻 ATMANIRBHAR → 🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔 Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme (PCGS) 2.0
- Budget 2019: If NBFCs/ MFCs/Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) borrowed money by issuing
debt securities (Bonds or Commercial Papers) → Public sector banks (PSB) invested in it → but
borrower default then the government paid 10% of loss to PSB.
- Corona= total 20% loss cover guaranteed to PSB. (सावर्ज�नक ब�कों को आं�शक क्रेिडट गारंटी)
🔠🔠❓In September 2019, which one of the following travel giants declared itself bankrupt? (CDS-
i-2020) (a) Expedia (b) Cox & Kings (c) SOTC (d) ANS: Thomas Cook
PNB (Mumbai Branch): Give foreign currency loan to our client Nirav Modi for purchase of goods (diamonds,
airplanes, whatever), if he doesn’t pay, we’ll pay.
- If such bank guarantee given to another bank in a foreign country, it’s called Letter of
Undertaking/ Letter of Credit/ Letter of Comfort: internal difference not important.
- Bank earns commission / fees from client for issuing such letters / guarantees.
- Thus, Nirav got loans in dollars currency from foreign banks, to buy diamonds in HongKong.
- PNB Scam: PNB-Mumbai’s corrupt manager kept issuing LoUs to diamond merchants Nirav
Modi & Mehul Chowkasi without due-diligence or collaterals for 7 years, worth ~₹12,000 crores.
And 2018-January: Nirav & Mehul left India.
- PNB officials couldn’t detect scam because LoUs were generated through SWIFT platform,
which was not integrated with their Core Banking Solution (CBS) server.
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14.32.1 💸💸📞📞Financial Messaging Systems: SWIFT- Russia gets banned
Globally (वै��क �र पे पैसा भेजना हो) Within India (भारत के भीतर ही पैसा भेजना हो!)
Society for Worldwide Interbank Structured Financial Messaging System (SFMS)
financial telecommunication (SWIFT)
By a Cooperative organization in designed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for
Belgium’s La Hulpe city (1973). IDRBT (=Research arm of RBI)
To serve the messaging function for to serve the messaging function in NEFT, RTGS, and
Banks, NBFCs & brokers who may / may other inter-bank, intra-bank e-transactions
not have direct bank relations / platforms within India.
settlement systems with each other due to
international borders.
😥😥 Nations banned from SWIFT: 1) Iran (Capital Tehran) 2) 2022: Russia got ban, after invading
Ukraine. This will make it very difficult for the Russian banks/ NBFCs /businessmen to send and
receive money internationally (यूक्रेन-आक्रमण के �ख़लाफ़ �स को ��फ़्ट-�व�ीय सं देश प्रणाली से प्र�तबं �धत िकया गया है
�जसके चलते �सी ब�क �व�ीय सं �ान और उद्योगप�तयों को अंतररा�ी� य �र पर पैसों के लेन म� िद�त� आएं गी।)
Afterwards, ⚾📻📻⚾🎓🎓✋ball by ball commentary on Nirav Modi case =NOTIMP
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RBI’s income sources include � From its income, RBI allocates funds to�
1. Interest on G-Sec that are not sold in Open 1. Staff retirement fund, provisions for bad
Market Ops. loans, depreciation in assets…
2. Interest on Foreign G-Sec / Sovereign 2. Reserves for contingency (emergency): ~₹
Bonds. 2.5 Lcr. आपातकाल के �लए आर��त भं डार
3. Interest on Loans given to other Banks / 3. Reserves for Exchange Rate Stability
NBFCs. कजर् पर �मलने वाला �ाज (Technically called “Currency & Gold
4. Revaluation of foreign currency and gold in Revaluation Reserve: ~₹7 lakh cr �व�नमय दर म�
RBI reserves. �वदेशी मुद्रा और �णर् भं डारों के मू� म� ��रता के �लए आर��त भं डार)
बढ़ोतरी After making these allocations, profit is shared
5. Seigniorage: profits from printing money- with Union Govt. in form of ‘Dividend’ (RBI
because face value > intrinsic value. Act Section 47). �रज़वर् ब�क के मुनाफे म� से ये भं डार/ �न�ध म�
HOW?NOTIMP पैसा रखने के बाद यिद कोई रा�श बची तो वह सरकार को लाभांश
6. Penalties imposed on errant banks. के �प म� देनी होगी
14.33.1 ��🐯🐯 RBI’s Bimal Jalan panel (2018)
- 2017: RBI Governor Urjit Patel gave ₹50,000 crore dividend to Govt but Govt wanted ₹3.6 lakh
crore dividend. Then, (गवनर्र उ�जत पटेल �जतना दे रहा था उससे कई गुना �ादा िड�वड�ड सरकार चाहती थी)
- RBI setup Bimal Jalan panel to decide the principles for dividend transfer to Govt. (आ�थक पूंजी
सं रचना तथा लाभांश �वतरण के �सद्धांत)
- 2019- August: RBI board approved Bimal Jalan report.
- It updated norms in such manner that RBI will be able to transfer more dividend / surplus to the
Government. (तकनीक� मानदंडों म� सुधार तािक �रजवर् ब�क अपने मुनाफे म� से भारत सरकार को अ�धक लाभांश दे सक� . )
14.33.2 🐯🐯📆📆 RBI’s Financial / Accounting Year (�व�ीय वषर् म� बदलाव)
2019: Bimal Jalan panel recommended �reform → RBI’s central board accepted it
� Before � After
RBI’s financial year - From 1 April, 2021, RBI will switch to
st
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⇒ If RBI Governor doesn’t positively respond in such Section-7(1) consultation, then Section 7(2):
Government can issue binding direction / orders to RBI Central Board to implement its wishes.
(यिद गवनर्र, एसे �वमशर् मे, सरकार क� बात नही सुनते तो, क� द्रीय बोडर् द्वारा सरकार अपनी बात को लागू करवा सकती है)
⇒ Although, fearing backlash from media & opposition parties, Govt did not issue any specific
directions to the RBI Board. But, 2018-Dec: Urjit Patel resigned before completing 3-year term.
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Pillar#1C: SEBI-Share Market
Table of Contents
15 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮Pillar#1C: SEBI-Share Market .................................................................................... 156
15.1 🗃🗃Securities (प्र�तभू�त)............................................................................................................. 156
15.2 🗃🗃 🛒🛒Financial / Securities market: meaning and types................................................. 157
15.3 🔪🔪🔪🔪 Debt Instruments (ऋण उपकरण) ................................................................................. 158
15.3.1 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰Short term debt instruments (लघु अव�ध ऋण उपकरण ) ............................... 158
15.3.2 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰:🧔🧔Short term debt instruments → by Government ........................... 159
15.3.3 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰: 🐯🐯🐯🐯 🧔🧔🧔 Short term debt instruments → by Govt → WMA 159
15.3.4 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 Consolidated Sinking Fund (CSF) for State Govts’ repayment............ 159
15.3.5 Short term debt: Certificate of Deposit (CD-instrument by Bankers) ......................... 159
15.3.6 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰Short term debt instruments → more types ........................................... 160
15.4 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰Debt → Short Term → Factoring & TREDS ..................................................... 160
15.4.1 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2021 ........................................... 161
15.4.2 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰: 📡📡 TReDS platform to connect factoring-players. .................................. 161
15.5 🔪🔪🔪🔪⏰Debt → Interest Rate Benchmarks: LIBOR, MIBOR, ......................................... 161
15.6 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Long Term Debt Instruments (दीधर्-अव�ध ऋण- उपकरण) .................................... 163
15.6.1 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯Colonial era Govt. to borrow money ................................................. 163
15.6.2 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡Modern day Government to borrow money..................................... 163
15.6.3 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇Bonds by Modern day Govt. to curb Gold Consumption...................... 163
15.6.4 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Long term debt instruments by Companies ..................................... 165
15.6.5 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪Long Term Debt Instruments: Other issuers........................................... 165
15.6.6 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪Long Term Debt Instruments: Masala, Maharaja, Panda Bond ............ 166
15.6.7 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Long Term Debt Instruments: Special purpose: 🚦🚦🚦🚦 Surety Bonds
167
15.6.8 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Long Term Debt Instruments: Special purpose Bonds- Sovereign green
bonds 167
15.6.9 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Long Term Debt Instruments: Special purpose Bonds- Misc. ............. 168
15.6.10 🗳🗳(🔪🔪🔪🔪)⏳Electoral bonds (चुनावी बांड, 2017 ) ..................................................... 170
15.6.11 🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🤑🤑 Bond Yield, Yield Inversion, Negative Yield ........................................ 171
15.7 ⚖🗃🗃 Equity Instruments (इ��टी) ...................................................................................... 171
15.7.1 Shareholding: Open Offer ................................................................................................. 172
15.8 ⚖🗃🗃 Methods of Issuing Shares ....................................................................................... 173
15.8.1 ⚖🗃🗃 🤵🤵 IPO → Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) ........................ 174
15.8.2 ⚖🗃🗃 🌐🌐 ADR/GDR: Shares in Videshi locker ...................................................... 174
Financial Market is the place where buying and selling of securities takes place. Doesn’t require
physical location. Can be done online / telephone as well.
Classifi. Market Subtypes
Tenure: 1. ⏰Money Market (<1 year maturity) मुद्रा बाजार
(अव�ध) 2. 🗓🗓Capital Market (1 year/> maturity) पूंजी बाजार
Freshness 1. Primary Market (where new securities are issued for the first time). Helps a
प्राथ�मक company /govt to connect with the investor. It has no separate physical existence
एवं but classified like this, for economic analysis. (इस बाजार का अलग से भौ�तक �ान नहीं होता
िद्वतीयक िकंतु आ�थक आकलन के �लए आंकड़ों म� अलग से िदखाया जाता है)
बाजार 2. Secondary Market (where the old securities are resold). It has physical existence
such as Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) at Dalal Street, Mumbai.
3. It provides liquidity & confidence to investors to buy new securities in Primary
Market. (compared to a scenario if there was no market to resale used cars- तो कम
लोग नई कार खरीदने जाएं ग.े )
Settlement 1. Future Market: Where parties write contract today to buy/sell something at
(�नपटान) specific price on a future date. भ�व� क� िकसी तारीख को खरीद/�बक्र� के �लए वतर्मान म�
सौदा/समझौता िकया जाए
2. Spot Market: if bought & sold for immediate delivery.
Asset - Depending on what asset is traded, market can be divided into Bond (Debt)
(प�रसं प��) market, Share (Equity) market, Gilt-Edged Securities Market, Foreign Currency
Market, Commodity Market etc.
- Tenure = less than 1 year. Usually ‘unsecured’ because not backed by any asset.
- Usually sold at discount and re-purchased at Face Value or Par Value. The difference between
these two prices is the interest earned by investor. स�े म� बेचकर मूल भाव पर खरीदा जाता है
- Another synonym for this process: “rediscount the bills.”
- They’re traded at Money Market and are (usually) ‘negotiable & transferable’ in nature i.e.
lender can sell to 3rd party → 3rd party can demand money from borrower. (परक्रा� और ह�ांतरणीय)
- They’re also called Near Money = Asset that is highly liquid = can be readily converted into cash.
15.3.4 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 Consolidated Sinking Fund (CSF) for State Govts’ repayment
⇒ Suppose an MSME seller has sold cardboard boxes for jiophones to Mukesh Ambani but Mukesh
Ambani says he will pay the bill next month. Presently this is an unpaid invoices.
⇒ MSME seller can pledge this invoice to a factor (bank/NBFC) to avail loans. (छोटी कं प�नयां बड़ी
कं प�नयों को सामान और सेवा बेचती है उसका जो बकाया पैसा है उसके �बल को �गरवी रख के लघु अव�ध का कजर् ले आये)
Before After
Banks and only “Factoring Companies Banks and all types of NBFCs allowed (After
(NBFC)” allowed to give loans under this registering with RBI). → So now more than
system. There were only seven NBFCs 9000 NBFCs in India can give loans → this will
registered as Factoring Companies. increase the availability of loans for the MSME.
-- earlier it was less. RBI given more powers to regulate this
business.
-- earlier it was less. More legal clarity about TReDS system.
Earlier this was not clear and so MSME could Need to register the invoice-pledge-factoring-
commit fraud of “dual financing” i.e. Pledging loan transaction on A central registry set up
the same and per invoice as collateral in under the SARFAESI Act. This will prevent the
multiple Bank/NBFCs. dual financing frauds.
⇒ Real Interest Rate (वा��वक �ाज दर) = Nominal (ना�मत) Interest minus Inflation.
⇒ When Real Interest is negative, purchasing power ⏬ despite ⏫ in money quantity in bank
account. Then people prefer to park money in gold/real estate- which is not very beneficial to
RBI launched IIB in 1997, 2013, 2018 to provide positive Real interest rate to household
15.6.8 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Long Term Debt Instruments: Special purpose Bonds- Sovereign green bonds
Zero coupon
zero principal
issued by Not for Profit Organization (NPO), Non-governmental organization
instrument
(NGO) for social service. They repay NEITHER principal NOR interest.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Then why don't they simply accept it as 'donation'? Ans. May be PR /
media exercise. May be there is tax-saving in it. Newspaper didn't bother to explain
so I didn't bother to google. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
It is a sharia-compliant bond instruments used in Islamic finance. Was in News
�Sukuk
because Pakistan Govt issued such bonds. How it works? In which currency is it
Bond/Islamic
issued? How it’s different than ordinary bonds?
Bond
✋NOTIMP4Exam after looking at old papers.
🔠🔠❓ Find correct statement about ‘IFC Masala Bonds' (UPSC-Pre-2016)
1. The International Finance Corporation, which issues them, is an arm of the World Bank.
2. They are rupee-denominated bonds and are a source of debt financing for public & private
sector.
Answer Code: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither1 nor 2
🔠🔠❓ Which one of the following is a viable alternative to term-loans for raising debt finance by
large publicly traded firms? (UPSC-IEnggS-2018)
(a) Shares (b) Debentures (c) Asset loans (d) Gold loans
⇒ Announce in Budget 2017 → Notified by Dept. of Economic Affairs, Finance Ministry (आ�थक
मामलों का �वभाग). Only SBI can issue at present, and in multiples of Rs.1,000, Rs.10,000,
Rs.1,00,000, Rs.10,00,000 and Rs.1,00,00,000.
⇒ Controversy about the SBI’s commission, printing cost and GST on sale of electoral bonds. But
not much imp for exam. Enough to know Government pays [Commission + GST] to SBI for
selling these bonds.
⇒ When to buy? For ten days at the start of each quarter. (January, April, July and October).
However, during Lok Sabha election year, can sell for another 30 days.
⇒ Who can buy? Only an Indian Citizen or Company registered in India → deposit money in
their bank account → use that ₹₹to buy Electoral Bond, after giving certain KYC-documents. So,
Electoral Bond can’t be bought anonymously or directly with cash.
⇒ Electoral Bonds can be donated only to a political party registered under Representation of the
People Act 1951 (RPA: लोक-प्र�त�न�ध� अ�ध�नयम) and which has secured 1% /> votes polled in last
Lok Sabha or Vidhan Sabha elections.
⇒ 🗓🗓Validity (वैधता अव�ध)? Only 15 days from date of purchase. Within that time, buyer must
donate, and political party must deposit in its SBI (current) bank account. No interest payable.
⇒ Characteristics of electoral bonds? (�वशेषताएँ )
○ Paper / Physical format (not DEMAT / electronic format).
○ Bearer instrument (Donor or Recipient’s name not mentioned),
○ Promissory Note (promises to transfer money in bank account)
○ Interest Free banking instrument (zero interest payable to anyone).
○ Can’t sell it to third party, can’t pledge it for loans. (�गरवी नहीं रख सकते)
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefits of electoral bonds?
○ Transparency in political funding. (राजनी�तक चं दे म� पारद�शता)
○ Reducing influence of cash and black money in election, (काले धन का प्रभाव)
Figure 1: �बना अमरीक� SEBI मे पं जीकरण िकए, उनके शेयरबाजार से पैसा उठाऊँ , तो कै से?
- A non-American company wants to mobilize money from American share market but does not
want to go through the lengthy & complex process of registration with the American
sharemarket regulator.
- Then such non-American company gives its shares to an American bank.
- Based on those (non-American) shares, the American bank will issue American Depositary
Receipts (ADR: अमरीक� �नपे�ागार रसीद) & sell them to American investors. Denomination: USD.
- Global Depositary Receipt (GDR): Same as above, but when single bank issues receipts for
investors in multiple countries. Denomination: usually USD or Euro.
Share issuing company → Deposits his company’s shares That bank issues -- in local
in a bank of → market in – currency
Non-American company American Bank → Issues ADR (in $) in American
→ Sharemarket
Non-Indian company → Indian Bank → Issues Bharat / Indian depositary
receipt (IDR) (in ₹) in Indian
Sharemarket
15.8.3 👻👻⚖🗃🗃 🌐🌐 ATMANIRBHAR reforms in ADR/GDR/BharatDR
Too technical / getting outdated so DELETED from latest Handout.
Shares are issued through IPO @Primary market. Then, they can be resold at secondary market,
commonly known as Share market or Stock Exchange or Bourses.
⇒ World’s Oldest: Amsterdam Stock exchange, Netherlands (1602)
⇒ Asia’s Oldest: Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE: 1875)
⇒ India’s stock exchanges chronology: BSE → A’bad → Kolkata → NSE (early 90s)
⇒ Just like Banks have Core Banking Solutions for e-banking, Stock exchanges have their electronic
platforms for trading. E.g. BOLT (BSE's On-line Trading System), NEAT (National Exchange for
Automated Trading). They communicate using VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) Satellite.
1. � Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIB अहर्ता प्रा� सं �ागत �नवेशक): Investors with expertise and
financial muscle to make large investments in capital markets. E.g. Mutual Funds, Insurance
Company, Foreign Venture Capital Funds etc. SEBI has separate registration norms for them.
a. Anchor investors: They’re sub-type of QIBs who are offered shares before IPO-launch.
This gives confidence to other investors to subscribe the given IPO.
2. �Retail investor: An individual investor who is not a QIB. (आम/खुदरा �नवेशक)
Underwriter will keep quota for each category of investors, as per SEBI norms.
1. Jobbers (आढ़ती): Full time engaged in buying / selling securities using money from their own
pockets. (Whereas brokers / commission agents buy/sell using money/shares of their clients).
2. STAG (Male Deer): He buys newly issued securities from primary market & sells them in
secondary market for quick profit. प्राथ�मक बाजार से खरीद के िद्वतीयक बाजार म� मोटे मुनाफे पर बेचने क� इ�ा रखता
3. 🐮🐮Bull (तेज�ड़या ): Optimistic speculator who hopes share prices will rise⏫, so purchases (to sell
them later at much higher price). Just like a bull tends to throw his victim up in the air, the bull
speculator stimulates the price to rise.
Figure 4: Corona के चलते �बजनेस प्रोजे� पूरा नही िकया, तो �ा जेल मे भेज दोगे, या फांसी पे लटका दोगे? कु छ नहीं उखाड़ सकते मेरा!
⇒ French word for ‘superior force’. It refers to unexpected external circumstances (अप्र�ा�शत बाहरी
प�र���तयाँ) that prevent a party to a contract from meeting their obligations. e.g. Acts of God
(natural disasters, epidemics), war, terror attacks.
⇒ In such cases, courts may not punish party for dishonoring contract. (करारनामे के दाय�� को न �नभाना)
⇒ E.g. Corona (COVID-19) Virus → Singapore Govt put restrictions on entry of Chinese →
Singapore construction firms facing labour crunch (श्र�मकों क� कमी) → invoked ‘Force Majeure’ to
clients, “we can’t finish building your homes/offices in time.” Coronavirus: >55million people
infected across the world (as of 2020-Oct).
15.11.1 🐮🐮📈📈🐻🐻Sharemarket- 2022: IPO Bubble Burst: Case of Paytm (फू ट गया ग़ु�ारा)
Shifted to Mains.
15.11.4 Retail investors have decreased participation in the share market due to
⇒ flop/loss-making IPOs in primary market e.g. PayTM (issued @₹2150-> fell @606 in Feb’23)
⇒ increased volatility (ups and downs) in the secondary market due to Fed Tapering , Foreign
investors’ exit etc. (शेयर बाजार म� अ��रता)
⇒ global uncertainties due to Russia Ukraine war. (युद्ध के बाद िक वै��क अ��रता)
⇒ Loss of income due to job-layoffs in IT/Startup sector. (नौक�रयों से �नकाले जाने पर आमदनी नहीं बची)
Figure 5: पूंजी बाजार क� जड़ो को गहरा करना है तो �सफर् अमीरों का नही, गरीबो क� बचत का पैसा भी जाना चािहए!
⇒ Share market scams erode publics’ hard-earned savings → alcoholism, depression, suicide and
other social ills. (जनता क� बचत का पैसा घपले म� बबार्द तो जनता म� शराब, अवसाद, आ�ह�ा और अ� सामा�जक बुराई)
⇒ Duped investors will shy away from share market & they may invest in gold / real estate = not
very beneficial to economy as it our import-bill, creates black money opportunities.
⇒ If households don’t participate in capital market → companies will have to approach the banks
to get more loans. But banks’ lending capacity is limited by CRR, SLR, PSL, NPA, PCA.(REF in
📑📑Pillar#1B2)
⇒ If more retail investors participate in capital market = “Deepening of the capital market” →
factory expansion, job creation, and economic growth. (खुदरा �नवेशक क� मदद से पूंजी बाजार क� जड़ों क� ओर
गहरा करना- तािक रोजगार सृजन और आ�थक वृ�द्ध म� मदद �मले)
15.13.2 💼💼🏃🏃: measures to ⏫ retail investors participation- 25% public holding in Govt
Companies
⇒ Budget 2019: For all the listed government companies, we will strive for minimum 25% public
shareholding. (आम जनता को भी सरकारी कं प�नयों के शेयर खरीदने का मौका �मले)
⇒ SEBI to raise minimum public shareholding in listed private sector companies to 35%.
⇒ 👻👻ATMANIRBHAR: minimum shareholding related norms deferred under Corona crisis.
⇒ Harshad Mehta (1992), Ketan Parekh (2001) arranged money from banks, used it for rigging the
share prices to make windfall gains during Bull-runs by other investors. Once the prices crashed,
small investors suffered. ब�कों से गबन बं द करके पैसा लाए �जससे कं प�नयों के शेयर जमकर खरीद के उसक� मांग और दामों
को बढ़ाया तािक लालच म� अ� �नवेशक भी उन कं प�नयों के शेयर ऊँ ची क�मतों म� खरीदने लगे अंत म� यह लोग अपने शेयर बेच कर
भाग गए
⇒ To prevent such scams, SEBI introduced Circuit Breaker System, wherein if fluctuation in the
share prices is more than “x%” than previous day, then stock exchange must stop trading for “y”
minutes.
15.14.1 🐯🐯🛒🛒 (🔪🔪🔪🔪: 🧔🧔🧔) G-Sec Trading- Retail investors’ RDG @RBI
⇒ RBI launched “Retail Direct Scheme” in 2021.
⇒ Under this scheme, RBI permits “Retail Direct Gilt (RDG) account” for retail investors on its
E-Kuber online platform. (आम �नवेशक �रज़वर् ब�क म� आरडीजी नामक खाता खोल पाएं गे)
⇒ Both Resident Indians & non-resident Indians (NRIs) can open this account. (गैर �नवासी भारतीय
भी)
⇒ Then Retail investors can directly buy Treasury Bills (T-Bill), G-Secs (of Union
Government), State Development Loans (SDL are ‘G-secs’ of State Govts) and Sovereign
⇒ Ans. E-Kuber is the core banking solution (CBS: REF Pillar1A1) platform of RBI to digitally
handle all operations of RBI e.g. NEFT-RTGS, Repo, MSF, CRR, PSLC certificate trading, G-Sec,
Sovereign Gold Bond, Retail Direct Scheme (RDG) etc.
⇒ You may think of E-kuber as a Windows Operating system, & NDS as a sub-component/excel-
software inside of it that handles G-Sec buying-selling database management/account keeping.
⇒ Stage1: Gold companies deposit their gold in the warehouses authorized by Warehousing
Development and Regulatory Authority (WDRA, it is a statutory body under Ministry of
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.)
⇒ Stage2: Warehouse manager generates Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs).
⇒ Stage3: EGR are listed on the SEBI regulated electronic gold exchanges. → Buyer can buy the
gold electronically and be assured of the quality. Later he may even sell this EGR to another
investor or he may goto warehouse to collect physical gold.
🤩🤩Benefits: 1) Assured quality. 2) Tax evasion is difficult due to online transactions monitored by
SEBI. इसे ग्राहक को �णर् क� गुणव�ा के बारे म� सु�न��त होगी। कर चोरी मु��ल होगी �ोंिक ऑनलाइन खातों क� �नगरानी होगी.
Figure 6: अभी भी इतने सारे "कांड" �ो हो रहे है, गवनर्र साहब?- �व�मं त्री @FSDC meeting.
- Financial Stability & Development Council: Chairman – Finance Minister. Other
FSDC members – 1. RBI Governor 2. SEBI chief 3. IRDAI chief 4. PFRDA chief 5. IBBI
(2010) chief & govt officials
�व�ीय - Functions? Supervision of the economy & large financial conglomerates,
��रता coordination among the financial regulators, financial literacy and financial
और �वकास inclusion.
प�रषद - Secretariat assistance by: FinMin → Dept. of Economic Affairs (आ�थक मामलों का
�वभाग)
FSB - Financial Stability Board is a brainchild of G20. (�व�ीय ��रता बोडर्)
(2009) - Functions? Financial monitoring at global level, Coordination between national
HQ: financial regulators bodies. (अलग-अलग देशों के �व�ीय �नयं त्रक के बीच तालमेल)
BASEL - India has 3 seats in FSB: 1) Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs (IAS) 2)
Dy. Governor of RBI 3) SEBI chairman
FATF - Financial Action Task Force (�व�ीय कारर्वाई कायर्दल) is a brainchild of G7.
(1989) - India member in 2010. Function? Combating Money laundering and terror
HQ: Paris finance. (More 📑📑Pill#2) (धन शोधन और आतं क� �व�पोषण से लड़ना)
- International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is the
IOSCO international body of world's securities regulators. SEBI is a member.
- Famous for its IOSCO Guidelines for Investors Protection & risk prevention
🔠🔠❓ 'Financial Stability and Development Council': find correct statement(s): (Pre-2016)
1. It is an organ of NITI Aayog.
2. It is headed by the Union Finance Minister
3. It monitors macro-prudential supervision of the economy.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 3 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
⇒ National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) is an educational institute set up by SEBI. HQ:
Mumbai, Foundation Year-2006
⇒ �Budget-2023: NISM to conduct more training courses for financial Market
⇒ NISM will give them degrees, diplomas and certificates for finishing such courses
�व�ीय सं �ानों म� कायर्रत पेशेवरों के �मता वधर्न के �लए �व�वध �डग्री और �ातक, �ड�ोमा और स�ट�फके ट �श�ा कायर्क्रम रा��ीय
प्र�तभू�त बाजार सं �ान (एनआईएसएम) द्वारा चलाए जाएं गे
Figure 7: swag से कर�गे 'middle-class' का '�ागत'। Observe colors in logo, meant for attracting ordinary crowd
⇒ Mutual Fund is an Asset Management Company (AMC-NBFC) that pools savings of (retail)
investors and gives them “Units”.
⇒ MF Manager parks this money in securities & builds his ‘portfolio’.
⇒ Whatever dividend/ interest is generated from the portfolio, it is distribute among investors in
the proportion of their units.
⇒ Investor pays Entry Load (= fees for joining), Exit Load (= fees while quitting). SEBI regulates
these fees.
⇒ Due to low deposit rates in banks, people invested money in mutual funds however post-IL&FS
crisis, corona crisis, charm declining because mutual funds are subject to such market risks.
⇒ ⚾📻📻⚾🎙🎙✋ “Side pocketing”: SEBI ‘s technical guidelines to help MFs to separate their
IL&FS type stressed/toxic assets from their standard assets. Helps protecting the investors.
How?NOTIMP.
Figure 8: Swag से नही कर�गे 'middle-class' का '�ागत'। Observe ‘premium’ logo-designs to attract rich people
⇒ Special type of Mutual Fund meant for HNI (High Net Worth Individual) who wants high risk
high return. SEBI norms: Minimum investment per person is ₹1 crore. (�सफर् अमीरों के �लए है)
⇒ Hedge Fund manager will invest their money in Junk Bonds, Risky assets; he’ll do risky trading
activities such as Arbitrage, Leverage, Short Selling, Future&Options(F&O) trading, Derivatives
Trading etc. to generate maximum return. (how is that done in real life, what do these words
mean? = UPSC-CSE not for recruitment of HF managers.)
Figure 10: भ�व� मे खरीदने का सोदा तो िकया, लेिकन दाम �गर जाए, तो खुद को बचाऊँ तो कै से?
- A Forward / Future contract is a customized contract between two parties where settlement takes
on a future date at a price/quantity agreed upon today. E.g. on 1/5/2025 I shall sell you 100 nos. of
Infosys shares at ₹1000 each.
- In such contracts, there is a risk of other party not honoring commitment if he’s getting better
deal elsewhere in the future. So, for protecting (=hedging) themselves, they (=buyer or seller)
may buy “Option” from a third party by paying fees. नुकसानी से बचने के �लए बीमा �लया जाए
- Option is a type of insurance for executing the forward/future contract in a manner beneficial to
them e.g. I’ll sell you for ₹1000 on X date, & you must buy, but if I’m getting another buyer who
is willing to pay ₹1500 then I may not sell you & you can’t compel me. Such ‘insurance options’
are further subdivided into Call Option and Put Option, their internal difference & real-life
mechanism not imp. for UPSC.
- Hedging = Act of purchasing such options/insurance to prevent your losses.
🔠🔠❓Which one of the following terms is used in Economics to denote a technique for avoiding a
risk by making a counteracting transaction? [UPSC-CDS-2016-I]
(a) Dumping (b) Hedging (c) Discounting (d) Deflating
15.22.1 🗃🗃🗃🗃: 🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛 Bilateral Netting of Qualified Financial Contracts Act 2020
DELETED from 2022 because outdated/faded topic.
⇒
⇒ Figure 11: �बना SEBI पं जीकरण के भारतीय पूंजी बाजार मे �नवेश क�, तो कै से?
😱😱P-Notes are harmful for Indian economy because:
⇒ P-note investors are not directly registered with SEBI. Identity of the actual investor, source of
funds remain disguised= chances of Tax evasion, money laundering, terror finance (इसके �नवेशक ने
�यं सेबी म� पं जीकरण नहीं करवाया वह पैसा िकधर से लेकर आया यह सब जानकारी नहीं �मल पाती, कर चोरी, काले धन को वैध
बनाना,आतं क� �व�पोषण)
⇒ If P-Note owner sells his P-Notes to another foreign investor, Government of India may be
deprived of taxes. (Compared to a scenario where Indian share owner is selling his shares to
another Indian investor at profit, then government gets securities transaction tax and capital
gains tax on his profit, & he can’t dodge it because DEMAT accounts linked with PAN card.
More on PAN card@Pillar#2 → BlackMoney)
Table 4: Sad that even for such simple things I’ve to create such spoonfeeding-tables just to prevent FAQs from weak students
P-Notes Foreign investor wants to invest in Indian share/bond market without
registering with SEBI. He wants to buy Indian companies’ shares/bonds in
India. �फरंगी आदमी भारत क� कं पनी म� �नवेश करना चाहता है लेिकन सेबी से पं जीकरण नहीं
करवाना चाहता
Bharat-DR Foreign Company wants to Indian to invest in its foreign/firangi-shares,
without registering with SEBI. �फरंगी कं पनी अपनी कं पनी के शेयसर् भारतीयों को बेचना
चाहती है लेिकन सेबी से पं जीकरण नहीं करवाना चाहती
ADR/GDR Non-American Company wants to American people to invest in its shares
without registering with American SEBI. गैर-अमे�रक� कं पनी अपनी कं पनी के शेयर
अमरीक� जनता को बेचना चाहती है लेिकन अमे�रका के शेयरबाजार �नयं त्रक से पं जीकरण नहीं
करवाना चाहती.
GDR- similar concept, refer to respective segment.
Masala/Panda/ Foreign company/org wants to borrow money, in a particular currency from
Kangaroo Bonds a particular country. Refer to respective segment
etc
🔠🔠❓______ is issued by registered foreign portfolio investors to overseas investors who want to
be part of the Indian stock market without registering themselves directly? (Pre-2019)
(a) Certificate of Deposit (b) Commercial Paper (c) Promissory Note (d) Participatory Note
⇒ CDS is an instrument to protect the lender/bond investors from the loan default by the borrower
⇒ PS: LIC is not 'insurer' in this case. Its logo used only for easier visualisation.
⇒ Topic was in news, due to some scam involving a Swiss Bank “Credit Suisse”
रा�ी� य क�नी �व�ध रा�ी� य �व�ीय प्र�तवेदन �नवेशक एवं �श�ा र�ण गं भीर धोखाधडी अ�ेषण
अ�धकरण प्रा�धकरण कोष कायार्लय
Members Judicial + technical. Chairman + Boss: Corp. Affairs Civil servants &
They’ve benches members Secretary (IAS). financial experts
@Delhi, Kolkata, Plus, members
Jaipur etc. from RBI, SEBI,
financial experts
Appeal NCLAT (Appellate NFRAA (Appellate Regular Courts Regular Courts
tribunal) Authority)
Cases Hear the cases Sets standards for They use Investigate white-
related to Companies Auditors & (CA), in unclaimed money collar (financial)
Act, Board room listed companies from shares/bonds frauds. Powers to
battles, Merger- and large unlisted for financial search, seize,
Acquisition, companies. If arrest.
Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (IEPF) is a statutory body in Companies Act, 2013.
⇒ Secretary (IAS) of Ministry of Corporate Affairs is the ex-officio chairman of this IEPF body.
⇒ IEPF looks after the unclaimed shares, bonds, dividends, interest etc.
⇒ IEPF uses such money for investor awareness.
⇒ �Budget-2023: if a person wants to ‘reclaim’ the unclaimed shares and unpaid dividends from
IEPF → we’ll setup an IT portal to help him file such application.
लावा�रस शेयरों और लाभांश �नवेशक �श�ा और सं र�ण �न�ध प्रा�धकरण (आईईपीएफ) नामक वैधा�नक सं �ा म� रखे जाते ह�। य�द
इन लावा�रस शेयर/�ड�वड�ड क� पुन:प्रा�� के �लए कोई ��� अज़� करना चाहता है, तो एक ऑनलाइन पोटर्ल बनाया जाएगा
15.25.4 🔨🔨🔨 Ministry of Corporate Affairs also associated with:
Chartered Accountants Regulates the CA profession through a
Act 1949 Statutory body: Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
ICAI also has IPA status under I&B Code.
Company Secretaries Act, Statutory Body: Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
1980 Also has IPA status. REF (More in 📑📑Pillar#1B2)
Cost and Works Statutory Body: Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI). Also
Accountants Act, 1959 has IPA status. What does it mean? REF (More in 📑📑Pillar#1B2)
Legislative ⇒ 1860: Societies Registration Act- for registration of literary,
Responsibilities of MCA scientific and charitable societies. E.g. Sahitya Akademi,
National School of Drama etc. जो मुनाफे के �लए नहीं लेिकन कला सािह�
�व�ान के प्रसार के �लए बने
⇒ 1932: Partnership Act
⇒ Companies Act 1956 → 2013.
⇒ 2008: Limited Liability Partnership Act
�What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the video lecture. �
- Initially started as postal life insurance for postal employees (1884), later extended to rural
people as well.
- Presently, 6 schemes for govt employees and 6 schemes for rural areas (usually with prefix of
“GRAM” e.g. gram Suvidha / Suraksha / Santosh….)
- They’ve developed “DARPAN” PLI (Postal Life Insurance) App for this.
⇒ To take over/nationalize the private life insurance companies → LIC Act, 1956. So, LIC is a
statutory corporation/statutory company. (वैधा�नक �नगम)
⇒ Rigveda: “योग�ेम” (Yogakshema: well being) = name of LIC HQ@Mumbai & its corporate
magazine.
⇒ Gita: “योग�ेमं वहा�हम्” (Yogakshemam Vahamyaham:- I ensure safety and well being (of my
devotees) = LIC motto.
⇒ 2018: LIC became majority shareholder in IDBI bank. (More in 📑📑Pillar#1B1- Classification)
⇒ 2021: 1) Govt ⏫retirement age of LIC chairman from 60 to 62 years. 2) LIC launched ‘Ananda’
App for insurance agents.
16.14.1 ⚰🚕🚕🚕🚕 🦁🦁 Public Sector General Insurance Entities: Timeline (समय रेखा)
⇒ 1948: Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) under Labour Ministry – through an
act of Parliament to protect selected category of workers. मजदू रों का �ा� बीमा
⇒ 1957: Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC: �नयार्त ऋण गारंटी �नगम) under
Commerce Ministry. Gives insurance cover to exporters, and credit guarantee to
Bank/NBFC who loan to exporters.
⇒ 1961: DICGC Act: banks must buy deposit insurance from it. Although not considered a
General Insurance Company in textbook sense because doesn’t directly sell insurance policy
to any individual household/businessman. (पाठ्यपु�क क� प�रभाषा म� उसको बीमा कं पनी नहीं बोल सकते)
⇒ 1972: General Insurance Nationalization Act: 107 (private) general insurance companies
were taken over by GIC and its 4 subsidiaries (viz. National insurance, New India Assurance,
United India, Oriental).
⇒ 2002: Agriculture Insurance Company ltd, (formed with funding of GIC, above 4 public
sector Gen. Insurance Cos and NABARD.) कृ �ष बीमा कं पनी
2018: Budget announced to merge (�वलीनीकरण) National Insurance Company, United India
Insurance Company, Oriental India Insurance Company- but the plan has not materialized yet.
16.14.2 ⚰🚕🚕🚕🚕 🦁🦁: (🤵🤵) General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021
General Insurance Nationalisation Act 1972 General Insurance Business (Nationalisation)
(सामा� बीमा रा��ीयकरण कानून) Amendment Bill, 2021
Five General Insurance (GI) Companies To facilitate privatization of these public
brought under Govt control sector/Government owned GIs. सामा� बीमा �ेत्र क�
1) General Insurance Corp of India (GIC) सरकारी कं प�नयों के �नजीकरण का रा�ा आसान बनाने के �लए
2) National Insurance, �वधेयक
3) New India Assurance,
4) Oriental Insurance
- 1948: Employees' State Insurance Act → 1952: ESIC corporation (ESIC) setup under Labour
Ministry. (कमर्चारी रा� बीमा �नगम, श्रम मं त्रालय)
ESIC applicability? BEFORE 👻👻ATMA-NIRBHAR (2020)
any non-seasonal establishment with Compulsory Compulsory (अ�नवायर्)
10/> employees
If establishment less than 10 workers Voluntary Compulsory (खतरनाक उधोगों के मजदू रो
→ but it’s a hazardous industry e.g. (�ै��क/वैक��क) का क-रा-बी-�न मे पं जीकरण अ�नवायर्)
(firecrackers, toxic chemicals, acid)
If establishment less than 10 workers Voluntary Voluntary
→ Non-hazardous industries (�ै��क/वैक��क) (�ै��क/वैक��क)
- 👷👷 Who are ESIC subscribers? Employee in above establishment, with monthly salary less than
₹21,000/-
- 👷👷 � Who pays ESIC premium? “x%” of employee’s wages+ “y%” from employer’s side.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which is not a feature of the Ayushman Bharat Scheme? (CDS-i-2020)
(a) There is no cap on family size and age. (प�रवार क� सद�ों क� सं �ा और आयु पर कोई सीमा नहीं)
(b) The scheme includes pre- and post-hospitalization expenses.
(c) A defined transport allowance per hospitalization will also be paid to the beneficiary.
(d) The scheme provides a benefit cover of Rs. 10 lakh per family.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Ayushman Bharat is a national health insurance system for: (UPSC-Geologist-2020)
a) women b) every citizen c) old age people d) poor and vulnerable.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which are the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana? (CDS-i-2019)
1. Free treatment available at all public and empanelled private hospitals.
2. Cashless and paperless access to quality health care services. नकदी रिहत और कागज रिहत प्रशास�नक प्रिक्रया
3. Govt provides health insurance up to ₹ 5 lakh per family per year.
4. Pre-existing diseases are not covered. पहले से मौजूद बीमा�रयों को कवर नहीं िकया जाता है
- Nodal Ministry: Agri Min → Public sector general insurance companies, and empanelled private
sector insurance companies. सरकारी सामा� बीमा कं प�नयां तथा �नजी �ेत्र क� ऐसी सामा� बीमा कं प�नयां �जनको कृ �ष
मं त्रालय ने इस योजना लागू करने के �लए सूचीबद्ध िकया है
- Against natural calamities, pests, diseases; (प्राकृ �तक आपदाएँ , क�ट, बीमा�रयाँ;)
- Protects before, during and after harvest (फसल क� कटाई).
- Premium (बीमा-िक�) paid by farmers against the total insured amount: Rabi winter crops (1.5%)
– Kharif summer monsoon crops (2%) –Horticulture & Commercial crops other than oilseed &
pulses (5%). Remainder premium is paid by Union: State Gov. It’s optional for States to join.
16.16.2 🧔🧔⚰🌽🌽 PM-FBY (2.0) reforms in 2020
Before-2020 From 2020-Kharif
Suppose a kharif crop insurance premium Suppose a kharif crop insurance premium = ₹100.
= ₹100. ⇒ Farmer pays ₹2 of the premium
⇒ Farmer paid ₹2 of the premium ⇒ Union pays only ₹25 to 30 based on whether it’s
⇒ Union paid ₹49 + State paid ₹49. In irrigated or unirrigated respectively.
other words, Union and States shared ⇒ State may have to pay ₹68-73. So, states’ burden
their premium burden half-half increased.
(50:50). ⇒ However, the Union will bear 90:10 of the
burden in case of North Eastern States.
Compulsory for farmer to buy this Voluntary (�ै��क) for farmers. (ब�क लोन पास करवाने के
insurance policy, IF he wanted crop loans �लए िकसान को यह योजना यह बीमा �नकलवाना अ�नवायर् निह)
from bank
------ Updated methodology for assessment of crop loss
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statements about ‘Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana': (Prelims-2016)
16.16.3 🧔🧔⚰🌽🌽 Other Agriculture Insurance Schemes? (अ� कु छ फ़सल बीमा योजना)
- Apart from PM Fasal Bima, there is Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme
(RWBCIS, 2016)- protects against weather only. (so not pests/diseases).
- There was a National Agricultural Insurance Scheme and Modified (NAIS), but PM Fasal Bima
subsumed it. लेिकन वो सब याद रखने से परी�ा म� बहोत लाभ नहीं.
16.16.4 ⛴🔪🔪(�🏦🏦) Insurance to Banks on Exporters’NPA → NIRVIC Scheme (2019)
Figure 2: �नयार्तक ब�क का कजार् नहीं चुकाएगा तो नुकसान क� भरपाई कौन करेगा
- Motor Vehicles Act (1988) requires all motor vehicle owners to purchase it. (कानूनी �प से अ�नवायर्)
- Third party (TP) insurance: When your vehicle hits another vehicle, person or property → that
victim (third party) registers a case, gets compensation. IRDAI regulates premium rates & other
norms.
- SC judgement (2019): TP insurance validity should be 3-5 years, so even if owner forgets to
renew annually, the third party is protected. (अवधी �ादा होनी चािहए)
Figure 3: जमीन मकान �ववादों के कानूनी लफड़ो म� नुकसान से बचने का �बमा #गुलाबो-�सताबो
- 'Title' (अ�धकार-�वलेख) means a legal document showing ownership of a property. 'Title dispute':
usually happens when multiple persons are claiming ownership of the same land / building.
- 'Title Insurance' protects the new buyer in case of such legal disputes (by refunding the money he
had spent in buying land, construction, legal expenses etc).
- Real Estate Regulation and Development Act 2016 (RERA) requires the builders to buy this type
of insurance. More on RERA in 📑📑pillar#5: urban infrastructure.
🔠🔠❓In India, under cyber insurance for individuals, which of the following benefits are generally
covered, in addition to payment for the loss of funds and other benefits? (UPSC-Prelims-2020 SetB.Q90)
1. Cost of restoration of the computer system in case of malware disrupting access to one’s
computer
2. Cost of a new computer if some miscreant wilfully damages it, if proved so
3. Cost of hiring a specialized consultant to minimize the loss in case of cyber extortion
4. Cost of defence in the Court of Law if any third party files a suit
Answer Codes: [a) 1, 2 and 4 only [b) 1, 3 and 4 only [c) 2 and 3 only [d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
- DICGCI Act (1961) requires banks to take deposit insurance from DICGCI.
- Similarly, Insurance Act (1938) requires insurance companies take ‘re-insurance’ on their biz.
बीमा कं पनी ने �यं का "धं धा चौपट बचाओ" बीमा लेना होगा
- Previously, only GIC was the sole-reinsurer, but then norms liberalized (2015). New re-
insurance cos allowed. e.g. India’s ITI Reinsurance Ltd. Even foreign re-insurers such as Swiss
Re, Munich Re, General Reinsurance (Warren Buffet) are permitted. (पहले के वल जीआईसी, लेिकन अब
अनेक कं प�नयों को अनुम�त दी गई)
- 🤩🤩Benefits of multiple re-insurance cos? GIC’s monopoly in dictating re-insurance premium
rates is gone. So, insurance cos’ cost of operations to decline → biz. expansion, launch
innovative products etc.
16.18.1 ⚰�Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs, (घरेलु प्रणालीबद्ध मह�पूणर् बीमाकतार्)
- IRDAI prepares a list of big insurance companies that are “too big to fail” i.e. they feel it will
create very great economic distress for India. (यिद ये बीमा कं प�नयां �गर गयी तो अथर्तंत्र म� भारी तबाही होगी)
- IRDAI labels them as D-SIIs & imposes additional rules/monitoring/supervision on them.
- Latest List: 1) Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), 2) General Insurance Corporation of
India (GIC), 3) The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. (NIACL) (उनपर �ादा स� �नयम/�नगरानी रख�गे)
16.18.2 ⚰📈📈Insurance progress indicators (बीमा प्रग�त सं के तक)
Insurance penetration (%: बीमा प्रवेश) Insurance Density ($:बीमा घन�)
=Premium divided by GDP =Premium divided by population
For India, these indicators are low compared to Malaysia many other developing countries. (उ�
सूचकांकों म� भारत अ� �वकासशील देशों के मुक़ाबले मे काफ़� पीछे है)
16.18.3 🇺🇺🇸🇸💸💸FDI limits in Insurance sector? (बीमा �ेत्र मे प्र�� �वदेशी �नवेश क� सीमा)
⇒ Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is the (more than 10% equity / share) investment made by a
foreign entity into an Indian company, with the objective to get involved in the management /
⇒ the Majority of Directors on the Board and key management persons must be Resident Indians.
बोडर् ऑफ डायरे�र तथा कं पनी प्रबं धन के व�र� पदा�धका�रयों म� ब�म�त भारतीय �नवासी होने चािहए
⇒ At least 50% of Directors must be Independent directors. (�तं त्र डायरे�र) (Ref#1C)
⇒ Certain % of profits must be retained as general reserve. मुनाफे का कु छ प्र�तशत सामा� आर��त �न�ध के �प
म� अलग से रखना होगा, ताक� अगर कोई कांड हो जाए तो इन पैसों से ��तपू�त हो सके .
- EPFO covers both permanent employees & casual/temporary employees (= employed only for a
few days/weeks/months.) �ायी कम� और अ�ायी/अयाथव�ध कम� दोनो को लाभ �मलता है।
- EPFO subscriber worker has UAN (Universal Account Number) that remains unchanged even if
he changes job from one organization to another. (मजदू र का खाता नं बर- नौकरी बदलने पर भी वही रहता है)
- Previously, employee himself couldn’t generate his UAN, he had to request his boss to send
forms to EPFO. But 2019: EPFO allowed employees to generate UAN online by simply giving
Aadhar & Mobile Number. (एक जमाने म� मजदू र ने मा�लक द्वारा फॉमर् �भजवाना होता, लेिकन अब मजदू र खुद अपना
खाता खोल सकता है)
- Factory owner/Employer has LIN (Labour Identification Number)- which he uses while
uploading EPFO documents on Shramsuvidha webportal of Labour Ministry.
- EPFO & ESIC transactions can be done through:
o Through public and pvt sector banks (ब�क खाते द्वारा पैसा भेज सकते ह�)
17.11.3 👻👻Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana= Subsidy from Central Govt in EPFO contribution
It was launched during the Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package (November 2020)
Beneficiary eligibility: Worker's Monthly wages LESS THAN ₹15,000 AND
1) Fresh EPFO-Worker got new job in an EPFO registered firm OR
2) Past EPFO-Worker had lost job between March1 to Sept30 of 2020, BUT got a job on/after
October1, 2020 in an EPFO registered firm
🤩🤩Entitlement: यह योजना म� फायदा �ा �मलेगा
EPF scheme �worker (मजदू र) �Boss (मा�लक)
if the firm has up to 12% of wages → 🧔🧔 12% → 🧔🧔 Govt to contribute to EPFO
1000 employees Govt to contribute to (सरकार देगी)
EPFO
if the firm has >1000 12% of wages → 🧔🧔 ✋12%: Boss has to contribute from his
employees Govt to contribute to pocket. Govt will not contribute. (सरकार नहीं
EPFO देगी)
🤩🤩Benefit? Formal Job creation, more money in the hands of workers → demand⏫ → Post
corona economy Revival. (औपचा�रक रोजगार सृजन, मजदू र के हाथ म� �ादा पैसा आएगा �जससे बाजार म� मांग म� बढ़ोतरी)
🗓🗓Scheme validity? (यह योजना िकतने �दनों तक वैद्य/जारी रहेगी)
⇒ Scheme registration open till June 2021.
⇒ Registered worker will continue to receive benefit for two years. e.g. if registered in January 2021
→ then ₹₹ upto January 2023.
🎓🎓Note: for faster revision I have used the term worker and boss (मजदू र और मा�लक) But, in real mains
exam, you should write employee and employer/Entrepreneur (कमर्चारी और नोकरीदाता / उद्यमी)
- Previously, a pensioner (in any Govt / public sector org.) had to submit a physical life certificate
in November each year to prove that he’s alive = hardship, bribery.
- "Jeevan Pramaan" – an "Aadhar-based Digital Life Certificate“ by Ministry of Electronics &
Information Technology (MEITY) (आधार काडर् और अंगठू ा लगा के �ज़दं ा होने का प्रमाण पत्र तािक प�शन �मलता रहे)
- Pensioner's Aadhar number + biometric reading device→ PC, Mobile→ “Digital Life
Certificate”→ submit to the authority → pension released.
- 2020: Jeevan Pramaan system also expanded to EPFO subscribers.
- 2022: EPFO also allows facial recognition system because in some very old pensioners, difficult
to scan finger-print/iris.
17.13 �→�PENSION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS WITH CAPACITY TO INVEST?
17.13.1 Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (2017-DFS, LIC)
⇒ Boss- Dept of Financial Services
⇒ 2023-March-31st: this is the last date to join the scheme. Then registration will close.
⇒ Other similar schemes: Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, LIC Varistha Pension Bima Yojana but
they are old schemes so poor cost: benefit in preparing for UPSC.
ग़रीब आदमी जो ख़ुद क� जेब से थोड़ा पैसा �नवेश कर सके - उनके �लए प�शन योजना
🔠🔠❓ [Asked in Prelim 2016] Find correct statement(s) regarding ‘Atal Pension Yojana’:
1. It is a minimum guaranteed pension scheme mainly targeted at unorganized sector workers.
2. Only one member of a family can join the scheme.
3. Same amount of pension is guaranteed for the spouse for life after subscriber's death.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
17.14.1 � → 👴👴👴👴👴👴: 🧔🧔 Pension: Three Maan Dhan Yojanas
- For Below Poverty Line (BPL) people, Rural Development Ministry’s National Social Assistance
Programme (NSoAP: रा��ीय सामा�जक सहायता कायर्क्रम) in 1995, where direct money is given without
asking for any premium from the beneficiary (लाभाथ�).
- It’s a core of the core scheme (अ�त-मह�पूणर् योजना) with 100% cost is paid by Union.
- It’s optional for state govt. to contribute money- They may contribute, if they want to enhance
the scheme’s features. (More in 📑📑Pillar#2D- Schemes types)
⇒ Social Justice (सामा�जक �ाय): distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a
society- through reservation in jobs, admissions and election and through legal safeguards for
protection of civil rights, prevention of atrocity and personnel laws. (समाज के �व�भ� जाती/वग� म�
आर�ण चुनाव तथा कानूनन अ�धकारों द्वारा सं प��, अवसरों और �वशेषा�धकारों का �वतरण= उसे समा�जक �ाय कहेते है)
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Service Area Approach was implemented under the purview of (UPSC Prelims-2019)
(a) Integrated Rural Development Programme (b)✅ Lead Bank Scheme
(c) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
(d) National Skill Development Mission
18.11.1 🧔🧔(��:💰💰)→💳💳 Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (प्रधान मं त्री जन धन योजना)
🔠🔠❓ [Asked in Pre-2015] Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana’ has been launched for:
(a) providing housing loan to poor people at cheaper interest rates
(b) promoting women’s Self-Help Groups in backward areas
(c) promoting financial inclusion in the country
(d) providing financial help to the marginalized communities
- Parents open a (fixed deposit type) bank account in the name of a 0-10 years girl child, and
deposit annually ₹ 250 to ₹ 1.5 lakhs till she reaches age of 14.
- FinMin’s Dept of Economic Affairs announces interest rate (originally 9.1%, presently ~8.5%)
- Money (principal and interest) can be withdrawn @ the age of 18-21 depending on whether
married or not. So, it indirectly prevents child marriages & empowers the grown-up daughter
with money to pursue higher education, small business etc.
- 1 daughter = ONLY 1 account can be opened in this scheme. (एक बेटी के नाम पर �सफर् एक)
- Maximum two daughters can be enrolled by parents/legal guardians.
18.12.5 ⚰💀💀📫📫��
� � ��
� Sampoorna Bima Gram Yojana (2017)
⇒ by Ministry of Communications Department of Post (सं चार मं त्रालय → डाक �वभाग)
⇒ In every district, atleast 1 village identified → In that village, cover all households with a
minimum of one RPLI (Rural Postal Life Insurance) policy. (गांव के हर प�रवार को कम से कम एक ग्रामीण
डाक बीमा पॉ�लसी बेची जाए)
18.12.6 ⚰💀💀🌽🌽�� � � ��� Model Insurance Villages (MIV) proposal by IRDAI (2021)
- Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) proposed this
- To give complete insurance coverage to a village for its people’s life insurance, health insurance,
farm/crop insurance, animal (livestock) insurance, tractor/vehicle insurance etc.
- Funding/Subsidy by Union, State, Companies CSR Funds, NABARD & other AIFIs.
- (गाँववालों के �लए म� सभी प्रकार के जीवन बीमा, सामा� बीमा पॉ�लसी उपल� हो, तािक वह एक आदशर् बीमा ग्राम बन जाए। ऐसी
बीमा पॉ�लसी खरीदने के �लए सरकार तथा अ� सं �ानों द्वारा गांव वालों को स��डी/�रयायत दी जाए)
18.12.7 (��:💰💰)→ 📦📦 Chit Funds
⇒ Scam and its subsequent judgements have become too oudated for 2023. So deleting it for
#Prelims-RAFTAAR-🏎🏎
⇒ Sufficient to know: Chit fund is a collective investment scheme.
⇒ Members contribute small, small amount of money, every month. And members are given loan
from this fund. (सद� उसम� छोटी छोटी रकम जमा करते ह� और िफर सद�ों को उसी म� से लोन िदया जाता है)
⇒ Chit fund is a type of “contract” = subject to Concurrent list. So, both Union and State govt have
laws for it. (समवत� सूची म� होने के कारण क� द्र और रा� दोनों इस पर कानून बनाते ह� लेिकन ढंग से �नगरानी कोई कर नहीं पाता)
⇒ Scams happened due to lack of proper supervision / nexus with politicians. (इस�लए कांड होते रहते ह�)
18.12.7.1 ⚖ 📦📦📦📦 Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019
- अ�नय�मत जमा योजनाओं पर प्र�तबं ध कानून
- If an entity is soliciting public to deposit /invest money, then it could be regulated by RBI (Bank,
NBFC-D, Home loan NBFCs etc), SEBI (MF, ReITs, InvITs etc), IRDAI & PFRDA, Corporate
Affairs ministry (NIDHI), State Governments (chit fund), EPFO, etc.
- A deposit-taking scheme is defined as ‘unregulated’ if person is asking people to deposit/invest
money but he has not registered with any of the above organizations. E.g. builders, jewellers, etc.
18.13.2 Financial inclusion: Credit Guarantee Fund for Education Loans (CGFEL)
- When an AIFI (or MUDRA) gives new finance to Banks/NBFCs based on the quantum of
finance they (Bank/NBFC) have already given to end-borrowers.
- Usually works via t securitization of the previous loan papers. ? NOT IMP.#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
18.13.4 👻👻 �🏭🏭 MSME: Definition changed in ATMANIRBHAR (2020)
- 2006: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006 gave definition
of micro, small and medium enterprises
- 2020: ATMANIRBHAR → MSME ministry changed the definition as following: �नवेश और कु ल
�बक्र� के िहसाब से उधयोगों को वग�कृ त िकया जाएगा. �व�नमार्ण (mfg) और सेवा (services) �ेत्र के उधोगों के �लए एकसमान
�ा�ा।
💡💡 Note: This handout only deals with ‘loan’ component of MSME. For other MSME
issues/challenges, refer (More in 📑📑Pillar#4B → MSME)
✋in above image, read "<" sign as "NOT MORE THAN (से अ�धक नहीं)
Investment: �नवेश annual turnover: वा�षक कारोबार
⇒ Corona Lockdown → MSME business hurt → need loans to restart business → Emergency
Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS: आपातकालीन क्रेिडट लाइन गारंटी योजना).
⇒ �Eligibility?
o MSME Previous outstanding loan account can’t be more than ₹25 crores, and can’t be
not an NPA.
⇒ New/ Extra Loan Amount? 20% of the outstanding loan.
⇒ Loan Tenure? 4 Years (�मयादी/समयकाल)
⇒ Loan Interest? 9.25% (Bank), 14% (NBFC).
⇒ Collateral? Not required. (�गरवी कु छ भी नही रखना होगा)
⇒ If the borrower doesn’t repay loan principal or interest→ Credit guarantee covered by NCGTC
(National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Limited), a company under the Dept of financial
services in FinMin.
18.13.6 👻👻👻👻 �🏭🏭 MSME Non-NPA borrower → ECLGS 2.0 (Atma-Nirbhar 3.0)
It was launched during the Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package(November 2020)
�Eligibility? (Two conditions must be fulfilled simultaneously)
1) MSME as well as Non-MSME(large) firms operating in
(a) Healthcare sector (�ा� �ेत्र) OR
(b) 26 stressed sectors Identified by RBI is KV Kamath committee (e.g automobiles,
tourism, cement, gems and jewellery etc तनावग्र� �ेत्र) AND
2) Its outstanding loans are > ₹50 crore - upto ₹ 500 Crore (as on 29.2.2020)
🤩🤩Benefit?
Extra 20% loans against outstanding loans. (कजार् बकाया है उसके सामने 20% अ�त�र� कजर् िदया जाएगा)
18.13.8 👻👻🗃🗃🗃🏭🏭 MSME → Equity infusion via Fund of Funds (�न�धयो क� �न�ध)
⇒ Govt will set up a Fund of Funds with ₹10,000 crore.
⇒ This FoF will invest in daughter funds (who’ll supply ₹40k cr from their funds). So, total
10k+40k=50k equity funding/infusion to MSME. (इ��टी के �प म� कं पनी म� जान फूं कना)
- Micro Units Development & Refinance Agency. (सू� इकाई �वकास एवं पून: �व�पोषण एज�सी)
- Objective? provides indirect lending via SCB, RRB, Cooperative Banks, MicroFinance Inst &
other NBFCs. (अनुसू�चत वा�ण� ब�क �ेत्रीय ग्रामीण ब�क सहकारी ब�क गैर ब�क �व�ीय कं प�नयों द्वारा परो� �प से कजर् देता है)
- Ownership? It’s wholly owned by SIDBI, and also receives the funding from PSL-shortfalls via
RBI, and budgetary support via Department of Financial Services.
- Beneficiary? Micro Enterprises from Agri-allied sectors, mfg & service sector who are not
registered under the companies act = Non-corporate type. (�ज�ोंने कं पनी कानून म� पं जीकरण नहीं करवाया)
- is an informal group of 10-20 local people to combine their savings/ resources, engage in biz
activity like weaving, agarbatti etc अपनी बचत और सं साधनों क� मदद से कु छ छोटा उ�ादन करने वाला गरीब लोगों का
एक अनौपचा�रक समूह
- and not registered in as a firm / company under partnership act or companies act etc.
- Self-Help Groups are formed under the government schemes like National rural livelihood
mission (NRLM). More in 📑📑Pillar#6]
- Budget-2019:
o 1 woman in each self-help group (SHG) will be made eligible for ₹ 1 lakh loan under
Mudra scheme.
- 👻👻ATMANIRBHAR → PM GaribKalyan → Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) to be given ₹20
lakh collateral free loans. Further,
o Government will procure masks and sanitizers prepared by SHG = ₹₹ income for
poor families. (सरकार इनसे मा� और से�नटाइज़र ख़रीदेगी)
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)- आवास और शहरी मामलों का मं त्रालय
⇒ Loan Tenure: 1 year. Repayment to be done on a monthly basis.
⇒ Loan Interest? approx @7.25% & if vendor repays in timely fashion → govt will give 7% interest
subsidy in his bank account. (फे रीवाला ने �ण अदायगी �नय�मत �प से क� तो �ाज म� सरकार राहत/स��डी देगी)
⇒ Scheme Valid till: 2022-March.
⇒ Finance Ministry’s single portal to help beneficiaries to apply for various Government loan
schemes for Education Loans, Agriculture Loans, Business Activity (livelihood) Loans, etc.
⇒ It connects borrower with 125+ banks and NBFCs for loan application.
⇒ When person applies for business loan, the portal cross-checks his UIDAI-Aadhar number,
income tax, GST, UDYAM (MSME registration number), CIBIL credit score etc data/scores for
faster loan processing
18.13.18 �💳💳 Kisan Credit Card (1998)
1998: Launched by RBI +NABARD. Farmer gets credit card from PSB, RRB, State Coop Banks for:
- Can swipe it to buy farm inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides etc.)
- Investment credit requirement for agriculture
- Working capital for maintenance of farm assets
- Post-harvest expenses, (फसल काटने के बाद होने वाले खचर्)
- Consumption requirements of farmer household; (घर म� उपभोग हेतु खच�)
- Can withdraw cash (as loan).
- Money to be repaid with interest. Accidental insurance also given.
- Budget-2018: Kisan Credit Card (KCC) extended to Animal Husbandry and Fisheries farmers.
Interim-Budget-2019: they (animal/fisheries-walla) too will get the interest subvention
- Interim-Budget-2019: comprehensive drive with a simplified application form to get all farmers
under KCC cards.
⇒ Informal workers (अयथा�व�ध कम�)= doesn’t have formal job contracts with employers. E.g.
Domestic Maids, Brick Kiln Workers, Construction Labourers, Chowkidar, Dhaabaa
cooks/waiters etc.
⇒ Gig workers (�गग कम�)= Uber Taxi Drivers, Amazon/Zomato Delivery boys, Urbanclap’s
beauticians/ plumbers/ AC repairman, Unacademy Educators etc. They are freelancers /
independent contractors (�तं त्र ठे केदारों) hired by startup or digital companies for short-term
engagements. While they may have some written contract to deliver services to the company, but
the contract is worded in such manner they are not “regular employees” of a company = not
eligible for EPFO, ESIC etc.
⇒ 2019-Sept: Labour Ministry drafting a “social security code for all informal & gig workers”. It
aims to provide ‘insurance on death/disability/sickness’, maternity benefit, pension, scholarship
for their children etc. (मृ�ु / �वकलांगता / बीमारी पर बीमा, मातृ� लाभ, प�शन, �गग कम� के ब�ों को छात्रवृ��)
18.16��: �FINANCIAL INCLUSION: CUSTOMER PROTECTION (ग्राहक सुर�ा)
😾😾Bank/NBFC 📈📈Share/Bond ⚰Insurance (IRDAI) �Pension
(under RBI) (SEBI)
Ombudsman: Bank, SCORES ⇒ Insurance - If EPFO- then its
NBFC, Digital Portal→ Ombudsman via internal machinery
Transaction (given SEBI→SAT IRDAI Act ‘1999, - If NPS: NSDL→
below) hears matters upto PFRDA.
₹30 lakhs. If higher
Report By
Global Microscope Report The Economist Magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit,
Accion global NGO &partners like Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, Metlife foundation etc.
Global Findex Database World Bank with help of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Pension Index Mercer CFA Institute, Canada
Indian Government’s Financial Indian Finance Ministry’s Department of Financial Services
Inclusion Index (DFS).
RBI’s Financial Inclusion Index RBI
National Strategy for Financial RBI
Inclusion
18.18�🎺🎺 MOCK QUESTIONS FOR MAINS (250 WORDS EACH)
Mostly around importance of insurance and pension for human development. Whether we should
allow more FDI in insurance sector? How does particular government scheme helping the poor
people and farmers? Importance of self help groups for poverty removal etc.
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21.6 ��: � Equalisation Levy / Google Tax (समकारी लेवी/ गूगल टै�) ....................................................272
21.7 ��: � Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT: लाभांश �वतरण कर) ..........................................................273
21.8 ��: �� Buyback Tax (शेयर क� वापसी-खरीद पर कर) .........................................................................274
21.9 �� : ���Capital Gains Tax (CGT: पूंजीगत लाभ कर)................................................................275
21.9.1 ��: Bitcoin Profit pe 30% Tax and transfer pe 1% TDS in ��Budget-2022 ..............275
21.10 ��: � Income Tax on Individuals (���क आयकर) ..................................................................275
21.10.1 revenue forgone / tax expenditure (प�रत्य� राजस्व/कर खचर्) ...........................................................277
21.10.2 Income Tax: no tax upto ₹7 lakh after �Budget-2023 = Boosting Economy ..................277
21.10.3 Income Tax: switching between NTR vs OTR after �Budget-2023 ...................................278
21.10.4 Surcharge on Income Tax............................................................................................................278
21.10.5 Effective Tax on super-rich person earning >5 cr ....................................................................278
21.10.6 ��Income Tax Slabs -> old tax regime -> senior citizens ...............................................278
21.11 ���Direct Tax Code (DTC) Task Force (2017-2019) ..........................................................279
21.12 ��Direct Taxes: Misc. Concepts (इधर उधर के �छटपुट मुददे) ............................................................279
21.12.1 ��Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) (िहदं ू अ�वभा�जत प�रवार):...............................................279
21.12.2 ��Presumptive Taxation (प्रक��त कराधान) ..........................................................................279
21.12.3 ��Advance Tax ? (अ�ग्रम कर) .................................................................................................280
21.12.4 � ATMA NIRBHAR BHARAT → Tax Ordinance 2020 [कर अ�ादेश] ..............................280
21.13 ���TDS & TCS ..........................................................................................................................280
21.14 ���Tax Deducted at Source (TDS): (स्रोत पर कर कटौती) ...........................................................281
21.14.1 � (�
���) TDS → ATMA NIRBHAR BHARAT REFORMS ...................................282
21.14.2 ���Tax Collected at Source (TCS): (�ोत पर सं गृहीत कर) .................................................282
21.14.3 ��Tax refund? (कर वापसी) .....................................................................................................282
21.15 �Misc. Direct Taxes - Financial Transaction Taxes (�व�ीय लेनदेन कर) ...........................................282
21.15.1 �� (Concept) Tobin Tax / Robinhood Tax .......................................................................282
21.15.2 ��STT & CTT (प्र�तभू�त लेनदेन कर और व�ु लेनदेन कर) ..............................................................283
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20.1 💼💼 FISCAL POLICY (राजकोषीय नी�त): MEANING & SIGNIFICANCE
- ‘Fiscal’ is a word derived from Greek. Means ‘basket’ and symbolizes the public purse.
- Fiscal Policy is the set of Govt. decisions regarding taxation, expenditure, subsidies and other
financial operations. (कराधान, �य, स��डी और अ� �व�ीय सं चालन हेतु सरकार द्वारा �लए गए �नणर्य)
- Using fiscal policy, Govt influences the savings, investment and consumption in an economy, to
accomplish certain national goals such as income redistribution, socio-economic welfare,
economic development and inclusive growth. (बचत, �नवेश और खपत को सरकार को प्रभा�वत करती→ आय का
पुन�वतरण, सामा�जक-आ�थक क�ाण, समावेशी �वकास हो सकता है)
A well planned Fiscal Policy can help in following arenas:
Full Employment: through welfare schemes/ rural employment programmes like MGNREGA
(📑📑More in pillar6) (लोक क�ाणकारी योजनाओं द्वारा पूणर् रोजगार)
🍊🍊To Fight Inflation (मुद्रा���त): Higher Income tax → ⏬disposable income (�य यो� आय) →
demand curbed, To fight deflation= ⏬direct and indirect taxes to boost demand. (📑📑More in
pillar4: Inflation) (अप���त से लड़ने के �लए करों म� कटौती करे माँग को बढ़ाएँ )
📈📈 To Boost Economic Growth: Provide income tax benefits on household savings in
LIC/Mutual Fund etc. → industries get new capital investment → factory expansion, jobs, GDP
growth. (📑📑More in pillar4: GDP) (करों म� �रयायत� दे कर �नवेश को बढ़ोतरी, आ�थक वृ�द्ध को बढ़ोतरी देना)
�To Boost Inclusive Growth (समावेशी �वकास): Higher taxes on rich → use money for health,
education, women, poverty removal programs. (📑📑More in pillar6: Human Dev)
🧭🧭 To Boost Regionally Balanced Growth: Give tax benefits to industrialists for setting up
factories in North East, Naxal/Left-wing Extremism (LWE) & other backward areas. (उद्योगप�तयों को
उ�र पूव� रा� तथा न�ल प्रभा�वत रा�ों म� फै �री लगाने पर करो म� �रयायते देकर सभी प्रदेशो का सं तु�लत �वकास)
💱💱Exchange Rate Stability (�व�नमय दर ��रता): Give tax benefits to exporters to boost exports;
while impose higher taxes on imported items to reduce imports → Current Account Deficit
(CAD: चालू खाता घाटा) controlled → ₹ :$ Exchange rate volatility controlled. (📑📑 pillar3:BoP)
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a) Balancing the revenue collection and expenditure
b) Establishing equilibrium between demand and supply of goods and services
c) Use of taxation, public borrowing and public expenditure by Government for purposes of
stabilisation or development. d) Deficiency as an instrument of growth
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266 Of India (CFI) (सं �चत �न�ध) need Parliament Permission (- except for Charged
Expenditure like Judges’ salaries).
Art. 🔐🔐Public Account Incoming ₹ ₹ from provident fund, small savings, postal
266 of India (लोक लेखा) deposit etc. Govt acts similar to a banker transferring fund
�सफर् पहली बार बनाते व� सरकार from here to there so parliament permission ✋not
ने सं सद क� अनुम�त लेनी है. िफर हर necessary.
बार इसम� से पैसा खचर् करते व� IF separate fund is to be created for the first time, for a specific
सं सद क� अनुम�त नहीं लेनी है. expenditure, then needs parliament permission to “create” it
e.g. Central Road Fund Act 2000, where Road Cess on Petrol,
Diesel would be deposited.
Art. 🔐🔐Contingency Fund ⇒ Unforeseen events. Held by Finance Secretary (IAS) in
267 of India (आक��कता �न�ध) Dept of Economic Affairs, on behalf of President.
⇒ Parliament approval is “subsequently” obtained, after
expenditure. Money refilled from CFI.
👜👜👜👜Budget-2021 reforms
1. Amount ⏫ from Rs 500 crore to Rs 30,000 crore
2. 40% of this amount will be kept with Dept of Expenditure
& 60% by Dept of Economic Affairs (DEA).
🔠🔠❓ Authorization for the withdrawal of funds from the Consolidated Fund of India must come
from: (Pre-2011) (a) President of India (b) Parliament of India (c) The PM of India (d) The Union
Finance Minister
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What is Cess? Ans. Finish entire Handout first.
20.2.2 🤧🤧🤧🤧Donation Funds: PMNRF vs PM CARES (दान)
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👴👴PMNRF by Nehru 1948 🧔🧔PM CARES Fund by Modi 2020
⇒ If company donates ₹₹=counted in Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR, Ref#1C ).
⇒ Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) operates ⇒ same.प्रधानमं त्री कायार्लय सं चा�लत करता है
⇒ PM is the ex-officio chairman. He’s assisted ⇒ Prime Minister is the ex-officio
by officers. (पदेन अ��) Chairman. (पदेन अ��)
⇒ Ex-officio Trustees (पदेन ट��ी): Ministers of
Defence, Home Affairs, Finance
⇒ 3 Nominated Trustees (मनोनीत): experts
from health, science, social work, law etc.
PM selects �ा�, �व�ान, सामा�जक कायर्, कानून
Notes:
⇒ 1962: A separate ‘National Defence Fund’ under PM to help military & paramilitary forces’
families. Other features mostly similar to above funds. (ऊपर के टेबल म� हमने पढ़े वो दो फ� के अलावा एक
तीसरा रा��ीय र�ा कोष/ �न�ध भी है)
⇒ Usually, such Govt donation funds are registered under Indian Trust Act, 1882. But, some legal
experts / critics suggest these donations should be brought under Public Account / Consolidated
Fund to bring accountability & transparency. (पारद�शता और जवाबदेही क� कमी)
⇒ 😰😰Controversy? PM CARES Fund officials refused to give information to a person under Right
to information Act (RTI), so now court case about applicability of RTI on this. (सरकार इस फं ड का
िहसाब िकताब “सूचना अ�धकार कानून म�” देने से इं कार कर रही थी तो कोटर् म� के स चला)
20.2.3 💼💼📃📃 Three Documents related to Budget (बजट के साथ प्र�ुत तीन द�ावेज)
- Budget comes from a French word 'bougette' meaning a leather bag / suitcase.
- Finance Minister (FM: �व� मं त्री) would keep documents in it → present in parliament.
- 2019: FM Nirmala Sitharaman ended this colonial practice by presenting the budget in a
traditional four-fold red cloth called “Bahi-Khata”. (लाल रंग के कपड़े म� लपेट के पेश िकया)
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- While the term ‘budget’ not given in our constitution, but for each financial year, the Govt is
required to present following: (सं �वधान म� इस श� का �जक्र नहीं हालाँिक हर साल तीन द�ावेज सं सद म� रखे जाते ह�। )
📃📃Art. 112 📊📊Annual Financial Statement (AFS: वा�षक �व�ीय �ववरण) containing receipt and
expenditure of last year (and projections for the next year).
1) The revenue expenditure data must be shown separately from other
expenditures data (e.g. capital expenditure)
🚩🚩�FAQ: What does this mean? Ans. Finish pillar2D: to learn about
capital expenditure. Presently we are at pillar#2A.
2) No compulsion to show railway budget separately from general budget.
3) No compulsion to show plan expenditure separately from non-plan.
📃📃Art. 265 Taxes can’t be imposed without law so Finance Bill to obtain Parliament's
📃📃Art.117 permission to collect taxes. (िव� �वधेयक कराधान के िलए।)
Further, Parliament can reduce or abolish a tax proposed by the Govt. but
�Read
Parliament cannot increase tax beyond what Govt has proposed in the Finance
more about
them in bill. E.g. If Modi Govt’s Finance bill proposes “we want to ⏫tax on imported
Laxmikanth shoes from 25% → 35%”. Then
or UA Notes ⇒ Members of parliament can vote to allow tax@35%/reduce/remove it.
⇒ ✋Members of parliament CANNOT vote “let’s ⏫tax to 45%”.
📃📃Art. 114 🛒🛒Appropriation Bill (�व�नयोग �वधेयक) to obtain Parliament's permission to spend
money from Consolidated Fund of India(CFI: Art 266). Such expenditure can be
�Read of two types :
more about 1) The expenditures ‘charged’ upon the Consolidated Fund of India e.g. Judges
them in salaries. They can be discussed but they are non-votable & automatically
Laxmikanth approved. (भारत क� सं �चत �न�ध पर भा�रत �य. सं सद म� उसक� चचार् हो सकती है, िक�ु मतदान नहीं।
or UA Notes वरना यिद सांसद मतदान से, जज क� तन�ाह ⏬कर द�गे तो जज �न�� �प से काम नहीं कर पाएं गे)
2) The expenditure ‘made’ from CFI. E.g. ₹ ₹ for a scheme. They’re discussed
and voted. (भारत क� सं �चत �न�ध से िकये गए �य. सं सद म� इसपर चचार् भी होगी और वोिटंग भी)
⇒ The finance bill and appropriation bill are considered money bills (धन �वधेयक) under article 110.
Therefore Rajya Sabha (RS) approval is not necessary. (रा� सभा क� अनुम�त अ�नवायर् नहीं)
⇒ At maximum Rajya Sabha can discuss it for 14 days and give suggestions to Lok Sabha for
amendments, but it’s not binding on the Lok Sabha to accept Rajya Sabha’s suggestions. (धन
�वधेयक के मामले म� रा�सभा द्वारा िदए गए सुजाव मानना लोकसभा के �लए बा�कारी नहीं है)
⇒ Sometimes, the ruling party does not have majority in Rajya Sabha to pass other type of ordinary
bills (e.g. a bill to transfer National Housing Bank (NHB)’s ownership from RBI to Govt. or
abolishing some low-profile statutory body or enacting a law to make Aadhar card compulsory)…
⇒ Then, ruling party packs those ordinary bills’ proposals inside Finance Bill to get it approved
without Rajya Sabha’s obstruction. (कु छ बार सामा� �वधेयक के मामले भी �व� �वधेयक म� डालकर, �बना रा� सभा
क� अनुम�त के पास करवाने क� हरकते स�ाप� द्वारा क� जाती है, जो नै�तक नहीं)
⇒ In such scenarios, whether a given bill is money bill or not?= Ans: Lok Sabha Speaker’s decision
is final [Art.110(3)]. Speaker’s decision cannot be enquired by any Court [Art.122].
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🔠🔠❓ MCQ. What will follow if a Money Bill is substantially amended by Rajya Sabha? (Pre’13)
a. Lok Sabha may still proceed with the Bill, accepting or not accepting recommendations of Rajya Sabha.
b. The Lok Sabha cannot consider the Bill further.
c. The Lok Sabha may send the Bill to the Rajya Sabha for reconsideration.
d. The President may call a joint sitting for passing the Bill.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find correct statement(s): (UPSC Pre’15)
1. The Rajya Sabha has no power either to reject or to amend a Money Bill.
2. The Rajya Sabha cannot vote on the Demands for Grants.
3. The Rajya Sabha cannot discuss the Annual Financial Statement.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
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⇒ So, to avoid such crisis, government will put a motion for vote on account.
⇒ Here, parliament (= practically Lok Sabha) will allow the govt to spend some money from the
CFI, till the (next) Appropriation Act for next financial year is passed.
⇒ Vote on Account is generally granted for two months for an amount equivalent to one-sixth of
the total budget estimation.
✋Vote on Account is no longer necessary because (अब इसक� ज�रत नहीं)
⇒ Constitution has no compulsion to put budget on a specific date. So, 2017 onwards, Modi Govt.
began tabling the budget on the first working day of February.
⇒ All the six stages are completed by the last week of March.
⇒ Appropriation bill gets passed and signed by President before completion of 31st March. So they
did not require vote on account in 2017, 2018.
⇒ (###) However, in 2019’s Interim Budget, Modi Govt demanded “vote on account” because they
planned to place full-budget after general elections and perhaps they wanted to keep the ‘option’
open for tabling a big-sized appropriation bill after winning the election. (2019 के अंत�रम बजट म�
हालांिक मोदी सरकार ने लेखानुदान क� मांग क� थी �ोंिक चुनाव के बाद बड़ा सामा� बजट प्र�ुत कर उसम� मोटी रकम का
“�व�नयोग �वधेयक” डालने का �वक�/ऐसी �खड़क�/रा�ा वे खुला रखना चाहते थे)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: (###) I’ve 500 types of counter arguments / doubts on this (###) bullet point. Ans. Govt
did not bother to give long reasoning behind their decision. Nobody filed a PIL SC. Economic
survey, NITI Aayog and columnist did not bother to comment much on it. So, I did not bother to
think/reflect more on it, Because it is NOT an efficient way to complete syllabus. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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⇒ Our constitution does not define or require interim budget. (अंत�रम बजट का सं �वधान म� �जक्र नहीं है)
⇒ But, during election year or extreme situation (E.g. when coalition government may collapse
before its term) then it’s considered unethical for such Govt. to make drastic/populist changes in
budget like “2gm gold for the marriage of every BPL-girl.”
⇒ So, while they’ll present a budget in the regular fashion i.e. 3 documents (AFS, FinBill,
Appro.Bill) & 6 Stages of Passing. But it (should) not have grand populist announcements. (ऐसी
प�र���तमे लोक-लुभावन क� योजनाओ के साथ बजट प्र�ुत करना नै�तक नहीं होगा, वरना �वप�ी नेता जीत नहीं पाएं गे चुनाव)
⇒ Such budgets are called Interim Budgets, and were presented in 2004 (Yashwant S.), 2009
(Pranab M.), 2014 (Chidambaram P.) and 2019 (Piyush G.)
⇒ Just like a Regular General Budget, an Interim budget is valid for the whole financial year,
however in between if new government is formed, they may present another budget to change
the provisions. (वैसे तो पूरे वषर् के �लए वैध होता है)
⇒ E.g. 2014-Feb: FM Chidambaram presented (interim) budget in 15th Lok Sabha, but then
UPA/Congress defeated in general election→ 2014-July: BJP’s FM Arun Jaitley presented (Full)
General Budget in 16th Lok Sabha.
⇒ 2019-Feb: FM Piyush G. presented Interim budget in 16th Lok Sabha → 2019-May: Modi won
General Election → 2019-July: FM Nirmala S. presented (Full) Gen Budget in 17th Lok Sabha.
✋Note: throughout the handout, I’ve used the term “Full” budget to
differentiate it from “Interim” Budget for easier revision & visualization. But in
Mains, you should use the word ‘General Budget’(सामा� बजट)
20.5.1 👜👜👜👜Budget’s THEME (बजट क� �वषयव�ु)
Constitution doesn’t require, but sometimes FM will do it to create media-hype:
Budget Year Did FM Speech mention a specific theme (�वषयव�ु)?
• No specific theme mentioned in speech but focus on AtmaNirbhar Bharat
2021 (Full)
• Paperless/Digital Budget in a Samsung tablet made in India, covered in
Paperless
Red-colored cover.
⇒ Azadi ka Amrit Kaal, the 25-year-long leadup to India@100.
⇒ Four priorities: 1) PM GatiShakti, 2) Inclusive Development 3)
Productivity Enhancement & Investment, Sunrise Opportunities, Energy
2022 (Full) Transition, and Climate Action 5) Financing of Investments
Paperless ⇒ Paperless/Digital Budget in a tablet, covered in Red-colored cover.
‘Saptarishi’ (7 priority) for Amrit Kaal, namely:
2023 (Full) 1) Inclusive Development , 2) Reaching the Last Mile, 3) Infrastructure and
Paperless Investment, 4) Unleashing the Potential, 5) Green Growth, 6) Youth Power ,
7) Financial Sector
20.6 📘📘📘📘 ECONOMIC SURVEY (आ�थक सव��ण)
- A document prepared by (usually) by the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) in FinMin.
- ✋No constitutional obligation to prepare or present it but usually it’s tabled in the parliament a
day before the Union Budget. (सं �वधा�नक �प से ऐसा करना अ�नवायर् नहीं)
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- 2019-Feb: No economic survey was presented before the interim budget.
- 2019-July: Economic Survey presented before the (Full) General Budget.
- While Budget is labelled after next financial year (e.g. 2019-20), the Economic survey is labelled
after previous Financial Year. e.g. The survey tabled on Jan-2018 labelled as “Economic Survey
2017-18”, the Survey tabled in July-2019 is labelled “Economic Survey 2018-19”.
- For faster revision/easy visualisation, throughout my handout, I’ve used following labels:
- “📙📙📙📙ES22” means Economic Survey 2021-22 presented on 31/1/2022
- “📙📙📙📙ES21” means Economic Survey 2020-21 presented on 31/1/2021. & so forth.
Table 1: Theme / Format of Economic Survey?
Till 2013-14 ⇒ Single Volume survey. (�सफ़र् एक अंक म� प्रका�शत िकया जाता था)
⇒ Adopted Two Volume Systems like “IMF’s World Economic Outlook”. (दो-अंक)
2014-15 ⇒ Vol1= future suggestions | Vol2= Past data.
2 volumes ⇒ Explicitly mentioned Theme in preface (प्रा�थन): “Creating opportunity and
reducing vulnerability” (through JanDhan-Aadhar-Mobile = JAM trinity)
Paperless / Digital Survey. No theme explicitly mentioned in preface. but focus areas /
2020-21
major talking points were 1) #SavingLives&Livelihoods 2) V-shaped Recovery 3)
2 volumes
Countercyclical fiscal policy 4) Bare Necessities Index
⇒ Released both in digital and paper (hardcopy) on 31/Jan/2022
⇒ THEME in Preface: Art and science of policy-making under conditions of
extreme uncertainty using “Agile” approach. ("फु त�ली" ���कोण का उपयोग करते �ए
2021-22 अ��धक अ�न��तता क� ���तयों म� नी�त-�नमार्ण क� कला और �व�ान)
1 Volume ⇒ Not published by CEA. Published by Principal Economic Adviser. (Reason is not
important, but explained in video lecture so save page space in handout.)
⇒ Shifted from TWO Volumes to ONE Volume. (Reason is not important, but
explained in video lecture so save page space in handout.)
⇒ Released both in digital and paper (hardcopy) on 31/Jan/2023, by CEA.
⇒ No theme explicitly mentioned in preface. but focus areas were
⇒ India’s Post-Corona economic recovery is complete
2022-23
1 Volume ⇒ GDP growth likely to be 6% to 6.8% for 2023-24
⇒ 2022’s survey: the social sector was covered in chapter number-10.
⇒ 2023’s survey: social sector chapter was shifted to chapter number 6- to highlight
that Modi Govt is very serious about social sector (health, edu etc.)
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20.6.1 📙📙📙📙�Chief Economic Advisor (CEA: मु� आ�थक सलाहकार)
- Works under Finance ministry’s Department of Economic Affairs
- Usual tenure 3 years, reappointment possible, but not a constitutional or statutory body. Has
control over Indian Economic Service (IES) officers. (तीन साल का कायर्काल पुन�नयु�� सं भव)
- Notable CEAs in Past: Manmohan Singh, Raghuram Rajan, Arvind Subramanian (2014-18).
- 2018-2021: Krishnamurthy Subramanian served as the CEA.
- 2022-Jan: Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran as its Chief Economic Advisor (CEA). Nageswaran MBA
from IIM-A. His famous books: 1) Can India grow? 2) The Rise of Finance: Causes,
Consequences and Cures
20.7 �FINANCE MINISTRY AND ITS DEPARTMENTS: (�व� मं त्रालय और उसके �वभाग)
20.7.1 �💼💼Department of Economic Affairs (DEA: आ�थक कायर्/ आ�थक मामलो का �वभाग)
Functions of DEA:
⇒ Fiscal policy, Preparation and presentation of Union budget including the Railway component of
budget. Budget for union territories without legislature, budget for States under president rule.
⇒ DEA announces the Interest rates of small saving schemes. (Ref:1D, लघु बचत योजनाओं क� �ाज दर)
⇒ DEA maintains a website www.pppinindia.gov.in, to provide information related to Public Pvt
Partnership (PPP). (📑📑Ref-Pill5: Infrastructure for more)
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20.7.2 �🛒🛒FinMin#2: Department of Expenditure (�य �वभाग)
⇒ Here the Controller General of Account (CGA: महालेखा �नयं त्रक from Indian Civil Accounts Service
(ICAS) service, recruited by UPSC-CSE) prepares estimate of how much money to be spent from
consolidated fund of India.
⇒ It also deals with Pay Commission reports, Pension Accounting office.
⇒ Web Portals of Expenditure Department:
Public Financial Management System (PFMS): for disbursing money to various
Ministries and departments at Union and State level
Bharatkosh- Non Tax Receipts Portal (NTRP): For selling India yearbook Yojana
Kurukshetra mags etc products and services by the government of India
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Schemes for Financial Inclusion (📑📑Ref-1D), PSB supervision and recapitalization, Public Sector
Financial Intermediaries, including their regulators (Except EPFO, ESIC etc.)
Organizations under/related to DFS:
Bank Board Bureau: Neither Constitutional / statutory. Setup through gazette notification for
selection of top officials (MD, CEO, Chairman and full-time Directors) for PSBs, LIC and other
public sector financial institutions. (📑📑Ref:1B-2)
Govt Company: National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC): For providing credit
guarantee for loans in Mudra, certain MSME loans, Stand up India, education-skill development
related loans. (इस सरकारी योजनाओं म� लाभाथ� कजार् वापस नहीं कर� तो ब�क के नुकसान क� भरपाई ये कं पनी करेगी)
20.7.6 �🏭🏭FinMin#5: DIPAM (�नवेश एवं लोक प�रसं प�� प्रबं धन �वभाग)
Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) looks after Disinvestment /
privatization of Govt Companies / Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE- सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के क� द्रीय
उद्यम) (Ref 📑📑#2D: Disinvestment)
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Selection/Interview of Managing Director, Who is responsible?
Chairman & other Top-Officials in _ _ (इन उ� पदा�धका�रयों का चयन कौन करता है)
वाली सरकारी क��नयों म� उ� अ�धका�रयों के चयन
के �लए अलग सं �ा PESB है)
RBI Governor, SEBI Chief etc regulators Separate Committee headed by Cabinet
→. →. → Secretary (IAS)
The highest official in each of above 6 depts is called ‘Secretary’ (usually an IAS)
→ senior-most among them is designated as Finance Secretary=signs ₹ 1 note.
Finance Secretary usually heads the Dept of Economic Affairs (DEA)
⇒ 👜👜👜👜Budget-2021 announced this → 2022-March: Govt said we’ll setup NLMC under Dept
of Public Enterprise. This company 100% owned by Govt with paid up capital of ₹150 cr.
⇒ Function? Renting/selling surplus land-assets of govt depts/govt companies etc. It will hire
experienced professionals from private sector to ensure efficient management.
⇒ Related topics: PM Gati Shakti, National Monetization Pipeline, National Infra Pipeline: (REF: in
📑📑Pillar#5: PPP / public private partnership)
(सरकारी कं प�नयों क� अ�त�र� ज़मीन / इमारत /सं प��यों को �नजी �ेत्र के उधोयपतीयो को िकराये पे देना/बेच देना- इन सबके �लए एक
“रा�ी� य भू-मौिद्रकरण �नगम” क� �ापना।)
20.7.9 � Indian Audit and Accounts Department
As per Press Release FinMin = 6 departments that we learned above.
This (lesser known) dept is headed by Constitutional Body: Comptroller and Auditor General
(CAG: भारत के �नयं त्रक-महालेखापरी�क इस के मु�खया होते ह� तो इस �वभाग को �व� मं त्रालय का िह�ा नहीं माना जाता)
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2. No amount can be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund of India without authorization from
Parliament of India.
3. All the disbursements made from Public Account also need the authorization from Parliament
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 2 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which one of the following is responsible for the preparation and presentation of
Union Budget to the Parliament? (MCQ-Prelims-2010)
(a) Department of Revenue (b) Department of Economic Affairs
(c) Department of Financial Services (d) Department of Expenditure
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Fiscal Policy in India is formulated by: (MCQ-CDS-2012)
(a) the Reserve Bank of India (b) the Planning Commission (c) the Finance Ministry (d)SEBI
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20.8.2 Types of taxes: Progressive vs Regressive vs Proportional
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which of the following was not advocated by Adam Smith? (UPSC-CDS-2019-1)
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a) Canon of equality b) Canon of certainty c) Canon of convenience d) Canon of fiscal adequacy
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find Correct Statements (UPSC-CDS-2016-1)
1. Ability to pay principle of taxation holds that taxes people pay should relate to their income or wealth
2. The Benefit Principle of taxation states that individuals should be taxed in proportion to the benefit they
receive from Government programmes
3. A progressive tax takes a larger share of tax from poor families than it does from rich families
4. Indirect taxes have the advantage of being cheaper and easier to collect
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 1, 2 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
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😀😀Merits of Direct Taxes 😓😓Demerits (नुकसान)
2. Promotes civic consciousness (नाग�रक चेतना) 2. Hardship not counted: Working Carpenter
since citizen directly feels the ‘pinch of tax’ [5%] vs sleeping landlord [5%] (किठन प�रश्रम के
(चुभन महसूस करना). �लए कोई �रयायत नहीं )
3. To ⬆ savings & investment: Income tax 3. High level of direct tax= laziness, less foreign
deduction/exemptions on NPS/ LIC etc. investment. (उची दरे लोगों को आलसी बनाती है)
4. Elasticity (लचीलापन): As public’s income level 4. Narrow base: poor people not covered. If we
⬆ then tax revenue ⬆ try then very large Income tax staff will
5. Certainty (when and how to pay IT, �न��तता) required to supervise over poor people. (सं क�णर्
आधार)
6. Can ⬇ volatility in International currency
5. Prone to litigation & loopholes, tax evasion,
exchange rates by imposing Tobin Tax
avoidance. (📑📑More in #2B: Blackmoney)
(📑📑More in Pillar#3) (मुद्रा �व�नमय दर क� अ��रता
(मुकदमेबाजी, कर-चोरी, कर-प�रहार)
को कम िकया जा सकता है )
21.3 🍋🍋🍋UNION TAX, CESS AND SURCHARGE (क� द्रीय कर, उपकर और अ�धभार)
Any Union - Computed on taxable income, profit, transaction. Goes to Consolidated Fund of
Tax India → Later divided between Union and states as per the Finance Commission
(सं घ कर) formula. (IGST’s distribution matter slightly different. Refer to Pillar2B:GST.)
Surcharge - Computed on Tax amount. So, it is a ‘tax on tax’. This ₹₹ will also goto CFI.
- Surcharge is not shared with States using Finance Commission Formula.
(अ�धभार) - Usually, surcharge doesn’t have any clear objective in ‘prefix’, so it may be used for
any purpose. Exception is 10% Social Welfare Surcharge (समाज क�ाण अ�धभार) on the
customs duty on imported goods. → ₹₹ specifically used for social welfare schemes
of the Union. (सामा� �प से इन पैसों का उपयोग िकस खास काम म� होता है उसे �� बताया नहीं जाता)
Cess - Computed on [(Tax) + (Surcharge, if any)]
(उपकर) - Clear objective is mentioned. E.g. Road & infrastructure cess, Health & Education,
GST compensation cess etc.
- By default, cess goes to CFI→ from there, cess goes to Public Accounts. Sometimes
there may be separate fund inside public account for it, e.g. Central Road Safety
Fund, Prarambhik Shiksha Kosh etc.
- Finance Commission can’t prescribe formula to share cess with States. (Although
some of the cess money will invisibly goto states as a part of scheme implementation
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e.g. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Premium share, etc. but that depends on discretion
of Union) (इस रकम को �व� आयोग रा�ों के साथ नहीं बाँट सकता. क� द्र सरकार अपने �ववेक से अलग अलग
योजनाओं म� शायद इस उपकर का कु छ पैसा रा�ों को दे सकती है )
- GST Compensation Cess matter is little different. <explained in the GST segment of
next handout>
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: IS it compulsory that every tax MUST have Cess and Surcharge on it?
Not compulsory. Depends on Govt’s mood / discretion. (सरकार क� मज़� पर िनभर्र)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Is “Health Cess” and “Health & Education Cess” same or different?
Ans. Different. Observe table given above.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: I’ve 500 other doubts. Ans. Not important for UPSC exam.#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
21.3.2 🍋🍋🍋: 🏦🏦 Direct Tax → Cess: 🍋🍋Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi (PMSSN)
प्रत्य� करों पर लगाए गए उपकर का पैसा इस फंड में डालेंगे और िविवध स्वास्थ्य योजनाएं चलाएंगे
⇒ Govt levies 4% Health & Education Cess on direct taxes such as income tax & corporation tax.
(प्र�� करों पर �ा� व �श�ा उपकर)
⇒ 2021-March: govt created a new “Non-Lapsable” fund under Public Account. (What is “Non-
Lapsable fund? Ref: Pillar#2D). लोक लेखा म� एक ग़ैर-��गत �न�ध बनायी जाएगी
⇒ This fund will receive ₹ ₹ from above cess.
⇒ Health ministry will use this money for (More in 📑📑Pillar#6)
o 1) Ayushmann Bharat & its sub schemes like PM-JAY (5L-Health insurance),
o 2) Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (setting up AIIMS-like institutions in
every state & upgrading government medical colleges).
o 3) National Health Mission (NHM) रा��ीय �ा� �मशन
o 4) Health emergencies like Corona �ा� आपदाएँ
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21.3.3 Laffer Curve, Tax elasticity, Tax Buoyancy etc
Refer to �2B: black money handout.
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21.5 🍋🍋🍋: 🏦🏦🐷🐷 MINIMUM ALTERNATE TAX (MAT) & AMT (�ूनतम वैक��क कर)
- Some industrialists make profit but use tax-deduction, exemptions, depreciations and
accounting tricks to show ₹0 taxable income to escape paying Corporation Tax. So,
- Budget-1996 (Chidambaram) introduced 18.5% MAT on book profit of such ‘ZERO TAX
Companies’, using a different type of formula. (What was the formula, not important).
- Modi govt ⏬ reduced MAT from 18.5% → 15%
- Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT: 15%) is a similar type of tax on Cooperative societies e.g.
Amul, IFFCO. (we will not waste more time on it. Beyond this 1 line GK.)
🚩🚩�FAQ: if it is showing zero taxable income, then how can we complete the tax on it?
Ans. Explained in the video lecture. Beyond that you may feel free to do PhD & Chartered
accountant-giri from https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/tutorials/10.mat-and-amt.pdf
Figure 2: “अभी अभी धं धा शु� िकया है, थोड़ा ब� दो, मा�लक!” IT Dept: “ठीक है, �सफर् थोड़े वष� के �लए ही!”
Startup is a company not older than 10 years and not having turnover more than 100 cr. & is doing
innovation in goods/services. Govt helps them through Startup India Scheme (📑📑more in Pillar4B).
Startup can claim 100% deduction (=Tax Holiday) on its profits, for 3 years out of the first 10
years of registration incorporation. (Tax Holiday = no need to pay tax.)
21.5.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Angel Tax on Startup Investments (2012)
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⇒ 2012: UPA/Congress Govt ordered the suspicious startup Companies to pay 30% Tax + Penalty
on the investment which they received from Angel investor. (सं िद� �ाटर्अप कं प�नयों को आदेश िदया िक
आपको जो �नवेश म� पैसा �मला है उस पर 30 प्र�तशत एं जल टै� और जुमार्ना भरना होगा)
⇒ This was called ‘Angel Tax’. But then controversy that Angel Tax will discourage the growth of
startup companies so norms relaxed. (आलोचकों ने बोला ऐसी स�ी के चलते �ाटर्अप के �वकास को अवरोध होगा)
Budget-2019: made from reforms:
STARTUP REGISTERED WITH DPIIT STARTUP NOT REGISTERED WITH DPIIT
NO need to pay Angel Tax YES, need to pay Angel Tax
�Budget-2023: made some reforms
Angel tax applicable when startup not BEFORE �BUDGET-2023
registered with DPIIT, & got funding from _ _ _
Local Investors YES, pay Angel Tax YES, pay Angel Tax
Foreign Investors NO need to pay YES, pay Angel Tax
Angel Tax
DPIIT = Dept for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under Commerce Ministry.
21.6 🍋🍋🍋: 🏦🏦 EQUALISATION LEVY / GOOGLE TAX (समकारी लेवी/ गूगल टै�)
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govt has powers to tax it. 💼💼Budget-2020 made some technical changes into it. But, poor
cost:benefit chasing it for MCQs.
3. OECD used a phrase ‘Tax challenges of digitization’ to denote above problems where digital
services type Multinational Corporation (MNC) are avoiding taxes. (ब�रा��ीय �नगमो द्वारा कर को टालना)
4. France has implemented tax on large technology companies called GAFA Tax (Google Apple
Facebook Amazon) from 1st Jan 2019. Other nations also doing similar.
5. 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What is the difference between tax, duty, levy?= if you get selected in IRS (Indian
revenue service) they’ll teach you in training. 🎓🎓✋Not-imp here. #थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो.
6. 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What is onshore/offshore safe harbor regime? 🎓🎓✋Not-important
7. What is Global Minimum Tax, DTAA, GAAR, PoEM etc? Ans. �Pillar#2B: Black Money.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. With reference to India’s decision to levy an equalization tax of 6% on online
advertisement services offered by non-resident entities, Find correct statements? (Pre-2018)
1. It is introduced as a part of the Income Tax Act.
2. Non-resident entities that offer advertisement services in India can claim a tax credit in their
home country under the “Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements”.
Answer Codes: a) 1 only b) 2 only c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 nor 2
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21.8 🍋🍋🍋: 🗃🗃🗃🗃 BUYBACK TAX (शेयर क� वापसी-खरीद पर कर)
�What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the video lecture. �
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21.9 🍋🍋🍋 : 🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠CAPITAL GAINS TAX (CGT: पूंजीगत लाभ कर)
- When an owner makes profit by selling his capital assets such as non-agro-land, property,
jewellery, paintings, vehicles, machinery, patents, trademarks, shares, bonds & other securities-
then he has to pay CAPITAL GAINS TAX (CGT).
- Depending on how long did the owner keep that asset before selling it, he will pay:
- EITHER Long Term Capital Gains tax (LCGT: x% दीघार्व�ध) OR
- OR Short Term Capital Gains tax (SCGT: y% अ�ाव�ध)
- 💼💼Budget-2020 & 2021: some minor technical updates. notIMP.
- 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022: Bitcoin, NFT and other virtual digital assets (VDA): profit pe 30% CGT.
Trade/Transfer pe 1% TDS (Refer to 📑📑Pillar1: 1A1 about cryptocurrency theory)
- 👛👛Budget-2023: nothing exam-worthy.
21.9.1 🔗🔗🔗🔗:🍋🍋 Bitcoin Profit pe 30% Tax and transfer pe 1% TDS in 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022
🔠🔠❓MCQ: In which of the following circumstances may ‘capital gains’ arise? (Prelims-2012)
1. When there is an increase in the sales of a product.
2. When there is a natural increase in the value of the property owned.
3. When you purchase a painting & there is a growth in its value due to increase in its popularity.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 2 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
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You can use any ONE of the given system OTR or NTR.
Sr Matter OTR NTR-2023
Sr.1 (Non-Agriculture) Gross Income of salaried employee aged 750000 750000
less than 60YR
Sr.2 minus Standard deduction -50000 -50000
Sr.3 minus NPS deduction -50000# N/A*
Sr.4 minus LIC, ELSS (Ref#1C), Home Loan etc deduction -150000# N/A*
Sr.5 Taxable Income: (Sr.1-2-3-4) 500000 700000
Sr.6 Income Tax on taxable income (Sr.5) 12500 25000
Sr.7 REBATE on Income Tax (Sr.6) -12500** -25000**
Sr.8 Income tax to be paid (Sr.6-7) 0 0
Sr.9 surcharge on IT if taxable income >Rs.50 lakh 0 0
Sr.10 4% health & Education Cess on (Sr8+9) (0+0)x4%=0 (0+0)x4%=0
Total Tax to be paid 0 0
⇒ # These are max deduction limits. So if u invest more money in LIC/NPS beyond these limits,
still you’ll NOT get more deduction than this. (इससे �ादा पैसा डालोगे तो भी �ादा माफ़� नहीं �मलेगी)
⇒ *in NTR-2023, whether person saves money in LIC/NPS etc or not, he’ll not get any deduction
benefit. So N/A = not applicable.
⇒ **Tax rebate allowed only if taxable income upto Rs.5 lakh in OTR OR Rs.7 lakh in NTR. So if
Akshay Kumar having 200 crore income = he’ll not GET REBATE. See next table.
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21.10.1 Revenue Forgone / Tax Expenditure (प�रत्य� राजस्व/कर खचर्)
Sr Matter OTR NTR-2023
1 Gross income Rs.5.50 cr Rs.5.50 cr
2 Std. Deduction (-) 50,000 (-) 50,000
3 NPS (-) 50,000 N/A
4 LIC, Home Loan etc (-) 2,00,000 N/A
5 Taxable income: 1-2-3-4 5,47,50,000 Rs. 5,49,50,000
6 Tax rebate N/A bcoz income >5 lakh N/A bcoz income >7 lakh
7 Tax+Surcharge+Cess on Sr5= Rs.2,31,35,190 Rs. 2,10,40,500
⇒ in above case, Tax Payer has to pay Rs.20,94,690 LESS in NTR compared to OTR.
⇒ So from Tax-payer's point of view, this is 'Tax savings'.
⇒ From the Govt's point of view this is 'revenue forgone / tax expenditure' (सरकार के नए स्लेब/िनयमो के
चलते िजतना कर कम आया, सरकार उस नक्ु सान को ‘राजस्व प�रत्य�/कर खचर्’ कहते है.)
⇒ Govt deliberately makes such 'revenue forgone' to boost the economy indirectly. (How? Next
section) (अथर्तंत्र क� बहेतरी के िलए सरकार जानबुज कर ऐसा राजस्व प�रत्य� करती है.)
21.10.2 Income Tax: no tax upto ₹7 lakh after 👛👛Budget-2023 = Boosting Economy
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⇒ Thus, The new tax regime increases the disposable income in the hands of taxpayers, and this is
likely to boost the shopping, demand, production, jobs and economic growth. (नई प्रणाली में करदाता के
िलए खचर् करने योग्य आमदनी बढ़ रही है जो िक आिथर्क वृिद्ध में मदद करे गी)
21.10.6 ��Income Tax Slabs -> old tax regime -> senior citizens
- (OLD Tax Regime) Income tax slabs for senior citizens are slightly relaxed. i.e.
OTR income tax 0% 5% 20% 30%
Less than 60 age Upto 2.50 lakh 2.50-5 lakh 5-10 lakh >10 lakh
60 or more but Upto 3 lakh 3-5 lakh Same as above Same as above
less than 80 age
>80 age Upto 5 lakh =0% N/A
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21.11🍋🍋🍋🌱🌱DIRECT TAX CODE (DTC) TASK FORCE (2017-2019)
⇒ 2017: Finance Ministry setup this taskforce under CBDT member Arbind Modi. Later, he retired
so another CBDT member Akhilesh Ranjan was made Chairman.
⇒ Taskforce had noted IRS officer, Chartered Accountant, Tax Lawyer, Corporate Consultant etc.
⇒ While Government did not disclose full report in public domain, but according to journalists, it
contains following suggestions:
1. Replace the Income Tax Act 1961 with a simpler Direct Tax Code (प्र�� कर सं िहता).
2. Reduce the corporation tax further. �नगम करों म� और कटौती क� जाए
3. Tax rates for domestic and foreign companies should be same. This will encourage ease of doing
business in India. (भारतीय और �वदेशी कं प�नयों पे एक समान �नगम कर लगे तािक �ापार म� सुगमता)
4. Give additional tax relief for the startup companies. (More in Pillar4B)
5. Increase the number of tax slabs from present three (5%,20%,30%) to four (10%, 20%, 30% and
lastly 35% for super-rich earning ₹ 2 crore />).
6. Abolish Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT). [which is actually done in 💼💼Budget-2020]
7. Setup Litigation Management Unit to look after the tax related court cases in an efficient
manner. (मुकदमों क� प्रबं धन इकाई बनाई जाए तािक कराधान के के सों का प्रभावी �प से �नपटारा हो सके )
++ many other reforms, but poor cost:benefit chasing them. #थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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- So, for above persons, Income Tax Act has Presumptive Taxation System. It is not a separate tax
but a ‘method/formula’ to calculate their income tax. How it works? NotIMP. (यह कोई अलग कर नहीं
है िकंतु आयकर �गरने का एक अलग िक� का सूत्र है. वह �ा सूत्र है हम पढ़ने नहीं बैठ�गे)
Table 2: ✋don't confuse the terms and at the same time no need for CA-giri
Income Tax on income ⇒ A direct tax levied by Union.
other than agri → ⇒ Every resident has to pay it on his taxable income.
(आयकर ) ⇒ Within that income tax: lawyers, doctors, fashion designers etc.
self-employed/freelance professionals do calculation of income
tax using Presumptive Taxation
Professional tax ⇒ It is a separate direct tax Levied by State Govt on the
(�वसाय कर) →[गैर-िकसान professionals (who are not farmers).
पेशेवर पर राज्य सरकार का कर] ⇒ Constitution says it can’t be more than ₹2,500 per yr per person.
21.12.3 🍋🍋⏰Advance Tax ? (अ�ग्रम कर)
- New financial year starts from 1st April 2019 and ends on 31st March 2020.
- If everyone paid all of their direct taxes at 11:59PM on 31st March 2020, then govt. will face
money-shortage for the whole year till 31st March midnight comes.
- So, Advance Tax mechanism requires people to pay their Income tax and Corporation tax in
advance-instalments on quarterly basis (every 3-3 months), If their annual tax liability is ₹10,000
or more. (बड़े आयकरदाता और कं प�नयों ने हर तीन तीन महीने पर िक�ों म� कर जमा करना होगा)
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Who collects/cuts it? From whose payment?
AT SOURCE currency. (चु�नदं ा व�ुओ ं और
सेवाओं के ग्राहक)
⇒ 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Whether TDS/TCS applicable on “X” thing or not? ✋Ans. not important
beyond examples given in table.
⇒ 🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Can we call TDS and TCS indirect taxes? Ans. ✋No, they are administrative
mechanisms to discourage black money. TDS/TCS are not separate taxes. E.g. TDS that is cut
from salary/dividend/bank interest= ultimately that TDS ₹₹ goes into the income tax
computation of respective employee/shareholder/depositor. So TDS is not a separate tax.
21.14🍋🍋�✂TAX DEDUCTED AT SOURCE (TDS): (स्रोत पर कर कटौती)
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21.14.1 👻👻 (🍋🍋🍋✂) TDS → ATMA NIRBHAR BHARAT REFORMS
Faded/ outdated. So deleting from handout.
21.14.2 🍋🍋🏎🏎✂Tax Collected at Source (TCS): (�ोत पर सं गहृ ीत कर)
- If a rockstar buys an SUV car worth ₹25 lakhs, then it means he must be a rich man. How to
ensure he is paying Income Tax regularly (apart from TDS mechanism)?
- So, the car showroom owner (seller) is required to collect extra 1% from Rockstar (Buyer) and
deposit to IT-dept. Rockstar will have to file tax-return to unlock this amount.
- A person is eligible to receive income tax refund from IT-dept IF he has paid more tax to the govt
than his actual tax liability. e.g. If college deducted 10% TDS from freelance visiting faculty
payment, but what if he was in 0% or 5% Income Tax slab? Then, Income Tax Department will
refund his money with interest.
- Similarly, GST refund can be claimed by an entrepreneur from GSTN webportal.
21.15 🍋🍋MISC. DIRECT TAXES - FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAXES (�व�ीय लेनदेन कर)
21.15.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋 (Concept) Tobin Tax / Robinhood Tax
- 1970s: Nobel recipient American economist James Tobin proposed a small tax everytime
currency is converted into another currency (e.g. $ to ₹).
- Such tax will discourage short term speculative investment and flight of capital from one country
to another = stabilizing the global economy and currency exchange rates and share market.
- In India, foreign currency conversions subjected to GST (which is in indirect tax). However,
some other nations collect it as direct tax. (More in 📑📑Pillar#3A)
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21.15.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋STT & CTT (प्र�तभू�त लेनदेन कर और व�ु लेनदेन कर)
- Securities Transaction Tax (STT: प्र�तभू�त लेनदेन कर) is levied on the sale and purchase of shares,
ETF-units, derivatives and other securities at stock-exchanges.
- Its rate (0.001%-2%) varies as per the nature of the securities.
- Commodities Transaction Tax (CTT: व�ु लेनदेन कर) is levied on non-agricultural commodities
traded at Commodities-Exchanges. Rate ~0.01%.
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Direct Tax By Description
State ⇒ Applies on value of share/bond/securities, immovable properties
Govt (e.g. building) and certain types of legal agreements e.g. rent
agreement etc.
⇒ Irrespective of whether seller is making profit or loss.
⇒ 2020: Union govt amended the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 so that the
Stamp Duty
Stamp duty rates on share/bonds/securities become uniform across
(�ा� शु�)
the states. (प्र�तभू�तयों पर �े� शु� के दरों को सभी रा�ोमे एकसमान िकया).
Union collects → distributes it to State Govt of domicile of the
buyer. (प्र�तभू�त खरीदार �जस रा� का है, उधर क� रा�सरकार को �मलेगा)
⇒ Corona crisis → Union Govt postponed implementation date.
⇒ 🎓🎓✋Further operational mechanism/rules= poor cost:benefit.
Upcoming Handouts in Pillar#2
2A1) ✅ Direct Taxes
2A2) Indirect Taxes & GST
2B) Black Money, 15th Finance Commission
2C) Subsidies, Salaries, Revenue Expenditure, Revenue Deficit
2D) Disinvestment, Deficit, FRBM Act, Fiscal Council, Budgeting-Railway budget, plan-non plan
budget, & scheme types etc.
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PILLAR #2A2: BUDGET: TAXATION: Indirect Taxes & GST
Table of Contents
22 �BUDGET→ �REVENUE PART→ �RECEIPTS→ �TAX →�
� Indirect Taxes ...................286
22.1 �� Indirect Taxes: types (अप्र�� करों के प्रकार) ....................................................................................287
22.2 �� Indirect Taxes: merits and demerits (लाभ व् नुकसान ) ..................................................................287
22.3 ���� (Concept) Pigouvian Tax (�पगो�वयन कर) .........................................................................287
22.3.1 Customs Duty in �Budget-2023 ..................................................................................................288
22.3.2 ���Cess and Surcharges on Excise & Customs ................................................................288
22.3.3 ���Indirect Tax → �Petrol & Diesel price high because...........................................289
22.3.4 ���Indirect Tax → additional differential excise duty on Unblended Petrol .............289
22.3.5 �🛳🛳Windfall Tax on export of petrol/diesel/ATF fuel (2022).................................................289
22.3.6 ���: GST on Petrol Diesel Electricity: NITI Aayog 6 year roadmap .............................290
22.3.7 �Petrol-Diesel: Dynamic Fuel Pricing System & oil bond repayment ...................................290
22.4 �����Cascading Effect of Indirect Taxes ...........................................................................291
22.5 ����: Indirect Taxes: A Timeline of Reforms ........................................................................293
22.6 ��� Indirect Taxes → GST: Timeline (समयरेखा) .........................................................................294
22.7 ��:�
�� GST: 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016 ....................................................294
22.8 ��: ��� GST Council: Composition? जीएसटी प�रषद ............................................................295
22.8.1 ��� GST Council: Functions? They’ll decide following- ................................................295
22.8.2 �GST Council Decision not binding on States ..............................................................................297
22.9 ��� GST Input Tax Credit (ITC: इनपुट कर प्र�य) ..........................................................................297
22.9.1 ��� Inverted Duty Structure Problem in GST on Textile ...............................................298
22.9.2 �GST: Exempt vs ZERO RATED ................................................................................................299
22.9.3 �Vaccine GST can’t be 0% ZERO RATED or “EXEMPTED” because .................................300
22.10 ���� Centre’s Indirect Taxes subsumed in CGST............................................................300
22.10.1 � GST Revenue Collection Figures: जीएसटी राज� प्रा�� के आंकड़े ................................................302
22.11 ��(�
��)�
� States’ Indirect Taxes subsumed in SGST ......................................................303
22.12 ��� GST Rates on Services =0%: सेवाओं पर जीएसटी क� दर .........................................................304
22.13 ��� GST Rates on Goods : 0%: सामान पर जीएसटी क� 0% दर� .....................................................306
22.13.1 ��� GST Rates on Goods : 0% removed .......................................................................307
22.13.2 ��Indirect Tax → �GST Rate � on Corona Related Items (2021-Jun) ....................307
22.14 ���� GST Composition Scheme (जीएसटी सं रचना योजना) ......................................................308
22.14.1 ���� GST Mechanism: Quarterly Returns and Monthly Payment of Tax (QRMP)
308
22.14.2 ��: ��(�
�) 1% GST deposit in cash for controlling fake ITC claims .......................308
22.15 ��� Reverse Charge Mechanism (�वपरीत प्रभार क� �व�ा) ........................................................308
22.16 �� E-way Bill System (ई-वे �बल प्रणाली) from 2018 onwards ........................................................308
22.17 � → �(�
��) Compensation to States: WHY? ......................................................................309
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22.17.1 � → �(�
��) Compensation to States: HOW? .................................................................309
22.18 ��:�
� → �(�
��) GST Compensation & Back2Back Loans .........................................310
22.18.1 ���[�
� → �(�
�� GST compensation: "back to back" loans ₹1.10 lcr ...............311
22.18.2 ���[�
� → �(�
�� Back to Back loans: Beneficiary States ....................................311
22.18.3 ���:�
� GST Back to Back Loans & Fiscal Deficit / FRBM for States ...........................311
22.19 ��� GST Related Organizations (सं �ाए) .................................................................................312
22.19.1 ��� Group of Ministers (GoM: मं �त्रयों का समूह) ....................................................................312
22.19.2 ��� National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA/NAPA) .............................................312
22.19.3 �� Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR-अ�ग्रम फै सलों के �लए प्रा�धकरण) ...................................312
22.19.4 � � � GST tribunal (GSTAT) (2023) .............................................................................313
22.19.5 � GST Fitment Committee (जीएसटी िफटम�ट स�म�त)...................................................................313
22.19.6 ��GSTN Network (Not for Profit Company- मुनाफ़ा रिहत कं पनी ) ..........................................313
22.19.7 � � Project Saksham: Digital integration (2016) ...................................................................314
22.19.8 �� HSN and SAC Codes ...........................................................................................................314
22.20 ��� PAN vs GSTIN vs Aadhar ................................................................................................314
22.20.1 ��� PAN/GSTIN vs UID (=Aadhar Card)........................................................................315
22.21 ��� GST: Benefits (लाभ) ............................................................................................................316
22.21.1 ���: � GST Benefit: Zero Rated Exports (शू� रे टेड �नयार्त ) .............................................317
22.22 �GST Ease of Doing Biz (EoD): decriminalisation of certain offences ........................................318
22.22.1 � GST-EoD: criminal prosecution threshold .........................................................................318
22.22.2 �GST-EoD: obstructing officers ...............................................................................................318
22.23 ��� GST: Challenges for Mains (चुनौ�तयां) ...............................................................................318
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22.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋 INDIRECT TAXES: TYPES (अप्र�� करो ं के प्रकार)
🥤🥤 Ad- Valorem tax (यथामू� कर) 🚭🚭 Specific Tax per unit (�व�श� कर प्र�त यू�नट)
Taxes based on the value of something. E.g. Tax based on quantity of items. E.g. ₹ 260 Excise duty
35% Customs Duty on import of orange on production of every 1000 cigarettes of 65-70mm
juice. So, if juice priced at ₹1000 imported, length. Here we’re taxing them irrespective of their
then ₹350 as tax. manufacturing price or selling price.
Easier to administer. Difficult to administer, leads to inspector-raj &
[इसे िक्रया��त करना �ादा आसान है] litigation. But, if slight increase in this tax, then greater
burden passed on to the consumer so it helps reducing
harmful consumption. (How exactly? Ans.
microeconomics graph is not imp)
22.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋 INDIRECT TAXES: MERITS AND DEMERITS (लाभ व् नुकसान )
😀😀 Merits लाभ 😥😥 Demerits नुकसान
➔ Convenient (सुगम) to collect because the ➔ Regressive (प्र�तगामी) in nature, both poor and
traders act as honorary (=unpaid) tax rich taxed equally for the same item then
collectors. Wider base because everyone poor people end up paying more portion of
covered e.g. 18% GST on Biscuit. their income in indirect taxes.
➔ Elastic (लचीला): small ⬆brings large revenue, ➔ This tax is hidden in the price. Customers do
because everyone is affected. Although they’re not always feel the pinch of paying indirect
“relatively” less elastic than Direct taxes. tax so it promotes less civic consciousness
(Poor cost benefit interpreting its than direct taxes.[नाग�रक चेतना नहीं जगाता]
Microeconomics graph) ➔ Indirect taxes ⬆→ product becomes
➔ 🚭🚭 Can ⬇harmful consumption by expensive → demand ⬇ so uncertainty
imposing higher taxes on cigar, alcohol, soft involved in how much ₹ ₹ will Govt actually
drinks & fast food. (हा�नकारक पदाथ� का उपभोग कम earn?[वा�व म� िकतनी आमदनी होगी �न��तता नहीं]
करवा सकते ह�) ➔ High level of corruption, evasion, cascading
effect if input credit is not given e.g. erstwhile
sales tax system.[भ्र�ाचार, कर चोरी के अवसर]
22.3 🍋🍋🍋🍋🥂🥂🚭🚭 (CONCEPT) PIGOUVIAN TAX (�पगो�वयन कर)
- An externality (बाह्यता) is a positive or negative consequence of an economic activity experienced
by unrelated third parties. E.g. Cement company (related parties: labourers & consumers
benefit); whereas unrelated third parties (local community, flora and fauna) are harmed by
cement company’s air-pollution. [ग़ैरसं बं �धत तीसरे प� पर सकारा�क या नकारा�क असर]
- English economist Arthur C. Pigou proposed taxing the companies that create such negative
externalities: e.g. polluting industries, cigarettes (passive smoking), alcohol (social disharmony).
- We HAVE high level of indirect taxes on petroleum, tobacco and alcoholic products.
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- We HAD “Clean environment cess” on Rs 400 per tonne of coal (but abolished in GST)
- Sin tax? Similar concept- imposing tax on immoral things like alcohol, tobacco. Difference
between Sin Tax vs Pigouvian tax = that pedantism/hairsplittery NOT IMP🎓🎓✋
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Cess / Surcharge Description
On Customs - This cess will be applicable on Customs Duty on Gold silver, alcoholic
And beverages, certain types of edible oils, certain fruits, certain Pulses,
Excise Cotton, Urea/fertilizer. (Cess varies from 1.5-100% depending on item)
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बढ़ी क़�मतों के चलते भारत के �धन �नयार्तकतार्ओ ं को अप्र�ा�शत मुनाफ़ा हो रहा था)
⇒ 2022-Jul: government imposed Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED) on export of Petrol
(₹6/litre) and Diesel (₹12/ litre) and Aviation Turbine Fuel (₹6/litre).
⇒ Newspapers nicknamed this as “windfall tax”.
⇒ 2022:Aug: fuel prices started to fall in the global market. So now Indian government gradually
deleting / reducing this tax. Then ball by ball cricket commentary notIMP ⚾📻📻⚾🎙🎙✋ (अभी
धीरे धीरे इसम� कटौती क� जा रही है.)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: can windfall tax be imposed only on indirect taxes / petrol diesel?
Ans. If government is imposing any direct or indirect tax because of some unforeseen profits to a
party, then journalist may label as Windfall Tax.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: then can’t we say bitcoin profit pe Capital Gains Tax is also windfall tax?
Ans. Journalists/Newspaper/Govt/Chief Economic Advisor/NITI etc have not used this word yet. So
I would not use it.
22.3.6 🍋🍋🍋🍋⛽: 🗓🗓GST on Petrol Diesel Electricity: NITI Aayog 6 year roadmap
2021-Aug: NITI Aayog proposed following formula:
⇒ 28% GST on petrol and Diesel. + Compensation Cess for States (this compensation will be
given to states for a period of six years)
⇒ 18% GST on Electricity.
✋However this is a proposal stage. Separately a case is going on at Kerala High Court. We’ll update
when/if something big happens. (अभी यह सब प्र�ा�वत है.असल म� लागू होना बाक� है. जब कु छ बड़ा होगा, तो देखग� े)
Related topic: OPEC Cartel, crude prices? Ans. (📑📑Ref: HDT-Pillar#3A: BoP)
22.3.7 ⛽Petrol-Diesel: Dynamic Fuel Pricing System & oil bond repayment
⇒ 1970s to 2002: Administered Price Mechanism (APM: प्रशा�सत/�नयं �त्रत मू� तं त्र): Wherein the
government fixed the prices of petroleum fuels and paid subsidy to the oil marketing companies
(OMC: तेल �वपणन कं प�नयां) for their losses by issuing Oil Bonds to them.
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⇒ 2002-2014: Govt gradually began decontrolling fuel prices, ⏬its own subsidy burden.
⇒ Present system= Dynamic Fuel Pricing System (�धन क� ग�तशील �प से बदलने वाली मू� प्रणाली): wherein
OMCs decide the prices of petrol and diesel on DAILY basis, based on the movement in
international prices. Associated keyword/formula/methodology is “Trade parity price (TPP)”.
⚾📻📻⚾🎓🎓✋What is means, how it works? = Poor cost benefit chasing that.
⇒ 😍😍 Benefit of dynamic pricing? In theory, If the oil prices lowered in the international
market, petrol diesel should become cheaper in India. �व� बाजार म� दाम �गरने पर इं जन के दाम भारत म� भी
कम होने चािहए. But, Union and State govt keep ⏫⏫ taxes on it so it remains expensive for
common people.
- 2021-Aug: FM Sitharaman says we cannot reduce excise duty on petrol and diesel, because we
have to repay principal + interest on the oil bonds issued by the previous UPA-II government to
subsidise fuel prices in 2012-13.(मोदी सरकार ने कहा पेटो� ल डीज़ल पे उ�ाद शु� नहीं काट सकते �ोंिक कांग्रेस सरकार
ने जो पेटो� ल डीज़ल पर स��डी देने के �लए ऑयल माक� िटंग कं प�नयों को ओईल-बॉ� जारी िकए थे उसका बकाया पैसा चुकाना है)
- 2021-Nov: First time in last 3 years, Modi govt ⏬ cuts Petrol excise duty down by Rs 5/litre,
diesel by Rs 10/litre. Possible Reasons? 1) GST collection improved so Excise could be ⬇
without hurting poverty welfare schemes 2) UP Election 3) farmers require diesel for irrigation
pumpsets in Rabi/winter season. (उ�र प्रदेश चुनाव से पहले क� द्र सरकार ने पेटो� ल डीज़ल के उ�ाद शु� म� क� कटौती)
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have to to pay tax on tax.
⇒ This ‘cascading effect’ of indirect taxes raises the price of final product. (अप्र�� करों का सोपानी प्रभाव)
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22.5 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋: INDIRECT TAXES: A TIMELINE OF REFORMS
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🔠🔠❓MCQ-UPSC-CDS-2013-I. Which of the following are direct tax in India?
1. Corporation tax 2. Tax on income 3. Wealth tax 4. Customs duty 5. Excise duty
Ans. Codes: (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2, 4 and 5 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 3, 4 and 5
22.6 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 INDIRECT TAXES → GST: TIMELINE (समयरेखा)
2004 Vijay Kelkar Task Force on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM)
recommends GST. [�वजय के लकर स�म�त ने GST लागू करने क� �सफ़ा�रश क�]
2006 In Budget speech, P.Chidambaram announces the launch of GST from 2010
2011 UPA government introduces 115th Amendment Bill 2011 to implement GST lapsed with
the dissolution of 15th Lok Sabha. (लोकसभा �वघटन चलते ये �वधेयक पास नहीं हो पाया)
2014-16 Modi govt. introduces 122nd Constitutional Amendment Bill 2014 in 16th Lok Sabha.
Since GST aimed to change federal financial relations, so under Art.368, this
constitutional bill required:
- @Union Parliament Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha each:_50% majority of the total
membership, and 2/3rd majority of all members present and voting.
- @State Vidhan Sabha: approval by majority of state assemblies (i.e. 15 Vidhan-
sabhas of India at that time)
Ultimately, it passed & became
- 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016 (सं वैधा�नक सं शोधन अ�ध�नयम/ क़ानून)
SIDE NOTE: other imp amendments Acts
- 102nd , 2018: Constitutional status to National Commission for Backward Classes
(NCTC को सं वैधा�नक दजार् िदया जाए)
- 103rd , 2019: 10% EWS reservation (आ�थक �प से �पछड़े वगर् के �लए आर�ण)
- 104th , 2020: Anglo Indian reservation removed in LS & Vidhan shaba but SC/ST
continued till January 25, 2030. (एं �ो भारतीय समुदाय का आर�ण हटाया)
- 105th, 2021: To restore states' power to make their own OBC lists- After SC
judgement (रा� सरकार अपनी OBC सूची बना सके )
22.7 🍋🍋🍋🍋:📙📙📙📙 GST: 101ST CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ACT, 2016
101 वां सं वैधा�नक सं शोधन अ�ध�नयम, 2016 amended following articles in our Constitution.
246-A - States given power to tax goods and services. (previously, they couldn’t tax services.)
- But only UNION will have the power to tax inter-state supply of goods and services
in the form of “IGST” (एक रा� से दू सरे रा� म� व�ु और सेवा क� आपू�त पर के वल क� द्र सरकार टै�
माँग सकता है �जसे IGST कहा जाएगा)
268-A Previously, this article empowered Union to levy Service Tax. But, since tax on services
has been brought under GST, this article was deleted. (सेवा कर को हटाया गया)
269-A IGST (on inter-state trade) will be distributed between Union and states, as per the
formula by the GST Council (जीएसटी प�रषद)
270 CGST (=new indirect tax of Union, which replaced Excise Duty & Service Tax)..this
CGST will be distributed between union and states as per the formula by the Finance
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Commission (�व� आयोग �सफ़ा�रशों के अनुसार CGST को क� द्र और रा�ों म� बाँटा जाएगा)
279-A President of India to appoint a constitutional body, “GST Council headed by Finance
Minister. ” (जीएसटी प�रषद िक �नयु�� रा��प�त कर�गे, और �वत् मं त्री इस प�रषद का अ�� होगा)
366 🥂🥂 Alcoholic liquor for human consumption (मिदरा) is kept out of GST. (i.e. State govt
continue to levy State Excise on its production and State VAT on its sale.)
From 1st July, 2017: Goods and Services Tax (GST: व�ु एवं सेवा कर) became effective. Here, supplier
gets input tax credit for indirect taxes of Union & States (CGST,SGST) that he paid in the previous
stage. [GST प्रणाली म� �पछले चरण म� चुकाए गए परो� करों के ऊपर माफ़�/टै� क्रेिडट �मलता है]
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1. List of indirect taxes, cess, surcharge of the union and states to be subsumed under GST-regime.
(पुराने करो को जीएसटी-�व�ा म� स���लत/ �वलीन करना)
2. Decide the date from which Crude oil, Petrol, Diesel, Aviation Turbine Fuel and Natural Gas will
be put under GST regime. (Until then excise-VAT on these five hydrocarbon fuel products, will
be unilaterally decided by Union and individual States). [कौन सी तारीख़ से इन पाँच चीज़ों पर GST लगाना है]
3. Decide Standard rates (सामा� दर) for GST (i.e. CGST, SGST and UTGST). IGST = {CGST +
(SGST or UTGST depending on destination)}
4. Decide Special rates (�व�श� दर) for GST, during natural disaster / calamity if required.
a. E.g. 2019-Jan, GST-Council also allowed Kerala to levy a 1% calamity cess (आपदा उपकर)
on intra-state trade for next two years, for the rehabilitation of 2018’s flood-victims.
5. Integrated GST (IGST) system during interstate commerce, and its tax-sharing.[]
6. Norms related to GST registration of businessmen. If a goods selling Bizman has turnover above
“x” lakhs, he must register @GSTN online portal, he must collect GST from consumers and
deposit it there. Originally the “x” was ₹20 lakhs for ordinary states; ₹10 lakhs for Sp.cat states &
Telengana. However, in 2019-Jan the GST council doubled this limit to ₹40l & ₹20l respectively.
Within this, some technical relaxation given to merchants selling products on E-commerce
website. (Turnover limits for service seller bizmen in Manipur, Mizoram etc separate but
hairsplittery not REQ, not here for C.A. Exam).[�ापारी/उद्योगप�त/आपू�तकतार् के पं जीकरण के �लए �नयम
बनाएगा]
7. Protecting the interests of the special category states (खास श्रेणी के रा�) i.e. 8 North Eastern states
and Himalayan states (Himachal and Uttarakhand.) e.g. 2021-Sikkim proposed to levy Covid
Cess on pharmaceutical companies and electricity companies to collect money for Corona wave
2.0. But, GST Council’s group of ministers (GoM) committee rejected Covid Cess proposal.
However GoM committee recommended Union Govt to give ₹250 crore grant/compensation to
Sikkim for fighting Covid Wave 2.0. (कोरोना क� दू सरी लहर से लड़ने के �लए �स��म को मुआवज़ा/अनुदान)
8. Compensation to the states for their revenue loss in switching from VAT to GST regime
(through Cess mechanism: रा�ो को उपकर द्वारा मुआवजा)
9. Dispute settlement between Union vs state(s), state(s) vs state(s). (�ववाद �नपटान)
So, Constitutional Amendment→ set up GST council → GST council’s meeting→ laws passed by
Parliament and Vidhan Sabhas, to implement the GST related mechanisms.
1. 🧔🧔 Parliament has passed:
✓ Central Goods & Services Tax Act (CGST: क� द्रीय व�ु एवं सेवा कर अ�ध�नयम)
✓ Integrated Goods & Services Tax Act (IGST: एक�कृ त माल और सेवा कर अ�ध�नयम)
✓ Union Territory Goods & Services Tax Act (UTGST: क� द्र शा�सत प्रदेश माल और सेवा कर
अ�ध�नयम): Finance Act 2020 → amends UTGST Act to update list of UTs:
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i. (new) Ladakh without legislature.
ii. (merged) 1) Dadra and Nagar Haveli + 2) Daman and Diu = treated as single UT
(because Govt merged them in 2019).
✓ Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Amendment Act. माल और सेवा कर (रा�ों
को मुआवजा) सं शोधन अ�ध�नयम
✓ Parliament originally passed them 2017, later amended in 2018 As per the
recommendations of the GST Council.
2. �🕉🕉 State Legislatures have passed State Goods and Services Tax Acts. (SGST)
3. �☪Jammu & Kashmir passed SGST Act on 8th July, 2017→ then GST system became
effective there as well. JAMMU AND KASHMIR REORGANISATION ACT, 2019 has not
abolished this SGST act. Present status is:
✓ SGST applicable on J&K (UT with Legislature:�वधा�यका यु� क� द्रशा�सत प्रदेश)
✓ UTGST on Ladakh (UT without Legi: �वधा�यका-हीन क� द्रशा�सत प्रदेश)
in same the State (or UT without legislature) = in another State (or UT w/o LSR)
Intra-state supply (अंत:रा�) = Inter-state supply (अंतररा�ीय)
🧔🧔(�🕉🕉 → �🕉🕉) 🧔🧔(�🕉🕉 → �☪)
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22.9.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋↩👚👚 Inverted Duty Structure Problem in GST on Textile
An inverted duty structure in GST arises when the taxes on output or final product is lower than the
taxes on inputs, creating an inverse accumulation of input tax credit- then government has to refund
the GST to the business man. = administrative & accounting inconvenience for the govt.
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Input Raw material Output Final Product Implication
Fiber (रेसा) 18% GST Apparel shirt/pants etc. Trader will accumulate
= 5% GST (व�) 13% GST credit. Govt
will have to refund.
AFTER Reform: GST council imposed Uniform 12% GST on manmade fibre (MMF), yarn, fabrics
and apparels, footwear. However, after the protests from textile industry, this decision was
postponed. (जीएसटी म� एक उ�ा शु� सं रचना: यिद क�े माल जेसे के कपड़ा ख़रीद पर उधयोगप�त ने 18 पस�ट जीएसटी टै� देना
पड़े और उसम� से तैयार िकए गए शटर्-पतलून क� �बक्र� पर 5% GST लगता हो तो, तो असल म� सरकार ने उस उधयोगप�त को 13%
GST refund देना होगा। इस िहसाब-िकताब और �रफ़ं ड क� माथाप�ी से बचने के �लए कपड़ा-जुते के क�े माल और अं�तम उ�ाद पर
एक समान 12% जीएसटी लगाया जाएगा । हालाँिक कपड़ा �ापारीऑ के �वरोध के चलते इस �नणर्य को टाल िदया गया है।)
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- In both case A and B case, ultimately govt will not be able to earn GST from Infosys, however
government benefits from the increased exports→ jobs, GDP. Besides, more profit for Infosys in
export = more Corporation Tax for Govt.🤩🤩
😤😤MORAL Outrage: Isn’t there an inconsistency in logic/will there not be inverted duty structure
problem in Vaccine mfg similar to Textile? Ans. GST council decides rates based on variety of
factors like what are the tax rates on the inputs and how much GST-losses for the government versus
the benefit to the ordinary patients etc. If you get selected in IRS they will teach it to you there. सरकार
अपना िदमाग़ लगाकर रेट �नधार्�रत करती हे, अपने को झं डा लेके पीएचडी करने क� ज़�रत निह।
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Table 1: क� द्र के अप्र�� कर जो क� द्रीय व�ु एवं सेवा कर (सीजीएसटी) म� �वलीन हो गए
Indirect Tax of Union Whether replaced by CGST?
⚓For import-export: Basic - No, Customs Duty is NOT replaced with GST. It’s
Customs Duty, cess / surcharge on separate from GST-regime. So, imported goods are
it. subjected to Customs duty + IGST.
सीमा शु� और �व�भ� उपकर / अ�धभार - Previously, imported goods were subject to Customs
Duty + education cess (�श�ा उपकर) but Budget 2018
Related Act: Customs Act 1962 replaced it with Customs Duty + 10% Social Welfare
Surcharge (समाज क�ाण अ�धभार).
- 💼💼Budget-2020: 5% Health CESS (�ा� उपकर) on
imported medical devices (�चिक�ा उपकरण) for hospitals
construction in Aspirational (=backward) Districts.
⚓On imports: Special Additional They’re not ‘replaced’ with CGST. More about them in
Customs Duty (SAD), (More in 📑📑Pillar#3B: World Trade Organization)
Countervailing Duty (CVD), Anti-
Dumping Duty (ADD)
Central Sales Tax CST was the Union tax levied on sale of items in inter-state
(CST-क� द्रीय �बक्र� कर) trade, and it was assigned to the ‘Origin state’. It’s replaced
with IGST (= CGST + SGST) एक रा� से दू सरे रा� म� माल सामान
बेचने पर ये कर लगता था हालांिक उद्गम रा� को क� द्र सरकार यह रकम देता था
�On providing services: Service - 1994: FM Manmohan Singh introduces 5% Service Tax
tax (सेवा कर) and Krishi Kalyan Cess (सेवा कर) on telephone bills, non-life insurance and stock-
and Swatchh bharat Cess brokers [शेयर बाज़ार के दलाल].
- Over the years, more services were subjected to Service
Tax. This service tax was NOT applicable on some
services e.g. Postal service, School fees etc.
- Ultimately, Service Tax+Cess = total 15%. Abolished
after GST. [GST आने पर ये सारी चीज़ ख़� हो चुक� है]
�On manufacturing/production - Yes, completely replaced by CGST (except 5
of goods: Excise duty and various hydrocarbon fuels: petrol, diesel etc.)
Cess / surcharges on it.(उ�ाद शु� और - Excise on manufacturing medicinal & toiletry
�व�भ� उपकर / अ�धभार) preparations containing alcohol (e.g. Cough syrups,
deodorants and perfumes) also replaced by CGST.
Related Act: Central Excise Act 1944 - Alcoholic Liquor for human consumption- falls in States’
purview so Union Excise / CGST not applicable on it.
🚭🚭Excise duty on Tobacco products - It’s replaced with 14% CGST. Further, Union also levies
[तं बाकू उ�ादों पर उ�ाद शु�] + GST Compensation Cess + National Calamity
Contingency Duty** (NCCD:-रा��ीय आपदा आक��कता ड्यूटी)
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Indirect Tax of Union Whether replaced by CGST?
on them.
- ** 101st Constitutional Amendment allows Union to tax
tobacco products separately.
- NCCD money goes to Public Account → National
Disaster Response Fund set up under Disaster
Management Act, 2005.
- 👛👛Budget-2023: increased NCCD (National Calamity
Contingent Duty) on cigarettes
⛽Excise duty on - Once GST council decides the date they’ll be brought
production/refining of Crude oil, under GST-regime. अभी जीएसटी नहीं लगता. भ�व� म� जीएसटी
Petrol (Motor Spirit), Diesel, प�रषद तय करेगी उसके बाद लगेगा.
Aviation Turbine Fuel and natural - Until then refineries / oil-drilling companies have to pay
gas: क�े तेल, पेट�ोल (मोटर ���रट), डीजल, excise duty+cess/surcharges to Union for production /
�वमानन टरबाइन �धन और प्राकृ �तक गेस पर manufacturing of these items. (and petrol pump owner,
उ�ाद शु� etc will have to pay VAT to states on their sale.)
- Presently, Petrol & Diesel are also subjected to Union’s
Road and Infrastructure Cess (सड़क और बु�नयादी ढांचा उपकर)
its ₹₹ goes into Public Account→ Central Road &
Infrastructure Fund under Central Road Fund Act 2000.
🍋🍋🍋Corporation Tax, Income ⇒ 👿👿Arre Bhai, they’re 🍋🍋🍋DIRECT Taxes of Union,
Tax, Capital Gains Tax etc [�नगम कर, so they are not replaced by GST. ये सब प्र�� कर है.
आयकर और पूंजीगत लाभ कर] ⇒ The GST is meant to replace 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 INDIRECT
Taxes only. जीएसटी के वल परो� करों के साथ जुडा है
22.10.1 📈📈 GST Revenue Collection Figures: जीएसटी राज� प्रा�� के आंकड़े
GST registered suppliers have to deposit the GST at the GSTN portal on monthly basis. In monthly
collection of GST, there are ups and downs based on seasonality.
Year/Month 2021-May 2022-May 2022-Dec
GST collection ₹97,000 cr ₹1,40,885 cr ₹1,49,507 cr
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Table 2: कौनसे करो म� सबसे �ादा आमदनी होगी सबसे �ादा आमदनी होगी
��Budget-2023 �GST> � Corporation>�
�IT >�
�Excise> � Customs
�Budget-2022 Same as above.
Budgets from 2019, Sometimes Corporation tax was #2, sometimes income tax was #2 but
2020, 2021 poor cost benefit memorizing all that so I am deleting.
Budgets Before 2019 � Corporation> �GST>�
�IT >�
�Excise> � Customs
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- 🥂🥂 State VAT on sale of liquor for �🕉🕉:States, & it constituted a major source of
human consumption. (मानव उपभोग के �लए revenue for them, so States were unwilling to hand it
बनी शराब/ म�दरा क� �बक्र� पर रा� वैट) over in GST regime. Had 🧔🧔Modi govt tried to bring
liquor in GST-regime, then majority of the Vidhan-
Sabhas may not have passed this Constitutional
Amendment Bill.
⚡Electricity Duty �बजली शु� ✋No, it’s not replaced by SGST
🚗🚗Road Tax on vehicles. ✋No, it’s not replaced by SGST. Its status as
direct/indirect tax is vague because in some states/
vehicle categories: buyer himself deposits while in
some cases, seller required to collect & deposit.
🚗🚗Purchase tax on vehicle, boats, and ✅Yes replaced by SGST
animals-खरीद कर
🏗🏗Advertisement tax on hoarding, banners ✅Yes replaced by SGST
etc.- �व�ापन कर
⛱Luxury tax at Hotels, Spas, Resorts etc.- ✅Yes replaced by SGST
अ�ाशी �वला�सता कर
🚛🚛Entry tax/Octroi for entry of goods in an ✅Yes replaced by SGST
area -प्रवेश के �लए कर , ऑ��ोई
🐎🐎Taxes on Lottery, horse race betting, ✅Yes replaced by SGST. Since they’re
gambling etc. लॉटरी, घोड़े क� दौड़ सट्टेबाजी, जुआ ‘sinful/demerit goods’, they’re subjected to highest
slab : 14% SGST + 14% CGST = 28%
📽📽Entertainment Tax on Cinema, Live ✅Yes, replaced by SGST unless levied by a local
Performance shows etc.- मनोरंजन कर body. e.g. Kerala local bodies 10% on movie tickets.
🍋🍋🍋Income tax on Agriculture, 👿👿Arre Bhai, they’re 🍋🍋🍋DIRECT Taxes of State
Professional tax, Property tax, Stamp Duty, so not replaced by GST. The GST is meant to replace
Land revenue [कृ �ष आय कर, �ावसा�यक कर इ�ािद] 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 INDIRECT Taxes only.
22.12 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 GST RATES ON SERVICES =0%: सेवाओ ं पर जीएसटी क� दर
Which of following is ZERO Rated & which one is NIL Rated/EXEMPT? Ans. Poor cost:benefit.
1. Services provided by union government, state government, local bodies, constitutional bodies,
department of post (except premium services like speed post), Railways (except premium
services like first class AC ticket)
2. Services by Reserve Bank of India and other financial regulators.
3. Services by Banks/NBFCs in connection with Government sponsored banking, insurance and
pension schemes. (Refer to financial inclusion handout)
4. ESIC, EPFO services to the subscribers, Group insurance schemes for paramilitary forces
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5. Religious, charitable activities, cooperative societies, Public libraries, Public toilets,
Crematorium, Burial grounds.
6. Rent on residential accommodation (िकराए पर �लया गया �रहायशी मकान)
7. Aviation Services in North-eastern States (उ�र पूवर् म� उड्डयन सेवा)
8. Transport services to milk, (physical/paperbased) newspaper, defence equipment, disaster relief
material
9. Doctors, para-medics, Ambulance, Blood bank.
10. Agriculture warehouse, cold storage, renting of Agro machinery, Contractor who is supplying
farm labourers, APMC (Agricultural produce market committee)
11. Agriculture pre-processing of food e.g. ripening, waxing, retail packing, labelling of fruits and
vegetables which do not change essential characteristics of the said fruits or vegetables.
12. Veterinary doctor, Animal husbandry related services except racehorses
13. � Educational services by Educational Institutes (like schools colleges universities Vocational
institutes. NOT COACHING Institutes)
14. Entrance Exam fee collected by Union or state government orgs.
15. Private training partners in government skill development schemes
16. Sports training and events by recognised sports body
17. Sports, Art, Culture etc. clubs with member-fees less than “X” rupees.
18. Circus, dance, drama or ballet, award function, concert, pageant, musical performance or any
sporting event where admission fees is less than “X” rupees.
19. Admission to a museum, national park, wildlife sanctuary, tiger reserve, zoo, ASI-recognized
Heritage sites.
20. 2020-Oct decision: satellite launch services supplied by ISRO, Antrix Corporation Ltd. and NSIL
would be exempted. (More about these organizations in (More in 📑📑Pillar#5: communication
infrastructure)
21. Any service EXPORTED outside India (THEY ARE “ZERO RATED Export”)
In the Pre-GST era, most of above services were having 0% Service Tax. वतर्मान म� उ� पर 0% जीएसटी
लगता, उसी प्रकार भूतकाल म� जब ‘सेवा-कर’ था तो वो भी इनम� से �ादातर सेवाओं पर 0% था.
If a given service is not in the above list, then it will be subjected to GST: <see next table>
Example of services (कु छ उदाहरण सेवाओं के �जन पर GST लगता है) iGST Rate
- Accommodation in hotels, inns, guest houses with daily charges upto ₹7500/- 12%
- Movie tickets, Engineering related services
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- WebSeries/OTT platforms-AmazonPrime, Hotstar etc.
- Ads in digital media, Legal and accounting services
- DTH/TV channels, Movie tickets above Rs.“x”, 5 star Hotel rooms
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22.13.1 🍋🍋🛒🛒🛒🛒 GST Rates on Goods : 0% removed
BEFORE-2022 From 2022
0% GST on cereals (wheat rice etc), flour (aata), 5% GST if they’re
pulses (daal), curd, Lassi, puffed rice (poha) ✅PREPACKED and
✅Labelled and
✅packet size is smaller than 25KG or 25 litres
0% Maps and Bank’s Chequebooks 18% GST
FAQ: Apart from above items, which other XYZ food item pe above rule applicable or not?
Ans. Newspapers did not bother to highlight but you can satisfy curiosity by doing self-PHD on this
list: https://cbic-gst.gov.in/gst-goods-services-rates.html
Semi-precious stones like agate, amber, topaz, lapis lazuli etc. 0.25%
Diamonds cut and polished (this new slab created in 2022-Jul) 1.50%
Milk powder, Baby food, Pizza bread, Mineral ores, liquid jaggery (raab), 5%
Ethyl Alcohol used in blending with petrol. Certain medicines
💊💊Corona related drugs/devices: 💉💉Vaccines, Remdesivir, Oxygen Concentrator,
Ventilator, Covid Testing Kits, Pulse Oximeters, 🌡🌡 Temperature check equipment,
🧴🧴Hand Sanitizer, crematorium furnaces, Ethanol meant for blending with petrol
Fruit Jams, Butter, Cheese, Canned Fish, Sugar cubes, Textile, certain medicines & 12%
surgical items, Railway wagon, electric car & its chargers
🚑🚑Ambulances, 🧱🧱Bricks
Luxury goods, Sin Goods, Demerit goods (�वला�सता /पाप/ अवगुण सामान): 28%
➢ Caffeinated Beverages e.g. Red bull, 🚭🚭 Tobacco products, Pan Masala
➢ Cement, Granite, Marble, Air Conditioners, TVs of “x” size
➢ Motor vehicles, Aircrafts, Yacht, Guns, Lottery ticket, online games
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Consider the following items:(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2018)
1) Cereal grains hulled 2) Chicken eggs cooked
3) Fish processed and canned 4) Newspapers containing advertising material
Which of the above items is/are exempted under GST (Good and Services Tax)?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1, 2 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
A relief given to small traders. Instead of depositing GST money to Govt on monthly basis, they may
deposit it 3-3 months. (It has more technical rules. But we’ll NOT WASTE TIME in CA-giri).
22.14.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋⏰🗓🗓 GST Mechanism: Quarterly Returns and Monthly Payment of Tax (QRMP)
Faded/outdated. Deleting this topic for Prelims-RAFTAAR
22.14.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋: 💸💸💸💸(✋😈😈) 1% GST deposit in cash for controlling fake ITC claims
Faded/outdated. Deleting this topic for Prelims-RAFTAAR
कु छ ख़ास मामले जहाँ �वक्रेता नहीं ब�� ग्राहक ने खुद सरकार को GST जमा करना पड़ेगा
- Normally, a seller must collect the GST tax from buyer & deposit to the govt.
- However, in selected cases when seller is not registered with GST number, while buyer is
registered with GST number, then buyer will have to deposit the tax to government.
- How / when / why = NOT IMP, EXCEPT the MCQ word Association that ‘Reverse Charge
Mechanism’ is associated with GST, just like ‘E-way bill’ mechanism is associated with GST.
22.16🚛🚛🚛🚛 E-WAY BILL SYSTEM (ई-वे �बल प्रणाली) FROM 2018 ONWARDS
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- When goods worth ₹50,000/> are moved within a state (intrastate) or from one state to another
(inter-state), then the truck/transport/cargo/shipping/aeroplane company must generate E-way
Bill from GSTN Portal / App / SMS.
- E-way bill’s self-declaration (that our truck is carrying “x” type of goods worth “y” value) reduces
the scope of bribery, delay, red-tape, harassment at the check post, thereby ensuring a hassle-free
rapid movement for transporters throughout the country.
- E-way bill system became effective from 2018.
- Related topic: GST council announced E-invoice (=bill generation through govt’s online portal)
from January-2020 on pilot basis, then E-way bill will not have to be generated separately.
- This will provide relief to businessman, will improve the tax-surveillance and fight against false
ITC-credit claims through fake invoices.
- As such E-invoice was to become compulsory from 1/April/2020. However, because of Corona,
deadlines have been deferred. Deadlines keep changing, notIMP. (��गत िकया, बाद म� लागू कर�गे)
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Parliament enacted GST Compensation to States Act 2017 (रा�ों को मुआवजा अ�ध�नयम)
✓ Under its provisions, GST council recommended Union Govt to impose “GST Compensation
Cess” (जीएसटी ��तपू�त उपकर ) on specified luxury & demerit goods, like
○ pan masala (60%), tobacco products (cess varies as per product),
○ aerated water & Caffeinated Beverages (12%), coal / lignite (₹400 per tonne),
○ motor vehicles-aircraft-yacht (3-22% depending on type of vehicle).
The cess thus collected is used for compensating States for their revenue losses during the first five
years since inception of GST. i.e. 1st July 2017 to 30th June 2022
Table 4: GST Compensation to States Act 2017 (रा�ों को मुआवजा अ�ध�नयम)
Section- ⇒ It contains formula for compensation: State's Projected Revenue = 14% annual
7 compound growth rate than its 2015's VAT collection (base year). If current year
SGST collection is less than Projected Revenue → Union to pay compensation
⇒ (रा� का " अनुमा�नत राज�" उसके 2015 के वेट अनुपात क� 14% वा�षक वृ�द्ध के साथ क� �गना गया। यिद
रा� को एसजीएसटी मे उससे कम आमदनी �ई तो उस रा� को, पहले 5 वष� के �लए, क� द्र मुआवजा देगा- जनता
पर जीएसटी ��तपू�त उपकर लागू करके । )
Section- ⇒ GST Council can recommend extending GST compensation cess beyond the
8 period of five years. (5 साल से के प�ात भी उपकर जारी रखने क� �सफा�रश कर सकता है. )
✓ Compensation available only for SGST. It is not given to The Union Territory Without
Legislature (because they've UTGST e.g. Ladakh)
✓ State Liquor Taxes are outside GST, so Bihar / Gujarat / Nagaland / Lakshadweep / Parts of
Manipur can’t ask more ₹ for compensation from GST for having liquor prohibition (मद्य-�नषेध).
Year → 2018- 2019- 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24
19 20
GST 95k cr 98k cr 1.10 Lakh Cr 1.05 Lakh 1.30 lakh cr 1.45 Lakh cr
Compensation expected but in cr.
Cess प्र�तपू�त reality hardly
उपकर 85,000cr earned
😰😰Controversy?
- Before Corona: since 2019-August onwards payment pending. Also known as “GST Arrears
problems” (मुआवजे क� रकम बकाया है) . 2019-Dec: only partial compensation released. FM Nirmala. S
says, “Sales are ⬇, so we have not collected enough ₹₹ to release the cess.”
- Non-BJP states first complained to GST council, but it did not help much. So some State Govts
even threatened of going to Supreme Court, which hints cooperative federalism is in danger.
(सहकारी सं घवाद खतरे म�)
- During Corona: given below →
22.18🤧🤧🤧🤧:🧔🧔 → 🤑🤑(��) GST COMPENSATION & BACK2BACK LOANS
⇒ 2020: Due to Corona lockdown, State government and very little amount in SGST.
⇒ So, States started demanding ₹2.35 lakh crore in GST compensation from Union.
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⇒ Union govt's initial reaction was, "Under the GST compensation Act, we are not legally obliged
to pay this large amount (₹2.35lcr) because of unexpected circumstances / 'Act of God' / 'Force
Majure' like Corona. We can only pay the originally estimated amount (₹97kcr)."
⇒ However the Attorney General opined that GST Compensation Act does not provide such
exceptions; Union ought to pay the entire loss amount ₹2.35lcr. (अटॉन�-जनरल का मानना है िक क� द्र ने पूरी
रकम देनी चािहए �ोंिक जीएसटी मुआवजे के कानून म� कोरोनावायरस जेसी आपातकालीन चीजों मे क� द्र कोई माफ� /अपवाद नहीं)
⇒ But, corona → sales⏬ → GST compensation cess collection ⏬. So, the union offered two
options to borrow money for the compensation (�ोंिक जीएसटी म� आमदनी वैसे भी कम है, इस�लए क� द्र ने
रा�ों को पैसा उधार लेकर मुआवजा चुकाने के �वक� िदए….. )
⇒ We will NOT study the difference between those TWO options because it is technical/outdated.
Just memorize that States accepted ‘modified’ version of Option#1. (उन दो �वक�ों म� �ा मुद्दे/�भ�ताए
थे वो हम पढ़ने नहीं बैठ�गे। बस रट्टा मार लो िक रा�ों ने मुआवज़े के �लए �वक�#1 का एक सं शो�धत ��प पसं द िकया था। )
22.18.1 🤧🤧😷😷😷😷[🧔🧔 → 🔪🔪(�� GST compensation: "back to back" loans ₹1.10 lcr
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22.19🍋🍋🍋🍋� GST RELATED ORGANIZATIONS (सं �ाए)
We already learnt about the GST council in the previous pages of handout. Apart from that…
22.19.1 ��� Group of Ministers (GoM: मं �त्रयों का समूह)
These committees are set up by GST Council to look into specific issues from time to time. Example
Some examples of GoM headed by _ _ Objective ↡ (for example)
2021: Conrad Sangma, Meghalaya CM Sangma to examine GST rates of Covid vaccine, drugs
and related items.
22.19.2 ⚖�🍕🍕 National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA/NAPA)
रा�ी� य मुनाफाखोरी �नरोधक प्रा�धकरण
⇒ GST provides input credit for most of the indirect taxes of the Union and State Govt. So,
entrepreneur’s cost of production should ⬇, then he should also ⬇ prices for consumers, yet
many companies had not reduced their prices e.g. Dominos Pizza, Nestle, Hindustan Unilever
toothpaste & detergents etc. [टै� क्रेिडट �मलने पर उ�ादन क� लागत कम होती है तो व�ु स�ी होनी चािहए. हालाँिक
कु छ मुनाफ़ाख़ोर कं प�नयां चीज़ों के दाम स�े नहीं कर रही थी तो िफर उ�� सबक़ �सखाने के �लए ये सं �ा बनायी गई]
⇒ So, Union govt set up NAA under Central Goods & Services Tax Act, 2017 to penalize them.
⇒ This Authority shall cease to exist after 2 years from birth (2017+2= 2019), unless GST council
renews it.(हालाँिक ज� के दो साल म� ही इस सं �ा को अपने आप बं द हो जाना था, �सवाय िक GST प�रषद आयु बढ़ा द�)
⇒ GST council extended it till 2022-Nov (कायर्काल बढ़ाया)
⇒ 2022-Dec: NAA stops working. Now matters related to GST antiprofiteering will be looked after
by the Competition Commission of India. CCI is a statutory body under Ministry of corporate
Affairs, setup under Competition Act, 2002 (Ref: Pillar#1C) (भारतीय प्र�त�धार् आयोग)
22.19.3 �🍼🍼 Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR-अ�ग्रम फै सलों के �लए प्रा�धकरण)
⇒ Diabetic foods supplements are subjected to 12% GST whereas pasteurized milk is subject to 0%
GST. If Amul plans to launch ‘Amul Camel Milk' with bottle label: "Camel milk is easy to digest,
high in an insulin-like protein, hence beneficial for diabetic person."
⇒ So, whether Amul’s product be subjected to 0% GST or 12% GST? An entrepreneur would like
to such have clarification from Tax authorities before starting the production, lest he gets
tangled in raids and litigations afterwards. (छापेमारी और मुकदमेबाजी द्वारा उ�ीड़न िकया जाना)
⇒ So, CGST Act, 2017 provides for a statutory body called Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR),
where entrepreneur can seek such advance clarification.
⇒ Higher appeal? Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR: अ�ग्रम फै सलों के �लए अपील प्रा�धकरण).
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22.19.4 � � � GST tribunal (GSTAT) (2023)
GST related cases are heard in the following sequence:
LEVEL DESCRIPTION
1. Adjudicating Authority Additional/Joint/ Assistant Commissioner/
Superintendent/ (Depending on the case/amount)
2. First Appellate Authority Commissioner/Higher rank officer
3. Goods and Services Tax Appellate ⇒ GSTATs will be setup at Union and State levels.
Tribunals (GSTATs). Announced in 2023 ⇒ based on report of Dushyant Chautala
committee.
⇒ This will help reducing the case pendency at
HC/SC.
4) HC and 5) SC Self-explanatory. (�यं �� है)
22.19.6 �💻💻GSTN Network (Not for Profit Company- मुनाफ़ा रिहत कं पनी )
2013: Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) “Not for Profit” Private ltd. company was set up
under the Companies Act.
Original Partners Ownership from Ownership in
2013-18 future**
Union govt 24.5% 50%
All states of India (incl. Delhi & Puducherry) 24.5% 50%
Non-Government Financial Institutions such as 51% 0%
HDFC Bank (20%), ICICI Bank (10%), NSE (10%),
LIC Housing Finance (10%)
**2018-May: GST Council approved acquisition of entire 51% equity held by non-Governmental
institutions & distribute it equally between Centre and the State Governments.
⇒ This company runs the GSTN online portal, where the suppliers register themselves, pay their
GST, claim input tax credits, generate e-way bills etc. [Infosys ltd. helped develop the webportal.]
⇒ GSTN Network ltd. also provides the IT infrastructure and software services to GST officials for
monitoring the tax compliance, issuing notices, data mining etc.
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⇒ In future, such data could also be shared with the RBI’s Public Credit Registry (PCR: ऋण क�
सावर्ज�नक र�ज��ी) so the lenders can have a complete picture of the borrower’s business.
⇒ GST Suvidha Providers (GSPs): These are selected private IT/Fintech companies that develop
apps / software to help the taxpayers interact with GSTN portal. E.g. Zoho Accounting Software
Table 5: ✋don't lose too much sleep over it unless preparing for State Tax Dept Exams
Difference PAN: �ायी लेखा सं �ाक GSTIN: व�ु एवं सेवा कर पहचान सं �ाक
Full form Permanent Account Number Goods and Services Tax Identification Number
issued by the Income Tax issued by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes &
Department Customs (CBIC)
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Difference PAN: �ायी लेखा सं �ाक GSTIN: व�ु एवं सेवा कर पहचान सं �ाक
example Suzlon Energy ltd: Suzlon Energy ltd:
AADCS0472N 24AADCS0472N1Z8
Format 10 digit alphanumeric number 2 digit state code+ 10 digits PAN number + 3
(=containing both alphabets and characters = total 15 characters (=containing
numbers) both alphabets and numbers)
Who has to Every income tax assessee- - IF Individuals / firms registered under the
get it? individual, HUF, firm, company, Pre-GST law (i.e., Excise, VAT, Service Tax
trust (internal different not imp.) etc.) OR
- IF your biz. turnover is above a threshold
limit of “x” lakhs for ordinary states or “y”
lakhs in Sp.cat. States. OR
- Merchants who sell through e-commerce
aggregators like Amazon.
Do all Every PAN card holder is not Every GSTIN holder is required to have PAN
taxpayers REQUIRED to have GSTIN. (e.g. a card number. (Because its format is like that,
have it? salaried employee) observe “format” row above).
How many - Only 1 PAN number allowed - If firm operates from more than one state,
numbers / per individual. then a separate GST registration is required
cards can - Only 1 PAN number allowed for each state.
one have? per company. - If a firm has multiple subsidiaries, they have
- Subsidiary firms will have to to get GST number for each e.g. “Faith
get separate PAN numbers. Hospitality Chain ltd→ Sam’s Pizza
restaurant, Sankalp Dosa restaurant, Saffron
Punjabi restaurant”
Objective Prevent evasion of direct taxes. Prevent evasion of GST, and help the
entrepreneurs claim their input credits.
- PAN number is required for various activities like opening of bank account, opening of demat
accounts (for trading in securities), obtaining registration for GST, VAT-Excise registration (for
Petrol-Liquor dealers) etc.
- So, PAN is slowly becoming a Common Business Identification Number (CBIN) or simply
Business Identification Number (BIN: सामा� �वसाय पहचान सं �ाक)- because if a Department
knows your PAN number they can dig all information about you, know whether you’re eligible
to fill up a particular tender or contract or a scheme application form or not?
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🔢🔢🔢🔢PAN and GSTIN 🔢🔢UID (=Aadhar Card)
Electronics and Information Technology
(MeitY).
These Tax authorities derive powers from: Aadhaar Targeted Delivery of Financial and
- Income Tax Act 1961 Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
- Goods & Service Tax Acts in 2017. (“आधार ए� 2016”)
Primary objective of these id-numbers is to Primary objective is to eliminate bogus
reduce tax evasion by tracking the transactions. beneficiaries in government schemes & reduce
subsidy leakage. Auxiliary benefits: Identifying
dead bodies, tracking criminals, mobile number
ownership, tax evasion etc.
🔢🔢🔢🔢Their format contains both numbers and 🔢🔢Unique Identification number (UID) or
alphabets. Aadhaar is a 12 digit number. No alphabets.
Issued for individual humans, Only for living resident HUMANS of India. Not
HUF/firms/companies/trusts**. given for companies. Resident is defined as
person who lived in India for 182 days/> in last
12 months.
💼💼Full-Budget-2019: we’ll consider giving
immediate Aadhar card to NRIs with Indian
Passport so they don’t have to wait till ~180 days.
It’ll help them get through KYC bank/share
market transaction.
One HUMAN → one PAN number only. No age same (एक इं सान का �सफ़र् एक आधार काडर् �नकल सकता है)
limit. Minors can also join.
- ~₹110 Fees to get PAN card. No fees to get Aadhar. मु� म� �मलता है.
- No fees to get GSTIN
Compulsory to enroll (अ�नवायर् है), if your income
Voluntary to enroll. आधार काडर् बनवाना �ै��क है.
or turnover is beyond “x” rupees**. अ�नवायर् / बा�कर नहीं है.**
They contain Demographic info:
- Name - Name, Date of Birth, Gender, Address.
- Photograph & Date of Birth (in case of - Mobile & Email (optional)
“Human”) Biometric info:
- Address. - Ten Fingerprints, Two Iris Scans, and Facial
Photograph.
- Compulsory to link Aadhar card with PAN card by 31/3/2023.
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✓ GST online portal and e-way bill system reduces the interface between tax-officials and the
assesses, thereby reducing the scope of harassment, bribery and Inspector Raj. (=Ease of doing
business) (उ�ीड़न, �र�तखोरी म� कमी → �ापार म� सुगमता बढ़ी).
✓ GST provides input credits to suppliers thereby incentivizing them to sell with invoice at every
stage. Thus, GST will expand our tax collection, and deter tax evasion. (इनपुट क्रेिडट के �लए �बल बनाना
ज�री, इस�लए करचोरी मु��ल)
✓ GST Input credit system ⬇ the cascading effect of taxes, ↓ cost of manufacturing & selling,
while its anti profiteering authority ensures that such benefits are passed on to the customers in
the form of reduced MRP. (मुनाफाखोरी पर लगाम)
✓ Federal nations such as Canada and Australia shifted from VAT to GST regime. It helped
boosting their revenue, GDP and exports. (कर राज�, जीडीपी, �नयार्त म� बढ़ोतरी)
✓ GST rates are uniform across the States so it reduces the scope for ‘rate arbitrage’ (दर अपवं चन) i.e.
buying from another state for profiteering, even if same item available in home state. (HOW?
Watch Video)
✓ GST’s ITC helps Ancillarisation, Subcontracting and Outsourcing. This helps in more job
creation (How? Watch Video) (अनुषंगीकरण, उपठे का और आउटसो�सग)
✓ Both CGST and SGST are computed on the same base (₹10,000), therefore tax burden on final
consumer is less in GST regime, than in Excise-VAT regime. (How? Watch Video) (एक आधार पर
क� द्र और रा� के जीएसटी क� �गनती से उपभो�ा पर बोज कम होता है)
✓ Thus, GST will help to create a unified common national market for India, & catalyse “Make in
India”, and Assemble in India(More in 📑📑Pillar#4B)
22.21.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋: ⚓ GST Benefit: Zero Rated Exports (शू� रेटेड �नयार्त )
- When company buys raw material or intermediate goods it will have to pay GST but if final
product is exported outside India, it'll be subjected to 0% IGST.
- So, whatever GST the company had paid on the inputs, all of that will become its “Input Tax
Credit” (and company can use this ITC to pay for the taxes on the purchase of raw material and
intermediate goods in the next time), thus reducing its cost of production. (उ�ाद खचर् म� कमी)
- This will improve price competitiveness of Indian products in foreign markets. (�वदेशी बाजार म�
भारत का सामान िकफायती बनता है)
- Australia and other GST countries also follow similar “zero rated export” regime.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Most likely advantages of implementing GST? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
1. It will replace multiple taxes collected by multiple authorities thus create a single market in India.
2. It will drastically reduce ‘Current Account Deficit’ of India and will enable it to increase its
foreign exchange reserves.
3. It will enormously increase the growth and size of Indian economy of India & will enable it to
overtake China in the near future.
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Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
Handout: [2A)✅Direct & Indirect Taxes [2B) Black Money, 15th Finance Commission
[2C) Subsidies to Disinvestment [2D) Fiscal Deficit, FRBM, Budgeting & scheme types
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2B: Finance Commission, Black Money & 2C: s ubsidies, revenue expenditure
Table of Contents
23 � (������) Taxation → Finance Commission ......................................................... 321
23.1 Introduction to Finance Commission (�व� आयोग) .................................................................. 321
23.2 �(�
� ���) Fifteenth FC Composition (setup in 2017-Nov) ............................... 322
23.2.1 �15th FC Terms of Reference (TOR: �वचाराथर् �वषय)? ................................................... 322
23.3 � [�
��(�
���)] FC: Vertical Tax Devolution from Union to States ................. 323
23.4 � [�
�����] Horizontal Tax Devolution among States .................................... 323
23.4.1 � [�
�����]15th FC: Horizontal devolution: States’ share ...................... 325
23.4.2 �Finance Commissions & the fate of UTs of J&K & Ladakh .................................... 325
23.4.3 � → �� (�
��) Grants from Union to States : 14th FC ................................. 325
23.4.4 � → �� (�
��) Grants from Union to States : 15th FC ................................. 326
23.4.5 ���Post-Devolution Revenue Deficit Grants (अंतरण-प� राज� घाटा अनुदान) ...... 327
23.4.6 ���15th FC: Special Grants: (�वशेष अनुदान) ........................................................... 328
23.4.7 ���15th FC: Local Bodies Grants (�ानीय �नकाय अनुदान) ...................................... 328
23.4.8 ����15th FC: Disaster Management Grants (आपदा प्रबं धन अनुदान:) ................ 328
23.4.9 ���15th FC: Sector Specific Grants (�ेत्र-�व�श� अनुदान)-Malnutrition ............... 329
23.4.10 ���15th FC: Sector Specific Grants (�ेत्र-�व�श� अनुदान)-Health .......................... 329
23.4.11 ���15th FC: Sector Specific Grants (�ेत्र-�व�श� अनुदान)- Others(अ�) ................ 330
23.4.12 ���Defence and Internal Security Fund for Union ........................................... 330
23.5 �(�
����)�
� FC: Giving Permanent Status (�ायी दजार् देना) .................................. 331
23.6 � FC vs PC vs NITI: What’s the Difference? ....................................................................... 331
23.7 �(�
����) Special Category States? �वशेष श्रेणी के रा�? ............................................ 332
24 ��� Taxation → Black Money & Allied Issues ................................................................... 333
24.1 ��)�
(� �Black Money → Notable Organisations ............................................................ 334
24.2 �� Tax Evasion (Hiding Income / Transaction) ............................................................ 335
24.2.1 ��� Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA-2002) ............................... 335
24.2.2 PMLA Reporting Norms to apply on Crypto-exchanges (2023).................................. 336
24.2.3 ��� Undisclosed Foreign Income & Assets Act (UFIA-2015) ......................... 336
24.2.4 ��� Benami Transactions Prohibition Act (BTPA- 1988, 2016) ..................... 336
24.3 ��)�
(� � Tax Evasion → Govt Announcements ............................................................ 337
24.3.1 ��� Tax (Evasion) “Surrender” schemes............................................................ 337
24.3.2 ��� Vivad se Vishwas Scheme for Direct Taxes (Budget-2020) ...................... 338
24.3.3 ��� Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC) in Budget-2021 .......................... 338
24.3.4 TDS on influencers / influencer tax ................................................................................. 339
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24.3.5 �� Tax Evasion → Other Initiatives (अ� कदम) ...................................................... 339
24.4 ���)Tax avoidance (कर प�रहार / कर टालना).................................................................... 340
(�
24.4.1 ��� Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) & Round Tripping ... 340
24.4.2 ��� Tax Avoidance through Non-Resident Status ............................................ 341
24.4.3 ��� Place of Effective Management (POEM: पीओईएम) ...................................... 341
24.4.4 ��� Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS: बीईपीएस) ....................................... 342
24.4.5 ��� Transfer Pricing & Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) (ह�ांतरण मू�)
343
24.4.6 ���) � General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) ........................................... 343
(�
24.5 ���:�
(� �) � Retrospective Tax: Vodafone.............................................................. 343
24.5.1 ���:�
(� �) � Retrospective Tax: Cairn Energy ............................................... 345
24.6 ���:�
� Global Minimum Tax (वै��क �ूनतम कर) ......................................................... 346
24.6.1 ���:�
� Global Minimum Tax: G7 Framework ................................................ 346
24.6.2 ���:�
� G7-OECD “Two” Pillar Solution for Global Minimum Tax............. 346
24.7 ����: � Reforms to reduce Tax Terrorism / Harassment ................................. 347
24.7.1 ����:�
� Pre-filled online forms for Tax Payers ........................................... 347
24.7.2 ����:�
�Updated Return Form to correct errors- in ��Budget-2022:
347
24.7.3 ����:�
� Faceless interaction between Tax payers and Tax official ........... 347
24.7.4 ����:�
�� Time limit on opening of past cases ........................................ 348
24.7.5 ����:�
� Document Identification Number (DIN: द�ावेज़ पहचान सं �ाक) ... 348
24.8 ��� Taxpayers’ Charter in � Budget-2020 (करदाताओ का अ�धकारपत्र) ....................... 348
24.8.1 ��� (Indian) Tax Payers' Charter released in 2020-Aug ................................... 349
24.9 ��: �� Tax Ombudsman in Economic Survey 2021.............................................. 349
24.9.1 ��: ��Tax ombudsman: Indian experience .................................................... 350
24.9.2 ��: Reducing Tax Terrorism / Harassment: online portals/Apps ....................... 350
24.10 ���
�Taxation → Global Treaties, Agreements & Indexes ..................................... 351
24.10.1 ���
� Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA: कर सूचना �व�नमय समझौता) ... 351
24.10.2 ���
� USA’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA-2010) ................ 351
24.10.3 ���
� Global Financial Secrecy Index (वै��क �व�ीय गोपनीयता सूचकांक) ..................... 351
24.11 �Black Money → Demonetisation (�वमुद्रीकरण) ................................................................ 351
24.11.1 �Why Demonetise ₹ 500 & 1000?................................................................................ 352
24.11.2 � Demonetisation SC Verdict .................................................................................... 352
24.11.3 �� Tax: GDP – why low in India (भारत का कर:जीडीपी अनुपात खराब �ों है?)................. 353
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24.11.4 �� Tax: GDP �� ES19: “Use Behavioural Economics to improve Tax
Compliance” ........................................................................................................................................ 354
24.12 Revenue Shortfall.................................................................................................................... 355
24.13 �Taxation: Misc. Terms ..................................................................................................... 355
24.13.1 �Tax buoyancy (कर उ�ावकता): ...................................................................................... 356
24.13.2 � Net Tax Revenue of the Govt (शुद्ध कर राज�) ............................................................. 356
24.14 ��� Budget → Revenue Part → Receipts → Non-Tax Receipts ...................... 357
25 �� Budget → Revenue Expenditure (राज� खचर्/ �य) .............................................................. 357
25.1 ��(�
��) Revenue Expenditure → Subsidies ............................................................ 358
25.1.1 ��(�
��) Types of subsidies with selected examples......................................... 359
25.1.2 � � Impact of Subsidies (स��डी का प्रभाव: सकारा�क एवं नकारा�क) ............................... 359
25.1.3 �� Past Economic Surveys on subsidy delivery (आ�थक सव��णों के उपाय) ................. 360
25.1.4 ���National Recruitment Agency (NRA: रा�ी� य भत� एज�सी) ................................. 360
25.2 ��� Revenue xpdr → Salaries→ 7th Pay Commission (वेतन आयोग) ........................ 360
25.2.1 � Pay Commission: Dearness Allowance (DA: महंगाई भ�ा) ........................................ 360
25.2.2 � Pay Commission: Misc. terms ................................................................................... 361
25.3 ����� SALARY Reforms in Atmanirbharat 2.0 (Oct 2020) ............................. 361
25.3.1 ���� Atma-Nirbhar 2.0: Festival Advance Scheme (�ोहारों म� एडवांस रकम) ... 361
25.3.2 ���� Atma-Nirbhar 2.0: LTC Cash Voucher Scheme .................................. 361
25.4 �<�
(� �)�
�� Revenue Deficit & Effective revenue deficit ............................................ 361
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15th FC: NK Singh Originally, it was meant to cover: 1st April, 2020 to 31st March, 2025
But later, Modi Govt ordered it to submit two reports:
1) Report#1: for 1/Apr/2020 to 31/March/2021 → submitted to President
in 2019-Nov, and accepted in 2020-Jan
2) Report#2: for 1/Apr/2021 to 31/March/2026. Title of report is "“Finance
Commission in Covid Times”. Published in 2021-February.
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15th FC horizontal distribution formula components (घटक) → (भारांक%)
Weight%
(both in Report#1 and Report#2)
Income Distance (आय म� अंतर):
⇒ State GSDP divided by its Population = per capita GSDP.
45%
⇒ For most states, Haryana’s per capita GSDP is taken as benchmark. How poorer is
your state compared to Haryana= more ₹₹ you’ll get.**
📏📏 Area (�ेत्रफल) More area = more ₹₹ 15%
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curiosity about how above indicators are calculated in real life, you may spend waste time in PHD-reading of the original report@
https://fincomindia.nic.in/
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3. For 14 States: Post-Devolution Revenue Deficit Grants. (अंतरण-प� राज� घाटा अनुदान)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Give me full list of all 14 States? Ans. I’d not loose sleep over it. Satisfy your PHD
curiosity with Page 297 here
https://fincomindia.nic.in/writereaddata/html_en_files/fincom15/Reports/XVFC%20VOL%20I%20
Main%20Report.pdf
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: On above logic/formula, wouldn’t a careless state govt spend truckload of money by
borrowing from market? Ans. REF: Pillar2D: FRBM Act.
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23.4.6 💸💸💸�15th FC: Special Grants: (�वशेष अनुदान)
Report#1 (2020-21)
⇒ If a state receives less ₹₹ in (15th FC’s devolution + post revenue deficit grants) in 2020-21
compared to 2019-20 (when 14th FC Rangarajan’s formula was in effect),
⇒ Then such State will get Special Grants just to prevent any ‘feeling of injustice / bias’ (अगर 14व� �व�
आयोग क� अपे�ा 15म� कम �मल रहा हो तो अ�ाय / प�पात के आरोप से बचने के �लए उन रा�ों को �वशेष अनुदान)
⇒ Only 3 states eligible: Karnataka, Telangana and Mizoram. Total ₹6,764 cr for 2020-21
Report#2 (2021-26)
- No such grant announced. (ऐसा कोई �वशेष अनुदान नहीं िदया गया)
23.4.7 💸💸💸🏕🏕15th FC: Local Bodies Grants (�ानीय �नकाय अनुदान)
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15th FC: recommend 🧔🧔National Disaster Risk Management Fund �State Disaster
�सफ़ा�रशे (NDRMF: एनडीआरएमएफ/रा��ीय आपदा जो�खम प्रबं धन कोष) Risk Management
Fund (SDRMF)
Internal distribution ⇒ 80% amt for National Disaster Response Fund Same pattern, change
आंत�रक �वतरण (NDRF:एनडीआरएफ/रा�ी� य आपदा सहायता कोष) word from National
⇒ 20% amt for National Disaster Mitigation to ‘State’
Funds (NDMF:एनडीएमएफ/रा�ी� य आपदा प्रशमन कोष)
**Notes on SDRMF:
1) How much will an individual state get? Ans= depends on its past disasters, risk exposure (area &
population wise) etc. आपके रा� म� आपदा का जो�खम िकतना है उस िहसाब से कम / �ादा पैसा �मले
2) Respective State Govt is also required to contribute some money in SDRMF.
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⇒ Union and State Government together should spend 2.5% of GDP on Healthcare sector by 2025.
(क� द्र और रा� सरकार ने �मलकर �ा� �ेत्र म� सावर्ज�नक खचर् को बढ़ाकर जीडीपी के ढाई प्र�तशत तक करना चािहए)
⇒ All-India Services Act, 1951: (presently we've IAS,IPS,Indian Forest Service) → make 4th All
India service: "All India Medical and Health Service" → UPSC to conduct recruitment. This will
help addressing the shortage of doctor in backward states. आईएएस/आईपीएस क� तजर् पर एक और अ�खल
भारतीय सेवा बनाई जाए "अ�खल भारतीय �चिक�ा एवं �ा� सेवा" तािक �पछड़े रा�ों म� डॉ�रों क� कमी को पूरा िकया जा सके
⇒ Most of the medical colleges and super-speciality hospitals (e.g. Cancer) are concentrated in the
Western and Southern parts of India. Union and State government should make efforts to
address this.(प��मी/द��णी रा�ों के अलावा वाले �व�ार म� भी अ�� मेिडकल कॉलेज/अ�ताल बनाने पर जोर िदया जाए)
23.4.11 💸💸💸🍽🍽15th FC: Sector Specific Grants (�ेत्र-�व�श� अनुदान)- Others(अ�)
Report#2: (2021-26) Amount
कृ �ष �ेत्र म� सुधारों के �लए -नी�त आयोग द्वारा Implementation of agricultural reforms e.g.
प्र�ा�वत कानूनों को पा�रत करना, भूजल Passing the agricultural formula suggested by
सं वधर्न, �तलहन दाल लकड़ी उ�ादों को Niti Aayog, Groundwater conservation,
प्रो�ाहन, कृ �ष �नयार्त को बढ़ोतरी Improving Oilseed pulses wood products, 45kcr
agricultural export, (📑📑Ref: HDT-Pillar#4A)
ग्रामीण सड़कों क� मर�त Maintenance of PMGSY roads (Pradhanmantri 27 kcr
Gram Sadak Yojana) (📑📑Ref: HDT-Pillar#5-
Transport Infrastructure)
�ा�यक सुधार -अ�त�र� �ायालय और Judiciary: ₹₹ for Setting of extra courts and
जजों क� �नयु�� के �लए पैसा- �जसे 5 साल judges to finish the the property cases which are 10 kcr
या उससे अ�धक �वलं �बत सं प��यों के मामलों pending for 5 years or older, Civil cases of
का �नपटारा, ब�ों के यौन शोषण,गं भीर marginalized people, POSCO cases (child sex
अपराध के मामलों का ज�ी �नपटारा abuse) & heinous crimes
उ� �श�ा म� ऑनलाइन पढ़ाई क� �व�ा Higher Education-For 1) developing online 6 kcr
तथा �चिक�ा और इं जी�नय�रंग के कोसर् को learning 2) translating medical engineering
प्रादे�शक भाषा म� अनुवािदत करने के �लए courses in regional languages
�ू ली �श�ा School Education 4.8 kcr
सां��क�/डेटा सं ग्रह Statistics/Data collection >1000 cr
These grants also include internal quota for performance based incentives i.e. Better performing
States will be given additional money. (इन सभी अनुदान म� कु छ अंद�नी/आंत�रक कोटा होता है, �जसम� अ�धक अ�ा
प्रदशर्न करने वाले रा�ों को अ�धक रकम �मल सके )
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Type Non-lapsable Fund (The money in such fund will not lapse on 31st March, so it can
be used in future without getting another approval from parliament.) �बन�पगत �नधी
Amount ₹ 2.38 Lcr (total for 2021-26)
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🔠🔠❓ MCQ. In India, which of the following review(s) the independent regulators in sectors like
telecommunications, insurance, electricity etc. ? (UPSC Prelims-2019)
1. Ad Hoc Committees set up by the Parliament.
2. Parliamentary Department Related Standing Committees
3. Finance Commission (4) Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (5) NITI Aayog
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 , 3 and 4 (c) 3, 4 and 5 (d) 2 and 5
23.7 🍋🍋(🧔🧔⚖�🙏🙏) SPECIAL CATEGORY STATES? �वशेष श्रेणी के रा�?
Figure 2: हमारा रा� गरीब है, इस�लए हमे �वकास के �लए क� द्र सरकार ने अलग से ढेर सारा पैसा देना चािहए.
- 1952: The National Development Council (NDC: रा�ी� य �वकास प�रषद) was set up, with PM, CMs and
other representatives to approve FYP prepared by the Planning Commission.
- Although NDC became obsolete with establishment of NITI Aayog.(फू टा �आ कारतूस बन चुका है)
- 1969: 5th FC recommended giving extra ₹₹+ tax-relief to certain disadvantaged states. Over the
years, NDC added more states into the Special Category List based on
✓ (i) hilly and difficult terrain (पहाड़ी और किठन भूभाग)
✓ (ii) low population density and / or sizeable share of tribal population (कम जनसं �ा
घन� और / या जनजातीय जनसं �ा का बड़ा िह�ा)
✓ (iii) strategic location along borders with neighbouring countries (पड़ोसी देशों के साथ
सीमाओं के साथ रणनी�तक �ान)
✓ (iv) economic/infrastructural backwardness (आ�थक/अवसं रचना�क �पछड़ेपन)
✓ (v) non-viable nature of state finances. (रा� �व� क� गैर-�निहत प्रकृ �त।)
- Examples: 8 North Eastern states and 3 Himalayan States (JK, Uttarakhand, HP). Although,
Post-370 removal, J&K is no longer in this list.
- 🤩🤩🤩🤩Benefits of Sp.Cat. States? (�वशेष श्रेणी के रा�ों को �ा �रयायते / लाभ �मलते है?)
✓ Industrialists will be given benefits in Union-taxes for setting up factories in these states.
(उद्योगप�त को फै ��ी लगाने पर कर म� छू ट/ �रयायत- तािक वह �पछड़े रा� म� जाने के �लए आक�षत हो )
✓ Union bears higher burden in Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) e.g 90:10 ratio: (क� द्र
प्रायो�जत योजनाएं म� क� द्र सरकार अपनी जेब से �ादा अनुपात म� पैसा देता)
✓ FC & PC would assign more weightage in their formulas to give them more funds.
- 14th FC: Previous FC assigned extra weightage & funds to Sp.Cat states, but 14th FC stopped
- But, whenever elections are near, W.Bengal, Bihar and Andhra CMs would demand Sp.Cat.
status & blame Union for ‘injustice’. (चुनाव करीब हो- उस व� कु छ रा� नाइं साफ� क� बात करते ह�)
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- 15th FC: Some States have requested special category status. But it’s not part of our
mandate/Terms of Reference. (�वत् आयोग के �वचाराथर् �वषयो मे ये है ही नही!)
- So, at present, Sp.Cat states don’t get additional revenue/grants in FC’s formula. Although,
Union upon its own discretion continues to give them certain benefits in CSS. (वतर्मान �व� आयोग,
इन रा�ों को अलग से कोई पैसा नहीं देते। िकंतु क� द्र सरकार �यं के �ववेक से योजनाओं म� �ादा पैसा दे सकती है।)
Tax Planning / Tax When person invests money in LIC/PPF/Pension funds etc.in such manner
Mitigation that he can claim various deductions legally available in the Income Tax Act.
(कर-�नयोजन) It’s neither illegal nor unethical. (न ही अवैध और न ही अनै�तक)
Black Money It is an income or transaction that is taxable yet NOT reported to the tax
(काला धन) authorities concealed from the tax authority.
कालाधन ऐसी आय/लेनदेन है जो क� कर-पात्र है, िक�ु कर-अ�धका�रयों से �छपाई गई.
Parallel Economy The economy that runs on black money. (समानांतर अथर्�व�ा जो काले धन पर चलती है)
👺👺Tax Evasion When person hides income or transaction from tax authorities, and thereby
(कर अपवं चन evades paying taxes. It’s illegal. (कराधान यो� आय या लेन देन को सरकार से �छपाना)
कर-चोरी)
🤵🤵🤵🤵Tax When person discloses his income and transactions to tax authorities but uses
Avoidance legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes. E.g. Bollywood stars who register digital
(कर प�रहार media companies in Tax Havens. It may not be illegal in every case, but still
unethical. (कराधान यो� आमदनी या लेनदेन को सरकार से �छपाना निह, लेिकन क़ानून मे �छद्रों के
कर-टालना)
इ�ेमाल द्वारा कर को टालना जाना। )
🍸🍸Tax Haven Is a country that demands little taxes from foreigners and offers legal
(कर �गर्) loopholes for Tax Avoidance & opportunities for Tax Evasion. E.g.
Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, Cayman Islands, Panama, Nauru,
Vanuatu etc. These countries are geographically small, & without viable
economy. So they offer such mechanism to attract foreign investors and
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एसा देश जहां कर टालने / foreign tourists.
�छपाने के �लए ब�त अवसर
�मलते ह�
👺👺→🤵🤵Money ⇒ When drug trafficking, ransom, corruption and other criminal activity
laundering generates substantial profits, the criminal tries to spend / invest / hide the
(गैरकानूनी तरीके से प्रा� money without attracting attention.
धन को वैध बनाना) ⇒ Money laundering (धनशोधन) is the process of disguising the source of
money, as if it came from a legitimate activity, & then channelize it into
banks, share market and other financial intermediaries.
Hawala ⇒ Hawala is an illegal money transfer / remittance system. Money is paid to
गैर कानूनी �प से एक जगह an agent who instructs an associate in the relevant country or area to pay
से दू सरी जगह पैसा भेजना the final recipient.
Although used by Indian workers in middle east because lower commission
than post-office/bank transfers, + better network in remote villages
Shell firms, They do not have any active business operations. Created with sole objective
Post-box/ of money laundering/tax evasion/avoidance E.g. Mishail Packers and Printers
Letter-box Pvt Ltd. allegedly setup by Misa Bharti Yadav to launder ₹1.2 crores (as per
companies Enforcement Directorate). मात्र कर चोरी के �लए बनाई गई कं प�नयां
Panama Papers International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is a USA based
(2016) nonprofit organization: released these incriminating documents from certain
Paradise Papers law firms in tax havens & showed how big politicians, businessmen,
(2017) sportsmen, filmstars have setup shell companies for tax evasion/avoidance
Mauritius papers across the world.
(2018) Putin, Sachin, Ambani, Amitabh Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai also named in
Pandora Papers these papers. (पत्रकारों का एक वै��क सं गठन �ज�ोंने अलग अलग द�ावेज़ जारी कर सा�बत िकया-
(2021) कै से द�ु नया के रसूखदार लोग फ़ज़� कं प�नयां बनाकर कर चोरी करते ह�)
Tax Terrorism - Happens when tax authorities put undue pressure on an honest taxpayer
(कर आतं कवाद) to pay more taxes. (ईमानदार करदाता पर टै� अ�धकारी अनाव�क दबाव / उ�ीड़न करे)
🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋: � - Critiques have used this word in context of Vodafone & Cairn cases.
TDS/TCS Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) �ोत पर कर कटौती
Tax Collection at Source (TCS) �ोत पर कर सं ग्रह
These are the mechanism to discourage tax evasion. 📑📑Ref:2A: IT Handout
PAN Card 10 letters alphanumeric numbered assigned to all taxpayers in India by
�ाई खाता सं �ाक Income Tax Dept. 📑📑Ref: 2A: GST Handout for more.
24.1 (🍋🍋🍋🍋)�BLACK MONEY → NOTABLE ORGANISATIONS
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Enforcement FinMin → Department of Revenue → ED is a Specialized financial
Directorate (ED: प्रवतर्न investigation agency to enforce following laws
�नदेशालय ) 1. Foreign Exchange Management Act,1999 (FEMA)
2. Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA)
Directorate of Revenue FinMin → Department of Revenue → CBIC → DRI is an agency to
Intelligence investigate Customs/Narcotics/Wildlife/Arms related smuggling & illegal
activities. (DRI: राज� आसूचना �नदेशालय)
Financial Intelligence It analyses the suspected financial transactions in domestic and
unit (FIU-2004: �व�ीय crossborder levels & reports directly to the Economic Intelligence Council
आसूचना एकक) (EIC: आ�थक आसूचना प�रषद) headed by the FM
Financial Action Task - is a brainchild of G7, Combating Money laundering and terror
Force (FATF-1989: finance. India became member in 2010. HQ@Paris
HQ@Paris - Greylist: nations that safe haven for terror financing and money
�व�ीय कारर्वाई कायर्दल: ऐसे laundering. E.g. Syria, Yemen, etc are on the grey list. (Update 2022:
बदमाश ग़ैर �ज़�ेदार देशों क� Mauratius & Pakistan REMOVED from this list)
सूची बनाता है जहाँ धनशोधन और - Blacklist: nations that are not cooperating in the global fight against
आतं क� �व�पोषण के �ख़लाफ़ money laundering, terrorist financing. Iran and N.Korea
स�ी नहीं है)
OECD (1961: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
HQ@Paris. Works for International cooperation in the matters of economy and
आ�थक सहयोग तथा �वकास taxation. Known for Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) Norms.
सं गठन) India is not a member of OECD, yet. HQ@Paris.
24.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋 TAX EVASION (HIDING INCOME / TRANSACTION)
24.2.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋⚖ Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA-2002)
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24.2.2 PMLA Reporting Norms to apply on Crypto-exchanges (2023)
➢ cryptoexchange is a platform where buying and selling of bitcoin and other crypto currency,
NFTs takes place. e.g. Unocoin, Coinswitch etc.
➢ 2023: cryptoexchanges will have to perform the know your customer (KYC) guidelines i.e.
collect ID proof, PAN/Aadhar, verified the residential address etc. (अपने ग्राहक को पहचानो �नयमावली का
पालन करना होगा)
➢ cryptoexchanges will have to notify any suspicious transactions to authorities. (सं िद� लेनदेन के बारे
म� सरकार को सू�चत करना होगा)
➢ Govt issued these directives using Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA-2002)
1988’s original act did not achieve much results → amended in 2016. Main Agency? Income
Tax Department. (बेनामी लेनदेन (�नषेध) अ�ध�नयम:)
Benami refers to properties that buyer registers in the name of his relative, personal staff (Driver,
Gardner) or a non-existent/ fictitious persons (का��नक ���) to avoid tax authorities’ attention.
E.g. 2018: Misa Bharti Yadav (allegedly) bought farmhouse in the name of her brother-in-law
Nilesh Kumar.
Cases heard @ PMLA-walli bodies. Violation = Confiscation of property + penalty + Jail
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. ‘Prohibition of Benami Transactions Act’: find correct statement(s):( Pre-2017)
1. A property transaction is not treated as a benami transaction if the owner of the property is not
aware of the transaction. (यिद सं प�� का मा�लक कह� िक “मुजे लेनदेन के बारे म� नहीं पता था” तो उसक� सं प�� को बेनामी
नहीं माना जाएगा)
2. Properties held benami are liable for confiscation by the Govt. (बेनामी सं प�� को सरकार ज�/क़�े मे लेगी)
3. The Act provides for 3 authorities for investigations but does not provide for any appellate
mechanism.
Answer Codes: (a) 1only (b) 2 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 2 and 3 only
गुनाह कबूल करो / आ�-समपर्ण करो तो कम जुमार्ना भरना होगा / जेल नहीं जाना होगा
Under such schemes, a tax-evader can declare his undisclosed income, pay the taxes and penalty.
Then, Income Tax Department will not pursue case against him. (Although Police may still pursue
case if income is from narcotics, kidnapping, extortion etc.)
Income Declaration Offer? 45% of the undisclosed income shall be taken away by govt as (tax
Scheme (IDS) 30%+ surcharge + penalty).
Validity? 2016 June to Sept. ~67,000 cr black money was declared.
Pradhan Mantri - ~50% of the undisclosed income shall be taken away by Govt. as Tax +
Garib Kalyan Penalty + Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Cess.
Yojana (PMGKY) - Further, 25% of the undisclosed income shall be deposited in RBI’s
Launched after
‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme, 2016’. It’ll be a fixed
Demonetization
deposit for 4 years @ ZERO % Interest rate.
Validity?
2016-Dec: - The PM Garib Kalyan cess, and deposit will be used for schemes related to
To 2017-April irrigation,housing,toilets,infrastructure, edu, health etc.
- The scheme was not very successful, hardly ~ ₹ 5000 cr. declared.
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24.3.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Vivad se Vishwas Scheme for Direct Taxes (💼💼Budget-2020)
Presently, >₹9 lakh cr worth direct tax cases pending before Appellate Forums (अपीलीय मं चों के सम�
लं �बत मामले) viz. IT Commissioner (Appeals) → Income Tax Appellate Tribunals (ITAT: आयकर अपीलीय
�ाया�धकरण ) → HC → SC. So, 💼💼Budget-2020 → “Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Bill/Act, 2020”.
⇒ Scope: Appeal related to Income tax or Corporation Tax, pending before a forum as of
31/Jan/2020. Then,
⇒ Taxpayers can settle with IT dept by paying 50-100% of the disputed tax amount- depending on
the case-matter.
⇒ he'll get a complete waiver/relief from interest+penalty (�ाज और जुमार्ना से माफ�).
⇒ Above scheme is valid upto 31/March/2020, then Atma-Nirbhar Bharat extended it further.
⇒ This scheme is not applicable if:
o person is under prosecution for criminal activities. (अपरा�धक मामले चल रहे हो)
o If black money is hidden in foreign countries. (�वदेश म� काला धन �छपाया हो)
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24.3.4 TDS on influencers / influencer tax
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Electoral Bonds, 2017 📑📑Ref: Pillar#1C: SEBI/Sharemarket handout
24.4 (🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋)TAX AVOIDANCE (कर प�रहार / कर टालना)
Here, people will not hide the transaction, they’ll blatantly declare transactions in their official
records, but will use legal loopholes (कानूनी-खा�मया) to avoid paying taxes.
24.4.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) & Round Tripping
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24.4.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Tax Avoidance through Non-Resident Status
(�वदेश म� बनी फज� कं पनी के प्रबं धन का वा��वक �ान भारत म� ��त है तो भारत सरकार उसके मुनाफे पे टे� मांगेगी।)
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24.4.4 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS: बीईपीएस)
When MNCs shift profit from its source country to a tax-haven to avoid / reduce paying taxes, its
known as “BEPS”. (ब�रा��ीय �नगम द्वारा मुनाफे को �ानांत�रत करना तािक भारत म� उसे टे� कम भरना पड़े )
India signed the OECD’s joint Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related
Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (commonly referred to as MLI) ओईसीडी के
ब�प�ीय समझौते पर ह�ा�र िकए ह�
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24.4.5 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Transfer Pricing & Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) (ह�ांतरण मू�)
✋Not really important। What above thing means ? = explained in video lecture.
⇒ 2020-21: Netherland Arbitration Court had ordered Indian govt to pay $1.2 billion to Cairn
Energy for tax harassment. (नीदरल�ड क� कोटर् ने भारत सरकार पर एक �ब�लयन डॉलर से �ादा का जुमार्ना डाला)
⇒ To recover this $1.2 billion compensation, Cairn company was trying to seize Indian Govt's
assets in foreign countries e.g. Air India planes parked on USA Airport, Indian Govt’s embassy
office/properties in Paris etc. (कं पनी मुआवज़े क� वसूली के �लए भारत सरकार क� �वदेशों म� ��त सं प��यों पर
क़�ा/नीलामी चाहती है)
o 2021-Aug: FinMin introduced a Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 to end
retrospective tax rule-( �वत् मं त्रालय का कराधान क़ानून सं शोधन अ�ध�नयम २०२१- �जसम� पूवर्प्रभावी/भूतल�ी
कराधान को रद्द िकया)
o “If indirect transfer of Indian assets occurred before May 28, 2012, then Indian
government will not demand taxes on it. (2012 से पहले �ए इस प्रकार के लेन देन पर कोई भूतल�ी
कराधान नहीं माँगा जाएगा।)
o however it requires that company need to drop the cases against Indian tax authorities,
filed in the Indian and foreign courts. (हालाँिक इस �रयायत म� शतर् ये है, िक कं पनी ने भारतीय सरकार के
�ख़लाफ़ जो जो मुक़दमे भारतीय और �वदेशी अदालतों म� दायर िकए ह�, उ�� वापस लेना होगा।)
⇒ 2021-Sept: Cairn agrees to drop cases filed against India in France, Netherland, USA etc. And
government of India agreed to drop the (retrospective) tax demand against Cairn. Vodafone also
planning to do similar. (उन �वदेशी कं पनीयो ने भारत सरकार के �ख़लाफ़ �वदेशी अदालतो म� दजर् िकए के सों को वापस �लया)
��Which one of the following situations best reflects “Indirect Transfers” often talked about
in media recently with reference to India ? (Prelims-2022)
(a) An Indian company investing in a foreign enterprise and paying taxes to the foreign country on
the profits arising out of its investment
(b) A foreign company investing in India and paying taxes to the country of its base on the profits
arising out of its investment
(c) An Indian company purchases tangible assets in a foreign country and sells such assets after their
value increases and transfers the proceeds to India
(d) A foreign company transfers shares and such shares derive their substantial value from assets
located in India
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24.6 🍋🍋🍋🍋🌐🌐:🤵🤵 GLOBAL MINIMUM TAX (वै��क �ूनतम कर)
⇒ (Introduction: Origin) Tax Haven/Low Tax nations such as Luxembourg (Corporation Tax:
1.39%), British Virgin Island 0.07%, Cayman Islands 0.2 %. These countries are geographically
small, & without a viable economy. So they offer such a mechanism to attract foreign investors
and foreign tourists. (कर �गर् ऐसे देश ह� जहां पर प्र�� करों क� दर ब�त कम होती है तािक �वदेशी �नवेश और �वदेशी
पयर्टकों को आक�षत िकया जा सके )
⇒ Multinational corporations register their company here to transfer their profits/avoid paying
taxes to normal countries where they are operating. India is losing annually $100 cr, while USA
is loosing annually $500 cr by this. (ब�रा��ीय कं प�नयां ऐसे कर �गर् क� मदद से कर-प�रहार/करो को टालती है.)
⇒ USA: Former President Donald Trump �decreased corporation tax from 35% to 21%. New
President Joe Biden aims to �taxes for Corona-welfare schemes for Americans. Biden also
urged G20 group of countries to keep minimum level of Corporation taxes. (Given in next topic)
24.6.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋🌐🌐:🤵🤵 G7-OECD “Two” Pillar Solution for Global Minimum Tax
For implementation of above G7 15% Global Minimum Tax Framework → OECD has given “Two-
Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy.“
- Pillar1- Applies to ~100 biggest and most profitable multinational enterprises (MNEs).
o They need to re-allocates “X%” of their profit to the countries where they sell their
goods/services. (So, such govt can count that profit & demand Corporation Tax on it.)
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o All member-nations to remove all Digital Services Taxes. (e.g. India will have to remove
equalisation levy/google tax. REF: Handout Pillar#2A1- Direct Taxes.)
- Pillar2: Applies to any company with over 750 million EURO annual revenue. They would be
subject to an minimum 15% tax (on their profit).
We learned about the reforms to fight “Tax evasion” → ban on cash transaction of ₹ 2 lakh / >, -
Operation Clean Money etc. So, on one hand, Income Tax Department has to become 😡😡😡😡strict /
coercive to fight against Tax evasion. At the same time, IT dept. also needs to become more
🤝🤝🤝🤝friendly towards honest taxpayers, So, following measures taken→ (कर आतं कवाद उ�ीड़न)
24.7.3 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋:🧾🧾 Faceless interaction between Tax payers and Tax official
Personal interaction between the assessee and Income Tax official = more chances of harassment /
bribery. So, Government launched following reforms:
1) Cases will be allotted in random computerized lottery basis to IT officials without disclosing the
name, designation or location of the Officer.
Table 3: कर अ�धकारी और करदाता के �ब� मुलाकात/सं पकर् �बना आकलन और अपील कारर्वाई
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stage assessee need not visit IT-office, simply give clarification in
web-portal. (फे सलेस: �बना प्र��/�ब� मुलाकात के �नधार्रण)
2020 Faceless - So, even in appeal stage, assessee need not physically visit IT
Appeals commissioner / tribunal. It’ll be done online.
Scheme - all Income Tax appeals will be finalised in a faceless manner. Except
those related to serious frauds, major tax evasion, sensitive matters,
International tax etc. के वल बड़े और सं गीन मामलों म� ही �ब� सुनवाई होगी
Whenever Tax official sends letters to taxpayers regarding search authorisation, summons, arrest
memo, inspection notices etc. All such documents will have computer generated ‘Document
Identification Number’ (DIN).
2019: Both Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Indirect Taxes and
Custom (CBIC) started this practice.
DIN system benefits?
It’ll create a digital directory of communication between tax authorities and taxpayers.
Transparency, accountability, efficient and faster clearance of cases, because all the information
available at the click of a mouse. (पारद�शता, जवाब देही, कायर् द�ता, के सों का ��रत �नपटान)
If a document doesn’t have DIN number, it’ll be treated invalid. Thus, DIN system will prevent
the corrupt tax officials from sending fake notices to harass/blackmail taxpayers for bribes.
Sidenote: Director Identification Number (DIN): Director of every company is required to obtain
this number from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs under the provisions of Companies Act. It helps
monitoring the company act provisions related to “1 person can’t be director in more than ‘x’ number
of companies” etc.
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⇒ e.g Dept of Post's citizen charter reads, "we'll deliver speed post anywhere in India by 4-5 days
→ELSE complain online to this website & we'll solve it → if not solved in 90 days then complain
to Postmaster General → then to Chief Postmaster General.”
⇒ Traditionally tax administrations paid limited attention to taxpayer service. पुराने जमाने म�/पारंप�रक �प
से कर-अ�धकारी "करदाता को अ�� सेवा देना" अपनी �ज�ेदारी नहीं समझते थे. घमं ड और बे�ख़ी से काम करते थे
⇒ However, Modern times → �demand for better services to the taxpayers → Govts across the
world, started framing charters and bill of rights for the taxpayers. हालांिक आधु�नक �व� म� इस प्रकार के
अ�धकार पत्र और कानून बनाए गए ह�
1986 UK charters for taxpayers (करदाताओं का अ�धकार पत्र) → more updated 2009
1991 - 1991: citizen charter system started in UK by PM John Major
- 1997: citizen charter introduced in Indian union ministries/departments.
(नाग�रकों का अ�धकार पत्र)
1988 USA Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (करदाताओं के अ�धकारों का �वधेयक/कानून)
2007 Canadian taxpayers’ Bill of Rights
2020 💼💼 Indian Budget-2020: CBDT will declare a Taxpayers’ Charter. So, Tax payer
will easily know what services / complaint redressal mechanisms (�शकायत �नवारणतं त्र)
are available to him= ⬇taxpayer’s harassment (करदाता का उ�ीड़न)
24.8.1 📯📯🍋🍋📜📜 (Indian) Tax Payers' Charter released in 2020-Aug
It promises following things to taxpayers: करदाताओं को वादा करता है
1. You'll be treated in an impartial,courteous, professional manner. �न��, �वनम्र और पेशेवर तरीके से �वहार
2. You'll be treated/ presumed to be honest, unless there is a reason to believe otherwise. आपको
ईमानदार माना जाएगा।
3. We will provide complete and accurate information about rules & complaint mechanism etc a
timely fashion.�नयम/�शकायत दजर् कराने स��ी जानकारी
4. We will collect only correct amount of tax. (के वल सही रा�श ली जाएगी। ज़बरन �ादा रा�श नहीं ली जाएगी।)
5. We will respect your privacy and confidentiality �नजता व् गोपनीयता का स�ान
6. We will hold our officers accountable for their wrongful actions. अ�धका�रओ को गलत काय� क� सजा द�गे
7. You can appoint a representative / tax lawyer to file replies/complaints//cases on your behalf.
मामले दजर् करने के �लए एक प्र�त�न�ध / कर वक�ल �नयु� कर सकते ह�।
8. We'll reduce cost of compliance (e.g. number of forms to be filled, photocopies to be submitted
etc) अनुपालन क� लागत कम कर�ग-े फ़ालतू म� द�ावेज़ो क� दजर्नों कॉपी �नकालके फ़ॉमर् के साथ जोड़ने पड़े- एसे तमाशे बं द कर�गे.
9. +many other points but we have sufficient content for 250 words
It expects following things from taxpayers: Be honest, Pay taxes in time, Keep accurate records, be
informed, respond to notices in time when notices are given. (करदाताओं से �न� अपे�ा करता है क� वे ईमानदार
रह�, समय म� करों का भुगतान कर�, सटीक �रकॉडर् रख�, सू�चत रह�, समयसर नोिटस का जवाब द�)
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24.10🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋TAXATION → GLOBAL TREATIES, AGREEMENTS & INDEXES
24.10.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA: कर सूचना �व�नमय समझौता)
➢ India has signed such agreements with multiple countries. It enables mutual sharing of
information to detect tax avoidance and tax evasion. Example,
➢ 2019: India has notified a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with the Marshall Islands.
➢ From Indian side- CBDT is the the nodal agency for such agreements.
24.10.3 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 Global Financial Secrecy Index (वै��क �व�ीय गोपनीयता सूचकांक)
➢ Prepared by London based Think Tank ‘Tax Justice Network (TJN)’.
➢ It uses 20 indicators to measure the countries on their financial secrecy, opportunities for Tax
Avoidance, BEPS etc. 2020 Ranking: 1st rank Cayman Islands>USA> Switzerland,….India (47).
➢ Its report says India is losing over $10 billion in taxes each year due to MNC’s tax abuse.
Definition? Demonetization is the wholesale withdrawal of currency notes from circulation. (मुद्रा-
चलन म� से कु छ खास िक� क� नोटों को हटा देना)
RBI Act 1934: Every banknote is a legal tender. However, RBI Central Board can recommend
the Government of India to notify specific currency note(s) should no longer be treated as legal
tenders. Then FinMin → Department of Economic Affairs makes official gazette notification.
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1946: ₹ 500 Notes demonetized; 1978: ₹ 1000, ₹ 5000, ₹10000 Notes demonetized.
2016-Nov-8th: Public was ordered to deposit the (old) Mahatma Gandhi series currency notes ₹
500 and ₹ 1,000 (henceforth called “Specified Bank Notes: SBN”) into Banks and post-offices
latest by 30th December 2016. And all the banks and post offices where ordered to deposit such
SBN into RBI.
Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Ordinance:
- From 31st December 2016, RBI Governor not required to honour “I promise to pay…”
or exchange the SBN. Except for NRIs: deadline little bit relaxed, with certain caveats.
- Public prohibited from keeping SBN, except for research or numismatics or museum-
and that too in limited amount. This ordinance became Act in 2017.
India is not the only country in the world to do demonetisation. Sweden ( 2013), European
Union ( 2016) and even Pakistan (2015) has done it for their currency notes.
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1) Lack of civic sense among people that paying taxes is a basic duty. (देश के प्र�त कतर्� क� भावना नहीं)
.
2) Presence of informal sector, parallel economy, cash based economy provides ample
opportunities of hiding income. (नगदी आधा�रत अनौपचा�रक अथर्तंत्र)
3) Low per capita income, high level of poverty. Concentration of income in the hands of few
people- who are greedy to engage in tax evasion & avoidance. (देश क� �ादातर सं प�� चु�नदं ा लोगों के हाथों
म� क� िद्रत, जो लालच म� कर जमा नहीं करते)
4) Election funding → source of corruption → black money. Politician-Builders-Mafia nexus.
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5) Due to political considerations, state govts and local bodies do not levy all the taxes authorised
by the constitution e.g. tax on agricultural income. So our (direct) tax base is narrow. [Tax base:
कराधार means the total value of all the persons/income/property, etc. on which tax is charged.]
6) Loopholes in the tax laws encourage tax avoidance (कर कानूनों म� खा�मयां)
7) Direct taxes like wealth tax, gift tax and estate duty suffered from loopholes, lax monitoring and
evasion. They didn’t yield much revenue. Hence even referred as ‘paper taxes’, and had to be
abolished ultimately. (कागजी कर �जनसे वा�व म� नाम मात्र क� आमदनी होती थी)
24.11.4 🍋🍋🍋🍋 Tax: GDP 📘📘📘📘 ES19: “Use Behavioural Economics to improve Tax Compliance”
Shifted to Mains-QEP
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following effects of creation of black money in India has been the main
cause of worry to the Govt of India? [काला धन भारत सरकार के �लए �चतं ा का �वषय �ों है] (Prelims-2021)
A. Diversion of resources to the purchase of real estate and investment in luxury housing [सं साधनों को
आलीशान बं गले खरीदने के �लए मोड़ िदया जाता है]
B. Investment in unproductive activities and purchase of precious stones, jewellery, gold, etc.[क�मती
जवाहरात सोने और गैरउ�ादक प्रवृ��यों म� �नवेश होता है]
C. Large donations to political parties and growth of regionalism [राजनी�तक प�ों को बड़ा चं दा िदया जाता है
और प्रांतवाद क� वृ�द्ध होती है]
D. Loss of revenue to the State Exchequer due to tax evasion [कर चोरी के चलते राज� आमदनी कम होती है]
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24.12REVENUE SHORTFALL
Laffer Curve - American economist Arthur Laffer: if (direct) tax rates are ⏫ above a
(लफ़र वक्र): certain level, then tax revenue collection will ⏬ because higher tax rates
discourage people from working and/or encourage them to evade tax.
- So, tax-cuts could lead to ⏫tax revenue collections.
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- 💼💼Modi Budgets from 2017 onwards: The lowest Income Tax slab was cut
from 10% to 5%; The corporation tax on small sized companies was also
brought down from 30 % to 25% in a phased manner.
- 💼💼Budget-2020: new optional Income tax slabs.
- 💼💼USA Budget-2017: Corporation tax cut down from 35 % to 15%
Tax elasticity - If first income tax slab increased from say 5% to 15%, then in absolute terms
(कर ल�चलाता): how much more IT-revenue will be generated?
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24.14 📥📥📥📥📥📥 BUDGET → REVENUE PART → RECEIPTS → NON-TAX RECEIPTS
⇒ Interest receipts (�ाज प्रा��यां received on Union’s loans to states, railways, CPSE, foreign
countries.) is a revenue receipt. [Had those borrowers repaid loan-principal, then that portion is
‘Capital Receipt.]
⇒ Dividends and profits received from CPSE, PSBs, RBI. [Had Union sold its shares to a third party
(disinvestment / privatization) → that’s ‘Capital Receipt’].
⇒ Union’s income from (Dividend & Profits) >> from Interests.
⇒ Income from selling various goods & services such as railways, postal services, selling of India
Yearbook-, Yojana-Kurukshetra magazines, fees that CISF charges for giving protection to
Private Airports, auction of spectrum & mining rights, selling of commemorative coins etc.
⇒ Grant in Aid (अनुदान)/ Donations received by Union.
⇒ [If Union had received ‘loan’, it’ll be ‘Capital Receipt’.]
⇒ Similar Non-tax revenue earned by UT without Legislature
Tax Subsidies
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Tax is a compulsory contribution imposed by A subsidy is a benefit given to an individual or
State. Refusal to pay the tax is punishable. firm by the government to reduce some type of
कर= रा� द्वारा लगाया जाने वाला कर एक अ�नवायर् योगदान है। burden. A person may refuse to accept the
करचोरी एक दंडनीय अपराध subsidy, he will not be punished.
Tax doesn’t promise specific and direct A specific benefit is promised e.g. 6000 to
goods/services to the taxpayer. (Mukesh farmers, idli@₹ 1 rupee in Amma Canteen
Ambani’s car will still suffer from potholes) (Tamilnadu).
25.1.3 📘📘📘📘 Past Economic Surveys on subsidy delivery (आ�थक सव��णों के उपाय)
Shifted to Mains Handout.
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employees to protect them against the inflation. (�नवृत कम�ऑ को)
- In 2020- Union govt had frozen DA&DR because Govt was struggling with money for Corona
relief. 2021-July: Govt resumed paying & � DA&DR from 17% to 28%. कोरोना-वषर् म� सरकार ने
सरकारी कमर्चा�रयों को महँ गाई भ�ा नहीं िदया, �ोंिक सरकार को खुद ही पैसों क� िक़�त थी, लेिकन अब वापस शु� कर रही है.
25.2.2 🥳🥳 Pay Commission: Misc. terms
- It’s given by an employer to protect the employees against rise in inflation. In government
services, both working employees and retired pensioners are given dearness allowance.
- House Rent Allowance (HRA: मकान िकराया भ�ा): rent allotted by the employer for employee's
accommodation (house).
- Gratuity (ग्रे�ुटी): It’s a lump sum amount “x” given by an employer to the employee for
rendering services continuously for “y” number of years. Usually given at retirement. Norms
governed under Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
- One Rank One Pension (OROP): 2015- Modi govt. promised equal pension to military
personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service, regardless of the date of
retirement. Some, Ex-servicemen unhappy about the base year & calculation formula.
2A) ✅ Direct Taxes [✅2A2-Indirect Taxes & GST 2B) ✅ Black Money, 15th FC
2C) ✅ Subsidies, Salaries, Revenue Expenditure 2D) Disinvestment, Deficit,
FRBM Act, Fiscal Council, Budgeting-Railway budget, plan-non plan budget, & scheme types etc.
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Pillar#2D: Disinvestment to Deficit to Budget & Scheme Types
Table of Contents
26 �� Budget → Capital → Receipts.............................................................................................................364
26.1.1 ��� Foreign Borrowing in Foreign Currency ...................................................................365
26.1.2 ���Budget-2023: Foreign Borrowing ...............................................................................366
26.2 �� � � Budget → Capital Receipts → Disinvestment: �व�नवेश .............................................366
26.2.1 CPSE vs PSU vs PSB ..........................................................................................................................367
26.2.2 �Ratna Companies = freedom to govt companies based on performing ..............................368
26.2.3 �� � � Government policy towards disinvestment before 2021 .................................369
26.2.4 �� � � Disinvestment & Privatization in the Modi Raj (2014-19) .............................371
26.2.5 ��� � � Privatization / Strategic Disinvestment in Modi Raj .................................371
26.3 ��� → � New Public Sector Enterprise (PSE) Policy (2021) ...............................................372
26.3.1 ��National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP 2021) ..................................................................372
26.3.2 ��National Land Monetization Corporation (NLMC-2022) .............................................373
26.3.3 � �: BSNL MTNL Merger & VRS (�वलीनीकरण) .......................................................................373
26.4 ��Budget → Capital Part → Expenditure (पूंजीगत �य)................................................................373
26.4.1 �����State CAPEX Loans ...........................................................................................373
26.5 ��Budget → Capital Part → Effective Capital Expenditure ......................................................374
27 ��Types of deficits: घाटे के प्रकार ....................................................................................................................374
27.1 ��Fiscal Deficit: राजकोषीय घाटा ...........................................................................................................375
27.1.1 Fiscal glide ..........................................................................................................................................375
27.2 ��Primary Deficit: प्राथ�मक घाटा ...........................................................................................................377
27.3 �<�
(� �)�
�� Revenue Deficit (राज� घाटा) .......................................................................................377
27.4 �<�
(� �)�
�� Effective Revenue Deficit (प्रभावी राज� घाटा) .............................................................377
27.5 ���� Extra-Budgetary Resources (बजटेतर सं साधन) ...................................................................377
27.6 ��Debt Composition: Amount-wise ...............................................................................................378
27.6.1 ��Debt Composition: Type-wise ............................................................................................380
27.7 �� Financing the deficit: its negative consequences on economy: ..............................................380
27.7.1 �� �:�
�� Financing the Deficit: Ricardian Equivalence ............................................381
27.7.2 �� �:�
��Ricardian Equivalence invalid for India says ES21 .....................................382
27.7.3 �� Financing the deficit: “Crowding Out” of private borrowers .......................................382
27.7.4 �� Crowding out of private investment? ��ES21 Observations ................................382
27.7.5 �� Financing the deficit: Printing More Money ...................................................................384
27.7.6 �� Fiscal Deficit �= India sovereign rating ���
� ...................................................384
27.8 ����Countercyclical policy (प्र�तचक्र�य राजकोषीय नी�त) ...............................................................385
27.8.1 ����Countercyclical: IRGD & Debt Sustainability .....................................................386
27.8.2 ���� Countercyclical: Domar Condition of Debt Sustainability ...............................387
27.9 ��Side Note: Automatic Stabilizers (�चा�लत-��रीकारी) ..................................................................388
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27.10 �� Misc Terms related to Deficit Financing...............................................................................389
27.11 ��� Fiscal Consolidation / Prudence: राजकोषीय एकत्रीकरण / �ववेक ...........................................389
27.12 �� Fiscal stimulus (राज� प्रो�ाहन पेकेज) .........................................................................................390
27.12.1 �� � Manmohan’s Fiscal Stimulus (2008-) .......................................................................390
27.12.2 ��� � Modi’s Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Economic Stimulus Package (2020) ...............391
27.12.3 �Frontloading of Stimulus and Overheating in Economy ......................................................391
27.13 ��� Fiscal Responsibility & Budget Management Act, 2003 ...............................................391
27.14 � FRBM: Trigger Mechanism (to) Escape (Deficit control) Clause ............................................392
27.14.1 ��� FRBM: Misc. Concepts .................................................................................................393
27.14.2 ��� � FRBM Act: Documents (द�ावेज़) .........................................................................393
27.15 ����Fiscal Federalism: Helping the States in ATMANIRBHAR ...................................394
27.15.1 ���Helping States → Tax devolution and grants ...........................................................395
27.15.2 ���Helping States → States’ Fiscal deficit limits � .....................................................395
27.16 ���Fiscal Deficit target for States ............................................................................................395
27.17 ���� Fiscal Responsibility: NK Singh FRBM Review Panel ...........................................395
27.17.1 ���� :�
� Budget marksmanship is Poor, says 15th FC .............................................396
27.18 ���� Fiscal Responsibility: Freebies / Revdi Culture .......................................................397
27.19 ���� Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Federalism Challenges ...............................................397
27.20 ���� Fiscal Responsibility: Misc Bodies ............................................................................397
27.20.1 ��� Expenditure Management Commission (2014) .......................................................397
27.20.2 ���� Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA): सावर्ज�नक ऋण प्रबं धन एज�सी...............397
27.20.3 ���� Fiscal Council (राजकोषीय प�रषद) ..........................................................................397
27.20.4 � �Public finance challenges: Corona ex-gratia Yojana.......................................................397
28 � Types of budget: बजट के प्रकार ........................................................................................................................398
28.1 Revenue versus Capital budget: राज� बनाम पूंजीगत बजट ............................................................................398
28.2 ��General budget versus Railway budget (आम बजट बनाम रेलवे बजट) ..............................................398
28.3 �� Plan vs non plan expenditure budget: ........................................................................................399
28.4 ��Budgeting (बजट �नमार्ण क� प्रिक्रया/ रणनी�त).........................................................................................400
28.5 � Gender Budget (ल��गक बजट) ................................................................................................................401
28.6 ���Tribal sub plan & SCSP ...........................................................................................................401
28.7 ���Output Outcome Framework for Schemes: .........................................................................401
28.8 ��Cash vs Accrual Budgeting: नगदी बनाम उपचय बजट ........................................................................402
28.9 ���Lapsable Funds & March Rush: �पगत �न�ध और माचर् ��ता ...................................................402
28.10 ��� Non lapsable funds & No Rush: �बन�पगत �नधी ................................................................402
28.11 ��Types of schemes (योजनाओं के प्रकार) ..........................................................................................403
28.11.1 ��Budget-2022: CSS rationalisation ..................................................................................403
28.11.2 ��Ministry-wise Highest Allocation (amt in ₹ lakh crore) .................................................404
28.11.3 Govt Schemes: Result Based Financing instead of input based financing ............................404
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28.11.4 �Mains Questions .........................................................................................................................404
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of following is not a component of ‘Capital Receipts’? (IEnggS-2018)
(a) Market borrowings including special bonds
(b) External loans raised by the Central Government from abroad
(c) Receipts from taxes on property and capital transactions
(d) Provident Funds (State Provident Funds and Public Provident Fund)
26.1.1 💼💼💼💼💼💼 Foreign Borrowing in Foreign Currency
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🙂🙂Arguments in favor (समथर्न) 😥😥Against (प्र�ाव के �व�द्ध)
4. If we borrow a little more from 3. Better to �the foreigners' investment limit in G-
external sources it won't harm. थोड़ा Sec (in ₹ currency) and attract them to come to
सा ऋण अगर �वदेशों से �वदेशी मुद्रा म� ले �लया India, rather than we going 'abroad' to get their
तो कु छ जो�खम नहीं money in $ currency.
Conclusion: whether we should borrow in foreign currency or not?
⇒ � (Against) From the aforementioned analysis, it's evident that challenges outweigh the
potential benefits. Noted economists such as Dr. Raghuram Rajan are apprehensive about
sovereign borrowing from external markets in foreign currency. Therefore, this idea, though
well-intended, requires more deliberation. (इस प्र�ाव म� फायदे कम नुकसान �ादा िदख रहे ह� इस�लए इरादा नेक
है लेिकन इस पर �ादा �वमशर् क� आव�कता है)
⇒ ���=�
�� (In favor) Considering above points, sovereign borrowing from external
markets in foreign currency may not be a bad idea, provided that it's done in a judicious and
prudential manner. (यह प्र�ाव बुरा नहीं है, �ववेक पूणर् �प से लागू करना चािहए)
26.1.2 💼💼💼💼💼💼💼💼Budget-2023: Foreign Borrowing
⇒ �ES23: most of our foreign debt denominated in ₹₹ Currency. So need not worry much.
26.2 🧔🧔🧔🧔 ♐ 🤵🤵 BUDGET → CAPITAL RECEIPTS → DISINVESTMENT: �व�नवेश
There are THREE types of Commercial or industrial undertaking owned by the govt:
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🚝🚝 ✉ Departmental 🐯🐯Statutory Corporations ⛽Govt. Companies
Undertakings �वभागीय उपक्रम वैधा�नक �नगम सरकारी कं प�नया
Directly part of a ministry e.g. Created by an act of Parliament Registered under the
Postal, Railways, or state legislature. E.g. RBI Act, Companies Act, Govt’s
They can be created easily SBI Act, LIC Act, FCI Act, shareholding is 51% or
because, no laws required, no EPFO Act. etc, SIDBI, more.Coal India ltd, GAIL,
Companies Act registration NABARD, NHB, EXIM etc. SAIL, NTPC, IOCL, BHEL &
required various Public Sector Banks and
NBFCs which are not statutory
corporations.
👺👺 High level of ministerial 🤘🤘 Middle of both sides More operational flexibility, less
interference (मं त्री क� दख़ल �ादा) interference by Ministers
CAG will audit directly [भारत के Some of these Acts provide for Companies Act requires them
�नयं त्रक और महालेखा परी�क �यं internal audit & exclude CAG to produce audited reports.
�वभागीय उपक्रम के िहसाब िकताब का लेखा from auditing the Corporation. CAG will empanel the (private)
परी�ण कर�गे] E.g. RBI, LIC. auditors for them.
Their earning will go directly in Their earning → profit → dividend goes to shareholders.
Public Account / CFI
All three types of org are Answerable under the Right to Information Act, 2005
सूचना अ�धकार कानून/ अ�ध�नयम के अंतगर्त इन सभी सं �ानों ने जानकारी देनी होगी
Their employees are considered Not considered govt employees. Their service / discipline
government employee- conditions are governed by the respective organizations’ internal
subjected to service and manuals. सरकारी क�मयों वाले सेवा और अनुशासन/�श� के �नयम इनके कम�यो को
discipline rules framed by the लागू नहीं होते.
government.
⇒ Objective: Public interest & welfare through affordable services, Development of infrastructure,
regional balance, prevent concentration of economic power in the hands of Corporates /MNCs.
(उदे�: जन िहत म� स�ी सेवाएं , बु�नयादी ढांचा, �वकास म� �ेत्रीय सं तुलन, ब�रा�ी� य कं प�नयों के हाथों म� आ�थक श�� क�
के �ीकरण रोकना)
⇒ 😭😭Challenges? Political interference, lack of innovation & consumer responsiveness, employee
unions, loss making business. (राजनी�तक ह��ेप, नवाचार क� कमी, उपभो�ा के प्र�त जवाबदेही कम, कमर्चारीओ को
काम से �ादा यू�नयनों-बाजी और हड़ताल म� �ल� रहेना, घाटे म� चलना)
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⇒ Public sector Undertaking (PSU: सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के उपक्रम) = collective term for all the govt
companies owned by Union Govt + State Government + Local Bodies.
✋ Note: Some book/internet may differ in this definition. But we need not loose sleep over pedantry.
श�भेद म� पांिड� वाली बाल क� खाल �नकालने क� कोई ज�रत नहीं है।
��FAQ. Are Public Sector Banks (PSB) given Ratna Status? Ans. No. While PSBS are a
sub-set of Government companies but Ratna status is for CPSEs who are NOT PSBs.
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��FAQ. Are Statutory Corporation like LIC, EPFO etc given Ratna Status? Ans. No. It’s
for Central Govt’s companies only. It is not for statutory corporation.
��FAQ. Are State Govt’s Govt Companies given Ratna Status? Ans. No. It is for Central
Govt owned companies only. ये �सफर् क� द्र सरकार क� सरकारी क��नयो के �लए है
��FAQ. Are Private sector Companies like Tata/Reliance given Ratna Status? Ans. No. It
is for Central Govt owned companies only. भाई ये �सफर् क� द्र सरकार क� सरकारी क��नयो के �लए है. इतनी आसान
और सीधी सी बात को आप �ों जिटल कर रहे है!?
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which among the following is designated with ‘Navratna’ status? (CDS-2021-i)
(a) Indian Oil Corporation Limited (b) Gas Authority of India Limited
(c) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (d) Bharat Electronics Limited
26.2.3 🧔🧔🧔🧔 ♐ 🤵🤵 Government policy towards disinvestment before 2021
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⇒ Disinvestment: ⏬ govt shareholding in a Government company but govt keeps atleast 51%
shareholding with itself.
⇒ Privatization / Divestment / Strategic Disinvestment (�नजीकरण/रणनी�तक �व�नवेश): When govt sells
upto 50 per cent or more shareholding, alongwith transfer of management control. (Definition
as per DIPAM Dept)
⇒ ✅Arguments in favour: ⏬govt shareholding → Private investors will enter in the board of
directors → ⏫ efficiency, innovation and autonomy. द�ता, नवाचार �ाय�ता
⇒ Disinvestment proceeds can be used for welfare schemes, and ⏬ fiscal deficit.
⇒ ✋ Argument Against: MNC monopolies, exploitation of worker, job loss.
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⇒ Above private sector companies were nationalised into two Public sector
Enterprises I) Indian Airlines II) Air India International.
1991’s Industrial The term 'disinvestment' was used first time in Interim Budget 1991. “We
Policy will reduce shareholding in all Govt Companies”- said PM Narasimha Rao.
1998’s Vajpayee - In strategic sector (Railways, Defense, Atomic Energy)- ✋we’ll not do
disinvestment
- In Non-strategic sector = ✅we’ll do disinvestment in a phased manner
(गैर-रणनी�तक �ेत्र म� चरणबद्ध तरीके से �व�नवेश कर�गे ).
- 1999: PM Vajpayee set up Department of Disinvestment → privatisation
of Maruti Udyog, Hindustan Zinc, Bharat Aluminum and Videsh Sanchar
Nigam Limited (VSNL) etc. 12 govt companies.
UPA-1 (2004-09) Due to pressure from Leftist/Marxist coalition parties = No Disinvestment
from any government companies. If a government company is sick, we will
try to revive it. वामपं थी / मा�र्वादी गठबं धन दल के चलते �व�नवेश नहीं
UPA-2 (2009-14) All Govt Companies can be disinvested upto 49% = Govt will keep 51%
minimum and sell remaining shares.
₹₹ will goto National Investment Fund (NIF, in Public Account) → used
for Bank recapitalization, metro rail, nuke energy, EXIM-NABARD-RRB
etc. रा��ीय �नवेश कोष
Also launched CPSE-Exchange Traded funds (ETF): 📑📑Ref Pill#1C:SEBI
26.2.4 🧔🧔🧔🧔 ♐ 🤵🤵 Disinvestment & Privatization in the Modi Raj (2014-19)
✓ Various methods of Disinvestment, depending on the Company
1. Converting Private Limited Company to public limited company and issuing Initial
Public Offers (IPOs) e.g. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)
and Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL)
2. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs): CPSE-ETF, Bharat-22-ETF (Ref: Pillar#1C)
3. Institutional placement Programme (IPP): offer shares only to non-retail investors.
4. Offer for sale (OFS): Govt sells its existing shares to both retail and non-retail investors
5. Share Buyback i.e. Govt company itself buys the shares owned by Govt, thereby
decreasing Government's shareholding portion viz a viz private sector's shareholding.
✓ Modi govt shut down many sick Govt companies such as HMT watches, Hindustan Photo Film
etc. (�जसे कोई �नजी �ेत्र का उद्योगप�त खरीद कर चलाना नहीं चाहता था उन बीमार सरकारी कं प�नयों को बं द कर िदया.)
✓ Budget-2016 renamed FinMin’s Dept of Disinvestment into Dept. of Investment & Public Asset
Management (DIPAM: �नवेश और सावर्ज�नक सं प�� प्रबं धन �वभाग).
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⇒ For this action, NITI Aayog prefers to use the term ‘strategic disinvestment’, ‘strategic sale’
instead of ‘privatization’, lest the opposition parties create uproar about it.
⇒ Sometimes, press statement also uses the word “Divestment” for it.
⇒ ��Budget-2022: NINL (Neelanchal Ispat Nigam Limited) will be privatised
⇒ �ES23: Govt has done privatisation of 10 CPSEs - HPCL, REC, DCIL, HSCC, NPCC.
NEEPCO, THDC, Kamrajar Port, Air India and NINL.
26.3 👻👻👻👻👻👻 → � NEW PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISE (PSE) POLICY (2021)
Strategic sectors (मह�पूणर् �ेत्रो) Non strategic sectors
Example 1) Atomic energy, Space, Defence (परमाणु ऊजार्, All the other sectors. (बाक�
अवकाश,र�ा,) तमाम �ेत्रों= गैर-मह�पूणर् �ेत्रो= म�
2) Transport, Telecom (प�रवहन, दू रसं चार) �जतने भी सरकारी कं प�नयां है उन सब
3) Power, Petroleum, Coal, other minerals को या तो �नजीकरण कर द�गे या बं द कर
(ऊजार्, पेट�ो�लयम, कोयला, ख�नज,) द�गे)
4) Banking, Insurance and financial services
( ब�िकंग बीमा �व�ीय सेवाएं )
Will there be a Minimum one government company will be No government company will
government kept. Remaining will be merged/ be kept. All the Existing
company privatized/shutdown (मह�पूणर् �ेत्रो म� �सफर् एक government companies will
here? सरकारी कं पनी को रखा जाएगा, बाक� सभी अ� सरकारी कं प�नयों be privatized/shutdown.
को उस म� �वलीन/�नजीकरण/बं द कर िदया जाए)
✓ Disinvestment targets previous budgets:
2018- 2023-24
Budget 2017 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
19
Target 80,000 51,000/61,000**
1Lcr 1.05 Lcr 2.10 lcr 1.75 lcr 65,000 cr
(Lakh cr) cr
Target 😰😰65,000 😷😷37000 😰😰14,638 😰😰60,000 We’ll see
✅ ✅
Achieved? cr* Cr cr cr
⇒ *51,000cr as per News Website like https://economictimes.indiatimes.com, and LiveMint
⇒ *61,000 cr as per Budget Excel file: indiabudget.gov.in/doc/Budget_at_Glance/bag5.xls
⇒ Then which number is right? Ans. I’d tick answer as per the Budget excel file (61,000).
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⇒ More about this topic in �Pillar#5- along with other associated topics like 1) National
Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) 2) National Infrastructure Pipeline / GATI Shakti
initiative etc.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Why is Govt disinvesting its equity in the Central Public Sector Enterprises (Pre’11)
1. The Government intends to use the revenue earned from the disinvestment mainly to pay
back the external debt.
2. The Government no longer intends to retain the management control of the CPSEs.
Ans Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
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o - Financing reforms in urban local bodies reform so they can become financially strong
enough to issue municipal bonds (शहरी �ानीय �नकायों म� सुधारर)
o - Housing for policemen (पु�लसक�मयों के �लए आवास)
o - Constructing Unity Malls- Ref Pillar#3A (एकता मॉल का �नमार्ण)
o - Children adolescents’ libraries and digital infrastructure (ब�े िकशोरों के पु�कालय और
िड�जटल बु�नयादी ढांचा/अवसं रचना)
�What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the video lecture. �
MCQ. With reference to the expenditure made by an organisation or a company, which of the
following statements is/are correct ? (कं पनी द्वारा िकए गए ख़चर् के बारे म� सही वा� ढूँ ढो) (Prelims-2022)
1. Acquiring new technology is capital expenditure. (नई प्रौद्यो�गक� को ख़रीदना पूंजीगत ख़चर् है)
2. Debt financing is considered capital expenditure, while equity financing is considered revenue
expenditure. (ऋण-द्वारा �व�पोषण को पूंजीगत ख़चर् माना जाता है जबिक इ��टी/शेयर द्वारा िकए गए �व�पोषण को राज� ख़चर् माना
जाता है।)
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only. (c) Both 1 and 2. (d) Neither 1 nor 2
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Budget Deficit बजट घाटा Total expenditure minus Total receipt
Fiscal Deficit Budget Deficit + Borrowing
Primary Deficit Fiscal Deficit minus interest to be paid on previous loans राजकोषीय घाटे
प्राथ�मक घाटा म� से पुराने ऋण/कजर् पर जो �ाज चुकाना है उसे हटा दी�जए
27.1 💼💼💼FISCAL DEFICIT: राजकोषीय घाटा
Three formulas: all are correct-
- 1)Budget Deficit plus Borrowing. This borrowing includes internal borrowing [such as through
Small Savings Scheme, and the G-Secs subscribed by Banks/NBFCs) + Borrowing from RBI] +
External Borrowing. (as per Tamilnadu TextBook & government’s official calculation method)
- 2) Total expenditure – (Revenue receipts +Non-debt creating capital receipts). (as per NCERT)
- 3) Fiscal Deficit is the difference between the government’s total expenditure and its total
receipts excluding borrowing (as per NCERT)
- 1997-98: Fiscal Deficit calculation started as per Sukhmoy Chakravarti Committee report.
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find Correct Statement(s) (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
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1. Tax revenue as a percent of GDP of India has steadily increased in the last decade.
2. Fiscal deficit as a percent of GDP of India has steadily increased in the last decade.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2(d) Neither 1 nor 2
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The excess of total expenditure of Govt over its total receipts, excluding borrowings,
is known as _ _ _ (CDS-2021-i)
(a) Primary deficit (b) Fiscal deficit (c) Current deficit (d) Capital deficit
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27.2 💼💼💼PRIMARY DEFICIT: प्राथ�मक घाटा
⇒ 1993: Finance Minister Manmohan Singh’s budget speech mentioned:
⇒ If the government continues to borrow year after year, it leads to accumulation of debt and the
government has to pay more and more interest. These interest payments themselves add more
burden to borrow next year. (पुरानी लोन पर जो �ाज चुकाना है उस रकम को घाटे क� �गनती म� नहीं लेना चािहए)
⇒ So, to get a clearer picture of how much is the government borrowing for new programs, they
look at another indicator: (तािक नए वषर् म� �वकास के काम के �लए इतना वा��वक कजर् �लया जा रहा है उसका पता चले)
Primary Deficit = Fiscal deficit minus the interest to be paid on the previous loans.
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‘Extra Budgetary Resources’ (EBR) or ‘Off-budget resources’ are loans taken by public sector
undertakings and Government organizations. (सरकारी �नगम सं �ानों द्वारा कजर् �लया जाना)For example,
Govt not releasing food subsidy to Food Corporation of India (FCI) & (thereby forcing) FCI to
borrow money from National Small Savings Fund (NSSF) for its food schemes. [Although
💼💼Budget-2021 announced to stop this practice].
⇒ Here repayment of the entire principal and interest is done from the Central Government Budget
eventually, behind the curtains. (पद� के पीछे सरकार देरी से पैसा देगी)
EBR measures are announced after passing of budget so, they may escape the same general level
of media-reporting, parliament debate or audit = bad for financial transparency &
accountability. मीिडया-�रपो�टग, सं सद बहस या ऑिडट से �छपना = �व�ीय पारद�शता और जवाबदेही के �लए बुरा।
15th FC has termed “EBR” as ‘off-budget borrowings through para-statal entities’ and asked
Government to avoid it. (15व� �व� आयोग ने भी इन हरकतों को बं द करने क� सलाह दी है)
📔📔📔📔ES20 also criticised this practice (आ�थक सव��ण ने इन हरकतों क� आलोचना/�नदं ा क� है)
⇒ These EBRs are not taken into account while calculating the Fiscal Deficit but they’re counted
while calculating Government debt or public debt.
FISCAL YEAR EXTRA-BUDGETARY BORROWINGS (IN CRORES)
2020–21 1,48,000
2021–22 1,21,000
2022–23 & 2023–24 0
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Table 2: Definition & DATA as per 📔📔📔📔ES22 Vol1Ch2.
Outstanding Loan (बकाया क़ज़र् ) 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22
i) Internal Debt (आंत�रक ऋण)- all the pending loans total 80 Lcr 99 Lcr 115 Lcr
A. Marketable debt = Government's dated securities (G-
Sec) and Treasury Bills, issued through auctions.
Investor can be easily resell it in secondary market
B. Non-marketable debt = special types of
securities/bonds issued by Union Govt to EXIM Bank
and other All India Financial Institutions (AIFI), State
Govts etc. It's difficult/sometimes not possible to re-
sell such securities/bonds in the secondary market.
Majority of Govt’s internal debt is marketable debt.
ii) External Debt (बाह्य ऋण) 5 Lcr 6.15 Lcr 6.59 Lcr
Borrowed from other nations and multilateral
institutions such as IMF, World Bank, ADB etc.
At present Govt of India doesn’t borrow directly
from the International Capital Market.
A) Public Debt (सावर्ज�नक ऋण)= (i) + (ii) 85 Lcr 105 Lcr 121 Lcr
B) (Public Accounts): Other Liabilities such as Post Office 13 Lcr 12 Lcr 12 Lcr
Savings, Postal Insurance, Provident Fund etc. small
savings schemes (लघु बचत योजना) (More in 📑📑Pillar#1D3)
C) Extra Budgetary Resources (बजेटेतर सं साधन) 1.12 Lcr 1.39 Lcr 1.39 Lcr
Total Liability (कु ल देयता) = A+B+C 99 Lcr 117 Lcr 134 Lcr
��ES22: Total liabilities of the Central Govt � sharply in 2020- because Corona : GDP�
�→
tax collection � → govt’s income � → Govt had to borrow more money for Atma Nirbhar.
� FAQ: Why are above numbers not matching fiscal deficit numbers!!?? Ans. Fiscal deficit
number only shows loan taken in a single financial year. Above is the cumulative (total)
outstanding/unpaid loans of successive Govt (Vajpayee, Manmohan, Modi…..etc) (ये कु ल बकाया कजर्
िदखा रहा है)
� FAQ: Why are above numbers not matching Extra Budgetary Resources numbers in previous
section !!?? Ans. same as previous FAQ answer.
� FAQ: Is EPFO/NPS amount included in above? Ans. EPFO/NPS invests money in 1) Pvt sector
company Shares, 2) private sector company Bonds and 3) G-Sec (=Loans to Govt). The G-Sec
components is included.
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27.6.1 💼💼💼Debt Composition: Type-wise
Out of loans majority (अ�धकतर कज़र् इस प्रकार के ह�) minority(ब�त ही कम कज़र् इस प्रकार के ह�)
Total Public Debt State Govt (70%) Union (30%)
Union Debt → Internal (94%) external/foreign (6%)
(Source)
Repayment Rupee Foreign Currency (जो कजर् �वदेशी मुद्रा म�
Currency वापस करने ह�)
Union Debt → 🔨🔨Fixed Interest (�न��त �ाज दर) 🎈🎈Hardly 5% of Govt loans are
(Type of Interest 'floating interest rate' (e.g. may be tied
Rate) with LIBOR etc REF#1C). (चलायमान �ाज
दर वाले लोन ब�त कम है)
Tenure (अव�ध के 📆📆Long Term (दीघर् अव�ध) ⏰Short Term (लघु अव�ध)
िहसाब से)
⇒ Ratio of (External debt: GDP) = <3% (less than three percent)
⇒ India's "debt to GDP" ratio is lowest among following group of countries: 1) G20 2) OECD 3)
�Ref: HDT-Pillar#3B: International Organisations)
BRICS(�
⇒ Moreover, public debt for India has declined since 2003 and has been stable since 2011.
��MCQ. Find correct statements (Prelims-2022) :
1. A share of the household financial savings goes towards government borrowings.
2. Dated securities issued at market- rates in auctions form a large component of internal debt.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
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How to fill deficit? 😰😰Why problematic / impractical? �ा सम�ाएं /�ावहा�रक �ों नहीं है
� � 2) Borrowing ⇒ Ricardian Equivalence: � Government borrowing → �public
more money सरकार द्वारा shopping = bad for economy. Although ��ES21 says this will
�ादा पैसा कजर् म� �लया जाए not happen in India.
⇒ Crowding out of the private borrowers Although ��ES21 says
this will not happen in India.
⇒ Fall in the sovereign credit rating. Although ��ES21 says this
will not happen in India.
🖨🖨 🖨🖨3) Printing ⇒ Although known as Monetising the deficit- it results in
More money hyperinflation (दे दना दन नोट छाप िदया जाए तो महंगाई ब�त बढ़ जाएगी)
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It’s called “Ricardian equivalence: �रका�डयन तु�ता” [& if people begin to spend less and save more,
then companies will face unsold inventories = new problems for economy]
Ricardian Equivalence Proposition (REP) Assumes Why invalid for India? भारत म� यह �सद्धांत गलत
that (�न� धारणाएं आव�क है) �ों सा�बत �आ?
Citizens are perfectly rational and perfectly capable Shopping decisions also depend on
to think about Future income, future tax liability, emotional urges and psychological whims
fiscal deficit when making their consumption e.g. Marriage-DJ/iPhone/Foreign vacation.
decisions.डे�वड �रकाड� क� तु�ता �सद्धांत सही सा�बत होने के �लए ग्राहक सभी �नणर्य तकर् सं गत बनकर नहीं लेते. भावना�क
सभी नाग�रकों का तकर् सं गत और बु�द्धम�ा से सोच �वचार के �लए स�म आग्रह और मनोवै�ा�नक सनक भी आप को खरीदारी के
होना ज�री- िक भ�व� म� उनक� आमदनी, कर-दा�य�, राजकोषीय �लए उ�े�जत करती है
खाध, उपभो�ा मांग िकतनी होगी.
All citizens are paying taxes. डे�वड �रकाड� क� तु�ता �सद्धांत Tax Evasion, Black money, parallel
सही सा�बत होने के �लए सभी नाग�रकों का करदाता होना ज�री economy. भरपूर मात्रा म� कर चोरी, काला धन
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"Crowding out" assumes that the supply of savings is fixed. But in reality, economic growth⏫ →
the size/quantity of savings⏫ (धारणा से �वपरीत वा��वकता म� बचत क� रकम का ज�ा ��र नहीं होता. आ�थक वृ�द्ध के
साथ-साथ बचत-ज�े म� भी बढ़ोतरी होती है)
High level of fiscal deficit → International Credit Rating Agencies will ⏬ the sovereign rating
for India → investors will demand ⏫ interest from government for buying new G-Sec→ G-sec
remains unsold → RBI forced to buy it (and print more money to give to Govt)
it’s called “Monetizing the Deficit”. It can result in hyperinflation and ⏬ the purchasing power
of currency (if there is not sufficient increase in the supply of onion, tomatoes & goods in the
market. e.g. Germany, after Treaty of Versailles in 1919. (मुद्रीकृ त घाटा: सरकारी कजर् के �लए �रजवर् ब�क द्वारा
दे दना दन नोट छापे जाने पर महंगाई दर/मुद्रा���त को अप्र�ा�शत �प से बढ़ जाएगी)
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27.8 💼💼💉💉💉💉💉💉COUNTERCYCLICAL POLICY (प्र�तचक्र�य राजकोषीय नी�त)
(Introduction: Origin) Indian Kings used to build palaces, temples, mosques etc during famines to
provide employment. Thus, during an economic slowdown, the Govt must spend more ₹₹ to achieve
a similar objective. (अकाल के िदनों म� राजा महाराजा महल मं िदर और म��द बनवाते, तािक लोगों को रोजगार �मले. आ�थक मं दी
के समय म� सरकार ने भी कु छ ऐसा ही करना चािहए)
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Counter ⇒ During economic slowdown → � Increase Fiscal expenditure to boost
cyclical Fiscal employment & GDP.
policy
⇒ It helps in “Crowding-in” i.e. When govt spending � increased → private
प्र�तचक्र�य
investment � e.g. Govt building highway in Arunachal → Private
राजकोषीय नी�त
entrepreneurs building petrol pumps & hotels → jobs GDP. आ�थक मं दी के दौरान
सरकारी खचर् को बढ़ाया जाए-तािक �नजी �ेत्र �नवेश रोजगार आ�थक वृ�द्ध म� मदद.
⇒ During economic boost: �Decrease govt spending (So as to build reserves
for future emergency/future slowdown) आ�थक तेजी म� सरकारी खचर् को कम िकया जाए
तािक सरकार भ�व� क� मं दी के दौरान इ�ेमाल करने यो� रकम को आर��त रख सके /जमा कर सक� .
⇒ USA, UK, Chile have done this in the past, but India has not done it.
��ES21 Suggested India to pursue this.
Pro-Cyclical ⇒ During economic Boom, �Fiscal expenditure
fiscal policy
⇒ चक्र�य-समथर्क राजकोषीय नी�त � आ�थक तेजी के दौरान सरकार �ादा पैसा खचर् कर�
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The increase in private investment spending induced by the increase in Government
spending is known as (CDS-2021-i)
(a) Crowding in (b) Deficit financing (c) Crowding out (d) Pumping out
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�ाज दर पर कजार् �लया है उसे आ�थक वृ�द्ध दर �ादा हो तब तक सरकार ने �चतं ा करने क� ज�रत नहीं �ोंिक आ�थक वृ�द्ध के
चलते कर-आमदनी म� बढ़ोतरी होगी → कजार् चुकाने के �लए सरकार के पास रकम आती रहेगी.
⇒ �ES23: our growth-interest rate differential positive. Our government debt to GDP is
sustainable.
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⇒ Otherwise government may default on loan-repayment.” (यिद देश का आ�थक वृ�द्धदर, उस देश के सावर्ज�नक
कज़र् वृ�द्धदर से �ादा होगा तो सावर्ज�नक क़ज़र् वहनीय हो पाएगा, वरना तो सरकार िदवा�लयापन िदखा देगी/ कज़र् नहीं चुका पाएगी।)
⇒ Automatic stabilizers are mechanisms built into govt budget to address economic slowdown
automatically- by automatically increasing govt’s spending and/or decrease public’s tax liability.
[“�चा�लत-��रीकारी’ - आ�थक मं दी के दौरान अपने आप सरकारी ख़चर् को बढ़ाता है या जनता क� कर-देयता को कम करता है]
⇒ Automatic stabilizer does not require any change in the existing tax law or voting in the
Parliament- because it starts working automatically during slowdown. [उ�� िक्रया��त करने के �लए
अलग से नया क़ानून/ सं सद क� अनुम�त लेने क� ज़�रत नहीं होती. वो अपने आप ही िक्रया��त हो जाता है]
⇒ Examples of Automatic Stabilisers: Income tax, Corporation tax, unemployment allowance,
food subsidy and other Government schemes that are meant only for poor /lower middle class
people. [आयकर, �नगम कर, गरीब के �लए ल��त खाद्य स��डी और दू सरी क�ाणकारी योजनाएं - “�चा�लत-��रीकारी’ है]
Note: Countercyclical fiscal policy / fiscal stimulus = it requires the government to pass a new
budget / new law / permission of Parliament for some new initiatives. So, they are not automatic
stabilisers. They are discretionary stabilisers. [प्र�त चक्र�य राजकोषीय नी�त तथा राजकोषीय प्रो�ाहन पैकेज के �लए
सरकार ने अलग से �वशेष �प से नए बजट म� �ज़क्र करना होगा कोई क़ानून पास करवाना होगा इस�लए वे �ववेकाधीन ��रीकारी है।]
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following functions as an automatic stabilizer in the context of
fiscal and monetary policies of an economy? (UPSC-CAPF-2021)
(a) Personal income tax (b) Reverse repo rate of bank (c) Open market operation (d) Bond price
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27.10💼💼💼 MISC TERMS RELATED TO DEFICIT FINANCING
Table 4: ✋need not do PHD on it unless Optional Subject=Public Administration
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6. Austerity Measures (�मत��यता के उपाय) e.g.
a. 2018- W.Bengal govt issued directives to its departments banning flower bouquets and
mementoes in public functions, banning officials meetings at private hotels, frequent
installation of AC, car purchases, office renovations etc. & restricting the no. of foreign
tours by Ministers / IAS etc., More use of video-conferencing instead of physical travel.
b. 2019: PM’s Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth (CCIG: �नवेश और �वकास क�
कै �बनेट स�म�त) ordered all Union ministries to reduce wasteful expenditure on travel, food
and conferences by 20% (यात्रा, भोजन और स�ेलन क� िफजूल खच� मे कटौती करो).
c. 2021: Parliament canteen subsidy ended e.g. Masala Dosa will no longer be sold at ₹6 etc.
This will help saving ₹8cr
🔠🔠❓MCQ. There has been a persistent deficit budget year after year. What can be done by by the
government to reduce the deficit? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2015)
1) Reducing revenue expenditure 2) Introducing new welfare schemes
3) Rationalizing subsidies 4) Expanding industries
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In India, the price of petroleum products has been deregulated to _ _. (CDS-2013-II)
(a) reduce the burden of subsidies given to the oil companies
(b) discourage the exploration of oil reserves in the country
(c) discourage the demand for private vehicles
(d) curb the use of black money in the economy
27.12💼💼💼💼 FISCAL STIMULUS (राज� प्रो�ाहन पेकेज)
When govt ⏬taxes and/or ⏫ public procurement (सरकारी खरीद) to ⏫ demand & growth in
economy, it’s called “Fiscal Stimulus” (राज� प्रो�ाहन पेकेज).
27.12.1 💼💼💼💼 � Manmohan’s Fiscal Stimulus (2008-)
⇒ Post-subprime crisis in USA, PM Manmohan announced Fiscal Stimulus (2008) such as
- (1) � in the Excise duty & Custom Duty on exports
- (2) Businessman were given additional benefits in Income Tax & Corporation Tax, if
they purchased new commercial vehicles.
- (3) Hiked the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for farmers. �More in Pillar#4A
⇒ However, the economic surveys observed that such Fiscal Stimulus create new set of problems by
� fiscal deficit in the subsequent years.
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27.12.2 👻👻💼💼💼💼 🧔🧔 Modi’s Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Economic Stimulus Package (2020)
⇒ (Origin) 2020-March: Government of India initiated nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread
of Corona/COVID-19 pandemic. (कोरोना महामारी के चलते देश�ापी तालाबं दी)
⇒ This lockdown affected the income and livelihood of everyone from corporate companies to
common citizens of India. (सबक� आजी�वका को हानी �ई)
⇒ Therefore, to revive the economy, Prime Minister of India launched Atma Nirbhar Bharat
stimulus package in 2020-May to revive the Indian economy. (अथर्�व�ा को पुनजीवन / प्रो�ाहन का
आ�थक पेकेज)
⇒ It’s centred on five pillars of – Economy, Infrastructure, System, Demand and Vibrant
Demography (�ू �तली जनसां��क�).
Table 5: (DATA) 👻👻Atma Nirbhar Bharat consists of
Amt in lakh cr As per
DATE 👻👻 Components of Atma Nirbhar Bharat
(Originally) 📔📔📔📔ES21
2020-Mar to May 1) RBI’s monetary policies → (Ref#1A2) ₹8 lakh cr ₹13 Lcr
2) PM GARIB KALYAN (PMGKY): Covid Relief ₹17 Lcr
2020-Mar ₹1.70-1.90 lcr
Package →
3) FM Nirmala.S made new announcements made like
2020-May Credit guarantee for MSME, ⏬TDS rates, PM Matsya ₹11 lakh cr
Samda Yojana, Agri infra fund etc.
= ₹20 lcr approx. ₹30 Lcr = 15%
ATMANI = 1+2+3=Total कु ल �मलाकर जोड़ी गयी रकम
(10% of GDP) of GDP
Note: Salient features of Atma-Nirbhar is spread across 6 pillars of Handout. Its criticism, how useful
in reviving economy & GDP growth, Nehru vs Modi’s ideas of self-reliance etc. = Ref: 📑📑Pillar#4C
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following describes the “fiscal stimulus”? (UPSC-Pre-2011)
1) It is a massive investment by the Government in manufacturing sector to ensure the supply of
goods to meet the demand surge caused by rapid economic growth
2) It is an intense affirmative action of the Government to boost economic activity in the country
3) It is Government’s intensive action on financial institutions to ensure disbursement of loans to
agriculture and allied sectors to promote greater food production and contain food inflation
4) It is an extreme affirmative action by the Government to pursue its policy of financial inclusion
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Originally it required Union and States to control their deficits with following targets:
- By 2008: ⏬ Fiscal Deficit
- 🧔🧔 For Union: 3% of GDP (GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: सकल घरेलू उ�ाद)
- � For States: 3% of GSDP (GROSS STATE DOMESTIC PRODUCT)
- By 2008: Eliminate Revenue deficit (=make it 0%) of their respective GDP or GSDP.
While some of the state govts achieved them, but successive union govts struggled to meet these
targets so they kept amending the act to extend the deadlines and targets. (ल�ों क� समयसीमा को पीछे
धके लते रहे). E.g. Amendment 2012: No need to have 0% Revenue deficit. Instead it required 0%
Effective Revenue Deficit by 2015. These deadlines were extended even further in subsequent
Finance Bills.
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Doc#2 and Doc#3 are published together as "Medium Term Fiscal Policy cum Fiscal Policy
Strategy Statement." (दू सरा और तीसरा द�ावेज वा�व म� एक साथ, एक ही फाइल म� दे देते ह�)
4) Medium-term Expenditure Framework (म�म अव�ध �य ढाँचा �ववरण) → �Budget-2021, 2022,
�
2023 Government not presented this document in Parliament, due to Corona.�
Note: above DATA Table from 💼💼Budget-2020. Later in 💼💼Budget-2021 and 💼💼Budget 2022, govt
not given such table because Nirmala.S said “fiscal projections for the years 2022-23 and 2023-24 will
NOT be presented. We will amend the FRBM Act to allow this exemption.”
🔠🔠❓MCQ. According FRBM Act, the Govt is under obligation to present three statements before the
parliament along with the Annual Budget. Which one of the following is not one of them? [CDS-2008-I]
(a) Macroeconomic Framework Statement (b) Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement
(c) Medium-term Fiscal Policy Statement (d) Statement showing Short term Fiscal Policy
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Along with the Budget, the Finance Minister also places ‘The Macro Economic Framework
Statement’. The aforesaid document is presented because this is mandated by (UPSC-Prelims-2020)
[a) Long standing parliamentary convention
[b) Article 112 and Article 110(1) of the Constitution of India
[c) Article 113 of the Constitution of India
[d) Provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003
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27.15.1 🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔Helping States → Tax devolution and grants
Corona = Union’s tax income �� but still Union has given the Tax Devolution and grants (कर
अंतरण व अनुदान) to the states, as per the figures announced in the Budget and Finance Commission
report.
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⇒ e.g. farm loan waivers during drought period or unemployment allowance during global
financial crisis are not possible if government strictly wants to control fiscal deficit at 3% of GDP.
(अकाल म� िकसानों को ऋण-माफ�, या नौजवानों को बेरोजगारी भ�ा देना असं भव)
⇒ So, FinMin constituted a panel under NK Singh to review the FRBM act.
⇒ I’ve deleted its recommendations / numbers because too outdated / NOT followed after corona.
⇒ While UPSC asked some PYQ from NK Singh Report but WE’ll NOT solve it. For same reason.
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तदथर्/अ�ाई �प से िकया जाता है, प�रणाम ��प योजनाओं के खचर् म� कटौती कर दी जाती है, ठे केदारों को पैसा व� पर नहीं
चुकाया जाता → वे कमजोर गुणव�ा क� सड़क मकानों का �नमार्ण करते ह� इ�ािद)
27.20.2 💼💼�🔨🔨🔨 Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA): सावर्ज�नक ऋण प्रबं धन एज�सी
Shifted to Mains handout. Experts had suggested to set up this organisation, but it is not yet set up.
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in a disaster. (आपदा प्रबं धन क़ानून क� धारा 12 म� ये �लखा है िक रा��ीय आपदा प्रबं धन प्रा�धकरण ने आपदा से प्रभा�वत लोगों
के �लए �ूनतम सहायता घो�षत करनी होगी।)
⇒ Home Ministry has notified Corona as a disaster. So, PIL in SC asking Govt to pay compensation
to the family of every dead person. (गृह -मं त्रालय पहले ही कोरोना महामारी को आपदा घो�षत कर चुका है, तो कु छ
लोगों ने सुप्रीम कोटर् म� जनिहत या�चका दायर क� िक कोरोना म� मरे सभी लोगों के प�रजनों को मुआवज़ा िदया जाए)
⇒ 2021-Oct: SC ordered Rs.50,000 for family of every person who died in Corona. This is posing
challenges to Govt’s fiscal capacity.
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- 1920-21: Acworth Committee recommends separate Railway Budget. This practice continued
even after Independence, first the railway minister would present the Railway budget in
parliament, and after a few days finance minister will present General Budget.
- NITI Aayog’s Bibek Debroy committee recommends its abolition because
- 1) No constitutional requirement (सं वैधा�नक �प से यह अ�नवायर् नहीं है)
- 2) During Coalition Governments, Rail budget was used for populism, cheap fares which eroded
the profitability of Railways. (गठबं धन सरकारों म� लोकलुभावन, भारी घाटा)
- 3) during the British time, railway revenue used to be quite large compared to other sources of
revenue, but after independence, Railway revenue is quite small compared to overall General
budget- So it does not deserve a special presentation.
Therefore, Modi govt merged Railway budget with General budget from 2017 (�वलीनीकरण).
28.3 💼💼💼💼 PLAN VS NON PLAN EXPENDITURE BUDGET:
योजना बनाम गैर योजना �य बजट: is a method of classifying the expenditure side
Plan (expenditure) budget: योजना Non-Plan (Expenditure) Budget: गैर योजना
⇒ Central Plans (the Five-Year Plans) - Expenditure related to general, economic and
⇒ Central assistance for State Five Year Plans. social services of the government; Interest
⇒ It is further subdivided into payments, defence services, subsidies, salaries
1) revenue expenditure (e.g. teachers and pensions.
salary under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) - It is also further subdivided into revenue
2) capital expenditure (e.g. new school expenditure (e.g. soldier salaries) and capital
buildings to be constructed under expenditure (e.g. Building new aircraft
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) carrier).
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Since Budget-2017, Modi govt stopped the practice of displaying the plan and non plan expenditure
separately because (1) No such constitutional requirement (2) Government had dissolved the
planning commission in 2014-15 (3) 12th Five Year Plan (FYP:2012-17) was ending in 2017 anyways.
(More about PC & FYP in 📑📑Pillar#4C)
28.4 💼💼💼💼BUDGETING (बजट �नमार्ण क� प्रिक्रया/ रणनी�त)
It is the process / strategy with which the budget is created.
🖋🖋Traditional / पारंप�रक / लाइन-आइटम बजट: Simply calculating the income and expenditure without
Line-item measuring the underlying benefit or performance
Budgeting - Allot ₹ 10,000/- to buy a new bed in government hospital
- Allot ₹ 50,000 to buy a new computer in government department
⏱Performanc calculating income and expenditure tied with underlying benefit or performance
e budgeting - Allot ₹ 50,000 to buy a new computer with target that it should result in 30%
प्रदशर्न बजट the faster clearance of RTI-applications compared to pen and paper
- Such budgeting helps measuring cost:benefit and efficiency.
⭕Zero based - In a traditional budgeting, the approach is “automatic and incremental e.g.
budgeting “Last year we allotted ₹ 50,000 crore to educational schemes, so this year we
शू� आधा�रत बजट should allot 55,000 crores, lest the opposition parties create controversy.”
- Whereas in Zero Based Budgeting the budget is viewed as a fresh exercise
from zero base. So, each department has to justify its budget demands to
finance ministry. E.g. if last year ₹ 50,000 crores given to education schemes
but still 60% of class 5 kids cannot read class 2 books, then we’ll delete /
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modify that scheme.
🌞🌞 Sunset - In a traditional budgeting, once a scheme is launched it runs perpetually, even
Budgeting after regime change e.g. MNREGA, Mid-day Meal.
सूयार्�/ समयसीमा - In a Zero Based Budgeting, schemes are reviewed every year and then they
may get discontinued or continued (with or without modifications).
का बजट
- In Sunset Budgeting, scheme are announced with deadline. e.g. “X” subsidy
for a period of two years starting from 1/1/2018. Thus, this scheme will self-
destruct after deadline just like the sun will set after the sunset.
28.5 👜👜 GENDER BUDGET (ल��गक बजट)
Not required in Constitution / any law. But within general budget, this data presented since 2005.
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योजनाओं के �लए उ�ादन प�रणाम ढाँचा
Started from Budget-2017 onwards, the FinMin uploads a document showing outlay output and
outcomes for each ministry and department. These are monitored by NITI Aayog. For example,
Ministry & Scheme Outlay Output (Deliverables) Outcome
MEITY → Pradhan ₹ 400 Give computer training to Increased number of
Mantri Gramin Digital crores 5 crore persons in rural digitally literate persons in
Saksharta Abhiyan area rural areas
(PMGDISHA)
28.8 💼💼💼💼CASH VS ACCRUAL BUDGETING: नगदी बनाम उपचय बजट
Outdated/Faded technical topic. I am deleting it from latest handout.
28.9 💼💼💼💼💼💼LAPSABLE FUNDS & MARCH RUSH: �पगत �न�ध और माचर् ��ता
Appropriation act allows the government to spend funds from consolidated fund of India for a
period of one year (ending in 31st March).
- If any allotted funds remain unutilised, then by the ‘ rule of lapse ’, they must be returned (&
govt will have to again seek Parliament approval for the next financial year using next
appropriation bill). So, in March, there is a rush among the Govt orgs to spend money (in a
haphazard / reckless manner) lest they’ve to return it back.
- 2017-18: Finance ministry issued directive that in “In the fourth quarter (Jan to March) and in
the March-Month, Govt organizations shall not spend more than “x%” & “y%” of funds”. This
helps controlling the March Rush.
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28.11 📯📯📯📯TYPES OF SCHEMES (योजनाओ ं के प्रकार)
⇒ For any Union Territory without Legislature: 100% funding by Union for any scheme in any
category. ✋We will look at the schemes’ features in the respective pillars.
⇒ To disburse scheme ₹ & monitor it effectively, FinMin →Dept of Expenditure Controller
General of Accounts (CGA) → Public Financial Management System (PFMS) webportal.
Some schemes are Stopped e.g. Dairying Through Cooperatives, National Dairy Plan-II and
National Dairy Plan. (बं द कर िदया)
some schemes are merged: e.g. (एक�करण)
I] previously Woman Child development Ministry was running 19 scheme is now they are
compressed into just 3 viz A) Mission Shakti B) Mission Vatsalya C) Saksham Anganwadi and
POSHAN 2.0. (More in �Pillar#6)
ii] Ministry of Agriculture running 20 CSSs have been rationalised into three schemes: A)
Krishionati Yojana B) Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Cooperative C) Rashtriya Krishi
Vikash Yojana. (More in �Pillar#4A)
😍😍effective monitoring, duplication of efforts⏬ → subsidy bill & deficit ⏬ (प्रभावी �प से �नगरानी,
योजनाओं म� प्रय�ों का �थर् दोहराव न हों, तािक स��डी और सरकारी घाटे का बोझ कम हो जाए.)
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28.11.2 📯📯📯📯Ministry-wise Highest Allocation (amt in ₹ lakh crore)
28.11.3 💰💰🔎🔎📊📊Govt Schemes: Result Based Financing instead of input based financing
INPUT-BASED FINANCING RESULT-BASED FINANCING
⇒ Government will pay money for ⇒ Govt will define results e.g. daily 15km
purchase of inputs. road constructed, minimum 80% of skill
⇒ Then officials/contractor will trainees must get job placement etc.
built road/college, provide skill ⇒ if result not achieved then govt may not
training etc. pay full amount / cut penalty.
�Budget-2023: for selected government schemes, we’ll shift from ‘input-based financing’ to
‘result-based financing’. (कु छ चु�नदं ा सरकारी योजनाओं के �लए, हम ‘इनपुट-आधा�रत �व�पोषण’ क� जगह, ‘प�रणाम-
आधा�रत �व�पोषण’ का अमल कर�गे. या�न क� सरकार द्वारा तय प�रणाम/सूचकांकों को ठे केदार/अफसर हां�सल नहीं कर पाया तो पैसा नहीं
�मलेगा/काट िदया )
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PILLAR#3A: Balance of Payment, International Trade, Currency Exchange
Table of Contents
30 ⛽🎖🎖Pillar#3A: Balance of Payment (भुगतान सं तुलन).................................................................... 407
30.1 🐯🐯 RBI’s (Actual) method of classifying BoP ........................................................................ 408
30.1.1 Notes about the Data Tables in this Handout Pillar#3A ............................................... 409
30.1.2 Where is 2022-23’s Data BoP? ......................................................................................... 409
30.2 ⛽🎖🎖 Balance of payment → Current Account → ............................................................... 409
30.2.1 ⛽🎖🎖 Balance of Trade (BoT �ापार का सं तुलन).................................................................. 409
30.2.2 ⛽🎖🎖 Net Terms of Trade (NTT) or Commodity terms of trade ............................... 410
30.2.3 ⛽🎖🎖 Gross (Barter) Terms of Trade (GTT, �सफर् �प्र�लम के �लए, अत: िहदं ी अनाव�क) ........ 410
30.2.4 ⛽🎖🎖 Income terms of trade (ITT) ................................................................................. 410
30.3 ⛽🎖🎖 Top Import and Exports of GOODS for India: ........................................................... 411
30.3.1 Notable Import / Export Goods as per 📙📙ES23 ............................................................ 411
30.3.2 ⛽🎖🎖 Goods Export Before Corona: Notable items ..................................................... 411
30.3.3 India’s TOP Agriculture Exports .................................................................................... 411
30.3.4 ⛽🎖🎖 SERVICES Import Export Before Corona........................................................... 411
30.3.5 🛒🛒🛒🛒India’s trade partners: Import / Export as per 📙📙ES23 ................................... 412
30.3.6 India’s trade partners: Trade Surplus / Deficit With Notable Countries .................... 412
30.4 💌💌💌💌 Reports / Indices related to Export & Remittance..................................................... 413
30.4.1 💌💌💌💌Export Preparedness Index by NITI ( �नयार्त तैयारी सूचकांक) .................................. 413
30.4.2 💌💌💌💌Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation by UNESCAP . 414
30.4.3 💌💌💌💌Report: Goods Trade Barometer Index............................................................... 414
30.4.4 💌💌💌💌 Remittance: World Bank’s Remittance Report (�व� ब�क क� धनप्रेषण �रपोटर्) ......... 414
30.4.5 Indian migrants’ key destinations - 📙📙ES23 ................................................................. 414
30.4.6 💌💌💌💌Report: Misc. .......................................................................................................... 414
30.4.7 💌💌 Remittance: Side-topic → Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) .................................. 414
30.5 ⛽Balance of payment → Current Account → Import of Oil ............................................ 415
30.5.1 ⛽� Domestic Oil Exploration Policies? ................................................................... 415
30.5.2 ⛽�: �♂NELP’s primary limitations were → ....................................................... 416
30.5.3 ⛽📯📯📯📯HELP Policy (हाइड�ोकाबर्न अ�ेषण और अनु���/लाइस��सगं नी�त) .............................. 416
30.5.4 ⛽India’s Strategic Oil Reserves (भारत के साम�रक तेल भ�ार) ............................................ 416
30.5.5 ⛽📈📈📈📈 Crude Oil prices & OPEC (क�ा तेल) ............................................................. 416
30.5.6 ⛽📈📈📈📈 Crude Oil: Russia-Ukraine War (2022) ....................................................... 418
30.5.7 ⛽📈📈📈📈 Crude Oil: related concepts?......................................................................... 418
30.5.8 ⛽💰💰BoP: Current → Fall of Crude oil prices in negative figure ............................. 418
30.5.9 ⛽💰💰 Price cap Russian oil (2022) ................................................................................ 418
30.5.10 ⛽💰💰 Petrol & Diesel Prices & Taxes in India ........................................................ 419
30.5.11 ⛽ Electric Vehicles, Ethanol Blending etc. .............................................................. 419
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30.6 🎖🎖Balance of payment → Current Account → Import of Gold........................................... 419
30.6.1 🎖🎖🐯🐯RBI’s 80:20 Scheme (2013-14)............................................................................... 419
30.6.2 🎖🎖🎖🎖🐯🐯 Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme (2015: �णर् बांड योजना) ...................................... 419
30.6.3 🎖🎖🎖🎖🐯🐯 Gold Monetization Scheme (2015: �णर् मुद्रीकरण योजना) .................................. 420
30.6.4 🎖🎖🎖🎖🦁🦁 Indian (Sovereign) Gold Coins (2015: भारतीय �णर् �स�े ).................................. 420
30.6.5 🎖🎖🎖🎖: Gold price in Corona (कोरोना महामारी के दौरान �णर् क़�मत�) .......................................... 421
30.6.6 Gold import: ⬆ customs duty (2022) .......................................................................... 421
30.6.7 Lab Grown Diamonds (LGD: प्रयोगशाला म� बनाए गए हीरे) ..................................................... 421
30.6.8 ☕BoP → Current → Export → GI Tag ...................................................................... 422
30.6.9 ☕🔖🔖 GI Logo .................................................................................................................. 423
30.6.10 Unity Mall for GI, Handicraft etc. in 👛👛Budget-2023............................................. 423
30.7 🍋🍋🍋🍋BoP → Current → Exports → SEZ............................................................................. 423
30.7.1 🍋🍋🍋🍋�Baba Kalyani report on SEZ ........................................................................... 424
30.7.2 🍋🍋🍋🍋�SEZ → DESH Hubs ........................................................................................ 424
30.7.3 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022 Announcements to ⏬CAD ........................................................ 424
30.7.4 💎💎💎💎💎💎BoP → Current → Exports → Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2020) ......... 425
30.7.5 🥵🥵 Foreign Trade Policy: Challenge / Updates? ........................................................... 426
30.7.6 Krishi Udan Scheme v 2.0 (Civil Aviation Ministry, 2020) .......................................... 426
30.7.7 One District One Product Initiative................................................................................. 426
30.7.8 Interest Equalisation Scheme for Exporters ................................................................... 426
30.7.9 🍋🍋🍋🍋Tax Credit for Exporters: MEIS/SEIS.................................................................. 426
30.7.10 🍋🍋🍋🍋Tax Credit for Exporters: RoDTEP? ............................................................... 427
30.7.11 ⚓Port Logistics: Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) ...................................... 427
30.7.12 📙📙ES23 observation on Export Improvement .......................................................... 428
30.7.13 📲📲📲📲📲📲 “Assemble in India” | Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) ..... 428
30.8 ⛽🎖🎖: 🗃🗃🤲🤲 BoP → Capital Account→ Investment→ FDI / FPI .................................... 428
30.8.1 🗃🗃🗃🗃 Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI: �वदेशी पोटर्फो�लयो �नवेशक) ..................................... 428
30.8.2 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI: प्र�� �वदेशी �नवेश) ...................................... 429
30.8.3 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃 FDI in India → Source Nation and sector-wise as per 📙📙ES23 .............. 430
30.8.4 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃 Foreign Investment → 100% Automatic permitted in .............................. 430
30.8.5 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃 Foreign Investment → Others ...................................................................... 431
30.8.6 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃:🖱🖱🖱🖱 India’s FDI rules for E-Commerce .................................................... 431
30.8.7 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Hotmoney Effect by FPIs ................................................................ 432
30.8.8 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃Investment: Misc Terms & Reports ............................................................... 433
30.9 � Yearbook: Ministry of Commerce and Industry (वा�ण� और उद्योग मं त्रालय): .................... 433
30.9.1 💼💼Budget-2020 : Medieval dictionary GK about Foreign Trade ................................ 435
30.9.2 � (2019) DIPP becomes DPIIT (�वभाग का नाम बदला गया) ............................................... 435
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30.9.3 � (2017) FIPB Abolished (�वदेशी �नवेश अनुम�त क� सं �ा को हटाया गया) .............................. 435
30.9.4 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃 BoP: Capital → Chinese FDI need Govt approval .......................................... 436
30.9.5 � Related Topic: Cabinet Committees ......................................................................... 436
30.9.6 🐯🐯🐯🦁🦁 International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) ........................................ 437
30.9.7 🐯🐯🐯🦁🦁: � IFSC Authority Act, 2019 ..................................................................... 438
30.9.8 👛👛Budget-2023 on IFSCA Authority ............................................................................. 438
30.9.9 Foreign University @ Gift City ......................................................................................... 438
30.9.10 Data Embassy @Gift city in 👛👛Budget-2023 ............................................................. 438
30.9.11 🐯🐯🐯🦁🦁: � Variable Capital Companies (VCC)@Gift city .............................. 439
30.9.12 � 🔪🔪 BoP → Capital Account → Debt (Loans & Non Resident Bank deposits)
439
30.9.13 � 🔪🔪 BoP → Capital Account → Misc. Concept: NIIP ....................................... 440
30.9.14 � 🔪🔪 BoP → Capital Account → Misc. Concept: VOSTRO, NOSTRO, FCNR,
NRE, NRO 440
30.9.15 � 🔪🔪 BoP: External Debt overhang Problem (ऋण क� अ�धकता) ............................. 440
30.9.16 Next Handouts in Pillar3: ............................................................................................. 441
30.10 3C- WTO & other intl. org & Agreements. ......................................................................... 441
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- BoP is a systematic record of all economic transactions made between the residents and non-
residents of a country for a specific time period, usually a year. िकसी देश के �नवा�सयों और गैर-�नवा�सयों के
बीच िकए गए सभी आ�थक लेनदेन का एक �रकॉडर् है।
- Central Banks of each country prepare BoP records as per the format given in IMF’s BPM-6
manual, all the figures are expressed in Dollar$.
- Since any country’s debit (outgoing money) is a credit (incoming money) for another country
→ World’s NET Balance of Payment is ZERO.
- BoP is further sub classified into two parts → Current Account (चालू खाता) and Capital Account
(पूंजी खाता), based on the nature of transactions.
30.1 🐯🐯 RBI’S (ACTUAL) METHOD OF CLASSIFYING BOP
⛽🎖🎖🎖🎖 Current Account 🗃🗃 🤲🤲 Capital & Financial Account
Goods and services 1. Direct Investment (FDI)
Primary Income: wages, dividend, interest 2. Portfolio Investment (FPI)
Secondary income: remittance, gift, donation 3. Loans / External Commercial Borrowing
(ECB)
4. Non-resident’s investment in Bank,
Insurance, Pension schemes.
5. RBI’s foreign exchange reserve
However, for the purpose of learning, we’ll continue with the traditional classification given in the
textbooks (and in below image)
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30.1.1 📊📊Notes about the Data Tables in this Handout Pillar#3A
- In most of the tables, I’ve used data of a stable/normal year 2018-19 to explain theory basics.
Because subsequent years’ data trends have some abnormal trends due to economy slowdown
(in 2019), Corona (in 2020 & 21).
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- �Of Goods (as per NCERT.)
- �Of Goods and Services (as per IMF balance of payment manual)
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: So what to tick in MCQ? Ans. well depends on the context of the MCQ.
Balance of Trade Amount in Billion $ for Year 2018-19
Export Goods +330
Import Goods -510
Export Services +208
Import Services -126
30.2.3 ⛽🎖🎖 Gross (Barter) Terms of Trade (GTT, �सफर् �प्र�लम के �लए, अत: िहंदी अनाव�क)
𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞 (𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣) 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 ⚖
𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺𝐺 = ∗ 100 = 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝑖𝑖𝑡𝑡 ′ 𝑠𝑠 < 100 (𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈).
𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞𝑞 (𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣𝑣) 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 ⚖
So, in physical quantity (kg, litres) we are exporting more than importing. This is possible because
exported Indian rice’s quantity (kg) could be large even though its value ($) will not be very large.
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For India and other developing countries, ITT is much relevant indicator for analysing their foreign
trade compared to previous 2 indicators. Why? Ans. not important.
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Services Export Before Corona (i.e. 2018, 2019) Import Before Corona (i.e. 2018, 2019)
services consultancy services etc.)
⇒ business services -research development, ⇒ 🏖🏖Travel of persons (Indians going to
consultancy services etc.) foreign trip using foreign airline)
⇒ 🏖🏖Travel of persons ⇒ �Transport of goods (e.g. Indian using
⇒ �Transport of goods American Cargo Shipping company’s
⇒ Financial services service to deliver goods)
⇒ Construction Services ⇒ intellectual property (Patent, Trademark)
⇒ �Telecom, computer, information
services, Financial services
30.3.6 India’s trade partners: Trade Surplus / Deficit With Notable Countries
Trade Deficit (i.e. India imports more but exports Trade Surplus (i.e. India imports LESS but
less to these nations) exports MORE to these nations)
We’ve large Trade Deficit: �ापार घाटा with We’ve Trade Surplus: �ापार अ�धशेष with
⇒ China (cheap electronics, toys etc.) over 50 - USA (Chemicals, textile, services etc.),
billion$ - Britain, Netherlands, Turkey (Tea,
⇒ Middle Eastern nations (Oil import esp Iraq, Spices, textile etc.),
Saudi, Qatar). - Bangladesh, Nepal (Food, medicine,
⇒ Switzerland (Gold, Luxury items), vehicles etc)
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(d) Capital movements from one country to another.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following does not form part of current account of BoP? [UPSC-CDS-2014-II]
(a) Export and import of goods (b) Export and import of services
(c) Income receipts and payments (d) Capital receipts and payments
🔠🔠❓MCQ. With reference to Balance of Payments, which of the following constitutes/ constitute the
Current Account? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2014)
1. Balance of trade. 2. Foreign assets. 3. Balance of invisibles. 4. Special Drawing Rights.
Answer codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 4
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Among the following, which one of the following is the largest exporter of rice in the world in
the last five years? (Pre-2019) (a) China (b) India (c) Myanmar (d) Vietnam
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Among the agricultural commodities imported by India, which one of the following accounts
for the highest imports in terms of value in the last five years? (Pre-2019)
(a) Spices (b) Fresh fruits (c) Pulses (d) Vegetable oils
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Since 2014-15, India has consistently run trade surplus with which one among the following
countries? (UPSC-CDS-2020-ii) (a) China (b) Saudi Arabia (c) USA (d) Germany
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statement(s) about international trade of India at present? (Prelims-2020)
1. India’s merchandise exports are less than its merchandise imports.
2. India’s imports of iron steel, chemicals, fertilisers and machinery have decreased in recent years.
3. India’s exports of services are more than its imports of services.
4. India suffers from an overall trade/current account deficit.
Ans Codes: [a) 1 and 2 only [b) 2 and 4 only [c) 3 only [d) 1, 3 and 4 only
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sub-rankings for categories -‘Coastal’, ‘Landlocked’, ‘Himalayan’, and ‘UTs/City-States’). But
poor cost benefit preparing the whole list for exam.
30.4.4 💌💌📊📊 Remittance: World Bank’s Remittance Report (�व� ब�क क� धनप्रेषण �रपोटर्)
- Since 2008: largest amount of remittance received by 1) India 2) China 3) Mexico.
- World Bank also noted: remittances have a direct impact in poverty removal for many
households, (धन प्रेषण से गरीबी उ�ूलन म� मदद �मलती है)
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भ� रंगारंग कायर्क्रम नही िकया, �ोिक वो तो हर दू सरे साल करते है।
2021 Theme: "Contributing to Aatmanirbhar Bharat”. It was held virtually due to Corona
Chief Guest: Mr. Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Suriname.
2022 just a small scale video conference type of event.
भ� रंगारंग कायर्क्रम नही िकया, �ोिक वो तो हर दू सरे साल करते है।
2023 @Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The theme is "Diaspora: Reliable partners for India's progress
in Amrit Kaal”.
🎓🎓Self Study? Indian Polity: Citizenship → difference OCI vs PIO
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30.5.2 ⛽�: �♂NELP’s primary limitations were →
Separate license required for each type of hydrocarbon.
NELP worked on production sharing contract (PSC: उ�ादन साझाकरण अनुबंध), wherein the Oil Explorer
will pay a share to Govt from the profits from production. However,
⇒ Indian producers allegedly exaggerated their production costs to show less profit. → Govt
earned less, and will do more ‘inspector raj’ to check account books → No ease of doing Biz.
(उ�ाद खचर् को बढ़ा चढ़ा के िदखाया जाता तािक मुनाफा कम िदखे)
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Crude Oil Supply Side Factors (आपू�त) Demand Side (मांग)
Price When Supply Decreases ⏬ When Demand Increases ⏫
up⏫ ⇒ Whenever OPEC + Russia agreed to ⇒ When economic growth � in USA,
तेल कब महंगा reduce their oil production China, EU → �demand for
हो जाता है
⇒ 2019: Houthi (a Shia rebel group of petroleum, plastic industry
Yemen with Irani support) Drone- ⇒ Post-Corona unlockdown →
attacked oil field of Saudi Arabia � → Oil demand�
travel� �
→ Oil production down.
Price When Supply Increases⏫ When Demand Decreases⏬
down⏬ ⇒ When OPEC+Russia can't agree for ⇒ When economic slowdown →
कब स�ा production cuts demand for petroleum �
हो जाता है
⇒ When Saudi Arabia �supply to ⇒ Corona: Travel Ban
reduce global prices to harm Iranian ⇒ Chinese imposing more Taxes on
Oil export business. imported American/Japanese cars →
⇒ When USA pressurizes Nigeria, Iraq � car sales → � oil demand in
etc to produce more oil China
⇒ When USA also increases its own
domestic oil and Shale Gas
Production
⇒ 2021-Feb: India's biggest oil suppliers: 1) Iraq 2) USA 3) Saudi. Saudi Arabia ranked shifted from
#2 to #3 because Saudi has been �cutting down its production to raise prices.
⇒ 2021-Saudi minister (rudely) tells India, “if you do not like our expensive oil, then use oil from
your own strategic reserves.” Indian Petroleum Minister calls it an ‘undiplomatic’ comment.
⇒ 2021-Mar: Indian Oil Companies decided to � import from Saudi Arabia -to teach Saudi a
lesson (सऊदी अरब का घमं ड तोड़ने के �लए वहाँ से हमने क�ा तेल आयात करना थोड़ा कम िकया है).
⇒ 2021-April onwards: OPEC+ Group decided to gradually �the production. Thus daily news
��थोड़ा-पढ़ो-
keeps going on....If any MCQs asked, solve through 50:50 from above Table. #�
आगे-बढ़ो
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30.5.6 ⛽📈📈📈📈 Crude Oil: Russia-Ukraine War (2022)
⇒ Oil prices has skyrocketed in February 2022 due to Russia Ukraine were but 2022-March: OPEC
producers UAE and Iraq � the oil production → oil prices fell by 17% (UAE तथा इराक़ ने कहा िक
हम अपने अपने क�े तेल क� उ�ादन/आपू�त को बढ़ाएं गे इसके बाद क�े तेल क� क़�मतों म� �गरावट)
⇒ India’s STATE-OWNED OIL marketing companies (OMCs) are set to procure crude oil from
Russia at a discount, to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia wants money urgently. (भारतीय सरकारी
तेल कं प�नयों को �स से स�े म� क�ा तेल �मलेगा।)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Term ‘West Texas Intermediate’, sometimes found in news, refers to a grade of_ _
(Prelims-2020) [a) Crude oil [b) Bullion [c) Rare earth elements [d) Uranium
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30.5.10 ⛽💰💰 Petrol & Diesel Prices & Taxes in India
(Covered in 📑📑Pillar#2A: Indirect Taxes Handout)
30.6.2 🎖🎖🎖🎖🐯🐯 Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme (2015: �णर् बांड योजना)
(Covered in 📑📑Pillar#1C: Share Market)
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30.6.3 🎖🎖🎖🎖🐯🐯 Gold Monetization Scheme (2015: �णर् मुद्रीकरण योजना)
- Under this scheme, RBI allows commercial banks accept customers’ idle gold / jewellery for 1
year to 15 years tenure. (2019- RBI also allowed Charitable Institutions and Central Govt to
deposit their gold in the commercial banks)
- Commercial Banks pay the depositor ~2% interest.
- Min. 30gm to maximum any amount of gold can be deposited.
- Gold goes to → Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation of India →
- Gold sold to jewellers, electronic circuits companies and
- Some of the gold used for Minting “Indian Gold Coin.”
- Upon maturity you can redeem deposit in the form of gold coin/bars or cash equivalent. The
profit exempted from Capital Gains Tax. (इस स��� �नवेश के मुनाफ़े पर ��� पर पूंजीगत लाभ कर नहीं लगता)
30.6.4 🎖🎖🎖🎖🦁🦁 Indian (Sovereign) Gold Coins (2015: भारतीय �णर् �स�े )
Issued by a Govt company “Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation of India”.
- Available in denominations of 5, 10, 20 grams.
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- These gold coins are not fiat money because not issued under the powers of Coinage act, they
don’t bear any markings indicating rupee denominations. Their markings only indicate gold
grams. And since they’re not ‘fiat money’ → so, not ‘legal tenders’. (More in 📑📑Pillar#1a1)
- Benefit? Trusted Purity → Easily resold → Easy liquidity, and Profit (if) gold price⏫.
30.6.5 🎖🎖🎖🎖: Gold price in Corona (कोरोना महामारी के दौरान �णर् क़�मत�)
As such, Govt’s economic surveys don’t talk much about daily ups/downs of gold price movement.
UPSC also never asked anything like that. So, we need not PHD. ⚾
⇒ Indian banks � fixed deposit interest rates. People shifting towards gold investment for a better
"positive real" interest rate. (Recall Pillar1)
⇒ Mutual funds = not good profit after ILFS crisis (Ref: Pill1B2) → some investors prefer gold
⇒ Geopolitical tensions like Iran-US, China-US, India-China, Russia – Ukraine have negative
impact on sharemarket → some investors prefer gold
⇒ 2020 Corona-Crisis: Shares and bonds have become risky due to heavy losses faced by
companies. Investors prefer a 'safe assets' = �demand of gold → �prices.
⇒ Corona→ workers @gold mines / refineries � → gold production � → price�
�
⇒ However, vaccination = investors expect business revival so they’ll sell gold to invest in shares so
again gold prices fallen from ₹56000 per 10gm in (2020-Aug) to ₹45000 (2021-March) =
�. … �+ other 500 angles on Dollar currency exchange rate, Bond yields, some
₹11,000�
investors shifting to Bitcoin etc=poor cost-benefit. Apply logic/50:50.#�थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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��NATURAL DIAMONDS (प्राकृ �तक ��LAB GROWN
/कु दरती) DIAMONDS (LGD)
Cost Very Expensive Less expensive than Natural
Ethics and Deforestation, child labour in African More ethical and sustainable
environment mines (खनन के �लए वृ� छे दन, बाल मजदू री ) (नै�तक और िटकाऊ।)
�Budget-2023: (1) we’ll promote LGD, its seeds, its machinery- via tax cuts and subsidies. (2) we’ll
give grant to an IIT for LGD research and development.
⇒ A Geographical Indication (GI: भौगो�लक सं के तक) is a sign used on products with specific
geographical origin and unique qualities due to that origin. E.g. Darjeeling tea from W.Bengal- It
was the first to obtain GI tag from India.
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit? GI tag adds premium-ness to a product, helps fetching higher prices in the
international market → better income for farmers and artisans. �वदेशी ग्राहक उसे उ�ा िक� क� समझ के
और �ादा पैसा देने के �लए राजी हो सकता है
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30.6.9 ☕🔖🔖 GI Logo
Commerce Ministry has created a logo for GI products with tag ‘Invaluable Treasures of Incredible
India’ to make them more attractive to foreign buyers. (�वदेशी ग्राहकों म� चाहत बढ़ाने के �लए)
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⇒ Government will bear the cost of developing the roads, sewage, affluent treatment, weighing-
packaging-labelling etc infrastructure within the SEZ.
⇒ They are regulated under SEZ policy (2000) and Special Economic Zone Act, 2005. State Govt
forwards the proposal to create SEZ → Union’s Commerce Ministry approves.
⇒ 1965: Asia's first SEZ was set up in Kandla, Gujarat (At that time it was called Export Processing
Zone/EPZ). Currently we’ve 220+ SEZ in India.
⇒ 🥰🥰Benefit? More exports, employment, economic growth.(�नयार्त,रोज़गार और आ�थक वृ�द्ध के अवसर)
⇒ 😰😰Challenges? SEZ entrepreneurs use legal loopholes → Tax avoidance, Workers deprived of
EPFO/ESIC/Maternity benefit. When entrepreneurs’ Tax holiday is over in one SEZ, they
shutdown operation and move to another SEZ with new name/registration. Agricultural and
forest lands diverted to build SEZs → future challenges in food security, pollution control and
climate change.(कर प�रहार, मज़दू रों का शोषण, कृ �ष ज़मीन कम होना भ�व� म� खाद्य सुर�ा, प्रदू षण के जो�खम)
Solution? 2018: Commerce Ministry had setup Baba Kalyani committee to look into SEZ issues.
Baba is the Chairman of Bharat Forge ltd.
🔠🔠❓ Which Asian country established the first Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in 1965? (UPSC-
Geologist-2020) a. China b. India c. South Korea d. Japan
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machine, bulldozer, mining equipment etc. (So they'll be forced to buy India-made machines)
⇒ Banned the import of Drone except for defense and research development. (आया�तत ड�ोन पे प्र�तबं ध)
⇒ 68% Defense purchase will be made from India made products (earlier 58% last year).
⇒ Unblended fuel shall attract an additional differential excise duty of Rs. 2/ litre (To encourage
blending of bio-ethanol.) → �this will help � import of crude oil.
⇒ Hackers are releasing the data of Indian importers/exporters price details and client details then
Chinese importers and exporters may connect with those foreign clients offering better
deals/prices than Indians. This is harming Indian exporters. So Budget-2022 proposed new
provision in Customs Act for penalising illegal sharing of export-import data (कभी कभी हैकसर् भारतीय
�नयार्तकों का डेटा डाकर् नेट पे बेच देते ह� �जसक� मदद से चीन के �ापारी उन �वदेशी ग्राहकों का सं पकर् कर उ�� भी स�ा बार िदखाकर
अपना माल बेच देते ह� तो यह भारत के हक़ म� नहीं है। इस�लए नए बजट म� सीमा-शु� क़ानून म� सं शोधन: अवैध तरीक़े से आयात
�नयार्त का डेटा साझा करने पर दंड के प्रावधान।)
⇒ Special Economic Zones Act will be replaced with a new law for ‘Development of Enterprise and
Service Hubs (DESH)’.
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○ CBIC → Single Window Interface for Facilitating Trade (SWIFT) for importers and
exporters through icegate.gov.in. Within that, e-governance modules like E-Sanchit,
Turant etc for document approval etc.
○ Commerce Ministry & FIEO (Federation of Indian Export Organisations) launched
India Trade webportal and Niryat Mitra App.
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30.7.10 🍋🍋🍋🍋Tax Credit for Exporters: RoDTEP?
2020-March: govt announced Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP: �नयार्त
उ�ादों पर शु� और कर क� छू ट). Boss? Commerce Ministry
MEIS RoDTEP
Exporter gets Customs Duty ITC given for following taxes Exporter paid:
Input Tax Credit 1. Customs Duty
(ITC) for 2. Transport fuel (petrol diesel) Excise and VAT
3. Agriculture raw material pe State Mandi tax
(it’s not a ‘tax’ but rather a FEES charged by
APMC Mandi.)
4. Stamp duty on Commodity trade (Ref:2A)
5. Electricity pe electricity duty (Ref: 2A)
WTO allowed it? No, so WTO ordered Yes (or atleast PM Modi claims so.)
to stop it. RoDTEP will replace MEIS scheme.
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Framework” guides this program.
⇒ It is a foreign entity registered @SEBI, and who buys upto 10% in equity / shares of an Indian
Company. [For Corporate Bonds and G-Sec these % are different.]
⇒ Originally, these were called Foreign Institutional Investor (FII: �वदेशी सं �ागत �नवेशक) and
Qualified Foreign Investors (QFIs), but in 2013 SEBI merged them all into a single category- FPI,
based on the recommendations of K.M. Chandrasekhar committee.
⇒ FPI’s primary objective is make money from buying and selling of shares through the capital
market / share market. They even help the SEBI-non-registered foreign investors by issuing them
Participatory notes (P-Notes) [📑📑Ref: 1C: SEBI handout].
⇒ FPIs are not involved in the actual operations / production / management / business policy
making of a company (unlike Walmart is for Flipkart). कं पनी का �यं सं चालन म� ��च नहीं
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⇒ If FPI investor is hopeful to get better returns in the other countries’ share/bond market, he may
quickly sell his Indian securities and run away. The flight of such money is called ‘hot money
(चलायमान मुद्रा)', It results into weakening of Indian Rupee and falling of Sensex.
⇒ FDI is the (more than 10% equity / share) investment made by a foreign entity into an Indian
company, with the objective to get involved in the management / production of that Indian
company. भारतीय कं पनी के सं चालन/ उ�ादन म� शा�मल होने के उद्दे� से 10% या उससे �ादा शेयर खरीदना
⇒ (e.g. 2018: Walmart-USA bought 77% stakes in Flipkart @$16 billion.)
⇒ ✋Foreign Investment is prohibited in atomic energy, railway operations (except Metro & infra
dev.); Tobacco Products, Real Estate Business, Farm Houses, Chit Funds, Nidhi Companies,
Betting Gambling Casino & Lottery.
⇒ For the remaining sectors, Foreign Investment is permitted either through:
A. � Automatic Route: �चा�लत मागर् i.e. Foreign entity doesn’t require Indian Govt’s
approval.
B. 🧔🧔 Government Route: सरकारी मागर् i.e. prior to investment, they’ve to get approval from
the Govt of India’s respective Administrative Ministry/ Department (+ Commerce
Ministry).
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30.8.3 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃 FDI in India → Source Nation and sector-wise as per 📙📙ES23
Sector wise Nation Wise
1. �Computer Software & Hardware 1. Singapore
2. Services Sector 2. Mauritius
3. Trading 3. UAE
4. USA
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✓ Mining and Exploration of metal and non-metal,
✓ Petroleum & Natural Gas, Chemicals, Coal & Lignite, Thermal & Renewable Energy
✓ Civil Aviation (**Selected services), Airports (Greenfield & Brownfield)
✓ Ports and Shipping, Railway Infrastructure, Roads & Highways
✓ 📡📡 Direct to Home (DTH) TV/Cable services e.g. Tatasky, DishTV
✓ 2019: Insurance intermediaries (e.g. agents, brokers, surveyors, 3rd party admin etc)
✓ 2019: Coal mining, coal sale & associated activities; Contract manufacturing.
✓ 2021: ⛽ Public Sector Oil Gas Refineries e.g. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL). This
is done to facilitate disinvestment/privatization via foreign companies participation. (Ref
Pillar:2D)
✓ 2022: State owned/public sector Life insurance corporation i.e. LIC: 20% FDI allowed.
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Definition? E-commerce means buying and selling of goods and services over digital & electronic
network. Two subtypes
1. Inventory based (इ��टरी आधा�रत) model of e-commerce: Company sells the inventory of goods
and services, which is owned by them to consumers directly. E.g. primeabgb.com (A computer
hardware site). FDI is not permitted here.
2. Marketplace based (बाजार आधा�रत) model of e-commerce: Company merely provides a
webportal/app to act as a facilitator between buyer and sellers. E.g. Amazon, Flipkart. 100% FDI
allowed here.
⇒ 2018-19: there was net ‘outflow’ of FPIs (i.e. more FPI money left India than the amount of FPI
money that came into India) which shows the Hot Money effect.
⇒ 2020 onwards: FPI situation given in chart. ES23 also repeated same problems.
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30.8.8 🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃🗃Investment: Misc Terms & Reports
30.8.8.1 �✈ Golden Visa (�नवेशकों और प्र�तभावान लोगों को आक�षत करने के �लए �णर् वीज़ा)
⇒ It is a special type of visa given for a investor/ property-buyer/celebrity / sportsman / scientist /
very bright student. System prevalent in Spain, UAE (Sanjay Dutt-2021) etc.
⇒ �Benefit? Helps the nation to attract investors and talented persons.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) are related to
investment in a country. Which one of the following statements best represents an important difference
between the two?(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2011)
A. FII helps bring better management skills and technology, while FDI only brings in capital.
B. FII helps in increasing capital availability in general, while FDI only targets specific sectors.
C. FDI flows only into the secondary market, while FII targets primary market.
D. FII is considered to be more stable than FDI
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct major characteristics with reference to FDI in India (Prelims-2020)
[a) It is the investment through capital instruments essentially in a listed company.
[b) It is largely non-debt creating capital flow.
[c) It is the investment which involves debt-servicing.
[d) It is the investment made by foreign institutional investors in the Government securities.
🔠🔠❓ Which of the following can be included in Foreign Direct Investments in India [Pre-2021]
1) Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds
2) Foreign Institutional investment with certain conditions
3) Global depository receipts (GDR)
4) Non-resident external deposits
Codes: a) 1, 2 and 3 b) 3 Only c) 2 and 4 d) 1 and 4
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Attached 1. Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT: �वदेश �ापार महा�नदेशालय) for promotion
offices of foreign trade. → he issues Importer Exporter Code (IEC) uniqud-id number to
सं ल� bizmen engaged in foreign trade.
कायार्लय
2. Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) to impose anti-dumping duty on
foreign products.
3. Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
4. Economic Adviser to DPIIT- responsible for publishing Wholesale Price Index
(WPI)- more in Pillar4C: Inflation. थोक महँ गाई सूचकांक
Governme ⇒ Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC: NIRVIC scheme-walle)
nt ⇒ MMTC ltd. (Gold-coin-walle). Although 2020-Jan approved for Strategic
Companie
disinvestment [भ�व� म� इसका �नजीकरण हो जाना है]
s
⇒ National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency of India. Commonly known
as “Invest India”: A ‘not for profit’ company by commerce ministry + FICCI +
NASSCOM + other in 2009. Sidenote: FICCI and NASSCOM are not-for-profit
associations made by businessmen, mainly to lobby/highlight their demands to
Government.
Statuto. 1. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA:
bodies कृ �ष और सं सा�धत खाद्य उ�ाद �नयार्त �वकास प्रा�धकरण), under its statutory act. APEDA helping
�ाय� Kashmir valley start-ups to export high-value Kashmir Saffron (GI-tag) to Middle
�नकाय/
East, EU, and North America.
सं �ाए
2. Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA)
3. Statutory Commodity Boards → Tea Board, Spices Board, Tobacco Board, Coffee
Board, Rubber Board. Controversy? Some newspapers suggesting these boards may
be closed / merged. So farmers are opposing.
4. Export Inspection Council (EIC): Under 1963’s law to ensures quality and safety of
products exported from India. EIC’s certificate is compulsory/mandatory for
exporting fish, dairy, meat related products from India.
Autonomo Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)- a “Deemed University” that offers MBA, PHD
us & other programs.
Other Export Promotion Council:
- These Councils are registered as non-profit organizations under the Companies Act/
Societies Registration Act.
- Total 14 such councils looking after sectors such as Chemicals, Plastics,
Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, Leather, Sports Goods, Gem and Jewellery Exports,
Cashew, Oil Seeds etc.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What is attached office / autonomous body? Ans. Self-Study through
https://unacademy.com/lesson/mrunals-yearbook-ministries-and-departments-forms-of-
government-organisations-in-hindi/7KCEZHT4/
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct about “Tea Board” in India:
1. The Tea Board is a statutory body.
2. It is a regulatory body attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
3. The Tea Board’s Head Office is situated in Bengaluru.
4. The Board has overseas offices at Dubai and Moscow.
Codes: (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 4 (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4
- Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB: �वदेशी �नवेश सं वधर्न बोडर्) was a non-statutory body in
the Department of Economic Affairs in the finance ministry.
- FIPB processed the FDI applications where government approval was required. If investment
amount exceeded ₹ 5,000 crore → application forwarded to Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs (CCEA: आ�थक मामलों क� मं �त्रमं डलीय स�म�त).
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- 2017: Govt announced FIPB’s abolition. Now, individual ministries/departments are empowered
to clear FDI proposals in consultation with Commerce Ministry. e.g. FDI in Pendrive factory →
MEITY + Commerce Ministry. (if proposal above ₹5kcr →CCEA)
- FIPB’s webportal was renamed into “Foreign Investment Facilitation Portal” and transferred to
Commerce ministry.
However, Only Home Ministry will clear FDI proposals coming from Pakistan and Bangladesh; and
FDI proposals related to private security agencies, small arms manufacturing.
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Cabinet Committee on Boss* Notes
7) Investment and Growth 🧔🧔 PM These two are new committee formed after 2019's
8) Employment and Skill General Election. 7) �नवेश और �वकास
Development 8) रोजगार और कौशल �वकास
30.9.6 🐯🐯�🦁🦁 International Financial Services Centre (IFSC)
International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) is a place having high concentration of financial
institutions such as Banks, Stock Markets, Insurance firms, Fund Managers, FinTech firms, etc.,
A nation will not apply its local taxation and investment norms in its IFSCs (अंतरार्��ीय �व�ीय सेवा
क� द्र:) E.g. UAE → Dubai’s IFSC centre: 100% FDI allowed in any sector. 100% Capital Account
Convertibility (i.e.Invest & pullout money as & when you please in any currency of your
choice!), 0% income tax for 50 years. DTAA with most countries. Independent judiciary not
bound with local laws. Quick Visa etc. (करो म� भारी छू ट, �ा�नक कानूनों से मु��)
🤩🤩Result? Such place becomes a hub / base of operation for international financial companies
and investment bankers. It also creates trickle down benefits for local people e.g. Chartered
Accountants, Hoteliers, Golf club owners, Taxi operators etc.
London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to have also grown by setting up such centres.
Taking their example, India too has set up Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) city
international financial services centre (IFSC) near Ahmedabad. (2015)
Although GIFT city not yet attracted good number of international financial companies because
the tax benefits are not as great as Singapore, Hong Kong etc.
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This ‘greenfield’ GIFT city was developed by 50:50 Joint venture of (the infamous) IL&FS +
Gujarat Urban Development Company Limited (GUDCL). Together they were responsible for
the construction, electricity, water, sanitation and other responsibilities of running this city. But
post IL&FS crisis, Govt of Gujarat has bought IL&FS’s 50% shareholding.
⇒ 💼💼Budget-2019: Companies operating from GIFT-city-IFSC given 100% exemption from
Corporation Tax for 10 years
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another country
⇒ Benefit? To protect sensitive data from disasters or cyber-attacks.
⇒ It's like having a backup of your important information in a safe place outside your home or
office.
⇒ 👛👛Budget-2023: we’ll encourage setting up Data Embassy @Gift city.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Who among the following was the Head of the Expert Committee on Variable Capital
Company in India which has submitted its report recently? (UPSC CAPF-2021)
(a) K. P. Krishnan (b) Ketan Dalal (c) J. Ranganayakulu (d) Bobby Parikh
30.9.12 � 🔪🔪 BoP → Capital Account → Debt (Loans & Non Resident Bank deposits)
NET inflow in (Bn. USD) →�नवल आमद 2018-19
Foreign Investment (FPI & FDI) +30
External borrowing: Pvt. Sector borrowing >Govt. +16
Further, majority of India’s external debt is in U$D currency >
Indian Rupee > IMF’s SDR > (Yen, Euro, Pound Sterling, etc)
Non-Residents’ Deposits in Indian Banks [Foreign Currency Non- +7
Resident FCNR accounts] & other misc. components of Capital
Account
NET balance in Capital Account (approx.) + 54
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Total 100%
30.9.17 � 🔪🔪 BoP → Capital Account → Misc.: VOSTRO, NOSTRO, FCNR, NRE, NRO
Refer to Pillar3B: Currency Exchange, internationalization of Rupee Topic.
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लोन क� िक� चुकाने म� चली जाए तो काम करने का उ�ाह भी चला जाता है)
o Debt overhang destroys enthusiasm and motivation to work harder.
o Debt overhang increases the chances of loan default e.g. Argentina, Ecuador, Belize,
Lebanon, Suriname and Zambia – have defaulted on their sovereign debt in Corona.
⇒ ��ES21 and ��ES22 observed that Presently India's external debt to GDP is at the
optimal level. (In other words we should not let this ratio increase anymore.)
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Pillar3B: BoP, Currency Exchange, Forex, SDR, NEER, REER, PPP
Table of Contents
31 Foreign Trade Policy 2023 ......................................................................................................... 443
31.1 4 pillars of FTP-2023 ...................................................................................................................... 443
31.2 FTP-2023 Pillar#1: Incentive to Remission (टे� माफ़� )................................................................. 443
31.2.1 FTP-2023 Pillar#2: Ease of Doing Biz (�ापार म� सुगमता) .............................................................................. 444
31.2.2 FTP-2023 Pillar3: Emerging Areas (उभरते �ेत्र) ........................................................................................... 445
31.2.3 FTP-2023 Pillar4: Collaboration of Stakeholders (िहतधारकों का सहयोग)........................................................... 445
31.2.4 �Conclusion (Summarise - yes it’ll greatly help) ........................................................................................... 446
31.3 �🎖🎖: 🗃🗃�
� BoP → summing up ............................................................................................... 447
31.3.1 ��� Sterilization (��रीकरण)? .......................................................................................................... 448
31.3.2 ���: � � Mundell-Fleming Trilemma (मं डल �े�मगं क� �त्र-आयामी दू �वधा) ......................................... 448
31.4 �🎖🎖>🗃🗃�
(� �)�
� India’s Balance of Payment crisis (1991) ...................................................... 450
31.4.1 �🎖🎖>🗃🗃�
(� �)�
� Disequilibrium in BoP: Factors responsible (असं तुलन के कारण) .................................... 451
31.5 �� RBI’s Forex Reserve: �वदेशी मुद्रा �रजवर् ................................................................................... 451
31.5.1 Significance of Foreign Exchange Reserves (मह�) ..................................................................................... 452
32 � Currency Exchange Rate: मुद्रा �व�नमय दर ............................................................................... 453
32.1 � Exchange Rate Regime: Theory .............................................................................................. 454
32.1.1 �� Challenges in Managed Float System? ......................................................................................... 454
32.1.2 �� Currency War 2018 (मुद्रा युद्ध).......................................................................................................... 454
32.1.3 ��Reverse Currency war? ................................................................................................................... 455
32.2 �� Exchange Rate Regime: Historic ....................................................................................... 455
32.2.1 ��� Fixed exchange rate system → Gold Standard; सोने के मानक/ �णर्मान (1870-1914) .............. 455
32.2.2 � �� Fixed exchange rate system → Bretton Woods System (1946-1971) ............................... 456
32.2.3 ��Currency Exchange in India........................................................................................................... 457
32.3 ��IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR: �वशेष आहरण अ�धकार) .................................................. 457
32.3.1 ��IMF SDR Formula weightage reforms 2022 ................................................................................. 459
32.3.2 ��IMF Quota Reform .......................................................................................................................... 459
32.3.3 ��IMF Governors ................................................................................................................................ 459
32.4 ��� Currency Convertibility (मुद्रा प�रवतर्नीयता)..................................................................... 460
32.5 ���RBI restriction on convertibility of rupee: �पये क� प�रवतर्नीयता ...................................... 460
32.5.1 �� Full convertibility of Rupee :�पये क� पूणर् प�रवतर्नीयता? ..................................................................... 462
32.5.2 �� ₹ � Convertibility → S.S. Tarapore Committee (1997)........................................................ 462
32.5.3 �� � ₹ Convertibility → RBI reforms (2004-2019) ..................................................................... 463
32.5.4 �� � FEMA Rules for Indian resident’s overseas investment (2022-Aug) ................................ 463
32.6 � FCRA Act ................................................................................................................................. 464
32.6.1 FCRA on donations ..................................................................................................................................... 464
32.6.2 FCRA on remittance .................................................................................................................................... 464
32.6.3 ��Currency War → Fall of Indian ₹ & RBI’s Response .................................................................. 465
32.6.4 RBI’s Swap Agreements with Central Banks of Japan etc. (2018) .......................................................... 465
32.6.5 Challenges to India’s BOP by ES22 and ES23 ........................................................................................... 465
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32.6.6 ��Currency Exchange Rate → Attracting Dollars: VRR and FAR ............................................... 466
32.6.7 RBI-Govt’s measures to prevent fall of Rupee (2022-Jul-Aug)............................................................... 466
32.6.8 Rupee Rouble Agreement............................................................................................................................ 467
32.6.9 Nostro Vostro Accounts- settlements with Russia and SriLanka .......................................................... 468
32.6.10 Internationalisation of Indian rupee (भारतीय �पये का अंतररा��ीयकरण )................................................................... 468
32.6.11 ���� Yuan as global currency? .................................................................................................. 469
32.6.12 �� Dollar- the Global Currency & ”DE-Dollarization”? (वै��क-आर��त-मुद्रा) ...................................... 469
32.7 �� Misc. Concepts: Quantitative Easing and Federal Tapering ............................................ 470
32.7.1 �� Misc. Concepts: Helicopter Money & Zero interest rate regimes ............................................. 471
32.8 � Exchange Rate → Miscellaneous Terminologies ................................................................... 473
32.8.1 � NEER and REER? (Hindi not imp because only prelim relevant) .................................................. 473
32.8.2 � Purchasing Power Parity: क्रय श�� समता (PPP) ........................................................................................ 475
32.8.3 ✍🏻🏻�
� Mock Questions for Mains: .............................................................................................................. 476
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Remission Scheme Description
RODTEP Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RODTEP) to
provide refunds to exporters for various taxes paid on inputs.
EPCG Export Promotion capital Goods Scheme: 0% Customs duty import of
(आया�तत मशीनरी पर टै� capital goods (machinery) for export production. FTP2023: Will give
माफ़� ) some extra benefits to Textile factories in PM MITRA Parks, Dairy,
Green Hydrogen, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV), Vertical Farming
equipment, Wastewater Treatment, Rainwater harvesting system.
Advance Authorisation 0% customs on import of raw materials for manufacturing export items.
Scheme (AAS) (आया�तत
क�े माल पर टै� माफ़� )
कु ल �मलाकर उ� सभी योजनाओं म� �नयार्तक को अपने क�े माल, मशीनरी इ�ािद पर जो टै� भरने होते ह� उसम� छू ट दी जाती है
�FAQ: Isn’t RODTEP and AAS overlapping with each other? Ans. They’ve internal technical rules
ki if imported item is raw material then AAS but if imported item is not raw material but required for
production, then RODTEP.
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31.2.1.1 EoD: Bol Bachchan/ �चकनी चुपड़ी बाते
⇒ Our policy is based on principles of ‘trust’ and ‘partnership’ with exporters.
⇒ we’ll take feedback from Industry to update FTP, from time to time.
⇒ Process Re-Engineering and Automation, paperless, online environment, Reduction in fee
structures, eliminating the need for manual interface. (कागज रिहत ऑनलाइन प्रणाली, पं जीकरण फ़�स म�
कटौती, उद्योगजगत से सुझाव लेके �व�ास व भागीदारी/सहयोग से काम कर�गे।)
�FAQ: what does about things mean? How does it work?? Ans. NOTIMP. Whatever few fancy
key words, you can remember → write them in Mains.
⇒ (Definition) when a company buys goods from one country and then sells them to a buyer in
another country without bringing the goods into their own country.
⇒ It’s essentially acting as a middleman in the international trade of goods. e.g. Companies Dubai,
Singapore and Hong Kong. FTP-2023 will promote this in GIFT city IFSC.
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Town Four new towns, namely Faridabad, Mirzapur, Moradabad, and
(शहरों म� �नयार्त के �लए बु�नयादी Varanasi, designated as Towns of Export Excellence (TEE), in
अवसं रचना का �नमार्ण) addition to the existing 39 towns. Government will give them first
priority for funding to develop export infrastructure e.g.
warehouse, ports etc.
Indian mission/embassy we’ll give them funding under Market Access Initiative (MAI) to
abroad (�वदेशी ग्राहकों क� do research/survey of Country specific customer
पसं द/नापसं द का सव��ण दू तावासो likes/dislikes/product preferences.
द्वारा करवाय�गे)
�:� � Exporters exporters will be given Star rating/Status based on export
(पुराने/अनुभवी �नयार्तक नौ�स�खयों को performance. 2Star/higher exporters will give training/mentoring
तालीम द�गे) to new/fresh exporters.
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31.3 ⛽🎖🎖: 🗃🗃🤲🤲 BOP → SUMMING UP
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31.3.1 💱💱💱💱💱💱 Sterilization (��रीकरण)?
⇒ If there is a BoP situation, wherein RBI has to sell ₹ to buy $ to get the NET answer ZERO then…
Such RBI action would result in ⏫supply of rupee currency in the Indian market → it can
cause inflation if there is not sufficient supply of goods for purchase.
⇒ So, RBI must ‘absorb’ that excess rupee currency back. RBI will do it through Open Market
Operation (OMO: REF-1A2) → sell govt securities to buyback Indian rupees. This process is
called Sterilization. �रजवर् ब�क ने यिद डॉलर खरीदने के �लए बाजार म� �पए िदए तो उ�ीं �पयों को वापस से भी चूस लेना
चािहए, वरना महंगाई हो सकती है → इस�लए �रजवर् ब�क, सरकारी प्र�तभू�तयां भेजकर बाजार ₹ चूस लेता है इसे ��रीकरण कहते ह�
31.3.2 💱💱💱💱💱💱: 🧅🧅 🧅🧅 Mundell-Fleming Trilemma (मं डल �े�मंग क� �त्र-आयामी दू �वधा)
Theory by economists Robert Mundell and Marcus Fleming (1960s). It argues that three things can't
be accomplished together: �रजवर् ब�क तीन चीज� एक साथ नहीं कर सकते
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Trilemma (�त्र-आयामी दू �वधा) Example situation in Corona
1) Keep capital account open / relax Corona:- large foreign FPI,FDI inflow towards India’s
capital account convertibility to boost pharma-IT/Tech sectors. कोरोना के दौरान भारत के औष�ध तथा
economy. पूंजी खाते म� छू ट: भारत म� �वदेशी �पया सूचना प्रौद्यो�गक� �ेत्र म� ढेर सारी �वदेशी पूंजी आई
लाने- ले जाने पर ब�त �ादा पाबं दी ना हो, तािक
अथर्तंत्र को बढ़ोतरी �मल सके
2) Keep exchange rate stable �वदेशी मुद्रा FPI,FDI ⏫ → so, inflow of Dollar$⏫⏫ → then
�व�नमय दर को ��र रखा जाए rupee will become stronger → exchange rate will not
remain stable & exporters will suffer due to stronger
rupee. �वदेशी मुद्रा के भारत म� अ�धक मात्रा म� आने से �पया मजबूत होता
है जो �नयार्तकों के �लए अ�� बात नहीं
3) Keep monetary policy independent ⇒ Stronger rupee will be bad for exporters → RBI
(from what is happening elsewhere in should purchase dollars & sell rupees →
the world / solely focusing on Inflation
�Rupees supply → Inflation if there are not
- target) मौिद्रक नीती �तं त्र �प से चलाई जा
sufficient goods in the market. �रज़वर् ब�क �पया बेचकर
सके -�बना परवाह िकए िक �व�नमय दर म� �वदेशी
डॉलर खरीदना शु� कर� तो बाजार म� �पये क� मात्रा बढ़ जाएगी जो
ताकतों/कारको के चलते �ा अ��रताएँ हो रही है.
महंगाई उ�� कर सकती है
⇒ So if RBI try to control the exchange rate volatility,
then RBI will end up creating inflation! यानी क�
�व�नमय दर क� अ��रता रोकने के च�र म� महंगाई उ�� हो गई
⇒ Corona-2020: amount of $$ inflow so high,
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Trilemma (�त्र-आयामी दू �वधा) Example situation in Corona
sterilization game (Ref: previous section) was
difficult. So, inflation inevitable. ��रीकरण वाला खेला
ब�त मु��ल �ोंिक डॉलर/�पये मात्रा ब�त �ादा थी.
In this trilemma, What did RBI do?
- But in the pre-1991’s Nehruvian Socialist Economy, many sectors were nationalised (banking
insurance) and / or reserved for the public sector companies only = mismanaged & inefficiency.
Private sector industrialists were allowed only in selected sectors, and were subjected to Licence-
Quota-Inspector Raj → ⏬competition,⏬ innovation = low exports.(Ref: 📑📑Pillar#4B)
- And our policy makers restricted foreign investments (FDI /FPI) fearing that
- It’ll bring USA-CIA’s invisible hand in Indian Affairs,
- Our Swadeshi industries & our ‘Non-Alignment Movement (NAM)’ will be harmed.
- 😰😰End result? High level of “DEFICIT” in Current Account and not enough surplus in Capital
account to counter/offset that DEFICIT. The situation could be like this:
1991 → imaginary figures for illustration only (�सफ़र् उदाहरण के �लए का��नक आंकड़े) (Bn. USD)
Current Account (Deficit) [चालू खाते म� बोहोत बड़ा घाटा] - 100
Capital Account (Surplus, but it’s insufficient surplus) [पूंजी खाते म� अपयार्� अ�धशेष] + 50
Errors & Omissions 0
Overall Balance - 50
Monetary Movements in RBI's Foreign Exchange Reserves** + 50
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NET Balance of Payment for India 0
**Here plus (+) indicates RBI must sell dollars from its forex reserve to keep India’s BoP at ZERO
level. If they can’t do it then shortage of dollars in Indian market to pay for our import bills →
results in heavy weakening of Indian rupee (e.g. $1 =₹ 60 → $1= ₹ 6000) then it becomes even more
expensive to import oil. �पया ब�त कमजोर �आ तो क�ा तेल आयात करना और महंगा होगा
- In 1991, RBI didn’t have enough forex reserves to get India’s BoP zero → we had to pledge our
gold to IMF to borrow dollars. सोना �गरवी रखकर डॉलर के लोन �लए
- IMF also imposed certain conditions which required India to open up its economy through LPG
reforms (Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation: उदारीकरण, �नजीकरण, वै�ीकरण). 🎓🎓Self-study
from (new) NCERT Class11:Indian economic development → Ch3.
- 2022: SriLanka facing similar problems but we’re not preparing for SrilankiPSC so boycott-PHD.
⇒ Development disequilibrium (�वकास का असं तुलन): poor nations have to import more grains,
medicines etc. = adverse BoP.
⇒ Secular or Long-term Disequilibrium (दीघर् अव�ध तक रहने वाला): newborn nation is usually poor &
backward so imports >> Export. E.g. Nehru’s India until it matured in the 90s.
⇒ Consumerism and Demonstration Effect: Rich Indians try to copy westernized lifestyles. So,
⬆import of Switzerland wristwatches + Sports Cars = adverse BoP. (उपभो�ावाद, िदखावा करने क� चाह
→ �ादा आयात के चलते भुगतान सं तुलन खराब होता है)
⇒ Structural Disequilibrium =if transport, electricity infrastructure is poor or Technological
Backwardness = exports can’t improve. (सं रचना�क और तकनीक�)
⇒ Cyclical Disequilibrium (चक्र�य असं तुलन): When two countries may be passing through different
phases of business cycle (Boom, slowdown...तेजी और मं दी का चक्र) , so there will be mismatch in
imports, exports, FDI etc.
1) Foreign Currency Assets (includes foreign currencies & G-Sec/bonds of foreign Govts)
2) Gold (�णर्)
3) Reserve Tranche Position (RTP) in the IMF. (What is RTP = NOT IMP)
4) Special Drawing Right (SDR) of International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Largest forex: 1) China ($3 Trillion) 2) Japan 3) Swiz >> 6) India (As of 2022-Nov as per �ES23)
USA is not in the top-10 list, it barely keeps ~$250 billions in reserve. Because USA has floating
exchange rate so their central bank doesn’t worry about currency exchange. (More in next section)
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But consequently, the non-tradable sectors (health, education) receive less funding/attention →
possible loss of social /human development. (�नयार्त को बढ़ाने के �लए यिद सरकार अंधाधुंध िक़� से के वल �नयार्त यो�
�ेत्रों पर ही टै� क� कटौती/ स��डी देगी → तो अंत म� ग़ैर-�नयार्त यो� �ेत्र जैसे �श�ा, �ा�, मकान-�नमार्ण आिद पर सरकार कम
पैसा ख़चर् करती है → �जससे मानव �वकास को हा�न होती है।)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following is included in India's foreign-exchange reserves? (UPSC-Pre-2013)
A. Foreign-currency assets, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and loans from foreign countries.
B. Foreign-currency assets, gold holdings of the RBI and SDRs.
C. Foreign-currency assets, loans from the World Bank and SDRs.
D. Foreign-currency assets, gold holdings of the RBI and loans from the World Bank.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. “Gold Tranche” (Reserve Tranche) refers to _ _ (UPSC-Pre-2020)
[a) A loan system of the World bank [b) One of the operations of a central bank
[c) A credit system granted by WTO to its members [d) A credit system granted by IMF to its members
Currency Exchange Rate Indian Exporter of Tea Indian Importer of Dell Laptops
Weaker ₹ = Stronger $ . मेरे को आयात करते वकत �ादा
($1=60 → 600) ज�े म� पैसा देना होगा!
Stronger ₹ = Weaker $ मेरे को �नयार्त करते व�
($1=80 → 40) कम ज�े म� पैसा �मलेगा।
(Definition) The price of one currency in terms of the other currency is called exchange rate. E.g. $1
= ₹ 70. Meaning, it costs ₹ 70 to buy one dollar (or $0.014 to buy ₹ 1).
- This is also called Nominal Exchange Rate because it does not take into consideration inflation
or purchasing power in the respective countries. (औपचा�रक �व�नमय दर, महंगाई को नजरअंदाज िकया)
- The place where currencies are exchanged is called Foreign Exchange Market (�वदेश �व�नमय बाज़ार).
Their dealers are called Authorized (Forex) Dealers (AD). They can be banks or non-banks.
They have to get registered with RBI under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA:
�वदेशी मुद्रा प्रबं धन अ�ध�नयम के अंतगर्त �वदेशी मुद्रा के दलालों को �रजवर् ब�क से अनुम�त लेनी होती है).
- These dealers keep separate prices for buying and selling, to make profit in between e.g. ICICI:
$1 Dollar buying price ₹ 67.95 and $1 selling price is ₹ 72.76. (इन दलालों का डॉलर खरीदने का दाम अलग
और बेचने का दाम अलग होता है तािक बीच म� उनका मुनाफा रहे)
- Such currency transaction service is also subjected to GST, however the tax depends on the
amount of currency exchanged. (e.g. upto ₹ 10 lakh exchanged in foreign currency then only ~₹
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3000 of that 10 lakh will be taxable in GST → 18% of 3000 → ₹ 540 GST Tax. GST will not be
levied on the entire 10 lakh rupees)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Under flexible exchange rate system, the exchange rate is determined by [UPSC-CDS-2015-II]
(a) predominantly by market mechanism (b) by the Central Bank
(c) as a weighted index of a group of currencies (d) by the World Trade Organization
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- 2018: USA alleges that China is deliberately keeping Yuan weak to make Chinese product more
cheaper in global trade. Trump accused Russia and Japan of playing similar ‘Currency War’
against him.(चीन पर अपनी मुद्रा जानबूझकर कमज़ोर रखने का आरोप)
- USA would issue $1 note, if only it has 14 grams of gold in reserve, whereas England would issue
one pound note if only it has 73 grams of gold in its reserve. Accordingly, their exchange rate will
be 1 Pound =73/14 = ~5 USD.
- And, each Central Bank Governor has promised to convert their currency into gold at a fixed
amount. So, a person could walk with paper currency & demand gold coins/biscuits in return.
- When the gold mining production declined, nations gradually shifted to ‘bimetallism’ e.g. $1
promised with 14 gm gold or 210 gm of silver whichever available with their Central Bank.
This system collapsed during the First World War (WW1) because the nation’s currency printing
capacity was limited by their gold reserve, but their governments where more eager to print more
money to finance the war (soldiers’ salaries, rifles’ ammunition etc.)
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32.2.2 💱💱 🔨🔨🔨 Fixed exchange rate system → Bretton Woods System (1946-1971)
Here, USA agreed to fix price of its $1 = (1/35) ounces of gold. [1 ounce = 28 grams]. USA allowed
free convertibility of Dollar to Gold. So if a person walked into the US Federal Reserve with $35, their
chairman (Governor) will give him one ounce of gold.
⇒ Then IMF fixed the exchange rate of every country's currency against USA. e.g.₹ 1= $0.30 =
~0.24 grams of Gold. So, that implied India can’t issue more currency If Indian RBI does not
have proportionately sufficient gold reserve of its own. Still if RBI issues more ₹ currency,
International Monetary Fund (IMF: अंतररा�ी� य मुद्रा कोष) will order India to devalue its rupee
exchange rate against dollar.
⇒ American Economist Robert Triffin claimed this system will collapse eventually because gold is
a finite commodity and its price will continue to rise (from 1 ounce of gold = $35 to $40). So
there is always danger of people converting the local currency into dollars and then converting
dollars into gold @$35, then selling it in open market @profit, then US Feds Chairman can’t
continue honouring his promise. It was called “Triffin Dilemma: �त्र�फ़न द�ु वधा”. He therefore
suggested an alternative SDR (Paper gold) system for IMF. (�णर् का ज�ा अमयार्िदत नहीं है इस�लए यह
�व�ा एक िदन तबाह हो जाएगी)
⇒ 1971: USA President Robert Nixon pulled out of Bretton Woods gold convertibility system,
mainly because he wanted freedom to print more dollars to finance the Cold War (शीत युद्ध) and
arms race against the USSR. You may read more about the Cold War in NCERT PolSci-I
Class12ch1: http://ncert.nic.in/ncerts/l/leps101.pdf
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⇒ Thus, USA shifted to “Floating Exchange System”. Eventually most of the nations also shifted in
that either floating / managed-floating system. (अमे�रका ने डॉलर का �व�नमय दर बाजार पर छोड़ िदया है)
⇒ 2000: Ecuador adopted Dollarization i.e. it abandoned the domestic currency and adopted the
US dollar as their official currency. (कु छ देशोने अमे�रक� डॉलर को ही अपनी वैधा�नक मुद्रा मान ली है)
➢ 1860 onwards: Fixed Fiduciary System. i.e. British Indian Govt can issue Rs.10 crore notes on
fiduciary (“trust”) backed by G-Sec. Beyond that every note must be backed by gold / silver.
➢ 1935 onwards: Proportional Reserve. RBI must keep ~40% gold to the value of currency issued.
British govt fixed exchange rate.
➢ 1946 onwards: Bretton Woods / IMF system of fixed exchange rate. Wherein ₹ price was fixed
(pegged) against dollar, and dollar price was fixed (pegged) against gold.
➢ 1956 onwards: While RBI could issue any amount of Indian currency but that has to be balanced
by the Assets of the issue department (Recall M0). Of course, if RBI printed too much currency
backed by only Indian G-sec but (without adequate Gold / Forex Reserve, then IMF may force ₹
devaluation against Dollar). So, we adopted “Minimum Reserve System” i.e. RBI must keep ₹
400 crore of foreign currency/security + ₹ ‘x’ crore worth gold.
Towards Managed Floating Exchange Rate →
✓ 1995 onwards: “Minimum Reserve System; �ूनतम आर��त प्रणाली” is continued but RBI is required
to only keep ₹ ’x’ crores of gold. No compulsion for RBI to keep additional 400 crore worth
foreign currency or foreign securities. RBI can print as much currency it wants as long as its
balanced by the Assets of Issue Dept. (such as Indian G-sec, Foreign Securities, Gold etc.)
- IMF will pay them a small interest rate for their deposits. And IMF would lend this money to a
member facing balance of payment crisis. To operationalize this mechanism, IMF would allot an
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artificial currency / accounting unit called SDR to the members based on their deposits. (स� देश
द्वारा जमा क� गयी रा�श के सामने उसे एक कृ �त्रम मुद्रा / लेखा इकाई दी जाती है, �जसे एसडीआर कहते है)
- Initially the price of SDR was fixed against the amount of gold but present mechanism:
Currency Basket Weight Exchange rate against $?
U.S. Dollar 43.38% $1=$1
Euro 29.31% 1.13
Chinese Yuan (Renminbi *added in 2015) 12.28% 6.7
Japanese Yen 7.59% And so on
Pound Sterling 8.09 And so on
- By applying a formula involving (weight * exchange rate), IMF will obtain value of 1 SDR = how
many dollars? Presently, 1 SDR = $1.40 = ₹ 98 (assuming $1 is trading @₹ 70).
- SDR is called ‘Paper Gold’ because it’s merely an accounting entry or artificial currency, without
any gold involved. (इसक� पीछे कोई �णर् नहीं है , के वल एक िहसाब िकताब क� एक प्रिक्रया है)
- SDR can be traded among the members, it can be converted into members’ currencies as per
above method & be used to settle their Balance of Payment Transactions / Crisis.
- If the BoP crisis is so big, that a country’s entire SDR quota exhausts, then member country may
borrow more SDR from IMF (and then convert it into dollar etc to pay off the import bill), but
eventually member will have to repay this loan to IMF with interest.
- Individual nations’ central Banks keep some of the SDR as Reserve Tranche Position (RTP):
What that means and how does that work is not important. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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😤😤 MORAL Outrage: Why Indian Rupee currency is not in SDR formula?
ANS. IMF reviews the SDR formula’s currencies every five years -with two conditions [A) Country
must be among the Top exporter Nations. [B) Country’s currency need to be “freely usable” (=
capital account convertibility rules shd be easy/liberal.).
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- For India, this voting power is exercised by India’s Finance Minister – who acts as the ex-officio
Governor in IMF’s Board of Governors. (�व� मं त्री होते है आईएमएफ के पदेन / पद के िहसाब से गवनर्र)
- If Finance Minister absent, then RBI Governor can vote as the Alternate Governor during the
IMF’s meetings. (�व� मं त्री क� गैरहाजरी मे वैक��क गवनर्र के �प म� �रज़वर् ब�क के गवनर्र वोट देने जा सकते ह�)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Recently, which one of the following currencies has been proposed to be added to the basket of
IMF's SDR? (UPSC-Pre-2016) (A) Russian Rouble (B) South African Rand (C) Rupee(D) Renminbi
- But if people are allowed to convert the local and foreign currency in an unrestricted manner →
so much volatility that RBI will not be able to manage. (अमयार्िदत �प से लोगों को मुद्रा प�रव�तत करने दी तो
�व�नमय दर म� इतनी भारी अ��रता होगी �जसे �रजवर् ब�क काबू नहीं कर पाएगा😰😰)
- So, RBI puts certain restrictions on the convertibility of Indian rupee to foreign currency using
the powers conferred under
- Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 (FERA: �वदेशी मुद्रा �व�नयमन अ�ध�नयम)
- FERA was later replaced by Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA: पुराने कानून
म� मज़ा नहीं आ रहा था तो सरकार ने नया कानून बनाया- �वदेशी मुद्रा प्रबं धन अ�ध�नयम)
32.5 💱💱✋🐯🐯RBI RESTRICTION ON CONVERTIBILITY OF RUPEE: �पये क� प�रवतर्नीयता
- बाहरी वा�ण��क उधार: RBI’s ECB ceiling is up to $1.50 billion (or equivalent other currency) per year
for Indian Companies. [भारतीय कं प�नयां प्र�तवषर् इस मात्रा से �ादा कजर् �वदेशों से नहीं ला सकती]
- That means even if Bank of America was willing to lend $3 billion to Reliance ltd, Mukesh
Ambani can’t bring all those dollars (or its converted rupee equivalent) in India.
- If he tries through illegal methods like Hawala, then Enforcement Directorate (ED प्रवतर्न �नद�शालय )
will take action for FEMA violation.
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💱💱💱💱 BoP → Capital Account → Investment → FPI .
- An FPI can’t invest in more than 5% of available G-sec in the Indian market and more than 20%
of the available corporate bonds in the Indian market.
- So, even if Morgan Stanley or Franklin Templeton investment fund has billions of dollars they
can’t bring them all to India because of above restrictions.
- Similar restrictions on FDI as well. Govt decides FDI policy → RBI mandates the forex dealers
accordingly to convert or not convert foreign currency into Indian currency. E.g. Las Vegas’s
Flamingo Casino company can’t convert $ into ₹ to invest in Goa’s Casino (Because FDI
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prohibited in Casino). If they manage to ‘smuggle’ rupees through Hawala / Mafia-don-walla
boats then again ED will take action for FEMA violation.
Thus, Indian rupee is not fully convertible on capital account transactions.
⇒ During 2013 to 2014, RBI’s 80:20 norms mandated min.20% of the imported gold must be
exported back.
⇒ Until then Jeweller/bullion dealers will not get permission to (convert their rupees into
dollars/foreign currency) to import next consignment of gold.
⇒ However, if we disregard such few rare examples/restriction, Indian rupee is considered fully
convertible on current account transactions (i.e. Import and export, remittance, income transfer
gift and donations) since 1994. चालू खाता लेनदेन पर �पये क� प�रवतर्नीयता स�ूणर् है।
😡😡Anti-Arguments:
Before 1997, East Asian “Tiger” economies: (South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,
Vietnam Philippines etc.) allowed full capital account convertibility to attract FDI.
But 1997: Their automobile & steel companies filed bankruptcy → The foreign investors
panicked, sold their shares and bonds → got local currency → converted into $ and ran away.
The flight of this ‘HOT MONEY’ resulted into extreme depreciation of local currency $1 = 2000
Indonesian Rupiah → $1= 18,000 Indonesian Rupiah → heavy inflation in petrol diesel →
social unrest, riots and political instability. None of their central banks had enough forex reserve
to combat this crisis. (यिद भारत म� इसक� अनुम�त दी तो द��ण को�रया और इं डोने�शया जैसी सम�ा हो सकती है)
So, in 1998, their GDP growth rates fell in negative territory e.g. Indonesia (-13.7%) Because of
their mistake of allowing full currency convertibility. Whereas India and China grew at 6-8%
because we had not allowed it.
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⇒ RBI must have enough forex to sustain 6 months’ import
⇒ Fiscal deficit must not be more than 3.5% of GDP
⇒ Inflation must not be more than 3-5%
⇒ Banks’ NPA must not be more than 5% of their total assets. And so forth. So, time is not yet ripe
for allowing full CAC.
⇒ 2004 → Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS: उदारीकृ त �वप्रेषण योजना) for each financial year, An
Indian resident (incl. minor) is allowed to take out upto $2,50,000 (or its equivalents in other
currencies) from India.
⇒ He may use it for either current account or capital account transaction as per his wish. (e.g.
paying for college fees abroad, buying shares, bonds, properties, bank accounts abroad.)
⇒ �Controversy? Panama papers allege certain Bollywood celebrities used LRS window to shift
money from India in their shell companies in tax havens → later used those shell companies for
tax avoidance. [Ref: Black Money Handout for more]
⇒ 2016 onwards: RBI began relaxing the norms for External Commercial Borrowing (ECB),
Before-2016 2016 onwards 2022 onwards
ECB limit → more strict relaxed to $750 million per $1.50 billion per
company per year. company per year.
(✋Although ECB is prohibited in certain categories e.g. purchase of farm house, tobacco, betting,
gambling, lottery etc. कु छ �ेत्रो म� �वदेशी कजर् लेने क� मनाई)
32.5.4 💱💱💱💱 🐯🐯 FEMA Rules for Indian resident’s overseas investment (2022-Aug)
⇒ No Indian resident can invest in foreign companies who are doing gambling biz or real estate biz.
⇒ Wilful defaulters need to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from Indian authorities (RBI, ED
etc) before making any ‘financial commitment’ abroad (e.g. taking new loan from USA)
⇒ plus many other technical things but not very IMP for Exam.
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32.6 ⚖ FCRA ACT
Sr No. MATTER RULES/LAWS APPLICABLE→
1 is Indian sending money abroad for current Yes→FEMA Act→ LRS
account or capital account transactions? (liberalized remittance scheme)
2 is foreign money coming to India for Indian Yes→ FEMA Act
export earning payment, FDI/FPI etc financial
investment, ECB loans etc ?
3 is foreign money coming to India for matters Yes→ FCRA Act
other than cell#2. e.g. inward-donation, inward-
remittance to India etc.
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32.7 💱💱⚔CURRENCY WAR → FALL OF INDIAN ₹ & RBI’S RESPONSE
What does this mean? How does it work? Ans. Watch Video Lecture.
32.7.1 🐯🐯RBI’s Swap Agreements with Central Banks of Japan etc. (2018)
2018: The central banks of India and Japan signed Currency Swap Agreement (मुद्रा �ैप समझौता) of $75
billions i.e. either party can use that much dollar currency from other party’s forex reserve during the
crisis. Even in 2008 and 2013 too they had signed similar agreement but lower amount was involved.
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⇒ USA Fed Tapering impact on India→ 1) tightening of dollar supply 2) share market volatility 3)
outflow of FPI money (अमे�रक� फे ड टेप�रंग के चलते भारत म� डॉलर आपू�त म� तं गी/कटौती, एफपीआई का �नकल भागना,
शेयर बाजार म� �गरावट)
⇒ Local Currency depreciation (�ानीय मुद्रा का कमजोर होना)
⇒ Slowdown in global growth and trade ( वै��क वृ�द्ध और �ापार म� मं दी)
⇒ Inflation in global commodity prices and food prices ( व�ु और खाद्य चीजों के वै��क दामों म� महंगाई)
⇒ Russia-Ukraine conflict and other geopolitical crisis. (भू-राजनी�तक सं कट)
⇒ COVID-19 new variants.
🤩🤩Benefit? Investors will convert $ & other foreign currency into ₹ currency to buy Bonds and G-
Sec= more $$ coming towards India = helps keeping BoP and currency exchange rate stable during
crisis.
Note: RBI frequently ⏫ / ⏬ in FPI investment quota/limits in G-sec, depending on how RBI
wants to shape bond-yield, flow of dollars & available quota of G-sec for local investors to play its
repo & OMO games. But that ball by ball chase is NOTIMP. वो सब पं चात हमारे काम क� नहीं.
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(�वदेशों से आयात होने वाले सोने पर लगने वाली सीमा शु� म� बढ़ोतरी क� गई है।)
⇒ 2018-Dec: India signed pact with Iran to pay crude oil bill in rupee currency. National Iranian
Oil Co (NIOC) will open a bank account in India’s UCO Bank (a PSB). Indian oil companies will
make payments there in ₹ currency. Then Iran used this ₹ income to pay for Indian Tea & Rice
purchase → helps � the demand of dollars. (�
�However later, due to American pressure,
govt of India stopped this arrangement).
⇒ 2022: Russian banks banned from the SWIFT messaging system that enables international
financial transactions. (Ref: Pillar1B2)
⇒ So, Russia proposed “Rupee-rouble trade agreement”. (‘Rouble’ sometimes also spelled as
‘Ruble’. 1 Ruble = 100 kopeks. Just like ₹1= 100 paisa)
⇒ In such agreement, India pays for Russian imports in rupee currency and then Russian
companies will use that money to import goods from India.
(भारत �स से क�ा तेल आयात करेगा तब भुगतान �पया मुद्रा म� कर� → उन �पयों से �सी सरकारी क��नयां- भारत से अनाज-
दवाइयां इ�ािद ख़रीदे. �स पर ��फ़्ट �व�ीय सं देश प्रणाली क� पाबं िदयों के चलते वो एसा समझौता करने को बेताब है। एक ज़माने म�
भारत ने ईरान के साथ भी कु छ ऐसा ही समझौता िकया था।)
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32.7.6 💸💸 Nostro Vostro Accounts- settlements with Russia and SriLanka
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� Benefit (फ़ायदे) � Challenges (चुनौ�तयां)
महँ गा हो जाता है उस आया�तत महँ गाई के म� �नवेश करेगा। लेिकन जब एक िदन वो अचानक से उन शेयसर् को पानी के भाव बैच
ख़तरे को कम करेगा) के भाग जाएगा, तब भारतीय शेयर बाज़ार �गर सकता है]
reduces India’s vulnerability to Increases India’s vulnerability to how Russian/Sri Lankan,
global-shocks like US Fed Non-Indian exporters/investors react to such global
Tapering/ Taper Tantrum (अमे�रक� situations. (�वदेशी �नयार्तक �ज�� भारतीय �पया म� पैसा �मला है वह वै��क
फे ड टैप�रंग जैसी वै��क घटनाओं म� भारत क� घटनाओं पर कै से वतर्न करते ह� उस पर भारत क� भैद्यता बढ़ेगी)
भैद्यता को कम करेगा)
�Some more benefits?
⇒ �makes it easier for India to trade with countries that are banned by USA and western powers
/ SWIFT messaging system e.g. Russia, Iran. [अमे�रक� और प��मी महास�ाओं ने �स ईरान जैसे देशों पर जो
पाबं िदयां लगायी है उसके बावजूद भी भारत उन बिह�ृ त देशों के साथ �ापार आसानी से कर पाएगा।]
⇒ �reduces the cost of doing business because Indian businessmen does not have to pay
fees/commission to forex agent for converting rupee currency into dollars. [�वदेशी मुद्रा प�रव�तत करने
वाले एज�ट को फ़�स नहीं देनी होगी, इस�लए धं धा करने क� लागत ख़चर् कम होगी]
�Conclusion: There are risks but they are unavoidable if India wants to be an ‘Atma-Nirbhar’
economic superpower.
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control and becomes a sizeable exporter and global economic superpower. (�पया-मुद्रा ऐसा दजार् हा�सल
कर�गी जब यिद पूँजी-खाते म� सं पूणर् �प से प�रवतर्नीयता दी जाए, महँ गाई क़ाबू म� रहे, राजकोषीय घाटा क़ाबू म� रहे, मुद्रा �व�नमय दर
क़ाबू म� रहे, और भारत एक बड़ा �नयार्तक और आ�थक महास�ा बनकर िदखाए- तो िफर एसा हो सकता हे।)
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USA (to lend to local businessmen). This phenomenon was called “Taper Tantrum”. It resulted
into weakening of other currencies against USD. [गैर अमे�रक� देशों क� मुद्राएं ब�त कमजोर हो गई थी]
⇒ 2020: During Corona, American Central Bank again started purchase of Bonds to increase
money supply in market. (कोरोना म� अथर्तंत्र को पुनज��वत करने के �लए वापस ये तमाशा शु� िकया था)
⇒ Then what happened? Is explained in above chart, also in Pillar1A2 (MonPolicy) and 1C
32.8.1 💱💱⚔ Misc. Concepts: Helicopter Money & Zero interest rate regimes
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find Correct Statements (Prelims-2022)
1. Tight monetary policy of US Federal Reserve could lead to capital flight. (अमरीका म� सं कु चन वादी मौिद्रक नी�त के
चलते भारत म� से पूंजी का गमन हो सकता है)
2. Capital flight may increase the interest cost of firms with existing External Commercial Borrowings
(ECBs). (पूंजी गमन के चलते �जन कं प�नयों ने �वदेशी वा�ण��क कर �लया है उनके �ाज का ख़चार् बढ़ सकता है)
3. Devaluation of domestic currency decreases the currency risk associated with ECBs. (�ानीय मुद्रा को कमज़ोर
करने से �वदेशी वा�ण��क कज़र् के साथ जुड़े मुद्रा जो�खम कम हो सकते ह� )
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only. (c) 1 and 3 only. (d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In the context of India, which of the following factors are contributors to reducing the risk of a
currency crisis? ( Prelims-2019)
1. The foreign currency earnings of India’s IT sector.
2. Increasing the government expenditure.
3. Remittances from Indians abroad.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 3 only (c) 2 only (d) 1,2 and 3 only
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following is not the most likely measure the Government/RBI takes to stop
the slide of Indian rupee? (Prelims-2019)
(a) Curbing imports of non-essential goods and promoting exports
(b) Encouraging Indian borrowers to issue rupee denominated Masala bonds
(c) Easing conditions relating to external commercial borrowing
(d) Following an expansionary monetary policy
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The price of any currency in international market is decided by: (Pre-2012)
1. The World Bank.
2. Demand for goods/services provided by the country concerned.
3. Stability of the government of the concerned country. [उस देश म� सरकार क� ��रता]
4. Economic potential of the country in question. [उस देश क� आ�थक �मता]
Answer codes: (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) 2 and 3 (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4
🔠🔠❓MCQ. If another global financial crisis happens in the near future, which of the following
actions/policies are most likely to give some immunity to India? (Prelims-2020)
1. Not depending on short-term foreign borrowings [लघु अव�ध के �वदेशी कजर् पर �नभर्र न रहा जाए]
2. Opening up to more foreign banks [अ�धक �वदेशी ब�को को शाखाएँ खुलने दी जाए]
3. Maintaining full capital account convertibility [पूंजी खाते पर पूणर् �प से प�रवतर्नशीलता]
Codes: [a) 1 only [b) 1 and 2 only [c) 3 only [d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Consider the following actions which the Government can take: (Prelims-2011)
1. Devaluing the domestic currency. [देसी मुद्रा को कमजोर कर�]
2. Reduction in the export subsidy. [�नयार्त-स��डी कम कर�]
3. Adopting suitable policies to attract greater FDI and Flls. [�वदेशी �नवेश को बढ़ोतरी द�]
Which of the above can help in reducing the current account deficit?
Codes: A) 1 and 2 B) 2 and 3 C) 3 only D) 1 and 3
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🔠🔠❓The effect of devaluation of a currency is that it necessarily _ _ _ . [Pre-2021]
1. improves the competitiveness of the domestic exports in the foreign markets
2. increases the foreign value of domestic currency [�ा�नक मुद्रा के �वदेशी मू� म� बढ़ोतरी होगी]
3. improves the trade balance [�ापार सं तुलन बेहतर होगा]
Codes: a) 1 Only b) 1 and 2 c) 3 Only d) 2 and 3
⇒ Therefore, only tracking $1=60, $1=70 will not give a full picture. So, RBI also calculates
geometric average of rupee’s exchange rate against upto 36 types of foreign currencies. The
formula will give weightage to each of those 36 foreign currencies depending on their trade-
volume with India.
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⇒ The result is called “Nominal effective exchange rate (NEER)”.
⇒ When NEER is mathematically adjusted as per the CPI-inflation price-levels in India and those
foreign countries, it’s called “Real effective exchange rate (REER)”.
⇒ REER interpreted as the quantity of domestic goods required to purchase one unit of a given
basket of foreign goods, says NCERT.
⇒ NEER vs REER values help finding whether a currency is really weakening (depreciating) against
foreign currencies or not, thus helps to know our international competitiveness in exports.
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⇒ For example: REER⏬ = foreigners will find our export prices attractive. REER⏫ = foreigners
will find our export prices less attractive. Says 📔📔📔📔ES20. How?NotIMP
⇒ 2018’s analysis reveals that though Indian rupee weakened against dollar $1=₹ 63 → ₹ 74, but
rupee has not so greatly weakened against other foreign currencies.
NEER EXCHANGE RATE PERCENTAGE CHANGE as per �ES23
USD (NEER) +7.8%
INR (NEER) -4.8%
So, �ES23 said: it is not that the INR has weakened, but it is the US dollar that has strengthened.
(ऐसा नहीं है िक भारत का �पया कमजोर �आ है ब�� डॉलर मजबूत �आ है यह कहना उ�चत होगा)
⇒ Hypothetical concept that tries to compare two currencies’ exchange rate through their
purchasing power in respective countries. (एक समान व�ुएँ ख़रीदने के ख़चर् के अनुपात म� �व�नमय दर)
⇒ So, If 1 cup of coffee in India = ₹ 20 whereas 1 cup of coffee costs $2 in USA then Dollar to Rupee
exchange rate (PPP) should be $1 = ₹ 10. (According to OECD: exact figure is $1=₹ 17@PPP).
⇒ This (hypothetical) exchange rate can happen in real life, if both the countries have Floating
Exchange Rate without any intervention of the respective Central banks; and if the bilateral
trade is free of protectionism (= without tariff or non-tariff barriers).
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⇒ GDP is the total market value of all goods and services produced in a country within a year.
When we convert these GDP values from local currencies into PPP $ exchange rates, the largest
economies of the world (GDP, PPP wise) are 1) USA 2) China 3) India 4) Japan 5) Germany
Big Mac Index ⇒ The Economist magazine’s informal index to measure PPP exchange rate using
the price of one McDonald burger in USA vs the respective country.
Twin Deficit ⇒ It’s the term used when both Current Account Deficit and Fiscal Deficit are
दोहरा घाटा high : चालू खाता घाटा और राजकोषीय घाटा
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statement(s) (UPSC-Prelims-2020)
1. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) exchange rates are calculated by the prices of the same basket of
goods and services in different countries.
2. In terms of PPP dollars, India is the sixth largest economy in the world.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2(d) Neither 1 nor 2
📑📑Next HDT: Pillar3C: WTO & other International Economic Orgs, Trade
Agreements, Protectionism and burning issues.
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PILLAR #3C: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & AGREEMENTS RELATED TO ECONOMY
T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
33 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Pillar #3B: Bretton Woods Organizations................................................................. 479
33.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 Bretton Woods → 1) World Bank, Washington, 1945, Jul .............................. 480
33.1.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐World Bank President? .................................................................................. 481
33.1.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 World Bank: Controversy? ........................................................................... 481
33.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 (Non-Bretton Woods) → Multilateral Development Banks............................ 481
33.2.1 BRICS Bank and AIIB ........................................................................................................ 481
33.2.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Multilateral Development Banks → Others ................................................ 483
33.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Bretton Woods → 2) IMF, Washington, 1945, Dec........................................... 483
33.3.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🛐🛐IMF bailout loans to Pakistan (2019) and SriLanka (2022) ................ 484
33.4 🌐🌐🌐🌐 Theories of International Trade .................................................................................. 485
33.4.1 Mercantilist Theory: �ापारी �सद्धांत ...................................................................................... 485
33.4.2 Adam Smith’s Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage (1776) .......................................... 485
33.4.3 David Ricardo’s Theory of Comparative/Relative Cost Advantage (1817) ................ 485
33.4.4 Heckscher and Ohlin’s Factor - Proporations Theory (1919) ..................................... 486
33.5 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Bretton Woods → 3) GATT → WTO (Geneva) ............................................... 486
34 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 World Trade Organization: �व� �ापार सं गठन ............................................................. 486
34.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 WTO → functions (�ज�ेदा�रयां या कायर्) ................................................................... 487
34.1.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐: Tariff Barriers against international trade .................................................. 487
34.1.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 Non-Tariff Barriers against international trade ......................................... 488
34.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐: 📝📝 WTO → Notable Agreements ..................................................................... 489
34.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐⚔🧔🧔 WTO Disputes involving India ...................................................................... 491
34.3.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐⚔📯📯📯📯 WTO’s Appellate Body (AB) Crisis ................................................ 492
34.3.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐⚔📯📯📯📯 WTO Multiparty Interim Arbitration (MPIA) mechanism......... 492
34.4 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐: 🤝🤝 WTO negotiations / summits / packages .................................................... 492
34.4.1 🤝🤝 � Most Favoured Nation (MFN)- अ�ा�धक वरीयता वाले देश ..................................... 492
34.4.2 🤝🤝 � Least Developed Countries (LDC: सबसे से कम �वक�सत देश) ................................. 493
34.4.3 🤝🤝 � Doha Development Round (Qatar 2001) ......................................................... 494
34.4.4 🤝🤝🤝 � Food subsidies & peace clause: खाद्य �रयायत� और शा�� अनु�ेद/उपधारा ............. 495
34.4.5 🤝🤝🤝 � Food subsidies: Cairns Group ..................................................................... 495
34.4.6 🤝🤝 � Bali Package & Trade Facilitation Agreement / TFA (2013) .......................... 495
34.4.7 🤝🤝 � Nairobi Package & SSM (2015).......................................................................... 496
34.4.8 🤝🤝 � Summits after 2015 .............................................................................................. 497
34.5 WTO Summit 2022 @Geneva→ Notable Outcomes ............................................................. 497
34.6 WTO Fish Subsidies (म� स��डी पर समझौता) ............................................................................. 497
34.7 🤝🤝 Conventional Gravity Model (पारंप�रक गु��ाकषर्ण मॉडल) ..................................................... 498
34.8 🤝🤝Trade Agreements Types: �ापार समझौते के प्रकार ................................................................... 499
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34.8.1 FTA: India Mauritius FTA/CECPA, 2021 (मॉ�रशस के साथ मु� �ापार समझौता) ................. 501
34.8.2 🤝🤝FTA: India UAE CEPA, 2022 ..................................................................................... 501
34.8.3 🤝🤝FTA: India Australia ECTA (आ�थक सहकार और �ापार समझौता) .................................... 501
34.8.4 Interim (early harvest) trade agreement (शादी से पहेले सगाई) ............................................ 502
34.9 🛒🛒⛷📝📝Free Trade agreements → TPP, TPP11, TATIP, IPEF, RCEP ............................. 502
34.9.1 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) #NOT-yet-Signed........ 502
34.9.2 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP: ट�ासं पै�सिफक साझेदारी) #FAIL ........................ 503
34.9.3 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 TPP-11 or CPTPP ............................................................................................ 503
34.10 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ..................................................... 503
34.11 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) .............................. 504
34.11.1 ✍🏻🏻 Introduction to RCEP ............................................................................................... 504
34.11.2 🧔🧔🧔🧔✍ RCEP: Why didn't India join in 2019-Nov? (भारत म� �ों ह�ा�र/द�ख़त नहीं
िकए) 504
34.11.3 � RCEP: Counterview: India made a mistake by not joining (भारत से गलती �ई है) . 505
34.11.4 ✍🏻🏻 RCEP: Conclusion? (�न�षर्) ..................................................................................... 506
34.11.5 Why FTA increasing as per 📙📙ES23 .......................................................................... 506
34.11.6 Budget-2020: FTA ‘rules of origin’ (उ��� के �नयम) ...................................................... 507
34.11.7 📝📝 Commerce Ministry: Certificate of Origin (उदगम प्रमाण पत्र) ................................ 507
34.11.8 📘📘 📘📘 Economic survey: Observations abt India’s Trade Agreements ................ 507
34.11.9 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 Trade agreements losing shine → NAFTA & SAFTA ............................ 508
34.12 🛒🛒⛷📝📝India’s trade agreements ...................................................................................... 508
34.13 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 Burning issues in International trade............................................................... 508
34.13.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Protectionism, Trade war: सं र�णवाद, �ापार युद्ध .......................................... 508
34.13.2 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻: 🛒🛒🛒🛒 Protectionism → Indian Govt procurement (सरकारी खरीद)
509
34.13.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🎃🎃USA’s Special 301 report ..................................................................... 509
34.13.4 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🎃🎃USA’s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) list ....................... 509
34.13.5 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🎃🎃Global System of Trade Preferences................................................... 510
34.13.6 ��BREXIT = BRITAIN EXIT & How will affect India? ................................... 510
34.13.7 🌐🌐🌐🌐 India UK Roadmap 2030 (Held in 2021-May) ............................................. 510
35 🌐🌐🌐🌐Other Notable Groupings related to economy ............................................................... 510
35.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Groupings: Indian subcontinent ..................................................................... 510
35.1.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Mekong- Ganga Cooperation (2000) ..................................................... 511
35.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 Groupings: ASEAN vs SCO................................................................................... 512
35.2.1 ☪🤝🤝Afghanistan 6+2+1 group for redevelopment of Afghanistan ......................... 512
35.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 Groupings: Ocean-rim walla ................................................................................. 513
35.4 🌐🌐🌐🌐Groupings: BRICS, OECD, OPEC, G20 & JAI ........................................................... 513
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35.4.1 G20 2023 Summit theme and logo ................................................................................... 514
35.4.2 📝📝📝📝⛷ G20: Osaka Declaration on free flow of data India refused to sign (2019) 515
35.5 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Groupings led by Gora (Whites) → G7 and D10................................................ 515
35.5.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐G7 - Group of Seven (1975) ................................................................................. 515
35.5.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 D10: 5G club proposed by UK (2020) ......................................................... 515
35.5.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Minerals Security Partnership (MSP: अ�त मह�पूणर् ख�नजों के �लए भागीदारी/सहयोग)
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35.6 🌐🌐🌐🌐☪Groupings: Middle East: GCC vs OIC .................................................................. 516
35.6.1 ☪🤝🤝🤝🤝Abraham Accords (2020-Sept) ..................................................................... 516
35.6.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐I2U2: Middle Eastern / West Asian QUAD (2021-22) ............................... 516
35.7 🌐🌐🌐🌐 Misc groupings / org → World Economic Forum (1971) ...................................... 517
35.8 🌐🌐🌐🌐 Misc groupings / organizations Others ...................................................................... 517
35.9 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 Export control / Non-Proliferation regimes........................................................ 518
35.9.1 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫USA Exit from Arms Treaties........................................................................ 518
35.9.2 🎺🎺✍ Mock Questions for Mains GSM2 (Intl. Org Related to Economy) ............... 518
⇒ Conference was held in Bretton Woods town, New Hampshire in USA after the WW2 (1939-45)
to restore the global economy. (स�ेलन से तीन अंतररा��ीय सं �ानों का ज�)
⇒ Total 44 nations participated, incl. India. It proposed 3 international institutions:
Outcome Relationship with United Nations (UN)
1) International Bank for Reconstruction and These two are considered “Specialized Agencies
Development (IBRD), commonly known as of UN (सं यु� रा�� क� �व�श� एज��सयां)”
World Bank.
2) International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Outcome Relationship with United Nations (UN)
3) (Proposed) International Trade WTO is considered “Related organization of
Organization (ITO). But could not UN (सं बं �धत सं गठन)” because it doesn’t fulfil all
materialize due to American opposition. requirements of UN charter on specialized
Instead, nations later setup GATT → WTO agencies
33.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 BRETTON WOODS → 1) WORLD BANK, WASHINGTON, 1945, JUL
⇒ �व� ब�क originally focused on reconstructing war-torn European countries. After 1950s focusing
on poor countries of Asia and Africa.
⇒ World Bank = IBRD + IDA.
⇒ World Bank Group = comprises of 5 institutions, namely
1) International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD) Gives development loans with interest.
अंतररा��ीय पुन�नमार्ण और �वकास ब�क
Assists the poorest countries via interest-free
2) International Development Association (IDA)
loans (= “Concessional Loans: �रयायती ऋण” or
अंतररा��ीय �वकास सं घ
“soft loans”).
3) International Finance Corporation (IFC) supports enterprise of developing countries.
अंतरार्ष्ट�ीय �वत्त �नगम Known for its Masala Bonds. (Ref Pillar1C)
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offers (foreign) investors insurance against non-
4) Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
commercial risk (such as political instability,
(MIGA)
regime change etc.). This helps 3rd world
ब�प�ीय �नवेश प्रत्याभू�त एज�सी
nations attract foreign investment.
Helps in dispute resolution related to foreign
5) International Centre for the Settlement of
investment / foreign companies in 3rd world
Investment Disputes (ICSID)
countries. India is not a member of this
�नवेश सं बं धी �ववादों के �नपटान का अंतरार्ष्ट�ीय के न्द्र
organization.
🗳🗳Voting power?
⇒ In the first four organizations, voting power depends on the share capital provided by a
country. USA highest, followed by various European giants.
⇒ 5th is “dispute settlement” body, so concept of ‘each country’s voting power’ does not apply
33.1.1 🌐🌐🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡⚖World Bank President?
⇒ Since USA and European powers collectively command large shareholding in World Bank &
IMF, so their informal arrangement is- USA’s favourite will be picked as World Bank chief,
while European countries’ favourite will be picked as IMF Chief.
⇒ 2023: New President : Ajay Banga (USA) to replace David Malpass (USA).
⇒ �World Bank is known for Reports? World Development Report, Ease of doing business
Index (More in Pillar4B), Remittance & Migration Report, Global Economic Prospects
report
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BRICS Bank: New Development AIIB: Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (NDB) नई �वकास ब�क Bank ए�शयाई अवसं रचना �नवेश ब�क
Members Founding members: Brazil, Russia, China, India, UK, Switzerland, >100 nations
India, China, South Africa as of 2020.
originally each of above founding
members had 20% shareholding,
later diluted to 19.42% after
addition of some new members.
Voting power 30 March 2022: new shareholding Based on share capital contributed:
Shareholding pattern to be- ⇒ China largest shareholding ~27%,
pattern - Brazil Russia India China South ⇒ India second largest
Africa (19.42% each) shareholding~7%.
- + Bangladesh (1.83%)
⇒ Asian countries control about 75%
- + UAE (1.08%)
shareholding
- + Uruguay and Egypt: added as
⇒ 25% with non-Asian nations.
prospective members but not
yet have shareholding.
All member countries of the United
Nations can become members of
the bank, but BRICS founding
nations' voting power can never be
less than 55%.
HQ Shanghai, China Beijing, China
🔪🔪🔪🔪 Corona $1 billion. (2020-Apr) $750 million (2020-June)
loan2India
- BRICS member have also setup $100 billion BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement: (आक��क
�रजवर् �व�ा) to help members during BoP crisis- similar to IMF.
- BRICS nations also planning to setup their BRICS payment system parallel to SWIFT (ref: Pill1:
NPA handout), and BRICS rating agency (ref: 1C: SEBI-Share Market)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following countries is not a founding member of the New
Development Bank? (CDS2019-II) (a) Brazil (b) Canada (c) Russia (d) India
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2. The headquarters of New Development Bank is in Shanghai.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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⇒ International Monetary Fund (IMF) helps in global currency exchange stability, helps against
balance of payment crisis. (अंतरार्���य मुद्रा कोष: मुद्रा �व�नमय दर ��रता भुगतान सं तुलन सं कट म� मदद )
⇒ Acts as a reservoir of the currencies of all the member countries, from which a borrower nation
can borrow the currency of other nations- using the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) mechanism.
(Ref: Previous Handout on Currency Exchange.)
⇒ IMF important decisions need to be passed with 85% majority. USA has 16.52% voting power so
it can effectively block/veto it. (अमे�रका हर सुधार प्र�ाव को रोक सकता है)
⇒ What is SDR? (More in �Pillar#3A)
⇒ IMF Chief?
o 2019: Christine Lagarde (France) resigned to become chief of European Central Bank
(ECB, HQ Frankfurt, Germany). Then,
o Kristalina Georgieva (Bulgarian economist, previously CEO of the World Bank)
becomes the second woman IMF Chief after Christine Lagarde, for five years tenure.
⇒ IMF’ Chief Economist (CE)? Gita Gopinath, an Indian-American economist, she became the
first woman to be the Chief Economist of IMF (2019 to 2022-Jan). Previously Raghuram Rajan
has also served in this position. (मु� अथर्शा�ी)
⇒ 2022: Gita Gopinath promoted to the post of First Deputy Managing Director (FDMD).
⇒ 📚📚Notable reports? Global Financial Stability Report, World Economic Outlook
⇒ United Nations (UN) has 195 members, whereas IMF has 189 members. But pursuing this type
of KBC GK = poor cost:benefit for UPSC #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Rapid Financing Instrument” & “Rapid Credit Facility” are given by _ _ . (Pre-2022)
(a) Asian Development Bank (b) International Monetary Fund
(c) United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (d) World Bank
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Who publishes 'Global Financial Stability Report'? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2016)
a) European Central Bank b) IMF c) IBRD d) OECD
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Who publishes 'World Economic Outlook'? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2014)
(a) IMF (b) UN Development Programme (c) World Economic Forum (d) World Bank
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33.4 🌐🌐🌐🌐 THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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⇒ But, if plotted on graphs, it’ll appear for England per unit labour cost to produce 1 meter textile is
(relatively) cheaper than 1 bottle of wine.(इं गल�ड के �लए कपड़ा बनाना, शराब बनाने से तुलना�क �पसे स�ा है।)
⇒ So, England should shift domestic English wine workers towards textiles. England should export
textile to France and import wine from France. England should not try to become a ‘Wine
production specialist’. (इं ��ड म� स�ी लागत पर कपड़ा बना के �नयार्त कर� और शराब को आयात कर�। खुद शराब न बनाए)
⇒ Based on Ricardo’s theory, Economists prepare Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index,
which can help monitoring which commodities should a country export?
⇒ ��ES21: India’s top RCA (Relative cost advantage) export commodities are mainly
o Labour-intensive products [such as cotton, carpets, textiles- similar case in Bangladesh]
o some capital /technology intensive products [such as Indian pharmaceuticals.]
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✓ One country = one vote. (unlike IMF & World Bank, where the money power
→ shareholding → determines the voting power)
✓ Appoints Director General (DG: महा�नद�शक ) to look after administrative work.
✓ 2021: WTO new DG is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, replacing Brazil's Roberto
Azevêdo. She is a former finance minister of Nigeria, First woman and first
African WTO chief. She previously worked in the World Bank
✓ Day to day decision making body @Geneva.
✓ Implements the decision of ministerial conferences
General ✓ Has representative from each member country.
Council has two bodies, with separate chairmen
सामा� 1. Dispute settlement body: �ववाद �नपटान �नकाय → Appellate Body
प�रषद 2. Trade policy review body: �ापार नी�त समी�ा �नकाय
Below general council, there are committees on individual agreements and annexes
e.g. Anti dumping, Subsidies & countervailing measures (SCM) etc.
34.1 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 WTO → FUNCTIONS (�ज�ेदा�रयां या कायर्)
Today all countries try to protect domestic industries against foreign imports by creating two types
of barriers against the international trade:
Tariff Barriers: शु� बाधाएं : Increasing the taxes, duties, cess, surcharge, on imported goods and
services e.g. Trump imposed 25% custom duty on imported steel.
CVD Anti-Dumping Duty: प्र�तपाटन शु�
two scenarios when foreign goods will appear - If China exports goods to India at a price below
cheaper to Indians than domestic goods: their normal price in domestic Chinese market
- If foreign country is giving subsidies to their or at a price below their cost of production-
exporters AND / OR then it is termed as “Dumping”
- If Indian government imposes higher - Then, India's commerce ministry →
amount of taxes, cess or surcharge on the Directorate General of Trade Remedies : �ापार
locally manufactured products उपचार महा�नद�शालय (DGTR) investigates →
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CVD Anti-Dumping Duty: प्र�तपाटन शु�
recommends Finance ministry to impose
THEN Indian Govt tries to protect local “Anti-Dumping Duty” on such imported
(domestic) industry by imposing items.
Countervailing Duty (CVD: प्र�तकारी शु�), - E.g. $185 on every one tonne of imported
Special Countervailing Duty, Additional Chinese Steel, Then its prices will become
Customs Duty on imported items on imported equivalent to India Steel, thus Indian steel
items. Internal difference NOTIMP industry will be protected.
⇒ Commerce Ministry → DG foreign trade (DGFT) launched ‘ARTIS’ portal (Application for
Remedies in Trade for Indian industry and other Stakeholders). Applicants can file
complaints against dumping.
⇒ �Budget-2020: Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) is used in manufacturing (synthetic)
textile fibres and yarns. Cheap PTA = boost to Indian textile sector, so we’ll no longer charge
Anti-dumping duty on it.
गैर शु� बाधाएं : if USA does not increase import taxes but plays other tricks like:
1. Subsidies to domestic industries: Giving free electricity to Detroit car manufacturers. OR USA
govt. giving tax benefits & free car-insurance to USA residents for buying American made cars.
2. Public Procurement: सावर्ज�नक खरीद/प्रा�� : Making rule that only American companies can fill up
tender for supplying stationery, school bags etc. in government schemes.
3. Technical Barriers to Trade: �ापार के �लए तकनीक� बाधाएं : e.g. imported mango must have 0%
pesticides residue, imported cars must have airbags for each passenger.
4. Quota system: e.g. not >50 metric tonnes of steel can be imported from a single foreign country.
WTO aims to reduce such tariff and non-tariff barriers to encourage international trade through its
agreements and dispute settlement body.
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34.2 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐: 📝📝 WTO → NOTABLE AGREEMENTS
Objective 📝📝Agreement(s)
⏬ tariff barriers 1. 🚗🚗 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for goods- शु� और
�ापार पर सामा� समझौता
शु� बाधाएं
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Objective 📝📝Agreement(s)
2. 📡📡 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): सेवाओं के �ापार पर
सामा� समझौता
⏬ non tariff 1. 🚗🚗 For non-food: Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT: �ापार
barriers म� तकनीक� बाधाय�) e.g. talcum powder should not have more than x% of
asbestos.
गैर शु� बाधाएं 2. 🌽🌽 For food: Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS:
��ता और पादप उपाय) e.g. ‘x’ food item must not have more than y%
pesticides residue.
⏬ non tariff 1. 🚗🚗 For non-food: Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM:स��डी और
barriers → काउं टरवे�लगं उपाय)
Subsidies
2. 🌽🌽 For food: Agreement on Agriculture (AoA: कृ �ष पर समझौता)- which
aims to regulate the subsidies on agriculture through its ‘box’ mechanism.
a. 📦📦 Subsidies that are classified in Green & Blue box category- are
allowed (e.g. Research, Cattle-Vaccination).
b. 📦📦 Amber (ए�र) box category subsidies will be subjected to
quantitative limits (e.g. Fertilizer, Electricity, Diesel, MSP.)
Misc. measures to 1. Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS: बौ�द्धक सं पदा
encourage global अ�धकारों के �ापार-सं बं �धत पहलू) → related topics: Compulsory licensing,
trade, protect
pharma-patents. 📑📑More in Pillar4B: IPR
environment
2. Trade-Related Investment Measures on Foreigners. (TRIMs: �वदे�शयों पर
�ापार से सं बं �धत �नवेश के उपाय)- it applies to foreign investment norms related
to goods only. Doesn’t apply on foreign investment norms on services.
3. WTO's Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS-2022): to curb 'harmful'
subsidies that promote overfishing.
4. Plurilateral agreements (ब�प�ीय समझौते): They are not signed by all the
members of WTO e.g. Agreements on aircrafts, dairy product, bovine
meat, Information Technology Agreement (ITA) सभी सद� रा��ो ं ने इस पर
ह�ा�र नहीं िकए
🔠🔠❓ With reference to Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS), which of the following
statements is/are correct? (UPSC-Prelims-2020)
1. Quantitative restrictions on imports by foreign investors are prohibited.
2. They apply to investment measures related to trade in both goods and services.
3. They are not concerned with the regulation of foreign investment.
Ans Codes: [a) 1 and 2 only [b) 2 only [c) 1 and 3 only [d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In the context of which of the following do you sometimes find the terms 'amber
box, blue box and green box' in the news? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2016)
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(a) WTO affairs (b) SAARC affairs (c) UNFCCC (d) India-EU negotiations
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The terms 'Agreement on Agriculture', 'SPS Agreement and 'Peace Clause' are in the
context of affairs of the _ _ _ (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2015)
(a) Food and Agriculture Organization (b) UN Framework Conference on Climate Change
(c) World Trade Organization (d) United Nations Environment Programme
🔠🔠❓MCQ. TRIPS Agreement pertains to (Asked in UPSC-CDS-2017-I)
(a) international tariff regime (b) intellectual property protection
(c) international practices on trade facilitation (d) international taxation of property
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following are the main functions of WTO? (UPSC-IES-2020)
1. To organize meetings of members to arrive at trade agreements covering international trade.
2. To ensure member countries conduct trade practices as per agreements signed by the members.
3. To provide a platform to negotiate and settle disputes of international trade between members.
codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 1 and 3 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
34.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐⚔🧔🧔 WTO DISPUTES INVOLVING INDIA
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Complaint at WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) Outcome/Verdict
Australia, Brazil and Guatemala against India’s sugar export subsidies India lost.
In above cases, WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) ordered India to stop such export
subsidies/tax benefits.
⇒ 2019: India goes to WTO Appellate Body (अपीलीय �नकाय) to appeal against DSB’s order.
⇒ 2020: Indian Commerce Minister says, “we will not implement WTO's DSB’s orders,
because the appellate body (AB) is not functioning, so our appeal is pending.”
(कु ल �मलाकर प्र�ेक देश ने बाक� देशो के साथ वही �वहार करना चािहए जो वो अपने अ�त �प्रय �मत्र देश के साथ कर रहा है)
⇒ WTO agreements require that whatever treatment is being given to the Most Favoured Nation,
must also be extended to all other member countries. A member should not discriminate
between its trading partners- provided there is mutual-reciprocity.
⇒ So even imported Chinese coal should be subjected to 0% import tax in India- but ONLY IF
there is reciprocity ke Indian shoes will be subjected to 0% import tax in China. (But, China may
not allow it, so India not bound to �taxes on Chinese coal)
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⇒ But in practice, MFN is not implemented in letter and spirit by some members. E.g. 1996: India
granted MFN status to Pakistan but Pakistan didn’t reciprocate (mainly) due to their local textile
industrialists’ lobby who feared competition from Indian textile imports.
⇒ 2019-Feb: India withdrew MFN status for Pakistan, following Pulwama attack on CRPF
personnel. India also ⏫customs duty by 200% on goods originating from Pakistan.
⇒ Since Pak not giving India MFN treatment. So, there is no ‘legal-compulsion’ on India to give
them MFN status. even if Pak complained to WTO’s dispute redressal panel, it’ll lose the case.
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⇒ Least Developed Countries’ economic growth can � if they are able to export more. So,
WTO agreements permit other countries to give duty free quota free access to exports from
LDC. and that is not considered as a violation of any other agreement.
⇒ e.g. If India levied 0% custom duty on Somalian pendrives, India will not be required to give
same treatment to Japanese pen drives under “MFN norm”, Bcoz Japan isnot LDC.
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34.4.4 🤝🤝🤝 � Food subsidies & peace clause: खाद्य �रयायत� और शा�� अनु�ेद/उपधारा
Under WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), 1st world and 3rd world countries are required to
limit their food-subsidies to 5% and 10% respectively to the value of their agriculture production.
⇒ But, in absolute quantitative terms USA’s 5% will be much bigger than India’s 10% → 1st
world countries are able to give larger amount of food subsidies to their farmers → export
them to 3rd world countries @cheap price, and ruining local farmers.
⇒ Further, India has a large population of poor farmers who require Govt support in the form
of subsidies & procurement at Minimum support prices (MSP: �ूनतम समथर्न मू�) More in
Pill#4A.
⇒ India also has a large number of malnourished poor families who need subsidized food
grains under National Food Security Act (NFSA खाद्य सुर�ा अ�ध�नयम/कानून) More in Pill#6.
⇒ 2013: WTO ministerial conference at Bali (Indonesia) → India refused to sign any new
agreements until this food subsidy issue was resolved.
⇒ So, WTO Peace Clause → it gave temporary immunity to India and other developing
countries. (अ�ायी- बचाव/ अ�का�लक- प्र�तर�ा)
⇒ Basically, 3rd world nations can give any amt of subsidy for their food programs:
- (1) USA/Other countries cannot impose countervailing duty. प्र�तकारी शु� पर रोक
- (2) USA/Other countries cannot complaint to WTO about it. �शकायत पर गौर नहीं िकया जाएगा
⇒ 2020: India informed WTO that in rice production, we've crossed the 10% subsidy limit (in
2018-19). But as per Peace clause, we’ve immunity! हम को खुली छू ट �मली है.
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a. requires member countries to ⏬their bureaucratic delays, red tapes, inspector raj in
import-export of goods. (नौकरशाही, लाल फ़�ताशाही)
b. They’ve setup online portals where traders can seek permissions, pay fees, custom duties,
self declaration forms (like e-way bill) etc.
c. India & others ratified in 2016 → TFA became effective from 2017.
d. India set up a National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) under Cabinet
Secretary (IAS). Below him → a steering committee jointed headed by Revenue secretary
(IAS) and Commerce secretary (IAS). (�ापार सु�वधा पर रा�ी� य स�म�त → सं चालन स�म�त)
2. Peace Clause on subsidies → explained in previous section.
Nairobi Package resulted from the WTO ministerial conference 2015 @Nairobi, Kenya →
1. We’ll extend the Peace Clause for another “x” years.
2. Members must stop the subsidy on Agriculture Exports: 1st world countries must comply
immediately while 3rd world countries given a relaxed deadline.
3. If there is a surge of cheap agro exports from 1st world to 3rd world, then 3rd world countries
will have the right to temporarily increase tariff / taxes on them, to protect their local farmers.
It’s called “ Special Safeguard Mechanism: �वशेष सुर�ा तं त्र (SSM).”
4. 1996 → Information Technology Agreement (ITA) plurilateral agreement (i.e. not signed by all
member nations) → It aims to abolish import export taxes on ~200 IT products. WTO
discussions to try to get more members sign this, so global IT-trade can increase. India signed in
1997 but could not benefit due to low capacity of local manufacturing. (हालांिक भारत म� ह�ा�र तो िकए
थे लेिकन हम� ब�त �ादा फायदा नहीं �आ �ोंिक हमारी कम्�ूटर हाडर्वये र उ�ादन �मता ही कमजोर है)
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5. Technical reforms to help the exports from Least Developed Countries (LDC).
Above is around 200 words note. Elaborate, give background, add linkages with taxation, food
security, SDG goals to drag it till 250 words. Further faaltu-ki-PHD NOT required.
WTO’s Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS) signed in WTO Sumit/ Ministerial Conference 2022
at Geneva. AFS prohibits three kinds of subsidies: (�न� िक� क� मदद से स��डी पर पाबं दी)
⇒ ✋🚨🚨(1) illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing
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⇒ ✋🚨🚨(2) fishing of already over-exploited species/stocks
⇒ ✋🚨🚨(3) fishing on unregulated high seas.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: What do above things mean, how are they different from each others? ANS. NOTIMP.
Sufficient to know ke WTO wants to stop over-fishing.
But, India wants special and differential treatment (S&DT) bcoz. भारत को ख़ास और �भ�कर छू ट चािहए �ोिक:
�Conclusion: SDG Goal 14.6 requires countries to stop overfishing. WTO taken an appreciable
step with this new agreement but - 🤔🤔India has set a target of exporting marine products worth $14
billion by 2025. This fisheries subsidies restrictions could create obstacles. Third world country
should be given differential treatment. First action must be taken on the countries that have already
contributed a lot in overfishing. (सतत �वकास ल�ों म� बेरोकटोक मछली-पकड़ने के �ख़लाफ़ का पाबं दी का ल� भी है। इस
िदशा म� ड�ूटीओ ने एक प्रशं सनीय कदम उठाया है हालांिक भारत को कु छ प्रावधानो से ऐतराज है।)
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FACTOR PROPORTION EXAMPLE
Economic size/GDP Directly proportional A country with a larger GDP will attract more
(सकल घरेलू उ�ाद) (सीधा अनुपात) trade and investment from a smaller GDP
country. e.g. SriLanka-India vs Bhutan-India
Geographical Inversely more distance = less trade, due to transportation
distance (भौगो�लक proportional (�वपरीत cost e.g. India-Mexico vs India-S.Africa
दू री/अंतर) अनुपात)
Over the time more economists have added following factors
⇒ Exchange rates (�व�नमय दर)
⇒ Income levels of customers (ग्राहकों क� आय का �र)
⇒ Tariff and non-tariff barriers (शु� और ग़ैर-शु� बाधाएँ )
⇒ Infrastructure, skilled manpower (बु�नयादी अवसं रचना, कु शल मानव सं साधन)
Therefore signing free trade agreements may not immediately show +ve impact on India from day1.
It takes time for above factors to mature/show effect. Said �ES23 (इस�लए मु� �ापार समझौता करने के
पहले िदन से ही भारत पर सकारा�क असर नहीं िदखेगा �ोंिक उ� कारकों को प�रप� होने म� और अपना असर िदखाने म� समय लगता
है)
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⇒ Sometimes they come up with even more fancy names like i) CECPA = Comprehensive
Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement ii) ECTA (Economic Cooperation and
.
Trade Agreement). But pedantry over all such terms = NOT IMP for Exam.
3. 📝📝Customs Union (CU: सीमा शु� सं घ ): FTA in which members apply a common external tariff
(CET) for non- members. E.g. East African Community (EAC). Caribbean Community
(CARICOM, although according to some sources now it evolved into Common Union but that is
not imp. Location is imp.)
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4. 📝📝Common Market (CM: सामा� बाजार): Customs union where factors of production
(capital/FDI, labour) can move freely amongst members e.g. MERCOSUR- S.America.
5. 📝📝Economic Union (EU: आ�थक सं घ): common market where member countries keep common
currency & tariff. Allow entry of goods, services, capital and labour among themselves with
minimum restrictions. They decide their fiscal policies and diplomatic policies through a
common parliament ‘European Parliament’, and their monetary policies through a common
central bank – ‘European Central Bank’.
34.8.1 FTA: India Mauritius FTA/CECPA, 2021 (मॉ�रशस के साथ मु� �ापार समझौता)
⇒ India Mauritius Free trade agreement: Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership
Agreement (CECPA) came into effect from 1st April 2021.
⇒ More than 300 Indian goods from agriculture textile electronics will get concessional customs
duties in Mauritius (300 से अ�धक भारतीय �नयार्त पर मॉ�रशस द्वारा सीमा शु� म� �रयायत)
⇒ More than 600 Mauritius goods will get Similar treatment in Indian market
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�Aussie to� � taxes on �India to�
� taxes on Aussie �India kept these
Indian products products sensitive items OUT
�Customs duty on – wine,
almond, cotton, orange, lenthil etc
�This create 1 million+ �This will help Indian for energy �This will protect the
jobs in India security, cheap raw material local Indian industry
(रोज़गार सृजन /नौकरी �नमार्ण) (ऊजार् सुर�ा और स�ा क�ा माल भारत को (भारत सरकार ने ऑ��े�लया से आने
�मले) वाले कु छ ऐसे सं वेदनशील चीज़� जैसे िक
दू ध गे�ँ चावल चीनी इ�ािद को इससे
बाहर रखा है तािक भारत के िकसानों का
नुक़सान न हो)
⇒ �� Australian govt relaxed Work-visa norms for Indian graduates from STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
⇒ �� faster approval to Indian medicines in Australian market (if such medicine is
already approved in Canada / European Union) (यिद भारत क� दवाई को कै नेडा/ यूरोपीय सं घ ने अनुम�त
�मल चुक� है तो ऑ��े�लया म� उसे ज�ी से अनुम�त दी जाएगी।)
⇒ � � double taxation avoidance agreement for specific category of IT companies. (More
in �Pillar#2B: Tax Avoidance) (सूचना प्रौद्यो�गक� से जुड़ी कं प�नयों पर दोहरे कराधान से मु�� इ�ािद)
⇒ � bilateral trade will � to $50 billion within 5 years and generate 1 million+ jobs in India.
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⇒ Proposed free trade agreement between USA & EU with objectives similar to TPP- reduce tariff,
easier entry of foreign investment etc. Negotiations are ongoing but it is not yet signed.
34.9.2 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP: ट�ासं पै�स�फक साझेदारी) #FAIL
USA proposed free trade agreement among 12 countries: US, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore,
Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru.
– Aimed to have lower tariffs for participant countries, easier norms for labour, environment and
investment. भागीदार देशों के �लए टे�/करो म� कमी, श्रम, पयार्वरण और �नवेश के �लए आसान मानदंड।
– 2016: President Trump withdrew from the negotiation claiming, “TPP will take away jobs from
USA because companies will setup factories in Mexico where labour is cheaper, and then such
cheap products will be dumped in USA, yet we’ll not be able to impose heavy taxes on them.” So
TPP has become defunct.
India signed IPEF (Except Trade pillar), but problems: (भारत को ही चुनौती आ सकती है)
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⇒ 😥😥1) Child Labour, environment standards, India’s hesitancy over Genetically Modified
crops. (बाल मज़दू री, पयार्वरण सुर�ा, GM-फ़सलो म� अमरीका अपनी सोच भारत पर थोप सकता है)
⇒ 😥😥2) Myanmar not allowed to join due to its military regime. Later on USA could make some
rules imposing their vision of democracy / Myanmar-relationship on the member
countries. (�ांमार जैसे तानाशाह देशों के साथ भारत के �र�ों पर अमरीका अपनी सोच थोप सकता है)
⇒ 😥😥3) Anti-corruption / transparency / religious freedoms : USA government reports tend to
project India in a poor light. (अमरीक� सरकारी �रपोटर् म� भ्र�ाचार, धा�मक �तं त्रता के बारे म� भारत को नकारा�क �प से
तोला जाता है। तो अब इस नए ढांचे के नाम पर अमरीका हमको और खरी खोटी सुना सकता है।)
⇒ 😥😥4) India has not joined the trade pillar. (Perhaps fearing that American solar panel, poultry
etc industry may harm local Indian industry. REF: WTO Disputes)
Conclusion: IPEF can prove to be a catalyst for furthering India's economic interests in the Indo
Pacific region. provided that aforementioned challenges are nipped in the bud. (हाँ िह�-प्रशांत �व�ार म�
भारत के आ�थक िहतों को बढ़ाने म� मदद तो कर सकता है, िक�ु उ� चुनौ�तयों को ज� के समय ही दबा देना ज़�री।)
34.11.2 🧔🧔🧔🧔✍ RCEP: Why didn't India join in 2019-Nov? (भारत म� �ों ह�ा�र/द�ख़त नहीं िकए)
India has >$100 billion trade deficit (�ापार घाटा) with RCEP countries. Out of this, China alone
accounts for $54 billion trade deficit. So India had following apprehensions about this agreement.
1) �� China: RCEP will result in increased flow of (Cheap) Chinese manufactured & electronic
goods → Indian MSME, automobile, steel industries harmed → So, India wanted separate levels
of customs duty against Chinese imports. चीनी सामान से भारत के उद्योग न� हो जाएं गे.
2) �� Dairy: India is among largest producers of milk but our specialty is mostly in the liquid
products whereas New Zealand is renowned for its solid products (milk powder, butter, cheese
etc.) These solid dairy products have a longer shelf-life & easier to transport over long-distance.
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So if trade-barriers removed, India will be flooded with cheap dairy products → Indian farmers
& dairy entrepreneurs will suffer. भारतीय िकसान, डेरी उद्योग को �वदेशी आयत से खतरा.
3) 🌶🌶�
�Agriculture: Southern India’s plantation farmers afraid of cheaper Tea, Coffee, Rubber,
Cardamom and pepper from Malaysia, Indonesia & other RCEP nations.
4) 🌡🌡🌡🌡 So, India wanted an Automatic Trigger Safeguard Mechanism (ATSM: �चा�लत �ट�गर का सुर�ा
तं त्र) to protect itself from surge in imports. (e.g. � customs duty by “X%” on imported products
from “y” country if “z” situation occurs).
5) �� Ratchet Obligation (रैचेट दा�य�): It means a nation can not go back/undo its
commitments under the RCEP agreement. India wants certain exemptions here.
6) � Data localisation (डेटा �ानीयकरण): India wants all RCEP countries to have the rights to
protect data & prohibit cross-border data flow (सीमापार डेटा प्रवाह पर रोक) in the national interest.
For this reason, India even refused to sign G20 Osaka declaration on cross-border data flow.
2019-Nov: RCEP summit at Bangkok, Thailand. Here, Indian demands were not agreeable to the
majority of other members. So, India announced not to join the RCEP Agreement.
2020-Nov: 15 members signed it. India not yet signed. 2021: Singapore becomes 1st to sign.
India also had 500 जात के other objections but the maximum utility of RCEP topic is 250 words in the mains exam. For
that, we have gathered sufficient points. Further PHD useless.
34.11.3 � RCEP: Counterview: India made a mistake by not joining (भारत से गलती �ई है)
1) Competition brings excellence. Unless the Indian industrialists are subjected to the competition
from Asian giants, they will not invest further in the R&D, product upgradation, customer
service & customer satisfaction. ( श्रे�ता के �लए �धार् ज�री, हम� द�ख़त कर लेने चािहए थे)
2) If India doesn’t join RCEP, our products will not be able to compete in those nations because of
the higher taxes on Indian exports viz a viz other RCEP exports. (हम शा�मल नहीं होंगे तो बाक़� देश तो
शा�मल हो रहे ह�, तो उनका फ़ायदा हो जाएगा और हम रह जाएं गे।)
3) Indian manufacturers could import intermediate goods from RCEP countries at cheaper price
→ process them further → re-export towards Middle East, Africa and European. Thus, RCEP
could have provided the perfect opportunity for India to become integrated with the global value
chain (वै��क मू�वधर्न श्रृंखला म� िह�ा बन सकता है).
4) World Bank’s “A Glass Half Full: The Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia” report (2019)
estimates India’s potential trade in goods with South Asia at more than 60 billion, but at present
the actual trade is less than $20 billion- due to tariff barriers and connectivity issues. Hence,
RCEP is necessary for boosting India’s exports. (�नयार्त म� बढ़ोतरी म� मदद �मलेगी)
5) RCEP was still ‘less strict’ in comparison of India’s ongoing FTA negotiations with the USA or
EU. It was a low-hanging fruit, we should have signed it. (अमे�रका यूरोप के साथ प्र�ा�वत �ापार समझौते तो
इससे भी �ादा स� है, उनके मुक़ाबले आरसीईपी तो इतना ख़राब नहीं था। भारत ने द�ख़त/ह�ा�र करने चािहए थे।)
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6) Economic Survey observed- India will have to eventually shed-off its ‘big but poor’ mentality.
International agreements always require some sort of bargaining / give and take. ('बड़े लेिकन गरीब'
मान�सकता से �नकलना होगा। अंतररा��ीय समज़ौतो म� ताली दो हाथ से बजती है।)
7) 2022: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has chastised Indian industries: 1) FTAs are two-way
traffic. It cannot be one-sided access for Indian goods and services alone. Otherwise other
nations will not sign it, if we don’t allow their products in India. 2) Local Indian industry needs
to get more innovative and competitive. 3) Indian consumers should not be forced to buy
expensive / poor quality domestic products in areas where other countries’ are offering better
cheaper products. (वा�ण� मं त्री पीयूष गोयल ने भारतीय उधोयपतीयो को फटकार लगायी है िक अगर भारत सरकार �वदेशी
सामान पर टै� कम नहीं करेगी, तो �वदेश क� सरकार भारतीय सामान पर टै� कम नहीं कर�गी। इस�लए भारतीय कं पनीयो ने
�वदेशीयो से प्र�त�धार् के �लए तैयार रहेना होगा। भारत के ग्राहकों �ों भारतीय क�नी का महँ गा और घिटया �ा�लटी का सामान
ख़रीदेगे यिद उ�� �वदेशी माल िकफ़ायती दाम और अ�� �ा�लटी का �मल रहा हो।?)
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Agenda) (ड�ूटीओ के मुकाबले मु� �ापार समझौते आसानी से �नपट जाते ह� �ोंिक �मत्र रा�� एक दू सरे के प्र�त �ादा लचीला
रवैया िदखाते ह�)
FTA give following benefits to member nation:
⇒ Easier access to raw materials after tax-cuts. (क�ा माल स�े दामों पर �मले.)
⇒ Lower prices for consumers (ग्राहकों के �लए भी स�ी क�मत�)
⇒ increasing customers/market size for export products (ग्राहकों म� बढ़ोतरी)
⇒ Protecting against unfavourable trade policies of other countries, by finding new friends. e.g.
China vs India-Aussie. (अ� देशों क� नकारा�क नी�तयों के �खलाफ �लए नए दो� खोज �लए जाएं )
⇒ promoting peace and stability (शां�त और ��रता.)
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34.11.9 🛒🛒⛷📝📝 Trade agreements losing shine → NAFTA & SAFTA
NAFTA ⇒ North American Free Trade Agreement; उ�री अमे�रका �नशु� �ापार समझौता (1994)
involves Canada, USA and Mexico.
1994
⇒ However, Trump felt NAFTA harms the American interests → 2018: He made a
deal with Mexico and Canada to replace NAFTA with a new agreement called
United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA).
SAFTA ⇒ South Asian Free Trade Area (द��ण ए�शयाई मु� �ापार �ेत्र) is a trade agreement of
SAARC nations- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal,
2004
Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
⇒ 2016: India refused to attend SAARC Annual summit @Pakistan, after Uri-Attack.
In 2019 India raised duties on Pakistani goods so SAFTA’s is losing its shine.
AFCFTA ⇒ African Union (AU) members have signed the African Continental Free Trade
2019 Agreement (AfCFTA) covering 54 nations.
34.12🛒🛒⛷📝📝INDIA’S TRADE AGREEMENTS
Homework: Refer Economic Survey 2019-20 Vol2 ch.3: Annexure-II= table is given, focus on
participants, & whether trade agreement ‘concluded’ or at ‘negotiation stage’.
34.13🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 BURNING ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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⇒ Trade war happens when 2/more nations attack each other's exports via tariff & non-tariff
barriers.
⇒ 2017: USA had $375 billion trade deficit with China. Cheap import from China → domestic
American mfg suffer. US cos outsourcing to China → unemployment of American workers.
⇒ 2018: Trump announced 25% tariff on Imported Steel, Semiconductors, Chemicals, Plastics,
Motorbikes and Electric Scooters etc. from China.
⇒ So, China retaliated by hiking tariff on imported American soybean & other food products,
chemicals, medical equipment & vehicles. Both also filled complaints against each other at WTO.
⇒ EU also making similar protectionist moves against China and India.
Annual report that lists the countries who are harming the Intellectual Property Rights: (IPR: बौ�द्धक
सं पदा अ�धकार)- copyrights, patents and trademarks of American companies.
- These countries are classified into categories such as “Priority Foreign Country” (Most
dangerous)> "Priority Watch List" > "Watch List" etc.
- Depending on classification, USA will complaint to WTO and / or spend money on those
countries to ⏬ piracy (e.g. training and capacity building of Russian police officers & China’s
cybercrime courts etc.).
- 2018: India, Russia, China etc. are in priority watchlist. Mainly because of their hackers, movie
piracy, counterfeit products; India because of its drug patent norms & NPPA which reduce the
profitability of US pharma companies’ patented drugs.
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If a developing country’s name is in this list, its exports will be subjected to zero/lower import duties
in USA (for selected products only). (�वकासशील देशों से अमे�रका जाने वाले कु छ व�ुओ ं पर अमे�रका, टै� कम लगाएगा)
- 2019: Trump removed India from GSP list, citing India has imposed heavy import duties on
Harley Davidson bikes and other American exports. (हालाँिक ट�� ने भारत को इस सूची से हटा िदया था)
- As such most of the Indian exported goods to USA are not in the GSP list in the first place, so
this blacklisting will not harm India much, albeit, Indian textile companies are worried that GSP-
removal will make Indian garments more expensive in USA.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The term ‘Digital Single Market Strategy’ seen in the news refers to(Pre-2017)
(a) ASEAN (b) BRICS (c) EU (d) G20
🔠🔠❓MCQ. ‘Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA)’ is in the context of
negotiations between India and_ _ _ _(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
(a) European Union (b) GCC (c) OECD (d) SCO
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SAARC, 1985 BIMSTEC, 1997
HQ: Kathmandu, Nepal (1985) Dhaka, Bangladesh (1997)
8: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, 7 members: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri
Nepal, Maldives, Pak & Sri Lanka. Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan.
- 2016: summit @Islamabad cancelled after ⇒ Summits every four years.
India and others boycotted due to Uri attack. ⇒ 2018 summit @Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Then no annual summits in 2017, 2018.
⇒ 2022: summit @Colombo, Sri Lanka (virtual
Although 2019 summit is planned
@Colombo, Sri Lanka. mode)
�Bitter areas: Myanmar coup & Rohingya crisis
→ outflow of refugees India and Thailand.
(�ानमार शरणा�थयों क� सम�ा के चलते आपस म� थोड़ी कड़वाहट)
- SAFTA losing its shine due to non-cooperation after Pakistan’s terror attacks on India.
- India has setup South Asian University (SAU-2010) @ Delhi (2010) for SAARC students.
- India launched South Asia Communication Satellite (GSAT-9) in 2017 to provide tele-
medicine, tele-education, banking, television broadcasting facilities to SAARC nations.
- 🤧🤧🤧🤧 2020-March: SAARC leaders organized video conference to fight Corona.
- India proposed creation of a COVID-19 emergency (आपातकालीन �न�ध) fund & contributed
$10 million in it.
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सं चार). Mekong river starts from China → flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam,
Cambodia → drains in South China Sea.
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35.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 GROUPINGS: OCEAN-RIM WALLA
Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA); Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
िहंद महासागर �रम/िकनारा एसो�सएशन (IORA) ए�शया-प्रशांत आ�थक सहयोग
22 Indian Ocean rim nations. India is a member. 21 Pacific Rim ocean economies. India is not a
China-USA are dialogue partners. member, China-USA are members.
Setup in 1997, HQ: Ebene, Mauritius 1989, HQ: Singapore
- 2018 council of ministers’ meeting - 2018 summit @Port Moresby, Papua New
@S.Africa’s Durban- established Mandela Guinea. India is keen to become member but
Scholarship, added Maldives as a member but not yet added.
blocked membership of Myanmar due to - 2019 summit @Chile cancelled due to civilian
S.Africa’s opposition. unrest in the country.
2020 summit held virtually due to Corona. - 2020-Virtual summit adopted “Putrajya
Nothing much exam-worthy. Vision 2040” for economic cooperation and
development partnership.
- 2021: @Newzeland. @022@Thailand.
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1961 Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame
Nkrumah of Ghana, and Sukarno of Indonesia.
- They advocated 3rd world nations to abstain from allying with USA/USSR during
Cold war. (शीत युद्ध के दौरान असं यु� रहेने का आंदोलन)
- Member nations are in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe.
- 2020-May: Online NAM contact group summit organized. Theme of "United
against COVID-19”. Chairman/Host: Azerbaijan.
- 2023: @Uganda.
2+2 e.g. India Japan 2+2 = meeting of foreign minister & defense minister from each side.
JAI Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and Japan Prime Minister
trilater Shinzo Abe met in a trilateral format in the sidelines of G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires,
al Argentina. It was called the first-ever ‘JAI’ meeting. Objective? Economic growth,
2018 common prosperity & harassment of UPSC aspirants.
QUAD Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is a strategic dialogue / group of political democracies,
market economies and pluralistic societies. between the United States, Japan, Australia
and India. (चतुभुर्ज सुर�ा सं वाद : रणनी�तक सं वाद, लोकतं त्र बाजार आधा�रत अथर्तंत्र और एका�धकत�वादी
समाजों का एक समूह)
AUKU 2021: This trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom. Under the
S pact, the US and the UK will help Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
France doesn’t like this, because earlier they were going to sell submarine to Australia.
Paris - Paris Club: Informal group of nations that help a debtor nation when debtor nation
Club facing loan repayment problems. Members include Australia, Canada, France,
(1956) Germany et cetera.
- India is an observer state (meaning not full member yet)
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(a) India (b) China (c) Russia (d) Brazil
🔠🔠❓ In which groups are all the four countries members of G20? (UPSC-Prelims-2020)
[a) Argentina, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey [b) Australia, Canada, Malaysia and New Zealand
[c) Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam [d) Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea
35.4.2 📝📝📝📝⛷ G20: Osaka Declaration on free flow of data India refused to sign (2019)
shifted to Mains. #RAFTAAR.
35.5 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐GROUPINGS LED BY GORA (WHITES) → G7 AND D10
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35.5.3 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐Minerals Security Partnership (MSP: अ�त मह�पूणर् ख�नजों के �लए भागीदारी/सहयोग)
⇒ US-led partnership to secure critical minerals and reducing dependency on China.
⇒ �MSP includes Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea,
Sweden, United Kingdom, and the European Commission.
⇒ � Cobalt, Nickel, Lithium etc. Required for batteries used in electric vehicles, semiconductors
and high-end electronics manufacturing.
⇒ � Rare Earth Minerals available in India — such as lanthanum, cerium, neodymium,
praseodymium, samarium, etc.
⇒ � Rare Earth Minerals NOT available in India- dysprosium, terbium, and europium. Hence,
there is a dependence on countries such as China.
⇒ � India not invited to MSP grouping yet. (हालाँिक भारत को सद� बनने का �ोता अभी तक नहीं �मला)
�Conclusion: both for improving usage of clean energy and for decreasing current account deficit
we need to be part of some arrangement for rare earth minerals. MSP membership could greatly help
in this regard. (�� ऊजार् तथा चालू खाता घाटे के सं दभर् म� हम� अ�त मह�पूणर् ख�नजो के �लए भागीदारी/सहयोग करनी होगी.)
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⇒ Better implementation of the Abraham accords and other peace initiatives in Middle East.
Peaceful and prosperous Middle East = market for Indian Exports.
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1.Armenia 2. Azerbaijan 3. Croatia 4. Romania 5. Uzbekistan
Codes: (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 2 and 5 (d) 3, 4 and 5
35.9 🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐🌐 EXPORT CONTROL / NON-PROLIFERATION REGIMES
ब�प�ीय �नयार्त �नयं त्रण / अप्रसार �व�ा:
- Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG: परमाणु आपू�तकतार् समूह) is a group of countries that
NSG control the export of nuke materials, equipment and technology & aim to prevent
1974 its use in making nuclear bombs.
- China is a member, India not a member yet due to China’s objection.
Australia - Informal group that encourages members not to export chemical or biological
Group weapons or technology.
1984 - China not a member, India became member (2018).
- Missile Technology Control Regime (�मसाइल प्रौद्यो�गक� �नयं त्रण �व�ा) is an informal
MTCR group that encourages members not to export missiles equipment, software,
1987 technology.
- China not a member, India became member (2016)
- Wassenaar is an area in Netherland. This arrangement (1996) requires members to
Wassenaar
be strict and transparent in the export of conventional arms and dual-use goods
Arrangeme
and technologies (e.g. Night Vision Googles). So they don’t fall in the hands of
nt
terrorists and rogue states like N.Korea.
1996
- China not a member, India became member (2017)
MCQ. India is member of _ _ _ (Prelims-2022)
1. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 2. Missile Technology Control Regime
3. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 3 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
35.9.1 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫USA Exit from Arms Treaties
1. 1987:Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty between USA-Russia during to prohibit
development of missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km. 2019: USA withdraws from it.
2. 1991: New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) treaty between U.S. and Russia for
reducing nuclear weapons. 2021: Treaty will expire.
3. 1992: Open Skies Treaty (OST) signed between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries to
monitor/spy each other's territory through unarmed aeroplanes. 2020-May: USA wants to
withdraw from it.
4. Self-study: CTBT, NPT: NCERT Class12 Political Science ch4: India's external relations
✋for more on IR annual summits, treaties, etc. for prelims study from PDF/Mags/Courses
35.9.2 🎺🎺✍ Mock Questions for Mains GSM2 (Intl. Org Related to Economy)
Question from this pillar mostly centre around what is the significance of X organisation for India,
how do the actions/agreements of Y nations affect the Indian interests.
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PILLAR4A: SECTORS OF ECONOMY → AGRICULTURE
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40.5.12 ☔Agri-Input → Water (irrigation) → River Interlinking in Budget-2022............................536
40.6 🌽🌽🌽Agri-Input → Fertilizer (उवर्रक / खाद) ...........................................................................................537
40.6.1 �📯📯📯📯Prevent urea misuse→ Nutrient Based Subsidy (2010) ...........................................538
40.6.2 �📯📯📯📯Prevent urea misuse→ Soil Health Card (2015).......................................................538
40.6.3 �📯📯📯📯Prevent urea misuse→ Neem Coating of Urea (2015) .............................................538
40.6.4 �📯📯📯📯📯📯 Prevent urea misuse→ DBT of fertilizer (2018).................................................539
40.6.5 � Prevent urea overuse→ Nano-Urea- suggested by📙📙📙📙ES22 .........................................539
40.6.6 Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samridhi Kendra (PMKSK-2022): ..........................................................540
40.6.7 �📯📯📯📯 Prevent fertilizer misuse→ PM-BJP/One Nation One Fertiliser ...........................540
40.6.8 �📯📯📯📯 Reduce Fertilizer use : PM PRANAM scheme in 👛👛Budget-2023 .......................540
40.7 🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Input → Pesticides & weedicides .......................................................................................541
40.8 🌽🌽🌽🌽☣ Agri Inputs → Don’t use chemicals → PKVY (2015) ......................................................541
40.9 🌽🌽🌽🌽☣ Agri Inputs → PKVY (2015) → (BPKP-2021) ..................................................................542
40.9.1 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫☣Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF: शू� बजट प्राकृ �तक खेती) ..............................542
40.9.2 🚫🚫☣😢😢 Organic farming & ZBNF → Limitations? (मयार्दा/चुनौ�तया) ......................................543
40.9.3 🚫🚫☣✍ Conclusion: Organic farming / ZBNF ........................................................................544
40.10 🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri Inputs → Farm Mechanization (मशीनीकरण) ..................................................................544
40.10.1 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 Agri Inputs → Farm Mechanization: Challenges? ..................................................544
40.11 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 Agri Inputs → Finance / Credit: ऋण ...............................................................................545
40.11.1 💰💰🗃🗃Agri-Finance → Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (NWR)...............................................546
40.11.2 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Finance → Loan waivers for the farmers (िकसान को कजर्माफ�) .....................546
40.12 🌽🌽⚰ Agri-Input → Risk reduction → Insurance .........................................................................546
40.13 🌽🌽🌽🌽 Agri-Output → don’t burn the crop residue (फ़सल-अवशेष/ पराली) ......................................547
40.14 👛👛Budget-2023 on Agro ......................................................................................................................548
40.15 🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Selling → APMC (कृ �षगत उ�ाद �वपणन स�म�त) ..................................................................548
40.15.1 ⚠APMC Problems? सम�ाएं / चुनौ�तयां ............................................................................................549
40.15.2 🔨🔨Model APMC Act? (आदशर् कानून) ................................................................................................549
40.15.3 ⚖�🛒🛒:👎👎👎👎 3 Farm laws repealed (2020-21) ....................................................................549
40.16 🌽🌽🌽🌽🖱🖱Agri-Selling Online → e-national agriculture market (E-NAM) ..................................550
40.16.1 🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Selling → Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs) ................................................550
40.16.2 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Selling→Outside India →Agri Export Policy, 2018 .......................................551
40.16.3 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Selling → Farmer’s income: SAS Survey DATA .......................................551
40.17 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽Agri-Selling → Income support for farmers ............................................................552
40.18 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 Agri-Selling → Minimum Support Prices (MSP) ..................................................552
40.18.1 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 MSP covers which crops? ......................................................................................552
40.18.2 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 MSP computation, Swaminathan Committee? ..................................................553
40.18.3 📙📙📙📙ES22: Crop Diversification: by higher MSP (फ़सल �व�वधीकरण- उ� �ूनतम समथर्न मू� द्वारा)554
40.18.4 Crop Diversification: CDP program (2013) ..................................................................................554
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40.18.5 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 Agri-Selling → MSP → Procurement (अ�धप्रापण / खरीद)? ..................................555
40.18.6 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽= 👌👌 MSP Benefits? ...............................................................................................556
40.18.7 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽= 👎👎 MSP Limitations? (मयार्दा) .............................................................................556
40.19 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽: 🧔🧔 Agri-Selling: PM-AASHA: fix MSP limitations ..............................................557
40.20 🌽🌽🌽📦📦📦📦📦�: FCI & PDS (बफर भं डार) ....................................................................................558
40.21 🌽🌽🌽📦📦📦📦: 🧔🧔 Agri-Selling: Storage and Transport.................................................................558
40.22 💰💰💰💰💰: 🧔🧔 Agri-Selling: Direct income w/o selling → PM-KISAN@6k/pa .........................558
40.22.1 � → 👴👴👴👴👴👴: 🧔🧔 Pension: PM Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana ...............................................559
40.23 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅Agri-Selling: food inflation for consumers......................................................................559
40.23.1 Food inflation Reasons and Remedies in 2022–23 by 📙📙ES23 .................................................559
40.23.2 Food Inflation- Govt’s Reforms in 2022–23 ..................................................................................560
40.23.3 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅Food Inflation due to shortage of Pulses supply (दालों का उ�ादन) ..............................560
40.23.4 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅Food Inflation due to shortage of Vegetable supply ..................................................561
40.23.5 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅Seasonality in Onion-Tomatoes...................................................................................562
40.24 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: Food INFLATION → Onions ........................................................................................563
40.24.1 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Govt initiatives → Onion Inflation (2019-Sept to Dec) ..................................563
40.24.2 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔: 📔📔📔📔ES21 how to control onion inflation? ..................................................563
40.25 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔Agri-selling: Food-Inflation: Govt initiatives? .......................................................564
40.25.1 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Food Inflation → Govt initiatives → MEP.......................................................564
40.25.2 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Food Inflation → Govt initiatives → OMSS ....................................................564
40.25.3 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Govt initiatives → Price Stabilization Fund (2014) ........................................565
40.25.4 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Govt initiatives → Operation Greens for T-O-P (2018) .................................565
40.26 🏝🏝🏝🏝🏝🏝 🤯🤯 Food Inflation → Edible Oil (खाद्य तेल)...........................................................................565
40.26.1 🏝🏝🏝🏝🏝🏝 🤯🤯: 🧔🧔 Govt initiatives → Edible oil ki New Scheme (NMEO-OP: 2021-Aug) .....566
40.27 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Food Inflation → Essential Commodities Act ......................................................567
40.28 🍅🍅↘🤯🤯 Agro-Selling→ Deflation (2017 onwards) .....................................................................568
40.28.1 🍅🍅↘🤯🤯 Agro-Selling→ Deflation → Sugar mills’ problem..................................................568
40.28.2 🍅🍅↘🤯🤯 Agro-Selling→ Deflation → Sugar Subsidy & WTO order ....................................569
40.29 �� Agriculture Production & Processing → Other Schemes ..................................................569
40.29.1 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 💸💸💸💸 Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (2020-Jul) ..........................................569
40.29.2 �� Agro Produ. & Processing → Farmer Producer Company (FPC) ...............................570
40.29.3 �� Agro Production & Processing → RKVY & RAFTAAR (2017) ...................................570
40.29.4 �� Agro Prod. & Processing → Green Revolution - Krishonnati Yojana.........................570
40.29.5 �� Agro Production & Processing → PM Kisan Sampada Yojana ....................................572
40.29.6 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 Atma-Nirbhar: ”Op Green” expanded to all fruits & veggies ..........................572
40.29.7 👻👻👻👻🍭🍭🍭🍭 Atma-Nirbhar: Food Enterprises promotion (खाद्य उद्यमों को बढ़ावा) .....................572
40.30 🧃🧃Food Processing Industries for GSM3 ..........................................................................................573
40.31 🐮🐮 Sectors → Agro Allied: → Animal husbandry (पशुपालन)...........................................................573
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40.31.1 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮 Livestock Census (पशुधन क� जनगणना) ............................................................................574
40.31.2 🐮🐮🐮🐮 Agro Allied: Animal husbandry → White Revolution...................................................575
40.31.3 🍋🍋🍋🍋Cow (welfare) Cess ...............................................................................................................576
40.31.4 🐑🐑🐑🐑: ES2019 suggests focus on Small Ruminants ...................................................................577
40.31.5 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻Atma-Nirbhar: Dairy cooperatives (दु�ालय सहकारी स�म�तयां) ..........................577
40.31.6 🐟🐟Agro Allied: Fisheries → Blue revolution (म� → नीली क्रां�त) ................................................577
40.31.7 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (2020) ...............................................578
40.31.8 🍤🍤🍤🍤 Shaphari certification for aquaculture exports (MPEDA, 2021)...................................579
40.31.9 Sweet Revolution (Honey / Beekeeping) मीठी क्रां�त, शहद, मधुम�ी पालन .........................................579
40.31.10 🌈🌈Other revolutions: .......................................................................................................................579
40.32 🌽🌽🌽� Agriculture → Research & Education, extension Services ..........................................579
40.33 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)............................................580
40.33.1 🌽🌽 🤝🤝 International Year for Millets (2023) ..............................................................................580
40.33.2 🌽🌽 🤝🤝 MIIRA for global Millet R&D (2023) ..............................................................................580
40.33.3 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: International Years by United Nations (UN) ....................................580
40.33.4 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: International Decades by UN (अंतरार्��ीय दशक) .....................................580
40.33.5 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: Misc. → SAARC Food Bank (2007) ...................................................581
40.33.6 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: Misc. → International Grains Council (London) ............................581
40.33.7 🏆🏆 Global Awards related to Agro .................................................................................................581
40.34 ✍ Mains Qs from Agriculture ...........................................................................................................581
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- Within Agriculture & Allied sector: Highest production (money-wise)= Crops > Livestock >
Forestry > Fishing. (कृ �ष पर सं ल� �ेत्रों म� सबसे �ादा उ�ादन कहा से होता है)
- For more on GDP&GVA calculation- REF: �Pillar#4C.
* Hindi terms not given for most org. because above information is meant for MCQ only. In the mains
exam you may attribute all things to ‘कृ �ष और िकसान क�ाण मं त्रालय क� वैधा�नक / सहकारी / �ाय� सं �ा <insert
English term/abbreviation>’.
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40.1.3 �🐮🐮🦈🦈 [Yearbook] Min. for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
This ministry was setup in 2019, with two departments
1. �Dept of Fisheries (Matsyapalan Vibhag)
2. � Dept of Animal Husbandry And Dairying (Pashupalan Aur Dairy Vibhag):
A) → Statutory: National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
B) → Statutory: Animal Welfare Board of India under The Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals Act,1960.
Previously above subjects were under the Agri ministry.
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40.2.1 ��Cooperative Society: Meaning
⇒ (Definition) The cooperative society is a voluntary association of persons who join together with
the motive of welfare of the members and/or prevent exploitation by middlemen. (सहकारी
सोसाइटी/सं गठन= लोगों का एक �ै��क समुह जो सद�ों के �वकास के �लए या दलालों के शोषण से बचने के �लए बनाया जाता है)
⇒ (Data) There are 8.5 lakh registered cooperatives in the country, with over 29 crore members
⇒ For example: The farmers of Kheda region (Gujarat) where exploited by the middlemen in the
milk trade. So, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel advised them to sell their milk by forming a cooperative
society (1946) which later evolved into AMUL.
40.2.2 ��Cooperative Society: Features / Benefits (ल�ण / खा�सयत / फायदे)
- Voluntary membership: A person is free to join. can also leave anytime. (�ै��क सद�ता)
- Legal status / Stable existence: formed by minimum 10 persons and registered
o under A) State laws (if Single State Cooperative Society), or
o B) under union’s multi-state cooperative Societies Act 2002- if it is operating in more
than 1 state e.g. National Agri. Cooperative Marketing Federation Of India (NAFED).
- Cooperative Society is a separate artificial legal person. It can enter into contracts and hold
property in its name. Death, or insanity of an individual members do not affect continuity of a
cooperative society. Limited liability of members. (Explained in Pillar#1C2)
- Equal Voting: one person gets one vote irrespective of how much capital he contributed.
- Service / Welfare motive: Not driven by desire for excessive profit or excessive growth.
- Support from government: m through low taxes, subsidies, and low interest rates on loans.
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💼💼Budget-2021: finance minister had promised a “separate administrative structure” for
cooperatives. This was finally done in 2021-July.
BEFORE 🧔🧔AFTER 2021-July Reform
Agriculture Ministry → Department of - Government announced the formation of a
Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare separate Union Ministry of Cooperation /
= looked after administrative, legal and policy Cooperative Ministry.
framework for cooperative movement in India. - Home Minister Amit Shah was given
charge of the new Ministry
पहले सहकारी मं डली/सं �ानों क� �ज़�ेदारी कृ �ष मं त्रालय क� थी, - Will look after administrative, legal and
अब इसके �लए अलग से एक सहकार मं त्रालय क� �ापना।
policy framework for cooperative
movement in India- including cooperative
organizations in agriculture, dairies, sugar
mills, spinning mills, banking-finance etc
Statutory Body: Multi State Cooperative Shifted here (‘ब�रा� सहकारी स�म�तयों के र�ज��ार” जो
Societies ACT, 2002 → Registrar of Multi State पहले कृ �ष मं त्रालय के अंतगर्त थे, अब सहकारी मं त्रालय के
Cooperative Societies = functioned under Agri अंतगर्त)
Ministry
Benefits and challenges of this move? Ans. Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR
⇒ Setup statutory body “Co-operative Election Authority” to conduct elections for board members
of multi-state co-operative societies. (ब�-रा� सहकारी सं गठनों के बोडर् सद�ों के चुनाव के �लए एक सहकारी चुनाव
प्रा�धकरण बनाया जाएगा)
⇒ Setup Ombudsman for hearing the complaints by the members of coops. (सद�ों क� �शकायत सुनने के
�लए �शकायत �नवारण अ�धकारी)
⇒ Setup a fund for revival of sick multi-state co-operative societies. The Fund will be financed
through contributions by profitable multi-state coops. (बीमार/घाटे-वाले ब�-रा� सहकारी सं गठनों को
पुनज��वत करने के �लए एक एक �व�ीय-कोष बनाएँ ग।े मुनाफ़े वाले सं गठनों ने इसम� पैसा देना होगा।)
⇒ Facilitate merger of two or more coop societies. (दो या उससे अ�धक सरकारी सं गठनों का एक�करण करवाना
आसान होगा)
�Criticism
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- �1) Some State governments are opposed alleging that some provisions of this bill
encroaching upon State government’s power to regulate single state cooperative Society. (रा�
सरकारों को आप�� है िक हमारी श��यां कम हो जाएगी)
- �2) Profitable coops opposed to idea of giving money to revival of sick/loss making coops.
(मुनाफ़े वाले सं गठनो को एतराज/आप�� है िक हम �ों पैसा दे बीमार/घाटे-वाले सं गठनों क� मदद के �लए?)
⇒ 😍😍Solution? Small-marginal farmers should be encouraged to join mfg / service sector jobs,
selling their land to big farmers = Land Consolidation (भू�म एकत्रीकरण)’.
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⇒ Land Reform (भू�म सुधार)’ is the government led division of agricultural land and its reallocation
to landless people. Whereas, Land Acquisition (भू�म अ�धग्रहण) means Govt acquiring private land
for industrial or infrastructure development.
⇒ (1) Zamindari Abolition, Vinoba’s Bhudaan movement (2) Ceiling on Landholding i.e. fixing
maximum size of land holding that an individual can own. (3) Laws to protection of tenant
farmers (जोतदार िकसान)
⇒ (4) National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP-2008: रा��ीय भू�म �रकॉडर् आधु�नक�करण
कायर्क्रम) by Department of Land Resources under Rural Development Ministry. Because digital
land records help reducing court case related to sale / inheritance & help keeping track of land
ceilings.
⇒ (5) Forest Rights Act: वन अ�धकार अ�ध�नयम 2006 which gives ‘Patta’ (farm land ownership title) to
the forest dwellers, if the given family was cultivating that forest land for the last 75 years.
⇒ Land is a state subject, so Union circulated Model Agriculture Land Leasing Act, 2016:
- 1) To protects land owner from illegal occupation by tenant farmer
- 2) To help tenant farmer get bank loans using leasing agreement as proof.
Further Self-study? (1) Land reforms is a Mains-GSM3 topic. Do selective study from
mrunal.org/tag/land-reforms (2) Soil pollution & soil erosion is Environment topic do it from your
Unacademy Notes. (3) Soil & Crop distribution: Geography topic from NCERT/ Majid/Unacademy
Booklet.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following are responsible for the decrease of per capita holding of cultivated land
in India? (Asked in UPSC-CDS-2012-II)
1. Low per capita income. 2. Rapid rate of increase of population.
3. Practice of dividing land equally among the heirs. 4. Use of traditional techniques of ploughing.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) 1 and 4 (d) 2,3 and 4
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40.4 🌱🌱AGRI-INPUT → SEEDS: बीज
(Introduction: Origin) Since we can’t drastically increase the area under cultivation, so, agriculture
yield (amount of crop produced in a given acre of land) depends greatly on seed quality.
- For best yield, hybrid seeds must be replaced every year, and non-hybrid must be replaced every
three years. But in India, seed replacement rate is less than optimum because of (1) new seeds are
not affordable and 2) not available to all farmers. So, government has approved 100% FDI (in
automatic route) in seed development. सं कर बीजों को हर साल बदलना चािहए िकंतु गरीब िकसान के �लए मु��ल
- Seed village concept: Group of farmers in a village given training to produce seeds of various
crops so they can fulfill seed demand of their own & neighbouring villages.
- Seed bank / Seed vault is a depository that stores seeds to 1) preserve genetic diversity 2) supply
seeds during natural calamities and unforeseen conditions. Global Seed Vault is located in the
Svalbard @Norway, in Arctic.
- Agro Ministry gives funding for above two initiatives.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which best describes the main objective of Seed Village Concept? (UPSC-Pre-2015)
(a) Encouraging the farmers to use their own farm seeds and discouraging them to buy the seeds from
others.
(b) Involving the farmers for training in quality seed production and thereby to make available quality
seeds to others at appropriate time and affordable cost.
(c) Earmarking some villages exclusively for the production of certified seeds.
(d) Identifying the entrepreneurs in villages and providing them technology and finance to set up seed
companies.
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Homework: read NCERT Class11 Economy: Ch2 for more vocabulary
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40.4.5 🌱🌱🌱🌱GM Mustard approval- Kabhi haan kabhi naa
GEAC Environment Ministry
2017 Approved Rejected & ordered GEAC to do more field study.
2022-Oct Approved again Pending/yet to give full clarity.
🎓🎓Further self study of GM Sci.tech → (i) NCERT Biology class 12 chapter 10, 12 (ii) Unacademy
Notes 2.0 OR any other material that you like/or you have
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40.5 🌧🌧☔AGRI-INPUT → WATER (IRRIGATION: �संचाई)
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⇒ MSP, heavily subsidized electricity, water and fertilizers = 60% of water is consumed by water
intensive crops like paddy and sugarcane. चावल और ग�े क� खेती के चलते पानी �य �ादा
⇒ By 2050, India will be in the global hotspot for ‘water insecurity’. (जल असुर��तता)
⇒ To earn 2x (double) income, a farmer must cultivate multiple crops annually. But majority of
farmers face water shortage so they can’t do so. (�बना पानी के िकसान क� आमदनी दगु ना करना असं भव)
40.5.1.1 � [Yearbook1] Dept. of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
जल सं साधन, नदी �वकास एवं गं गा सं र�ण �वभाग consists of <list not exhaustive>
Dept N/A (ये मं त्रालय के पास कोई �वभाग नहीं है)
Attached / - Central Water Commission (क� द्रीय जल आयोग) → National Water
subordinate offices Academy, Pune | Ganga Flood Control Commission | Bansagar
सं ल�/अधीन� कायार्लय Control Board (Son River)| Central Water and Power Research
Station | Central Soil and Materials Research Station
Statutory Bodies - Betwa River Board, Brahmaputra Board under respective Acts.
वैधा�नक सं �ा - Various water dispute tribunals (जल �ववाद �ाया�धकरण) under Inter-
State Water Disputes Act, 1956
- Under Environment Protection Act, 1986 →
- National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) → later, replaced by
“National Ganga Council” chaired by PM
- Central Ground Water Authority (क� द्रीय भूजल प्रा�धकरण) formed under
the Environment (Protection) Act.1986
Govt Companies - Water and Power Consultancy Services Ltd (WAPCOS)
- National Projects construction Corporation Ltd.
Autonomous Bodies - National Institute of Hydrology | Krishna River Management Board
- Godavari River Management Board
40.5.1.2 � [Yearbook2] Dept of Drinking Water And Sanitation: पेयजल और स्वच्छता �वभाग
→ doesn’t have any MCQ worth Organizations. (परी�ा के �लए जानने लायक कोई सं �ा नहीं)
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40.5.2 🌧🌧🧔🧔🧔🧔 Water Schemes → NRDWP (2009)
National Rural Drinking Water Mission रा��ीय ग्रामीण पेयजल �मशन
- Boss? Drinking Water Dept: Centrally Sponsored Scheme → Core Scheme = NOT 100% funded
by Union. (50:50) (क� द्र द्वारा प्रायो�जत - मह�पूणर् योजना जहां रा� ने भी खचर् का कु छ िह�ा देना पड़ता है)
- To provide every rural person with safe water for drinking, cooking & domestic needs.
- Additional focus on areas affected by Arsenic, Fluoride & chemical contamination, Encephalitis
disease etc. (रासाय�नक सं दू षण तथा ए�ेफेलाइिटस बीमारी को रोकने के �लए �ादा �ान िदया जाए)
- 2019: NRDWP subsumed under a new scheme namely Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
40.5.3 🌧🌧🧔🧔🧔🧔 Water Schemes → Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (2015)
Boss? Agro Ministry (2015) (Implementation done by Jal Shakti Ministry etc). Valid till 2025-26.
Core Scheme = Not 100% Funded by Union. States required to contribute ₹₹
Aim? To improve the irrigation coverage, reduce wastage of water, using 4-pillar strategy:
1. Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP: ��रत �सच ं ाई लाभ कायर्क्रम) → Requires Jal Shkati
Ministry to finish the ongoing national irrigation projects at a faster pace.
2. Har Khet ko Pani → Requires Jal Shakti ministry to distribute water to each and every farm by
setting up canal network.
3. Watershed Development (जलस्राव �व�ार �वकास) → Requires Rural Development Ministry’s Dept of
Land Resources to setup water harvesting structures like check dams, Nala bund, farm ponds,
tanks etc. + traditional water storage systems such as Jal Mandir (Gujarat); Khatri & Kuhl (H.P.);
Zabo (Nagaland); Eri & Ooranis (T.N.); Dongs (Assam); Katas & Bandhas (Odisha & M.P.).
4. Per drop more crop → Requires Agriculture Ministry to improve the water usage efficiency
through Micro-irrigation devices such as drips, sprinklers, pivots, rain-guns. Related terms →
a. Fertigation: Mixing water-soluble fertilizers in drip system → fertilizer delivered into
the root system → ⏬ wastage of fertilizers.
b. Mulching: It is a simple process of covering the bare soil with straw, wood chips,
shredded bark etc. to ⏬ the water evaporation, soil erosion and weed growth.
⚠😰😰 🐘🐘 Micro-irrigation challenges? High cost of purchase. Trampling by elephant, boar, nilgai
etc. damages the equipment, but repairman not available locally and repair costs not covered in crop
ं ाई का सामान हाथी कु चल दे तो मर�त का पैसा नहीं देती सरकार)
insurance. So less adoption. (सू� �सच
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- To make Ganga pollution free in the next 5 years through Sewage / Effluent Treatment Plants
(गं दा पानी साफ़ करने के सं यं त्र), Information, Education & Communication (IEC: सूचना, �श�ा और सं चार) etc.
1) To provide Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to houses in all 4378 Urban Local
Bodies. (शहरी आवास को नल द्वारा पानी)
2) This mission will also provide liquid waste management in 500 AMRUT cities. (What are
AMRUT cities? = Ref#5: Urban infrastructure) तरल अप�श� प्रबं धन
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40.5.9 🌧🌧🧔🧔🧔🧔 Water Schemes → ATAL Bhujal Yojana (=ATAL JAL) (2019)
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2) Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) was formed under Environment (Protection) Act.
3) India has the largest area under groundwater irrigation in the world.
Codes: [a) 1 only [b) 2 and 3 only [c) 2 only [d) 1 and 3 only
40.6 🌽🌽🌽AGRI-INPUT → FERTILIZER (उवर्रक / खाद)
Ideal Nitrogen: Phosphorus: Potassium (NPK) ratio in soil: 4:2:1, for India it’s 8:3:1 because
subsidized cheap Urea → illiterate farmers use excessively. As a result →
1. Soil & groundwater pollution. (यू�रया के अ��धक उपयोग के चलते जमीन और भूजल प्रदू षण)
2. Subsidized urea smuggled to non-agro purpose in chemical industries related to dyeing, inks,
coatings, plastics, paints even synthetic milk. (गैर कृ �ष उपयोग के �लए त�री)
3. Subsidized urea also smuggled to Bangladesh and Nepal. (स�े यू�रया क� पड़ोसी देशों म� त�री)
4. Increased use & smuggling → increased subsidy burden → increased fiscal deficit.
So Govt. initiated one following reforms to control urea Misuse/Overuse/Diversion:
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40.6.1 �📯📯📯📯Prevent urea misuse→ Nutrient Based Subsidy (2010)
- पोषक तत्व आधा�रत सिब्सडी. Central Sector Scheme = 100% Paid by Union (i.e. State Government not
required to contribute money).
- Boss? Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers gives subsidy to company based on weight of the
different nutrient in the fertilizer. E.g.
Nutrient N (Nitrogen) P(Phosphorus) K(Potash) S(Sulphur)
₹ Subsidy per kg 19 15 11 4
(hypothetical Numbers)
- Above subsidy given to companies for producing non-UREA type “customized/mixed” fertilizer
according to soil requirement in each region.
- Example diammonium phosphate (DAP)- which contains Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P).
- ☹Challenge? 1) Urea not covered in this scheme, Urea subsidy paid separately. Sometimes
government clears the urea subsidy files in faster manner but delays in NBS subsidy payments.
Because Government does not have enough money to clear all subsidies at once. Therefore
Fertilizer companies focus more on urea than other fertilizers → shortage in supply of non-Urea
fertilizers → Urea overuse continued (ग़ैर-यू�रया स��डी का भुगतान सरकार व� पर नहीं कर पाती �ोंिक सरकार
को पैसों क� िक़�त है। इस�लए क��नयां यू�रया उ�ादन पर �ादा ज़ोर देती है → बाज़ार म� यू�रया ही �ादा उपल� रहता है
इस�लए िकसान यू�रया इसक� �ादा ख़रीदते ह� �ोंिक ग़ैर-यू�रया खाद आसानी से उपल� निह होती है।)
- 2) because of the ongoing Russia Ukraine war: supply shortage in international market →
fertiliser prices are likely to � so govt may have to pay more quantity of subsidy to prevent the
price �. (युक्रेन युद्ध के चलते आया�तत रसायनों/उवर्रकों क� िक़�त के चलते दामों म� वृ�द्ध होने का भय, �सवाय िक सरकार
क��नयों को दे दनादन स��डी देकर, दाम बढ़ने से रोक� ।)
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1. Prevents diversion of subsidized urea towards non-agricultural purposes.
2. Neem coating slows down the rate of dissolution of urea in soil→ Improves the plant’s
absorption of Nitrogen from the urea → Yield is ⏫. (पैदावार म� बढ़ोतरी)
3. ⏬ in pest and disease attack → Pesticide consumption is also ⏬. (क�टनाशक कम चािहए)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Why does the Govt promote the use of Neem-coated Urea’ in agriculture? (Prelims-2016)
(a) Release of Neem oil in the soil increases nitrogen fixation by the soil microorganisms
(b) Neem coating slows down the rate of dissolution of urea in the soil
(c) Nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, is not at all released into atmosphere by crop fields
(d) It is a combination of a weedicide and a fertilizer for particular crops.
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40.6.6 Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samridhi Kendra (PMKSK-2022):
⇒ Boss? Ministry of chemicals and Fertilizers
⇒ To convert the existing fertilizer retail shops into Model Fertilizer Retail Shops, called Pradhan
Mantri Kisan Samridhi Kendra
⇒ These shops will act as “One Stop Shop” for all the agriculture related inputs (seeds, fertilisers,
pesticides etc) and services.
⇒ Scheme name: “Pradhanmantri Bhartiya Janurvarak Pariyojna” (PMBJP) / One Nation One
Fertiliser
⇒ Objective: If company receiving fertiliser subsidy from government → company has to use govt-
mandated brand name, logo and bag-colour design. (यिद कोई कं पनी भारत सरकार से उवर्रक क� स��डी प्रा�
कर रही है तो उसने उवर्रक फ�टलाइजर क� थेलीयों पर के वल, सरकार द्वारा �नधार्�रत नाम-लोगों इ�ािद इ�ेमाल करना होगा.)
⇒ Single brand name for UREA, DAP, MOP and NPK etc. would be BHARAT UREA, BHARAT
DAP, BHARAT MOP and BHARAT NPK etc. respectively
⇒ A logo showing “Pradhanmantri Bhartiya Janurvarak Pariyojna”.
🤩🤩 Benefit?
⇒ 1) Easy to spot such fertiliser bags so, if any smuggling/ diversion being done then easily it can be
detected. (त�री हो रही होगी तो तुरंत िदख जाएगा।)
⇒ 2) Govt can claim credit / fame among farmers. Farmers become aware / sensitive about the
subsidy being paid by Govt, and engage more positively towards the future reforms of Govt.
(िकसानों के बीच सरकार क� छ�व म� सुधार हो और सरकार द्वारा भ�व� म� िकए जाने वाले कृ �ष सुधारो का वो समथर्न कर�)
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(PM प्रणाम योजना: यिद कोई रा� सरकार ऊवर्रक/फ�टलाइजर उपभोग म� कटौती करवाती है, तो क� द्र सरकार उस रा� सरकार को
अनुदान के �प म� पैसा देगी। क� द्र सरकार के भारी स��डी बोझ को कम करने के �लए यह ज़�री है)
(Introduction: Definition) Pesticides and weedicides (क�टनाशक, खरपतवार नाशक) are chemicals which
are used for killing / controlling pests and weeds respectively.
⇒ 25% crop loss on account of pests, weed, diseases but India’s per hectare pesticide consumption
is far less than first world. We should encourage organic pesticides and biocontrol agents.
⇒ We should adopt Integrated Pest Management (IPM: एक�कृ त क�ट प्रबं धन) approach i.e. rather than
eradicating pest population to 100%, just try to keep crop damage to economically tolerable level.
Because even pests are important for biodiversity protection and food chain balance.
⇒ Spread awareness about proper use of chemical pesticides (esp. Endosulfan) so it doesn’t
contaminate in food / land / water / human bodies excessively. (सावधानीपूवर्क उपयोग के �लए जागृ�त )
⇒ Homework-Self-Study: Locust disaster Management. (िटड्डी आपदा प्रबं धन)
⇒ 🎓🎓✋Pesticides Management Bill, 2020 to regulate the trade, storage & use of pesticides but
NOT veryIMP4EXAM. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
40.8 🌽🌽🌽🌽☣ AGRI INPUTS → DON’T USE CHEMICALS → PKVY (2015)
(Intro: Definition) Organic farming is a type of agriculture that avoids the use of synthetic fertilizers,
pesticides, and other chemical inputs. It relies on crop rotation, crop residues, manures,
biofertilizers, biopesticides etc. (जै�वक खेती: कृ �त्रम उवर्रक, क�टनाशक और अ� रसायनों का उपयोग न कर�.)
⇒ (Data) India has more than 44 lakh organic farmers- it is the highest in the world
⇒ 🤩🤩Ecological benefits? Less use of chemicals → biodiversity protected, less soil water air
pollution (because farmers will not burn the crop residue). [ जैव �व�वधता का र�ण होगा]
⇒ 🤩🤩Economic benefits? 1) organic products command higher prices among the health conscious
buyers from developed countries → more exports → less CAD, more farmer’s income. 2) less
use of chemical fertilizers → governments urea subsidy bill will decline → fiscal deficit can be
controlled. (चालू खाता घाटा, स��डी बोझ, राजकोषीय खाध म� कमी)
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⇒ In 2003, Sikkim stopped entry of chemical fertilizers, and its Vidhan-Sabha declared the
intention to become a 100% organic state. The goal achieved in 2015. (�स��म सं पूणर्ता जै�वक खेती रा�)
⇒ After Sikkim, now Tripura and Uttarakhand also planning to become 100% organic - says
📙📙ES23
⇒ 2015: To encourage organic farming in India, Union Govt. launched Paramparagat Krishi Vikas
Yojana (PKVY). Boss? Agro Ministry. Core Scheme = Not 100% paid by Union. (60:40,90:10)
⇒ Mechanism? Form a group of 50 farmers in a cluster to start organic farming. Every beneficiary
farmer is given ₹ 20,000 per acre for 3 years for doing organic farming.
⇒ Agro Ministry’s Jaivik Kheti webportal to help organic buyers & sellers connect with each other.
⇒ Agro Ministry’s Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS: सहभागी गारंटी योजना) for certification of
organic products. It assures the buyers the given fruit/vegetable/produce has organic origin.
(जै�वक उ�ादों का प्रमाणीकरण)
��FAQ: How is BPKP similar/different than PKVY – it seems to be like old wine new bottle?
Ans. Not important. To show-off to media, govts usually launch new scheme with same objective.
We need to prepare 2-3 lines & move to next topic.
40.9.1 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫☣Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF: शू� बजट प्राकृ �तक खेती)
- 'Zero Budget' means without using any loan, and without spending any money on purchase of
inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides). (बीज उवर्रक क�टनाशक म� पैसा खचर् िकए �बना, कजर् �लए �बना, खेती करना)
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- 'Natural farming' means farming without chemicals. By using biofertilizers, earthworms, cow
dung etc. Associated keywords:
○ Jiwamrita’ (microbial culture) and ‘Bijamrita’ (seed treatment solution)
○ Biopesticides: ‘Agniastra’, ‘Brahmastra’ and ‘Neemastra’
○ Most of the above are made from Cow-urine.
○ ‘Waaphasa’ (giving water outside the plant’s canopy),
- ZBNF saves farmers from debt-traps; and protects the environment, soil and biodiversity. (कजर् के
�वष चक्र; पयार्वरण, �मट्टी और जैव �व�वधता क� र�ा)
- Practice first started in Karnataka by Subhash Palekar. Himachal, Andhra also frontrunners.
- � Budget-2019 promised to expand ZBNF in other parts of India. Govt encourages it under
launched Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP)
- ��Budget-2022:- Chemical-free Natural Farming will be promoted esp on farmers’ lands in
5-km wide corridors along river Ganga (गं गा नदी के 5 िकलोमीटर इलाके म� रसायन मु� प्राकृ �तक खेती बाड़ी को
प्रो�ाहन िदया जाएगा)
- ��Budget-2022:- SC/ST farmers to be given funding for agro forestry. Agro forestry is
integrating trees with crops and animals e.g. Bamboo & Oil-Palm trees in farm land. (अनुस�ू चत
जा�त और जनजा�त के िकसानों को एग्रोफोरे��ी के �लए पैसा द�गे).
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40.9.3 🚫🚫☣✍ Conclusion: Organic farming / ZBNF
(SDG) New India Vision 2022 requires doubling farmers’ income, while Sustainable
Development Goal No.2 requires nations to adopt agriculture practices that improve land and
soil quality & protect the genetic diversity of flora-fauna. (सतत �वकास ल� और िकसानो क� आय को दगु ना)
Given the aforementioned ecological and economic benefits of organic farming /ZBNF, it can
help us achieve both the targets. (पयार्वरण और आ�थक नज�रए से ब�त फायदेमंद)
(Intro: Definition) It means the higher usage of combine harvesters, land levelers, cultivators,
tractors, reapers, threshers, trolleys and mechanical pickers etc. (कृ �ष म� मशीनों का �ादा उपयोग)
⇒ Significance? (1) ↑ productivity of land, labour by increasing work output per unit time. (2) ↑
employment opportunities to rural youth in production, operation, and repair-maintenance of
machines. (उ�ादन, सं चालन और मर�त-रखरखाव म� ग्रामीण युवा को रोजगार)
⇒ Labour augmenting technological progress: Allows each laborer to be more productive e.g.
Industrial revolution → James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny that allowed each worker to spin
eight cotton threads at once (1770).
⇒ Capital augmenting technological progress: Allows capital assets / machinery to be more
productive. E.g. wooden plough replaced with steel plough → more sturdy, requires less
maintenance & repairs, resistant to water-fungal attacks.
⇒ After MNREGA scheme (wherein villagers are guaranteed 100 days of unskilled manual work),
the Punjab-Haryana farmers are facing shortage of farm-laborer in peak season, & forced them
to offer higher wages → many of those farmers opting for machinery to reduce labour
requirement. (पं जाब ह�रयाणा म� कृ �ष मजदू रों क� कमी के चलते मशीनों का उपयोग �ादा)
⇒ 📔📔📔📔ES21: Corona lockdown- movement of migrant farm labourers & farm machinery-
repair/movement affected = problems during harvesting season. (फसल कटाई म� िद�त आयी)
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⇒ Customized machinery required for India’s soil and climatic diversity so R&D, Make in India
required. Small-marginal farmers lack financial resources to own machines so renting centres
should be setup. (भारत क� जमीन और आबोहवा क� �व�वधता के अनु�प यं त्रों का सं शोधन और �वकास िकया जाए)
⇒ 📯📯 Agri Ministry Scheme? 2017: Green Revolution - Krishonnati Yojana → Sub-Mission on
Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM): to address above challenges.
⇒ 📯📯 Agri Ministry launched Mobile App called FARMS (Farm Machinery Solutions) for farm
machinery renting.
⇒ 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- ‘Kisan Drones’ for crop assessment, digitization of land records, spraying
of insecticides, and nutrients. (फसल �नरी�ण, जमीन द�ावेजों को िड�जटल बनाना, िकट-नाशक दवाई तथा पोषक-त�ों
के �छड़काव के �लए "िकसान ड�ोन" को प्रो�ाहन द�गे)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The substitution of steel for wooden ploughs in agricultural production is an example of _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ technological progress. (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2015)
(a) labour-augmenting (b) capital-augmenting (c) capital-reducing (d) None of the above.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Private investment in Indian agriculture is mostly on labour saving mechanization. This could
be a response to (Asked in UPSC-CDS-2015-II)
(a) rising productivity of agricultural sector (b) rising inequality in agriculture
(c) rising wages and tighter labour market (d) debt write-off by the Government
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40.11.1 💰💰🗃🗃Agri-Finance → Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (NWR)
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution → Statutory Body
Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority (WDRA: भांडागारण �वकास एवं �व�नयामक
प्रा�धकरण)- law in 2007.
⇒ Farmer deposits his produce into WDRA registered warehouses and gets negotiable warehouse
receipt (NWR; परक्रा� गोदाम रसीद). He can use it in two ways
a. Pledge it in the banks to obtain loans for the next cropping cycle. OR
b. Trade it via the commodity exchange markets or electronic National Agriculture
Markets (e-NAM).
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit? NWR prevents the distress sale of agriculture produce. Farmer can wait and watch
for the prices to improve before selling, while his crop is safely stored in the warehouse.
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40.13🌽🌽🌽🌽 AGRI-OUTPUT → DON’T BURN THE CROP RESIDUE (फ़सल-अवशेष/ पराली)
(Intro: Origin) Every year during Sept-October, farmers of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh burn the
paddy stubble & residue which are leftover from previous cropping season. Burning clears the farm
land for sowing wheat for next cropping season. अगले मौसम म� गे�ं उगाने के �लए फसल-अवशेष/ पराली जलाना
- Result? Thick smog, air pollution, particulate matter (PM 2.5) in Delhi.
- open burning of crop residues has ill effects on soil organic carbon and soil fertility
🤩🤩Solutions?
- In-situ composting (��ानी उपजाऊकरन)
- Machines like Rotary Slasher, Zero Till Seed Drill, Rotavators, 'Happy Seeder: They help in wheat
sowing without having to get rid of paddy straw on the land.
- 2015: National Green Tribunal order → Burning crop residue is a crime under Section 188 of the
IPC and under the Air and Pollution Control Act of 1981
- � Budget-2018: Union to give 100% funding to Punjab, Haryana and Delhi to tackle this
menace. Further, individual farmers to be given subsidy for such machinery purchase.
- ��ES20: PM2.5 emission (g/Kg) from burning crops: Sugarcane (12.0)> Maize (11.2)>
Cotton (9.8)> Rice (9.3)> wheat (8.5). So, we should promote low lignocellulosic crop like
maize, potato, soybean etc. because their residue’s burning creates less air pollution.
- Setup biomass depots for storage of crop residues. from there
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- Thermal power plants to use crop residues with coal. (तापीय ऊजार्) → Budget 2022 announced use
of 5-7% biomass pellets in thermal power plants.
- biochar briquettes as fuel for local industries, brick kiln and hotel/dhaba
40.14👛👛BUDGET-2023 ON AGRO
AREA �BUDGET-2023 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Coop Societies - vision of ‘Sahakar Se Samriddhi’.
- Computerisation of 63,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS)
will be done
- A national cooperative database for GPS mapping of cooperative societies.
Use ‘less “PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Nourishment and
fertiliser’: PM- Amelioration of Mother Earth”. - Union to encourage States and Union
PRANAM Territories to reduce consumption of chemical fertiliser.
Organic farming - We’ll setup 10,000 Bhartiya Prakritik Kheti Bio-Input Resource Centres.
- To train 1 crore farmers to adopt natural farming.
- We’ll create creating a national-level pesticide and micro-fertilizer (e.g.
Nano Urea) and manufacturing network.
Horticulture Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program: - To boost availability of disease-free,
quality planting material- horticultural crops
Agri Startup Agriculture Accelerator Fund for encouraging agri-startups in rural areas
Millets /Shree we grow several types of ‘Shree Anna’ such as kuttu, ramdana, kangni, kutki,
Anna kodo, cheena, and sama. we’ll give the funding to Indian Institute of Millet
Research, Hyderabad. It is an org. under under Indian Council of
Agricultural Research (ICAR).
Loans we’ll give ₹ 20 lakh crore loans to agri, animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries.
Subsidy Refer to Pillar2B for data on food and fertilizer subsidies.
Irrigation Upper Bhadra Irrigation Project (Karnataka) given funding.
40.15🌽🌽🌽🌽AGRI-SELLING → APMC (कृ �षगत उ�ाद �वपणन स�म�त)
(Intro: Origin) In the Post-independent India, despite the abolition of zamindari, the farmers were
not ‘liberated’ from exploitation. Because, the goons of local Baniyaa or money lender would forcibly
take away the farmers’ harvest without paying sufficient money. So, state governments enacted
APMC laws that “first sale of agriculture produce can occur only at the market yards / Mandis of
Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC).” (िकसानों को सा�कारों के वसूली/शोषण से बचाने के �लए रा�ों
ने कानून बनाए िक कृ �ष उपज क� सबसे पहली �बक्र� मात्रा एपीएमसी मं डी म� ही हो पाएगी)
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40.15.1 ⚠APMC Problems? सम�ाएं / चुनौ�तयां
1. APMC trustees (office bearers) are politically influential persons. They enjoy a cozy relationship
with the licensed commission agents. These agents form cartel, manipulate prices, deprive
farmers of remunerative prices; engage in hoarding & artificial shortage of food supply in the
retail market, thereby driving up the food inflation for profiteering. (राजनी�तसे जुड़े त�, िकसान को अ��
क�मत नहीं देत,े सं ग्रह-खोरी द्वारा बाजार म� चीजों को महंगा करके मुनाफाखोरी करते ह�)
2. APMC trustees lack the managerial skill / vision for vertical integration with food processing
industries. [because their only skill is ‘Politics’, प्रबं धन कौश� कम है]
3. While these Mandis charge multiple entry, exit and other fees. But money is siphoned off →
poor infrastructure, lack of cold-storage, transport facilities → waste of fruits & vegetables even
in good monsoon years. (शीतगार, प�रवहन बु�नयादी अवसं रचना क� कमी के चलते स�ी फल बबार्द)
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Assurance & Farm Services खेती: ग्राहक और िकसान के बीच, कृ �ष उ�ादन से पहले, िकया गया एक
Ordinance/Act, 2020. अ�ग्रम समझौता है)
⇒ This new law aimed to reform the State laws to protect
both farmer and buyer (food processing company)
Essential Commodities ⇒ To help food processing companies in stock limits.
(Amendment) Ordinance/Act, 2020
But some farmer organizations protested against these laws, ultimately govt repealed these 3 laws.
What were farmers demands? Etc. analysis = SHIFTED to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In India, markets in agricultural products are regulated under the (UPSC-Pre-2015)
(a) Essential Commodities Act, 1955
(b) Agricultural Produce Market Committee Act enacted by States
(c) Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937
(d) Food Products Order, 1956 and Meat and Food Products Order, 1973
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- Gramin Haats are owned by Local Bodies (Panchayats/councils), Agricultural/ Horticultural
Departments of State Govts, Cooperatives, APMCs and Private Sector. Total ~22,000 of them.
Whereas APMC mandis are barely 580+.
- Budget-2018: 1) we will upgrade Gramin haat into GrAMs (ग्रामीण कृ �ष बाजार) 2) We’ll link them
with e-NAM. So, farmers can directly sell from nearby Gram Haat, instead of transporting the
produce to the APMC Mandis at the district level.
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- fragmentation of land holding has �. Average size of a farm reduced from 0.725 hectare
(2003) to 0.512 ht (2019) (ज़मीन का भी खं डन हो रहा है. खेत क� औसत आकार कम हो रही है.)
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** In addition, MSP of Toria (a type of oilseed crop) fixed on basis of rapeseed-mustard and MSP of
de-husked coconut (�छलका उतारा गया ना�रयल) fixed on the basis of the MSP of copra. But for MCQ if
asked then the safe number is ‘22’.
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The National commission on farmers (2006) headed by Scientist MS Swaminathan had suggested
50% profit but using a different ‘C2 formula’, BUT
- C2 formula computed lot of costs, including imputed rent on his own land and imputed interest
on his own capital etc. (i.e. what if farmer had leased the farmland or gave his savings as loan to
someone else, instead of farming by himself, then how much rent / interest would he have
earned?) (का��नक �प से वह िकतना कमा लेता उसके भी कु छ आंकड़े जोड़े जाते ह�)
- If govt. used C2 formula, MSP will become very high due to aforementioned (hypothetical)
imputed costs → higher budgetary allocation, fiscal deficit will increase. So, Govt is using A2+FL
formula only.
- 2020: 😷😷Corona → 👻👻Atma-Nirbhar → Govt promised to ⏫MSP to help farmers.
40.18.3 📙📙📙📙ES22: Crop Diversification: by higher MSP (फ़सल �व�वधीकरण- उ� �ूनतम समथर्न मू� द्वारा)
Critiques argue that due to MSP policies, farmers are encouraged to grow mostly sugarcane, rice and
wheat, which creates 1) water shortage 2) supply-shortage of other crops. (सरकार क� �ूनतम समथर्न मू�
नी�तयों के चलते �ादातर िकसान ग�ा-गे�ं-चावल लगाना पसं द करते ह� �जससे पानी क� बबार्दी, अ� फसलों क� िक़�त होती है.)
- So, to encourage crop diversification, govt is giving MSP @more than 50% of Cost Price for
certain crops e.g. mustard (100%), Masur (70+%), barley (60%) (इस�लए सरकार ने कु छ फसलों पर िकसान
क� लागत ख़चर् के ऊपर 50% से भी अ�धक एमएसपी जारी िकया है)
- Benefits? - �1) crop diversification. 2) water & soil conservation 3) improve farmers income.
4) self-sufficiency in pulses and oilseeds → inflation control, food and nutritional security.
To � rice cultivation in the original green revolution states viz. Punjab, Haryana, Western UP
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To � tobacco cultivation in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka etc
under this scheme, govt helps farmers to shift towards less water requiring crops such as oilseeds,
pulses, coarse cereals, , cotton, etc (चावल और त�ाकू के िकसानों को सरकार मदद करती है अ� फ़सल लगाने म�)
Central agencies namely, Food Corporation of India (FCI), Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), Jute
Corporation of India (JCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED), National Consumer Cooperative
Federation of India Ltd. (NCCF), and Small Farmers Agro Consortium (SFAC) will purchase the
entire quantity offered by the farmers at MSP.
− So, it’s also called ‘Open Ended Procurement (खुले छोर का)’ i.e. whether farmer brings
20/200/2000/xyz kilo, Govt agencies will buy it, without any ‘quota’ for every farmer. [Although
in real life there are some state-wise quotas but we’ll not get into operational guidelines]
− Collectively, this entire mechanism is called Market Intervention Scheme and Price Support
Scheme (MIS-PSS: बाजार ह��ेप योजना और मू� समथर्न योजना).
− Boss? Agro Ministry. Central Sector Scheme = 100% paid by Union.
From Food Corporation of India’s point of view, the economic cost of food grains is:
1) MSP paid to farmers (technically called ‘Pooled cost of grains bought at MSP’)
2) + Bonus paid to farmers (if any. This is usually announced during election season for votebank
appeasement)
3) Procurement Incidentals: paid to truck drivers, loaders, diesel, cost of operating godowns etc.
4) Cost of Distribution: When delivering grains to States for their Public Distribution System
(PDS) shops, National Food Security Act (NFSA), Mid-day-meal schools etc. More in Pillar#6:
Malnutrition
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🔠🔠❓ The economic cost of food grains to the Food Corporation Of India is Minimum Support Price and
bonus (if any) paid to the farmers plus _ _ . (Prelims 2019)
(a) Transportation cost only (b) Interest cost only
(c) Procurement incidentals and distribution costs (d) Procurement incidentals and charges for godowns
40.18.6 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽= 👌👌 MSP Benefits?
Farmer always has the option to sell produce to govt, if he can’t get remunerative prices from
private merchants. It prevents distress-sale of produce at throwaway prices to private merchants.
(सरकार द्वारा आ�� िकसान, घबराहट म� उपज �नजी �ापारी को पानी के दामों पर नहीं बेचेगा)
Govt announces MSP before the sowing season for 23 crops including cereals, pulses, oilseeds &
certain cash crops. This advance information helps the farmer to make an informed decision
about which crop to sow for maximum economic benefit within the limitations of his farm size,
climate and irrigation facilities. (िकसान �नणर्य ले सकता है कौन सी फसल म� उसे �ादा फायदा होगा)
MSP sends a price-signal to market that if merchants don’t offer higher than MSP prices the
farmer may not sell them his produce. Thus MSP serves as an anchor or benchmark for agro-
commodity market. While MSP doesn’t guarantee that market prices will always be higher than
MSP, but at least it ensures the market prices will not be drastically lower than MSP. (�नजी बाजार के
मू�ों के �लए मानदंड का काम करता है)
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40.19🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽: 🧔🧔 AGRI-SELLING: PM-AASHA: FIX MSP LIMITATIONS
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40.20🌽🌽🌽📦📦📦📦📦�: FCI & PDS (बफर भं डार)
1964-65: Food Corporation of India (FCI, HQ-Delhi), a statutory corporation, setup under
Consumer Affairs Ministry (भारतीय खाद्य �नगम, उपभो�ा कायर् मं त्रालय का वैधा�नक �नगम)
1) Procurement of foodgrains from farmers at Minimum Support Prices (प्रापण करना)
2) Distribution of foodgrains to consumers through Public Distribution System (PDS, सावर्ज�नक
�वतरण प्रणाली द्वारा गरीबों म� खाद्या�ों का �वतरण)
3) Maintenance of buffer stock for food related schemes and to meet emergency situations like
unexpected crop failure, natural disasters, festivals, etc. (खाद्य सुर�ा और क�मत ��रता के �लए खाद्या�ों के
बफर �ॉक का भं डारण करना)
More points / analysis of food subsidy/PDS = shifted to mains. #Prelims-RAFTAAR.
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- Entitlement? Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of ₹ 6000 per year in three equal installments (₹
2000 x 3) in the beneficiary’s bank account. Thus, eliminating middlemen and corruption.
- more than 11 crore farmers are given payments - said 📙📙ES23.
- Criticism/Challenges/Reforms = Shifted to Mains. #Prelims-RAFAAR.
(Intro-Origin) With green revolution, we became self-reliant in cereal production. But perishable
fruits and vegetables have remained our Achilles’ heel. Seasonal spikes in onion, tomatoes & pulses is
a recurring nightmare for middle class families of India. The underlying causes as following:
1. Demand Side: Growth of middle class & their disposable incomes → ⏫ demand of
fruits/veggies than before.
2. Supply Side: shortage of commodities on account of 1) poor monsoon & pests 2) post-harvest
losses due to unavailability of cold-storage & warehousing 3) hoarding (सं ग्रहखोरी/काला-बाजारी).
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WHEAT AND excessive EXPORTs reducing supply for local customers.
RICE
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⇒ Faulty producer expectations → cyclical fluctuation in supply & prices. (िकसान क� दोषपूणर् अपे�ाएँ →
उ�ादन और क�मतों मे चक्र�य उतार-चढ़ाव)
⇒ This is called ‘Cobweb’ Cycle. Term given by economist Nicholas Kaldor (1934)
⇒ ��ES20 blamed this phenomenon for price fluctuations in pulses.
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5. Price wedge = large difference between the wholesale and retail prices. It’s due to high
transaction costs, poor marketing infra, huge margins by middleman etc
6. Heavy rains, Unseasonal rains, floods and cyclones disrupt the supply chains. e.g. 2021-Sept:
unseasonal rains in Punjab, Haryana, HP → Tomato crop damaged → inflation.
7. Farmer strike in Maharashtra, UP & MP, wherein they destroyed truckload of tomatoes, milk,
potatoes etc. (िकसानों द्वारा हड़ताल और प्रदशर्न ख़ुद अपना अनाज /स��याँ सड़क पर फ� क देते है)
8. Shortage of cold storage infrastructure (शीतागार). Big traders utilize them for hoarding onions
and potatoes, → less space for other vegetables’ storage even during bumper crops. 70% of
Tomatoes grown in Rabi Season- so in remaining months there will be shortage, if they’re not
stored.
9. Onion inflation – explained in separate section below.
10. 🤧🤧🤧🤧2020- Corona lockdown/supply-chain constrains= price rise in initial months, but later
on with unlockdown, prices moderated by 2020-December (तालाबं दी म� आपू�त श्रृंखला प्रबं धन म� चुनौ�तयां
�जसके चलते 2020 शु�आती महीनों म� खाद्य महंगाई बढ़ी हालांिक बाद के महीनों म� वापस कम �ई)
11. 2021- Soybean shortage → feed prices ⏫ → so fish & chicken prices⏫ (सोयाबीन चारा �आ महँ गा
→ मुग�पालन और मछलीपालन करने वालों ने अपने दाम महँ गे क�ए)
12. 2022: scene explained in the earlier chart at the starting of this topic.
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��ES22 observed Onion Tomato
Affected by weather/climate Maharashtra, Karnataka Punjab, UP, HP, Haryana,
in South India
Thus, if drought / cyclone / excess rain / pest attack in above months → huge supply shortage &
inflation.
⇒ NAFED procures and stores onion mostly in three states- Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and
Gujarat = more risk of adverse weather shocks / heavy rains / floods → transport bottlenecks.
Need to decentralise it with modern storage facilities at multiple states. (�सफर् तीन रा�ों म� �ाज का
भं डारण करने क� जगह, �वक� द्रीकृ त �प से अनेक रा�ों म� उ�� भं डा�रत िकया जाए, )
⇒ Health Ministry's eVIN (electronic vaccine intelligence network) =used for monitoring the
Vaccine supply. Similarly, onion supply online-monitoring systems need to be developed.
(ऑनलाइन तरीके से �जस प्रकार से वै�ीन क� �नगरानी रखी जाती है, ऐसा ही �ाज के साथ कर�)
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⇒ Use of dehydrated onions that has longer shelf life should be promoted for buffer stock purposes.
Hydrated variety should be sold early. (सुखाए गए �ाज लं बी अव�ध तक �बगड़ते नहीं इस�लए उनका भं डारण िकया
जाए जबिक ताजा / ना सुखाए गए �ाज �ाज थोड़े पहले बेच िदया जाए)
⇒ 1964-65: A statutory corporation Food Corporation of India (FCI: भारतीय खाद्य �नगम) was set up
under Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (उपभो�ा मामले, खाद्य और
सावर्ज�नक �वतरण). By default, FCI procures cereals/foodgrains @MSP & sells them to poor-families
via the Public Distribution System (PDS:सावर्ज�नक �वतरण प्रणाली) outlets.
⇒ However, during food inflation, FCI would also sell the grains in open market to �supply,
�price rise. It’s called Open Market Sale Scheme [खुला बाजार �बक्र� ��म].
⇒ �Limitation? While OMSS can help during shortage / inflation of cereal grains (rice, wheat).
But, not much useful in veggies because they’re out of FCI-MSP ambit.
⇒ � Corona-2020: FCI starts selling wheat & rice to all the charitable/ non-govt orgs who are
running community kitchen for migrant workers / poor people. (कोरोना म� एफ़सीआई ने
सेवाभावी/समाजसेवी/ग़ैर-सरकारी सं �ाओं को भी दे दनादन अनाज बेचा तािक वो प्रवासी मज़दू रों म� खाना उपल� करा सके ।)
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40.25.3 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 Govt initiatives → Price Stabilization Fund (2014)
Due to faulty MSP polices Edible oilseeds’ production in India is inadequate to meet consumer
demand. And it is becoming expensive for India to import edible oil because [आयात महंगा हो रहा है �ोंिक]
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⇒ High demand of oil due to due to fastfood, junkfood (wafers etc) habits of young generation.
⇒ 🌬🌬 La Niña climatic conditions affecting crop production in Argentina, Brazil for Soyabean Oil
⇒ Malaysia and Indonesia’s Palm oil purchased in large quantity by China =less qty for India.
⇒ � edible oils used generating biofuels by USA/Brazil= less qty for India. [जैव �धन म� इ�ेमाल]
⇒ � Corona → supply chain constraints and labour issues in lock down.
⇒ 2021: Indian govt �customs duty on imported palm oil to reduce prices in India and imposed
stock limits under Essential commodities act. आयात होने वाले पाम ऑयल पर सरकार ने सीमा शु� कम िकया
तािक भारत म� खाद्य तेलों क� महँ गाई दर म� कमी आ सके । आव�क व�ु अ�ध�नयम क़ानून के अंतगर्त �ॉक �ल�मट तय क�।
⇒ Critics argue reducing taxes on imported edible oils, is not going to help fighting inflation,
because of high demand by customers and profiteering by sellers. िकंतु आलोचकों का मानना है िक �ापा�रयों
क� मुनाफ़ाख़ोरी तथा ग्राहकों क� बढ़ती माँग के चलते खाद्य तेलों म� महँ गाई को क़ाबू म� नहीं हो सकती।
40.26.1 🏝🏝🏝🏝🏝🏝 🤯🤯: 🧔🧔 Govt initiatives → Edible oil ki New Scheme (NMEO-OP: 2021-Aug)
⇒ Boss? Agriculture Ministry launched National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm (NMEO-OP)
to make India self-reliant on edible oil production. [खाद्य तेल उ�ादन म� भारत को ��नभर्र बनाने के �लए]
⇒ Centrally Sponsored Scheme = States also required to contribute money.[क� द्र द्वारा प्रायो�जत योजना.]
⇒ With a special focus on the North east region and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands[ख़ास ज़ोर]
🤩🤩Conclusion: Presently India imports 98% of its palm oil requirement. Above scheme will greatly
help reducing our import bill, current account deficit, while creating income and employment
opportunities for farmers and youth. [सरकार का यह क़दम खाद्य तेल के आयात को कम करने म�, िकसानों और नौजवानों के
�लए रोज़गार के अवसर बढ़ाने म� मदद करेगा]
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40.27🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🧔🧔 FOOD INFLATION → ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES ACT
⇒ Essential Commodities Act 1955 (ECA: आव�क व�ु अ�ध�नयम) aims to control the production,
supply and distribution of certain goods considered as essential commodities e.g. foodgrain,
pulses, edible oil, sugar, jute, fertilizers & seed, cattle-fodder, medicines, petrol, diesel, kerosene,
etc. During inflation/shortage: govt can impose stock limits, restrict movement of goods.
⇒ This was causing some hardship to food processing companies. So Government enacted
Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance/Act, 2020 to help companies. But then
repealed this amendment after farmer protests. (�ॉक सीमा म� खाद्य प्रसं �रण कं प�नयां परेशान होती थी. सरकार ने
उनक� मदद के �लए कानून म� सुधार िकया, लेिकन िकसान आंदोलन के बाद सुधार वापस �लया.)
⇒ More analysis = shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Why India experienced high food inflation in the recent past? (UPSC-Pre-2011)
1. Due to a gradual switchover to the cultivation of commercial crops, the area under the
cultivation of food grains has steadily decreased in the last five years by about 30%.
2. As a consequence of increasing incomes, consumption patterns of the people have undergone a
significant change.
3. The food supply chain has structural constraints.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2, and 3
🔠🔠❓ Which were affecting price of rice in India in the recent past? (UPSC-Prelims-2020)
1) MSP 2) Government’s trading 3) Government’s stockpiling 4) Consumer subsidies
Codes: (a) 1,2 and 4 only (b) 1,3 and 4 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1,2, 3 and 4
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40.28 🍅🍅↘🤯🤯 AGRO-SELLING→ DEFLATION (2017 ONWARDS)
While agri. Inflation was a recurring nightmare during UPA-Congress raj (2004-14), the Modi-raj
has resulted in food-deflation (fall in the prices) for 3 reasons: (अप���त / दामों म� �गरावट)
1. Demonetization, limits on cash transactions and fear of being tracked by IT/GST authorities →
Traders are less inclined to hoarding → more supply available at market.
2. Protectionism by US/EU & fall of International commodity prices → India's agro exports are
down → More supply available in domestic market.
3. Urjit Patel's hawkish policy helped curbing inflation.(More in 📑📑Pillar#1A2)
- Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) is the minimum price decided by union govt at which
sugarcane is to be purchased by sugar mills from farmers. (क� द्र सरकार द्वारा �नधार्�रत एफ़आरपी वो �ूनतम
दाम है �जस पर चीनी �मलमा�लक ने िकसान से ग�ा ख़रीदना होगा)
- Some State govts may announce State Advised Price (SAP) at levels higher than FRP.
- Cane Reservation Area: sugar mills must buy sugarcane from farmers within a specified radius.
This is to protect the sugarcane farmer from cheap sugarcane import from States. (“ग�ा आर��त
�व�ार” यानी चीनी �मल मा�लक ने अपनी फे �री के इदर्-�गदर् के एक �नधार्�रत �व�ार के िकसानो से ही ग�ा ख़रीदना होगा।)
- In recent Years, Bumper production of sugarcane in India and Brazil → �supply → � global
sugar prices → but to keep Indian farmers happy Govt did not reduce FRP. Infact, FRP has
doubled in 10 years. (उ�ादन म� बढ़ोतरी को �व� बाज़ार म� श�र के दाम �गर गए लेिकन िकसानों को ख़ुश करने के �लए
�पछले 10 सालों म� भारत सरकार ग�े के समथर्न मू� को दगु ना िकया)
- Mill-owners’ arrears to farmers (i.e. previous payment not cleared yet.) (सरकार द्वारा �नधार्�रत दामों पर
चीनी/श�र �मलमा�लकों ने िकसानों से ग�ा ख़रीदा होता है लेिकन हाल के वष� म� बाज़ार म� चीनी स�ी हो गयी लेिकन िकसानो को
खुश रखने के �लए सरकार ग�े के दाम बढ़ाती रही, इस�लए चीनी/श�र �मल-मा�लक िकसानो का बकाया पैसा चुका निह पा रहे)
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Then govt doing following to help the sugar mill owners, in following ways:
- Soft loan / cheap loans to sugar mill owners in the arrears to farmers.
- Finance Ministry imposed 100% customs duty on imported sugar & 0% custom duty on export
of sugar to help Indian sugar mills.(आया�तत चीनी पर 100% सीमा शु�, �नयार्त चीनी पर 0% सीमा शु�)
- Subsidy to sugar exporters
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⇒ 🔪🔪 Loan Interest Subvention? 3% by Government (�ाज म� स��डी/मदद)
⇒ 🔪🔪 Loan Default? = upto ₹2 cr credit guarantee by Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and
Small Enterprises (CGTMSE: Ref1D)
⇒ Scheme Valid for next ten years, starting from 2020
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2. National Food Security Mission (NFSM) to increase production of rice, wheat, pulses, millets
(coarse cereals) and commercial crops & restore soil fertility.
a. 2018 declared as “National Year of Millets”. Further, UN & FAO accepted India’s
proposal to celebrate 2023 as International Year of Millets (अंतरार्ष्ट�ीय बाजरा वषर्). Because,
millets are tolerant to drought, climate change, photo insensitive; need less water,
provide nutritious elements in poor families’ diet. So, Govt create two sub-missions.
i. NFSM on Makka and Jau.
ii. NFSM on Nutri-Cereals (पौ��क अनाज) - Jowar, Bajra, Ragi and little millets like
Kutki, Kodo, Sawa, Kangni and Cheena.
b. NFSM has another sub-mission: National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP:
�तलहन और तेल पाम) to augment the availability of vegetable oils and to reduce the import of
edible oils. Associated term: Yellow Revolution.
3. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA: �ायी / सतत कृ �ष के �लए रा��ीय �मशन) to
encourage organic manures, bio fertilizers, cropping practices for soil and moisture conservation
measures; Rainfed Area Development (RAD) programme.
a. Subscheme: National Bamboo Mission (NBM) to augment the income of farmers.
Further, Indian Forest Act, 1927 was amended to exclude bamboo from the definition of
‘trees’. This will encourage bamboo grown outside forest area without interference from
Forest Department.
4. Sub-mission on Agriculture Extension (SMAE: कृ �ष �वस्तार पर उप �मशन): farmers training & skill
development with more use of electronic / print media, mobile apps and ICT tools, etc.
5. National e-Governance Plan on Agriculture (NeGP-A: राष्ट�ीय ई-गवन�स): to enhance reach of
extension services- about cropping methods, market prices etc. to the farmers.
6. Sub-Mission on Seeds and Planting Material (SMSP: बीज तथा पौध रोपण सामग्री): to promote new
technologies in seed production, processing, storage, certification and quality etc.
7. Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM: कृ �ष मशीनीकरण पर उप�मशन): To increase the
availability of farm machines to small and marginal farmers. e.g. ‘Custom Hiring Centres’ where
they can rent the machines without spending money on individual ownership. encourage R&D
for small-sized machineries for small landholdings, hill-areas etc.
8. Sub Mission on Plant Protection and Plan Quarantine (SMPPQ: पौध सं र�ण और पौधों के अलगाव पर
उप�मशन ): To minimize the damage by insect pests, diseases, weeds, rodents, etc. and to shield our
agricultural biosecurity from alien species.
9. Integrated Scheme on Agriculture Census, Economics and Statistics (ISACES:कृ �ष गणना,
अथर्व्यवस्थाएं तथा सां��क� पर एक�कृ त योजना): For data collection which can be used for R&D and policy
making.
10. Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Cooperation (ISAC: कृ �ष सहयोग): Give financial assistance for
farmers' cooperatives for agricultural marketing, processing, storage etc.
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11. Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Marketing (ISAM: कृ �ष �वपणन): To develop online and offline
agricultural marketing infrastructure.
<Homework? After Prelims, self-study their features in a more comprehensive manner from Yojana-
Kurukshetra magazines, because UPSC is in habit of asking about random obscure agro. schemes in
the mains exam. E.g. horticulture mission.>
40.29.6 👻👻🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 Atma-Nirbhar: ”Op Green” expanded to all fruits & veggies
⇒ Food Processing Ministry → PM Kisan Sampada Yojana → sub scheme called Operation Greens
for T-O-P: Tomato, Onion and Potato
⇒ 2020: �Corona → �ATMANIRBHAR= now we’ll expand from T-O-P to ALL fruits and
vegetables. It’ll provide
o 50% subsidy on transportation from surplus area to deficient area. (�जन �व�ारोम� �वपुल
उ�ादन/आपू�त है वहां से कमी/तं गी वाले बाजारों म� माल प�ंचाया जाए)
o Long term subsidy on storage infrastructure. (भं डारण के �लए बु�नयादी ढांचा)
⇒ Benefit? reduced food wastage, Better prices for farmers, affordable food for consumers
(अप�य/बबार्दी, िकसान को बेहतर क�मत, ग्राहक को िकफायती दाम)
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⇒ Help them comply with Food Safety Standards, (खाद्य सुर�ा मानक)
⇒ Cluster based approach of development e.g. Mango in UP, Kesar in J&K, Bamboo shoots in
North-East, Chilli in Andhra Pradesh, Tapioca in Tamil Nadu etc. → �Export (समूहबध्ध करके
�वकास, �नयार्त मे बढ़ोतरी)
Separately, herbal cultivation of medicinal plant, beekeeping will be encouraged (औषधीय पौधे और
मधुम�ी पालन को प्रो�ाहन)
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. which of the following can be considered as public investment in agriculture? (Prelims-2020)
1) Fixing Minimum Support Price for agriculture produce of all crops
2) Computerization of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies
3) Social Capital development
4) Free electricity supply of farmers
5) Waiver of agriculture loans by the banking system
6) Setting up of cold storage facilities by the governments
Codes: (a) 1, 2 and 5 only (b) 1, 3, 4 and 5 only (c) 2, 3 and 6 only (d) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
- Agri’s DPSP-Article 48: requires the State to organise animal husbandry on modern and
scientific lines, preserving and improving breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter of cows and
other cattle.
- India’s #1 milk producer, #3 egg producer and #8 meat producer- says �ES23.
- Per capita availability of milk and eggs has steadily � in recent years, says ��ES22
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Above graph also gives a hint of why there is malnutrition in some states.
- Department of Animal Husbandry conducts livestock Census every 5 year since 1919-20.
- The 20th Livestock Census: data collection started in 2018-Oct. data released in 2019.
- India has the world's largest livestock population
Category Census- % growth / Internal Distribution:
(Largest to 2018-19 fall to More imp for StatePCS Exam than IAS exam
Smallest) (in previous
million) census
Cattle 192.49 0.8% ⇒ WB>UP>MP>BH>MH
⇒ Female Pop>Males.
⇒ Indigenous Population is more than
Crossbred/Exotic Pop.
⇒ In-Milk giving population greater than Dry
Population
Goat 148.88 10.1% RJ>WB>UP>BH>MP
Buffalo 109.85 1.1% UP>RJ>Guj>MP>Bihar
Sheep 74.26 14.1% Telangana>Andhra>Kar>RJ>TN
Pig 9.06 -12.0% Assam>JH>Megha>WB>Chhattisgarh
Mithun 0.38 26.7% It’s a Buffalo like animal found in Northeast
Only 4 States: Arunanchal>Naga>Mani>Mizo
Horses & 0.34 -46.0% UP>JK>RJ>BH>Guj
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Category Census- % growth / Internal Distribution:
(Largest to 2018-19 fall to More imp for StatePCS Exam than IAS exam
Smallest) (in previous
million) census
Ponies
Camel 0.25 -37.5% Only 4 States: RJ>Guj>Haryana>UP
Donkey 0.12 -62.5% RJ>MH>UP>Guj>BH
Mule 0.08 -60.0% info not available in Census document
Yak 0.06 -25.0% Only 5 States: J&K>Arunanchal>Sikkim>HP>WB
Total 535.78 4.6% Top 5-States: UP>Raj>MP>W.Bengal>Bihar
(Mammal)
Livestock
Separately
Poultry 851.81 16.8% Top 5-States: TN>Andhra>Telengana>WB>MH
40.31.2 🐮🐮🍼🍼 Agro Allied: Animal husbandry → White Revolution
- India ranks first in milk production, accounting for 20 percent of world production.
- 1970-1996: Operation Flood in 3 phases, to setup dairy farmers’ cooperatives → increase milk
production in India.
- Afterwards, milk production in India has been increasing steadily.
- All India per capita availability of milk is 375 grams per day, it varies between 71 grams per day
in Assam to 1120 grams per day in Punjab.
- White Revolution Scheme Boss? Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
- Core Scheme = Not 100% Funded by Union.
- It is an Umbrella scheme covering many Congressi schemes like Dairy Entrepreneurship
Development, Livestock Census, National Livestock Mission, fodder & vaccination etc.
- Notable parts of White revolution are →
Table 2: by default, Animal husbandry ministry responsible for this
Pashudhan - Animal Wellness Programme with emergency helpline
Sanjivani - Farmers given Nakul Swasthya Patra: An Animal Health card with UID
identification number of each animal registered in a National Database.
e-Pashudhan Online portal for connecting farmers with breeders of indigenous bovine
Haat portal breeds for bulls, artificial insemination etc. (कृ �त्रम गभार्धान)
E-Gopala App National Dairy Development Board's (NDDB) App to give info on cattle care,
(2020-Sept) health and diet. Later, Animal's separate Unique Identification number
(UID/Aadhar) numbers to be added in e-GOPALA app to make it easier for
cattle owners to buy and sell animals. (मवे�शयों क� �बक्र� होगी आसान )
Rashtriya Gokul - Indigenous bovine breeds (�देशी गोजातीय न�)- conserve them & increase
mission their population. E.g. Gir, Sahiwal, Rathi, Deoni, Tharparkar, Red Sindhi.
- State govts are given money for establishing Gokul Gram breeding &
disease treatment centres.
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National For development and conservation of indigenous breeds in a scientific
Kamdhenu manner. Two centres: 1) Itarsi near Hoshangabad in M.P. 2) Chintaladevi
breeding centre near Nellore in Andhra GK-NOTIMP.
Rashtriya Int-Budget-2019 setup this executive body in Department of Animal
Kamdhenu Aayog Husbandry & Dairying. Goals?
2019 - Genetic up-gradation of cow resources
- Enhance cow productivity through research in organic manure, biogas
etc; Cow welfare, cow protection laws.
Structure:
- Chairman with tenure of 2 years.
- Members from govt, research institutions, social workers etc their tenure
depends on govt’s discretion.. HQ: New Delhi.
💼💼Budget-2020 We’ll eliminate following disease by 2025:
o Cattle: Foot and Mouth disease, Brucellosis
o sheep and goat: Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR)
We’ll use MNREGA workers to develop fodder farms.
Dairy Sahakar dairy sector to get loans through National Cooperative Development
2021 Corporation (NCDC).
🐮🐮🐮🐮😢😢 Challenge in dairy sector?
1. Post-2017: Excess supply of milk in global market → crash in milk prices. So, Indian private
dairy owners also cut down their procurement prices, resulting in dairy farmers’ distress &
agitations. So, farmers spilling milk on highways in protest. (अ�ा�धक आपू�त → दामों म� �गरावट)
2. As animal gets old & stops giving milk → farmers sell it to slaughter house to get money to buy
new animals. But, this trade becoming difficult due to present socio-political atmosphere →
even leather-industry also suffering. (वतर्मान सामा�जक-राजनी�तक माहोल म� बूढ़े पशुओ ं को क़�खाने म� बेचने म�
िकसान को िद�त, �जससे िक चमड़ा उधयोग म� भी सम�ा)
3. RCEP Agreement Angle. �Ref- Handout: Pillar-3B
4. Corona-2020: � in milk demand due to lockdown, tea-shops, sweet shops, ice cream parlours,
restaurants, hotel etc shutdown → private dairies stopped milk procurement from the farmers
→ farmers started selling to milk cooperative dairies but they’re unable to pay money because
slow business. (लॉकडाउन के चलते �नजी डेयरी-मा�लकोने िकसानों से दू ध खरीदना िकया बं द तो िकसान सहकारी दू ध मं ड�लयों म�
�ादा दू ध भरवाने लगे िकंतु वहाँ पर भी धं धा मं दा है)
5. 2022: Fodder Shortage / inflation → milk prices inflation.
40.31.3 🍋🍋🍋🍋Cow (welfare) Cess
Punjab was the 1st State start to levy Cow (Welfare) Cess on sale of liquor, electricity etc. Later on
Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan also started collecting it.
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40.31.4 🐑🐑🐑🐑: 📔📔📔📔ES2019 suggests focus on Small Ruminants
Sheep and goat are collectively known as small ruminants (जुगाली करनेवाले छोटे जानवर)
− These small ruminants have higher survival rates under drought conditions compared to bovines
(गौ-जातीय पशु: Cattle, Buffalo, Mithun and Yak).
− They can even live on shrubs and trees. Their reproduction rates are higher than large
ruminants. Farmers/producers can sell them more frequently & no fear of ‘cow-vigilantism’. (गौ-
र�ा के �लए नाग�रकों द्वारा कानून को हाथ म� लेना)
− Thus, small ruminants can help � income of the small-marginal & women farmers. (छोटे सीमांत
और मिहला िकसानों क� आय म� बढ़ोतरी)
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- 💼💼Budget-2020:
- “Sagar mitras”: these extension workers to advise fishermen with processing and
marketing. मछु आरों को प्रस�रण-और �वपणन तालीम देने के �लए सागर-�मत्र
- Target to raise fishery export to ₹1 lakh crore by 2024-25.
- We’ll promote growing algae, sea-weed and Cage Culture (growing of fishes in existing
water resources in a net cage which allows free flow of water.)
- 💼💼Budget-2021: 5 major fishing harbours – Kochi, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, and
Petuaghat (W.Bengal) – will be developed further (मछली पकड़ने के बं दरगाह अ�धक �वक�सत िकए जाएं गे)
- Mariculture = cultivation of marine organisms in their natural environment in sea upto 12
nautical miles from coast. Just like Agriculture, this is also a State-list subject. 2018: Agro
Ministry announced Draft National Policy on Mariculture which encourages State Govts to lease
the sea area to private entities & even farming of genetically modified species in enclosed / caged
marine spaces. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
⇒ Originally announced in Budget 2019. but was not launched in that financial year. Then Corona
→ Atma-Nirbhar 2020-May/Jun → yes we'll launch it.
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
⇒ Type? It's an umbrella scheme worth >20kcr. Made up of two sub-schemes/parts:
o 1) Sub-scheme #1: Central Sector Scheme (=state not req to give money)
o 2) Sub-scheme #2: Centrally Sponsored Scheme (=States required to give money.)
This scheme provides Support / Funding / Subsidies for
�Sagar Mitra youth extension workers: They'll give training to fishermen.
🛶🛶🛶🛶☠Fishing Boat/Vessels → Loans interest subsidy and Insurance premium subsidies
(नाव/पोत के �लए ऋण के �ाज और बीमा िक� म� स��डी)
Inland Aquaculture, Coldwater Fisheries in Himalayan areas, (अंतद�शीय, शीत जल म�)
🌾🌾Seaweed cultivation, 🐠🐠Ornamental Fisheries (समुद्री शैवाल क� खेती, सजावटी मछली)
Mariculture: cultivation of marine organisms in their natural environment in sea upto 12
nautical miles from coast.
⚓Development of fishing harbours, Post harvest infrastructure, transport, marketing support (
बं दरगाह, बु�नयादी अवसं रचना, प�रवहन, �वपणन सहायता)
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⚗🩺🩺Quality control labs so we can comply with US/EU's health/hygiene, sanitary and phyto-
sanitary (SPS) standards. (गुणव�ा �नयं त्रण प्रयोगशालाएं , तािक अपना म� उ�ाद �वदेशों म� �ा�/��ता सं बं �धत
मानकों पर खा�रज ना हो जाए)
🗓🗓Scheme Valid for next five years, starting from 2020
🤩🤩Outcome? 55 lakhs direct and indirect jobs, ₹1 lakh cr fisheries export by 2025.
✍Conclusion? Fisheries and aquaculture are an important source of food, nutrition, employment
and exports in India. Govt has taken an appreciable step to boost this sector further. (भोजन, पोषण,
रोजगार और �नयार्त क� बढ़ोतरी के �लए मह�पूणर् इस म� �ेत्र को, और बढ़ावा देने के �लए सरकार ने, एक सराहनीय कदम उठाया है।)
⇒ 2021: Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA, a statutory body under
Commerce Ministry) has developed a Shaphari certification scheme for aquaculture (e.g. fish,
shrimp etc), based on United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s technical guidelines.
⇒ If an Indian aquaculture farmer/company gets this certificate = means his shrimp/fish etc. are
free of harmful chemicals/pesticides/antibiotics. (प्रमाणपत्र क� मछली-झींगा म� जहरीले रसायन नहीं)
40.31.9 Sweet Revolution (Honey / Beekeeping) मीठी क्रां�त, शहद, मधुम�ी पालन
− 2017: �'Honey Mission' was launched by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC, a
statutory body under MSME Ministry). PM Modi termed it ‘Sweet revolution’. (शहद)
− 2020: Agri ministry launched National Beekeeping & Honey Mission (NBHM)
− Honey provides � income from selling honey to food processing industry, beeswax in
chemical industry, bee-venom to pharma industry etc.
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (1929) is the apex body of agricultural research,
education and extension under the ministry of agriculture.
ICAR operates through 690 + Krishi Vigyan Kendra which provide last Mile connectivity to
farmers and help them adopt the latest cropping technologies.
Further details on agri-extension services = SHIFTED To Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR
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40.33🤝🤝 GLOBAL COOPERATION: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION (FAO)
- खाद्य और कृ �ष सं गठन is a specialized agency of UN, setup in 1945 with HQ @Rome, Italy.
- It publishes Food Price Index (FPI) to monitor inflation. This index focuses on five commodity
groups namely - cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar (खाद्य महंगाई सूचकांक बनाता है)
- FAO started celebrating international milk day on June 1 since 2001. Now 20th World Milk Day
2021 with the theme 'Sustainability in the dairy sector.’ अंतररा��ीय दू ध िदवस हर साल जून म� मनाया जाता है
⇒ In India, millets are primarily a Kharif crop mostly grown in rainfed conditions
⇒ requiring less water and agricultural inputs than other staple crops.
⇒ Government notified Millets as Nutri-cereals in April 2018. Under the National Food Security
Mission (NFSM), millets have been introduced to provide nutritional support.
⇒ �Budget-2023: we grow several types of ‘Shree Anna’ such as kuttu, ramdana, kangni, kutki,
kodo, cheena, and sama. we’ll give the funding to Indian Institute of Millet Research, Hyderabad.
It is an org. under under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
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2019–2029 1) Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace 2) United Nations Decade of Family Farming
2021–2030 United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
2021–2030 International Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
40.33.5 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: Misc. → SAARC Food Bank (2007)
2007: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries signed the
agreement to establish the SAARC Food Bank.
The Food Bank will help member nations’ people in case of emergencies.
Each member country is required to contribute either wheat/rice.
Stock is kept with respective Govt agencies like FCI. So, Bank doesn’t hv a HQ as such.
40.33.6 🤝🤝 Global Cooperation: Misc. → International Grains Council (London)
HQ: London, for cooperation in wheat and coarse grain matters.
IGC has two types of members— importing and exporting members. India has been included in
the category of exporting member since 2003
⇒ This Raftaar-courses deals purely with Prelims and NOT with Mains. So, You’ve two options:
⇒ A) Watch previous recorded course PCB7 completed between 2022-June to October: OR
⇒ B) Wait for next course for Mains-specific Economy from 2023-June onwards
�Next HDT: Pillar4B: Sectors of Economy → MFG, MSME, Make/Assemble in India etc.
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Pillar4B: sectors of Economy: MFG, Startup-IPR, Make in India, EoD, MSME-Textile
Table of Contents
41 �Mfg & Services: Industrial policy and LPG reforms .............................................................................585
41.1 �Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization?.........................................................................586
41.1.1 � Liberalization: उदारीकरण .........................................................................................................586
41.1.2 � → �Privatization: �नजीकरण ...............................................................................................587
41.1.3 �Globalization: वै�ीकरण ............................................................................................................588
41.2 �Beyond LPG → towards 4th Industrial Revolution ....................................................................588
41.2.1 �� GPAI – the new GANG for A.I. (2020-June) .............................................................589
41.2.2 � Beyond LPG → 4th Industrial Revolution → New Industrial Policy...........................589
41.2.3 � 4th Industrial Revolution → Samarth Udyog Bharat 4.0 ...............................................589
41.3 ⛸🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑 Circular Economy (प�रक्रामी अथर्�व�ा) ................................................................................590
41.3.1 � Circular Economy: Business Models ..................................................................................590
41.3.2 ��
��Circular Economy: Right to Repair Portal (2022).................................................591
41.3.3 �Circular Economy: India Plastics Pact (IPP) 2021 .................................................................591
41.4 �Mfg Policy → National Mfg Policy 2011: रा��ीय उ�ादन नी�त ..........................................................591
41.4.1 � Mfg Infrastructure → NIMZ, रा�ी� य उ�ादन और �नवेश �ेत्र......................................................591
41.4.2 � Mfg Infrastructure → Industrial Corridors (औद्यो�गक ग�लयारे) ..........................................592
41.5 �� Make in India: How? ...............................................................................................................592
41.6 Make in India 2.0 ...................................................................................................................................595
41.7 ��:�
� �� Mfg: Assemble in India (अस�बल इन इं िडया)...........................................................596
41.7.1 ��:�
� ��: Assemble in In India → “Network products”.....................................597
41.7.2 ��:�
� ��: Assemble in In India → how will it benefit India? ............................597
41.7.3 ���:�
��Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI: उ�ादन आधा�रत प्रो�ाहन) .......597
41.7.4 ���:�
�� PLI Scheme ke 13 Sectors ...............................................................................598
41.7.5 ���:� �� -� �PLI Scheme: Benefits?........................................................................599
41.7.6 Mfg: electric vehicles: FAME & PMP Schemes .............................................................................599
41.8 � Mfg Sector Observations by �ES23 ..............................................................................................599
41.8.1 � Mfg- significance as per �ES23 (�व�नमार्ण �ेत्र का मह�) ..............................................................599
41.8.2 � MFG Sectors challenges as per �ES23 (चुनौ�तयां) ......................................................................599
41.8.3 � Mfg: Balancesheet Deleveraging completed as per �ES23 ....................................................600
41.9 �� Mfg & Services → Startup India (2016) ...............................................................................600
41.9.1 ��:�
� Budget-2019 on Start-ups ......................................................................................601
41.9.2 ��:�
� Budget-2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 on Start-ups .......................................................601
41.9.3 �� Startup: Misc Terms and trends ....................................................................................602
41.10 �� Mfg Policy → National Policy on Electronics 2019 ............................................................602
41.10.1 ��Mfg → Electronics Development Fund (EDF: इले��ॉ�नक� �वकास �न�ध).........................603
41.10.2 ��Mfg → Design Linked Incentive (DLI) for Semi-Conductor Chips ........................603
41.10.3 �� → National Digital Communications Policy (2018) ...............................................603
41.10.4 �� → National Policy on Software Products - 2019 .......................................................604
41.10.5 � Electronics & Startups Notable Schemes/Portals (2022) .................................................604
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41.10.6 �� → Quantum Technology (�ांटम प्रौद्यो�गक�) 2020 ...........................................................605
41.11 ��� Startup Criticism / challenges (�नदं ा/आलोचना) ..................................................................605
41.12 �� → � Startup → (SHUTDOWN) “EXIT” of Sick Industries ..........................................605
41.13 �Startup Problems as per �ES23 ..................................................................................................606
41.13.1 �Flipping....................................................................................................................................606
41.13.2 �How can India combat “flipping” / ensure “Reverse Flipping”? ....................................607
42 �Mfg & Services → Intellectual Property Rights ....................................................................................607
42.1.1 ��WIPO is known for..........................................................................................................607
42.1.2 �IPR → Indian Laws ................................................................................................................607
42.2 �IPR → Patents → What can’t be Patented? ................................................................................608
42.2.1 �IPR: Biopiracy & Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) ........................................609
42.3 �IPR → Patents → Compulsory Licensing (अ�नवायर् लाइस��सगं ) ......................................................609
42.3.1 ��Patent pools (पेटंटो का समूहीकरण) .......................................................................................610
42.3.2 ��Trips Waiver demand by India & S.Africa ...................................................................611
42.4 �IPR → Evergreening of Patents (पेट�ट को सदाबहार करना / रखना).......................................................611
42.5 �IPR → Utility Patents: उपयो�गता पेट�ट ...............................................................................................611
42.6 �� IPR → National IPR Policy 2016 ...........................................................................................612
42.7 �� IPR → Notable Schemes (कु छ उ�ेखनीय योजनाएं ) .....................................................................612
42.8 �� IPR → Indices & Rankings ....................................................................................................614
42.8.1 �� IPR Index → Global Innovation Index (GII: वै��क नवीनीकरण सूचकांक) ......................614
42.8.2 � Index → Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) by WEF ...............................................614
42.8.3 � Index → NITI’s India Innovation Index (भारत नवाचार सूचकांक) .........................................614
42.8.4 �� IPR Index → Misc. फालतू वाले..........................................................................................615
42.9 �� Pvt sector not spending enough ₹₹ on R&D says ES21 ......................................................615
43 �Sectors: Ease of Doing Business Report .................................................................................................615
43.1.1 ��EoD → Indian States’ EoD: BRAP Ranking ................................................................616
43.1.2 ��EoD → Economic Freedom of the World ...................................................................616
43.2 Ease of Doing Biz (EoD): �Budget-2023 announcements ..........................................................617
43.2.1 EoD: Vivad se Vishwas I – Relief for MSMEs in �Budget-2023 .............................................617
43.2.2 Vivad se Vishwas II – Settling Contractual Disputes in �Budget-2023 .................................617
43.2.3 EoD: PAN Card as Common Business Identifier .........................................................................617
43.2.4 EoD: Unified Filing Process .............................................................................................................618
43.2.5 EoD for MSME: GSTN gets AA Status ...........................................................................................618
43.2.6 EoD: One-stop solution for identity and address updating : .......................................................619
43.2.7 EoD: training of civil servants to be more sensitive in Mission KarmaYogi .............................619
43.3 � EODB 2.0 in ��Budget-2022 (�ापार सुगमता का दू सरा चरण) .....................................................619
43.4 ��Pro-Business vs Pro-Crony, ��ES20Vol1Ch3 ..............................................................619
43.4.1 ��: ��Cronyism: Economist David Ricardo & Rent Seeking ................................619
43.5 �� Ease of doing Biz → Judicial Reforms: �ा�यक सुधार...............................................................620
43.5.1 ��: �� ENFORCING CONTRACTS PORTAL (2021-June) ......................................620
43.5.2 ��: International Arbitration Centre @GIFT city - in ��Budget-2022 .....................620
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43.5.3 ���Transparency International → Corruption Perceptions Index ..........................620
43.6 🕵🕵🕵🕵 ES21: Over regulation in India, TORA Act ..............................................................................621
43.7 ��Ease of doing Biz → Labour Reforms : श्रम सुधार ....................................................................621
43.8 �Ease of doing Biz → Fixed Term Employment 2018 .................................................................622
43.9 �� Minimum Wages (�ूनतम वेतन) .................................................................................................623
43.9.1 �� Minimum Wage Reform: Anoop Satpathy Committee (2019) ................................624
43.10 ��� Minimum Wages → Code on Wages 2019 (वेतन कोड/ सं िहता) .......................................624
43.10.1 ��� Code on Wages 2019 →Salient Features (figures not IMP) ...............................625
43.11 ��Ease of doing Biz (EoD) → Factories Act reforms ...............................................................625
43.11.1 �� Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014 ...............................................................................626
43.12 ���(EoD) → Industrial Dispute Act 1947, 2010 ..................................................................626
43.12.1 ���EoD: Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2022, .................................627
43.13 ��Ease of doing Biz → Shram suvidha Portal (2014) .............................................................627
43.14 �� ���EoD → Corona: Suspension of Labour Laws? ................................................627
43.14.1 ���Corona Suspension Labour laws: Union says NO!!.............................................628
43.14.2 ��� Banking = Public Utility Service (सावर्ज�नक उपयो�गता सेवा) ......................................628
43.15 ��Ease of doing Biz → Building Homes & Running Shops ....................................................629
43.15.1 ��Ease of doing Biz → Model Shops & Establishments Bill, 2016................................629
43.15.2 ��Ease of doing Biz → Real Estate Regulation & Development Act (RERA) .............629
44 Sectors of Economy → Mfg → �Textile & MSME ................................................................................631
44.1 ��Textiles Ministry (कपडा / व� मं त्रालय) ........................................................................................631
44.1.1 ��� Textile Ministry → Notable schemes / initiatives ...............................................632
44.2 �� Mfg & Services → MSME → Ministry ...............................................................................633
44.2.1 ��� MSME Problems: RBI’s UK Sinha report (2019).................................................634
44.3 �MSME: Truckload of Scheme/Initiatives .....................................................................................634
44.3.1 ��MSME Ministry → PM's Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP-2008) 634
44.3.2 ���� MSME Ministry → Public Procurement Order(सावर्ज�नक खरीद/अ�धप्रा�� आदेश)
635
44.3.3 ����� Public Procurement → GeM Portal .........................................................635
44.3.4 🗺🗺One District One Product (ODOP: 2021) ...........................................................................635
44.3.5 ����� MSME → Atma-Nirbhar Funding/Schemes (2020, Corona) ...............636
44.3.6 ��Ubharte Sitaare Programme for MSME Exporters (USP: 2021-Aug) ...........................636
44.4 �� �� MSME Ministry → Misc. Initiatives ......................................................................636
44.4.1 �� MSME Ministry → ASPIRE (2015) ............................................................................636
44.4.2 ��MSME Ministry → Solar Charkha Mission (2018) ...................................................636
44.4.3 ��MSME Ministry → Gramodyog Vikas Yojana...........................................................637
44.4.4 ��MSME Ministry → Portals / Helplines ...........................................................................637
44.4.5 �� MSME: Funds for their development ...............................................................................638
44.5 �� ���� ES19: MSME dwarfism shd be discouraged (बौनापन) ................................638
44.5.1 � �� ATMANI: MSME Definition Changed by Government....................................638
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45 ��Service Sector (सेवा �ेत्र) .......................................................................................................................639
45.1.1 ��Service Sector: IT & BPM................................................................................................639
45.1.2 ���: Knowledge economy of India: Threats/Challenges ............................................639
45.1.3 Sunrise sector in ��Budget-2022 (सूय�दय �ेत्र: जहाँ तेज़ वृ�द्ध क� सं भावना) ....................................640
45.2 🖱🖱🖱🖱 SERVICE SECTOR → E-Commerce (ई वा�ण� / ऑनलाइन �बक्र�)..............................................640
45.2.1 🖱🖱🖱🖱 E-Commerce Rules 2019-Feb...........................................................................................640
45.2.2 🖱🖱🖱🖱 E-Commerce: (Draft) CONSUMER PROTECTION (E-COMMERCE) RULES, 2020641
45.2.3 🖱🖱🖱🖱🖱🖱 Criticism against E-COMMERCE) RULES: (आलोचना) ..................................................641
45.2.4 🖱🖱🖱🖱 E-Commerce: Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC): ......................................641
45.2.5 QCommerce / Quick Commerce ....................................................................................................642
45.2.6 E-Commerce: Anti Fake review framework by BIS ......................................................................643
45.2.7 E-Commerce: Google Appstore Anti-Trust: CCI Order .............................................................643
45.3 � Mfg → Bodies for quality standards (गुणव�ा के मानक) .................................................................644
45.3.1 �Consumer Affairs Ministry → Statutory → BIS (1986) ...................................................644
45.3.2 � Power Ministry → Statutory → BEE (2001-02) ...............................................................645
45.3.3 � Health ministry→ Statutory → FSSAI (2006) ..................................................................645
45.3.4 � Commerce Ministry → Not-Statutory → QCI (1997) ...................................................646
45.3.5 � Commerce Ministry → Not-Statutory → NPC (1958) ..................................................647
45.3.6 ��One Nation, One Standard Scheme (2019).......................................................................647
45.3.7 PARAKH Laboratory Network (2021) ...........................................................................................647
45.4 �� Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (उपभो�ा सं र�ण) ..................................................................648
45.4.1 �� Consumer Protection Act 2019 → bodies → Consumer court ...............................648
45.4.2 �� Consumer Protection Act 2019 → bodies → others .................................................648
45.4.3 �� Consumer Protection Act 2019 → Features (प्रमुख/मु� प्रावधान) .................................648
45.4.4 Social Media influencers pe CCPA Rules 2023 .............................................................................649
45.5 �� Mains Questions from this pillar? .........................................................................................649
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(�व�नमार्ण और सेवा �ेत्र क� भारत के GDP और रोज़गार म� िह�ेदारी उदारीकरण के सुधारों के बाद बढ़ी है)
41.1 �LIBERALIZATION, PRIVATIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION?
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41.1.2 � → �Privatization: �नजीकरण
1. Allowing private sector to enter into the sectors which were previously reserved for public sector
companies only, सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के �लए आर��त उद्योगों म� �नजी �ेत्र क� कं प�नयों को अनुम�त देना
2. Converting public sector companies to private sector companies by reducing Government
shareholding to below 50% (📑📑Pillar#2 → Disinvestment)
Till 1991 After LPG-reforms
many of the industrial sectors were reserved for Only following industries are reserved for
the public sector Industries only → no public sector undertakings
competition, lack of innovation. कई �ेत्र सरकारी 1. Atomic Energy (परमाणु ऊजार्)
कं प�नयों के �लए आर��त थे. �नजी �ेत्र के उद्य�मयों को आने क� 2. Railways (now even there private train
मनाई। �धार् और नवाचार क� कमी
operators allowed (More in 📑📑Pillar#5)
Government would nationalise private sector - Stopped the practice of nationalisation.
industries in the national interest such as - Private sector companies were allowed in
banking, insurance, aviation. (�नजी कं प�नयों का Banking, Insurance, aviation, telecom and
रा��ीयकरण)
other sectors.
- रा��ीयकरण क� प्रिक्रया बं ध क�, और �नजी क��नयों को
ब�िकंग बीमा उड्डयन दू रसं चार इ�ािद �ेत्रों म� अनुम�त दी
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41.1.3 🌐🌐Globalization: वै�ीकरण
Globalization is a process in which nations allow free flow of goods, services, labour, capital
investment, technology, ideas and innovations. व�ु, सेवाओं, श्रम, पूंजी �नवेश, प्रौद्यो�गक�, और �वचारों नवाचारों के
मु� प्रवाह क� प्रिक्रया को वै�ीकरण कहते ह�
😰😰Till 1991 🤩🤩After LPG-reforms
Inward looking economy, Import substitution India joined the WTO-regime, we gradually
policy, variety of tariff & non tariff barriers on relaxed the tariff and non tariff barriers on the
the imported goods & services → problem of imported goods and services. (Ref:
smuggling.(आयात प्र�त�ापन नी�त, शु� और गैर शु� 📑📑Pillar#3B)
बाधाए, त�री)
Very strict controls on currency convertibility, Norms where relaxed (Ref: 📑📑Pillar#3A)
foreign companies, and foreign investment. (मुद्रा (�नयमों म� ढील / छू ट)
प�रवतर्नीयता, �वदेशी �नवेश पर स� �नयं त्रण/रोक)
Further self study on the LPG reforms from NCERT class 11 ch.2 and 3. Mains Answer writing about
LPG reforms: youtube.com/user/TheMrunalPatel/search?query=rao
41.2 🤖🤖BEYOND LPG → TOWARDS 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Timelines (Approx.) Industrial revolutions & their major components
before you arrive at home.)
- The 4th Industrial Revolution = automation of mfg processes through "smart factories" where
cyber-physical systems will make decisions, minimizing wastages, optimizing the use of energy
and raw material. (चौथी औद्यो�गक क्रां�त = �ाटर् कारखानों म� �व�नमार्ण, ऊजार् और क�े माल के �य म� कमी)
- Germany, France, China, USA etc. have already launched government funded programs
- 2017: Commerce ministry set up a taskforce on AI for India's economic transformation under
Dr. V. Kamakoti. 2018: Defense ministry set up a taskforce on AI for national security under N.
Chandrasekharan of Tata Sons. (इस मामले पर सरकार द्वारा �व�भ� स�म�तयों का भी गठन �आ है)
- 2018-Budget gave ₹100 crore to Department of Science & Technology for a mission on cyber
physical systems. NITI Ayog working on National Artificial Intelligence Mission.
- 2019-Budget announced a National Programme on 'Artificial Intelligence'.
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- Related? This department is also responsible for the National Capital Goods Policy 2016, to ⏫
domestic production of textile machinery, Earth moving and mining machinery, printing
machinery etc. (रा�ी� य पूंजीगत माल नी�त) Sidenote: Textile Ministry’ SAMARTH scheme= skill
development in textile sector.
- 2023: Hyderabad to have India’s first Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) on
healthcare & life sciences, with help of World Economic Forum.
What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in Video. More pointer Shifted to Mains.
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41.3.2 🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧Circular Economy: Right to Repair Portal (2022)
⇒ Commerce ministry opened the right to repair portal.
⇒ Companies will have to compulsorily the upload the repair manuals. so that consumers can get
product repaired by themselves or by a third party, rather than depending on the manufacturers.
⇒ will help in reducing the generation of electronic waste, environment, conservation, promotion
of circular economy, etc.
⇒ Initially, portal will cover mobile phones, electronic, consumer durables, automobile and
farming equipment.
⇒ Such right already available in Europe and western countries. (’मर�त का अ�धकार’)
41.4 �MFG POLICY → NATIONAL MFG POLICY 2011: रा��ीय उ�ादन नी�त
Boss? Commerce ministry → DIPP / DPIIT. (वा�ण� मं त्रालय)
- Target? To ⏫ manufacturing’s share in GDP to 25% by 2022, & create 100 million jobs.
- For this target, Govt will pursue ease of doing business, skill upgradation for young workforce,
funding for innovation & green Technologies (�वसाय करने म� आसानी, युवा के �लए कौशल, नवाचार और ह�रत
प्रौद्यो�गक� के �लए �व� पोषण)
- Creating National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ).
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- Previously, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor had setup Special Investment Regions (SIR) in its
region. They’re converted into NIMZ.
- 2017: Commerce ministry launched Industrial Information System (IIS), a GIS-enabled
database of industrial areas across the country. This helps entrepreneurs to find out raw material,
distance from key transport hubs etc.
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Sectors (�ेत्र) Make in India Initiatives- some notable examples
🚗🚗Automobiles project for encouraging R&D
FAME-India [Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric
Vehicles in India]. More in Pillar5: Infrastructure → transport
infrastructure.
Electric, Ethanol and Methanol Vehicles exempted from Permit.
🛩🛩Aviation National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) & UDAAN scheme to boost
उड्डयन regional air connectivity. Faster approval to the Greenfield airports in the
North East areas
2016: FDI policy relaxed for Aviation.
💊💊Biotech New biotechnology parks launched, FDI policy relaxed.
⚗Chemicals New plastic parks launched.
⚒Construction Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016- for granting quick
मकान �नमार्ण permissions to the builders at the same time protecting the home buyers.
🔫🔫Defense Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP-2016: र�ा अ�धप्रा�� प्रिक्रया) :
Manufacturing Government will give first priority to the indigenously designed
र�ा श�ों का �व�नमार्ण developed and manufactured (IDDM) defence equipments.
Updated Defense Offset Norms (र�ा ऑफसेट मानदंड) i.e. when government
buys defence equipments from a foreign company, that foreign company
will have to reinvest “x%” of the income back into Indian industries.
👻👻 2020: Atma-Nirbhar:- Banned import of 101 defense items.
🔌🔌Electronic New electronic parks approved, subsidy to entrepreneurs for purchasing
System Design machinery.
National Electronics Policy 2019 <its salient features given under the
Standup India portion of this handout>
🍭🍭🍭🍭Food New Mega Food parks, cold storages, abattoirs approved.
Processing � 2020: Atma-Nirbhar:- needs funds & support (�
�Pillar#4A)
💾💾IT and IT 2016: 100% automatic FDI in market-place E-commerce.
enabled Services Post demonetisation many initiatives to ⏫digital payment systems.
(IT & ITeS) Pradhan Mantri Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA), Digital India
Mission- All of them directly and indirectly increase the demand of
computer hardware and software.
Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017 which
requires govt depts to buy India-made desktops and computer parts.
👢👢 Leather India is 2nd largest producer of footwear, second largest exporter of leather
चमड़ा और जूता उद्योग garments. New leather parks and clusters to be approved
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Sectors (�ेत्र) Make in India Initiatives- some notable examples
Global demand for footwear is moving towards non-leather footwear for
their comfort & cheapness, so we need R&D.
📡📡Audio-Visual Single window clearances for film shootings for foreign film makers in
Media and India. Relaxed the norms to start new private FM radio stations.
Entertainment Budget-2019: Previously Single Window clearance to foreigner film
मनोरंजन �ेत्र makers for shooting movies. This facility made open to Indian as well.
Cinematography Amendment bill: unauthorized camcording /
duplication of movie → upto 3 years jail + 10 lakh fine.
⛏🎖🎖Mining Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act (MMDR)
खनन amended in 2015-16 for ease of mining exploration.
� 2020: Atma-Nirbhar:- more reforms (� �Ref: Pill#5)
⛽Oil and Gas Gas based Thermal Power Projects approved.
Gas grid projects to deliver gas through pipeline.
Strategic oil reserves created. Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing
Policy (HELP) 2016 To facilitate the exploration of all type of
�Pillar#3A)
hydrocarbons. (Ref�
PM-Ujjwalla yojana to encourage poor families adopt LPG - indirectly
�Pillar#5)
boosts the demand & mfg of gas stoves, lighters etc. (Ref�
💊💊Pharma Additional NIPER institutes approved → �availability of trained
औष�ध manpower. FDI norms relaxed. Compulsory licensing of expensive
MNC-patented drugs to encourage generic drugs’ production in India.
<Ref: IPR portion of this handout.>
⚓Ports (बं दर) �Pill#5>
Sagarmala Project to improve port infrastructure.<Ref�
🚅🚅 Railways New Metro Rail Policy 2017 with public private partnership. Mumbai-
(अ��रथ) Ahmedabad high speed rail project with help of Japan.
Permitted private train operators (More in �Pillar#5)
🚗🚗 Highways Expressways between Vadodara Mumbai,Delhi-Mumbai, Bangalore-
(राजमागर्) Chennai etc.
NHAI approved new investment models.
Bharatmala project for highway construction. (More in 📑📑Pillar#5)
🔋🔋Renewable Preference to domestic manufacturers for purchasing equipment for
Energy Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission and similar projects.
(नवीकरणीय ऊजार्) Although later USA complaint to WTO that it is a ‘non-tariff’ barrier.
(More in �Pillar#3B-WTO)
🛰🛰Space ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation Ltd. getting other countries
अवकाश to launch their satellites using ISRO’s expertise.
(Ref: Pill#5) � 2020: Atma-Nirbhar:- more reforms to encourage private sector in
space research / space tourism (Ref: Pill#5)
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Sectors (�ेत्र) Make in India Initiatives- some notable examples
👚👚Textiles India Handloom Brand launched. Special Textile Package to increase jobs
कपड़ा उद्योग and machinery upgradation. Apparel and garment manufacturing parks
setup in North East.
🔥🔥Thermal Power New thermal power plants with green supercritical technology. UDAY
ताप ऊजार् scheme to cover the losses of distribution companies. DD Gram Jyoti
(Ref: Pill#5) Yojana & Saubhagya scheme to increase the electricity penetration in
rural households. Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LED for All (UJALA) scheme
to increase consumption of LED bulbs.
🥂🥂Tourism and e-Visa scheme, Swadesh Darshan scheme, PRASAD scheme etc. to
Hospitality, � increase tourism
Wellness Yoga day, AYUSH Ministry to attract foreigners for medical tourism
प्रवासन Tourism sector contributes significantly in terms of GDP, foreign
exchange earnings and employment. But growth rate has been falling in
recent years. So, ES18-19 suggested Government to promote Ayurveda,
Health and Medical Tourism in India so as to overcome the ‘seasonality’
aspect of recreational tourism.
Other services Medical Value Travel/medical tourism
Transport and Logistics, Communication
Accounting and Finance, Legal Services
Environmental Services, Education Services
** In 2018, Government expanded 25 sectors to 27 sectors. Some original sectors were
removed/renamed/modified/replaced. So, above list will not total to 27. But hairsplittery unnecessary
for Mains. We only need to develop vocabulary from above table.
⚠😰😰 Challenge? Most of the jobs in above 27 sectors are skill intensive while India is burdened
with vast pool of unskilled labour. So, govt has to pay more attention to education, skill development
schemes incl. Skill India (2015) → 📑📑more in Pillar#6. (मजदू रों के कौशल �वकास पर �ान देना होगा)
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Mfg Services
1. Aerospace and Defence 1. Information Technology & Information
2. Automotive and Auto Components Technology enabled Services (IT &ITeS)
3. Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices 2. Tourism and Hospitality Services
4. Bio-Technology 3. Medical Value Travel
5. Capital Goods 4. Transport and Logistics Services
6. Textile and Apparels 5. Accounting and Finance Services
7. Chemicals and Petro chemicals 6. Audio Visual Services
8. Electronics System Design and 7. Legal Services
Manufacturing (ESDM) 8. Communication Services
9. Leather & Footwear 9. Construction and Related Engineering
10. Food Processing Services
11. Gems and Jewellery 10. Environmental Services
12. Shipping 11. Financial Services
13. Railways 12. Education Services
14. Construction
15. New and Renewable Energy
Additionally, Make in India 2.0 is also covering 24 sub-sectors as follows:
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📔📔📔📔ES20 Vol1Ch5 suggested we move from ‘Make in India’ towards Assemble in India
👗👗 🧸🧸 👢👢 Make in India 👟👟 📟📟 📺📺 🔋🔋 🔌🔌 Assemble in India
What? textiles, clothing, footwear, toys (कपड़े व� Products of Apple, Samsung, Sony, Nike,
जूते �खलौने) Adidas etc.
How? Traditional Unskilled Labour Semi-skilled labour
पारंप�रक अकु शल श्र�मक। अनपढ़ से भी काम चल जाए आं�शक �प से कु शल श्र�मकों के द्वारा
41.7.1 �🦁🦁:📟📟 📺📺📺📺: Assemble in In India → “Network products”
- (Definition) Network Products: Their production occurs across Global Value Chains (GVCs)
operated by Multinational Companies (MNCs) such as Apple, Samsung, Sony, Nike, Adidas etc.
(ब�रा��ीय �नगमों द्वारा वै��क मू� श्रृंखला के द्वारा “नेटवकर् उ�ादों” को बनाया जाता)
⇒ Product is designed by their Headquarter (HQ) located in a rich country @US/EU/Japan. But
Product assembly/manufacturing in done low wage countries.
⇒ Further, these products are not produced from start to finish within a single country. (अलग-अलग
देशों म� �वशेष�ता के अनुसार उ�ादन िकया जाता है)
⇒ Instead, countries specialize in particular stages of production sequence. E.g. Iphone:
⇒ LCD screen @South Korea + Processor @Taiwan +WiFi chip @Malaysia
⇒ → above parts are finally assembled in Foxconn Factory in China.
⇒ 2020-July: Apple's contract manufacturer Foxconn started iPhone 11 mfg in its Chennai factory.
(Due to the USA-China trade war, companies are shifting the factories away from China. Ref
�Pillar#3B for trade war / protectionism)
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⇒ By giving them conditional 4-6% subsidy on incremental sales of goods manufactured in India,
against their production in base year (वषर् 2019 के अनुपात म�, भारत म� �न�मत कं पनी के उ�ादनो, क� सालाना �बक्र�,
िकतनी बढ़ी, उस िहसाब से सशतर् स��डी/लाभ दी जाएगी।)
⇒ Note: Drone industry is exception- they’ll be given 20% subsidy on sale of drones.
Base year 2019-20. But to some companies given option to select 2020-21 as base
year, if they want. Who are those Companies? Ans. Not IMP.
Scheme Validity till 2025-26.
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Sr Mfg Approving Org ₹₹
Total ₹1.97
Lcr
Total: ₹1.97 lakh crores worth of subsidy will be provided. Presently 14 sectors. Later more sectors
may be added / Government may increase scheme funds….so above table’s numbers may change.
(इसम� अलग अलग समय पर अ� �ेत्रों को जोड़ा जाता है और स��डी क� रक़म म� बदलाव िकए जाते ह� लेिकन ब�त बारीक� से PHD
करने म� फ़ायदा कम, व� क� बबार्दी �ादा है। )
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⇒ Geo-political challenges e.g. China-Taiwan, Russian-Ukraine → inflation in imported
commodities e.g. edible oil, crude oil, fertilisers. (भू राजनी�तक तनाव के चलते आया�तत क�े माल क� क�मतों म�
बढ़ोतरी)
⇒ shortage of skilled workers, easy loans, easy transport. (कु शल मजदू र, आसान लोन, आसान प�रवहन क� कमी)
⇒ private company is not doing enough research innovation.(सं शोधन और अ�ेषण म� �नजी कं प�नयां �ादा पैसा
खचर् नहीं करती)
⇒ Construction sector slow down by high Rainfall in 2022. (भारी बा�रश के चलते मकान �नमार्ण म� तक़लीफ़)
⇒ RBI hiking repo/loan interest rate to fight inflation: → home / auto sales affected. (महँ गाई से लड़ने के
�लए �रज़वर् ब�क ने लोन महंगे िकए तो घर/वाहन क� माँग म� कमी)
⇒ Due to lack of demand → Companies selling older stock, but not doing much FRESH
production. (माँग म� कमी के चलते कं प�नयां पुराना माल बेच रही है लेिकन नया उ�ादन �ादा नहीं हो रहा।)
⇒ Threat of new Covid Variant. (नए को�वड वै�रएं ट का खतरा)
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Definition Original definition (2016) New definition after 2019-Feb
Startup company is a 7 years.
company not older than _ _ _ 10 years
(10 years if Biotech Company).
Doesn’t have annual turnover
₹ 25 crore. ₹100 cr
more than _ _ _
Must be working towards
innovation & development of Yes Yes
goods / services
- Under Startup India (�ाटर्अप इं िडया) initiative such startup companies are given 3 years exemption
from Income Tax , Corporation Tax. (आयकर तथा �नगम कर - तीन वष� तक छु ट्टी)
- Self-certification permitted with respect to (WRT) EPFO act, ESIC Act etc. (� प्रमाणीकरण क� हमने इन
कानूनों का पालन िकया है। सरकारी अफ़सर जांच के नाम पे परेशांन नहीं कर�गे)
- Relaxed norms in public procurement. E.g. if Govt tender says ‘we are hiring a web development
company to make a site for Govt department, but it must have x years experience and y crores of
turnover..“- These “x” and “y” requirement would be kept relaxed for a start-up company.
(सरकारी खरीद के दौरान पात्रता के �नयमों म� छू ट)
- Relaxed norms for exit i.e. winding up the companies. (फै ��ी बं ध करने क� क़ानूनी प्रिक्रया म� आसानी)
- Govt established "Fund of Funds for Startups" (FFS) in Commerce Ministry. This fund will
provide money to other startup related schemes. (सरकार ने �न�धयों क� �न�ध बनायी है)
- Industry-academia partnership, incubation and hand holding, Mobile app and Portal, Legal and
Technical Support for filing the patent, lower / zero fees for patent applications etc.
- Foreign Venture Capital Investors (FVCI) given certain technical relaxations by Income Tax
Dept (for TDS/ tax withholding) and Reserve Bank of India (for currency convertibility).
- Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS): By the Ministry of Commerce to provide financial
assistance to 3600 startups from 1st April 2021 to next four years. (आ�थक मदद/ शु�आती पूंजी)
- Prarambh Startup India International Summit 2021: Indian Commerce ministry + BIMSTEC
(Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) countries viz.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Thailand.
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2023: Angel Tax new announcements done. (Ref: Pillar#2A1)
Rank (2020)→ 1 2 3 4 5
Largest number
found in State Maharashtra Karnataka Delhi UP Haryana
→
Largest number
Healthcare & Professional
found in Sector IT services Education Food Beverages
Life Science services
→
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- To make India a global hub for Electronics System Design and Manufacturing – (ESDM:
इले��ॉ�न� प्रणाली रचना/�स�म िडजाइन और �व�नमार्ण), Government will do following: →
- Tax benefit, subsidies and other incentive for R&D, innovation, Training and skill development
for 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (Al: कृ �त्रम बु�द्धम�ा ), Machine Learning,
Virtual Reality (VR), Drones, Robotics, Nano-based devices, Medical Electronic Devices,
Automotive Electronics Industry, Strategic electronics for the defence sector etc.
- Sovereign Patent Fund (SPF: सावर्भौम पेट�ट �नधी): Govt will buy Patents / Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) from the innovators / Corporate Companies → allow MSME industries to use those IPR
for electronics manufacturing, without having to pay hefty royalties to original patent holder..
- Targets for 2025? Produce 100 crore units of mobile handsets & export 60 crores units out of
that. Create 1 crore jobs.
- SAMRIDH SCHEME: MeitY scheme for helping Software Product related start-ups.
- Meta resources = are facilities that allow easier access to network-based resources in a defined
subject area. e.g. electronic devices that helps you read e-books, audiobooks, smartwatches for
GPS-tracking your cycling etc (नेटवकर् म� ��त सं साधनों को आसानी से इ�ेमाल िकया जा सके → उसम� मदद करने
वाली चीज़ को मेटा-सं साधन कहा जाता है। जैसे िक मोबाइल फ़ोन, �ाटर्-घड़ी इ�ािद)
- 📙📙ES23: Govt’s target is US$ 1 trillion digital economy by 2025.
- Boss? Meity gave money to Canara bank’s CANBANK Venture Capital Funds Ltd.
- 2015: EDF was set up as a “Fund of Funds” (बृहद �न�ध) → money is given to “Daughter Funds”
(उप-�न�धया) e.g. SEBI registered venture capital funds who are investing in electronics related
startup companies.
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Boss? Ministry of Communications → Dept of Telecom
- Target-2022: 50mbps broadband to every citizen, 10 Gbps to all Gram Panchayats, jobs to 40
lakh people covering 8% GDP.
- Bodies:
⇒ DoT’s Telecom Commission transformed into ‘Digital Communications Commission
(िड�जटल सं चार आयोग)’.
⇒ (proposed) National Fibre Authority(रा�ी� य फाइबर प्रा�धकरण): for creating broadband National
Digital Grid.
- Focus data privacy, digital security, 5G, Internet of Things (IOT), Machine to Machine
Communication (M2M)
- United Nations → specialized agency → International Telecommunication Union (ITU) →
ICT Development Index → improve India’s ranking. (presently below 100, have to get top-50.)
- Related: World Economic Forum’s Networked Readiness Index. Although seems ranking not
updated post-2016 so let’s ignore.
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41.10.6 🦁🦁💻💻 → Quantum Technology (�ांटम प्रौद्यो�गक�) 2020
Conventional computers process information in ‘bits’ or 1s and 0s.
Quantum computers compute in ‘qubits’ (or quantum bits). They work on quantum mechanics
principles related to how matter behaves on the atomic scale.
Google’s quantum computer ‘Sycamore’ claimed ‘quantum supremacy’ bcoz it finished a task in
200 seconds that would have taken a conventional supercomputer 10,000 years to complete.
Applications? computing, communications, cyber security etc.
�Budget-2020: National Mission on Quantum Technologies for a period of 5 years.
Related Topics: 5g, public data etc in Pillar#5: communication infrastructure.
Sick industries: बीमार उद्योग in an entity that has accumulated more losses than its entire net worth
(networth = assets minus liabilities).
Industrial sickness can be a result of (आंत�रक और बाह्य कारक)
⇒ Internal factors like mismanagement, workers low morale & strikes etc.
⇒ External factors like rising cost of energy & raw material, fall in product demand etc.
1985: PM Rajiv Gandhi in enacted Sick Industrial Companies Act → Statutory body in Finance
Ministry → Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR).
⇒ BIFR would A) help the SICK industry with new funds or B) shut down the SICK industry on
case to case basis.
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⇒ Ideally, a sick industry should be liquidated so its labour and capital can be shifted to healthy
companies. (आदशर् प�र���तयों म� तो बीमार उद्योग िक मजदू र और पूंजी �� उद्योग क� तरफ गमन करने चािहए )
⇒ But, above bodies’ decision making was very slow so sick companies will not quickly shut down,
and continue to receive Government funding/support, as if Abhimanyu entered the
‘‘Chakravyuh’ but never exits. So previous economic surveys used term ‘Chakravyuh challenge’.
2016: PM Modi repealed this Act & its statutory bodies. Their pending cases referred to National
Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). So now if a firm becomes sick then:
- IF wilful defaulter or incapable defaulter → liquidation under the SARFAESI Act
- ELSE I&B Code: IP will make a resolution plan within “x” number of days → if IP’s resolution
plan is not agreeable to the lenders → liquidation.
- If a startup company wants to (voluntarily) shut down, it can make application under
I&B Code → IP will liquidate it within 90 days. This helps the entrepreneur to pull out
his portion of capital (to start another startup = Ease of doing business).
41.13.1 🩴🩴Flipping
⇒ Flipping process of transferring the entire ownership, IPR and DATA of an Indian company to
an overseas entity. (भारतीय कं पनी क� मालीक�/�ा�म�, बौ�द्धक सं पदा और डेटा िकसी �वदेशी इकाई को �ानांत�रत कर
देना।)
⇒ This is done mainly for going to nations with lower tax/legal norms (e.g. UAE/Singapore), Easier
to get funding (e.g. USA) etc. (�ोिक उन �वदेशी सरकारों द्वारा टै� म� माफ़�, क़ानून म� छू ट और वहाँ के शेयर बाज़ार से
पूँजी उठाना आसान होता है।)
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⇒ Flipping effectively transforms an Indian company into a 100 per cent subsidiary of a foreign
entity. While the founders and investors continue to remain its owns (indirectly) thru the foreign
company. (भारत क� कं पनी अंततः एक �वदेशी इकाई क� अधीन/सहायक कं पनी बन जाती है।)
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Year Act Nodal?
1999 Trademarks Act Commerce Ministry’s Controller General of
Patents, Designs and Trademarks. (CGPDTM)
1999 Geographical Indications of Goods Commerce Ministry’s Geographical Indications
(Registration and Protection) Act Registry at Chennai
2000 Designs Act CGPDTM
2000 Semiconductor Integrated Circuits MEITY: Ministry of Electronics and
Layout-Design Act Information Technology
2001 Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Agro Ministry
Rights Act
2002 Biological Diversity Act Environment Ministry
42.2 🔬🔬IPR → PATENTS → WHAT CAN’T BE PATENTED?
⇒ Frivolous inventions. E.g. schoolbag, laptop bag (मामूली आ�व�ार)
⇒ Anything seriously harmful to public order, morality, humans, animals, plants or environment.
E.g. Stone-pelting machine (प�रबाजी करने क� मशीन का पेटंट नहीं �मल सकता)
⇒ Atomic energy related inventions.
⇒ Mere discovery of a scientific principle or the formulation of an abstract theory or discovery of
any living thing or non-living substance occurring in nature;
⇒ Plants-seeds varieties, biological process to create them; (Ref �Pil#4A Pepsi-Potato)
⇒ animals breeding; Medical treatment of humans and animals
⇒ Mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not � efficiency.
⇒ Mere re-arrangement or duplication of known devices.
⇒ Mere aggregation of properties of the components e.g. lemon + sugar + water = juice
⇒ Mathematical formula, business method, method of playing game e.g. Dhoni’s helicopter shot.
⇒ computer program, presentation of information
⇒ Integrated circuit (Its IPR can be registered separately under Semiconductor Integrated Circuits
Layout-Design Act)
⇒ literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; cinema-TV shows. (सािह� नाट्य सं गीत कला )- there is
separate copyright law for it.
⇒ Traditional knowledge. E.g. Ayurvedic information.
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42.2.1 �IPR: Biopiracy & Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)
⇒ 2001: TKDL started by CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, under Sci Ministry)
+ Ministry of AYUSH. �Objective: to prevent biopiracy.
⇒ Biopiracy = to the exploitation of traditional knowledge, genetic material etc by companies,
without the consent of local community /original owners. e.g.
Traditional Knowledge Patent application in USA / biopiracy attempt
Neem Oil Neem oil extracts to cure skin diseases and fungal infections
Turmeric powder medicine for wound healing
⇒ TKDL contains digital database of over 3 lakh traditional Indian medicines/techniques from
Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa, yoga as well as Yoga.
⇒ TKDL database available in five international languages including English, German, French,
Japanese and Spanish, - in a format easily understandable by (foreign) patent examiners.
⇒ TKDL evidence helped revoking/banning over 200 patents obtained thru biopiracy.
बड़ी क�नीओ द्वारा भारत क� आयुव�द और प्राकृ �तक /पार��रक उपचार �ान का �वदेश म� धोखाधड़ी से पेट�ट करवा देना- उसे
बायोपायरेसी कहते ह�. इसके �खलाफ लड़ने के �लए सरकार ने पारंप�रक �ान �ड�जटल लाइब्रेरी (टीके डीएल) बनाई है.
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⇒ US & EU are apprehensive of Indian Govt issuing CL, because their MNCs will suffer, if such low
prices and royalty % are forced. (भारत सरकार के इन कदमों से गोरे देश �च�ं तत)
⇒ 2020: newspaper columns on how CL can help making Corona drugs cheap.#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
⇒ Why in the news? Costa Rica and other poor nations are proposing patent pools for Corona
related drugs/vaccines.
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⇒ Pharma MNCs of USA & UK etc are opposed to this idea since it'll harm their monopoly &
profiteering. (गोरों क� िफरंगीं कं प�नया इससे नाराज़ �ोंिक उनके एका�धकार और मुनाफाखोरी को ख़तरा)
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42.6 🔬🔬🔬🔬 IPR → NATIONAL IPR POLICY 2016
- Nodal? Commerce ministry. Motto? Creative India; Innovative India.
- This policy shifted the Copyright Office and its statutory body Intellectual Property Appellate
Board (IPAB) from HRD (Education) ministry to commerce ministry.
- Conduct IPR awareness programs for industry, police, customs and judiciary so they can combat
counterfeiting and piracy in a more efficient manner. (जागृ�त तथा तालीम)
- +Filler points like Launching new courses in the higher education to increase the availability of
patent experts in India, reducing the patent application fees for the startup companies and
grassroot innovators etc. (�ाटर्अप कं प�नयों का पं जीकरण फ़�स म� मु��)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct about ‘National Intellectual Property Rights Policy’ (UPSC-Pre-2017)
a) It reiterates India’s commitment to Doha Development Agenda & TRIPS Agreement.
b) Dept of Industrial Policy and Promotion is nodal agency for regulating IPR in India.
c) Both a and b [d)Neither a nor b
42.7 🔬🔬🔬🔬 IPR → NOTABLE SCHEMES (कु छ उ�ेखनीय योजनाएं )
SIPP − Commerce Ministry’s Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP:�ाटर्अ�
बौ�द्धक सं पदा सं र�ण) scheme valid from 2016 to 2020.
− Startup entrepreneurs are given free training on how to file the patents. No
patent fees for them.
AIM Atal Innovation Mission in NITI Ayog to help the innovators. E.g. launch challenges
in NITI / competitions and award prize money. Following initiatives launched in 2020:
(2015) - 2020-Sept: ARISE-ANIC initiative for applied research and innovation in Indian
MSMEs and startups.
- 2020-Nov: AIM–Sirius Innovation Programme 3.0 for schoolchildren of India
and Russia In virtual mode. Sirius is a Research Institute of Russia. It included a
competition to create softwares and apps for culture, distance education, science,
health, sports, fitness,, chemistry, artificial intelligence etc in Corona.
SETU in − Self Employment and Talent Utilisation (SETU) in NITI ayog
NITI − to setup incubators for innovation. Incubators are centers that help aspiring
(2015) entrepreneurs to develop /experiment with products without investing in all the
machineries beforehand.
Smart − Organized by the HRD/Edu Ministry since 2017 onwards.
India − 2019: College students asked to give innovative ideas to solve the challenges
Hackatho faced by public sector organisations, industries and even NGOs. 36 hrs software
n development competition, 5 days hardware development competition etc.
😷😷 − 2020: YUKTI 2.0 Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge,
YUKTI Technology and Innovation (YUKTI) is HRD/Edu Ministry's portal for sharing
2.0 info about: Research, Innovation, Technologies, Startup (सं शोधन,
नवप�रवतर्न,तकनीक,�ाटर्अप) esp. those related to Corona
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KAPILA − 2020-: HRD/Edu Ministry’s Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy
and Awareness Campaign (KAPILA). [कॉलेज के छात्र और अ�ापकों म� IPR जागृ�त]
− To create awareness about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and patents among
students and teachers in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Misc. Dept of Science Technology launched
कु ल �मलाकर 1. INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) – scholarship
छात्रवृ�� and awards given to students and faculty.
इनाम इ�ा�द 2. MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge)
3. NIDHI (National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovation)
4. NIDHI-PRAYAS (PRomoting and Accelerating Young and ASpiring technology
entrepreneurs)
HRD Ministry launched Uchhattar Avishkar Yojana (UAY) for IITs
All these schemes provide some type of grant, funding, scholarship, award the
innovator. By default they’re 100% Union fund. Internal difference & exact
features= poor cost benefit.
✍ Conclusion template? Innovations / Startup can turn Indian youths from job seekers into job
creators. They encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and creation of revolutionary new products
that can be used by people around the world. Hence startups are important / protecting their IPR is
important. Aforementioned initiatives / schemes are important in that regard. ये सब ज�री तािक भारत के
नौजवानों को नौकरी- याचक से नौकरी-दाता बनाना सके , क्रां�तकारी नए उ�ादन करे, �जससे द�ु नया के लोगों क� सु�वधा बढ़ सके .
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42.8 🔬🔬📊📊 IPR → INDICES & RANKINGS
42.8.1 🔬🔬📊📊 IPR Index → Global Innovation Index (GII: वै��क नवीनीकरण सूचकांक)
by WIPO, Cornell University (USA), Insead Business School (Paris).
⇒ India’s overall rank continuously ⏫ from 81 (2015) to 40 (2022). (सतत �प से अपना र�क बेहतर �आ है)
⇒ GII ranks a country based on performance across 7 pillars viz. 1) knowledge and technology
outputs, 2) market sophistication, 3) human capital and research, 4) institutions, 5) business
sophistication, 6) infrastructure, 7) creative outputs.
India’s
Rank 1 2 3 THEME
Rank
2021 Switzerland Sweden USA #46 Tracking Innovation through COVID-19
Crisis.
2022 Switzerland USA Sweden #40 What is the future of innovation-driven
growth?
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42.8.4 🔬🔬🔬🔬 IPR Index → Misc. फालतू वाले
✋Following are low profile bodies, so their index components / India' ranking = notImp / gives
very poor: cost benefit for exam (इतना सब याद रखने म� फायदा कम ही है। अपनी याददा� पर ब�त ज़ोर मत डालो।)
Index Prepared by
Global Talent Competitiveness Index By INSEAD business school (Paris) in partnership with
(GTCI: वै��क प्र�तभा प्र�त�धार् सूचकांक) Tata Communications and Adecco Group.
World Competitiveness Index By Switzerland-based International Institute for
Management and Development (IMD).
World Digital Competitiveness By Switzerland-based International Institute for
Ranking Management and Development (IMD).
Index of Economic Freedom By Heritage Foundation (USA) with support of Wall
Street Journal.
Technology and Innovation Report By United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD, HQ: Geneva, Switzerland).
2021 Report: India listed as the top "over-performer"
among developing countries.
🔠🔠❓ Global Competitiveness Report is published by the _ _ . (Prelims-2019)
(a) IMF (b) UNCTAD (c) World Economic Forum (d) World Bank
🔠🔠❓ Which one of the following countries was ranked 1st in the IMD World Competitiveness ranking
2019? (UPSC-Geologist-2020) a) Singapore b) USA c) India d) Switzerland
42.9 🔬🔬💸💸 PVT SECTOR NOT SPENDING ENOUGH ₹₹ ON R&D SAYS 📔📔📔📔ES21
shifted to Mains handout
Figure 1: अपना �बजनेस शु� करने के �लए सरकारी द�रों के च�र काटते काटते थक चुका �ं
- �ापार करने म� सुगमता का �रपोटर् is an index by the World Bank to measure how easy or difficult it is to
run a business organisation in a given country, based on simple average (equally weighted) of 10
parameters- such as no. of documents, time & cost involved in registering a property, getting an
electricity connection, paying taxes etc.
- As such no specific themes are given in these reports.
Rank 2020 (released in #1: NZ>Singapore>Hongkong> India (63) >... Somalia (190)
2019-Oct) → Report acknowledges India as one of the top 10 improvers, third time in
a row. India’s rank in 2017 (#130) to 2020 (#63) = shows a jump of 67
steps- this is highest by any large country since 2011.
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Rank 2021 (it was to be 2020 Aug: World Bank has paused/suspended this report because of
released in 2020 BUT) allegations of data manipulation / irregularities about China’s rank.
(डाटा म� धांधली /छे ड़छाड़ हो रही है ऐसे आरोपों के चलते इस साल �रपोटर् को ��गत िकया)
🔌🔌Getting Electricity 29 24 5
Registering Property 154 166 -12
💰💰Getting Credit (loan) 29 22 7
🧕🧕Protecting Minority
4 7 -3
Investors
🍋🍋Paying Taxes 119 121 -2 (despite apps & portals!)
Trading across Borders 146 80 66
Enforcing Contracts 164 163 1
🔪🔪Resolving Insolvency 103 108 -5 (despite I&B Code)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. According to the World Bank’s Doing Business Report, 2019, India’s ranking has improved in
in which of the following areas compared to previous year? (UPSC’s-CDS-ii-2018):
1) Paying taxes 2) Resolving insolvency 3) Starting a business 4) Construction Permits
Answer Codes: A) 1 only B) 1 and 2 only C) only 3 and 4 D) All four areas.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Do I have to remember ranking when this report is banned? Ans. No. but keywords
should be kept in mind, for vocabulary for Mains Answer writing.
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⇒ Ranking: I’d not burden in my brain memory card with this low profile report.
य�द कोई एमएसएमई उद्योग ने कोरोना के दौरान सरकारी ठे का पूरा नहीं िकया था और सरकार ने दंड के �प म� उसक� �स�ो�रटी
�डपो�जट को ज़� िकया था। तो 95% ज� रक़म सरकार वापस लौटा देगी।
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CIN: for Companies Act registration (Ref: Pillar#1C2)
Udhyam number for MSME schemes
Benefits: easier and faster to
�1) For businessman to login/register to multiple government website using just PAN
number, without having to remember so many login-ids/passwords.
�2) For the tax authorities to crosscheck fraud / tax evasion etc.
�3) For the bankers to crosscheck company’s financial capacity before passing loans.
�व�वध सरकारी वेबसाइट म� पं जीकरण/लॉ�गन के �लए पैन काडर् नं बर को ही आम/सामा� �बजनेस पहचानकतार् नं बर के �प म� इ�ेमाल
िकया जाएगा। इससे उद्योगप�त के �लए भी आसानी रहेगी, और कर अ�धका�रयों के �लए भी �नगरानी आसान रहेगी, ब�कों के �लए लोन
देने से पहले उद्योगप�त क� �व�ीय �मता का आकलन करना भी आसान होगा।
�रजवर् ब�क ने जीएसटीएन कं पनी को अकाउं ट एग्रीगेटर का दजार् �दया है। तािक �ापारी अपने जीएसटी टै� लेनदेन का डाटा अ� ब�क
�व�ीय सं �ानों को �दखा सके तािक मैनेजर उस �ापारी क� �व�ीय �मता/साख का आकलन लेके लोन ज�ी से पास कर सके ।
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43.2.6 �EoD: One-stop solution for identity and address updating :
⇒ A persons database is stored in multiple government websites such as driving license, municipal
property tax, education department scholarship portal etc.
⇒ �Budget-2023: A one stop solution/website updating address/identity. With help of Aadhaar
card and DigiLocker.
⇒ Digilocker = App/Portal by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) storing
documents e.g. markasheet, driving license et cetera (2015)
िकसी ��� को सरकारी द�ावेजों म� अपना एड�ेस बदलवाने के �लए अलग अलग वेबसाइटों पर भटकना नहीं पड़ेगा। आधार काडर् और
डीजीलॉकर द्वारा एक ही �ादा यह काम �नपट जाएगा।
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⇒ Then the Company will charge very high prices on the prepaid plans and data packs to recover
(1) Operational Costs (2) Profit (3) Bribes. मं त्री को दी गई घूस क� रकम ग्राहक पर बोझ डालती है
⇒ Similar examples could be cited in the coal-power based thermal electricity prices, Toll fees
charged by highways developers, heavy fees in private hospitals/ schools/colleges.
⇒ Ricardo labelled it “rent seeking behaviour. (िकरायावसूली/लुंटने क� मान�सकता)” It doesn’t help in (new)
wealth creation because abnormal profits extracted at common citizens’ expense.
⇒ Such crony capitalists do not invest their high profit for research and innovation, they just use it
for debauchery & building more crony-relationship with politicians. (मुनाफे को नई खोज/सं सोधन मे नही
ब�� ऐयाशी, और नेताओ से साँठगांठ बढ़ाने मे इ�ेमाल करते है)
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43.6 🕵🕵🕵🕵 📔📔📔📔ES21: OVER REGULATION IN INDIA, TORA ACT
Shifted to Mains Handout.
There are multiple Central laws related to labour e.g. Minimum Wages Act, 1948; the Payment of
Wages Act, 1936; the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965; and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.
Entrepreneur has to fill up multiple forms to prove his compliance, and he’s subjected to multiple
annual inspections by the govt officials = No ease of doing biz. Therefore, Second National Labour
Commission (2002) recommended govt to simplify & consolidate these laws. 2017-18: Govt
announced to replace existing central laws with just four labour codes (श्रम सं िहता /कानून) -
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Passed Provisions
🤰🤰Maternity Benefit - Applies to factory, mines, plantations, shops and other
(Amendment) Act, establishments.
2017: - Increased paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks (for the
मातृ� लाभ (सं शोधन) first two children only.)
अ�ध�नयम, 2017 - If woman worker adopts a baby <3 years (or gets a baby through
surrogacy)= 12 weeks paid leave for her as well.
- If factory has 50 workers/> then boss must install creche facility;
allow mother to visit child min. 4xtimes a day.
- After maternity leave is over, boss may even allow the woman
worker to work from home.
- Boss must inform every woman worker of her rights in writing.
Payment of Wages Previously the employer was legally required to pay salary in ‘physical
(Amendment) Act, cash only’- in certain industries. Act reformed to allow salary payment in
2017 cheque/NEFT to encourage less cash economy.
👼👼Child Labour It amends the 1986’s act to provide that →
(Prohibition) Children below 14 years can’t be employed anywhere, EXCEPT:
Amendment Act, - TV/ Cinema /Sports (but not circus)
2016: - Non hazardous family enterprise work after the school hours.
बाल श्रम (�नषेध) सं शोधन Adolescents between 14 to 18 age can be employed but only in non-
अ�ध�नयम, 2016 hazardous work. Any violations = Jail + penalty. District Magistrate
given additional powers. Criticism? Chemical mixing, battery acid
recycling etc. occupations removed from the ‘hazardous list’ so Ease of
doing biz for their owners, but exploitation of adolescent workers.
Apprentices - The original 1961 Act regulated the training of apprentices in the
(Amendment) Act, industry. But rules were draconian e.g. Govt shall decide the
2014 apprentice youth’s stipend, holiday, overtime. If factory owner is
प्र�श�ु violating any norm → jail.
- So, the 2014’s amendment relaxed the norms, Factory owner will
decide stipend, holiday etc. and if any violations then only penalty,
no jail for him.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding the Maternity Benefit
(Amendment) Act, 2017? (Prelims-2019)
1. Pregnant women are entitled for 3 months pre-delivery and three months post-delivery paid leave
2. Enterprises with creches must allow the mother minimum six creche visits daily
3. Women with two children get reduced entitlements.
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 1,2 and 3
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termination is required. Just like a permanent worker, a fixed-term worker is entitled to all
benefits such as wages, hours of work, allowances, EPFO-ESIC and other statutory benefits (But
only for the duration of contract).
- 2016: Labour Ministry allowed Fixed term employment only to the textile sector using the
powers under Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act.
- Budget-2018: permitted in all manufacturing sectors.
- 🤩🤩Good? When factory owner has large production order to fulfill, he can hire more people for
short duration without the compulsion of giving them ‘permanent jobs’. → → Ease of doing
business. (अचानक से उ�ादन का बड़ा ऑडर्र पूरा करना हो तो अ�ायी �प से ढेर सारे लोगों को काम पर रखा जाए )
- 😰😰Bad? Trade Unions fear the industrialist will convert all the permanent jobs into ‘fixed term
contract jobs’ → boss may simply refuse to renew contract without giving reasons & replace
them with cheaper younger labourers= job security is diminished. Although Govt clarified that
industrialist can’t convert existing permanent jobs into fixed-term contract jobs.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statement(s) about the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders)
Central (Amendment) Rules, 2018: (Prelims-2019)
1. If rules for fixed-term employment are implemented, it becomes easier for the firms/companies to
lay off workers
2. No notice of termination of employment shall be necessary in the case of temporary workman.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
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o to provide adequate means of livelihood for all citizens & equal pay for equal work for
men and women (Article 39)
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43.10.1 �💰💰💰💰 Code on Wages 2019 →Salient Features (figures not IMP)
⇒ Depending on sector: Union / State will fix max. hours in a normal
Overtime Pay working day.
⇒ If worker doing more: “Overtime Wage” =Min. 2x normal wages
⇒ Boss (Employer) may pay wages (i) daily, (ii) weekly, (iii) fortnightly, or
Payment Frequency (iv) monthly.
⇒ In coin, currency, cheque, bank money, e-transfer
⇒ Boss (Employer) may deduct worker’s wages for 1) penalty 2) absence
Deduction (कटौती)
3) rental home 4) advance / loan etc.
⇒ If worker’s salary less than “X” ₹ , then he is given Right to bonus
Right to Bonus ⇒ 8.33% of wages or ₹ 100 Whichever higher
⇒ But not more than 20% of his annual wages. + other caveats notIMP
Gender ⇒ It is forbidden. Employer must give equal pay for equal work
discrimination ⇒ एक समान काम के �लए मिहला और पु�ष को एक समान वेतन �मले
Penalty for
⇒ Upto 3 months jail, ₹ 1 lakh fine
violation
- Above Code on Wages is already passed by Parliament and signed by the President. But to
implement it in reality, the Govt of India need to notify the rules & announce the minimum
wages. But, due to Corona, implementation delayed
Factories Act 1948 regulates safety, health & welfare of workers. (कारखाना अ�ध�नयम: मज़दू रों के �ा� सुर�ा
क�ाण के �लए)
− The original act defines a factory as a premise where manufacturing is done using power and
minimum 10/> workers are employed during last 12 months. (20 workers, if no power used).
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− If an establishment is classified as ‘factory’, then the entrepreneur is required to install
washroom, drinking water facility, spittoons, creche and other amenities depending on how
many workers are employed. (अगर आप क� इकाई को फै ��ी म� वग�कृ त िकया गया तो मजदू रों के �लए थूकदान,
�शशुगृह, ठं डे पानी, साफ शौचालय जैसी �व�भ� सु�वधाएं देनी होगी)
− He cannot engage women workers in night shift or near dangerous machineries.(मिहलाओं को रा�त्र
के दौरान और ख़तरनाक मशीनरी के पास काम करने क� अनुम�त नहीं)
− His premises will be subjected to government inspection, If any violation he can be arrested and
jailed. (=more opportunity for the factory inspector to demand bribes)
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43.12.1 �⚔👮👮EoD: Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2022,
It amends 42 Acts to reduce the compliance burden & decriminalization of some offenses. (गैर-सं गीन
मामलो म� जेल नहीं के वल जुमार्ना)
Example: BEFORE AFTER
Information Technology Act, Jail upto 3 years + fine No jail. Just fine upto Rs.25
2000, disclosing personal lakhs
information
In some laws, it increased the amount of fine. (कु छ मामलो म� ज़मु ार्ना बढ़ाया गया.)
Example: BEFORE AFTER
Patents Act, 1970, false claims Fine upto Rs.1 lakh Increased to Rs.10 lakhs
Notable laws amended by this bill: (�वधेयक द्वारा �न� कानूनों म� इस प्रकार के सुधार िकये गए है.)
Press and Registration of Books Act 1867, the Boilers Act 1923, Indian Forest Act 1927., Indian Post
Office Act, 1898, the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991,
and the Information Technology Act, 2000, Patents Act, 1970, etc.
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⇒ Companies may randomly hire and fire workers. Yet workers will not be able to complain to
Government officials / courts since the laws are suspended. (मन मुता�बक िकसी को नौकरी पर रखना या
�नकाल देना)
⇒ This will undermine workers' right to EPFO, ESIC, payment of bonus, job security and social
security. (श्र�मक क� सामा�जक सुर�ा का हनन)
Under the Industrial Disputes Act: workers enjoy a 'statutory right to strike' (औद्यो�गक �ववाद अ�ध�नयम म�
मजदू रों को हड़ताल पर जाने का कानूनन हक)
⇒ but there are certain restrictions e.g. (1) Government employees (2) Public Utility Services
employees are not allowed this right. (e.g. Electricity company, Telecom company etc.) (हालाँिक
कु छ श्र�मकों को ये हक़ नहीं है)
⇒ If 'public utility' workers go on strike → it will be deemed "illegal strike" (गेर-कानूनी)
o = 1) the owner can dismiss such workers from job (नोकरी से �नकाल देना)
o = 2) workers may be required to pay compensation to the owner for business
losses. (नुकसान क� भरपाई)
⇒ if bankers go on strike (for salary rise) → Atma-Nirbhar Bharat initiatives related to MSME
loans etc. will get delayed → Difficult to revive the economy. So, (ब�क कम� भी कोरोना वायरस ने हड़ताल पर
चले गए तो भारी सम�ा)
⇒ 2020-April: Union labour ministry notified that the banking industry will also be treated as
Public Utility Service.
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43.15�🛒🛒EASE OF DOING BIZ → BUILDING HOMES & RUNNING SHOPS
43.15.1 �🛒🛒Ease of doing Biz → Model Shops & Establishments Bill, 2016
- State list subject. Each state has separate Shops and Establishment Act to govern the working
conditions, wage payments, leaves and holidays, work hours, etc. (दक
ु ानों के बारे म� हर रा� का अलग
क़ानून होता है)
- Union govt has circulated Model Shops and Establishments Bill, 2016 to the States & UT with
legislatures to adopt / customize it as per their wish. (क� द्र सरकार ने आदशर् दक
ु ान� और प्र�त�ान �वधेयक रा�
सरकारों को अपनाने के �लए कहा)
- This bill allows the shopkeeper / malls the freedom to operate for 24/7 and 365 days in a year
without any restriction on opening/closing time and enables employment of women during
night shifts with safety provisions. E.g. 2019-Feb Gujarat adopted this bill with certain
ु ान शॉ�पगं मॉल खुला रख सकते ह� मिहलाओं को भी रा�त्र म� नौकरी करने क� छू ट
modifications. (पूरा िदन पूरी रात पूरा वषर् दक
हालाँिक उनक� सुर�ा का �ान रखना होगा)
🤩🤩Benefits? 1) ease of doing biz 2) overtime benefit to worker 3) separate workers may be
employed in day shift and night shift = more jobs. (रात क� पारी म� अलग मजदू र को रख�गे तो दो-दो लोगों को काम
�मले= रोज़गार सृजन म� मदद)
43.15.2 �🏡🏡Ease of doing Biz → Real Estate Regulation & Development Act (RERA)
�रयल ए�ेट (�व�नयमन और �वकास) अ�ध�नयम/ क़ानून
Boss? Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation: आवास और शहरी गरीबी उपशमन
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- While “land” is in the State List of the Constitution, but purchase of home / property / real estate
= ‘Contract’ in the Concurrent List. (अनुबंध �वषय सं �वधान क� समवत� सूची म� है)
- So, Parliament enacted RERA Act, 2016 to regulate transactions between home/commercial
property buyers and builders of the real estate projects, by setting up state level regulatory
authorities called Real Estate Regulatory Authorities: �रयल ए�ेट �व�नयामक प्रा�धकरण (RERAs) →
higher appeal to Real Estate Appellate Tribunals (अपीलीय �ाया�धकरण).
- First, builder must get his project registered @RERA’s website. including the facilities like fire
fighting systems, sewage treatment plants, functional lifts etc. He can’t make advertisements or
accept money from buyers before that registration. (�ब�र ने मकान �बक्र� का �व�ापन तथा ग्राहकों से पैसा लेने से
पहले प्रोजे� को रेरा वेबसाइट पे पं जीकृ त करवाना ज�री)
- Real estate agents dealing in these projects also need to register with RERAs.
- After RERA registration, project details will be published on RERA website where buyer can
cross check / file complaints. (मकान का कोई प्रोजे� असली है या फ़ज़� रेरा क� वेबसाइट पर ग्राहक सु�न��त कर पाएगा)
- Then builder can accept money from buyers, but in a separate bank account. If the project is not
completed in time → builder will have to pay the home/shop/office-buyer’s monthly interest on
bank loans (if any). RERA can order further relief / refund / arrange another builder to finish the
project. (�ब�र ग्राहकों का पैसा अलग ब�क अकाउं ट खोलकर उसम� जमा कर�.)
- If defects found in building upto 5 years → builder must repair free of cost.(पाँच साल तक मकान क�
मर�त मु� म�)
- Punishment? Penalty + jail upto 3 years. (�ब�र पर जेल और जुमार्ने के प्रावधान)
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help reduce poverty & inequality in a country. Thus, ease of doing business for ‘corporates’ results
into the ease of living for poor people. The aforementioned scheme / policies / act / initiatives /
challenges will play pivotal role in that regard / must be addressed on priority basis.
रोजगार सृजन, गरीबी �नवारण के �लए ज�री है- कॉरपोरेट कं प�नयों को �ापार म� सुगमता होगी तभी गरीबों को (रोजगार क�) सुगमता
होगी। उकत सुधार आव�क / उ� सम�ाओ को अग्रता क्रम से सुलझाना ज�री
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44.1.1 👘👘👘👘👘👘 Textile Ministry → Notable schemes / initiatives
Indian textile industry, the second largest manufacturer and exporter in the world. Textile sector is
the biggest employer after agriculture employing 4.5 crore people directly and another 6 crore people
in allied sectors.
1. Jute Packaging Material (JPM) Act, 1987: requires the foodgrains and sugar companies to pack
“x%” of their produce in jute bags only. This ensures that jute bag industry can survive against
the competition of cheap plastic bags. खाद्या� और चीनी कं प�नयों ने अपना कु छ सामान अ�नवायर् �प से जूट बैग म� ही
सं ग्रिहत करना होगा तािक जूट उद्योग को धं धा �मलता रहे वरना तो �ा��क क� थै�लयों से वो �धार् नहीं कर पाएं गे!
2. Technical textiles = Fishing nets, bullet proof jackets, shoe laces, surgical gowns, parachute etc.
items. Technical Textiles are lightest and toughest. They have a variety of applications in
automobile, aerospace, architecture and building, occupational therapy, sport and apparel
industries etc. (रोज़ाना सामा� �प से पहनने के कपड़ों के अलावा वाली चीज़�)
- 💼💼Budget-2020: India imports a technical textiles worth US$ 16 billion every year. So,
to reverse this trend, we’ll launch a National Technical Textiles Mission (रा��ीय तकनीक� व�
�मशन) from 2020-21 to 2023-24.
3. Project India Size: Presently the makers of shoe / shirt / pants etc. refer to size charts developed
by UK / US standards e.g. Size 44 shirt, XL t-shirt etc. Textile ministry’s project aims to develop
size charts specific to Indian consumers' measurements.
4. India Handloom Brand logo (2015): It certifies that given handloom product - sari, dress
material, bedsheet etc. is 1) Indeed handmade 2) has zero defect 3) has zero negative impact on
the environment 4) has authentic Indian traditional design. Such brand logo increases the appeal
of Indian handcrafts to (mainly foreign) buyers. To obtain this logo, the weaver/entrepreneur
applies online to Textile Ministry → Development Commissioners for handloom. (सु�न��त करता है,
िक हाथ द्वारा �न�मत, �नमार्ण म� कोई ख़ामी नहीं, पयार्वरण पर कोई नकारा�क असर नहीं और पारंप�रक भारतीय शैली से बनाया है)
5. Previously, UPA/Congress had Mahatma Gandhi Bunkar Bima Yojana (MGBBY)- although
gradually Modi switched those beneficiaries to Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana. So we
need not worry about this obscure scheme.
6. 2016: ‘Pehchan’ cards given to handicraft artisans- linked with their Aadhaar numbers and bank
accounts to help them avail various scheme benefits.
7. e-Cocoon App a mobile application for quality certification in silkworm seed sector.
8. E-Dhaga App, BunkarMitra helpline to advising the weavers on business.
9. 💼💼Budget-2021: Total Seven (7) PRADHAN MANTRI Mega Investment Textiles Parks (PM-
MITRA) will be launched for booting textile exports
- Union govt to give 30% subsidy on project cost. State govt to provide 1000 acre land. 7
such parks will be setup in various states.
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- '5F' Formula for Success:- (Cotton/Jute/Silk) Farm to fibre → fibre to factory → factory
to fashion → fashion to foreign export.
- Locations: 1. Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu), 2. Warangal (Telangana), 3. Kalaburagi
(Karnataka), 4. Amravati (Maharashtra), 5. Navsari (Gujarat), 6. Dhar (Madhya
Pradesh), 7. Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
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Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, सू� , लघु और म�म उद्यम मं त्रालय : List not exhaustive →
Govt Company National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) – an NBFC
company registered under RBI.
Helps MSME to get loans. HQ-Delhi, founded in 1955.
Attached offices Development Commissioner (MSME)
Statutory Bodies Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Coir Board
44.2.1 �👶👶👶👶 MSME Problems: RBI’s UK Sinha report (2019)
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Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR�
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44.3.2 👶👶👶👶👶👶👶👶 MSME Ministry → Public Procurement Order(सावर्ज�नक खरीद/अ�धप्रा�� आदेश)
MSME Ministry’s Public Procurement Order 2012 requires every Central
Ministry/Department/Govt Company to buy/procure annually,
- At least 25% of their goods & services requirement from Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE).
Further,
- 3% of that 25% must be procured from MSE owned by Women Entrepreneurs: मिहला
उद्य�मयों के �ा�म� वाले MSE
- 4% of that 25% from SC/ST entrepreneurs.
- Give first purchase preference to local suppliers. �ानीय �वक्रेताओं को प्रथम वरीयता
- Try to ensure that procured goods/services have minimum 50% local content (to encourage
Make in India). (सरकारी सं �ान द्वारा खरीदे गए सामान म� �ूनतम 50% घटक �ानीय होना चािहए)
- MSME Ministry → ‘MSME- Sambandh’ webportal monitors the progress.
- MSME Ministry gets power to issue such order / quota under MSME development Act 2006.
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support, incubation centres, training, research and development (R&D). प्र�ेक �ज़ले म� से िकसी एक ख़ास
चीज़ के �नयार्त के �लए मदद
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- Target? Generating 1 new lakh jobs.
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Yojana के उद्य�मयों को सलाह मशवरा मदद तालीम के �लए हे�लाइन है
Udyami Bharat SEMINAR/workshop in Delhi (2022) launched by PM.
NOTE: in above image, please read "<" sign as "NOT MORE THAN (से अ�धक नहीं)
Investment: �नवेश annual turnover: वा�षक कारोबार
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Area Number as �ES23
Registered Units 1.32 Crores out of them 1.27 crore are Micro Enterprises
Jobs over 9 crore people, out of which 2.3 crore are women
Exports over ₹9 lakh crore
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45.1.3 🌄🌄 Sunrise sector in 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022 (सूय�दय �ेत्र: जहाँ तेज़ वृ�द्ध क� सं भावना)
- A sunrise industry is a new business sector showing potential for rapid growth.
- ��Budget-2022: we’ll help following Sunrise Sectors: Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial Systems
and Drones, Semiconductor and its eco-system, Space Economy, Genomics and Pharmaceuticals,
Green Energy, and Clean Mobility Systems. (इन सब सूय�दय �ेत्रों को नया बजट मदद करेगा.)
Marketplace E-Commerce companies were engaging in Anti-Competitive (�धार् �वरोधी) behaviour e.g.
- 😰😰Flipkart / Amazon would enter in exclusive partnerships with top smartphone brands such
as Xiaomi and Oppo- Prohibiting them from selling their mobile phones through other online or
offline channels → offline mobile shops suffer.
- 😰😰Flipkart / Amazon run “Marketplace E-Commerce model” i.e. they allow any merchant to
list their products on their website. However they will also have their own merchant company
(e.g. Amazon’s cloudtail pvt ltd) who would offer deep discounts / cashbacks to the customers.
→ Other online merchants on the same web platform will suffer. Offline brick and mortar shop
merchants (=kiranawalla) will also suffer.
- 2021: Competition Commission of India [a statutory body under the Corporate Affairs ministry]
is investigating this. However Flipkart Amazon went to court to stop investigation but uski ball-
by-ball news commentary not imp. Wait till final outcome. भारतीय प्र�त�धार् आयोग जांच कर रहा है
45.2.1 🖱🖱🖱🖱 E-Commerce Rules 2019-Feb
Who? Consumer Affairs ministry. उपभो�ा मामलों का मं त्रालय
How? using the powers under Consumer Protection Act 2019. उपभो�ा सं र�ण अ�ध�नयम(Ref:Pill4)
⇒ �Such E-commerce companies can’t have exclusive agreements with sellers (�बक्रेताओ के साथ
अन� समजौते). E.g. Flipkart can’t compel Xiaomi ‘not to’ sell Mi phones on other online/offline
platforms.
⇒ �Tightened the technical norms related to cashback and discounts. (कै शबैक और छू ट से सं बं �धत
तकनीक� मानदंडों को स� िकया)
⇒ �Tightened norms on E-commerce company who were using their own subsidiary
companies/shell companies as “Online Merchants” to sell products at deep discount (सहायक
कं प�नयों द्वारा गहरी छू ट पर सामान बेचने पर स�ी क� गयी).
⇒ E-commerce companies/E-Tailers must mention the 'expiry date', 'country of origin' of goods, its
policies on return, refund, exchange, warranty and guarantee, delivery, shipment, cancellation
policy. (ई �वक्रेता ने समा�� �त�थ, उ�ादन का मूल देश इ�ािद क� जानकारी देनी होगी )
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⇒ Must display sellers' geographic address, customer care number, rating etc.
✋Plus many other technical norms. Poor cost:benefit in chasing all them. In MCQs, just apply
logical reasoning that rules are more consumer friendly, and imposes more responsibilities on e-
tailer/seller. Accordingly do logical 50:50 elimination. For example, "E-tailer must not post fake
reviews by creating fake accounts".= Yes this statement is correct.
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�BEFORE UPI/BHIM: (REF: Pillar1A1) �AFTER UPI/BHIM
Customer paid money to Seller via Paytm→ money directly transferred to sellers bank
PayTM charged fees before seller could transfer account without such fees. = seller’s life
money to bank account. becomes easier.
seller kept product price high, to cover the fees Seller may reduce the product price to attract
of Paytm. more customers because now he does not have
to pay fees to Paytm.
Similarly, ONDC will make the life easier for seller and buyer.
�BEFORE ONDC �AFTER ONDC
Amazon Flipkart will deduct platform-fees These fees will get uniform across platforms.
before transferring customers’ money to seller. These fees will get reduced. = �seller life
These fees may vary from website to website becomes easier.
e.g. Amazon may charge 8%, Flipkart may
charge 11%
Customer product return, shipping delay etc. ONDC will have common guidelines across all
policies vary from platform to platform e.g. the e-commerce platforms. = �buyer life
Amazon may offer 3 days product-return, while becomes easier.
Flipkart may offer 7 days product-return.
“�ड�जटल वा�ण� के �लए खुला/ओपन नेटवकर् ” = एक एसा िड�जटल-मं च जो �वक्रेताओं को अलग अलग ई कॉमसर् कं प�नयों पर अपना
सामान बेचने म� मदद करेगा। इससे �वक्रेताओं का पं जीकरण, �वक्रेताओं पर लगने वाली फ़�स, व�ुओ ं क� क़�मत� तथा वणर्न, ग्राहक सुर�ा
इ�ािद के �लए एक आदशर्/एकसमान �व�ा/प्रणाली बनेगी, �जसम� �वक्रेता और ग्राहक दोनों के िहतों क� र�ा होगी और एमेज़ोन जेसी
कं पनीयो द्वारा शोषण कम होगा।
🔠🔠MCQ. Find correct about foreign-owned e-commerce firms operating in India? (Prelims-2022)
1. They can sell their own goods in addition to offering their platforms as market-places.
2. The degree to which they can own big sellers on their platforms is limited.
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
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45.2.6 E-Commerce: Anti Fake review framework by BIS
⇒ Who? BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards, Statutory body under Ministry of Consumer Affairs).
⇒ What? formed technical guidelines to combat fake product reviews on e-commerce websites.
Technically called “Indian Standard (IS) 19000:2022” (फज� �र�ु के �खलाफ िदशा �नद�श)
⇒ e.g. e-commerce company should 1) verify/ban fake reviewers thru email / OTP etc. 2) ban
merchants if they give money to people for giving fake positive reviews.
⇒ This is not a legal/judicial order. It is voluntary for the e-commerce company to adopt this
framework (यह �ै��क है. कानूनन �प से अ�नवायर् नहीं)
⇒ Google compelled the smartphone and smart TV makers to pre-install Google Playstore in their
devices/hardware along with Android operating system.
⇒ then the customer has to compulsorily install apps from playstore.
⇒ then google will charge 15–30% commission on the Apps sold thru Appstore.
⇒ Thus, Google was creating monopoly / anticompetitive practice.
⇒ 2022: CCI (Competition Commission of India, statutory body under corporate affairs Ministry)
imposed $161 million (₹1,337.76 crore)
⇒ Google appealed against CCI order at National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) but
failed → went to SC but failed.
गूगल कं पनी एं ड�ाइड �ाटर्फ़ोन बनाने वाली मोबाइल क��नयो से ज़बरन अपना गूगल �े�ोर इं�ॉल करवाती थी। तािक गूगल उस
�े�ोर पे �बक रहे मोबाइल ए� पर दलाली ख़ा सके । भारतीय प्र�त�धार् आयोग ने गूगल क� इस एका�धकार �ा�पत करने क�
ग़ैरक़ानूनी ग�त�व�ध पर बड़ा जुमार्ना लगाया है.
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45.3 � MFG → BODIES FOR QUALITY STANDARDS (गुणव�ा के मानक)
⇒ Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS, Statutory body under Ministry of Consumer Affairs). → Gold
Hallmarking and Silver hallmarking (to certify purity of metal)
⇒ Year 2000: BIS started for Gold in 3 grades viz. 14 carat, 18 carat and 22 carat.
⇒ So far it was voluntary (=Non compulsory) BUT From June 2021, Hallmarking became
compulsory for Gold & Silver- with following rules:
● ) Jewellers with annual turnover upto Rs. 40 lac will be exempted from mandatory
hallmarking छोटे जौह�रयों पर ये �नयम अ�नवायर् निह।
● 2) Jewellers can continue to buy back old gold jewellery without hallmark from
consumer. यिद ग्राहक �बना हॉलमा�कग का भी सोना बेचने आए तो जोहरी उसे खरीद सकता है।
⇒ �Direct benefit: customer assured of gold quality. ग्राहकों के �लए �णर् गुणव�ा सु�न��त होगी
⇒ �Hidden benefit: Since big Jewellers must register & get their products certified so tax
authorities get data mining opportunities about how much gold items traded, whether jeweller
depositing proportionate amount of taxes or evading it? Etc. परो� �प से कर चोरी पर लगाम.
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45.3.2 � Power Ministry → Statutory → BEE (2001-02)
⇒ Bureau of Energy Efficiency (ऊजार् द�ता �ूरो) setup under Energy Conservation Act, 2001.
⇒ BEE’s Energy ‘ Star labeling’ logos help consumers decide which electronic appliance is more
energy efficient than other brands.
- This labelling compulsory for Air Conditioners, Refrigerators, Tubelight, Color TV,
Electric Geysers, Inverter, LED Lamps etc. (अ�नवायर् सूची)
- This labelling is voluntary for other appliances like Computers, LPG stoves, ceiling fans-
Although this list keeps updating. (�ै��क सूची)
⇒ BEE’s Chiller Star Labelling: The traditional star labelling program is for consumer appliances
for households use. While chiller star labelling related to the big heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning devices in the commercial / factory buildings. (औद्यो�गक �र के शीत यं त्रों के �लए)
⇒ Separately, EESL’s Retrofit of Air-conditioning to improve Indoor Air Quality for Safety and
Efficiency (RAISE) it aims to increase quality and efficiency of AC. RAISE Joint initiative of
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL, a company under Power Ministry) and United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) (एयर कं डीशनर क� गुणव�ा और द�ता बढ़ाने के �लए)
⇒ Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (भारतीय खाद्य सुर�ा और मानक प्रा�धकरण) lays down
scientific standards for food manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import in India.
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⇒ FSSAI chairman may be a non-bureaucrat, food-scientist etc. While FSSAI functions under the
Administrative control of Health ministry, FSSAI Chairperson enjoys rank of an independent
Secretary to Government of India. He’s not ‘under’ any department of Health Ministry.
⇒ FSSAI act repealed previous central Acts like Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, & other
laws / orders of Fruits, Meat Edible Oils, Edible Flour, Milk Products etc.
⇒ FSSAI labelling rules 2011: Every package containing vegetarian food item must contain a square
symbol with a Green Colour filled circle inside. If egg / non-vegetarian item then Brown Color.
⇒ FSSAI packaging rules banned the use of recycled plastic and newspaper for packing / wrapping
food articles due to chemicals/cancer fear. (खाद्य पदाथ� को अखबार म� लपेट नहीं सकते �ोंिक क� सर का जो�खम)
⇒ FSSAI rules ban the use of calcium carbide and acetylene gas for artificial ripening of fruits,
however ethylene gas is permitted upto certain limits. (फल पकाने वाले रसायनों के उपयोग पर प्र�तबं ध)
⇒ Food product should not contain more than 2% Trans Fatty Acids (TFAs) from 1/1/2022
⇒ 2021: FSSAI has banned blending of mustard oil with any kind of edible oil from 2021. Because
such mixing/blending associated with dropsy disease/allergy. (सरसों का तेल िकसी अ� खाद्य तेल के साथ
�म�श्रत करने पर प्र�तबं ध �ोंिक ऐसा �मश्रण कु छ बीमा�रयाँ पेदा करता है)
⇒ Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer in Chinese food, but leads to obesity and
liver inflation. Earlier FSSAI had banned sale of Nestle's Maggi noodles because it contained lead
and MSG, although later HC lifted the ban.
⇒ 2019: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will provide training & certificates to youth → they
become ‘Food Safety Mitra’ → they help food processing companies / restaurants etc to comply
with FSSAI norms & earn consultancy fees from them.
⇒ 2022: working on a packaged/junk-food rating similar to energy rating on Fridge. But it is a draft
stage.
Related-Misc.? AGMARK is given by Agro Ministry→ Directorate of Marketing & Inspection →
under the Agricultural Produce(Grading and Marking ) Act, 1986. It covers Agriculture
commodities, wool, cotton, meat etc.
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Industry (ASSOCHAM). FICCI & ASSOCHAM are non-governmental trade
association/pressure groups of businessmen for highlighting their demand to Govt.
- QCI helps the industries to adopt quality standards like ISI, ISO, OHSAS, KAIZEN etc. िहदं ी
श�ावली यहां ज�रत नहीं �ोंिक मु� परी�ा म� इसका काम नहीं.
- Quality Council of India (QCI) provides certification of Zero Defect and Zero Effect (ZED)
manufacturing to MSME industries.
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45.4 �🛒🛒 CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 2019 (उपभो�ा सं र�ण)
Nodal? Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (उपभो�ा मामलों का मं त्रालय)
It replaces replace the original act of 1986.
45.4.1 �🛒🛒 Consumer Protection Act 2019 → bodies → Consumer court
Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions (CDRCs: उपभो�ा �ववाद �नवारण आयोग).
CDRC at District �जला �र पर State रा� �र पर National रा��ीय �र पर**
hears complaints upto ₹ Upto ₹1 cr >1 cr upto 10 cr >10 cr (More than ten crore)
(Original Limit)
REFORM in 2021# Upto ₹50 lakh ₹50l to 2 cr >2 cr
• # Previously the limits were bigger and as a result district and state commissions were burdened
with too many cases, resulting into case pendency. So, Govt has changed the hearing limits. ग्राहक
सुर�ा क़ानून म� �जला रा� और रा��ीय ग्राहक अदालत इतने लाख �पये तक के मामलों क� सुनवाई कर सकते ह� उन सीमाओं म� सुधार.
• **2020: National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has launched E-Daakhil
Portal to help the consumers file online complaints under the Consumer Protection Act.
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Punishment - Fines upto ₹ 50 lakhs + upto 5 years jail. (कारावास और जुमार्ना)
दंड - ₹50k fine on Consumer if filing frivolous complaints.
Celebrity If an endorser is giving a misleading advertisement, then he can be banned from
Ads? advertising and face financial penalty. (भ्र�मत करने वाले �व�ापनो पे समथर्नकार को दंड)
⇒ Provisions for mediation / Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism. However, No
Appeal Against Settlement Through Mediation. (कोटर् के बाहर �ववाद �नपटाना /सुलह करना)
⇒ Stricter rules for eCommerce website (Ref Pill#3A)
⇒ stricter penalties for adulteration/spurious goods. (�मलावट खोरी /नकली माल बेचना)
Conclusion? Thus, new act addresses the lacunas of the original act of '86- by providing for new
methods of filing complaints, new bodies for seeking justice and stricter penalties on violators. This
will help in long way to protect the rights of consumers in India. यह नया कानून पुराने कानून क� खा�मयों को दू र
करता है. �शकायत �नवारण के �लए नई प्रिक्रया, नए सं गठन, और �ादा स� सजा के प्रावधान- - ग्राहक सुर�ा म� ब�त मदद करेगा.
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�🧔🧔 PILLAR#4C: ECONOMIC PLANNING, NITI-PC, UNEMPLOYMENT
Table of Contents
46 �� Economic Planning & Economic Systems.......................................................................... 651
46.1.1 Closed vs Open Economy ................................................................................................. 652
46.1.2 🕹🕹 Capitalism- Great Reset Initiative by W.E.F (�व� आ�थक मं च क� ग्रेट रीसेट पहल) ........... 652
46.2 �� Economic Planning: आ�थक योजना ............................................................................. 653
46.2.1 � Types of Economic Planning (आ�थक योजना के प्रकार) ............................................. 654
46.2.2 � � Economy Planning → Before Independence: ............................................ 654
46.3 � � Economy Planning → After Independence ........................................................ 655
46.4 �� Planning Commission → Five Year plans............................................................ 656
46.5 ��Planning Commission: Limitations / Shortcomings ............................................. 658
46.6 �� Planning Commission vs Niti Aayog: Structure ................................................... 659
46.7 �� Planning Commission vs Niti Aayog: Functions .................................................. 660
46.8 � NITI → Notable initiatives / how different from PC? ............................................... 661
46.8.1 State Support Mission of NITI Aayog (2022) ................................................................. 662
46.9 � � Economy Planning → PM-EAC?.......................................................................... 663
46.9.1 � Economy Planning → PRAGATI? ...................................................................... 663
46.10 ��
� � � [Yearbook] MOSPI, NSSO, CSO, NSO ................................................... 664
46.11 ��
� �� National Statistical Commission (रा�ी� य सां��क� आयोग) ............................. 665
46.11.1 ��
�� Mahalanobis National Award for Statistics ............................................ 666
46.11.2 ��
�� Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 .............................................................. 666
47 � Pillar#4C: Indicators → Unemployment ............................................................................ 667
47.1.1 🕵🕵🕵🕵🕵🕵International Labour Organization (ILO: अंतररा��ीय श्रम सं गठन).......................... 667
47.1.2 ��Occupational of Indian Workers (number in Crores) ...................................... 667
47.2 � Unemployment → Involuntary → Types .................................................................. 668
47.2.1 � Unemployment Major Types and Reasons: (बेरोजगारी के प्रमुख प्रकार/ कारण) .............. 668
47.3 Employment related Terms in News ........................................................................................ 670
47.3.1 Baumol’s Cost Disease Theory / labour cost rising (1965) ........................................... 670
47.3.2 Moonlighting ...................................................................................................................... 670
47.4 �� Unemployment → NSO Survey Types .................................................................. 670
47.5 �� UNEMPLYOMENT: Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) ................................... 670
47.5.1 � � Indicators → unemployment rate (UR: बेरोज़गारी दर) ....................................... 671
47.5.2 �/( � �) Indicators → Worker Population Ratio (WPR) ................................ 672
47.6 �/( ���) Indicators → Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) ................... 672
47.6.1 ���Why FEMALE LFPR Declined between 2004 to 2018? ............................. 673
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47.7 Augmented Female LFPR (सं व�धत मिहला एलएफपीआर)................................................................. 674
47.8 �� Workers Types by NSO ........................................................................................... 675
47.8.1 �� Worker Types → Census-2011 classification of workers................................ 675
47.8.2 ��� Worker Types → Unorganized sector ........................................................ 676
47.8.3 �� Worker Types → Informal worker (अयथाव�ध/अनौपचा�रक मजदू र) ....................... 677
47.8.4 � 🖱🖱 Worker Types → Unorganized workers → E-Shram Portal (2021) ............. 678
47.8.5 ��� Worker Types → Gig workers & Two sided market - ES21 ..................... 678
47.9 ��Organised sector Jobs .................................................................................................... 679
47.9.1 ��Organised sector Jobs → QES ............................................................................. 679
47.9.2 ��Organised sector Jobs → Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) .......................... 680
47.9.3 ��Organised sector Jobs → EPFO Registered Workers ....................................... 680
47.10 ��� NITI Report on Gig Workers ............................................................................ 680
47.11 ��� How to create more jobs? .................................................................................. 680
47.12 �� Mock Questions for Mains → NITI PC Unemployment ................................... 680
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Economic System Capitalism Mixed Economies Socialism
आ�थक प्रणाली → पूंजीवाद �म�श्रत अथर्�व�ाएँ समाजवाद
Ownership of the Pvt. Sector Few industries reserved Public Sector / Govt /
industries? �नजी �ेत्र for public sector, Collective ownership.
उद्योगों का मा�लक कौन remaining by Pvt. sector. No ‘pvt’ property.
What goods and ‘Free Market - Essential Govt. will decide
services should we Economy’: Let the goods/services by what must be
produce? More market forces of Public Sector produced & in how
books or more supply & demand - Others by Pvt sector. much quantity.
bikes? decide it.
During production Whichever mode of In public sector Preference for labour
shd we use more production is more industries- govt will intensive modes of
labour or more cheaper. decide. In pvt sector- production.
capital (machines)? entrepreneur will decide.
Only the consumers - For essential goods Govt to decide who
How to who can afford them, and services → needs how much, and
sell/distribute those can purchase them. If a government may fix will distribute
goods and services sick man cannot afford the prices e.g. NPPA- accordingly, using
among people? medicine, it is not Stent. subsidy / rationing
�वतरण प्रणाली govt’s problem. - For others → market shops.
forces will decide.
⇒ Presently, most nations are ‘Mixed Economic System’ including USA and India. While China
officially claims to be ‘Socialist’ but, in practice, they too have become a Mixed Economy. (वतर्मान
समय म� �ादातर देश को ‘�मश्र’ अथर्तंत्र ही है- चीन ने भी ख़ुद के समाजवादी होने का िदखावा करता है, िकंतु ‘�मश्र’ है।)
- The socialist economic system stopped in most nations after the collapse of USSR, except a
handful of outliers like North Korea, Cuba & Venezuela.
- Communism is a branch of socialism, (usually) run by a totalitarian government made up of one
and only one party. (सा�वाद- समाजवाद क� एक उपशाखा है जहाँ सामा� �प से एक तानाशाह सरकार होती है.)
46.1.2 🕹🕹 Capitalism- Great Reset Initiative by W.E.F (�व� आ�थक मं च क� ग्रेट रीसेट पहल)
⇒ by World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab
⇒ Capitalism & its business models need to be "reset", to build a new social contract that honours
the dignity and equality of every human- in health, finance, energy and education. (पूंजीवाद और
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उसके �बजनेस मॉडल को रीसेट/पुनः शु�आत करना- इस प्रकार के सामा�जक अनुबंध बने, जहां हर इं सान क� ग�रमा और समानता का
�ाल रखा जाए-�ा�,�व�, ऊजार्, और �श�ा म�। �ोंिक वतर्मान पूंजीवाद भी गरीबों का शोषण ब�त हो रहा है)
⇒ Corona’s impact on poor people → has revived this debate again. (कोरोना म� इसक� ज़�रत महसूस �ई)
Definition? It is the process through which Govt. prepares a list of socio-economic problems e.g.
mass poverty, inequality, low productivity in agriculture, lack of industrial and infrastructural
development etc.; and then Govt. sets goals / targets / plans to fix these problems. यह प्रिक्रया है �जसके
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मा�म से सरकार सामा�जक-आ�थक सम�ाओं क� सूची तैयार करता है उदा। बड़े पैमाने पर गरीबी, असमानता, कृ �ष म� कम उ�ादकता,
औद्यो�गक और बु�नयादी ढांचागत �वकास क� कमी आिद; और उसे ठीक करने के �लए ल� / ल� / योजना �नधार्�रत करती है
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1938 Nehru’s Congress plan advocated setting up “National Planning Commission”.
But not implemented due to World War 2.
1944 15 years’ Bombay Plan for investment, by 8 noted industrialists JRD Tata, GD Birla et al.
1944 Sriman Narayan Agrawal’s Gandhian plan- focusing agricultural and rural economy
1945 MN Roy’s People’s Plan– with socialist leanings. He advocated distribution of resources
by the state only, and mechanization of agricultural production.
1950 Jayprakash Narayan’s Sarvodaya Plan based on Vinoba’s philosophy focused on
agriculture, small and cottage industries.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find wrong statement about Gandhian approach to development? (Geologist-2020)
a) Voluntary limitation of wants b) Development of self-sufficient village community
c) Achieve balance between man and nature d) Industrialization & private participation
1950, Inspired from the USSR / Soviet Model, PM Nehru established a Planning Commission
Mar. (सो�वयत सं घ से प्रभा�वत होकर प्रधानमं त्री नेह� ने योजना आयोग क� �ापना क� थी)
1951 From 1st April, the first FYP starts. (पहली पं चवष�य योजना शु� होती है)
1952 National Development Council (NDC: रा��ीय �वकास प�रषद) of PM, CM etc. to approve the
Five-Year Plans: पं चवष�य योजनाएँ drafted by Planning Commission.
2014 Modi shuts down Planning Commission. (प्रधानमं त्री मोदी ने योजना आयोग को बं द करवा िदया)
2015, Modi notified the formation of Niti Aayog: National Institution for Transforming India,
Jan to replace the Planning Commission. (और उसक� जगह नी�त आयोग क� �ापना क�)
PC, NDC and NITI were / are neither Constitutional nor Statutory bodies. (सं वैधा�नक/वैधा�नक सं �ा नहीं)
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46.4 �📚📚 PLANNING COMMISSION → FIVE YEAR PLANS
✋Following table is more relevant for CDS, SSC & StatePCS than for UPSC-CSE.
Plan Period Theme/Model/Target
1st 51-56 ➢ Harrod Domar Model
➢ Main focus: Agriculture, irrigation and power.
➢ Successful: Got more GDP growth than its original target.
2nd 56-61 ➢ P.C. Mahalanobis model. He was Chief Statistician of India.
➢ Socialist pattern/model of society,
➢ Rapid industrialization, heavy industries.
➢ Successful: Achieved the GDP growth target.
3rd 61-66 ➢ Sukhmoy Chakraborty and John Sandy Model
➢ Also called “Gadgil Yojana”: to make the economy independent
➢ #EPICFAIL due to droughts and wars with Pak-China
Holidays 66-69 Plan Holiday declared thanks to #EPICFAIL of 3rd FYP.
During this period, annual plans were made.
4th 69-74 ➢ Ashok Rudra and Alon Manney Model.
➢ growth with stability and self-reliance.
➢ Indira gave ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan in 1971 election campaign
➢ #EPICFAIL due to Bangladeshi refugee problem and drought.
5th 74-79 ➢ C.Subramaniam and later redrafting by D.P.Dhar
➢ Focus: agriculture > Industry & Mines
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Plan Period Theme/Model/Target
➢ Originally it was a 10 year long term perspective plan with focus on
poverty removal and self-reliance
➢ While it achieved the targets but terminated in 1978 as Morarji Desai
became PM.
Rolling 78-80 Morarji Desai’s Janta government: “we’ll measure progress every year and
Plan make new plans accordingly for next year.”
6th 80-85 ➢ Poverty removal, IRDP, NREM, TRYSEM schemes etc.
7th 85-90 ➢ Pranab Mukherjee Model Focus on employment.
➢ For the first time, due to the pressure from private sector the private
sector got the priority over public sector
2 annual 90-92 Political instability at Centre. So, only 2 annual plans:
plans (i) 1990-91 & (ii) 1991-92.
8th 92-97 ➢ John W.Miller Model.
➢ PM PV Narasimha Rao- LPG reforms, New Economic Policy
➢ Top priority to human resources i.e. employment, education and
public health.
➢ Successful: Got more GDP growth than its original target.
➢ Fiscal deficit also ⏬but that was done by manipulation, using extra
budgetary resources (EBR) which we saw in Pillar#2
9th 97-02 ➢ Growth with social justice and equity. Mostly “indicative” planning.
➢ identified 7 Basic Minimum Services (BMS) like health, education,
nutrition, roads & gave more ₹₹ for that.
➢ #EPICFAIL due to global slowdown after Asian Financial Crisis
(which we learned in Pillar#3 currency convertibility).
10th 02-07 Target 8% GDP growth rate, double per capita income in 10 years, reduce
poverty to 15% etc. But failed to achieve targets.
11th 07-12 ➢ Theme: “Towards Fast and more Inclusive Growth”
➢ C.Rangarajan framed it with targets: GDP 9% growth rate, 70 million
new jobs, lower IMR, CMR, TFR etc.
➢ But due to US-subprime crisis, failed to achieve targets.
12th 12-17 ➢ Theme: Faster, More Inclusive & Sustainable Growth
Ended on ➢ Target growth: 9% GDP, 4% Agriculture, 10% Mfg. but due to
31/3/201 continued global economic slowdown, most targets not achieved.
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➢ 10% reduction in poverty, create 50 million new jobs.
➢ Get IMR:26, MMR:1000,Child Sex ratio: 950, TFR: 2.1
➢ Increase mean school years, forest cover, infrastructure investment,
rural tele-density.
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🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which of the following Five Year Plans emphasized the need for establishing a
“Socialist Pattern of Society” in India? (UPSC-Geologist-2020)
A) 2nd Five year Plan B) 3rd Five Year Plan C) 4th Five Year Plan D) 5th Five Year Plan
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The main objective of the 12th Five-Year Plan is (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2014)
(a) inclusive growth and poverty reduction (b) inclusive growth and sustainable growth
(c) sustainable and inclusive growth to reduce unemployment
(d) faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Arrange the following events in sequential order as they happened in India:
1. Mahalanobis Model 2. Plan Holiday 3. Rolling Plan. (Asked in CDS-II-2017)
Answer Codes: (a) 1, 2, 3 (b) 3, 2, 1 (c) 2, 3, 1 (d) 1, 3, 2
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statement(s) about India’s Five Year Plans (Pre-2019):
1. From the 2nd Five-Year Plan, there was a determined thrust towards substitution of basic and
capital good industries.
2. The 4th Five-Year Plan adopted the objective of correcting the earlier trend of increased
concentration of wealth and economic power.
3. In the 5th FYP, for the first time, the financial sector was included as an integral part of the Plan.
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 1,2 and 3
46.5 �👎👎PLANNING COMMISSION: LIMITATIONS / SHORTCOMINGS
shifted to Mains handout. #Prelmis-RAFTAAR
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46.6 �🧔🧔 PLANNING COMMISSION VS NITI AAYOG: STRUCTURE
Position �Planning Commission 🧔🧔 NITI Aayog
Born: 15/3/1950 National Institution for Transforming India was
Born
Dissolved: 13/8/2014 born on 1/1/2015
Chairman Prime Minister same
He enjoys ‘Cabinet Minister’ rank
Vice Last Dy.Chairman was
1. Dr. Arvind Panagariya (2015-17, resigned)
Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia
2. Dr. Rajiv Kumar (2017-22, resigned)
उपा�� (Cabinet minister Rank).
3. Dr. Suman K Bery (2022- Current)
A Secretary level bureaucrat with fixed tenure.
CEO Member-Secretary (IAS)
Presently, Parameswaran Iyer (IAS)
Ex-officio
1. Finance Minister PM will nominate Max 4 Union ministers. Presently,
members
2. Planning minister Minister for- Home, Defense, Finance, Agriculture
(पदेन सद�)
1. Dr Arvind Virmani (Economist, got job in 2022)
2. Dr. Ramesh Chand (Economist)
Full time 3. Dr. V.K. Saraswat (Technocrat, missile scientist
4-7 full time members,
members
who enjoyed “Minister of and Ex-DRDO chief.)
(पूणर्का�लक
State” rank. 4. Dr. Vinod Kumar Paul (Pediatrician, Public
सद�)
(क� द्र के रा� क�ा के मं त्री का पद) Health Expert)
They enjoy Minister of State rank in warrant of
precedence, but salary = Secretary rank (IAS)
- Union ministers for Transport, Social Justice,
Special MSME, Textiles, Women-Child, HRD,
Invitees commerce, statistics, planning.(these ministers
N/A
(�वशेष�प से are sometimes added/removed. List keeps
आमं �त्रत ���) changing dynamically)
- PM can invite other experts as and when needed.
Part-time Tech experts from research institutes. Currently
(अंशका�लक सद�) N/A
members none declared as of 2020-Jan.
− Chairman: Prime minister
− CM of all states incl. Delhi, Puducherry
National Development
Governing − Lieutenant governors of UT.
Council (NDC: रा��ीय �वकास
Council − 😰😰Although cooperative federalism spirit
प�रषद) with PM, CM etc.
missing, West Bengal, Telangana and Punjab
boycotted meeting in June 2019
Ad hoc (तदथर्) CMs & Lt.Govs of states/UTs that fall in the region.
Regional N/A They’ll be dealing with specific issue affected them
Councils e.g. irrigation, Naxal-problem, infrastructure etc.
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** Nominated ministers keeps on changing. Earlier, Railway minister and Minister of state for
planning, were in it. Now only 1) Defense 2) Home 3) Finance 4) Agri
** There is discrepancy between the theory given in Govt’s India 2020 (yearbook) which says ‘Full
time and part-time members will be maximum of 2” vs real life composition from
niti.gov.in/content/overview where fulltime members = 3. I’ve kept NITI webpage as reference.
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46.8 🧔🧔 NITI → NOTABLE INITIATIVES / HOW DIFFERENT FROM PC?
Darpan 2017 onwards: NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) register here, get unique
Portal id → apply for grants under various govt schemes. नी�त आयोग के इस वेब पोटर्ल पर
पं जीकरण करने के बाद ही ग़ैर सरकारी सं गठन सरकारी योजनाओं म� जुड़ सकते ह�
Aspirational - 2018 onwards: to rapidly transform 115 backward districts on 49 key
District performance indicators (KPIs :मु� �न�ादन सं के तक) related to Health, Nutrition,
Programme Education, Agriculture, Water Resources, Financial Inclusion, Skill
Development, Infrastructure etc.
आकां�ा�क
- progress monitored in NITI online portal called ‘Champions of Change’
�जला कायर्क्रम
Strategic - NITI Aayog suggested strategic disinvestment of 30+ sick / loss making
disinvestment CPSEs such as Air India, Pawan Hans Helicopter, Scooters India etc.
रणनी�तक�व�नवेश (PC wouldn’t have done this because of their Nehruvian mindset.)
POSHAN - Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) is implementing
Abhiyaan POSHAN Abhiyaan to make India malnutrition free India by 2022 with focus
कु पोषण �नवारण के on pregnant women, mothers and children. (More in Pillar#6)
�लए - NITI Vice-Chairman is the head of POSHAN Abhiyaan’s National Council.
(Planning Commission’s focus would had been Food-calorie security through
cheap wheat /grain only, whereas Nutritional Security is bigger.)
Bills and Since its inception Niti Aayog has
policies - Helped framing various policies on Energy, Mineral etc.
कानूनों के �नमार्ण म� - Helped framing various bills, Model Acts on Agricultural Land Leasing,
सलाह Livestock Selling etc.
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🌽🌽 NITI helped revamping the MSP by suggesting price deficiency payments (under
Agriculture PM-AASHA), & revamping fertilizer subsidies through DBT mechanism to
कृ �ष �ेत्र fertilizer companies. (Ref: Pill#4: Agro Handout)
SDG For Sustainable Development Goals (सतत �वकास ल�)
(More in - NITI developed SDG India Index to monitor our progress in 17 SDG goals
📑📑Pillar#6) - NITI suggested Govt. to focus on methanol / biofuel based economy for
reducing the fuel bill by around 30% by 2030.
GIRG Niti Aayog Global Indices to Drive Reforms and Growth (GIRG) dashboard to
Dashboard monitor India’s performance on various global socio-economic parameters in
(सामा�जक आ�थक such as Multidimensional poverty index of United Nations Development
�वकास के आंकड़े) Program (UNDP-सं यु� रा�� �वकास कायर्क्रम का ब�आयामी गरीबी सूचकांक). (📑📑Ref: Pill#6)
📯📯 CSS NITI helped developing Output Outcome Monitoring Framework to monitor the
क� द्र द्वारा प्रायो�जत implementation of Govt schemes. PC simply launched schemes after schemes,
योजनाएं without much attention to performance monitoring.
Seminars NITI regularly organizes seminars, workshops, conferences for idea exchange
with industries and academicians. PC was ‘closed / introvert body’ (अंतमुर्खी) in
terms of interaction with others.
Startups - NITI runs Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) →grant of upto ₹ 10 crores to
setup Atal Incubation Centres incubators. → AIM also started “Mentor
India” program, wherein experts from industry provide mentorship to
students in Atal incubator labs.
- SETU to help startups.(More in �Pillar#4B: Startup)
Digital Age NITI developing National Program on Artificial Intelligence.
� Conclusion? From above aspects, it is evident that NITI’s approach is more modernised,
forward-looking, less bureaucratic and less status-quo oriented than the erstwhile Planning
Commission. With such initiatives, NITI Ayog is playing a pivotal role for economic growth, human
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development and good governance in India. नी�त आयोग का ���कोण अ�धक आधु�नक, दू रंदेशी, कम नौकरशाही और
कम 'यथा���त' वाला है- �जससे वह आ�थक वृ�द्ध, मानव �वकास, और सुशासन म� मदद करेगा
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Investment - (2004-09: Under Ratan Tata to make recommendations to the government on
Commission policies and procedures to facilitate investment.
- 2016 Government thought to revive it but faded topic. (फू टा �आ कारतूस)
CPGRAMS - 2007: Personnel Ministry → Department of Administrative Reforms & Public
(भ्र�ाचार Grievances (DARPG: प्रशास�नक सुधार और लोक �शकायत �वभाग) launched the portal
भाई भतीजावाद Centralized Public Grievance Redress And Monitoring System (CPGRAMS)
धाँधली क� - Any citizens can file complaint against any Central
�शकायत के �लए) Ministries/Departments/Organisations for Corruption, Nepotism,
harassment, mismanagement, absenteeism, Delay in providing services etc.
They also launched a mobile app ‘My Grievance’.
[Yearbook] Following don’t fall under any ‘Ministry or Dept’
Misc. APEX/ INDEPENDENT OFFICES/Dept
1) President’s Secretariat (रा�प� �त स�चवालय)
2) Cabinet Secretariat (मं त्रीमं डल स�चवालय) → Research & Analysis Wing
3) Prime Minister’s Office (प्रधान मं त्री कायार्लय) → National Security Advisor (NSA:
रा��ीय सुर�ा सलाहकार)
4) NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)
5) Department of Atomic Energy (परमाणु ऊजार् �वभाग)
6) Department of Space (अंत�र� �वभाग)
7) National Security Council Secretariat (रा�ी� य सुर�ा प�रषद स�चवालय)
🔠🔠❓MCQ Which of following is correct chronology sequence of formation of the Commissions? (UPSC-
CDS-i-2020)
A. Finance Commission (FC), Planning Commission, Investment Commission, Election
Commission (�वत् आयोग, योजना आयोग, �नवेश आयोग, चुनाव आयोग)
B. Election Commission, Planning Commission, FC, Investment Commission
C. Planning Commission, Election Commission, FC, Investment Commission
D. Investment Commission, FC, Planning Commission, Election Commission
46.10➗📊📊 � 📈📈 [YEARBOOK] MOSPI, NSSO, CSO, NSO
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI: सां��क� और कायर्क्रम कायार्�यन मं त्रालय)’s
administrative head is called ‘Secretary & Chief Statistician of India’ (भारत के मु� सां��क��वद)् .- usually,
Indian Statistical Service officer recruited by UPSC. MoSPI has →
1. 📈📈 National Statistical Office (NSO: रा�ी� य सां��क� कायार्लय) →
a. A] Central Statistics Office (CSO: क� द्रीय सां��क� कायार्लय) → computation of GDP, GSDP,
IIP, ASI, CPI (Rural, Urban, All India) and Economic Census (6th was done in 2013);
b. B] National Sample Survey Office (NSSO: राष्ट�ीय प्र�तदशर् सव��ण कायार्लय) → data collection
for various socio-economic indicators, Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), Rural-urban
prices and other data required for CSO’s calculations.
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c. 2019: MoSPI merged A+B, henceforth it’ll be called National Statistical Office (NSO)
only. it will be headed by Chief statistician of India-cum-Secretary of MoSPI. (Earlier, C
Rangarajan’s National Statistical Commission in 2005 had recommended this
CSO+NSSO Merger). Further, MoSPI also planning to setup a National-Level Data
Warehouse: It’ll act as a central repository of all the statistical data collected various
ministries, and provide big data analytics.
2. 📯📯 Programme Implementation wing (कायर्क्रम कायार्�यन �ं ध) →
a. Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS-1993: सांसद �ानीय
�ेत्र �वकास योजना) → each MP can suggest development works worth ₹ 5 crore per year in
his constituency. (📑📑More in Pillar#5: Rural infra)
b. Twenty Point Programme (2006: बीस सूत्री कायर्क्रम) to measure performance of various
schemes related to poverty alleviation, employment, housing, education, health, etc.
c. Infrastructure Monitoring and Project Monitoring.
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- 😰😰Controversy? 2019-Jan: Two members resigned citing “Over the months, we have been
feeling that we were not been taken seriously and being sidelined by the govt. NSC had approved
the Employment Survey 2017-18 but it’s not yet released.” Critics allege this Employment survey
shows jobs fell after demonetization / GST so Modi did not want data released.
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⇒ Penalty if companies, individuals and households doesn’t give information / give false
information to the data collectors. सरकारी सव��णों को आंकड़े नहीं देने पर ��� को सजा के प्रावधान।
Sidenote: Data collection / classification is done as per the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA
2008) by United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC).
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. National Statistical Commission was established on the basis of the
recommendations of which one of the following commissions/committees? (UPSC-Geologist-
2020)
A) Rangarajan B)Lodha C) Santhanam D) M.G.K. Menon Committee
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47.2 � UNEMPLOYMENT → INVOLUNTARY → TYPES
1) Voluntary Unemployment (�ै��क बेरोजगारी): a person is out of job on his own choice. Either he
wants higher wages or doesn’t want to work at all.
2) Involuntary unemployment (अनैक��क बेरोजगारी): person is willing to work at the prevailing wage
rates, but unable to find work due to factors beyond his control.
47.2.1 � Unemployment Major Types and Reasons: (बेरोजगारी के प्रमुख प्रकार/ कारण)
⇒ Slow Economic Growth vs Rapid Population Growth. आबादी क� वृ�द्ध के सामने आ�थक वृ�द्ध कम
⇒ Defective Educational System, Lack of skill / employability.[�श�ा प्रणाली, कौश� क� कमी]
⇒ Lack of Banking/Transport/Communication Infrastructure in some areas → people unable to
pursue educational and economic goals [ब�िकंग, सं चार, प�रवहन िक बु�नयादी अवसं रचना क� कमी- इस�लए कु छ
गरीब लोग �श�ा और आ�थक अवसर ढूँ ढ नहीं पाते]
⇒ Social Factors- discrimination against SC/ST/Women/PH. [कमजोर वगर् के �खलाफ़ भेदभाव]
⇒ (More in �Pillar#6: HRD- Education, Skill, Poverty)
Types Features
Cyclical (चक्र�य बेरोजगारी ) ⇒ Economy goes through boom-bust cycles. [आ�थक तेज़ी/मं दी]
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Types Features
⇒ during bust / recession / depression when workers are laid off on
mass scale.
⇒ E.g. Maruti removed 3000 workers in 2019 because car sales �.
Frictional ⇒ When a person is out of one job and is searching for another job.
(प्र�तरोधा�क) During this transition time, he’s deemed frictionally
unemployed.[एक नौकरी छोड़ के दू सरी ढूँ ढ रहा है]
Disguised ⇒ Unemployment which is not visible because person seems visibly
🍒🍒 Unemployment working but his marginal productivity / contribution is zero.
(प्र��) ⇒ E.g. Farming family of 4 persons produces 200 kgs of grapes, but
even if you remove 3 persons still production remains at 200 kgs.
⇒ ऐसी बेरोज़गारी जो ��मान तो नहीं िक�ु मज़दू र का सीमांत उ�ादन शू� ह�।
☔ Seasonal (मौसमी) ⇒ Labourers in Agriculture, Salt-pans, Sugar Mills, Ice-factory,
Tourist spots, Marriage Catering-Orchestra etc.
Underemployment ⇒ Person is employed but not in a befitting position or salary
(अ�रोज़गार) or Educated corresponding to his qualification.
unemployment ⇒ e.g. M.Com working as Swiggy delivery boy, M. Tech working as
Bank clerk etc.
🤖🤖 Technological ⇒ When men are replaced with machines e.g. Handloom workers
Unemployment vs Textile Machines, Horse carriage vs Automobile.
(प्रौद्यो�गक� / मशीनीकरण/ रोबोट- ⇒ 2018-Sept: World Economic Forum released “Future of Jobs
यं त्रमानव के उपयोग से मज़दू रों क� Report”. It says, by 2025, machines will do more work than
बेरोज़गारी) humans. As a result, 75 million worker jobs may be lost, but 133
million new jobs may emerge in robot repair/robot software
design etc. Hence urgently workers need to be reskilled.
Open / Structural ⇒ Lack of jobs when person’s skill/qualification is insufficient for
(सं रचना�क) [आदमी का the jobs available in the market
कौश�, बाज़ार क� ज़�रतों के ⇒ e.g. An IT Graduate knows C++ language but demand is for
अनुकूल नहीं]
software developers of Python/JAVA computer language.
Natural rate of sum of frictional unemployment and structural unemployment is
unemployment. (NROU) referred as the natural rate of unemployment. (NIOS Textbook)
बेरोजगारी का प्राकृ �तक दर
Non-accelerating Refer to pillar4E: Inflation and Phillips Curve.
Inflation rate of
unemployment (NAIRU)
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47.3 EMPLOYMENT RELATED TERMS IN NEWS
47.3.2 Moonlighting
⇒ Moonlighting means taking up a second job or multiple other work assignments apart from
one’s full-time job. (मु� नौकरी के अलावा और भी दू सरी नौकरी करना, तािक �ादा पैसा कमाने के �लए।)
⇒ Wipro, Infosys, etc. have removed workers for this because such worker may disclose parent
company’s trade secrets / software codes / client list to other rival companies.
47.4 �📊📊 UNEMPLOYMENT → NSO SURVEY TYPES
NSO surveys → Quinquennial Employment and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS
Unemployment Surveys आव�धक श्रम बल सव��ण)
Survey frequency? Every 5 years. Starting from ⇒ Annual. Started since 2017
(सव��ण क� आवृ�� िकतनी 1972 Last survey done in 2011- ⇒ PLFS Survey: workers aged 15
समयाव�ध पर) 12. Then discontinued years or higher are counted.
Which households are Non-agriculture workers in ⇒ Both urban & rural, agro & non-
surveyed? (िकतने घरों का rural and urban areas (के वल ग़ैर agro covered. (शहरी ग्रामीण कृ �ष
सव��ण) कृ �ष मज़दू रों का सव��ण) ग़ैरकृ �ष सभी का सव��ण)
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Apart from this, MOSPI → NSO also releases quarterly bulletins e.g.
Quarter Released in
Q2:Jul-Sept-2020 2021-Aug
Q3:Oct-Dec-2020 2021-Sept
⚾📻📻⚾🎙🎙✋But preparing the quarterly data = poor cost:benefit from exam point of view. . �तमाही
आंकड़ों के पृथ�रण का डेटा तैयार करने म� परी�ा क� मेहनत �ादा और परी�ा म� फायदा कम है.
��Labour force (श्र�मक वगर्)= Those who are 'working' (or employed) + Those 'seeking or
available for work' (=involuntarily unemployed).
Unemployment rate (UR) finds involuntarily unemployed persons via following formula:
��𝑁𝑁𝑁𝑁 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 (𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖) 𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓
Unemployment Rate = � � × 100
𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇 𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 ����
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47.5.2 �/( � �) Indicators → Worker Population Ratio (WPR)
It is the percentage of employed persons in the population.
𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝��
WPR= � � × 100
𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 👼👼👼���👴👴
- 2017: 37% (male+female in rural+urban combined). It can’t be 100% because there will be
children, elderly outside the ‘15-59’ age group meant for workers.
- �LFPR for female: Replace the word ‘person’ with ‘female’ in above formula. It’s lower than
male LFPR.
𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 � + �𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢𝑢 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓
𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿(𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓) = � � × 100
𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡 𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 👧👧👧�👵👵
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% LFPR (all ages) 2017 2018 2019 2020 Comment,if any
�FEMALE 17 19⏫ 23⏫ 25⏫ Female LFPR(All India)@25% is
Urban+Rural=All (male is much less than MALE LFPR(All
India 57%) India)@57%
All India 37 37.5⏫ 40⏫ 41.6⏫
(Urban+Rural) मिहलाओं का श्रम बल भागीदारी दर, पु�षों के
�Female)
� women pursuing higher studies → their entry in the job market is delayed.
� in income of (some) rural men → their wives have stopped working as labourer and just
playing domestic housewives role.[कु छ ग्रामीण मद� क� आमदनी बढ़ी तो प�ी क� नौकरी बं द करवाई]
�mechanization of agriculture & animal husbandry → � demand for female agri workers.
� textile/leather exports due to US/EU protectionism → �demand for female workers
�real estate sales → � construction of new buildings → �female laborers
Cultural factors, social constraints and patriarchal norms restricting mobility and freedom of
women. (सां�ृ�तक कारक, सामा�जक बाधाएं और �पतृस�ा�क मानदंड के चलते मिहलाओं क� आजादी पर पाबं दी)
Many rural / small-town girls don’t have require knowledge of computer and English to get jobs
in emergent startup sectors. (अंग्रेजी और कं �ूटर �ान क� कमी)
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NSO's Time Use Survey, 2019 reported that females spend relatively more time in unpaid
domestic and caregiving activities (7.5 hours) than in paid/employment activities (5.7 hours) per
day. (मिहलाएँ रोज़गार से �ादा समय घरेलू अवैत�नक काय� म� �बताती है)
Examples of unpaid domestic activities = taking care of children, elderly in the household,
Cooking, cleaning home etc. (जैसे क� ब�े और बुजुग� क� देखभाल, रसोई, साफ़ सफ़ाई)
Solution? Government should invest in child care / day care facilities, paid parental leave,
family-friendly work environment, and elderly care facilities, Equal pay and career progression
for women, medical and social security benefits for female workers. If these things are not
available then there will be more family pressure on the women not to do the job and take care of
the house. (सरकार ने ऐसी सु�वधाएँ प्रदान करनी चािहए जहाँ नौकरीशुदा मिहलाओं के ब�े और बुजुग� क� देखभाल क� �व�ा
हो, मिहलाओं के �लए वेतन तथा पदो��त म� पु�षों के समान अवसर उपल� हो, अ�था प�रवार क� तरफ़ से मिहला पर नौकरी क�
जगह घर क� देखभाल का बोझ का दबाव �ादा रहेगा)
Solution to improve LFPR? [कै से इज़ाफ़ा / बढ़ोतरी कर�?]
⇒ Government schemes for skill development and entrepreneurship among women → �Ref:
Pillar6-HRD → Women empowerment. (मिहला सश��करण के �लए �व�वध कौशल �वकास योजनाएं )
⇒ Government should invest in child care / day care facilities, paid parental leave, family-friendly
work environment, and elderly care facilities, Equal pay and career progression for women,
medical and social security benefits for female workers.( नौकरीशुदा मिहलाओं के ब�े और बुजुग� क� देखभाल
क� �व�ा, मिहलाओं के �लए वेतन तथा पदो��त म� पु�षों के समान अवसर उपल� हो)
⇒ If these things are not available then there will be more family pressure on the women not to do
the job and take care of the house. (अ�था प�रवार क� तरफ़ से मिहला पर नौकरी क� जगह घर क� देखभाल का दबाव)
⇒ 1) PLFS only counts women who’re doing or looking for PAID Work.
⇒ 2) so, PLFS survey does not count women who are doing (UNPAID) domestic duties including
free collection of goods (vegetable, firewood, cattle feed, etc.), tailoring, etc. for household use” =
PLFS doesn’t count them as ‘workers’
⇒ 3) so �ES23 came up with a new formula
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Augmented Female LFPR = (regular) female LFPR PLUS (+) UNPAID women mentioned in above
bulletpoint#2.
�FAQ: “numbers given in above chart are not matching with previous table!”
Ans. Yes, because previous table gives LFPR of ALL ages, whereas above chart shows LFPR only for
age 15 and above. I am simply copy pasting the data given in Economic Survey.
47.8 �� WORKERS TYPES BY NSO
self-employed ⇒ those who work for themselves & charge 'fees'. They do not sell their
�-रोजगारी labour power to anyone else for a "wage", so they are their own 'boss'. सेवा
के बदले फ�स लेते है.तन�ाह/वेतन नही
⇒ subcategories: 1) Own Account 2) Partners / Owners / Employers Of
Business Firm 3) Unpaid Family Labourers
wage/salaried They sell their labour to 'boss (employer)', for predetermined wages/salary.
employees Their job continuous round the year. �नयत वेतनभोगी कमर्चारी
Their numbers decreased ⏬ as per latest PLFS (it was bound to happen due
to Corona) कोरोना महामारी के चलते वेतनभोगी श्र�मकों / कमर्चा�रयों क� सं �ा कम �ई
casual workers ⇒ They sell labour for 'wage' but 'boss (employer) hires them for very short
अ�नयत कमर्चारी time period on daily or monthly basis. [ब�त छोटे समय के �लए काम �मलेगा]
⇒ As per Latest PLFS: Male = no significant %change (कु छ खास बदलाव नहीं)
⇒ Female = Their proportion � in Corona-2020 (female ragpickers,
construction workers etc removed from job in lockdown)
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🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find correct statement(s) about Indian economy after the 1991 (Prelims-2020)
1. Worker productivity per worker (at 2004-05 prices) increased in urban areas while it
decreased in rural areas. (मज़दू रों क� उ�ादकता शहरों म� बढ़ी गाँव म� कम होगी)
2. The percentage share of rural areas in the workforce steadily increased.
3. In rural areas, the growth in the non-farm economy increased.
4. The growth rate in rural employment decreased.(गाँव म� रोज़गार वृ�द्ध दर म� �गरावट)
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 3 and 4 only (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 4
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Which of the following statements about the employment situation in India according to the
periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18 is/are correct? (UPSC-CAPF-2020)
1. Construction sector gave employment to nearly 1/10th of urban male workforce in India
2. Nearly 1/4th of urban female workers in India were working in manufacturing sector
3. 1/4th of rural female workers in India were engaged in the agriculture sector
Codes: (a) 2 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In India, which one of the following compiles information on industrial disputes, closures,
retrenchments and lay-offs in factories employing workers? (Prelims-2022)
(a) Central Statistics Office (b) DPIIT (c) Labour Bureau
(d) National Technical Manpower Information System
⇒ An unorganized sector (असं गिठत �ेत्र) firm is not registered under any law such as Shop
Establishment Act, Factory Act, Companies Act, Statutory Corporation, Govt org etc.
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⇒ Unorganized sector consists of individuals / self employed workers engaged in non-trade-
unionized casual / seasonal work with irregular payments & lack of social security like
EPFO/ESIC. (मजदू र सं घ नहीं होता �ाई/�नय�मत �प से काम/आमदनी नहीं, सामा�जक सुर�ा का अभाव)
⇒ Government has enacted Unorganized Sector Workers' Social Security Act, 2008 to provide
them with life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits, old age protection etc.
(जीवनबीमा, और �वकलांगता बीमा, �ा� और मातृ� लाभ, बुढ़ापे क� सुर�ा आिद।)
So, basically, 1) workers in unorganized > organized. 2) workers in Informal > Formal.
Formalization of jobs = when proportion of formal workers � , in above table.
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1) All casual workers are entitled for Employees Provident Fund coverage. [सभी अयथाव�ध मजदू र
ईपीएफओ के �लए हकदार ह�]
2) All casual workers are entitled for regular working hours and overtime payment. [सभी अयथाव�ध
मजदू र सामा� घं टों म� िकए गए कायर्वते न और ओवरटाइम वेतन के �लए हकदार है]
3) The government can by a notification specify that an establishment or industry shall pay wages
only through its bank account. [सरकार यह �नद�श जारी कर सकती है िक �च��त उद्योगों ने के वल ब�क खाते द्वारा वेतन
भुगतान करना होगा]
Codes: a) 1 and 2 only b) 2 and 3 only c) 1 and 3 only d) 1, 2 and 3
47.8.5 👷👷👷👷👷👷 Worker Types → Gig workers & Two sided market - 📔📔📔📔ES21
⇒ Definition: Gig workers are temporary workers who are engaged in livelihoods outside the
traditional employer-employee arrangement. Delivery boys, app-based taxi drivers, service
providers such as cleaners and technicians, and freelance workers are all part of the gig economy.
(�गग-मज़दू र/श्र�मक - अ�ाई मज़दू र है जो िकसी ऑनलाइन मोबाइल ऐप के द्वारा एक �तं त्र ठे केदार के �प म� अपनी सेवाएँ देता है
जेसे क� जोमेटों एप द्वारा ग्राहक को रे�ोर�ट का खाना प�ँ चाना।)
⇒ DATA: 7.5 million+ workers were engaged in the gig economy in 2020-21, and this number
could grow to more than 20 million in the next 8 year.
⇒ Problem: usually deprived of social security benefits such as maternity leave, EPFO, ESIC,
unemployment allowance, disability allowance etc. (इ�� सामा� श्र�मक क� तरह कं पनी द्वारा बीमा, प�शन,
EPFO, बीमारी के दौरान सवेतन छु ट्टी, मातृ� लाभ इ�ािद सामा�जक सुर�ा योजनाओं का लाभ नहीं �मलता।)
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Digital technology enables such two-sided markets. Its features are: (दो बाज़ूओ ं वाला बाज़ार)
⇒ 1) two sets of agents (Buyer and seller) interact through an intermediary or platform or
Aggregator app (Amazon, Ola, Uber etc) (दो एज�ट आपस म� एक �बचौ�लए के द्वारा आदान प्रदान करते ह�)
⇒ 2) the decisions of each set of agents affects the outcomes of the other set of agents (e.g.
Customer gives 5-star delivery rating or not → Delivery boy's payment affected etc)
Gig worker- Characteristics/Features: (गीग कम� क� ला��णकता)
⇒ 1) He/she works in a digital technology enabled two sided market. In the company's
records/contracts- such workers are usually shown as "independent service
providers/contractor" and not as "employees". So they are usually deprived of the
EPFO/ESIC/And other social security benefits (Ref: #1D3) Although Code on Social Security
2020 aims to fix this problem. (कं पनी के अनुबंध के िहसाब से यह कम� कं पनी का कमर्चारी नहीं िकंतु एक �तं त्र सेवा देने
वाला ठे केदार है. इस�लए वो प्राय �व�भ� प्रकार क� सामा�जक सुर�ा योजनाओं से वं �चत रह जाता है.)
⇒ 2) work-contract is usually shorter, temporary, Not permanent. (इस लघु अव�ध का अ�ायी अनुबंध)
⇒ 3) Their payment may include
o a) piece rate (e.g. How many deliveries made)
o b) partly reward above a fixed salary (e.g. How many 5 star ratings received on delivery)
(�न��त तन�ाह के अलावा अ�त�र� ईनाम पुर�ार)
o c) partly profit (e.g. Taxi owner, Amazon seller) आं�शक मुनाफ़ा
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47.9.2 📜📜�Organised sector Jobs → Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)
⇒ ASI survey done by the NATIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICE (NSO) under Ministry of Statistics
& Programme Implementation (MOSPI)
⇒ It covers all registered units under factories act, and electricity companies. �ES23 gave
following data from LATEST ASI:
Data Largest Employer
State- Tamil Nadu (26.6 lakh), Gujarat (20.7 lakh), Maharashtra (20.4 lakh), Uttar Pradesh
wise (11.3 lakh), Karnataka (10.8 lakh).
Sector- food products industry (11.1%), apparel (7.6%), basic metals (7.3%),vehicle (6.5%).
wise
�FAQ: but isn’t textile sector the (second) largest employer after agriculture, as per some books?
Ans. Yes, but ASI Survey only covers factories. Many of the textile units do not fall under the
definition of factory (Refer to definition of factory in Pillar4B).
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�🧔🧔 PILLAR#4D: MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS- GDP,GNP,ATMA-NIRBHAR
Table of Contents
48 ���Pillar#4: Indicators → GDP ............................................................................................................683
48.1 ��GDP Calculation Method#1→ via Expenditure (�य द्वारा) ...................................................683
48.2 ��GDP Calculation Method → via Expenditure (NSO Real Life) .........................................684
48.2.1 GDP growth projections...................................................................................................................685
48.3 �� GDP Calc Method → via Production/GVA (उ�ादन द्वारा) ...................................................685
48.3.1 GVA of various Sectors ....................................................................................................................686
48.3.2 From GVA to GDP .......................................................................................................................686
48.3.3 GVA & GDP: Growth Rates @Current vs Constant Price ...........................................................687
48.3.4 �� AGRICULTURE GVA is the “SAVIOUR” in Corona Year 2020? ..............................687
48.3.5 � � Agri showed +ve growth despite Corona in 2020 [कृ �ष वृ�द्ध दर �ों नहीं �गरा कोरोना म�] .....688
48.3.6 �GDP Misc Topics → Discrepancy (�वसं ग�त)? .....................................................................688
48.4 �� GDP Calculation Method → via Income (WIPR)...............................................................689
48.5 �� GDP Calculation Method → via Income (CSO real life) ...................................................689
48.6 ��: GDP → Growth Rate & Deflator (वृ�द्ध दर, अप���तकारक) ...................................................690
48.6.1 ��: GDP vs CPI&WPI ..............................................................................................................691
48.6.2 ���GDP Misc Topics → 2015 calculation reform ......................................................691
48.6.3 ��� GDP Misc Topics → Backseries Controversy? (�ववाद) .......................................692
48.6.4 �ES20 Vol1ch10: India GDP is not overstated .....................................................................692
48.6.5 �GDP Misc Topics → Changing base years to 2017 & 18 ..................................................692
48.7 ��� GDP → Growth Rate → Economic Cycle ....................................................................692
48.7.1 ���Post-Corona: V-shaped recovery for India?..........................................................693
48.7.2 ��� ��Low base effect in GDP growth......................................................................693
48.7.3 �Misc. Terms: Animal spirit in the economy ............................................................................694
48.7.4 �Misc. Terms: Pent up demand (दबी �ई मांग) ..............................................................................694
48.7.5 � Misc. Terms: Hysteresis ............................................................................................................694
48.7.6 � Misc. Terms: Doom Loop (कयामत क� कु �ी/फं दा) .......................................................................694
48.7.7 � Misc. Terms: Financial contagion (�व�ीय सं क्रमण) ....................................................................695
48.8 ����GDP Growth Rate & 5 Trillion Economy ................................................................695
48.8.1 ���World Bank-ICP's GDP series based on PPP ........................................................695
48.8.2 � Budget-2019: $5 Trillion economy .....................................................................................695
48.9 ����GDP Growth Rate BEFORE Corona .............................................................................695
48.9.1 �� Growth rate: why fall / decline? (B4 Corona) .............................................................695
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48.9.2 �����Negative GDP growth: Post Independence ...................................................696
48.9.3 �� Declining Growth rate: future risks / challenges- ��ES22 ................................696
48.10 ���� GDP → $5 Trillion → How to Achieve?: ES strategy ..........................................697
48.10.1 Capital Output Ratio .........................................................................................................................697
48.10.2 ICOR ...................................................................................................................................................698
48.10.3 � more imp than Savings�
Investment� � ...................................................................................698
48.10.4 ���� GDP → $5 Trillion → How to Achieve?: NITI strategy .............................699
48.10.5 ��ES20 Vol1Ch1 on Wealth Creation (धन सृजन) ..............................................................699
48.10.6 ��ES20: Countercyclic Fiscal Policy, Interest Rate Growth Rate Differential (IRGD) ...699
48.10.7 ��ES22: supply-side reforms to � GDP (आ�थक वृ�द्ध के �लए आपू�त �ेत्र के सुधार) ....................699
48.10.8 �� ES19: GDP growth harmed during Economic Policy Uncertainty ..........................699
48.10.9 �� Global Risk Report 2023 (वै��क जो�खम �रपोटर्) .................................................................699
48.11 ����� GDP → $5 Trillion → Atma-Nirbhar Bharat .................................................699
48.11.1 �� Chronology wise total allotment as per ��ES21 .....................................................699
48.11.2 ����� Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Salient features ......................................................700
48.11.3 ���� Atmanirbhar-Criticism: Comparing Modi with Nehru’s model ...............702
48.11.4 ��Misc. Terms: Chinese Atma Nirbhar/ Dual circulation (दोहरा प�रसं चरण) ........................702
48.12 GDP Growth - �ES23 observations / analysis ..............................................................................702
48.12.1 Real GDP Growth projection (2023–24) by �ES23 .................................................................702
48.12.2 GDP Growth what more should be done? as per �ES23 ........................................................702
48.12.3 Reforms Roadblocks and delayed/lagged result - �ES23 ........................................................703
48.12.4 Frontloaded economic stimulus in USA/EU caused overheating says �ES23 .....................704
48.13 � GDP → GNP to NNP to Per Capita Income ..............................................................................705
48.13.1 � GDP → National Income → Misc. concepts ....................................................................706
48.13.2 �Types of Nations : High Income, Low Income .................................................................707
48.13.3 �Types of Nations : Advanced Economies (AE : उ�त अथर्�व�ाएं ) ..........................................707
48.13.4 �Types of Nations : EMDEs (उभरते बाजार और �वकासशील अथर्तंत्र)..................................................708
48.13.5 �Types of Nations : Bangladesh transition from LDC to Developing Country ....................708
48.13.6 �Bangladesh Per Capita GDP higher than India? ....................................................................709
48.13.7 Bhutan graduates from LDC (2023) ...............................................................................................709
48.13.8 �India As A ‘Developed’ Country? (भारत एक �वक�सत देश?)........................................................709
48.14 �� GDP & Per Capita Income→ Criticism / Limitations ........................................................710
48.14.1 GDP → Economic Growth vs Economic Development .........................................................711
48.15 �� Mains Questions: GDP, Economic Growth..........................................................................711
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48 🌽🌽⌚🎧🎧PILLAR#4: INDICATORS → GDP
⇒ Gross Domestic Product= is the market value of all the goods and services produced within the
domestic territory of a country during a specified time period, usually one year. (िकसी देश के घरेलू
�ेत्र म� उ�ािदत सभी व�ुओ ं और सेवाओं का बाजार मू� को सकल घरेलू उ�ाद कहा जाता है)
⇒ Here, domestic territory = political frontiers of the country including its territorial waters, ships,
aircrafts, fishing vessels operated by the normal residents of the country; AND its embassies,
consulates located abroad. (as per NIOS textbook)
⇒ GDP potential= is the Highest or maximum output that a country can produce using the
available labour and capital (at a constant inflation rate). सं भा� जीडीपी = आपके देश म� उपल� सभी मजदू र
और पूंजी से जो मह�म उ�ादन हो सकता है.
⇒ GDP gap = difference between potential GDP and real GDP. जीडीपी अंतर / खाई = वा��वक और सं भा�
जीडीपी के बीच का अंतर
48.1 📐📐🛒🛒GDP CALCULATION METHOD#1→ VIA EXPENDITURE (�य द्वारा)
If anything is produced in India then someone must have paid money for that. So, accordingly we
can derive GDP = C + I + G + X – M
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components Description and Examples
🛒🛒 (C) Consumption ⇒ Purchasing new car, mobiles, computer etc. Both India made &
of final goods and (Imported) foreign made are counted.
services ⇒ If existing house is self-occupied, its ‘notional rent’ is counted (i.e.
उपभोग हेतु अं�तम उ�ाद even if owner didnot rent the property.)
⇒ ✋IGNORE purchase of second hand goods, because we are only
measuring ‘new’ things “MADE in India” in present year.
⇒ ✋IGNORE construction of new house. It is not counted here, it’s
counted in (I: Investment)
🗃🗃 (I) Investments ⇒ Tangible capital assets (मूतर् पूंजीगत सं प��) like New House, Land,
�नवेश Building, Factory, Truck, Machinery.
⇒ Intangible capital assets (अमूतर्) like IPR / Patents, Computer
Software etc.
⇒ Raw material & intermediate goods, wages to workers for
production.
⇒ UNSOLD inventory. (जो माल अभी �बकना बाक� है)
⇒ ✋IGNORE savings in bank, shares and bonds etc. (because it’d
have been given to entrepreneur as ‘Capital’ to buy above things).
🧔🧔 (G) Government ⇒ Salaries to employees, Procurement of computer, stationery, fans,
Purchases tube lights, vehicles etc.
सरकार द्वारा क� जाने वाली ⇒ ✋IGNORE Government’s scholarship, subsidy etc. ‘Transfer
खरीद Payments’. They’re counted in “C” (Private) consumption by the
respective beneficiaries.
� (X-M) Export ⇒ Export is added because it means a foreigner must have bought
MINUS Imports goods/services “MADE in India” so it’s part of India’s GDP.
�नयार्त -आयात ⇒ Whereas, Import is subtracted because some Indians must have
Consumed (C) foreign products that were not “MADE in India”,
So if you do not subtract the ‘Import(M)’, it will give wrong
estimation of India’s GDP.
Total = GDP ⇒ Thus, we get GDP at Current Market Price (वतर्मान मू� पर).
⇒ When we adjust it with inflation against base year 2011 → GDP at
Constant Market Price (��र मू� पर).
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Textbook formula NSO’s Real life formula (Approx numbers) 2022-
23
(G) Govt Purchases (+) Government Final Consumption Expenditure 28 lcr
(GFCE)
(X-M) Export MINUS Imports (+) Net Export of Goods & Services. (-) 12
lcr
(+) Discrepancies (�वसं ग�तयां) 6 Lcr
Total = Total = GDP @Current Market Price (वतर्मान बाज़ार मू� >270
पर) lcr
GDP @Constant Market Price (2011) approx. 159 Lcr
Now let’s find growth rate for 2020-21→
Year GDP at Constant Market Price (��र मू� पर)
2021-22 ₹149 lakh cr
2022-23 ₹159 lakh cr
GDP Growth rate in 159 − 149
2020 against 2019 � � ∗ 100 = 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎 7%
149
48.2.1 GDP growth projections
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48.3.1 GVA of various Sectors
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under PAHAL scheme
= GVA (+) Indirect Taxes (-) Subsidies ₹ 500
= GVA + “NET Taxes”
= GDP at Current Market Price 🗓🗓🗓🗓🗓🗓 (वतर्मान बाजार क�मत)
When we adjust 🗓🗓 Current Prices (वतर्मान) with inflation against base year 2011, we get GVA / GDP
📅📅Constant Prices (��र मू�).
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following activities constitute real sector in the economy ? (2022)
1. Farmers harvesting their crops
2. Textile mills converting raw cotton into fabrics
3. A commercial bank lending money to a trading company
4. A corporate body issuing Rupee Denominated Bonds overseas
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only. (b) 2, 3 and 4 only (c) 1, 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
In above table, Net Taxes = Indirect Taxes minus subsidies given on the product.
⇒ While GVA gives a picture of economy from the producers' side or supply side, GDP gives
picture from consumers' / demand side perspective. (GDP हम� उपभो�ाओं का नज़�रया िदखाता है)
⇒ Because GDP considers impact of Indirect taxes and subsidies. (�ोंिक उसम� कराधान और स��डी क� असर
को जोड़ा जाता है)
⇒ Therefore, from 2018, RBI decided to use GDP instead of GVA to measure the economic
analysis. (इस�लए �रज़वर् ब�क आ�थक �व�ेषण म� GVA के मुक़ाबले GDP के आँकड़ो पर �ादा ज़ोर देती है)
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Figure 2 : ✋Screenshot for observation. No need to memorize all data
48.3.5 📐📐 � Agri showed +ve growth despite Corona in 2020 [कृ �ष वृ�द्ध दर �ों नहीं �गरा कोरोना म�]
Agriculture production was largely insulated / unaffected from Corona reasons (कोरोना वायरस के बावजूद
कृ �ष उ�ादन म� ख़ास नकारा�क असर नहीं देखी गई �ोंिक)
⇒ Return of the migrant labourers from city area → More agriculture workers available (इन शहरों से
वतन वापस आए प्रवासी मज़दू रों द्वारा कृ �ष कायर् म� मदद)
⇒ farms were not subjected to lockdown, unlike factories. Even during the lockdown, the Govt
provided many exemptions to transport of agri products, Increased the fertilizer subsidy. (इस
तालाबं दी के दौरान भी सरकार द्वारा कृ �ष उ�ादों के प�रवहन को छू ट दी गई)
⇒ Good monsoon → Good harvest (अ�� बा�रश के चलते अ�� पैदावार)
⇒ Agriculture doesn’t require lots of imported inputs [except Potash & Phosphate fertilizer] while
car company require imported inputs (Chips from Taiwan)…so, global lockdown hurts agro
production less than car production. (कृ �ष उ�ादन म� �वदेशी आया�तत क�ा माल नहीं चािहए होता)
⇒ Faster vaccination in the USA, Europe → Opening of restaurants/fast food etc → Demand for
sugar, wheat, rice and other agricultural commodities⏫ → Indian agriculture exports
benefited (�वदेशों म� टीकाकरण के प�ात रे�रां उद्योग पुनज��वत → भारत से चावल चीनी इ�ािद के कृ �ष �नयार्त म� मदद)
48.3.6 📐📐😰😰GDP Misc Topics → Discrepancy (�वसं ग�त)?
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What does above chart mean? Ans. Explained in the video.
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48.6 📈📈📈📈: 🧅🧅 GDP → GROWTH RATE & DEFLATOR (वृ�द्ध दर, अप���तकारक)
- Growth Rate (%) = {GDP (Present year - Last Year) / Last Year} x 100
- But, quantitatively production may not have ⏫ (From 1 kg onions to 2 kg onions), and only
because of inflation in the prices (₹ 10/kg onion to ₹ 100/kg) the growth rate may be appear high.
- Therefore (to remove the inflation impact on growth rate), we must select a base year, and
convert the current prices to constant prices. (उ�ादन मू� म� महंगाई के असर को हटाने के �लए िकसी एक आधार
वषर् के दामों के साथ जोड़कर देखना चािहए)
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GDP Deflator is also known as Implicit Price Deflator
- Base Year Changed from 2004 to 2011. (आधार वषर् म� बदलाव िकया)
- Updated the system of data collection and classification and value calculation for: (�न� �ेत्रों के डेटा
एक�त्रत-करण और मू� वधर्न क� �गनती क� प्रणाली म� अद्यतन सुधार िकए गए)
- Crop data and livestock data, handicraft industries (अनाज पशुपालन ह�-कला उद्योग)
- Meat value calculation (मांस का उ�ादन)
- services produced by local bodies e.g. municipal bus, municipal school-water-sanitation
(नगर �नगम और �ानीय इकाइयों द्वारा जो सेवाएँ उ�ादन क� जा रही है)
- goods/services produced by the informal sector e.g. domestic maids (अनौपचा�रक �ेत्र )
- sand extraction, construction sector, mining sector (बालू-खनन, मकान �नमार्ण)
😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩From 2015
Companies’ goods/service production data Using companies’ balancesheet details
was computed using Annual survey of submitted to Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
industries (ASI) and index of industrial (कं प�नयों के उ�ादन का डेटा कॉप�रेट मामलों के मं त्रालय से
production (IIP). �लया जाए)
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😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩From 2015
Bank/NBFC’s financial services production will be captured in more comprehensive
data collection methods were not manner with the help of RBI, SEBI, IRDAI,
modern/comprehensive PFRDA. (�व�ीय सेवाओं के उ�ादन का डेटा)
Private coaching, hotel-tourism etc. services’ Will use service-tax collection data to cross-
production data capturing methods were not check the production/growth of such
modern/comprehensive services. (सेवा-कर म� सरकार को �ई आमदनी क� मदद से
ये जाँच िकया जाए क� सेवा �ेत्र म� िकतना उ�ादन �आ)
++ many other things but this is more than sufficient to handle the random Mains Question
asked in GSM3-2021 for 150 words.(डेढ़-सौ श�ों म� जो Mains Qs पूछा, उसके �लए ये माल काफ़� है।)
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Technical Recession when GDP growth ⏬ for, at least, two consecutive quarters.
मं दी क� तकनीक� �ा�ा सतत दो �तमाही तक वृ�द्ध दर म� �गरावट
Recessionary Phase If GDP growth ⏬in present quarter than previous quarter
मं दी का दौर �पछली �तमाही क� अपे�ा इस �तमाही वृ�द्ध दर म� �गरावट
Expansionary Phase If GDP growth ⏫in present quarter than previous quarter
तेजी का दौर �पछली �तमाही क� अपे�ा इस �तमाही वृ�द्ध दर म� बढ़ोतरी
48.7.1 🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧Post-Corona: V-shaped recovery for India?
Table 2: Types of Recoveries
V-Shaped IF GDP growth suffers a sharp ⏬→ then quickly recovers. So graph will appear
"V-shaped". E.g. 1918-1920: Spanish Flu: USA growth falls to (3.5%) → afterwards
quickly recovers to (7.5%) = V-shaped recovery.
U-shaped If GDP growth takes more time to recover, then rises.
W-shaped If GDP growth ⏫ then ⏬ then again ⏫.
K-shaped If GDP growth ⏫for some sectors e.g. E-Learning, E-Commerce sectors while
Recovery GDP growth ⏬ in some sectors e.g. Tourism, Restaurants, Gyms, Theatre
कु छ �ेत्रों म� तेजी कु छ �ेत्रों म� मं दी जारी रहे
- 📔📔📔📔ES21 (Published in 2021 January) projected V-shaped recovery, assuming 1) mass
vaccination of people → ⏫business of contact-sensitive sectors like trade, hotels, transport,
tourism, 2) unlocking of pent-up demand 3) Low Base Effect. (अ�धकतर आबादी का टीकाकरण होने के
प�ात सं पकर् आधा�रत सेवा �ेत्र जैसे �ापार इस रे�ोर�ट प�रवहन पयर्टन इ�ािद म� बढ़ोतरी, दबी �ई माँग का पुनज�वन, सं दभर् वषर् म�
छोटी रक़म क� असर- के प�रणाम ��प,'वी' आकार के प्र�ेपवक्र से भारतीय अथर्तंत्र पुनज��वत होगा)
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⇒ Thus, if reference/comparison year had a small figure then → % growth will look big.
⇒ Usually India's real GDP growth is in single digit in 6-7% range. However in 2021: GDP growth
rate is in 9% range. This big figure is possible due to the low-base effect of Corona 2020 (सामा�
�प से भारत का वा��वक GDP वृ�द्ध दर 6-7% मु��ल से होता है, िकंतु 2021 म� ये बड़ा िदखता है �ोंिक “सं दभर् वषर् म� छोटी
रक़म क� असर” से चलते %प्र�तशत जवाब बड़ा हो जाता है)
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48.7.7 🥶🥶 Misc. Terms: Financial contagion (�व�ीय सं क्रमण)
⇒ Spread of financial market disruptions from one country/region/sector to another
country/region/sector.
⇒ e.g. Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in USA → Indian startup founders’ money got stuck
→ Problems in Indian IT Sector → problems in Indian Banks’ loan recovery & problems in
Indian sharemarket performance.
🚩🚩🚩FAQ: Can we quote “$5 trillion GDP target” number in our Mains answer writing- especially
when in reality it seems impossible to achieve? Ans. Even after Corona, government/NITI/Eco-
Survey has not admitted officially that they cannot achieve it and they are quitting this target. So we
can still use this $ 5 trillion number in our Mains Answer Writing.
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o In India, investment slowed down in the aftermath of Nonperforming assets - Twin
balance sheet syndrome (TBS) & IL&FS-NBFC Crisis. (Ref: Pillar#1B)
According to critiques, the demonetization and GST too have harmed the growth rate but
📔📔📔📔ES20 stand is ‘short term challenge, long term benefit’. (लघुअव�ध म� चुनौ�तयां लेिकन दीघार्व�ध म�
�वमुद्रीकरण तथा व�ु एवं सेवा कर से भारतीय अथर्तंत्र को फायदा ही होगा)
- 😷😷1) IF there will be no more lockdowns / new deadly corona Varients (अगर िफर से तालाबं दी ना हो)
- ☔2) IF monsoon will be normal (अगर बा�रश सामा� रहे)
- ⛽3) IF oil prices will be in the range of US$70-$75/barrel (क�े तेल क� क़�मत� सामा� रहे)
- 🐯🐯4) IF US Fed Tapering completed in an orderly fashion without new surprises or random
changes. (�बना कोइ नये अप्र�ा�शत बदलाव िकए, �व��त/ अनुमा�नत तरीक़े से फ़े ड-टेप�रंग ख़� हो)
- ⚔🚛🚛5) IF global supply chain disruptions (caused by Ukraine war & other geopolitical crisis)
will get solved. (भू-राजनी�तक आपदाओं के चलते हो रही वै��क आपू�त �ं खला क� सम�ाएं सुलझ जाएं . यिद ये सब चीज़�
क़ाबू म� रही → तो अपना आ�थक वृ�द्ध दर 8.0-8.5% हो सकता है)
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48.10🌽🌽⌚🎧🎧📈📈 GDP → $5 TRILLION → HOW TO ACHIEVE?: 📔📔📔📔ES STRATEGY
Savings It’s the Income excess of Consumption. Subdivided into Private Savings [by
बचत households & business firm] and Public Savings by Govt organizations.
⇒ It's the domestic Savings + foreign money WHICH IS put in Real (physical)
Assets like machines, tools, buildings, office spaces, storehouses, roads, bridges,
airports and unsold inventory (ऐसा सामान �जसका �नमार्ण �आ लेिकन �बका नहीं)
Investment
⇒ In an Open Economy Country, Investment may become higher than
�नवेश
(Domestic) Savings: - IF there is inflow of Foreign Capital.
⇒ In a Closed Economy, Investment EQUAL = Savings [with many conditions
like 0% taxes, etc. but that MA(Economics) is not IMP]
Gross Fixed Capital Formation Rate (सकल �न��त पूंजी �नमार्ण दर)
= INVESTMENT – DISPOSAL of assets (liquidation, condemnation).
GFCF
Thus, GFCF shows the net increase in physical assets. It IGNORES depreciation,
and land purchases.
USA India
Cost of bottling plant → $ 3 lakh 3
How many bottles it can produce → 2 lakh 1 lakh
Capital Output Ratio �
3/2 = 1.5� 3/1= 3 �
(Smaller number better) (Higher is bad)
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It is the amount of capital needed to produce one unit of output. It depends on factors such as
technological progress, prices of capital goods / machinery. In India, High Capital Ratio is among the
reasons for subdued growth rates.
48.10.2 🥤🥤ICOR
⇒ ICOR = additional unit of capital or investment needed to produce an additional unit of output.
(एक अ�त�र� पुजार् बनाने के �लए िकतनी अ�त�र� पूंजी चािहए होगी?)
⇒ ICOR in India: 3.8 (2016) → 4.9 (2018) → 6.9 (2019).
⇒ A higher ICOR means is a country's production is less efficient
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(a) weak administrative machinery (b) illiteracy
(c) high population density (d) high capital-output ratio
48.10.6 📔📔📔📔ES20: Countercyclic Fiscal Policy, Interest Rate Growth Rate Differential (IRGD)
Covered in 📑📑Pillar#2D
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following was recognized as 'invisible hand' by Adam Smith? (UPSC-
CAPF-2020) (a) Government (b) Market/Price Mechanism (c) Judiciary (d) Legislature
48.10.7 📙📙📙📙ES22: supply-side reforms to ⏫ GDP (आ�थक वृ�द्ध के �लए आपू�त �ेत्र के सुधार)
Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR.
48.10.8 �🤕🤕 ES19: GDP growth harmed during Economic Policy Uncertainty
Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR.
⇒ (Origin) 2020-March: Government of India initiated nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread
of Corona/COVID-19 pandemic. (कोरोना महामारी के चलते देश�ापी तालाबं दी)
⇒ This lockdown affected the income and livelihood of everyone from corporate companies to
common citizens of India. (सबक� आजी�वका को हानी �ई)
⇒ Therefore, to revive economy, PM launched Atma Nirbhar Bharat stimulus package in 2020-
May to revive the Indian economy. (अथर्�व�ा को पुनजीवन / प्रो�ाहन का आ�थक पेकेज)
⇒ It’s centred on five pillars of – Economy, Infrastructure, System, Demand and Vibrant
Demography (�ू �तली जनसां��क�).
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Sr Item → ₹₹ allotted as of 2020-Nov ₹c
⇒ ₹₹ transferred in PM Jandhan bank account of women, poor senior citizens, PH
⇒ PMGKP Anna Yojana: Free food grains and pulses to poor families
⇒ Advance installment /frontloading of PM-KISAN beneficiaries
⇒ PM-Ujjwala: Free LPG cylinder to poor people
⇒ Insurance for the health workers
EPFO contributions (📑📑Ref: HDT-Pillar#1D)
2. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan 1.0 (2020-May 12th) 11Lcr
4. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan 2.0 (2020-October 12th) 73Kcr
⇒ Festival advance via SBI Utsav Cards for Govt employees, LTC benefits to Govt
employees, (More in 📑📑Pillar#2)
⇒ Addl ₹₹ for defense and roads., States given interest free loans
5. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan 3.0 (2020-Nov 12th) 2.65Lcr
⇒ Income Tax relief for real estate developers & Home Buyers,
⇒ Production Linked Incentive (PLI) to boost mfg
⇒ Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana / EPFO contribution
⇒ addl ₹₹ for fertilizer subsidy, addl ₹₹ for PM Awaas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U)
6. RBI measures announced till 31st Oct 2020: e.g. ⏬CRR, ⏬Repo, ⏫WMA, 13LCr
Special loan Windows (📑📑Ref: HDT-Pillar#1A2)
Total Atma-Nirbhar Package (originally it was ₹20 lcr however later it was ⏫ ~30Lcr
48.11.2 👻👻👻👻⌚🎧🎧🎧🎧 Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Salient features
<REFER To respective pillar’s handouts>
Mrunal's Pillars Atma-Nirbhar Salient Features (List not exhaustive)
⇒ RBI's easy monetary policy, loan moratorium, Additional loan towards
States (WMA, CSF), NBFCs & Mutual Funds, Postponed Basel norms
1A, B,C:
⇒ Government schemes for loans towards NBFCs, MSME
Money Banking
⇒ IBC code suspended
Finance
⇒ Allowed Indian companies to directly list their shares in foreign exchange
⇒ Relaxed penalties in the Companies Act
⇒ ₹50 lakh insurance if Corona health worker died
⇒ Expanded the coverage of workers in ESIC
⇒ Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana / EPFO contribution
1D: insurance ⇒ Promised social security, health check up etc for unorganized sector
& Fin Inclusion workers (असं गिठत �ेत्र के मजदू रों के �लए सामा�जक सुर�ा)
⇒ Direct money transfer of 500-1000 rupees in PM-JDY women accounts,
Senior citizen accounts, PH etc. (प्र�� लाभ अंतरण)
⇒ Loans for SHG, MSME, Street Vendors (SVANIDHI)
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Mrunal's Pillars Atma-Nirbhar Salient Features (List not exhaustive)
⇒ Extended the deadline for filing taxes, Reduced TDS rates
⇒ Changed the policy of disinvestment
2: Public Finance ⇒ Promise to help the states finances
taxation ⇒ PM CARES fund for accepting donation
⇒ Festival advance via SBI Utsav Cards for Govt employees, LTC benefits
⇒ States given interest free loans for Capital Expenditure
⇒ RBI's VRR and FAR windows for attracting $$
⇒ Borrowed billions of $$ from BRICS-NDB, AIIB, ADB, World bank etc To
3: International revive Indian economy (ब�प�ीय �वकास ब�कों से कजार्)
trade ⇒ Banned the import of 101 defense items. FDI in defense ⏫
⇒ Global companies can’t apply for Indian Government tenders below “X”
amount. (to reduce import bill & help local biz)
⇒ Paid the PM-KISAN installments ahead of its due date (Frontloading)
⇒ 3 Ordinance to Reform the agriculture and food processing sector
(APMC, Contract Farming, Essential commodities)
4A: Agriculture, ⇒ ⏫MSP, Operation Green expanded to all fruits and veggies
⇒ funding / loans for Food processing industry in Dairy cooperatives
⇒ Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Fund,
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana
⇒ Change the definition of MSME, MSME Loan schemes, equity infusion
⇒ Interest subvention in Mudra loans (�ाज म� स��डी)
4B: mfg, Ease of
⇒ Portals: (MSME) CHAMPIONS portal, YUKTI 2.0 (Corona innovation),
Doing Biz
⇒ Global companies can’t apply for Indian Government tenders below “X”
amount. (to reduce import bill & help local biz)
⇒ Reforms to encourage more commercial Mining
⇒ Funding for DISCOMs to increase electricity production
⇒ PM-Awas yojana sub-components deadline extended
⇒ Rental housing will be promoted (िकराए के मकानों के �नमार्ण को प्रो�ाहन)
5: Infrastructure ⇒ PPP for airports, atomic energy, space tech
⇒ Transport → Vande Bharat mission and Shramik special trains to help the
migrants reach their home
⇒ Force Majeure in RERA act, No penalty on road contractors If projects
not finished in time
⇒ New portals & TV channels for online education
6: Poverty, ⇒ One Nation one ration card, free grains, pulses, LPG cylinders for poor
hunger, ⇒ MGNREGA wages and funding ⏫
education ⇒ DBT of money in PM-JDY women, poor senior citizens, poor PH
⇒ SHG: loans, procure masks and sanitizers produced by them
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Mrunal's Pillars Atma-Nirbhar Salient Features (List not exhaustive)
⇒ Street vendors ko ₹10k loans (SVANiDHI scheme)
👿👿As such Atma-Nirbhar criticism is not important for UPSC exam nowadays. But some idea may be
required for interviews.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which steps is most likely to be taken at the time of an economic recession? [आ�थक
मं दी के दौरान �न� म� से कौन सा कदम उठाए जाने क� सं भावना सबसे �ादा है] (Prelims-2021)
a) Cut in tax rates accompanied by increase in interest rate [ करों म� कटौती और �ाज दरों म� बढ़ोतरी]
b) Increase in expenditure on public projects [सरकारी प्रोजे� के खचर् म� बढ़ोतरी]
c) Increase in tax rates accompanied by reduction of interest rate [करों म� बढ़ोतरी और �ाज दरों म� कटौती]
d) Reduction of expenditure on public projects [ सरकारी प्रोजे� के खच� म� कटौती]
48.11.3 👻👻✋👿👿👿👿 Atmanirbhar-Criticism: Comparing Modi with Nehru’s model
Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR.
48.11.4 👻👻🈶🈶Misc. Terms: Chinese Atma Nirbhar/ Dual circulation (दोहरा प�रसं चरण)
To revive Chinese economy Post-Corona, Chinese government has launched "Double circulation
program". It focuses on ⏫ production in the local economy using certain Foreign Technology &
Foreign Investment. How it works actually?NOTIMP
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48.12.3 🌻🌻 Reforms Roadblocks and delayed/lagged result - 📙📙ES23
कु ल �मलाकर आ�थक सव��ण का यह कहना है िक हालांिक सरकार ने काफ� सारे आ�थक सुधार तो िकए थे लेिकन कु छ अप्र�ा�शत
बाधाओं के चलते उन सुधारों का सकारा�क असर देरी से �दखा.
Era 1998–2002
Reforms** Privatisation of Maruti etc, entry of private mobile telecoms companies, SARFAESI
Act 2002, Infrastructure (Golden quadrilateral Ref Pillar5),FRBM Act 2003
Roadblocks 1998: nuclear testing → Western powers imposed sanctions on India: trade and
investment declined temporarily, Twin Balance Sheet Syndrome/NPA,
El-Nino-Droughts (2000–02), 9/11 terror attack USA (2001)
Result Once shocks faded away → structural reforms showed result from 2003 to 2007–08
Era 2014–2022
Reforms** 1) UPI-BHIM, JAM-DBT, inflation-MPC target, IBC, MUDRA & other loan
schemes for MSME etc
2) GST, DDT abolished, New Income Tax Regime, Demonetisation to combat
black money, Atma-Nirbhar Bharat counter cyclic fiscal policy, privatisation of
Air India
3) GIFT-city IFSC, FDI relax in defense & insurance
4) e-NAM, Soil Health Cards, Fasal Bima & irrigation, Matsya Sampada, Agri infra
fund; PLI, Make in India 2.0, ease of doing business/ decriminalisation,
5) RERA, PM Gati Shakti, Smart Cities, Sagarmala, UDAN-Airtravel, 5G, telecom
spectrum reforms,
6) new education policy, Poshan Abhiyan & many schemes for HRD etc
Roadblocks Corona, ILFS Crisis, PNB Scam,
Russia-Ukraine, US Fed Tapering
Result Economic Survey expects similar here.
� FAQ: What exactly was done in above reforms? Ans. It is covered in respective pillars and/or
**�
mains handout. If I narrate the entire Avenger movies timeline again → it will be 150 page handout.
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48.12.4 🌻🌻 Frontloaded economic stimulus in USA/EU caused overheating says 📙📙ES23
Term Meaning
Economic set of (temporary) measures taken by the government and central bank to
Stimulus revive the economy thru tax cuts, subsidies, cheap loans, money transfer to
(आ�थक प्रो�ाहन) poor people etc.
Frontloading situation where large amount of money is delivered in the early stages of the
(अग्रभार से पैसा देना) program. e.g. 3–3–1–1 instead of 2–2–2–2
Overheating Of a situation where the economy is growing at an unsustainably high rate,
The Economy leading inflation and potentially other economic problems-especially, after the
(अथर्�व�ा म� अ�त- economic stimulus is withdrawn (जब आ�थक प्रो�ाहन पैकेज के चलते अथर्तंत्र अप्र�ा�शत
ताप) ऊंची दर से वृ�द्ध कर�, जो िक लं बे समय के �लए िटकाऊ ना हो, तब अथर्तंत्र म� महंगाई और दू सरी सम�ाएं बढ़
जाती है - इसे अ�त-ताप कहते ह�। )
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48.13📐📐 GDP → GNP TO NNP TO PER CAPITA INCOME
NCERT says citizens. But, for the purpose of GNP. I have gone with the college-level academic
##
book- ‘Macro economics by George Mankiw’. He uses the term “residents”. Q. who is resident? =
“Depends on up to how many months the person is staying in the given country- as defined by
OECD.” In real exam MCQ, tick depending on context/options.
Whenever something is produced, capital assets get consumed due to wear and tear. This wear and
tear is called Depreciation (मू�ह्रास). Since, depreciation does not become part of anybody’s income,
so it has to be subtracted.
However, here we are getting the NNP at ‘Market Prices’. We’ve to convert it to Factor cost.
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NNP (Factor Cost) = NNP (Market Price) (-) Indirect Taxes (+) Subsidies.
NNP (Factor Cost) is the National Income of India, says NCERT Class12.
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What is National Name of the NCERT chapter dealing with above topics
Income Accounting ?
You can satiate further scholastic curiosity by studying (new) NCERT macroeconomics class 12 Ch.
National Income Accounting page 24 onwards but poor cost : benefit.
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48.13.4 📐📐Types of Nations : EMDEs (उभरते बाजार और �वकासशील अथर्तंत्र)
It is a term used by IMF to describe Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs) = All the
other countries who are advanced economies (AE) yet.
EMDEs may be further sub-classified into two parts
1. Low Income Countries (LIC) e.g. Afghanistan Myanmar Nepal etc कम आमदनी वाले देश
2. Emerging market economies (EM) = neither "AE" nor "LIC" e.g. Brazil, India, China South
Africa Russia etc. उभरते बाज़ार अथर्तंत्र- ऐसे देश जो िक न तो उ�त अथर्�व�ा श्रेणी म� है, न तो कम आमदनी वाले देशों म� है
- 1) Per Capita Gross National Income (GNI) of $1230 or lower. (प्र�त ��� सकल रा�ी� य आय)
- 2) Economic and Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI): based on % Population living in
low elevation coastal zones, Victims of natural disasters, Instability of Agriculture production
and Exports etc. (आ�थक एवं पयार्वरण भेद्यता सूचकांक:- �जसम� क� कम-ऊंचाई के तटवत� इलाकों म� रहने वाली आबादी,
प्राकृ �तक आपदा से पीिड़त ���, कृ �ष उ�ादन और �नयार्त म� ��रता इ�ािद को देखा जाता है)
- 3) Human Assets Index (HAI): based on % of Undernourished population, Mother and child
mortality, School enrollment, adult literacy etc. (मानव सं प�� सूचकांक: कु पो�षत आबादी, मातृ और बाल मृ�ु दर,
�ू ल म� दा�खले, प्रौढ़ सा�रता इ�ािद को देखा जाता है)
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- 2021-Nov: United Nations General Assembly has announced that based on above 3 indicators:
Bangladesh, Nepal and Republic of Lao will 'upgrade' from LDC to a 'Developing country by
2026. (सं यु� रा�� क� सामा� सभा ने कहा िक यह तीन देश �वकासशील देश माने जाएं )
😰😰Negative outcomes of exiting L.D.C Status?
1. Bangladeshi exports will not be eligible for duty-free-quota-free access under WTO agreements.
(�नयार्त को शु�-मु�-कोटा-मु� प्रवेश नहीं �मलेगा अ� देशों म�)
2. WTO norms related to agriculture-subsidy & IPR will become tighter. (�व� �ापार सं गठन के कृ �ष-
स��डी और बौ�द्धक सं पदा अ�धकार के �नयम स� होंगे)
3. Bangladesh will not get interest-free loans from World Bank & other multilateral Development
Banks (अंतररा��ीय सं गठनों से �ाज मु� लोन/कज़र् नहीं �मल�गे)
4. Aid/Donations/Grants from International organisations will decline. (अनुदान म� रकम कम �मलेगी)
5. Tighter Norms related to Climate Change / Pollution Control under International agreements.
(जलवायु प�रवतर्न प्रदू षण �नयं त्रण के अंतररा��ीय समझौते/�नयम स�ी से लागू होंगे)
🤩🤩Positive Outcomes of exiting L.D.C Status?
It’ll send signal to foreign investors that Bangladesh can be a large consumer market = Incoming
Foreign Investment ⏫ → job creation & GDP. (�वदेशी �नवेश म� बढ़ोतरी होगी-रोजगार सूजन और जीडीपी म� मदद)
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(भारत को 2047 तक एक �वक�सत देश बनाएं गे. हालाँिक �वक�सत देश क� �ा�ा के बारे म� अलग अलग सं �ाओं म� एकमत नहीं है.
लेिकन मुझे यक़�न है अगले आ�थक सव��ण म� इस पर काफ़� चचार् होगी तब इसको हम आराम से देख ल�गे.)
Figure 3: if India becomes #1 producer of cigarette= good for GDP. But is it good for society?
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4. Ignores the Opportunity Cost (अवसर लागत) e.g. A child labour produced ₹ 50000 rupees worth
firecracker annually = added in GDP. But, child labourer could not pursue education ELSE he
could have become a doctor/engineer and produced ₹ 5,00,000 worth of annual goods and
services - such angles are not considered in computing GDP.
5. Ignores inequality of income among people. (आय क� असमानता)
a. So, later on Gross Happiness Index, Physical Quality Of Life Index, Human
Development Index etc were invented (Ref: Pillar#6)
What does this chart mean? Ans. Watch video. More about economic development in pillar6: HRD.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Increase in absolute and per capita real GNP do not connote a higher level of
economic development, if(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2018)
A] industrial output fails to keep pace with agricultural output.
B] agricultural output fails to keep pace with industrial output.
C] poverty and unemployment increase. D] imports grow faster than exports.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. A decrease in tax to GDP ratio of a country indicates __? (Prelims-2015)
1) Slowing economic growth rates 2) Less equitable distribution of national income
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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�� PILLAR#4E: MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS: INFLATION, WPI-CPI; ETC
Table of Contents
49 �Pillar#4C: Indicators → Inflation ............................................................................................... 713
49.1 �Inflationary and deflationary gaps ................................................................................. 713
49.2 ��� Combating inflation or deflation ...................................................................... 715
49.2.1 �� neutral rate of interest / natural rate of interest ................................................ 715
49.2.2 NAIRU: Non-accelerating Inflation rate of unemployment & Philip Curve .............. 716
49.3 �� Inflation: Types based on causation (कारकता के अनुसार) .......................................... 716
49.4 �� Inflation types based on Speed / Quantum ............................................................ 718
49.4.1 � Inflation → Base Effect? ...................................................................................... 719
49.4.2 ��inflation impact on exports .................................................................................. 719
49.5 �� Effects on individuals ............................................................................................... 720
49.6 ���Pillar#4: Indices: CPI, WPI, IIP & others ......................................................... 721
49.7 ���Index → Inflation indices ................................................................................. 721
49.7.1 ���Wage Rate Index (WRI: वेतन दर सूचकांक) – calculation reforms in 2021 ..... 722
49.7.2 ���CPI-IW: New reforms in data collection (2020) ......................................... 722
49.7.3 ���Index → Inflation → CPI (All India), NSO, Base: 2012 ...................... 722
49.7.4 ��� Inflation rate %: how is it calculated? .......................................................... 723
49.7.5 ��� Headline vs Core CPI? .................................................................................. 723
49.7.6 ��� “Refined Core Inflation”? ............................................................................. 724
49.7.7 ��� CPI Inflation is higher in urban areas than rural area (2021) ................... 724
49.7.8 CPI rural getting higher than urban (2022) .................................................................... 725
49.7.9 ���: �Inflation targeting by RBI- focus on Core CPI or Headline CPI? .... 725
49.7.10 ���Index → Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI: उपभो�ा खाद्य महंगाई सूचकांक)
726
49.7.11 ���Index → Inflation → Wholesale Price Index, EA-DPIIT, Base: 2011 727
49.7.12 ���WPI Kabhi � kabhi � .............................................................................. 728
49.7.13 CPI WPI Divergence.......................................................................................................... 728
49.7.14 ���Index → Inflation → Other Indices ........................................................ 729
49.7.15 Housing inflation .......................................................................................................... 730
49.7.16 ���: Inflation observations by ES20 Vol2Ch5 ............................................... 730
49.7.17 ���: Inflation observations by ��ES22 ....................................................... 731
49.7.18 ���: Inflation observations by ��ES23 ....................................................... 731
49.7.19 ��� Thalinomics by ES20: Vol1Ch11 ............................................................. 731
49.7.20 Inflation in other countries ............................................................................................... 732
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49.7.21 ��American Inflation Impact on India? ................................................................. 732
49.8 ���Index → Production → Index of Industrial Production (IIP) ......................... 733
49.8.1 IIP's weights in ascending order (classification: use based) ...................................... 734
49.8.2 ��� IIP's weights in (sector-based).................................................................. 734
49.8.3 ���: IIP Before Corona Year 2020 ................................................................... 734
49.8.4 ���: IIP trend ..................................................................................................... 734
49.9 ���Index → Production → Index of Eight Core Industries .................................... 734
49.10 ���Index → Production → Misc. indices .............................................................. 735
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Aggregate Demand (AD)
= Consumption(C) + Investments(I) + Govt Purchases (G) + Exports (X)- Import (M)
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49.2 🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯 COMBATING INFLATION OR DEFLATION
महंगाई से लड़ने के �लए लोन महंगे िकये तो लोग खरीदारी कम कर�गे -> तो उ�ादन कम होगा तो -> आ�थक वृ�द्ध दर �गर जाएगा।
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तो िफर लोन का आदशर् दर �ा होना चािहए �जससे महंगाई भी काबू म� रहे, साथ ही साथ, आ�थक वृ�द्ध दर भी न �गरे? उसे ‘�ाज का
तट� दर’ कहते है.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following measures should be taken when an economy is going through
in inflationary pressures? [UPSC-CDS-2012-I]
1. The direct taxes should be increased. 2. The interest rate should be reduced.
3. The public spending should be increased.
Answer Codes: (a) Only 1 (b) Only 2 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 2
49.3 🍅🍅🍅🍅 INFLATION: TYPES BASED ON CAUSATION (कारकता के अनुसार)
It’s ‘too much money chasing too few goods’ i.e. Prices are rising because
🛒🛒🛒🛒Demand-
people have excess money → demand for goods and services exceeds the
Pull Inflation
available supply. MNREGA, Pay Commission, PM KISAN6k/Rahul’s
(मांगज�नत)
NYAY72k/Universal Basic Income(UBI) etc. could lead to this.
💵💵💵💵💵💵 When RBI printing of more money results in inflation (Recall ‘Monetising
Monetary inflation the deficit’ from Pillar#2: FRBM Handout).
Price rise due to increased cost of inputs e.g.
Cost-Push Inflation - Expensive crude oil → higher costs for Transport Companies.
🛠🛠 (लागतज�नत) - Trade / labour unions’ protests / strikes → wage hike.
- Natural disasters → Lower potato / chilly production → Chips
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makers have to pay more for inputs.
When Cartels / Monopolists / Oligopolists deliberately cut down the supply
⛽ Profit – Push
/ production or hike the prices because of greed / profit motive. E.g. OPEC
Inflation
group oil production cut.
Linked to the “price/wage inflationary spiral” i.e. when inflation rises,
workers demand higher wages to keep up with the cost of living → firms
Built-in-Inflation
passing these higher labor costs on to their customers as higher prices →
more inflation.
During war, Govt imposes price controls and rationing to keep prices
Repressed Inflation under check. But the moment such controls are withdrawn, prices will go
(द�मत ���त) up (because traders will want to cover up their previous losses by raising
prices). This is called Repressed Inflation.
Persistent high inflation, high unemployment and low growth resulting
Stagflation
into a stagnant economy.
Term to denote episodic price rise in one / small group of commodities
Skewflation while Inflation in the remaining goods and services remain usual. E.g. pulse
/ tomato / onion inflation in india.
🗞🗞 Headline It is the measure of the total inflation within an economy, usually presented
Inflation (सु�ख) in the form of CPI or WPI.
🔬🔬 Core inflation Headline inflation MINUS inflation in food & energy articles.
(प्रमुख मुद्रा���त) Accordingly, it can be CPI (Headline) or WPI (Headline)
In Pillar#1: Philip curve we learned that deflation → unemployment, so,
RBI tries to stimulate economy by increasing the money supply, Govt tries
Reflation
to give ‘fiscal stimulus’ by reducing taxes / increasing public
(पुन: मुद्रा���त)
procurement…. Such actions take economy from deflationary path
towards inflation path, this is process is ‘Reflation’.
Inflation that is part of a particular economic system. A complete change in
economic policy would be needed to get rid of it. e.g.
- To keep farmers happy, Govt keeps raising MSP for wheat / rice but
Structural Inflation
not so much for pulses → inflation in pulses.
(सं रचना�क मुद्रा���त)
- APMC reforms not taken → cartelization & hoarding → inflation.
- When global crude prices falling, Govt raises Excise / VAT to get more
money for their schemes, so, petrol-diesel not getting cheaper
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following is likely to be the most inflationary in its effects? [इनम� से
कौन सी चीज सबसे �ादा महंगाई पैदा करेगी] (Prelims-2021)
A. Repayment of Public debt [सरकारी ऋण का भुगतान]
B. Borrowing from public to finance a budget deficit [ बजट घाटे का �व� पोषण करने के �लए जनता से कजार्]
C. Borrowing from the banks to finance a budget deficit [ब�कों से कजार् �लया]
D. Creation of new money to finance a budget deficit [बजट घाटे का �व� पोषण करने के �लए नया पैसा छापा जाए]
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. With reference to Indian economy, demand pull-inflation can be caused/increased
by which of the following? [मांग-ज�नत महंगाई म� बढ़ोतरी कब होगी?] (Prelims-2021)
1) Expansionary policies [�व�ार वादी नी�तयां] 2) Fiscal stimulus [राज� प्रो�ाहन]
3) Inflation-indexing wages [महंगाई सूचकांक से जोड़े गए वेतन]
4) Higher – purchasing power [खरीद श�� म� बढ़ोतरी]
5) Rising interest rates [�ाज दरों म� बढ़ोतरी]
Codes: a) 1, 2 and 4 Only b) 3, 4 and 5 Only c) 1, 2, 3 and 5 Only d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
1. 🐌🐌 Creeping Inflation: ~4% per annum. It's regarded safe and essential for job creation and
economic growth.
2. 🐪🐪 Walking / Trotting: >4% onwards → Running Inflation: When shifts to double digit.
3. 🐎🐎 Galloping / Hyperinflation (अ�त ���त): Very high level. 20%-100%-even 10,000% or more,
as observed in Germany after Treaty of Versailles due to monetized deficit. Modern day
Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran due to misgovernance of ruling parties resulting into broken
economy & shortage of essential commodities. Here, money becomes quite worthless and new
currency may have to be introduced. (Related: redenomination, More in 📑📑Pillar#1A1)
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which is likely to be the most inflationary in its effect? (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2013)
(a) Repayment of public debt (b) Borrowing from the public to finance a budget deficit
(c) Borrowing from banks to finance a budget deficit
(d) Creating new money to finance a budget deficit
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Above chart requires knowledge of pillar3A. So finish backlog, if you’re unable to understand.
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statement(s): (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2013)
A) Inflation benefits the debtors. B) Inflation benefits the bondholders.
C) Both A and B D) Neither A nor B
Note: In above chart 2022-23 Data for WPI and CPI is upto April- to Nov.2022 only.
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Inflation Index By Base year
Wholesale Price Index (WPI) Economic Advisor to 2011
थोक मू� सूचकांक DPIIT, Commerce Min.
## News reports suggest that Govt thinking of changing this base year from 1986 to 2019
49.7.1 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅👷👷Wage Rate Index (WRI: वेतन दर सूचकांक) – calculation reforms in 2021
- prepared by Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour.
- It surveys/monitors the wages across various industries.
😰😰Before 🤩🤩Reforms in 2021
Base year 1963-65. Base year 2016
Less number of industries surveyed Added more number of industry in the survey list- e.g.
synthetic textiles, textile garments, printing and
publishing, footwear, petroleum, chemical & gases,
fertilizers, drugs & medicines
- Utility of WRI? This database will be helpful in designing the minimum wages under the new
wage code law. (वेतन दर सूचकांक �जसम� श्रम मं त्रालय िक ऑ�फ़स द्वारा �व�वध उद्योगों म� वेतन का �ा दर चल रहा है
उसका सव��ण िकया जाए और उस िहसाब से �ूनतम वेतन क� दरों म� सुधार िकया जाए।)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following brings out the CPI for Industrial Workers?( UPSC-Pre-2015)
(a) The Reserve Bank of India (b) The Department of Economic Affairs
(c) The Labour Bureau (d) The Department of Personnel and Training
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Monthly CPI Components in (All India) Index → (decreasing order) Wt.
Total Weight 100
- For Individual CPI for Urban and Rural areas, these weights are assigned differently. E.g. CPI
rural has zero weight to housing & 54.18 weight to food and beverages.
⇒ Trend? CPI was towards Inflationary path in UPA/Manmohan era. → CPI was towards
Deflationary path during Modi 1.0 era (2014-19)- mainly due to falling food prices. Food
commands ~46% weight in CPI calculation. (📑📑Ref: 4A: Agro Handout)
⇒ Modi 2.0 era (2019-May onwards): back to inflationary path due to oil, onion etc.
- Headline CPI (सु�ख मुद्रा���त) = The inflation figure arrived based on all of the above components
of CPI (All India).
- Core CPI (प्रमुख मुद्रा ���त) = Headline CPI MINUS (inflation in food & energy)
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49.7.6 🍅🍅🍅🍅📐📐 “Refined Core Inflation”?
⇒ Conventionally, core inflation is calculated by excluding ‘food and beverages’ and ‘fuel and light’
from overall inflation.
⇒ However, in NSO’s CPI- the petrol and diesel are counted under ‘transport and
communication’ and NOT under ‘fuel and light’. (एनएसओ क� �गनती म� पेट�ोल-डीज़ल के दाम ‘�धन’ निह
‘प�रवहन’ श्रेणी म� �दखाए जाते है इस�लए सीधा सीधा कोर/प्रमुख महंगाई �गनना मु��ल)
⇒ Therefore, it is difficult to directly calculate core inflation using NSO data tables
⇒ So, 📙📙📙📙ES22 proposed a new ‘Refined Core Inflation’ concept to deduct the petrol-diesel
prices (which are under ‘transport and communication’ category). What are its interpretations?
NOT-IMP. (तो नए आ�थक सव��ण ने �गनती का नया तरीक़ा �सखाया हालाँिक मुझे परी�ा के �लए वो ब�त ज़ोरदार नहीं
लगता)
49.7.7 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 CPI Inflation is higher in urban areas than rural area (2021)
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1. Housing prices are counted in the urban area's CPI calculation, but not in rural area. ग्रामीण
इलाकों क� महंगाई �गनती म� मकानों के दाम नहीं �गने जाते.
2. Fuel & light component, Clothing and footwear component = These have higher weightage
in urban areas' CPI than in rural areas. शहरी इलाकों क� महंगाई क� �गनती म� ऊजार्, प्रकाश, कपड़े जूतों क�
क़�मतों को ग्रामीण सीपीआई के मुकाबले �ादा वजन िदया जाता है.
⇒ Rural inflation has remained above its urban inflation 2022- said 📙📙ES23.
⇒ reason: Parts of rural Assam, Manipur etc faced more inflation in food, fuel and clothing. So
when we take all India average of all rural areas, it looks high.
49.7.9 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: 🐯🐯Inflation targeting by RBI- focus on Core CPI or Headline CPI?
⇒ At present the RBI act requires the central bank to control the inflation between 2 to 6%
(Headline) CPI (All India combined) “क� द्रीय ब�क ने महंगाई को उपभो�ा मू� सूचकांक के िहसाब से 2-6% म�
�नयं �त्रत/काबू म� रखना है”- ऐसा RBI क़ानून म� �लखा है (More in 📑📑Pillar#1A2)
⇒ However, Some experts say that instead of headline CPI, RBI should target the core inflation i.e.
CPI minus fuel & food. कु छ �वशेष� कहते ह� िक �रजवर् ब�क ने के वल मूल/बु�नयादी महंगाई पर ही �ान देना चािहए, तथा
खाद्य महंगाई और ऊजार् महंगाई को नजरअंदाज करना चािहए.
⇒ This is because food and fuel price shocks are transitory, mainly supply driven and therefore
can't be controlled by RBI's monetary policy tools. �ोंिक वह (खाद्य और क�ा तेल) महंगाई तो �ादातर आपू�त
पर आधा�रत ह�, और �रजवर् ब�क क� मौिद्रक नी�त के साधनों से �नयं �त्रत नहीं हो सकती.
📔📔📔📔ES21 says above argument may be correct for first world, but not for third world because
(हालांिक यह दलील प्रथम �व� म� स� हो सकती है िकंतु तीसरे �व� म� नहीं �ोंिक:)
⇒ 1) Consumption smoothing is difficult for many Indians i.e. Striking a good balance between
their spending and saving. Because they do not have a steady source of income / permanent job,
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agriculture monsoon uncertainty, lack of life/health/crop/cattle insurance, lack of financial
planning/financial inclusion etc. So, food inflation hurts them the most & RBI can't turn blind
eye to their welfare/plight. (�ादातर भारतीय अपने खचर् और बचत म� सुचा�रता हा�सल नहीं कर पाते �ोंिक आमदनी के
�ायी साधन नहीं, बा�रश पर कृ �ष �नभर्र, बीमा लेने म� उदासीनता, �व�ीय समावेशन / आ�थक आयोजन क� कमी. इस�लए खाद्य
महंगाई उ�� ब�त परेशान करती है और �रजवर् ब�क उनके क�ाण/परेशानी को नजरअंदाज नहीं कर सकती)
⇒ 2) In poor families' household expenditure- food cost occupies a high share. food prices very
volatile in India. (गरीब प�रवारों के घरेलू खचर् म� खाद्य एक बड़ा िह�ा है, भारत म� खाद्य चीजों के दाम काफ� अ��र रहते ह�)
Food item its price changes in India within how many months?
Vegetable Twice a month (हर 1 महीने 2 बार स��यों के दाम म� बदलाव आ जाता है)
Pulses Thrice every 2 months (हर 2 महीने म� 3 बार दाल के दाम बदल जाते ह�)
Cereal Every 3.5 months
Milk Every 5 months
So, if RBI totally neglects the food inflation and focuses only on the CPI Core inflation, It will not be
in the best interest of the Indian citizens. So 📔📔📔📔ES21 suggestion:
1. RBI should focus on more core inflation. And separately look at food inflation data. In other
words, RBI should ignore fuel inflation! (�रजवर् ब�क ने प्रमुख/मूल/बु�नयादी मुद्रा���त पर �ादा �ान देना चािहए
लेिकन साथ ही साथ खाद्य महंगाई का भी �ाल रखना चािहए.)
2. CPI base year 2012. CPI gives very high weightage to the food. But people's food habits have
undergone changes between 2011-2020 so, Index components need to be updated. (�पछले एक दशक
म� लोगों क� भोजन आदतों म� काफ� बदलाव आया है इस�लए उपभो�ा मू� सूचकांक म� सुधार क� आव�कता)
3. Number of e-commerce transactions ⏫. So, CPI price survey data should also captured E-
Commerce websites prices as well. (ऑनलाइन वेबसाइट से भी जो खरीद-�बक्र� हो रही है, उन मू�ों को भी महँ गाई
सव��ण म� शा�मल िकया जाए)
49.7.10 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅Index → Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI: उपभो�ा खाद्य महंगाई सूचकांक)
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⇒ NSO's CFPI is prepared from the datasets collected in above CPI-survey.
⇒ ✅CFPI includes: Cereals, Meat, fish egg, Milk, Oils, fats, Fruits, Vegetables, Pulses, Sugar &
Confectionery, Spices.
⇒ ✋CFPI doesn't include: Non-alcoholic beverages, Prepared meals, snacks, sweets, Pan, tobacco
and intoxicants (खाद्य महंगाई दर म� इनको नहीं �गनते)
⇒ What was the Food inflation scene in Corona? Ans Ref Pillar4A- Agriculture
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49.7.12 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅WPI Kabhi ⏬ kabhi ⏫
WPI ⏬Between 2020-January to April 2020: Crude oil price had declined significantly due to
lockdown, fall in demand all over the world. As a result, Indian WPI also declined significantly. (इन
2020 के शु�आती महीनों म� क�े तेल क� क़�मतों म� काफ़� �गरावट आयी थी, इस�लए WPI म� भी �गरावट देखी गई)
⇒ WPI (after reforms in 2017) doesn’t count indirect taxes on any commodity. It only looks at the
basic price (without indirect taxes). So, even if petrol diesel appears expensive to Indian
customers due to high level of Excise+VAT taxes, it’ll not reflect that in WPI. (WPI म� व�ुओ ं पर
लगने वाले टै�/ को नहीं देखा जाता, के वल व�ु के मूल मू� देख� जाते ह�, इस�लए ग्राहकों को क� द्र और रा� सरकार के �व�भ� करों
के चलते पेट�ोल डीज़ल महँ गा लगे, िक�ु WPI को नहीं लगेगा) For more on crude oil prices 📑📑Ref: Pillar#3A]
⇒ 📙📙ES23: WPI rose in 2022 due to international level inflation in petroleum products, basic
metals, chemicals & chemical products, and edible oils after Russia-Ukraine Crisis. However
now it is gradually falling down after favourable monsoon, vaccination-led economic recovery ->
supply increased, etc.,
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⇒ CPI monitors price+ (indirect taxes) on it. Whereas WPI ignores taxes.
⇒ CPI gives higher weightage to Food than WPI [उपभो�ा सूचकांक म� खाद्य पदाथ� को �ादा वजन �दया जाता है]
⇒ 2021: WPI ⏫ from (4.83% Feb) → (7.39% Mar) → (10.49% April:). Why?
⇒ global commodity prices⏫due to vaccination & revival in USA/EU (अमे�रका यूरोप म� टीकाकरण के
बाद आ�थक पुनज�वन के चलते क�े माल उ�ादन व�ुओ ं क� मांग और क�मतों म� बढ़ोतरी)
⇒ ⏫ costs in the production and distribution = wholesale prices increased. (उ�ादन तथा �वतरण क�
लागत ख़चर् म� बढ़ोतरी)
⇒ labour shortages by reverse migration & social distancing in factories (प्रवासी मज़दू रों क� वतन वापसी,
सामा�जक दू री �नयमों के चलते उ�ादन म� बाधाएँ ,)
⇒ 📙📙📙📙ES22: again talked about the divergence between CPI and WPI and hoped that ultimately
it will reduce.
⇒ 📙📙📙📙ES222: also talked abt ‘divergence between CPI (Rural) vs CPI (Urban) because both have
different weights to some goods/services. (ग्रामीण और शहरी उपभो�ा महँ गाई सूचकांक म� कु छ चीज़ों को अलग
अलग भारत �दया गया है इस�लए दोनों का जवाब अलग अलग आता है)
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Index Features
Producer’s Price - WPI covers only goods but not services.
Index (PPI: उ�ादक मू� - Whereas, PPI covers both goods and services. It measures price
सूचकांक) change from sellers’ perspective. OECD nations use PPI to measure
inflation @wholesale level. Their PPI only measures price (and not
PRICE + Taxes).
- 2014: DPIIT setup Dr. B.N.Goldar Committee to explore this.
Experimental Service EA to DPIIT preparing these experimental indices separately for Railway
Price Index Services, Port Services, Air Services, Postal Services, Telecom Services,
Banking Services, Insurance,
Banking Business It measures the inflation in the fees charged by Banks for NEFT-RTGS,
Service Price by RBI. Mobile Banking, Card Transactions, Issuing Demand Drafts / Bank
Guarantee, annual fees for opening DEMAT account etc. [Base Year
2011]
Inflation Expectation RBI quarterly survey of ~5k households across 18 cities, asking them
Survey for households what is their ‘expected level’ of inflation for next 3 months and 1 year.
Business Inflation by Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad
Expectations Survey
49.7.15 🏡🏡 Housing inflation
Organization Indicator for monitoring housing prices
National Housing ⇒ RESIDEX to monitor residential house prices in selected Indian
Bank (NHB) cities against base year 2017. It is also labelled as Housing Price
Index (HPI)
⇒ Separately, NHB also publishes inflation in Land Price, Building
Materials & Housing Rental.
RBI Home Price Index
home prices increasing because: 1) Corona Atma Nirbhar → RBI made loans cheap to revive
economy → home demand increased for ‘investment’ purpose. 2) recall Cantillon effect in
pillar1A2.
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49.7.17 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅: Inflation observations by 📙📙📙📙ES22
⇒ Corona Un-lockdown → demand in 1st world ⏫→ inflation ⏫
⇒ OECD group ⏬oil supply & geopolitical crisis (Ukraine) → ⏫ oil prices.
⇒ During Corona-2020- Number of home sales ⏬ but price of home is not declined (meaning,
sellers were not willing to reduce prices) (कोरोना म� मकानों क� ख़रीदारी तो कम �ई थी लेिकन भाव कम नहीं �ए)
⇒ Post-Corona-2021: Banks ⏬ home loan interest rates + Union Govt is giving home loan
subsidy + State govts have ⏬ the stamp duty tax on home buying → Housing demand ⏫ →
so housing prices are ⏫ (अभी वापस बैंक लोन सस्ते होने के कारण, तथा कें द्र और राज्य सरकारों क� योजनाओ ं के
चलते मकानों क� िबक्र� बढ़ रही है, माँग बढ़ रही है और उसके चलते मकानों के दाम बढ़ रहे हैं )
⇒ We should sign long-term import agreements / memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with
other nations for purchase of pulses and edible oils. (अ� देशों के साथ लं बी अव�ध के क़रार पर द�ख़त िकया
गया है िक वे हम� �नय�मत �प से दाल और खाद्य तेल बेचते रह�, ताक� भारत म� उन चीजों क� क़�मत� �नयं त्रण म� रहे।)
⇒ Rest of the Chapter is mostly timepass about onion and tomato seasonal inflation, which we have
already studied in Pillar4A. (�ाज़ टमाटर के दाम बढ़ जाते ह� वो सब बोल ब�न हम पहले भी पढ चुके)
⇒ IF China returns to normalcy from Covid-19 → its mfg & demand will increase → inflation in
global commodity price
⇒ USA rising demand for oil due to geopolitical issues in Ukraine / Taiwan.
⇒ Climate change /drought → shortage of food, green fodder, milk.
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June to Dec 2020 Urban: most Urban: cheapest Rural: most Rural: cheapest
expensive expensive
Veg. thali Andaman & Madhya Pradesh Andaman & Uttar Pradesh
(शाकाहारी) Nicobar ₹40 ₹24 Nicobar ₹39 ₹23
Non veg thali Mizoram ₹52 Haryana ₹28 Arunachal ₹49 Chandigarh ₹30
✋While above trend is not important for the scope of MCQs, but think for interviews- Even
though Thali is cheapest in Uttar Pradesh (rural) and Madhya Pradesh (Urban) Then why is there
malnutrition in these States? [अगर इन रा�ों म� थाली इतनी स�ी है तो कु पोषण �ों है? इस प्रकार िक रा� आधा�रत
UPSC इं टर�ू प्र� के �लए सोच �वचार कर�]
��ES23 said consumer price inflation in India remained under moderate level compared to
many other nations.
− 😥😥 1) US Feds will ⬆ repo to combat American inflation. US Feds will reduce bond purchase
program (=Fed-Tapering) → ⏫loan interest rates in India → Foreign Portfolio Investors
(FPI-who invest upto 10% in a single Indian company’s shares)- those FPIs may pullout money
from India to give it as loans in American market → Indian share market ⬇. → Indian investors
also lose money → Indian investors flock towards gold, real-estate & cryptocurrency for better
returns → new set of problems related to tax evasion that we learned in Pillar2B.
− 😥😥 2) When FPI pullout money from Indian sharemarket → Rupee weakens →⬆ imports
become more expensive →⬆ inflation → RBI forced to ⬆ repo to combat inflation = expensive
loans will harm India’s post-Corona economic revival.
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− 😥😥3) Imported goods and services from America will become expensive for India.
− (अमरीका म� महँ गाई/मुद्रा���त �पछले 30 वष� म� सबसे �ादा अ�धक पाई गई है इससे लड़ने के �लए अमे�रक� क� द्रीय ब�क जो
क़दम उठाएगी उसके प�रणाम��प �वदेशी पोटर्फो�लयो �नवेशक- भारतीय शेयर बाज़ार से भाग जाएं गे। �जससे भारतीय �पया
कमज़ोर होगा,भारत म� क�ा तेल और अ� आयात महँ गे होंगे, �फर भारत म� भी महँ गाई दर बढ़ेगा। उस भारतीय महँ गाई से लड़ने
के �लए भारतीय �रज़वर् ब�क लोन क� �ाज दर महँ गे करेगी तो कोरोना प�ात भारतीय अथर्�व�ा को पुनज��वत करने म�
सम�ा/�द�त� आ सकती है)
औद्यो�गक उ�ादन सूचकांक is a monthly index prepared by NSO, Base Year 2011 and Laspeyres Formula.
IIP measures production of 407 item groups related to (Classification#1: type of goods):
🎓🎓Note: % shows the weights assigned to them in IIP formula:
Primary goods (34% प्राथ�मक वस्तु): directly obtained from natural sources e.g. Ores, Minerals,
Crude Oil; energy goods -Petrol, Diesel, Electricity (Both Renewable and Non-Renewable).
Capital goods (8% पूंजीगत सामान): Plants & machinery used for further production e.g. Boilers, Air
& Gas Compressors, Engines, Transformers, Commercial Vehicles etc.
Infrastructure/ construction goods (12% बु�नयादी ढांचागत/�नमार्ण वस्तु): e.g. paints, cement, cables,
bricks and tiles, rail materials, etc.
Intermediate goods (17% बु�नयादी ढांचागत/�नमार्ण वस्तु): which goes as input in production e.g.
Cotton yarn, Plywood, Steel Tubes/ Pipes, Fasteners, etc.
Consumer durables (13% �टकाऊ उपभोक्ता सामान): Products directly used by consumers and having
a longer durability (2 years or more). E.g. Pressure Cooker, TV, AC, Tyres, Telephone , Mobile,
Cars, Motorcycles, Scooters, Jewellery etc.
Consumer non-durables (15% गैर-�टकाऊ): Products that are directly used by consumers and can’t
be preserved for long periods. e.g.: Soyabean Oil, Milk Powder, Maida, Rice, Biscuits, Sugar, Tea,
Cigarettes etc.
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🔠🔠❓MCQ. As per the use-based classification of the IIP, the maximum weight has been assigned
to _ _(UPSC-CDS-2020-ii)
(a) primary goods (b) intermediate goods (c) consumer durables (d) consumer non-durables
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In the 'Index of Eight Core Industries', which is given highest weight? (Pre-2015)
(a) Coal production(b) Electricity generation (c) Fertilizer production(d) Steel production
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which are among the 8 Core Industries of IIP?(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2012)
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1.Cement 2.Fertilizers 3.Natural Gas 4.Refinery products 5.Textiles
Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 5 only (b) 2, 3 and 4 only (c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
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🥶🥶FAQ: Do I have to remember all this Ministries/Govt orgs/Schemes/Portals/Rails given here?
Ans. NOT Necessary. However, Some rough idea necessary for occasional [Yearbook] /
Scheme/Portal type MCQs. I’ve pasted info here so as to save your time in not having to google.
इतने सारे सरकारी सं �ान और योजनाएं याद रहे तो ठीक, वरना नींद खोने क� ज�रत नहीं। म�ने तो माल बटोर के आपको िदया है तािक
आपक� मेहनत बचे, इधर-उधर google pe ढू ंढना नहीं पड़े.
Pillar#5A: INFRASTRUCTURE Part#1- Bijli, Paani, Sadak
Table of Contents
50 � Infrastructure → Meaning & Characteristics ........................................................................738
50.1 ��Infrastructure → Mining (खनन) / Basic Industries .....................................................740
50.1.1 �� [Yearbook] Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises ......................740
50.1.2 � � [Yearbook] Ministry of Steel (इ�ात मं त्रालय) .........................................................740
50.1.3 �� [Yearbook] Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers ................................................741
50.1.4 �� [Yearbook] Yearbook: Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas .........................742
50.1.5 �Lakhshya portal by petroleum ministry (2021) .........................................................742
50.1.6 � Dutch Disease & Resource Curse- ES2016-17 ........................................................742
50.1.7 �Crude Oil Prices, Petrol Diesel pe Taxes, Oil Bonds, NELP-HELP Policies ..............743
50.1.8 �[Yearbook] Ministry of Mines ( खान मं त्रालय) ................................................................743
50.1.9 ��� Mineral Products in India: (भारत के ख�नज उ�ादन) .........................................744
50.1.10 ��� National Mineral Policy (NMP) 2019 ...........................................................744
50.1.11 ��� Mining → MMDR Act 2015...........................................................................745
50.1.12 ��� Mines & Minerals (Development & Regulation) Amendment Bill/Act,
2021 745
50.2 � Mining → Coal (कोयला) .........................................................................................................746
50.2.1 �� [Yearbook] Coal Ministry (कोयला मं त्रालय) consists of → ....................................746
50.2.2 �� Coal Mining- Nationalization & Entry of Private Sector ..................................747
50.2.3 �� Mineral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance/Act 2020............................................748
50.2.4 �� Coal selling – Shakti Policy (2017)? .....................................................................749
50.2.5 ���Mining → Atma-Nirbhar (खनन) ....................................................................749
50.2.6 �� Coal Crisis/Shortage in 2021-Oct .........................................................................749
50.2.7 � �� Coal Energy: Economic survey suggestions / observations: .....................750
50.2.8 ��� Mining → Misc. Schemes, Apps, Portals, Issues .........................................751
51 �Infra → Energy → Electricity (ऊजार् → �वद्युत) ...............................................................................752
51.1.1 Electricity generation in terms of company ownership ..................................................752
51.1.2 �� [Yearbook] Ministry of Power (�वद्युत-ऊजार् मं त्रालय) ..............................................753
51.2 �� National Electricity Distribution Company ................................................................753
51.2.1 � IEX = Current-PDF-walla gone crazy (इसके पीछे PDF वाले दीवाने हो गए है)..................753
51.3 ���� Electricity → One Nation-One Grid ...............................................................754
51.3.1 �� Grid → Green Energy Corridor Project (ह�रत ऊजार् ग�लयारा प�रयोजना) .................754
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51.3.2 �� Grid → GREEN Grids / OSOWOG .....................................................................754
51.4 �� Electricity → Power Ministry’s Apps/Portal Overdoze ............................................754
51.5 ���Electricity → Integrated Power Development Scheme........................................755
51.5.1 �� Electricity → Prepaid Smart Meters for Electricity ...........................................756
51.6 ��:�
��Electricity: NPA Solve → UDAY (2015) ........................................................756
51.6.1 ��Energy → DISCOMs Liquidity injection (पैसा क� तरलता देके जान फूं कना)...............758
51.6.2 ��Energy infra→ Electricity reforms in Atma-Nirbhar (�बजली �ेत्र म� सुधार) ..........758
51.7 �Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 (�बजली सुधार �वधेयक ) .....................................................758
51.7.1 ���Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules,2020: �बजली उपभो�ा अ�धकार �नयम.759
51.8 ���Electricity → Deen dayal gram jyoti Yojana (2015) ............................................760
51.9 ��� Electricity → PM Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (saubhagya) ..............................760
51.9.1 ��
���Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (2021-June).............................760
51.10 ��� Electricity → Use ‘Less’ → Energy Efficiency ................................................762
51.10.1 ����� Electricity → Use ‘Less’ → PAT Mechanism................................762
51.10.2 Green Credit Programme ................................................................................................762
51.10.3 � �� �� Electricity → Use ‘Less’ → National LED Programme .............763
51.10.4 � �� �� Electricity → Use ‘Less’ → Gram Ujala Programme.............763
51.10.5 � �� �� Electricity → Use ‘Less’ → Misc. Schemes & Topics.................763
51.10.6 � �� �� Energy → Index → Global Reports ..............................................764
51.11 �� Infra → Energy → Renewable (नवीकरणीय ऊजार्) .......................................................765
51.11.1 �� PM Modi’s Panchamrit @COP-26 Glasgow, UK ..........................................765
51.11.2 Mission “LiFE” / Lifestyle for Environment ................................................................766
51.11.3 ��� Energy → Renewable → [Yearbook] MNRE ..............................................766
51.11.4 ���� � Renewable → KUSUM (Solar for farmer) 2019 ...........................767
51.11.5 ���� Renewable → Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission ..................767
51.11.6 ���� Renewable → Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) .......................768
51.11.7 ���� Renewable →World's largest Hybrid renewable energy park-
Khavda 768
51.11.8 ���� Renewable /energy Efficiency → Ranking / Portals ............................768
51.12 ��: �� Energy→ �Fossil Fuel Use→ E20 Blending .......................................769
51.12.1 Energy → �Fossil Fuel Use→ Green Grey & Blue Hydrogen ............................769
51.12.2 ��: �� Energy → �Fossil Fuel Use→ National Hydrogen Mission ...770
51.12.3 ��Green H2: “SIGHT” Subsidy Program ............................................................770
51.12.4 ��Green H2: “SHIP” Partnership (ह�रत हाइड�ोजन �नमार्ण के �लए सावर्ज�नक �नजी भागीदारी)
770
51.13 ��: �� TRANSPORT→ �Fossil Fuel Use→ Misc. Schemes ........................770
51.14 �� Infra → Energy → Cooking (रसोई के �लए) .................................................................771
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51.14.1 ��: �� Cooking → Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh (PAHAL-2015).................771
51.14.2 ��: ��: � LPG PAHAL-subsidy paused in Corona ................................772
51.14.3 �� �:�
�� Cooking → Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 1.0 (PMUY) ........772
51.14.4 �� �:�
�� Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 2.0 [प्रधानमं त्री उ�ला योजना का दू सरा
चरण] 772
51.14.5 �� �� Cooking → Kerosene subsidy stopped (2020)................................773
51.14.6 �� �� Energy → Gas → GOBARdhan (2018) ...........................................773
51.14.7 Natural Gas Price: Kirit Parikh panel (2022–23) .........................................................773
51.14.8 �� �� Energy → Gas →Misc. (�व�वध योजनाएं )...............................................774
51.14.9 � ��
�Energy infra→ Atomic energy → Atma-Nirbhar (परमाणु ऊजार्) .................775
52 � Infra → Water & Sanitation (जल व् ��ता) ..................................................................................775
52.1 ��� Infra → Sanitation→ Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM: 2014) .............................775
52.1.1 �� Target of Swatchhta Diwas 2/10/2019 → Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary 775
52.1.2 �� SBM → How to achieve targets? ..........................................................................776
52.1.3 �� SBM → Who implements this scheme? (कौनसा मं त्रालय करता है) .........................776
52.2 �SBM Gramin Phase 2 (�� भारत का दू सरा चरण) ......................................................................776
52.2.1 Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 announced in Budget-2021 ...................................776
52.2.2 �SBM Protocols (कायर्पद्ध�त) ...............................................................................................776
52.2.3 � � Sanitation → Index: Swachh Sarvekshan 2022 by Urban Ministry ..............777
52.2.4 � � Sanitation → Index: Prerak Dauur Samman ....................................................777
52.2.5 � Infra → Sanitation → Swachhta Udyami Yojana (2014) .......................................777
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Definition: Infrastructure is the set of basic facilities that help an economy to function & grow such
as Energy, Irrigation, Roads, Railway & Telecommunication. (बु�नयादी सं रचना / अवसं रचना- वो �ूनतम सु�वधाएँ
ह� जो एक अथर्तंत्र को कायर्रत रखने, और �वक�सत करने म� मदद करती है- जैसे क� �बजली पानी सड़क प�रवहन सं चार.)
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4. They could get easier funding from World bank & other multilateral banks.
👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- We’ll give “infrastructure” status to Data Centres, Energy Storage Systems,
grid-scale battery systems, EV charging infra → so they can benefit from tax/subsidies/schemes
benefits meant for other infrastructure sectors. (डेटा स�टर ऊजार् सं र�ण इ�ािद �ेत्रों को इं फ्रा���र क� सं �ा/दजार् दीया
जाएगी तािक उ�� भी वही टै�, स��डी, लोन क� �रयायत�/छू ट �मल� जो अ� इ�फ्रा���र उद्योगों को �मलती है.)
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CPSE Many Govt Companies, among them notable are:
क� द्र सरकार के ⇒ Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL)
सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के ⇒ National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) iron ore.
उपक्रम/ ⇒ (*) Salem Steel Plant (Tamilnadu), Bhadrwati Steel Plant (Karnataka),
सरकारी कं प�नयां Ferro Scrap Nigam Ltd, & a few misc.
E-governance Steel Import Monitoring System (SIMS) portal.
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
Largest Steel 1 2 3
Producer China (54%) India (6%) Japan
Consumer China (49%) USA India (6%)
50.1.2.1 🔩🔩 Steel → Purvodaya Initiative (2020)
⇒ The eastern states of India (Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, and Northern
Andhra Pradesh) are home to 80% of Indian iron reserves.
⇒ Purvodaya Initiative: Setup new steel plants, transport infra etc. Boss? Steel Ministry will
coordinate with other Central Ministries, State Governments and Private Companies.
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50.1.4 �⛽ [Yearbook] Yearbook: Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
पेट�ो�लयम एवं प्राकृ �तक गैस मं त्रालय
Dept ⇒ N/A
Attached / ⇒ Directorate General of Hydrocarbons: regulator for the upstream
Subordinate activities i.e. oil and gas exploration and production activities. 2018:
offices: proposal to give it statutory status was REJECTED.
Statutory ⇒ 2006’s Act: Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board: regulator for
the downstream activities i.e. laying of pipelines and fuel marketing
CPSE ⇒ (*) Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, (*) Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd
क� द्र सरकार के ⇒ Engineers India Limited → consultancy services for petro refineries etc
सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के ⇒ Gas Authority of India, Indian Oil Corporation, Oil India,
उपक्रम/
⇒ Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC),
सरकारी कं प�नयां
⇒ ONGC-Videsh Ltd (OVL)- associated with foreign exploration projects
like Sakhalin (Russia), Al-Furat (Syria), Greater Nile (Sudan), San
Cristobal ( Venezuela).
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
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50.1.7 ⛽Crude Oil Prices, Petrol Diesel pe Taxes, Oil Bonds, NELP-HELP Policies
Ref: Pillar2A2- Indirect Taxes and Pillar3A: Import Export.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statements: (UPSC Pre19)
1. Petroleum Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is the first regulatory body set up by the Govt.
2. One of the tasks of PNGRB is to ensure competitive markets for gas.
3. Appeals against the decisions of PNGRB go before the Appellate Tribunals of Electricity.
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1,2 and 3
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50.1.9 🏅🏅⚒🗺🗺 Mineral Products in India: (भारत के ख�नज उ�ादन)
Hydrocarbon Energy Minerals (Coal, Lignite, Petroleum & Natural Gas 4 types
Atomic Minerals (Ilmenite, Rutile, Zircon, Uranium, And Monazite) 5 types
Metallic 10
Non-Metallic 21
Minor Minerals. 55
Total number of products 95 types
By default, the ‘regulation of mines and mineral development’, falls under Union List. But,
- �Minor minerals: गौण ख�नज = Their legislation, royalty, administrative work is delegated to the
States’ domain e.g. Sand, Mica, Marble, Granite, Agate, Chalk, Gypsum, Shale etc.
- 🧔🧔Major minerals: प्रमुख ख�नज = Any mineral that is not in Minor mineral list is called ‘Major
Mineral’ → Union’s domain e.g. atomic minerals, bauxite, iron, coal, petroleum, natural gas etc.
🔠🔠❓ MCQ. Find correct statement(s) about minor minerals in India: (Prelims-2019)
1. Sand is a ‘minor mineral’ according to the prevailing law in the country.
2. State Governments have the power to grant mining leases of minor minerals, but the powers
regarding the formation of rules related to the grant of minor minerals lie with the Centre Govt.
3. State Governments have the power to frame rules to prevent illegal mining of minor minerals.
Ans Codes: (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 only
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which of the following are designated as major minerals? 1) Bentonite 2) Chromite
3) Kyanite 4) Sillimanite (Prelims-2020)
[a) 1 and 2 only [b) 4 only [c) 1 and 3 only [d) 2, 3 and 4 only
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- We’ve already allowed 100% FDI in mineral exploration but we’ll work for ease of doing biz, so
that FDI actually comes. (वा��वक �प से �वदेशी कं प�नयां भारत म� प्र�� �वदेशी �नवेश म� िदलच�ी ले उसके �लए कदम)
- R&D, manpower skilling, environmental conservation etc. (सं शोधन, कौशल �वकास, पयार्वरण सुर�ा)
50.1.12 🏅🏅⚒⚖ Mines & Minerals (Development & Regulation) Amendment Bill/Act, 2021
✋NOTE: following amendment does not apply to coal and atomic minerals
😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩AFTER
- Union government to could reserve any - (In future) when new mines are
mine a particular end-use. auction….No mineral can be reserved for
- e.g. if Tata was allotted an iron ore mine, he captive use.
could only use its ore for his own steel plant - The mining company may do whatever it
and cannot send the iron or to any other wishes e.g. Tata can use the iron ore for his
company. Such mines are known as captive own steel plant AND/OR Sale it to some
mines. other company. [खदान कं पनी चाहे तो अपने उ�ादन
के �लए ख�नज का इ�ेमाल कर� या िकसी और कं पनी को
बेचने सरकार – सरकार इन मामलों पर कोई पाबं दी नहीं]
Union govt had allowed State government to Union Govt will specify the time period within
conducted the auction of mines (except Coal which state government must complete the
and atomic minerals) But some states were very auction. otherwise union government will do
lazy and not completing the auction process in auction for that state। [यिद तय समय सीमा म� रा�
a timely and transparent fashion. सरकार खदानों क� नीलामी नहीं करेगी, तो क� द्र सरकार उस रा�
के �लए नीलामी कर देगी]
If mining company doesn’t do mining for 2 😷😷 Govt may give 2 years + one-year extra
years then their lease will expire. (=Govt may extension/relief = total 3 years relief to exiting
sell the mine, to some other company)। खनन company. (e.g. in case Company could not start
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😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩AFTER
कं पनी ने खदान �मलने के बाद दो वष� के भीतर ही उ�ादन शु� the mining process due to Corona
करना होगा वरना उसका आवं टन रद्द हो जाएगा lockdown/labour/disaster) [एक साल अ�त�र� छू ट
यानी तीन साल तक भी उ�ादन नहीं शु� िकया तो सरकार
आवं टन रद्द नहीं करेगी]
⇒ Top five largest coal reserves: USA > Russia > China > Australia > #5: India. (प्राकृ �तक भं डार)
⇒ Although India is the world's 2nd largest coal producer (उ�ादन) but our requirements are higher
than production, so, we import >₹1.50 Lcr coal, annually.
⇒ Coal is used in many industries such as electricity, steel, cement, paper, brick-kilns, etc
Coal Type Note Carbon %
Peat Highest moisture = smoke pollution. Most inferior in energy 40
Lignite Important states: TN (Neyveli), Gujarat, Rajasthan 40-60
/Brown Coal
Bituminous/ - Upon heating, it releases a liquid called Bitumin. 60-80
Black-Coal - Used to make coking coal, gas coal, steam coal.
- Imp states: Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, WB, MP, Odisha
Anthracite Burns with short blue flame, lowest moisture, highest energy. 80-90
Hard Coal �ूनतम नमी और मह�म ऊजार्
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Statutory - Coal Mines Provident Fund Organization
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In India, what is the role of the Coal Controller’s Organization (CCO) ?
1. CCO is the major source of Coal Statistics in Government of India. (कोयले के बारे म� आंकड़े जमा करना)
2. It monitors progress of development of Captive Coal/Lignite blocks. (कै ��व कोयला खदानों के �वकास का
मुआयना/ �नरी�ण करना)
3. It hears any objection to the Government’s notification relating to acquisition of coal-bearing
areas. (कोयला �व�ारों के ज़मीन अ�धग्रहण के सरकारी ऐलानों के �ख़लाफ़ �वरोध/�शकायतों को सुनना)
4. It ensures that coal mining companies deliver the coal to end users in the prescribed time. (यह
सु�न��त करना िक कोयला कं प�नयां तय समय पर ग्राहक को कोयला प�ँ चाये)
Codes: (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 3 and 4 only (c) 1 and 2 only (d) 1, 2 and 4
🔠🔠❓ Find correct statement(s) about Coal India Limited CIL? (UPSC-CDS-i-2020)
1. CIL has its headquarters Kolkata.
2. CIL operates through 82 mining areas spread over twenty provincial States of India.
3. CIL is the single largest coal-producing company in the world.
Codes: a) 1 only b) 1 and 3 only c) 2 and 3 only d)1, 2 and 3
- 1973: Coal Mines Nationalization Act → Coal India and other CPSEs took over private coal
mining companies. They will dig coal, sell it to thermal power plants & other industries.
- 1993: Private Coal mining allowed for ONLY for captive use (अंकु�शत उपयोग) i.e. industrialist
wanting coal for his own steel, cement, aluminium etc. manufacturing processes → UPA-raj
Captive Mining rights given to ministers’ relatives → they sold rights to needy companies
@higher price= SCAM, then 2014: SC cancelled coal block allocations.
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- 2015: Coal Mines Special Provision Act: It opens up commercial coal mining for both private
and public entities, and thus ends monopoly of Coal India. (doesn’t mean captive mining is
outlawed. Companies who already have such captive mining rights, which were not cancelled by
SC- they’re allowed to operate. Then Govt takes some reforms #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
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😰😰Before ordinance/Act 🤩🤩After
अंकु�शत कोयला खनन coal for his own steel, cement सीम�ट उद्योग म� इ�ेमाल कर सकते. अब वे उस कोयला
कं पनी etc industry only. उ�ादन का 50% खुले बाज़ार म� बेच भी सकते ह�]
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⇒ 2) Coal India’s profits are not reinvested in expansion of the mining activities/research but
rather to give as dividend (so as to help government in its welfare schemes and Fiscal deficit
management. Ref Pillar2D) (सरकारी क�नी को जो भी मुनाफ़ा होता है उससे से कोयला खनन क� नई नई टे�ोलॉजी और
मशीनरी ख़रीदी चािहए। लेिकन वे �ादातर मुनाफ़ा लाभांश/िड�वड�ड के �प म� सरकार को देती है, तािक सरकार का राजकोषीय घाटा
कम हो सके , चुनावों के �लए ग़रीब क�ाण योजना चला सके । )
⇒ 3) so we have to rely on imported coal but China and Australia coal mining activities have facing
problems by the foreign environment activists like Greta Thurnberg. → Those foreign coal
mining company is required to invest in the green technology, which is increasing their cost of
production → expensive coal import for India. (चीन और ऑ��े�लया म� भी कोयला खनन पर �व�वध पयार्वरण
�नयमों के चलते भारत के �लए आया�तत कोयला महँ गा �आ है)
⇒ 4) Corona-lockdown: supply chain issues. (तालाबं दी के चलते आपू�त �ं खला म� िद�त�)
1. Carbon Imperialism (काबर्न साम्रा�वाद) is a modern day type of imperialism wherein the 1st world
nations are trying to enforce their views about energy-consumption upon the 3rd nations with
hidden agenda to 1) To sell their nuclear fuel & technology. 2) To portray 3rd world in bad light
for using coal power and thereby ⏬ their own culpability for global warming. India's
Contribution to GHG <10% and Per capita emission is less than 2 tons, yet 1st world nations
portray us as villains. (�वकासशील देशों को अपनी परमाणु ऊजार् और तकनीक बेचने के �लए तथा जलवायु प�रवतर्न म� अपनी
अपरा�धक ता को छु पाने के �लए �वक�सत देश कोयला ताप आधा�रत ऊजार् क� �नंदा करते है)
2. But for India coal based electricity is a necessary evil because
a. Wind and solar power are Non-dispatchable (गैर प्रेषणीय), meaning electricity can be
generated only when there is fast wind blowing or there is appropriate sunshine
b. Land requirement for solar based powerplant is 10 times that of thermal power plant.
c. Challenges in acquiring Nuclear Fuel and Nuclear Technology
d. Unemployment if we shut down coal mining & thermal plants. Further mains self study
at mrunal.org/2017/09/upsc-mains-answer-writing-gsm3-carbon-imperialism.html
3. 💼💼Budget-2020: Some of the Indian thermal power plants are old and their carbon emission
levels are high. We’ll close them & use their vacated land for alternative use. (बेहद प्रदू षण करने वाले
पुराने �ांट्स बं ध कर�गे और उस जमीन का कोई ओर वैक��क इ�ेमाल कर�गे)
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4. 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- Carbon Neutral Economy: 5-7% biomass pellets will be co-fired in thermal
power plants → 😍😍 extra income to farmers +⏬ stubble burning in agriculture fields. (फ़सल
अवशेष/पराली को जलाने क� जगह उसम� से बायोमास-पेलेट बनाकर कोयला �बजली घरों म� इ�ेमाल िकए जाएं गे।)
5. 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- Announced projects for 1) coal gasification 2) conversion of coal into
chemicals.
a. Gasification of coal is a process in which coal is partially oxidated by air, oxygen, steam
or carbon dioxide → to produce a fuel gas. (कोयले के आं�शक ओ��डेशन द्वारा �धन गैस बनाना।)
b. Coal can be used for producing chemicals like Formaldehyde, ethylene and propylene,
acetic acid. (कोयले म� से �व�वध रसायनों का उ�ादन)
6. 📙📙📙📙ES22 quoted World bank’s report Minerals for Climate Action: we need following
minerals to ⏫ clean energy:- (1) Copper, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Nickel for developing
solar cells, wind turbines, nuclear reactors. (2) Lithium and Graphite for storing electricity.
😰😰But India doesn’t have enough of these mineral resources. (�� ऊजार् के साधनों और सं ग्रहण के �लए इन
ख�नजों क� ज़�रत, िक�ु भारत के पास पयार्� मात्रा म� ये ख�नज स��� उपल� नहीं)
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प�रवहन ⇒ To connect the Coal mining companies, Railways and Thermal Power
Plants on a single platform = better supply chain management.
Satyabhama Mining Ministry's portal for mining related research, science & technology.
Portal (2020-Jun) Satyabhama = wife of Lord Krishna. (खनन के साथ जुड़ी सं शोधन �व�ान प्रौद्यो�गक�)
CIMS and AIMS Mining Ministry's online “Aluminium Import Monitoring System” (AIMS)
& Copper Import Monitoring System (CIMS)
Pollution - Red Mud is a solid waste generated during the Bauxite to aluminum
By mining production process. Ministry of Mines making efforts to utilize red mud
खनन द्वारा प्रदू षण in cement and ceramic etc industries.
- Fly Ash is the pollutant generated by Thermal Power Plants while
burning coal. Can be used in making cement, Bricks, Tiles, roads. Power
ministry launched ASH TRACK Mobile App to monitor fly ash
- (Origin) Electricity is a key element in modern day life. Right from running irrigation pumps to
charging mobile phones, electricity is a prerequisite for agricultural growth and digital
connectivity. (�बजली है आधु�नक जीवन का अ�नवायर् िह�ा - चाहे कृ �ष �संचाई हो या मोबाइल फोन सं चार)
- (Significance) Greater access to energy improves both economic growth & human development
of a country. If India wants to improve its Human Development → we must � per capita
energy consumption by 4xtimes. (मानव �वकास को बेहतर करने के �लए प्र�त ��� ऊजार् खपत बढ़ानी होगी)
- (DATA) India’s per-capita energy consumption of only ~1/3rd of the global average. OR
Though India accounts for ~18% world’s population, it uses only around 6%of world’s energy.
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51.1.2 �🔌🔌 [Yearbook] Ministry of Power (�वद्यतु -ऊजार् मं त्रालय)
Dept & N/A but they’ve truckload of other bodies & apps:
Attached
Statutory ⇒ Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for UT of J&K & Ladakh
Bodies ⇒ Central Electricity Authority (CEA: के �ीय �वदयु् त प्रा�धकरण): prescribes the standards
for construction of electrical plants, electric lines etc.
⇒ Central & State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (�वद्युत �नयामक आयोग) for fixing
the electricity tariff (prices).
⇒ Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE);
⇒ Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC); Bhakra Beas Management Board
⇒ Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for GOA & UTs
⇒ JERC for Manipur and Mizoram
Autonom Central Power Research Institute, National Power Training Institute
CPSE − National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
सरकारी − National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)
कं पनी − SJVN ltd: Satluj Vidhyut (GoI 62%, Himachal 27%, rest % with other investors)
− Power Finance Corp (PFC), Power Grid Corporation of India (POWER GRID)
− Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO)
− EESL- Energy Efficiency Services Limited- joint venture of NTPC Limited, PFC,
REC and POWERGRID- known for its subsidized UJALA LED bulbs
− (*) THDC India Limited: Tehri Hydro (GoI: 75%, UP State:25%)
− (*) Rural Electrification Corporation (REC)- known for DD Gram Jyoti.
− (*) North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO)
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
51.2 �🔌🔌 NATIONAL ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
- PM Modi had announced 24x7 power to all by 2022. But, since private and State-Government
owned electricity distribution companies are suffering NPA/debt issues, the electricity
distribution sector is not expanding fast enough to achieve this target.
- So, 2019-June: NTPC and Power Grid Corporation of India have formed a 50:50 joint venture
company → named National Electricity Distribution Company.
- Objective? electricity distribution business on a pan-India basis.
51.2.1 🔌🔌 IEX = Current-PDF-walla gone crazy (इसके पीछे PDF वाले दीवाने हो गए है)
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A private sector company: Indian Energy Exchange Limited (IEX) ✋ this GK very poor cost benefit
for exam, But CA-PDF walla gone crazy. #🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
51.3 🔌🔌✝☪🕉🕉 ELECTRICITY → ONE NATION-ONE GRID
- Initially, individual states’ electricity grids (�बजली �ग्रड) were interconnected to form 5 regional
grid regions namely Northern, Eastern, Western, North Eastern & Southern region. If a state
had surplus electricity, it could sell ONLY to other states in that region.
- So, One Nation-One Grid concept aims to connect all 5 regional grids into one national grid so,
electricity can be transferred from surplus region to deficient region.
- Here buying-selling of surplus electricity is done through power exchanges like —Power
Exchange of India (PXIL) and India Energy Exchange (IEX).
- Boss? Power ministry → Power Grid Corporation of India Limited.
51.3.1 🔌🔌♻ Grid → Green Energy Corridor Project (ह�रत ऊजार् ग�लयारा प�रयोजना)
- Project will enable the flow of renewable energy into this National Grid Network. So that
renewable energy rich States like Rajasthan (solar), Tamil Nadu (wind) can sell the electricity to
other states. (एक रा� क� ह�रत �बजली अ� रा�ों को मुहैया/उपल� क� जा सके ।)
- 2022- Phase-II of the scheme started. Union govt to give 33% subsidy on project cost.
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Garv app to monitor progress of how many villages electrified under DD Gram Jyoti
Yojana.
DEEP portal to help DISCOM companies buy electricity from thermal plants through
auction.
Vidyut PRAVAH & to let people know how much electricity is generated in India, vs. current
MERIT app price, demand & shortages, inter-state purchase of electricity etc.
Urja Mitra App to notify users about upcoming electricity outages.
TARANG App to monitor upcoming power projects & stalled projects.
And lastly, Power Ministry → Central Electricity Authority (CEA) → National Power Portal (NPP)
where above Apps’ data can be displayed
51.5 🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌ELECTRICITY → INTEGRATED POWER DEVELOPMENT SCHEME
शहरों म� �बजली उपल� बेहतर करने के �लए एक�कृ त �बजली �वकास योजना
- Boss? Ministry of Power (2014). Central Sector Scheme = 100% funded by Union.
- Target? To strengthen power infrastructure, especially in urban areas.
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- How? All Electricity Distribution Companies (Discoms: �बजली �वतरण कं प�नयां) are given ₹ ₹
assistance for improving distribution network, installing ICT enabled smart meters for billing
and collection. Install solar panels if not possible to join an area with grid.
Note: Prices quoted in above chart are only for illustration, they may not be real/accurate.
51.6 🔌🔌🔪🔪:🧔🧔🧔🧔ELECTRICITY: NPA SOLVE → UDAY (2015)
(रा� सरकारों तुम �बजली कं प�नयों का ब�क कजर् भरो योजना)
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During UPA/Congress-raj, DISCOMs were suffering losses because: 😰😰
1. Floods and cyclones, environmental activism by NGT/SC, scams in coal allocation → coal
mining ⏬ → Coal became expensive😰😰 → Thermal electricity production became expensive.
(बाढ़ चक्रवात, पयार्वरणीय अ�त सतकर् ता, कोयला खदान आवं टन म� धांधली)
2. 20% of the electricity is lost wasted during the transmission and distribution. But electricity
companies do not have enough money to upgrade their network/equipment. (नए उपकरण/ साधन
ख़रीदने के �लए पैसा निह, इस�लए पुरानी/जजर्�रत लाइनों म� सं चार के दौरान २०% �बजली बबार्द हो जाती है)
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- To repay this debt, State govt. will mobilize ₹ issuing bonds in the market. These bonds will
be non-SLR in nature. So, banks are buying them, it will be not counted in their SLR quota.
What is SLR? (More in 📑📑Pillar#1A2: Monetary Policy).
⇒ (if States do above thing) → Union will give them extra ₹₹ for Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram
Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), and other such
schemes of (1) Ministry of Power and (2) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
⇒ By 2019-20, first phase completed. Data showed that scheme failed to completely solve the
problem of the electricity companies. Then power minister said we will launch UDAY 2.0
scheme with better features but no development yet. [पहले चरण म� कु छ ख़ास सफलता हा�सल नहीं �ई
हालाँिक दू सरा चरण शु� करना बाक़� है]
51.6.1 👻👻⚡Energy → DISCOMs Liquidity injection (पैसा क� तरलता देके जान फूं कना)
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� Central Electricity Regulatory � State electricity regulatory commission
Commission (CERC) (SERC)
give license To operate in multiple states (एक से power to reject license to a discom to operate in
अ�धक रा�ों म� �बजली �वतरण करना चाहती कं प�नयों को their State (�बजली �वतरण कं पनी का लाइस�स रद्द सकती है)
लाइस�स दे सकती है)
Decide minimum capital, code of conduct etc. Decide the minimum and maximum tariff
for the applicant company (�बजली �वतरण कं प�नयों (Electricity prices) that a discom can charge in
क� के पास िकतनी पूंजी होनी चािहए, उनक� आचार सं िहता) their state (�बजली क� उ��म और �ूनतम/लघु�म क़�मत�)
�Critics fear above division of responsibilities will create confusion and power struggle between
union and state electricity regulatory bodies. (�ज़�ेदा�रयों के उ� �वभाजन से क� द्र और रा� क� �बजली �नयं त्रक
सं �ाओं के बीच स�ा सं घषर् और दु�वधाएँ बढ़ेगी।).
Some more notable features
Feature Why criticism?
�Bill makes it easier for multiple electricity State govt owned electricity companies don’t
discoms to operate within an area. This will want more competition from private sector. (एक
increase the competition इलाक़े म� 1 से �ादा �बजली �वतरण कं प�नया काम कर पाएँ गी ।
�जससे �धार् बढ़ेगी, लेिकन रा� क� सरकारी �बजली कं प�नयां
इससे नाराज.)
�Discoms will compulsorily have to buy Renewable energy is more expensive than
minimum X% renewable electricity & distribute thermal (Coal) energy, so Discoms
it to customers. Else there will be penalty. This apprehensive/opposed (अ�नवायर् �प से �बजली �वतरण
mechanism is known as Renewable Purchase कं पनी ने कु छ �� ऊजार् ख़रीदके ग्राहकों को बेचनी होगी। वरना
Obligation (RPO). जुमार्ना लगेगा। लेिकन �� ऊजार्, कोयला ऊजार् के मुक़ाबले
महँ गी होती है इस�लए �बजली कं प�नयों म� एतराज़।)
�Requires state govt to setup Cross-subsidy ⇒ Non BJP States don’t want to take such
Balancing Fund. How it’ll work? Not imp. (रा� additional responsibilities. (तो रा� सरकारों को
सरकारों ने एक क्रॉस स��डी बैल��संग/सं तुलन कोष/फं ड बनाना नाराज़गी है िक हम पर ये अनाव�क �ज़�ेदारी थोपी गई। )
होगा)
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51.8 🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌ELECTRICITY → DEEN DAYAL GRAM JYOTI YOJANA (2015)
(गांव वालों को �बजली कने�न �दलवाओ योजना)
Lack of rural lighting= ⏫use of kerosene lamps → ⏫pollution, import bill, subsidy bill. So, PM
Manmohan’s Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana → Modi restructured as DDUGJY.
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Power → Rural Electrification Corporation-REC (2015)
⇒ Central Sector Scheme = 100% funded by Union.
⇒ Target? 24×7 uninterrupted ‘metered’ electricity supply to each rural household by 2022, by
doing following →
⇒ 1) Separate feeder lines for rural households vs agricultural use. (कृ �ष और ग्रामीण �रहायशी के �लए दो अलग
अलग सं भरक लाइन) 2) Strengthen sub-transmission and distribution network to reduce power
losses. 3) Install electricity meters.
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⇒ Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana [DDUGJY] / SAUBHAGYA = for improving the
electricity supply in rural area. (गाँवो के �लए)
⇒ Integrated Power Development Scheme(IPDS) = for electricity supply in urban area. (शहर)
⇒ Prime Minister’s Development Program (PMDP) = for electricity infrastructure in Union
Territories of J&K and Ladakh (ज�ू क�ीर और लद्दाख के �लए)
⇒ ��ES22: thanks to all these initiatives, 96% Indian families have electricity connection.
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51.10🔌🔌💡💡↘ ELECTRICITY → USE ‘LESS’ → ENERGY EFFICIENCY
The term energy efficiency means using lesser amount of energy to produce a given amount of
output. E.g, a light-emitting diode (LED) light bulb requires ⏬energy than an incandescent light.
Thus LED is more energy efficient than incandescent lights. (ऊजार् द�ता: कम ऊजार् से �ादा प्रकाश या उ�ादन)
2008: Environment Ministry’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC: जलवायु प�रवतर्न पर
रा��ीय कायर् योजना ) One of its 8 components is National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
(NMEEE: व�धत ऊजार् कायर्�मता का रा��ीय �नयोग ) → PAT.
Boss? Power Ministry → Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).
⇒ Under Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT: प्रदशर्न, हा�सल और �ापार करना) mechanism:
⇒ 8 energy intensive industries are given ‘quotas’ viz. Thermal Power, Aluminium, Cement,
Fertilizer, Iron-steel, Pulp-paper, Textiles and Chlor-alkali.
⇒ They’ve to cut their energy consumption according to the quotas, else face penalties.
⇒ Overachieving firm can obtain Energy Saving Certificates (ESCerts) from BEE’s PATNET portal
and sell it to the underachieving firm (similar to PSLC certificates).
⇒ Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (a statutory body) regulates the prices.
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(Existing) PAT Green Credit Programme
only selected type of individual persons/NGO/Panchayat/Municipality may also
companies could sell sell such credits/certificates to companies. (के वल कं प�नयां ही
in these certificates. नहीं ब�� अ� लोग भी ऐसे स�टिफके ट बेच पाएं गे)
Note: exact details are yet to be worked out. Above is just ‘guesswork’ by experts/columnists.
Boss? Power Ministry gives ₹ ₹ to Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) for:
− Unnat Jeevan by Affordable LEDs and Appliances for All (UJALA) for subsidized home Light-
emitting Diode (LEDs) bulbs. Previously called DELP (Domestic Efficient Lighting Program).
− Street Lighting National Program: whereas EESL replaces conventional Halogen Street Bulbs
with LED street bulbs, free of cost.
Boss? Ministry of Power → its company Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) → its company
Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL).
− What? Exchange villagers' yellow bulbs with LED bulbs i.e. Villager submits working
incandescent (Filament-walla yellow) bulbs → plus pays ₹10 = gets LED bulb with 3 years
warranty. Maximum quota=5 LED bulbs per villager. गाँव वालों को उनक� िफ़लाम�ट ब� क� एवज़ म� LED
ब� स�े म� िदए जाएं गे.
− Benefit? a 12 Watt LED bulb = light of 100 watt incandescent bulb so �Energy bill for villager,
�CO2 Emission from Thermal power plants, �Waste generation (LED bulbs have longer
lifespan than incandescent).
51.10.5 🔌🔌 💡💡↘ 🧔🧔🧔🧔 Electricity → Use ‘Less’ → Misc. Schemes & Topics
��Budget-2022:- We’ll setup an Energy Service Company (ESCO) to promote
ESCO
energy efficiency in large commercial buildings (बड़ी वा�ण��क इमारतों म� ऊजार् कायर् द�ता
Company
को बढ़ाने के �लए एक नई क�नी बनायी जाएगी.)
Atal Jyoti Yojana (Ajay): FREE Solar Street Light with LED in
1. Special category states
2. 5 states - Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
AJAY
3. NITI-ayog-walle Aspirational districts in other states
4. Andaman Nicobar and Lakshadweep
Funding: MNRE 75% + 25% from MPLADS of given constituency.
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- Ministry of Power and Ministry of Textiles give money to Energy Efficiency
SAATHI Services Limited (EESL) → give energy efficient instruments to small and
medium Powerlooms to reduce their energy consumption.
Star Label To help the customer to use energy efficient appliances. 📑📑Refer BEE in Pillar #4B
Smart Ministry of Power → Energy Efficiency Services Ltd. (EESL) helps DISCOMs to
Electricity install Smart Electricity Meters. 🤩🤩Benefits? IT enabled monitoring, no need to
Meters manually read the meters, power theft difficult etc.
- Since 2019: Govt allowed ethanol production from surplus rice/maize available
FCI
with the Food Corporation of India (FCI).(More in 📑📑Pillar#4A)
⇒ BEE’s National strategy document ‘UNNATEE’ (Unlocking NATional Energy
UNNATEE
Efficiency Potential) for developing an energy efficient nation (2017-2031).
⇒ Power Ministry’s knowledge portal namely Simplified Digital Hands-on
SIDHIEE
Information on Energy Efficiency in MSMEs for sharing best practices
⇒ BEE’s Eco-Niwas Samhita for minimum energy conservation standards in
Residential Buildings.
Buildings
⇒ EESL’s Building Energy Efficiency Programme (BEEP) for commercial
buildings
🎓🎓Self Study: Nuclear Power from Unacademy Sci/geography-Booklet
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State State by Power Ministry's Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in association with a
Energy non-profit body called Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE).
Efficiency
Index
🔠🔠❓Which of the following is the top ranking country in World Economic Forum's Global
Energy Transition Index 2020? (UPSC-CAPF-2020) (a) China (b) Switzerland (c) Sweden(d) India
🔌🔌 💡💡↘ ✍ Energy Efficiency Conclusion? Under the Paris agreement, India has pledged to
⏬ emissions intensity of its GDP by 33-35% by 2030. Energy efficiency is a crucial factor in this.
Aforementioned initiatives will help in a long way to achieve our promises under Intended nationally
determined contributions (INDC: रा��ीय �र पर �नधार्�रत योगदान) under UNFCCC’s Paris agreement. (सकल
घरेलू उ�ाद क� उ�जर्न तीव्रता कम करने क� भारत ने पे�रस सं �ध म� प्र�त�ा ली है उसम� उ� योजनाओं से काफ� मदद �मलेगी.)
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Area 🎯🎯Target 🎯🎯Modi included in
originally @Glasgow NDC (2022)
Summit (2021)
It will be reduced by at least _ _ _ % by the
year 2030 from 2005 levels. (GDP क� उ�जर्न
तीव्रता को कम िकया जाएगा)
4) a net-zero emissions target by 2070. means N/A 2070 Not included
all man-made GHG emissions must be
removed from atmosphere through
absorption in processes like photosynthesis or
physical removal (उ�जर्न को शुद्ध �प से 0/शू� िकया
जाएगा)
5) REDUCE TOTAL projected carbon N/A 2030 Not included
emissions by 1 bn tonnes from now to 2030.
(काबर्न उ�जर्न म� 1 टन क� कटौती)
6) Carbon sink of 2.5-3 billion tonnes via Yes N/A Yes
afforestation
⇒ 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- Solar Power: Target of 280 GW of installed solar capacity by 2030. We’ll
give Production Linked Incentive (PLI) for manufacture of solar cells (Ref:Pillar4B).
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51.11.4 🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌 💦💦 Renewable → KUSUM (Solar for farmer) 2019
Boss? Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan
(KUSUM) has components A, B, C but the gist of the matter is:
⇒ Farmers are encouraged to install Solar pump tube wells for irrigation 💦💦 → less diesel
consumption in pumpsets.
⇒ Farmers, panchayats, cooperatives can install upto 2 MW renewable power plants in their barren
/ cultivable lands.
⇒ Above people can sell the excess electricity to the DISCOMS. Its price will be decided by the
respective State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERC). → more income for the farmer.
⇒ ₹ ₹ Funding? Union 30%+ State 30%+ Bank Loan 30% +10% by the farmer himself= 100%
⇒ 🤩🤩Benefit? Diesel & Thermal electricity will ⏬ → 27 million CO2 emission reduced / per year.
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8. “ARUN” Mobile app to help people install rooftop solar panels by themselves.
9. Solar City initiative (2012-17): 60 cities got ₹ 50 lakhs each, to replace minimum 10%
conventional energy (thermal /coal) with solar in five years.
10. Amending Electricity Act for Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO: नवीकरणीय खरीद के दा�य�) &
Renewable Generation Obligation (RGO);
🔠🔠❓ What is the minimum reduction in projected demand of conventional energy at the end of
five years as per the 'development of solar cities' programme? (UPSC-CAPF-2020)
(a) 2 per cent (b) 5 per cent (c) 10 per cent (d) 15 per cent
Applicable to? Power distribution companies, large electricity consumers and captive power plants.
They are obliged to buy min. “X” % of the electricity from renewable energy sources.
This ensures solar, wind and other renewable power producers receive sufficient of consumers /
market demand. This “X%” quota is decided by the MNRE.
First time setup in 2014 (11.50%, With internal quotas for solar and non solar),
Quota raised over years. 2018: 17%, 2019: 17.5%.....2022: 21%.
This mechanism is called Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs: नवीकरणीय खरीद के दा�य�). Its
prices are decided by CERC/SERC depending on whether its Interstate or intrastate sale.
Within this RPO, is also internal quota for Hydropower Purchase Obligation (HPO).
Related? Renewable Generation Obligation (RGO: नवीकरणीय सृजन दा�य�): It requires coal based
thermal plants to generate/procure “x%” of renewable energy.
51.11.7 🔌🔌♻🧔🧔🧔🧔 Renewable →World's largest Hybrid renewable energy park- Khavda
Near the Indo- Pakistan border near Khavda, in Kutch, Gujarat. 30,000-MW capacity (solar+Wind)
over 72,600 hectares of land give to Adani Green, Gujarat State Electricity company etc.
51.11.8 🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌🔌 Renewable /energy Efficiency → Ranking / Portals
Table 1: Ranking is not written because either govt not updated after 2019/ or poor cost:benefit in exam
SARAL INDEX ⇒ Who? Jointly developed by Ministry of New & Renewable Energy
for Solar rooftop (MNRE), Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF), Associated
Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) and Ernst
& Young (EY).
⇒ What? State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index (SARAL) ranks the
States for their attractiveness for rooftop development.
SAATHEE Portal Power ministry’s portal to monitor energy efficiency in various states
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51.12⛽↘: 🧔🧔🧔🧔 ENERGY→ ⏬FOSSIL FUEL USE→ E20 BLENDING
On 5th June, 2021 = World Environment day, Modi released the report of Dr Rakesh Sarwal expert
committee on Road Map for ethanol blending in India 2020-2025 with following recommendations:
Mixing 📙📙📙📙ES22 remarked
E10 mixing/blending 10% Ethanol in Petrol. To be finished in 2022.
⇒ mixing/blending 20% Ethanol in Petrol. It reduces carbon monoxide emission
E20 by 30-50% and hydrocarbon by 20%.
⇒ To be finished by 2025.
⇒ Govt is providing funds for R&D for E20 compliant vehicle engines [ऐसे वाहन इं जनों के सं शोधन नवाचार
के �लए सरकार पैसा देगी]
⇒ Tax / Subsidies for purchase of E20 compliant vehicles. [ऐसे वाहन ख़रीदने पर कर-�रयायत�/स��डी दी जाएं गी]
⇒ Presently India is suffering from excess supply of sugarcane and rice -so they may be diverted for
Ethanol making. However rice & sugarcane are water intensive crops so in future, we should
encourage Maize cultivation & non-food crop cultivation to produce ethanol. [अभी तो चावल और ग�े
क� बोहोत �ादा आपू�त/स�ाई/ पैदावार �ई है तो उसी से ईथोनोल बना ल�गे। िक�ु ये दोनों फ़सले ब�त पानी माँगती है, इस�लए
भ�व� म� मकई तथा ग़ैर खाद्य फसलों द्वारा एथनॉल बनाएं गे]
⇒ Ethanol manufacturers maybe given loan interest subsidy for setting up distilleries. [ईथेनोल फे �री
लगाने के �लए टै� स��डी म� मदद]
⇒ Ultimate goal is E100 (i.e. running vehicle completely on ethanol, without petrol) at some future.
🤩🤩Conclusion? Appreciative step that will help saving Rs 30,000 crore of fuel import bill per year,
energy security/self reliance, lower carbon emissions, better air quality, use of damaged/rotten
foodgrains productively, increasing farmers' incomes, employment generation. [सरकार का प्रशं सनीय क़दम
�जससे �धन आयात �बल/ चालू खाता घाटा/वायु प्रदू षण कम होगा। ऊजार् सुर�ा/ ऊजार् आ��नभर्रता / िकसानों क� आमदनी / रोज़गार
बढ़े। �बगड़ा �आ सड़ा �आ अनाज भी �धन बनाने म� काम आएगा।]
51.12.1 Energy → ⏬Fossil Fuel Use→ Green Grey & Blue Hydrogen
⇒ Steam methane reforming (SMR) is a process used to produce hydrogen gas from methane.
⇒ It involves heating methane (CH4) with steam (H2O) in the presence of a catalyst to produce a
mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2).
⇒ This mixture of [CO+H2] also known as synthesis gas or syngas.
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Green Hydrogen Blue Hydrogen Grey Hydrogen
Cost Currently high, expected to Moderate Low
decrease in the future
51.12.2 ⛽↘: 🧔🧔🧔🧔 Energy → ⏬Fossil Fuel Use→ National Hydrogen Mission
- Announced by Budget-2021 and then by PM Modi on 15th August 2021 speech
- Boss? Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Green hydrogen=Produced from renewable energy. Grey hydrogen =Produced from fossil fuel.
Blue hydrogen=Produced from fossil fuel with carbon capture and storage option.
- Goal? Green Hydrogen’s production, use and export ��.
Target Description
Production 5 MMT (Million Metric Tonne) from Green H2 by
2030.
Energy 125 GW from Green H2
Investment ₹8 lakh crore
Jobs 6 lakh jobs
GHG � 50 MMT (Million Metric Tonne) reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions per year
Crude oil import � by ₹1 lakh crore
51.12.4 ⛽🍀🍀Green H2: “SHIP” Partnership (ह�रत हाइड�ोजन �नमार्ण के �लए सावर्ज�नक �नजी भागीदारी)
⇒ SHIP = Strategic Hydrogen Innovation Partnership.
⇒ It is a subcomponent of the National Green Hydrogen Mission
⇒ Goal? public-private partnership for R&D in Green H2.
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- 2019: "Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN (Jaiv Indhan- Vatavaran Anukool fasal
awashesh Nivaran) Yojana" for providing ₹ ₹ to second generation (2G)
bioethanol projects
- Boss? Petroleum Ministry. 100% Union funded.
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51.14.2 🧯🧯🧯🧯: 🧔🧔🧔🧔: 😷😷✋ LPG PAHAL-subsidy paused in Corona
⇒ Since May 2020, Union government paused paying PAHAL-LPG subsidy to customers.
[although Govt not officially admitted that they have stopped the scheme. [सरकार ने �सल�डर स��डी
देना ��गत कर िदया है हालाँिक आ�धका�रक �प से यह नहीं क़ु बूल िकया है िक हमने योजना (हमेशा के �लए) बं द कर दी है]
⇒ This has saved >₹25,000 crore subsidy bill for the government but caused hardship for the
middle class families.
🔠🔠❓ PAHAL, an initiative for subsidy to bank account, is related to _ _ _ (UPSC-CAPF-2020)
(a) LPG consumers (b) internet consumers
(c) farmers for fertilisers (d) Central Government Employees for medical treatment
51.14.3 🧯🧯🧯🧯 👩👩:🧔🧔🧔🧔 Cooking → Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 1.0 (PMUY)
Ordinarily, a customer has to pay ~₹ 1000+ as refundable security deposit to get the LPG connection
from Oil Marketing Company (OMC: Bharat Gas HP Gas etc.).
Scheme gives Deposit-free LPG connections + rubber tube + pressure regulator to the women of
Below Poverty Line (BPL: गरीबी रेखा के नीचे) families. (Although they have to pay money for the
stove and cylinders to actually start cooking.)
The BPL families identified using SECC-2011 data. Later, beneficiary list was expanded to cover
the forest dwellers, people residing in Islands etc. whose name may not be in SECC-2011 data.
Boss? Petroleum Ministry pays ₹ ₹ OMC. Central Sector scheme = 100% funded by Union.
Benefit? firewood/kerosene consumption ↓= indoor pollution ↓= health + environment :-)
2019: Himachal =first state in the country to have “100% LPG gas coverage”.
2020: Corona Lockdown = poor families’ income� �, so can’t afford to pay for cylinders so,
PMUY beneficiaries eligible for 3 FREE LPG cylinders upto 30/June/2020.
51.14.4 🧯🧯🧯🧯 👩👩:🧔🧔🧔🧔 Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 2.0 [प्रधानमं त्री उ�ला योजना का दू सरा चरण]
🤩🤩What will Beneficiary get? = 1) Deposit-free LPG connection. 2) First cylinder free 3)
Hotplate/Stove free.
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG).
⇒ Phase1 / 1.0 = 2016. Phase-2/2.0 = 2021 onwards. [पहला चरण समा� । दू सरा चरण शु� िकया गया]
⇒ 2.0 = aims to cover A) poor who were not subscribed in 1.0 AND B) poor migrant workers, due
to lack of address proof/documents.
⇒ Eligibility? Adult woman from – poor household, Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC)-walle
eligible households, SC, ST, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin), Antyodaya Anna Yojana
(AAY), Tea Garden workers, Forest Dwellers, families residing in Islands
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⇒ (Poor) Migrants will not be required to submit ration cards or address proof. They’ll get
connection based on self-declaration (गरीब प्रवासी मज़दू रों �नवास �ान का सुबूत नहीं देना होगा। �सफ़र् �यं को �
प्रमा�णत करना होगा िक म� 1 प्रवासी मज़दू र �ँ ।)
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⇒ 2014: Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry designed new formula for domestically produced
natural gas.
⇒ 2022: Kirit Parikh committee to review above formula → 2023: he submitted the report with
following recommendations:
BEFORE AFTER
Govt decided the gas price for public Prices of domestic natural gas to be linked with
sector companies like Oil India and international market prices
ONGC. For private sector companies,
there was separate formula.
N/A maximum price (ceiling) $6.5 MMBtu
minimum price (floor) price at $4 per MMBtu
(metric million British thermal unit)
⇒ Plus many technical reforms in the formula.
⇒ Sufficient to know that new formula likely to reduce the prices by 10% for the Indian customers
for piped natural gas (PNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG)
⇒ भारत के भीतर पैदा िकए प्राकृ �तक गैस क� क�मत तय करने के �लए सरकार ने िकरीट पारेख स�म�त बनाई थी। अब से अंतरार्�ी� य
बाजार क� क�मतों के िहसाब से भारत म� प्राकृ �तक गैस क� �बक्र� क�मत तय होगी। उसम� भी �ूनतम और मह�म क�मतों क� सीमाएं
बनाई गई है। इससे भारतीय ग्राहकों के �लए गैस 10% तक स�ा हो सकता है ऐसा अनुमान।
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- 2018-SATAT Initiative by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to
promote CBG as an automotive fuel.
- Also known as flexible-fuel vehicle / dual-fuel / Alternative fuel engine:
Definition: Flex
Capable of using traditional Petrol/diesel, as well as alternative fuels
Engine
such as ethanol and methanol.
- 2020-Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) notified
Unified Gas Price new tariff rules for natural gas pipelines. Basically new rules will ⏬
System (2020) cost of natural gas for users who are further away from sources of
natural gas. Further technical details NOTIMP.#🕰🕰थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
51.14.9 👻👻 ⚡☢Energy infra→ Atomic energy → Atma-Nirbhar (परमाणु ऊजार्)
⇒ � PPP mode: Research reactor → produces medical isotopes → use in cancer treatment.
(अनुसंधान �रए�र से के �र �चिक�ा के �लए समस्था�नक त�/आइसोटोप का �नमार्ण)
⇒ � PPP mode: Irradiation facilities for Food preservation. (खाद्य सं र�ण के �लए �विकरण)
52.1.1 🚽🚽🎯🎯 Target of Swatchhta Diwas 2/10/2019 → Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary
Open Defecation Free (ODF: खुले म� शौच मु�) India.
Eradicating manual scavenging (मानव मल-मूत्र को हटाने के �लये सफाई कमर्चा�रयों के �नयोजन को ख� करना)
Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM: नगरपा�लका ठोस अप�श� प्रबं धन)
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52.1.2 🚽🚽🚽🚽 SBM → How to achieve targets?
1. ₹ ₹ given for building toilets in individual homes, community toilets and bathing house, Public
toilets at bus station, schools, temporary construction sites [शौचालयों का �नमार्ण]
2. Additional ₹ ₹ for solid waste management projects- trucks, garbage disposal units etc;
3. Information Education Communication (IEC), Awareness & behavioural changes through
Swachhta Doots, Social Media, posters, advertisements. [जागृ�त अ�भयान]
4. Darwaza Band: awareness campaign to ensure villagers don’t defecate in the open.
5. Research Development in sanitation. [सं शोधन]
6. SBM assets have been geo-tagged. Many mobile applications have been launched to complaint
about unclean areas to municipal corporations. [नगरपा�लका को �शकायत करने के �लए मोबाइल ऐप]
52.1.3 🚽🚽� SBM → Who implements this scheme? (कौनसा मं त्रालय करता है)
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⇒ Operations and maintenance of community toilets and public toilets।
(सावर्ज�नक शौचालयों का यो� तरीके से सं चालन और रखरखाव)
⇒ Above things from ODF+ and additionally, focuses on safe management
of faecal sludge from toilets (मल का सुर��त प्रबं धन)
ODF++ protocol
⇒ Untreated sludge should NOT be discharged into water bodies etc
(अनुपचा�रत कु डा-क�चड़ को पानी मे नही छोड़ना)
Water + protocol untreated wastewater should NOT be discharged in water bodies etc.
📑📑NEXT Handout 5B: Transport Infrastructure (Rail, Road, EV, Shipping, Aviation, Tourism)
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Pillar#5B: Infrastructure- Sadak (Transport), My City, Village & Home
Table of Contents
53 �Infra → Transport → H20 → Inland Waterways............................................................................. 780
53.1.1 � �Inland Waterways → IWAI ............................................................................................ 780
53.1.2 � Inland Waterways → National Waterways (रा��ीय जलमागर्)................................................... 780
53.1.3 ��� Inland Waterways → Jal Marg Vikas Project (2014) ............................................. 781
53.1.4 ��Arth-Ganga (2022-Aug) ................................................................................................... 781
53.1.5 �MV Ganga Vilas Longest River Luxury cruise ..................................................................... 782
53.1.6 ��: �The Inland Vessels Bill/Act, 2021 (आंत�रक जलमागर् जहाज़ �वधेयक).............................. 783
53.2 �Infra → Transport → H20 → Shipping & Ports .......................................................................... 783
53.2.1 � [Yearbook] Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways नौवहन मं त्रालय consists of ............ 783
53.2.2 �Types of Ports- Classification Method#1: Major and Minor Ports .................................... 784
53.2.3 �Types of Ports- Classification Method#2 .............................................................................. 785
53.2.4 ��
�Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020 .................................................................................... 785
53.2.5 �� �Ports → Challenges in India बं दरगाह म� चुनौ�तया................................................................. 785
53.2.6 National Logistics Policy 2022 by Commerce Ministry’s DPIIT .............................................. 786
53.2.7 ��multimodal parks by Ministry of Road transport and highways.................................. 786
53.2.8 ��
�� Logistics Ranking (don’t loose sleep) ...................................................................... 787
53.2.9 ��
�� Infra → Transport → H20 → Ports → Sagarmala Project.................................. 787
53.2.10 � �� Infra → Transport → H20 → Blue economy Policy 2021 ............................. 787
53.2.11 � �� Infra → Transport → H20 → Maritime Vision 2030..................................... 788
53.2.12 ��
� � Infra → Transport → Multi-Modal Transportation of Goods Bill, 2019...... 788
54 � Infra → Transport → Road (सड़क) ..................................................................................................... 788
54.1.1 [Yearbook] Min. of Road Transport & Highways सडक प�रवहन एवं राजमागर् मं त्रालय →.................. 788
54.2 � Infra → Transport → Road → Types ........................................................................................... 789
54.3 � � TRANSPORT→ NHAI (1988, भारतीय राष्ट�ीय राजमागर् प्रा�धकरण) ................................................. 789
54.4 ��� TRANSPORT→ NHDP (1998)......................................................................................... 789
54.5 ��� TRANSPORT→ Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (2000) ...................................... 790
54.5.1 ��� TRANSPORT→ Bharatmala Pariyojana (2017) .................................................... 790
54.5.2 �� TRANSPORT→ E-toll collection via FASTag (2017) ................................................ 791
54.5.3 �� TRANSPORT→ NoWAIT@Railway Crossing: Setu Bharatam.................................. 791
54.5.4 �� TRANSPORT→ Char Dham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojana ........................................ 791
54.6 ��: �� TRANSPORT→ � Fossil Fuel USE→ Electric Vehicle ..................................... 791
54.6.1 ���� EVs in India: steps taken to promote them ....................................................... 792
54.6.2 ���Phased manufacturing program (PMP) ................................................................... 792
54.6.3 ��� 100% EV Adoption? NITI vs Highway Ministry differ ......................................... 793
54.6.4 ��� � ES19: EVs in India: Charging is the biggest challenge ................................... 793
54.6.5 ��E-Vehicle: Lithium → Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (2019) ............................................... 793
54.6.6 ��� EV-Conclusion:.......................................................................................................... 793
54.6.7 �� TRANSPORT→ �� � Fossil Fuel Emission → Bharat Stage Norms ............. 793
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54.6.8 �� �Decarbonizing Transport in India (2020-June) ...................................................... 794
54.6.9 �� �Vehicle Scrappage Policy [वाहन प�रमाजर्न नी�त] ............................................................ 794
54.6.10 ��Budget-2022 on Road Transport / EV........................................................................ 795
54.6.11 NCAP program for Car Safety 2022 ........................................................................................ 795
54.7 ���� Motor Vehicle Amendment Act 2019 ........................................................................ 795
54.7.1 ���� MOTOR VEHICLE AMENDMENT ACT 2019 → Gig Drivers .................... 796
54.8 �� TRANSPORT→ Bridges & Tunnel & Misc. (सेतु और सुरंग) ..................................................... 796
54.9 ��Transport → Transborder Connectivity (सीमापार स�द्धन) ....................................................... 797
55 � Transport → Railway (अ�ीरथ) ............................................................................................................. 799
55.1.1 � Railways → Concepts ............................................................................................................ 800
55.1.2 � Modified Economic Internal Rate of Return (MEIRR) ...................................................... 800
55.2 � Railways → Problems ..................................................................................................................... 800
55.3 �� Railways → Modernization → Personnel & Organizational Reforms (का�मक और सं गठना�क
सुधार) 801
55.3.1 �� Railways Personnel Reforms → Unification of Services (सेवाओं का एक�करण) ............... 801
55.3.2 �� Railways Organizational Reforms → Restructuring of Railway Board ...................... 801
55.4 � �:�
� Railways Modernization → Private Train Operators................................................... 802
55.5 � Railways → Modernization attempts before 2019 ....................................................................... 803
55.5.1 � � Railways Fares (िकराया)→ Rail Development Authority .............................................. 803
55.5.2 � � Railways Fares→ Concepts ............................................................................................ 803
55.5.3 � Transport → Rail-Modernization → Green Initiatives by Railways ............................... 803
55.5.4 � Transport → Rail-Modernization → Electric Traction .................................................... 804
55.5.5 � National Rail Plan for India – 2030 [भारत के �लए रा�ी� य रेल योजना - 2030] ............................... 804
55.5.6 � Transport → Rail-Modernization → Safety [रेल सुर�ा] ...................................................... 804
55.5.7 � Transport → Rail Safety → Railways Protection Force (RPF) initiatives-2019............... 804
55.5.8 � Transport → Rail-Types (अ��रथो के प्रकार) ............................................................................. 805
55.5.9 � Transport → Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) ............................................................... 806
55.5.10 � Transport → Metro Rail ................................................................................................... 806
55.5.11 � Transport → Metro Rail → Metro Rail Policy 2017 ..................................................... 806
55.5.12 � Transport → Metrolite, MetroNEO = Cheaper Metros for smaller cities (2021) ....... 807
55.5.13 � Transport → ��Budget-2022 on Railways & goods/cargo transport ................... 807
55.5.14 � Transport → ��Budget-2023 on Railways & goods/cargo transport ................... 807
55.5.15 � Transport → Hyperloop using vacuum tube.................................................................. 807
55.6 ✈ Transport → Aviation (उड्डयन / हवाई यात्रा) ......................................................................................... 808
55.6.1 [Yearbook] Ministry of Civil Aviation नागर �वमानन / नाग�रक उड्डयन मं त्रालय ................................... 808
55.6.2 ✈ Transport → Cheap flights to Small Towns → UDAN ...................................................... 809
55.6.3 ✈ Transport → Udan 3.0 (2018) ................................................................................................ 809
55.6.4 ✈ Transport → Build More Airports → NABH Nirman ........................................................ 810
55.6.5 ✈ Transport → Challenges to aviation sector (चुनौ�तयां) ............................................................ 810
55.6.6 �Airfare price ceiling (हवाई यात्रा दरों म� �नयं त्रण)................................................................................. 810
55.6.7 ✈ DIGIYATRA Facial recognition Tech for paperless airport passage .................................. 810
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55.6.8 ✈ Transport → Drone Regulation (ड�ोन �व�नयमन) & GARUD Portal......................................... 811
55.6.9 ✈ Transport → Drones in ��Budget-2022 ....................................................................... 811
55.6.10 ✈ Transport → Drone Challenges......................................................................................... 811
55.7 � ⛴�
� Vande Bharat Mission 2020- Indians ki watan-waapsi ................................................... 812
55.7.1 � ⛴�
�Airbubble Agreement.................................................................................................. 812
55.8 �Tourism & Museum Infrastructure (प्रवासन व सं ग्रहालय) .................................................................. 812
55.8.1 �� [Yearbook] Ministry of Tourism .................................................................................... 812
55.8.2 � Tourism→ PRASAD & HRIDAY Mission .......................................................................... 813
55.8.3 � � Tourism Ministry→ Atma-Nirbhar initiatives & ��Budget-2022..................... 813
55.8.4 Dharamshala Declaration 2022 .................................................................................................... 814
55.8.5 ��� [Yearbook] Ministry of Culture (सं �ृ�त मं त्रालय)........................................................ 814
55.8.6 �Tourism → Museum Infra in Budget-2020 (सं ग्रहालय) ......................................................... 814
55.8.7 ��BHARAT Shri digital museum for inscriptions in �Budget-2023 ........................... 814
Inland Waterways Transport (IWT: अंतद�शीय जलमागर् प�रवहन) has following benefits →
Lower CO2 emissions & fuel in transporting per tonne of cargo than Rail / Road.
IWT requires very little land acquisition (भू�म अ�धग्रहण) than Rail / Road.
IWT eases traffic congestion (यातायात जमाव/क� भीड़) on Road/Rail networks.
53.1.1 🛶🛶 �Inland Waterways → IWAI
Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI: भारतीय अंतद�शीय जलमागर् प्रा�धकरण) is a Statutory Body under
Ministry of Shipping, responsible for the development, management, safety, survey of inland
waterways.
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National Waterway No. Length (km) State(s)
4: Krishna, Godavari and a few Canals 2890 (when Tamil Nadu, Andhra,
finished) Telanagana
5: Mahanadi delta rivers & canals 588 Odisha, West Bengal
40: Ghagra/Saryu River. In news for Government 354 Uttar Pradesh
planning Ramayan Cruise tour, Ayodhya
Apart from above, NW68: Mandovi (Goa), NW111 Zuari (Goa), NW97: Sundarbans and a few
others are presently operational.
1) �Zero Budget Natural Farming / chemical-free farming within 10 km of the river, and
promoting cow dung as fertiliser through the GOBARdhan scheme.
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2) Sludge & Wastewater: recycle and sell it for irrigation and industries
3) Cultural heritage, boat tourism, adventure sports, and yoga activities.
4) Livelihood Opportunities: setup local markets for products, medicinal plants, and Ayurveda.
5) local administration improvement
6) public participation improvement.
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⇒ Ticket price: ₹25,000/- onwards PER DAY.
⇒ Operated by Kolkata-based private company Antara Luxury River Cruises.
53.1.6 🛶🛶⚖: 🧔🧔The Inland Vessels Bill/Act, 2021 (आंत�रक जलमागर् जहाज़ �वधेयक)
⇒ To replace the Inland Vessels Act, 1917.
⇒ bring all inland vessels & waterways in India under union government regulation.
⇒ Union govt to decide maximum weight/passenger capacity, max pollutant discharge of vessel,
Minimum educational qualification of the shipping crew etc. [आंत�रक जलमागर् िकतने सामान/आद�मयों का
वज़न ढो सकते ह�? जहाज़ िकतना प्रदू षण फै ला सकते ह�? जहाज़ क�मयों क� �ूनतम शै��णक यो�ता �ा होनी चािहए? इ�ािद
�नयम क� द्र सरकार तय करेगी. रा� सरकार तय नहीं करेगी.]
⇒ if vessel sends SOS help emergency distress signal and yet nearby vessels do not respond then
they will be punished. [यिद पानी म� फँ सी तनावग्र� जहाज़ मदद के �लए सं देश भेज� तो आस पास म� जा रहे जहाज़ों ने
अ�नवायर् �प से उसक� मदद करनी होगी अ�था उन पर जुमार्ना लगेगा।]
⇒ � Controversy? Non-BJP State Govts unhappy because inland shipping is Concurrent List
Item but most of the powers vested to Union as per this bill/law. State govts given no role in it,
this is against the spirit of cooperative federalism. [हालाँिक आंत�रक जलमागर् समवत� सूची म� है िकंतु सभी स�ाएँ
क� द्र ने अपने पास रख ली है. इस�लए ग़ैर BJP रा� सरकार� नाराज़ है क� ये क़ानून ‘सहकारी सं घवाद’ क� भावना के �ख़लाफ़ है]
53.2.1 � [Yearbook] Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways नौवहन मं त्रालय consists of
Old name: "Ministry of Shipping". New Name: "Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. (2020)"
Dept. N/A
Statutory ⇒ Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI: भारतीय अंतद�शीय जलमागर् प्रा�धकरण)
वैधा�नक सं �ाएं ⇒ Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) to decide fees of Major ports.
Attached / ⇒ Directorate General of Shipping, Mumbai नौवहन महा�नदेशालय- he is also the
Subordinate National Authority for Ships Recycling, under Recycling of Ships Act, 2019
(office of Ship Recycling @Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
⇒ DG Lighthouses and Lightships| Minor Ports Survey Org, लघु प�न सव��ण,
CPSE ⇒ (*) Shipping Corporation of India, Mumbai | (*) Dredging Corporation of
सरकारी कं पनी India Limited | (*) Kamarajar (Ennore, Tamilandu) Port Limited,
⇒ Cochin Shipyard Limited, Cochin
⇒ Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd | Hooghly Dock & Port
Engineers Ltd | Sethusamundaram Corporation Ltd
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019.
Global ⇒ International Maritime Organization (HQ: London, UK) – is a United
Cooperation Nations specialized agency for regulating shipping.
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अंतररा��ीय ⇒ Its Hong Kong International Convention (2009) deals with the safe and
सहयोग environmentally sound recycling of ships. 2019: India ratified it.
⇒ United Nations Convention On the Law Of the Sea (समुद्र कानूनों के बारे म� सं यु� रा��
का अंतररा��ीय स�ेलन) Signed in 1982, Jamaica. Sometimes appears in news due to
2012 case where Italian marine soldiers on the Enrica Lexie ship killed 2
fishermen of Kerala, suspecting them to be pirates.
⇒ Ropax= roll on-roll off-cum-passenger ferry service. Such shipping vessel can transport persons
and vehicles over water. 2020-March: Shipping ministry launched ropax service between
Mumbai and Mandwa (Maharashtra).
MCQ. Which one of the following statements best describes the ‘Polar Code’ ? (Prelims-2022)
A. It is the international code of safety for ships operating in polar waters.
B. It is the agreement of the countries around the North Pole regarding the demarcation of their
territories in the polar region.
C. It is a set of norms to be followed by the countries whose scientists undertake research studies in
the North Pole and South Pole.
D. It is a trade and security agreement of the member countries of the Arctic Council.
53.2.2 ⚓Types of Ports- Classification Method#1: Major and Minor Ports
- Indian Ports Act, 1908: State Governments responsible for 200+ minor ports (लघु बं दरगाह), Union
Govt is responsible for 12 Major Ports (प्रमुख बं दरगाह).
Table 1: ⚓List of Major Ports in India: (A: Artificial, N: Natural harbor)
A/ NAME of the Major Port STATE
N?
N Jawaharlal Nehru, Nhava Shewa MH (2)
N Mumbai
N Deendayal Port Kandala, Kutch. Tidal port (�ारीय बं दरगाह). Developed in the Guj (1)
50s because Karachi port lost in Partition. Kandla is also the first Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) in India and Asia (concept nowadays called ‘SEZ)
N Mormugao. Tidal Port, @Zuvari estuary, iron-ore export Goa (1)
A New Mangalore. Deep water, all weather port. Karnataka(1)
N Cochin/Kochi. Willingdon island Kerala(1)
Total Major Ports (West Coast) 6
N Haldia | Kolkata. Oldest major port of India. Problem? It’s a Riverine Port WB(1)
(नदी तटीय बं दरगाह) so Need constant dredging (�नकषर्ण) to remove silt & keep
depth.
N Vishakhapatnam & Eastern Naval command AP(1)
A Paradeep (Manmade lagoon) Odisha(1)
N V.O. Chidambarnar Port, Tuticorin TN (3)
A Chennai (all weather Port)
A Kamarajar Port Ennore (private, under companies Act)
Total Ports East Coast 6
Additionally,
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⇒ 2010: Manmohan announced to setup Port Blair (Andaman Nicobar) as Major port.
⇒ 2016: Modi announced to setup Sagar in west Bengal, Duggirajupatnam in Andhra Pradesh,
Vadhavan in Maharashtra, Enayam in Tamil Nadu as major ports.
⇒ 2020-Feb: Govt announced setting up a new major port at Vadhavan in Maharashtra. It’ll be
developed by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) company wherein Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
(JNPT) will have 50%/> or higher shareholding.
⇒ But, Govt Annual reports & IYB still continue to list only 12 major ports, given in above table so
we need not lose sleep.
⇒ �Budget-2020: we’ll consider corporatizing at least one major port (= converting it into a
Public limited company) and subsequently listing its shares on the stock exchanges.
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then sent to India in smaller ships. [जहाज़ पुराने/ जजर्�रत ह�, कु शल मानव बल क� कमी, �व� �र क� बं दरगाह� नहीं।
बड़े जहाज़ क� पा�कग मु��ल]
2. Port congestion, delay in turnaround, takes lot of paperwork to load/unload cargo, customs
clearance / inspection is slow,
3. inadequate roadrail connectivity with the hinterland (आंत�रक इलाके ).
4. Privately owned minor ports are more efficient, whereas major ports suffer from labour unions
and politicization of the Board of Directors. [मजदू र सं घ व् राजनी�तकरण के चलते प्रभावहीन �व�ापन]
5. Problems of land acquisition and environmental clearances while setting up new ports.
6. Desi Shipping companies buy / hire foreign ships at higher cost bcoz domestic shipbuilding
industry is underdeveloped. (भारत क� �ा�नक कं प�नयां अ�े जहाज बना नहीं पाती.हमने �वदेशों से खरीदने पड़ते ह�)
- For developing logistics parks for cargo aggregation and distribution. Storage/ warehousing. (ब��वध
यातायात के पाकर् - जहाँ छोटे ट�कों म� भर के माल लाएं गे िफर वहाँ से बड़ी ट�ैक और रेलवे द्वारा कही और माल को प�ंचाएं गे।)
- �Budget-2023: 100 critical transport infrastructure projects for last connectivity for ports, coal,
steel, fertilizer, and food grains sectors. (अ�त मह�पूणर् प�रवहन अवसं रचना के प्रोजे� कर�गे)
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53.2.8 ⚓🚛🚛🚛🚛 Logistics Ranking (don’t loose sleep)
LPI Index ⇒ World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index, released every 2Years
⇒ National Logistics Policy 2022 targets that India should get into top-25
rank by 2023.
LEADS Index Commerce Ministry’s Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) index.
2021: Guj#1, Haryana#2,Punjab#3.
2022: onwards, it stopped giving RANKS. But just mentioned the states/UT in
3 ‘categories’- see the chart given below:
Figure 1: this is given in latest Economic Survey 2023 so pasting. else I would not have bothered.
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⇒ Fisheries, Marine food processing, deep sea mining, Offshore energy, Research, skill
development etc to achieve United Nation sustainable development goal number #14 i.e.
Sustainable use of ocean resources for sustainable development. [म� खाद्य प्रसं �रण, गहरे समं दर म�
खनन, अपतटीय ऊजार्, सं शोधन नवाचार �वकास, कौशल तालीम]
Misc. Topic: Sethusamudram project (1997) to create a shipping canal between Palk bay & Gulf of
Manner to reduce time & fuel consumption. But case pending in SC-PIL that it’ll hurt marine
biodiversity & Ram Sethu’s religious sentiments.
(Intro) A good road network is an essential requirement for the rapid growth of the economy. Roads
provide connectivity to remote areas, open up backward regions and facilitate access to markets,
trade and investment. सड़क प�रवहन का देश क� आ�थक वृ�द्ध म� मह�. �पछड़े इलाकों म� �ापार/�नवेश को प्रो�ाहन
(Data) Largest road network in world #1 USA (66 lakh kms) #2 India (64 lakh kms)
54.1.1 [Yearbook] Min. of Road Transport & Highways सडक प�रवहन एवं राजमागर् मं त्रालय →
Dept /Attached N/A
Statutory Bodies National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) भारतीय रा��ीय राजमागर् प्रा�धकरण
CPSE National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation
Number plate - 2019: Govt allowed “LA-” number plate mark for vehicles registered
in UT of Ladakh. (Lakshadweep: “LD” plates)
- 2021: BH-series of number plates for Defense personnel, Govt
employees and private sector companies, which have their offices in
four or more States/UTs Ministry.
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E-Governance - Vahan Portal: vehicle registration, taxation, permit, fitness and
modules associated services across the country [वाहनो का पं जीकरण]
- Sarathi Portal: driving license, learner licence, driving schools and
related activities. [वाहनचालको का पं जीकरण]
- mParivahan App: has features similar to above two portals
- Integrated Road Accident Database Project (iRAD) with help of lIT
Madras and National Informatics Centre (NIC)
- Data Lake and Project Management Software → NHAI's digital
platform for paper-less decision making & dispute resolutions related
to highway construction.
54.2 🚕🚕 INFRA → TRANSPORT → ROAD → TYPES
Name → Responsibility of Connects [ये मागर् िकसे जोड़ता है?]
National Highways Union Government State capitals, major cities, ports
State Highways State Government State Capital to District HQ
District Roads Zila Parishad District HQ to tehsil and Blocks
Village Roads Gram Panchayat Villages to neighboring towns
Expressway PPP / SPV Six to eight lane high class highways e.g. A’bad
(usually under aegis Vadodara Expressway made by SPV owned by
for NHAI) NHAI+ IRB Infrastructure Developers.
⇒ 3 organizations associated with highway construction: 1) National highways authority of India
(NHAI), 2) State Public Works Department (PWD: लोक �नमार्ण �वभाग), 3) Border roads
Organization (BRO:सीमा सड़क सं गठन under Defense Ministry)
⇒ In terms of total road length (bigger to smaller): Other roads >> State highways >> National
highways >> expressways [सड़कों क� ल�ाई के िहसाब से बड़े से छोटा]
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- East-West corridors to connect Silchar to Porbandar.[पूवर् प��म]
- Related terms: Diamond quadrilateral → to connect major metros via High Speed Railways.
54.5 🚕🚕🧔🧔🧔🧔 TRANSPORT→ PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM SADAK YOJANA (2000)
- Boss? Rural Development Ministry. Centrally Sponsored Scheme → Core Scheme = NOT 100%
funded by Union. (General-60:40, Sp. Cat States-90:10)
- 2000: PM Vajpayee launched to construct all-weather single (lane) roads for all unconnected
rural habitations �जन ग्रामीण इलाकों म� पहले से सड़क क� सु�वधा नहीं वहां तमाम मौसमों म� कायर्रत रहे ऐसी सड़कों का �नमार्ण
- upto min. 500 population (plains) by 2019
- 250/> (Sp.Cat States, tribal districts and desert areas) by 2019
- 100-249 population (if Naxal/LWE: Left Wing Extremism affected areas) by 2020
- PMGSY – II (2013 onwards): To repair previous rural roads and to construct new roads.
- PMGSY Phase-III (2019-20 to 2024-25): To upgrade 1,25,000 kms of road in the next five years.
In this phase, we’ll also construct road bridges. We’ll connect with roads with Agricultural
Markets, Schools and Hospitals. [तीसरे चरण म� सड़कों को �नमार्ण, पुल भी बनाएँ गे।]
- To ⏬carbon footprint, PMGSY roads are built using Green Technology, Waste Plastic and
Cold Mix Technology. (🎓🎓Read more in environment books/courses)
- 🤩🤩 Benefit of Rural Roads? World Bank study (2019) found that PMGSY roads had a positive
impact on human capital formation in rural India by increasing ⏫ 1) school enrolment 2)
institutional delivery 3) vaccination. (�व� ब�क ने पाया िक गाँव म� सड़क �नमार्ण से मानव पूंजी �वकास होता है →
�ोंिक सड़को क� सु�वधा होगी तो ब�ों के �ू ल-प्रवेश, घर क� जगह अ�तालों म� बाल-प्रसव,और टीकाकरण म� वृ�द्ध होती है.)
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- Special focus on connecting the coastal areas, economic corridors, and border regions (for easier
troop movement against China-Pak & increase land based export-import with Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh and Myanmar). पड़ोसी देशों के साथ जमीनी आयात �नयार्त तथा सेना को रसद प�ंचाने के �लए
Figure 2: Elon Musk is renowned for his Tesla brand of Electric cars
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- (Definition) Electric vehicle (इले���क वाहन) is an automobile that is propelled by the energy stored
in rechargeable batteries. Such vehicles are further classified into
○ 1) Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and
○ 2) Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) which can run on both battery (using electric motor)
and petrol/diesel (using internal combustion engine).
- (Origin of the problem) In India, transport sector is the second largest contributor to CO2
emissions after the industrial sector. Electric vehicle can help reducing it.
- (Data) Currently, the market share of electric cars is less than 1% in India, compared to
compared to 2% in China and nearly 40% in Norway.
- Why encourage? 1) less import of crude oil import = less CAD 2) India can emerge as a hub for
manufacturing for EVs. This can provide employment opportunities and earning of foreign
exchange through exports. रोजगार व �वदेशी मुद्रा कमाने का साधन बन सकता है
�बजली से चलने वाले वाहनों के �व�नमार्ण के चरणबद्ध �व�नमार्ण के �लए योजना �जसम� करो म� कु छ छू ट दी जाती है।
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54.6.3 🚕🚕🚕🚕🚕🚕 100% EV Adoption? NITI vs Highway Ministry differ
नी�त आयोग ने कहा 2030 से भारत म� �सफ़र् इले���क वाहन �बक� गे, िकंतु प�रवहन मं त्रालय ने कहा हमने एसा अभी तय निह िकया
- 2017: NITI proposes at least 40% private transportation should be electric by 2030.
- 2019-Jun: NITI proposed only electric vehicles should be sold after 2030. However, automobile
makers have heavily criticized this move. So, ultimately
- 2019-Aug: Union Minister of Road Transport and Highway, Nitin Gadkari cleared the air that 1)
There will be no ban on petrol and diesel vehicles in the country. 2) Govt has not set any
deadline for automakers to switch to electric vehicles. 3) I am the minister, NITI Aayog does not
have the authority to set Electric Vehicle deadline.
54.6.7 🚕🚕🚕🚕 TRANSPORT→ 🚕🚕🚕🚕 ⏬ Fossil Fuel Emission → Bharat Stage Norms
⇒ Environment Ministry → Statutory Body: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has
instituted Bharat Stage emission norms (BS) norms . जीवा� �धन उ�जर्न मानक
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⇒ Higher number = stricter norms = more expensive for automakers to design such engines.
- 1/4/2017: BS-IV compliant vehicles made compulsory.
BS-IV(4)
- 1/4/2020: SC banned their sale from this date
BS-V(5) Modi decided we’ll directly jump to Stage 6.
Only this type of vehicles can be sold from 1/4/2020 onwards
BS-VI(6)
Stage-VI vehicles will emit less Sulphur and Nitrogen Oxides than their predecessors.
⇒ 1) Many buyers awaiting new BS6 cars’ prices to fall instead of buying BS4 models.
⇒ 2) Even though the BS4 car may be cheaper, it’ll not have good re-sale value in the 2nd-hand
used market after 5-6 years. So buyers are hesitant.
⇒ 1+2 = among reasons for � in automobile sales in 2019 (वाहनों क� �बक्र� म� कमी)
⇒ Separately, Dept of Heavy Industry notified Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) norms
for passenger cars (E.g. taxis, buses), requiring them to ⏬CO2 emission from 2017 onwards.
💼💼Budget-2021: Automakers to give 5% rebate (discount) on purchase of new car, If the customer
gives his old vehicle for scrapping. Later Road Transport Ministry gave more clarification→
⇒ Official name? “Voluntary Vehicle-Fleet Modernisation Programme”
⇒ Who? Road Transport Ministry by amending the Motor Vehicles act. [सड़क प�रवहन मं त्रालय का
"�ै��क वाहन-बेड़े आधु�नक�करण कायर्क्रम"]
⇒ Commercial vehicle e.g. Taxi, Truck older than 15 years and personal vehicles e.g bike, moped,
car older than 20 years. [15 साल से पुरानी वा�ण��क वाहन तथा 20 साल से पुरानी �नजी वाहनों पर लागू]
⇒ Vintage/Museum Vehicles which older than 50 years = given exemption from such rule.
However, they cannot be used for day-to-day travel. [�ू�जयम/महाराजाओ के जमाने क� पुरानी गाडीओ को छू ट]
⇒ If non-govt Vehicle fails the fitness test after above age → It'll be seized and destroyed. (वरना ज�)
⇒ If the owner voluntarily submits the vehicle to the authorised scrapping centre → gets the old
Vehicle scrapped ka certificate → 4-6% Discount on buying a new vehicle. If he does not want
to buy the new vehicle he may even sale/exchange the discount certificate to another party. [वाहन
मा�लक �े�ा से कबाड़ी म� देगा, तो स�टिफ़के ट �मलेगा �जससे नए वाहन क� ख़रीदारी म� �रयायत/ छू ट/ िड�ाउं ट.]
⇒ He may also get exemption/relaxation in registration fees & State Road Tax. [कर म� भी �रयायत]
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⇒ Registered vehicle scrapping centres will be linked to the National Police database to track
vehicle stolen / involved in crime. [कबाड़ी क� द्रों को रा��ीय पु�लस डेटाबेस के साथ जोड़ा जाएगा तािक चोरी �ए, अपराध
म� इ�ेमाल �ए वाहनों पर नज़र.]
⇒ �Budget-2023: Old Vehicle Replacement: Loans to States for replacing old vehicles and
ambulances. (पुरानी सरकारी गािड़यों को कबाड़ी म� बेच के नई गािड़यां ख़रीदने के �लए रा�ों को कज़ार् द�गे.)
🤩🤩Benefits? cleaner emissions, fuel efficiency, better road safety (e.g. seat belt airbags), automobile
jobs (35k⏫), GDP (₹10kcr⏫). [प्रदू षण म� कमी. सड़क सुर�ा-रोज़गार सृजन-सकल घरेलू उ�ाद म� बढ़ोतरी]
⇒ Note: Some of these rules/%/deadlines may get changed in future.
- Road accidents claim ~1.5 lakh lives every year. So, Union’s Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 was
amended in 2019 with steep penalties such as Drunk-driving fine increased from ₹ 2,000 to ₹
10,000 etc. (ट�ैिफक �नयमों का उ�ं घन करना, मिदरा/शराब पीकर गाड़ी चलाना इन सब पर भारी जुमार्ना)
- Even road contractors & Enginers can be punished if faulty infrastructure results in accidents.
- Concurrent List Entry 35: Mechanically propelled vehicles. So, both union and states can enact
laws but Union’s law will prevail. [समवत� सूची]
- But, some State Govts have notified reduced penalties. Union Highway Minister said, “States can
revise fines if they want. However, peoples’ lives should be saved."
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Further, this Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Act 2019 mandates:
1. Aadhar card compulsory for getting a driving licence and vehicle registration.
2. Good Samaritan (नेक आदमी: who helps the injured victim in good faith) will not be harassed in
civil /criminal cases. It’ll not be mandatory for them to disclose identity to police / doctors.
3. Road builder can be penalized if poor quality of road leads to accident.[सड़क ठे केदार को भी सजा]
4. Vehicle company can be penalized for sub-standard components. Govt can order recall of such
faulty vehicles. (घिटया गुणव�ा के वाहनों के �नमार्ण पर कं पनी को जुरमाना)
5. Easier registration process of vehicles modified for Divyang(PH)
6. A Motor Vehicle Accident Fund will provide compulsory insurance cover to all road users in
India for certain types of accidents. (मोटर वाहन दुघर्टना �न�ध)
7. Technical reforms in third party motor-vehicle insurance & claims.
54.8 🚕🚕🔗🔗 TRANSPORT→ BRIDGES & TUNNEL & MISC. (सेतु और सुरंग)
IRAD Integrated Road Accident Database Project (iRAD) by IIT-Madras and NIC.
IBMS Road Ministry developed an Indian Bridge Management System (IBMS)
webportal to monitor 50,000+ bridges on National Highways of India. Such
database can help 1) repair works 2) mega-sized trucks could be diverted to other
routes to avoid structural damage to small bridges.
Maitri Setu connecting Sabroom (Tripura) with Ramgarh (Bangladesh) over Feni River →
From Ramgarh (Bangladesh) → Chattogram port is hardly 80 kilometres from
Ramgarh = so, will help Northeastern Indian States to export through sea port.
Constructed by India's National Highways & Infra Development Corporation
Limited (NHIDCL). This is also part of HIRA-wala Development= Highways, I-
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ways (information highway/communication infra), Railways and Airways.
Bogibeel The longest Rail-cum-Road Bridge of the India (4.94 km).
Bridge Connects Assam’s two districts over Brahmaputra river. 2018: Modi inaugurated.
Dhola- Longest road bridge of India (9.15kms) to connect Dhola in Assam to Sadiya in
Sadiya Arunachal over river Lohit, a tributary of River Brahmaputra. 2017: Modi
Bridge inaugurated.
Dhubri- 19.3 kms road bridge to connect Dhubri (Assam) and Phulbari (Meghalaya) over
Phulbari river Brahmaputra. 2019: Modi approved, will finish by 2026-27, then it’ll become
Bridge longest bridge.
Diffo Bridge built over Diffo River in Arunachal Pradesh.
River India’s longest river ropeway (2kms) to connects north & south banks of the
Ropeway Brahmaputra river in Kachari Ghat, Guwahati, Assam.
SARDP-NE Road Ministry → extra funds for roads in North East. Special Accelerated Road
Development Programme (SARDP-NE)
Atal Tunnel World's longest highway tunnel (9.02 km) from Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley in
Himachal built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO, under Defense Ministry).
Sela Tunnel Arunachal Pradesh passing thru Sela Pass. It’ll cut down the distance to China
border through Tawang by 10 km. At a height of over 13,000 feet.
Mavala Mavala = India's Biggest tunnel boring machine used for creating tunnels for
Machine India's first undersea tunnel Road -In Mumbai -To connect South Mumbai with
Worli. "Mavala" word associated with infantry Warriors in Shivaji Army.
��MCQ. Which is NOT correct about the Atal Tunnel? (IES-2021)
a) It is the highest altitude tunnel in the world। सब �व� म� सबसे �ादा उचाई पर ��त सुरंग है
b) It was inaugurated on 03 October 2020 in Rohtang ये तारीख को उद्घाटन �आ था
c) In connects Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley। इन दो जगह को जोड़ती है
d) It is capable of handling 5000 cars and 2500 trucks per day with maximum speed of 80 kmph
54.9 🚕🚕🚕🚕TRANSPORT → TRANSBORDER CONNECTIVITY (सीमापार स�द्धन)
Kartarpur - Kartarpur Sahib is located on the Ravi river bank, Pakistan, about 4.5 km
Sahib from the international border.
Corridor - Here Guru Nanak Sahib spent his 18 years until his death in 1539.
(2019) - 2019: 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Sahib.
- Govt launched Visa-free corridor - Indian citizens and OCI (Overseas
Citizens of India) can travel from India to Pak.
Kaladan - To connect Haldia/Kolkata Port → Sittwe Port (Myanmar) → Kaladan
Multi-Modal River → Road transport to Mizoram.
- in other words, this project aims to provide alternate connectivity between
eastern ports of India to Mizoram via Myanmar.
Sonamura- - Sonamura (Tripura) to Daudkandi (Bangladesh)
Daudkandi - This is a riverine route connecting Tripura’s Gomati river with India’s
(2020-Sept) national waterways through Bangladesh’s Meghna river.
IMT India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway
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BBIN Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) to
(2015) enable movement of passenger and cargo vehicles across borders. While
Bangladesh, India and Nepal have implemented it but Bhutan’s yet to do
INSTC International North–South Transport Corridor (अंतरार्��ीय उ�र-द��ण प�रवहन ग�लयारा):
(2000) - Members: India, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia,
Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Ukraine, Syria. Observer member -
Bulgaria. (It helps connecting Afghanistan through Chabahar port although
directly it may not be passing through it.)
- With ship, rail, and road route for faster cargo transport.
Ashgabat - Ashgabat (@Turkmenistan) Agreement For multimodal goods transport
agreement between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
(2011) - Signatories: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
(2016), India (2018). This also creates synergy for INTC.
Gwadar - Gwadar Port@Pakistan. So obviously China helped building it.
Chabahar - Chabahar Port@Iran. India helped building it.
- 2016: PM Modi signed agreement with Iran to construct a railway line from
Chabahar port to Zahedan (a region bordering Afghanistan)
- 2020-Jul: Iran dropped India from project citing India’s funding delays.
Separately, Iran is also seeking a 25 years economic and security partnership
pact with China to get billions of funding. So, critics term it as failure of
Indian diplomacy. ईरान चीन क� गोद म� बैठ गया वह भारतीय कू टनी�त क� �वफलता
OBOR China One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative to connect Asia, Africa and Europe
(2013) via 6 proposed corridors
1. New Eurasia Land Bridge Economic Corridor
2. China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor
3. China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor
4. China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor
5. Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM): 2019-
April: China dropped this BCIM from the OBOR list.
6. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: It passes through Gilgit-Baltistan - a
territory of India that is illegally occupied by Pakistan.
7. India has not officially joined, YET.
🤧🤧 Corona = Partner nations unable to repay infrastructure loans taken from
China. Now China is thinking of shifting its policy. e.g. loan restructuring
(Changing interest rate/tenure), fresh loans at 0% etc.
B3W US President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative announced in
G7 Summit 2020 for infrastructure development in the aftermath of Corona.
Blue Dot ⇒ Proposed by the USA, Japan and Australia. India is yet to join.
Network ⇒ If an infrastructure project gets ‘Blue Dot’ Certification = Project has high
(2019) standards of quality, transparency, sustainability, and developmental impact.
⇒ It will encourage pvt investors from 1st world nations in such projects.
✍ Conclusion? Good connectivity is a fundamental requirement equitable industrial growth in all
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regions. SDG Goal #9 requires India to build resilient infra including all weather roads connecting
all villages. Aforementioned scheme / policy / challenges….(सभी इलाकों म� सं तु�लत ओधो�गक �वकास के �लए
अ�� प�रवहन सु�वधा ज�री। सतत �वकास ल� के अनुसार गांव गांव तक सभी मौसमों म� कायर्रत हो ऐसी सड़कों का �नमार्ण)
⇒ 1853: First railway from Mumbai to Thane (34kms). Governor General Dalhousie
⇒ 1921: Acworth Committee recommends separation of rail budget from General budget; practice
started from 1924-25, ended in 2017 by PM Modi 🧔🧔.(More in 📑📑Pillar#2D)
⇒ Today, Indian railways 4th largest network (>68,000 route-km) after US, China,Russia.
⇒ 2019-20: Railways carried >8 billion passengers = Largest in the world
Ministry of Railways रेलवे मं त्रालय consists of
Dept N/A
Zonal - 17th zone is Metro Railway Zone = Kolkata
Headquarter - (proposed) 18th Zone is: South Coast Railway - Vishakhapatnam (Andhra)
Subordinate - Railway Recruitment Boards.
Offices - Railway Staff College, Vadodara, Guj
- Indian Railway Engineering Institute, Pune.
Statutory Railway Board, under the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905
CPSE - IRCON (Construction), IRFC (Finance), IRCTC (Catering Tourism),
- Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd.,Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation,
- RITES (Technical and Economic Services), Rail-Tel (communication), Rail
Vikas Nigam Ltd.
- Dedicated Freight Corridor Corp. of India Ltd.,
- Bharat Wagon and Engineering Co. Ltd., Burn Standard Coy. Ltd,
Braithwaite and Company Ltd.
- (*)Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR)
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
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55.1.1 🚝🚝 Railways → Concepts
Cross - To keep rail travel cheap for the poor people, Railways keeps the
Subsidization passenger tickets lower than its input cost.
क्रॉस सहा�यक�करण - To compensate this loss, Railways keeps freight (goods transport) prices
higher. This is called “Cross subsidization”
Operating Ratio - It means Railways operating expenses divided by its operating revenues.
सं चालन अनुपात - 2017: 98.4% (means only ₹ 1.6 rupees left out of every ₹ 100 revenue
earned.) → 2018: 96.2%
- Budget-2019: we’ll try to improve it to 95%
(पहले यिद िकसी रेल प्रोजे� म� �ूनतम (दू रदराज के �पछड़े इलाकों म� या िफर यातायात म� ट�ािफक कम करने, वायु
12% मुनाफे क� सं भावना ना होती तो रेलवे प्रदू षण कम करने के �लए कोई प्रोजे� ज�री हो तो भले उसम� दो तीन
मं त्रालय उसक� मं जूरी अनुम�त नहीं देता था) प्र�तशत मुनाफा �मल रहा हो िफर भी रेल मं त्रालय उसक� मं जूरी देगा )
NITI Aayog opinion will be asked, if project cost is ₹500cr/ or more.
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55.3 🚝🚝� RAILWAYS → MODERNIZATION → PERSONNEL & ORGANIZATIONAL REFORMS (का�मक और
सं गठना�क सुधार)
⇒ Earlier, Sam Pitroda Committee (2012) and Bibek Debroy Committee (2015) and many others
had suggested various organizational reforms for the Railways.
⇒ Modi Cabinet had constituted Alternate Mechanism (AM / वैक��क िक्रया�व�ध: a group of cabinet
ministers to decide on a particular subject).
⇒ 2019-Dec: following was approved (1) Unification of Services (2) Restructuring of Railway Board
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BEFORE AFTER (रेलवे बोडर् का पुनगर्ठन)
⇒ Members selected from various ⇒ 4 functional Members (कायर्परक सद�) i.e. officers from
Railway departments. [अलग अलग Railways selected on merit cum seniority basis.
रेल �वभागों से सद�ों को चुना जाता था] ⇒ Some independent members with knowledge &
experience in industry, finance, economics and
management fields
55.4 🚝🚝 🧔🧔:👲👲 RAILWAYS MODERNIZATION → PRIVATE TRAIN OPERATORS
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Table 4: Draft Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for private railways
Private player will Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO: िडजाइन,
Model �नमार्ण, �व� और सं चालन) his private trains on the routes given to him. Train
must have minimum 16 coaches.
Concession Period 35 Years. After that, the govt may renew/ Govt itself may start operating
(�रयायत क� अव�ध): it / select another party...depending on the mutually agreed conditions
private train operator will share a % of his revenue with the Government.
Fees
(�नजी सं चालक ने अपनी आमद म� से कु छ प्र�तशत सरकार को देना होगा)
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⇒ “Green corridors in Railways” = on these routes all trains have bio-toilets to avoid direct
discharge of human excreta on Railway tracks/station premises.
⇒ 5% blending of biodiesel.
55.5.5 🚝🚝 National Rail Plan for India – 2030 [भारत के �लए रा��ीय रेल योजना - 2030]
⇒ freight transport- � Railways share by 45% and � avg speed by 50kmph. (माल वाहन ने रेलवे क�
िह�ेदारी और रेलवे क� ग�त को बढ़ाना)
⇒ 100% electrification of engines (रेल इं जनों को डीज़ल क� जगह �वद्युत/ �बजली से चलाना)
⇒ � speed to 160 kmph on Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes
⇒ Identify new Dedicated Freight Corridors and High Speed Rail Corridors.
⇒ Develop more railway stations, improve track safety etc (रेल अड्डे और सुर�ा)
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55.5.8 🚝🚝 Transport → Rail-Types (अ��रथो के प्रकार)
Table 5: ✋✋✋✋Table has very little utility in the UPSC, self-study for other exams:
Red ribbon to spread AIDS awareness
Rajdhani Connects Delhi with state capitals. Started in 1969
Shatabdi Connects Metro cities with other cities. called “Shatabdi” because started in
1988 Nehru’s centenary.
Garib-rath AC trains for poor people- at cheaper cost. But seat space narrow, no
2006 (Lalu) food/bedding given. So it's called ‘No frills’.
Duranto Express Duranto means ‘restless’ in Bengali. Long distance non-stop from source to
2009 (Mamta) destination. Speed as fast as Rajdhani and Shatabdi. Although now stops at
more stations for voters appeasement so original objective is defeated.
Mumbai Monorail Monorail runs on a single rail. rail may be located either above or beneath
2014 the railway cars. 2014: Started in Mumbai by Maharashtra State Govt.
Mumbai-A’bad - Length: ~520 km; proposed speed ~320 kmph.
bullet train 2014 - Duration: 3-4 hours (currently 8 hours)
- Project funded by JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency).
- 😰😰Challenges? Farmers protest against the land acquisition, Ticket
price will have to be kept very high ELSE difficult to recover the cost.
🤩🤩Benefit? Even if the cost is not recovered, experience gained → later
-
try ‘Make in india’ & export bullet trains to third world.
- (Full) Budget-2019: Once above project is finished in 2023, we’ll launch
second bullet train from Delhi to Amritsar via Chandigarh. The project
will be funded by the Govt and not by any public private partnership.
AntyodayaExpress These trains have only general coaches and they’re unreserved. (2016)
Humsafar Express Attempted to give a taste of 'luxury' to the common man. Fully AC coaches,
2016 more comfortable seats, LCD TV, laptop-mobile charging, coffee/tea/soup
vending machine, toilet's flush button has automatic perfume releaser.
Tejas Express’16 Similar to above. Their new version even has Small TV behind every chair.
Gatimaan ‘16 Semi-high speed train, maximum speed 160 kmph, runs on electricity.
UDAY Utkrisht Double-Decker Air-conditioned Yatri (UDAY Express) connects
2018 notable cities of Southern India. features similar to above
Vande Bharat ⇒ Same as above, made by Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. Technical
Express 2019 name ‘Train 18’. First train on Delhi -Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi.
⇒ Amrit Mahotsav of independence for 75 weeks started from 12th March
2021 and will continue till 15th August, 2023. So, During these 75 weeks
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of the Amrit Mahotsav of Independence, 75 Vande Bharat trains will be
launched to connect every corner of the country.
⇒ Sidenote: Amrit Kaal =for the NEXT 25 years until India celebrates 100
years of its independence.
🚝🚝Shramik 2020-May: During corona crisis to bring migrants within Indian states back
Special Trains to their home states in India. (भारत मे ही ��त प्रवासी मजदू र)
Bharat Gaurav Pvt tour operators can lease Govt’s trains on tour circuit. (भारत गौरव योजना के
Scheme (2021) अंतगर्त �नजी �ेत्र के ऑपरेटर भी िकराये पर सरकारी ट�ेन लेकर पयर्टन �लों पर उसे चलाए)
Future of Rail 2019-January: This report was launched International Energy Agency (IEA,
report an autonomous body based in Paris).
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- Public Private Partnership (लोक/सावर्ज�नक �नजी भागीदारी) between State & private company;
while Union gives them grants through Viability Gap Fund (�वहायर्ता अवकाश �नधी).
- 💼💼 Budget-2019 More metro railway initiatives via PPP. Because, modernizing Indian Railway
requires total ₹ 50 lakh crore from 2019- 2030, but in annual budgets we can barely allot ~₹1.6
lakh crore per year, so public partnership necessary. [सरकार के पास पैसा कम है इस�लए PPP द्वारा बनाएं गे]
55.5.12 🚝🚝 Transport → Metrolite, MetroNEO = Cheaper Metros for smaller cities (2021)
💼💼Budget-2021 announced Metro Lite and Metro Neo for smaller cities like Nashik, Thane,
Gorakhpur, Jammu, Srinagar and Coimbatore. They are cheaper than normal Metro rail.
Type of Metro Cost to build 1 kilometre of track & train
Normal / conventional metro rail 222 cr
Metro Lite = looks like a tramway 140 cr
Metro Neo= looks like an electric trolleybus 71 cr
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⇒ Avishkar Hyperloop = IIT-Madras research team on Hyperloop
55.6.1 [Yearbook] Ministry of Civil Aviation नागर �वमानन / नाग�रक उड्डयन मं त्रालय
Dept N/A [मं त्रालय के नीचे कोई �वभाग नहीं है]
Attached ⇒ Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA: महा �नद�शक): registers civil
aircrafts, gives license to pilots, supervises gliding clubs, implements
Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.
⇒ e-GCA online platform of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
for pilot licensing etc.
Statutory − Airports Authority of India (AAI, Act 1994: भारतीय �वमानप�न प्रा�धकरण):
Bodies Statutory body responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining airports &
वैधा�नक सं �ाएं runaways in India. It operates 130+ airports in India- some directly, some
via PPP basis e.g. GMR group → Delhi and Mumbai airports, Adani
group → A’bad, Lucknow etc.
− Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (Act 2008): Statutory regulator
setup with powers regulate fees/tariffs charged at airports. 2019: New bill to
increase its powers through some technical reforms.
− Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University
− Commission of Railway Safety (CRS) is under Administrative control of
Aviation Ministry.
CPSE − (1) Air India (Govt sold to Tata Ref: Pillar2D).
सरकारी कं प�नयां − (2) Pawan Hans (Helicopter- Govt wants to privatize it as well)
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− (3) Hotel Corporation of India Ltd.
Autonomous (1) Bureau of Civil Aviation Security,
(2) Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi
Civil Aviation Policy 2016: Highlights →
1. More airports and flights for North East & small towns to improve regional connectivity.
2. Making the air travel more affordable for middle class [म�म वगर् के �लए हवाई यात्रा स�ी करवाएँ गे]
3. Improving Airplanes’ Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) operations.
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55.6.4 ✈ Transport → Build More Airports → NABH Nirman
- Budget 2018 announced ‘NextGen Airports for BHarat’ (= NABH) Nirman
- It aims to build 100 new airports in 15 years at the cost of ₹ 4 lakh crore (mostly via PPP)
- It also aims to expand / upgrade existing airports.
- �Budget-2023: 50 additional airports, heliports, water aerodromes for improving regional air
connectivity. (नए हवाई अड्डे और हे�लकॉ�र अड्डे- �ेत्रीय हवाई सं पकर् बढ़ाने के �लए)
Related Topic: No Frills airports (�बना तामझाम वाले स�े हवाई-अड्डे) → AAI develops No Frills airports at
small towns / North East with only basic safety and security features. No fancy lounges with
airconditoners, no aerobridges, no conveyor belts for luggage. It’s just a single storey building
without any posh facility → low operational costs.
for more about the public private partnership (PPP) in Airport → Refer Pillar5C: PPP.
55.6.7 ✈📸📸� DIGIYATRA Facial recognition Tech for paperless airport passage
⇒ New facial recognition software for paperless passage through airport checkpoints :
⇒ explained in YT Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F3EJ4dvTQOc
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55.6.8 ✈ Transport → Drone Regulation (ड�ोन �व�नयमन) & GARUD Portal
- Boss? Civil Aviation ministry designed the rules effective from 31/12/2018.
- India’s airspace classified into (भारतीय वायु �ेत्र को तीन िह�ों म� �वभा�जत िकया गया है)
- Red Zone (flying not permitted),
- Yellow Zone (controlled airspace),
- Green Zone (automatic permission).
- Drone-User will have to do one-time-registration with Digital Sky Platform app (पं जीकरण)
- Then for every flight, Drone user must ask permission from mobile app. Based on the zone &
GPS location its system will automatically permit / deny.
- Any drone without a digital permit will not be able to takeoff. Thus, it has “no permission, no
takeoff” (NPNT) mechanism.
- 🤧🤧 😷😷 2020: Garud Portal: DGCA to give fastrack permission to Govt agencies for COVID-19
related drone operations.
- ��ES22: Ministry of Civil Aviation has � the drone registration fees, � the numbers
documents for registration, � the penalties. So we should explore similar process simplification
in other sectors as well. (आ�थक सव��ण म� पाया िक सरकार ने ड�ोन पं जीकरण म� लगने वाले द�ावेजों और फ़�स क� मात्रा म�
कटौती क� है. इसी प्रकार का प्रिक्रया-सरलीकरण अ� �ेत्रों म� भी करना चािहए.)
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- 2019: USA used drone to kill Iran’s military General Qassem Soleimani.
- So, we need to have strict supervision to prevent misuse of drones. (ग़ैर क़ानूनी ग�त�व�धयों म� ड�ोन का
इ�ेमाल न हो इस वा�े स� �नगरानी ज़�री)
Figure 3: Akshay may need ‘Airlift’, but ‘Bhai’ doesn’t need Vande Bharat Mission. Capable of 1) becoming Captain of a ship 2)
Rescuing kidnapped nurses 3) surviving oil-mine blast- all in Middle East
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Attached,Subordinate, ⇒ N/A or not MCQ worthy (या तो �वद्यमान ही नहीं है या परी�ा के �लए काम क� नहीं)
Statutory
Autonomous ⇒ Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management
⇒ National Institute of Watersports
⇒ National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology
⇒ Institutes of Hotel Management
CPSE ⇒ (*) India Tourism Development Corporation
E-governance ⇒ National Integrated Database of Hospitality Industry (NIDHI) to give a
clear picture of the geographical spread of the Hospitality Sector
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019.
55.8.2 🏬🏬 Tourism→ PRASAD & HRIDAY Mission
Both are Central Sector Schemes: 100% funded by Union. Both aim to improve the city
infrastructure & amenities with special focus on improving the tourism.
PRASAD (2014-15) HRIDAY (2014-15)
Pilgrimage Rejuvenation & National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana
Spiritual Augmentation Drive. [धरोहर वाले शहेरो का �वकास]
Ministry of Tourism, initially Ministry of Urban Development, 12 cities: Ajmer (Rajasthan),
12 cities but then list keeps Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh), Amritsar (Punjab), Badami
getting expanded to 20+. [यात्रा (Karnataka), Dwaraka (Gujarat), Gaya (Bihar), Kanchipuram
धाम वाले शहेरो का �वकास] (Tamil Nadu), Mathura (UP), Puri (Odisha), Varanasi (Uttar
Pradesh), Velankanni (Tamil Nadu), Warangal (Telangana),
⇒ 2015: Ministry of Tourism launched the Swadesh Darshan Scheme to develop circuits having
tourism potential e.g. Tourist reception Centres, Solid Waste Management, Streetlight,
Landscaping, parking etc. where the Private Sector is not willing to invest.
⇒ To facilitate international tourism, India introduced the e-Tourist Visa online application
system. 2016: Government renamed e-Visa scheme with five sub-categories i.e. ‘e-Tourist Visa’,
‘e-Business Visa’, ‘e-Medical Visa’, ‘e-Conference Visa’ and ‘e-Medical Attendant Visa
⇒ � Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index by World Economic Forum (WEF)- India
ranked 34th (2019).
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��Budget-2022 Parvatmala National Ropeways Development Programme via
Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Dept ⇒ N/A
Attached ⇒ Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi (पुरात� �वभाग)
सं ल� ⇒ National Archives of India, New Delhi
Subordinate 1] Kolkata: = Anthropological Survey of India [मानव �व�ान सव��ण], National Library
अधीन� [रा��ीय पु�कालय], 2] Delhi = National Museum [रा��ीय सं ग्रहालय]
Autonomous ⇒ Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi| National School of Drama, New Delhi
Bodies ⇒ Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi| Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
�ाय� सं �ान ⇒ Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Leh
⇒ Central Universities of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi
⇒ The Asiatic Society , Kolkata| Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust
⇒ Zonal Cultural centers
💼💼Budget-2020: an Indian Institute of Heritage and Conservation under Ministry of Culture with
the status of a deemed University. (Although location = yet to be announced)
55.8.6 🗽🗽💼💼Tourism → Museum Infra in 💼💼Budget-2020 (सं ग्रहालय)
5 Onsite Archaeological Rakhigarhi (Haryana), Hastinapur (Uttar Pradesh) Shivsagar
Museums at (Assam), Dholavira (Gujarat) and Adichanallur (Tamil Nadu).
Maritime Museum Lothal - the Harrapan age maritime site near Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
by Shipping Ministry
Oldest Museum Indian Museum in Kolkata is the oldest. We’ll renovate it.
Museum on Numismatics To be setup at Old Mint building Kolkata (Ref: Pillar#1A)
and Trade
Tribal Museum Ranchi (Jharkhand)
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Pillar#5B: Infrastructure- Sadak (Transport), My City, Village & Home & Border
Table of Contents
56 Infrastructure → � URBAN (शहरी बु�नयादी अवसं रचना) ..................................................................816
56.1 � URBAN → Census definitions ............................................................................................816
56.2 � URBAN → [Yearbook] MoHUA ........................................................................................817
56.2.1 2020 marks 5th Anniversary of Urban Mission .................................................................818
56.3 � URBAN → AMRUT Mission (2015) → 500 cities ..........................................................818
56.4 � URBAN → Smart Cities Mission (2015) → 100 cities ....................................................819
56.4.1 � �Sister City project ....................................................................................................820
56.4.2 � Cities → ��Budget-2022:- Urban Infrastructure related announcements ..820
56.4.3 � � Cities → TULIP Internship (2020-June) ...........................................................820
56.4.4 � �� URBAN → Misc → PH friendly → Sugamya Bharat (2014) .................820
56.4.5 � Cities → Misc → Floor Space index (FSI) ................................................................821
56.4.6 � ��� URBAN → Misc → Nagar VAN (2020-Jun) .......................................821
56.4.7 � URBAN → Misc → Parliament area, Central Vista ................................................821
56.4.8 � � Cities → Index: TWO Indices for Quality of Life ............................................821
56.4.9 � � Cities → Index → Misc. (don’t loose sleep)......................................................822
56.4.10 � Urbanization conclusion (शहरीकरण: �न�षर्).............................................................822
56.5 �) Infra → (Urban and Rural) → Housing for all by 2022 ..............................................822
(�
56.5.1 �(�
�) → Affordable rental housing Complexes (AHRC) ........................................823
56.5.2 �) → PMAY–U → Angikaar ........................................................................................824
(�
56.5.3 �) → National Urban Housing Fund (2018) ..............................................................824
(�
56.5.4 � (��) → SWAMIH Fund (�के �ए मकान प्रोजे� ख� करने वा�े �ब�र को थोड़ी लोन देदो योजना)
824
56.5.5 � (�
�) NHB - concessional housing refinance (स�े �ाज के गृह-ऋण) .........................824
56.5.6 �) PM Unauthorized colonies in Delhi Awaas adhikar Yojna (PM-UDAY).........824
(�
56.5.7 �) Award to Odisha’s JAGA Mission ...........................................................................825
(�
56.5.8 �) Award/Competition: Global Housing Technology Challenge ...........................825
(�
56.5.9 �) → Model Tenancy Act (आदशर् िकरायेदारी अ�ध�नयम) ....................................................825
(�
56.6 �Budget-2023 - Urban Infra ....................................................................................................825
56.6.1 �Budget-2023: �Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow (कल के �लए वहनीय शहर) ...............825
56.6.2 �Budget-2023:�
�Municipal bonds...............................................................................825
56.6.3 �Budget-2023: �Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (UIDF) .....................825
56.6.4 �Budget-2023: �Urban Sanitation (शहरी ��ता) .......................................................826
57 Infra → Rural (🏞🏞) .............................................................................................................................826
57.1.1 � [Yearbook] Ministry of Rural Development ग्रामीण �वकास मं त्रालय ..............................826
57.2 🏞🏞 RURAL → Shyama Prasad Mukherjee rurban mission ....................................................826
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57.3 🏞🏞 RURAL → Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (2018) ..........................................................827
57.3.1 🏞🏞 � Panchayati Raj Day & Portals & Awareness Campaigns ..................................827
57.3.2 �🏞🏞 � Land Assets registration- Swamitva scheme for land survey (2020) .........828
57.3.3 🏞🏞 � Land Assets registration- ULPIN in ��Budget-2022 .................................828
57.3.4 🏞🏞 � Land Assets registration- Case Studies from Bihar & Kerala ............................828
57.3.5 🏞🏞 ���Model Panchayat Citizens Charter framework (2021) ............................829
57.4 🏞🏞🏞🏞🏞🏞 RURAL → MPLADS (1993) ........................................................................................829
57.4.1 🏞🏞 � MPLADS Suspended (योजना को ��गत करना) ..........................................................830
57.5 🏞🏞 RURAL → Adarsh Gram Yojanas ........................................................................................830
57.6 🏞🏞 RURAL → ST villages: Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojna ..................................831
57.7 🏞🏞 RURAL → Border Area Development Programme (BADP). ..........................................831
57.7.1 🏞🏞 Border infra & Backward Regions Infra → ��Budget-2022 ............................831
57.8 🌬🌬�
�Infrastructure: Disaster, Security & Strategic Affairs ....................................................832
57.8.1 �� [Yearbook] Ministry of Home (गृह मं त्रालय) ...........................................................832
57.8.2 � 🌬🌬 Disaster Infrastructure → Home Ministry → CDRI 2019 ..............................833
57.8.3 �🛡🛡 Ministry of Defence (र�ा मं त्रालय) ..............................................................................833
57.8.4 🕵🕵🕵🕵 → �� Ordnance Factory Board abolished & Essential Defence Services Bill
834
57.8.5 ���� Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020 ....................835
57.8.6 �Ministry of External Affairs (�वदेश मामलों का मं त्रालय) .....................................................835
2011 2030
Urban population 31% 40% (and 50% by 2050)
Contribution to GDP 63% 75%
Introduction (Data): Urban areas support >30% of India’s population and contribute to more than
60% of India's GDP. These figures are expected to grow to 40% and 75% respectively by 2030. देश क�
आबादी और सकल घरेलू उ�ाद का एक बड़ा िह�ा शहरी इलाकों से आता है.
56.1 🏬🏬 URBAN → CENSUS DEFINITIONS
Census-2011 definitions of urban area: (जनगणना)
Statutory If an area is governed by a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or
towns 4000+ notified town area committee, etc.
Census towns If an area doesn’t have municipality etc. yet it could be counted as a ‘town’ if
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3800+ - Minimum 5000 people residing; AND
- Min. population density: 400/sqkm AND
- Min.75% of males engaged in non-agriculture occupations
Further,
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Autonomous − National Institute of Urban Affairs
Bodies �ाय� सं सथान − Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC)
− Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation
− National Cooperative Housing Federation of India (NCHFI)
Subordinate − Town & Country Planning Organisation
Office अधीन� कायार्लय − Government of India Stationery Office
− Department of Publication (responsible for printing Gazettes)
CPSE सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के − Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO)
उपक्रम − National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited
− (*) Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL)
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
E-governance − 2019: mHariyali App to encourage Public to plant trees & uploads it
geotagged photos through App.
MCQ. Find correct: (Prelims-2022)
1. The India Sanitation Coalition is a platform to promote sustainable sanitation and is funded by
the Government of India and the World Health Organization.
2. The National Institute of Urban Affairs is an apex body of the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs in Government of India and provides innovative solutions to address the challenges of
Urban India.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
56.2.1 2020 marks 5 Anniversary of Urban Mission
th
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- Validity? 2015 to 31/3/2020. It’s a five-year SUNSET scheme Then later on govt renewed for
another 2 years, till 31/3/2022. योजना क� अव�ध को बढ़ाया गया
- Aims to improve basic infrastructure - public transport, water supply, sewerage, storm-water
drains, green spaces and parks. (सावर्ज�नक प�रवहन, जल आपू�त, गटर, बा�रश के पानी क� ना�लयां, बाग़-बगीचे)
- Cities prepare Smart city plan → send to state government → MoHUA → final selection among
total 100 slots with internal quotas assigned to each state/UT in proportion of their population
and number of statutory towns.
- So, UP (13) > TN (12) > Maharashtra (10)......Union territories and special category states are
given minimum 1 City each e.g. Srinagar(J&K), Arunachal (Pasighat, Itanagar), Kavaratti
(Lakshadweep), Andaman-Nicobar-Islands (PortBlair) etc.
- 💼💼Budget-2020: we’ll develop five new smart cities. But, names yet to be announced.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following cities was not included in the list of smart cities in India?
(UPSC-CDS-2019-i) a) Silvassa b) Jorhat c) Itanagar d) Kavaratti
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56.4.1 🏬🏬 👭👭Sister City project
2020: Urban ministry found some Smart cities are lagging behind in implementation of projects.
(Biharsharif, Bareilly, Itanagar, Moradabad, Saharanpur etc.)
⇒ So, Top-20 best performing smart cities will be paired with Bottom-20 worst performing smart
cities as ‘Sister Cities’. अ�ा प्रदशर्न करने वाले शहरों क� बुरा प्रदशर्न करने वाले शहरों के साथ जुगलबं दी
⇒ E.g. Ahmedabad (Rank#1) paired with Chandigarh (Rank#81)
⇒ �Benefit? Sharing of best practices with each other, inspiration & motivation etc.
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56.4.5 🏬🏬 Cities → Misc → Floor Space index (FSI)
⇒ It prescribes the maximum construction that can be done in a given area of land.
⇒ �FSI = more number of floors may be created = more residents may be accommodated in a
single building. Norms are decided by the Municipal / Local bodies / State Government.
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56.4.9 🏬🏬 📊📊 Cities → Index → Misc. (don’t loose sleep)
IUDX India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) by MoHUA + Indian Institute of
Science (IISc), Bangalore. This portal provides open source data for
researchers / app developers / startups.
सं शोधन कतार्ओ ं को डाटा प्रदान करने के �लए
Global Smart City ⇒ Institute for Management Development (IMD, Switzerland) with
Index Singapore University for Technology.
⇒ 2020: Top-3: Singapore, Helsinki, Zurich.... Indian cities like New
Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru far behind in 85-95 ranking-
due to high level of pollution, poor quality of water-sanitation etc.
Global Liveability ⇒ by the Economist magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Index ⇒ 2021: New Zealand’s Auckland is world’s most liveable city due to its
successful handling of the Corona pandemic. (रहने यो� सबसे उपयु� शहर)
Global Real Estate By a low-profile private organization. Poor Cost:Benefit preparing. कोई छोटी
Transparency Index वाली �नजी �ेत्र क� सं �ा बनाती है ऐसे हर सूचकांक को पढ़ने म� खास फायदा नहीं
World Smart City India won the World Smart City Award (Innovation category) at Smart
Award City Expo World Congress-2022 in Barcelona (SPAIN)
56.5 (🏠🏠) INFRA → (URBAN AND RURAL) → HOUSING FOR ALL BY 2022
- 1985: Indira Awas Yojana for rural areas gave money to poor families to build homes,
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- 2008: Rajiv Rinn Yojana for urban areas gave home loan Interest subsidy to poor.
- 2015-16: Modi restructured them into Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
- It’s a Centrally Sponsored Scheme → Core Scheme = NOT 100% funded by Union. States also
need to contribute money. (क� द्र द्वारा प्रायो�जत → मह�पूणर् योजना)
- Target: Housing for all by 2022. PMAY has two components.
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⇒ Builders will be given vacant govt land & dilapidated govt buildings, concessional loans, and tax
relief. (How exactly? NOT IMP)
⇒ Builders will construct housing complexes → rent it for 25 years at affordable prices to urban
migrants / poor.
⇒ �Benefit? Migrants live in slums, illegal colonies or peri-urban areas to save rent. They spend
lot of time travelling to workplaces. AHRC will � unnecessary travel from peripheral areas,
congestion and pollution.
56.5.4 👻👻 (🏠🏠) → SWAMIH Fund (�के �ए मकान प्रोजे� ख� करने वा�े �ब�र को थोड़ी लोन देदो योजना)
⇒ MoHUA, LIC, Banks etc gave ₹₹ to SBICAP Ventures Ltd (an NBFC) → "Special Window for
Completion of Affordable and Mid-Income Housing (Swamih Investment Fund)".
⇒ SWAMIH Fund gives loans stalled projects for affordable and Middle-Income Housing. e.g.
Builder unable to finish project → extra ₹₹ from here, so he can finish project.
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56.5.7 (🏠🏠) Award to Odisha’s JAGA Mission
2023: UN-Habitat's World Habitat Awards 2023 given to Odisha government's Odisha Liveable
Habitat Mission also known as ‘Jaga Mission’ in partnership with Tata Trust.
⇒ In this scheme, urban slum dwellers are given land ownership titles, create road, streetlight,
water-sanitation infrastructure → Then Govt will not evict /destroy their slums. Permanent
home address proof also helps poor families to enroll children in school, open bank accounts etc.
⇒ Beneficiaries are given 30 square metre of land free of cost and for the remaining land they have
to pay as per the State Govt determined price. (गरीब प�रवार को 30 वगर् मीटर जमीन मु� म� और उसे अ�त�र�
जमीन गरीब को चािहए तो रा� सरकार द्वारा �नधार्�रत रकम, गरीब प�रवार ने अदा करनी होगी)
56.5.8 (🏠🏠) Award/Competition: Global Housing Technology Challenge
- 🕵🕵 Boss? Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- asked experts / private sector companies to propose disaster-resilient, environment friendly,
cost-effective and speedy construction technologies.
- They’ll be implemented on a pilot basis in some cities to see the results.
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56.6.4 👛👛Budget-2023: 🚻🚻Urban Sanitation (शहरी ��ता)
⇒ for 100 per cent mechanical desludging of septic tanks and sewers. Converting manhole to
machine-hole mode. (गटर सफ़ाई म� इं सानों क� जगह मशीनों का प्रयोग कर�गे।)
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🤩🤩Benefit? economic opportunity & ease of living will improve in the rural areas itself → cities will
face less migration and congestion (गांव म� ही अगर शहरों जेवीसी सु�वधा �मलेगी तो �ाना�रण / अ�तप्रजन कम होगा).
🔠🔠❓ Who among the following envisioned the framework of sustainable development called
PURA (Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas)? (UPSC-Geologist-2020)
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee d) K.R. Narayanan
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- PRIASoft: monitor Receipts & Expenditure of the Panchayati Raj bodies viz. Zilla, Block and
Village Panchayat. (आमदनी खचार् �व�ीय �व�ापन के �लए)
- Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas : awareness campaign to encourage villagers in Gram Panchayat
Development Plan formulation. ग्राम पं चायत के �वकास कायर्क्रमों म� जन भागीदारी बढ़ाना
57.3.2 👻👻🏞🏞 📐📐 Land Assets registration- Swamitva scheme for land survey (2020)
⇒ Ministry of Panchayati Raj → launched on pilot basis in 6 states. (प्रायो�गक तौर पर चु�नंदा रा�ों म� ही)
⇒ Rural inhabited lands will be survey with drones and technology. (जमीन का सव��ण)
⇒ It will help getting clarity over property rights → Land revenue collection, Bank loans
application approval, Settlement of Title Disputes (जमीन मा�लक क� के कोटर् �ववादों का �नपटान)
1) Faster judgement in land disputes. 2/3rd of all Civil cases in India are related to land or property
disputes. Average pendency of a land dispute is 20 years. (जमीन के कानूनी �ववाद ज�ी से �नपटाने के �लए)
2) Resolving dispute related to villages at interstate boundaries. (दो रा�ों के बीच क� सीमा से सटे गांव म� होते
रहते �ववादों को �नपटाने के �लए)
3) Farmer identification for subsidy / crop insurance. (कृ �ष स��डी / योजनाओ के �लए िकसान क� यो�ता जांचने
के �लए)
4) Loan collateral verification by bank/NBFC. (कजार् लेने के �लए �गरवी रखी जमीन का स�ापन करने के �लए)
5) Designing infrastructure plans. (बु�नयादी अवसं रचना �वकास क� योजनाएं बनाने के �लए)
6) Land acquisition for infra projects.(जमीन सं पादन के �लए)
7) Govt provides facility for transliterating the land records in any language - to break the linguistic
barriers in land records & property deals. e.g. Property buyer from Maharashtra should
conveniently get access to land records of Tamil Nadu in his Marathi language. (इसके अलावा ज़मीन
के द�ावेजों को �व�वध भाषाओं म� अनुवािदत करने क� भी सु�वधा क� जाएगी।)
57.3.4 🏞🏞 📐📐 Land Assets registration- Case Studies from Bihar & Kerala
Bihar ⇒ BIHAR HAS become the first state in the country to introduce the concept of a
dynamic map for villages
⇒ Map will get updated every time land ownership changes hands. This will
reduce legal disputes. (�बहार म� �जतनी बार ज़मीन को बेचा जाएगा उतनी बार मा�लक� के न�ों को
अपडेट िकया जाएगा- ताक� ज़मीन �ववादों म� कमी हो)
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Karnataka ⇒ Bhoomi project → digitize all land records.
⇒ Dishaank app to enable citizens to avail the information about the land and its
ownership as recorded in the Bhoomi database.
(कनार्टक म� सभी ज़मीन द�ावेजों का भू�म प्रोजे� के अंतगर्त िड�ज-करण िकया गया है। आम नाग�रक भी ये
सारी जानकारी अपने मोबाइल पे देख सके इस�लए िदशांक नाम क� एप बनायी गई)
Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (सांसद �ानीय �ेत्र �वकास योजना).
Central Sector Scheme =100% funded by Union.
- Boss? Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).
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- Each MP can suggest development works worth ₹ 5 crore per year in his constituency. Rajya
Sabha MP: any district in his State. Nominated MP can select any district in anywhere in India.
- Role of the Members of Parliament is limited to recommend works. Thereafter, it is the
responsibility of the district authority (DM/Collector,IAS) to sanction, execute and complete the
works recommended within the stipulated time period. (अपने सं सदीय �ेत्र म� �वकास के काय� के �लए हर
सांसद �जला कले�र को सुझाव देगा उस िहसाब से बस �ेशन �ू ल क्र�डांगण पेयजल गटर पानी इ�ािद क� सु�वधा)
- If area inhabited by SC → 15% fund quota for their development works, if ST → 7.5%.
- Max. 20 lakhs / year (out of his 5 cr quota) for PH welfare e.g. giving tricycles, artificial limbs,
hearing aids etc. (�वकलांगों क� भी मदद कर सकते ह� िकं�ु हर साल 20 लाख से �ादा नहीं)
- Further, if any MP wishes, he may also recommend works anywhere in India upto Max. 25 lakhs
/ year (out of his 5 cr quota) e.g. during natural disaster or to promote national unity.
- Funds are non-lapsablein i.e. if not used this year, it is carried forward to the next yr. (अ-�पगत)
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Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAANJHI) Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana
सांसदों ने गांव को गोद म� लेना है, और वहां �व�भ� सरकारी अनुसू�चत जा�त क� आबादी �ादा हो, उन गांव पर �ान देना,
योजनाओं को को अ�े से लागू करवाना है। और वहां �व�भ� सरकारी योजनाओं को को अ�े से लागू करवाना
Members of Parliament adopt village in their Govt to focus on villages with than 50%
constituency (if nominated member then adopt Scheduled Caste (SC) population
anywhere) - Develop these villages through better
- MP to give personal attention to develop implementation of existing schemes.
these villages through better - A village is declared ‘Adarsh Gram’ once it
implementation of existing schemes. achieves minimum 3 targets from a long list
- MP to encourage the villagers to build of targets related to school enrollment,
library via donation, prepare village song, 100% adult literacy, 100% vaccination,
remember martyrs, celebrate girl child 100% ODF-free, 0% child marriage, 0%
birth, plant trees etc. drinking of desi-liquor in public places etc.
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⇒ It will be implemented through the North-Eastern Council (it is a statutory
body made in 1971 under Ministry of Development of North Eastern
Region)
Vibrant ⇒ for Border villages on the northern border: infrastructure, housing, tourist
Villages centres, road connectivity, provisioning of decentralized renewable energy,
Programme ⇒ access for Doordarshan and educational channels, and support for
(उ�र भारत के livelihood generation. (टीवी पे �श�ा कायर्क्रम रोज़गार सृजन)
सीमावत� गांव) ⇒ 2023: program launched for border-villages in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim,
Uttarakhand & Himachal Pradesh and UT of Ladakh.
Aspirational to focus on 112 Aspirational Districts’ (Ref:4B-NITI) → most backward blocks
Blocks → on key sectors such as health, nutrition, financial inclusion and basic
Programme: infrastructure. (सबसे �पछड़े-यानी िक आतं क� �ज़लों के सबसे �पछड़े �ॉक/तहसील के �वकास के �लए)
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Autonomous 1) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, SVNPA, Hyderabad for
�ायत सं �ान training of IPS officers
2) National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
3) National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH)
4) International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
E-Governance - 2009-Crime and criminal tracking network and systems (CCTNS) to keep
database of criminals
- 2011- National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) for intelligence sharing-
mainly for counter terrorism.
⚖ Home ministry also looks after the administrative matters related to Padma Awards, and
legislative matters related to Passport Act & Citizenship. (नाग�रकता)
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⇒ 2001: Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) was set up under Defence
Committee Minister to fasttrack the procurement of armaments for army, navy, airforce,
coastguards. (र�ा साधनों क� खरीद के �लए प�रषद)
Srijan portal (2020-Aug)
⇒ displays defence items that are being imported currently. So that the Indian
industry can design, develop and manufacture them domestically.
⇒ Help interaction between defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs),
Portals
Ordnance Factory to interact with the Indian industry.
⇒ �Benefit: Promotes indigenization of defence production.
iDEX (2018)
- For Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX)
⇒ Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, HAL.
CPSE ⇒ Bharat Electronics, Bharat Dynamics
सरकारी ⇒ Garden Reach Shipbuilders, Goa Shipyard, Hindustan Shipyard, Mazagon
कं प�नयां Dock Shipbuilders | Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited, MIDHANI.
⇒ (*) Bharat Earth Movers
Local ⇒ Cantonment Boards: Civic administration bodies (Ref Laxmikanth for more)
Governance ⇒ e-Chhawani Portal = e-governance portal for cantonment boards.
⇒ �OPERATION SAMUDRA SETU: Indian Navy as a part of national effort
Operations
to repatriate Indian citizens from overseas. (भारतीयों क� वतन वापसी कोरोना म�)
Exercises
⇒ + many other defense exercises etc. self-Study from CA-PDF
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
57.8.4 🕵🕵🕵🕵✋ → 🤵🤵🤵🤵 Ordnance Factory Board abolished & Essential Defence Services Bill
😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩AFTER 2021-Oct
⇒ Dept of Defence Production ⇒ This OFB&OF corporatized / converted from
→Subordinate organization: “departmental undertaking” (�वभागीय उपक्रम) to
Ordnance Factory Board (OFB, HQ: Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs
Kolkata) → 41 Ordnance factories र�ा �ेत्र के सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र के उपक्रम)
(OFs) ⇒ Meaning it is re-registered into (total seven)
⇒ This can also be termed as Government companies under Companies Act
“Departmental Undertaking” similar [आयुध �नमार्णी बोडर् और उसके नीचे क� ह�थयार फै ���यां जो
to Dept of Post & Ministry of Railways पहले एक �वभागीय उपक्रम के �प म� कायर् करती थीं उ�� अब
(More in �Pillar#2D: Types of Org) सरकारी कं प�नयों के �प म� पं जीकृ त िकया गया है]
76,000 workers in 41 Ordnance factories - Eventually, through merger/privatization of
produce less than ₹12,000 cr worth of companies and voluntary retirement scheme
defence equipment annually = problem of (VRS) of employees, this problem will be
overstaffing & low output. solved. (More in �Pillar#1B1: PSBs)
- Ordnance Factory workers are afraid of job loss
and so they were planning to go on strike/hartal
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[इतने सारे मजदू र काम करते थे लेिकन उ�ादन काफ� कम so government has passed Essential Defence
था. यानी क� अनाव�क �प से अ��धक मानव बल को Services Bill to stop them from going on
नौकरी पर रखा गया. भ�व� म� इन सब सरकारी ह�थयार Hartal/Strike.
फै ���यों का एक�करण, �नजीकरण तथा कमर्चा�रयों को - If employee/worker in these defense factory
�े��क �नवृ�� योजना द्वारा नौकरी से हटाया जाएगा. goes on strike, he will be punished with up to 1
हालांिक “हमारी नौकरी चली जाएगी” इस डर से कमर्चारी year jail or Rs 10,000 fine, or both.
हड़ताल पे उतरे- तो उ�� रोकने के �लए सरकार ने
“आव�क र�ा सेवा �वधेयक” पास करवाया है, तािक
हड़ताली कमर्चारी को जेल तथा जुमार्ना हो सके ]
�Next Handout: Pillar5D: Infra- Communication, space tech, GATI Shakti, NIP etc.
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MRUNAL’S ECONOMY PILLAR#5D: INFRASTRUCTURE: Communication, IT, PPP, NIP etc
Table of Contents
58 �Infrastructure → Communication (सं चार) ...............................................................................838
58.1.1 � [Yearbook] Ministry of Communication (सं चार मं त्रालय) ............................................838
58.1.2 � Ministry of Communication → Fraud Prevention Bodies ....................................838
58.1.3 �Dept of Telecommunications → Digital Communications Commission .............839
58.1.4 � Ministry of Electronics & IT इले��ो�नक� एवं सूचना प्रौद्यो�गक� मं त्रालय ................................839
58.2 �/�
Communication (� �) related Regulators /Apps / Portals ..............................................840
58.2.1 � Comm → Regulators → TRAI ..................................................................................840
58.2.2 �� Comm → Stolen phone? → Central Equipment Identity Register portal ..840
58.2.3 �� Telecom → Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) .............................840
58.3 �� Communication → Telecom ........................................................................................841
58.4 �� �� Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) .................................................................841
58.4.1 �� �� AGR Dues → Relief Package 2021-SEPT .........................................842
58.4.2 �� �� AGR: Interest Payment in form of equities/shares- Vodafone-Idea
(Vi) 843
58.4.3 �� �� : AGR: Way forward/Conclusion .......................................................843
58.4.4 ��� Controversy: Telecom → 2G Spectrum Scam .............................................844
58.4.5 ��� Controversy: Telecom → Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) .................844
58.5 � Communication → IT → Digital India programme.......................................................844
58.5.1 � Digital India → PM-WANI Public Wifi (2020-Dec)..............................................847
58.5.2 � Digital India → ‘Digilocker ‘by MEITY Ministry ...................................................847
58.5.3 � Digital India → ‘MyScheme’ by MEITY Ministry ..................................................848
58.5.4 Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) - �ES23 .................................................................848
58.5.5 �/�
� → IT/Telecom → Training (Misc. schemes) .................................................849
58.6 ���� Communication → IT → 5G revolution in India........................................849
58.6.1 ���� Challenges and Opportunities in of 5G (इसे अपनाने म� चुनौ�तयां+अवसर ) ..850
58.6.2 � 5G Hackathon by DoT (2020) .....................................................................................850
58.6.3 ���5G Trials start in India (2021, 2022)...............................................................850
58.6.4 � NEST Division in MEA ................................................................................................851
58.6.5 Right of Way for 5G (रा�े का अ�धकार)...................................................................................851
58.6.6 5G in �Budget-2023..........................................................................................................851
58.7 � Communication → IT → Private initiatives for internet ...............................................851
58.7.1 �� COMMUNICATION → IT → Rankings..........................................................851
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58.7.2 ��� Draft Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA).............852
58.8 �� [YB] Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (सूचना एवं प्रसारण मं त्रालय) ....................852
58.8.1 ��� Comm → Regulators (Statutory) → Censor board ...................................853
58.8.2 �� Comm → Regulators (Statutory) → Press Council of India ..........................853
58.9 ��SPACE TECH Infrastructure (अवकाश �ेत्र) ....................................................................854
58.9.1 ���Space Tech: Atma-Nirbhar ..............................................................................855
58.9.2 ��ES22: using cartography and geospatial data to track development ................855
59 �� Infra → GSM3: Investment Models (�नवेश के तरीके ) ..........................................................856
59.1 ��� Infra.Dev.→ PPP (Public Private Partnership) ....................................................857
59.1.1 PPP major types as per �ES23 .........................................................................................857
59.2 �� Infrastructure Funds .......................................................................................................858
59.2.1 �� National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF: 2015) ...........................858
59.2.2 � (Full) Budget-2019 on NIIF, Investment & PPP.......................................................858
59.2.3 �Atma-Nirbhar 3.0: NIIF Strategic Opportunities Fund............................................859
59.3 �� Infra Finance → National infrastructure pipeline (NIP) ..........................................859
59.4 �� Infra Finance → NIP, NMP, GATI Shakti ..................................................................860
59.4.1 �� � Budget-2021: National MONETISATION Pipeline 2021 .........................861
59.5 ��:� Infra Finance: Gati Shakti Plan 2021 [₹100 lakh cr] ...........................................861
59.5.1 ��:�) PM GatiShakti — National Master Plan Digital Portal .............................862
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59.5.2 GatiShakti Sanchar portal ....................................................................................................862
59.5.3 ��Budget-2022 on Infra Finance ...............................................................................862
59.6 PPP related Misc. Org in News (2022–23).................................................................................862
59.6.1 Infrastructure Finance Secretariat ......................................................................................862
59.6.2 Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC), .........................................863
59.6.3 Infra Monitoring: IIG and PMG .........................................................................................863
59.7 PPP related Misc. Schemes in News (2022–23) ........................................................................863
59.7.1 Viability Gap Funding (VGF) .............................................................................................863
59.7.2 India Infrastructure Project Development Fund Scheme’ (IIPDF, 2022) ....................863
59.7.3 � � Mains........................................................................................................................863
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58 📡📡INFRASTRUCTURE → COMMUNICATION (सं चार)
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- 1) Digital intelligence unit (DIU) against Unsolicited commercial communication -
Telemarketing, SMS spam.
- 2) Telecom analytics for fraud management and consumer protection (TAFCOP).
🤩🤩Objective? Combat: digital frauds involving Mobile calls and SMS.
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- Data Security Council : is a (private sector) not-for-profit body on data protection by
NASSCOM. NASSCOM is a not-for-profit association of Software companies.
58.2.2 �📞📞 Comm → Stolen phone? → Central Equipment Identity Register portal
⇒ By Dept of Telecom
⇒ If your mobile gets stolen or lost → file First Information Report (FIR) in Police → upload FIR
details and International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) on this portal
⇒ Govt will block the IMEI number of the phone → Phone will become unusable for the thief.
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- Alternatively, victim can use Panic Button on the phone by longpressing ‘5’ or ‘9’, or, '112 India'
mobile app which also has a ‘shout’ button so registered volunteers close to the victim can come
for immediate assistance before police/firemen arrive.
⇒ telephone subscribers in India = more than 98% mobile. Less than 2% landline
⇒ 1995: Consumer internet connections started in India. 2020: >75cr connections. 50% of these
new connections came within the last 4 years. Shows the exponential growth of digital India.
⇒ �Challenge? 30 cr out of above >75cr connection still having 2G speed.
⇒ Early 90s: LPG reforms, private sector telecom companies allowed to start operating in India.
⇒ They had to obtain telecom licenses & pay certain fees to the Govt every year.
⇒ This fees is calculated as a % of their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR: समायो�जत सकल राज� / आमद).
⇒ Later, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Private Telecom Companies differed over
the definition / formula of AGR. → Matter went to Supreme Court.
⇒ DoT said [Telecom revenue + non-telecom revenue] → Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR). Uska
pay X% to government as “licence and spectrum fee.”. (Started from 1999)
⇒ Telecom companies (Telecos) demanded that non-telecom biz revenue (e.g. rent on property,
interest from bond investments, dividend from subsidiary companies etc) should not be counted
in this AGR formula. AGR क� �गनती म� ग़ैर टेलीकॉम आमदनी को भी �गना जाता था, टेलीकॉम कं प�नयों को इससे एतराज़
था लेिकन वो सुप्रीम कोटर् म� के स हार गए.
⇒ 2019: Supreme Court judgement: Department of telecom (DoT)’s definition of AGR is right.
Telcos must pay the AGR, interest and penalty on late payment.
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Company Jio Vodafone-IDEA (Vi) Airtel
AGR dues in Crore >62 kcr >58 kcr >43 kcr
(figures not IMP)
⇒ Telecos unable to pay this much money. If govt did not help → weaker companies like
Vodafone-Idea could shut down → Bad loan/NPA for banks, job loss, foreign investors
confidence loss. [कं प�नयों ने AGR का बकाया पैसा, तथा उस पर �ाज और दंड क� रक़म सरकार को चुकानी है लेिकन उनका
धं धा नुक़सान म� है. यिद सरकार कोई राहत नहीं देगी तो वोडाफ़ोन के िदवा�लयेपन जो�खम]
⇒ IF Vodafone shuts down – only 2 Telecos left [Jio+Airtel] = Duopoly = not good for customer.
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😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩AFTER REFORM
Govt demanded spectrum usage SUC removed, with some technical conditions.
charge (SUC)/fees
Spectrum rights were given for 20 30 years [�े��म इ�ेमाल करने के क�नी के अ�धकार क� अव�ध को बढ़ाया
years to company. गया]
FDI: Upto 49% (Automatic route). Upto 100% FDI allowed through automatic route.
Beyond that, Government approval Meaning Govt approval not required (Except FDI coming
required i.e. 50 to 100% FDI also from India’s land neighbours e.g. China, Pak, Bangladesh)
allowed But ONLY AFTER [�चा�लत मागर् से, यानी िक, �बना सरकार क� अनुम�त �लए १०० प्र�तशत तक
permission of government. प्र�� �वदेशी �नवेश को छू ट दी गई है]
-- Certain technical reforms in penalty interest-rate
calculation, bank guarantees etc. but NOTIMP.
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58.4.4 ☎⚔🤬🤬 Controversy: Telecom → 2G Spectrum Scam
To run telecom business, two things required → A) License, B) Access to Spectrum. Spectrum
refers to the radio waves that are used by mobile phones to transmit data.
- UPA-1: we’ll give give license by “First Come First Serve Basis”, and whoever gets the license, he
will automatically get free 2G spectrum linked with his License.
- 😰😰Scam? Certain shell companies who had no intention of actually running telecom business
applied and got licence & free spectrum → they sold it to the needy companies at higher prices,
thus, making windfall profit without doing any business at all. UPA’s ally DMK party’s A.Raja
(Telecom Minister) & Kanimozhi were arrested → later acquitted (2017).
Present system:
- A) Companies has to apply for Unified License (i.e. valid for both voice and data services) and
- B) Company has to separately buy Spectrum through Dept of Telecom’s auctioning.
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Digital India program (िड�जटल इं िडया कायर्क्रम) 9 Pillars:
1) Broadband Communication Ministry’s Department of Telecom (DoT) →
Highways - 1) Bharatnet Project/ National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN):
Connect all 2.50 lakh+ village Panchayats with broadband.
👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- We'll finish Bharatnet via PPP by 2025.
- 2) National Broadband Mission: To provide broadband access to all
villages by 2022.
- 3) Ghar Tak Fiber to connect Bihar villages through high speed
internet. Launched 2020-Sept.
- 4) PM-WANI Public Wifi launched in 2020-Dec.
1) Broadband National Knowledge Network (NKN): to provide highspeed internet
Highways (Gbps speed) to all universities, libraries, laboratories, healthcare,
(continued) research & agricultural institutions
2) Universal Access Telecom companies required to pay ₹ ₹ to DoT’s Universal Service
to Mobile Obligation Fund (USOF: �व��ापी सेवा कतर्� �न�ध) → new mobile towers in
Connectivity unconnected rural / remote / LWE (naxal) areas.
👜👜👜👜Budget-2022:- Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)’s 5%
funds will be allocated for R&D on affordable broadband and affordable
mobile service. Target- Rural and remote areas.
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3) Public Internet - MEITY → Setup Common Services Centre (CSC) in all 2.50 lakh+
Access Programme gram panchayat. So, even if a poorman doesn’t own PC/mobile, he
(सावर्ज�नक इंटरनेट ए�ेस can use CSC to apply online for exams/schemes/certificates, check
कायर्क्रम)
result, pay bills etc.
- Dept of Post to create similar facilities in 1.50Lakh post offices.
4) e-Governance Develop more apps, websites and portals to reduce to improve Govt’s
5) e-Kranti - efficiency, reduce corruption. e.g.
Electronic Delivery - FinMin → Dept of Expenditure Controller General of Accounts
of Services (CGA) → Public Financial Management System (PFMS) webportal to
disbursal of scheme money.
- Same CGA → Bharatkosh webportal for transactions related to govt’s
“Non-tax revenue receipts” e.g. selling Yojana / Kurukshetra
magazines online.
- Dept of Post → online tracking of speed post, online sale of stamps.
- NIC’s Sandesh App = Whatsapp like app only for Govt employees.
- MeghRaj platform: To provide Cloud Computing services Benefit?
Cloud servers can store the file & run the softwares/Apps →
individual Govt. organizations needn't buy very powerful CPU/large
hard disks etc.
- State Wide Area Network (SWAN) to run State Government website
& e-governance services.
Similarly, portals / apps for paying taxes, getting passport, registering a
company, applying for admissions etc.
6) Information for - MyGov.in: to facilitate 2-way idea exchange between citizens and
All Government for good governance.
सबको जानकारी /सूचना - Data.gov.In: researchers can obtain datasets related to ministries,
प्रदान करना
departments, Macroeconomic indicators etc.
- E-taal portal: It tracks the statistics of govt-citizen transactions e.g.
“x” number of RTI applications filed online by the people in “y” age
group from “z” state.
- IGNOU, Delhi University etc. given funding to put their courses /
learning modules online.
- mKisan app/portal for e-extension services to farmers.And so on….
7) Electronics Mfg Ref: Pillar#4 → Mfg → National Policy on Electronics (NPE)
8) IT for Jobs 1) IT cos given subsidies & tax benefits for setting up BPO/call centers in
रोजगार सृजन North East. 2) More computer courses for villagers and ITIs.
9) Early Harvest Focuses on projects to be implemented within short timeline. e.g
Programmes
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शीघ्र प�रणाम कायर्क्रम - Biometric attendance in govt organisations to check the absenteeism
of employees, teachers and students
- 👦👦Women and Child Ministry → Khoyapaya portal to announce
lost children so others may inform the authorities.
- 👦👦Labour Ministry → Pencil portal to complaint about child
labour.
- �HRD Ministry → Convert all school books into ebooks.
- 🌪🌪IMD + NDMA → SMS based weather info. & disaster alerts
- MEITY → CERT-In → Cyber Swachhta Kendra webportal for free
tools for removal of botnet / malware / ransomware such as Petya,
WannaCry etc.
- 👻👻👻👻MEITY → Saathi Chat Bot For corona awareness
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58.5.3 💻💻 Digital India → ‘MyScheme’ by MEITY Ministry
⇒ is an e-Marketplace portal containing 180+ union and state schemes.
⇒ will reduce users' time and effort in searching multiple websites of government departments and
studying multiple scheme guidelines to check their eligibility.
⇒ सारी योजनाओं को एक�कृ त तरीक़े से �सफ़र् एक पोटर्ल पे ही िदखा िदया जाए, तािक लाभाथ� को भटकना नहीं पड़ेगा अलग अलग
�वभागों क� वेबसाइट देखने।
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which are aims of "Digital India" Plan of the Govt of India? (UPSC-Pre-2018)
1. Formation of India's own Internet companies like China did.
2. Establish a policy framework to encourage overseas multinational corporations that collect Big
Data to build their large data centres within our national geographical boundaries.
3. Connect villages to the Internet and bring Wi-Fi to schools, public places and major tourist
centres.
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Answer Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 3 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
Fifth generation (5G) of wireless technology = 2 to 20 Gbps speed, which is much higher than
present 4G which gives 6-7 Mbps speed. (एक अद्यतन बे-तार तकनीक जो 4g के मुकाबले ब�त ही �ादा तेजी से डाटा
प�ंचा सकती है)
5G Spectrum Frequency Band Coverage Area Max Speed
Low Frequency 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩(largest among 3) 😰😰 (100Megabits per sec)
Mid Band 🤩🤩🤩🤩 (middle) 🤩🤩🤩🤩 (middle level)
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5G Spectrum Frequency Band Coverage Area Max Speed
High Band 😰😰 (smallest area covered) 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩(20Gigabits per sec)
Latency is the amount of time taken by data to travel between its source and destination. 5G has
very low latency. (स्रोत और ल� के बीच डाटा प�ंचाने म� ब�त ही कम �वलं ब होता है)
Network slicing (नेटवकर् के टुकड़े करना): mobile operators to create multiple virtual networks within a
single physical 5G network. Provide faster data to tele-surgery in rural areas, driverless car, etc.
Thus, 5g is useful in Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communications,
CCTV surveillance, drones, real time data analytics, industrial revolution 4.0.
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- 2022-October: 5G launched in 8 cities then ball-by-ball commentary not important.
58.6.6 5G in 👛👛Budget-2023
100 labs for developing applications using 5G services for smart classrooms, precision farming,
transport systems, and health care.
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� Conclusion: SDG Goal #9 (infrastructure) requires India to provide universal telephone and
internet connectivity to all. Above scheme / policy helps in digital access, digital inclusion, digital
empowerment and bridging the digital divide. Thus, it’ll play an important role in transforming
India into a knowledge-based economy and digitally empowered society.
सबको सावर्�त्रक �प से टेलीफोन और इं टरनेट क� सु�वधा मुहैया कराएं गे तभी िड�जटल समावेशन -सश��करण होगा। अमीर गरीब
ग्रामीण शहरी के बीच िड�जटल खाई/�वभाजन कम होगा- सतत �वकास ल� को हा�सल करने के �लए अग्रता क्रम से यह सब करना ज�री
58.8 �📽📽 [YB] MINISTRY OF INFORMATION & BROADCASTING (सूचना एवं प्रसारण मं त्रालय)
Dept N/A
Attached 1. Press Information Bureau (PIB).पत्र सूचना कायार्लय
offices 2. Publications Division.प्रकाशन �वभाग
सं ल� सं �ाएं 3. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India
4. Directorate of Photo Division,
5. New Media Wing, Electronic Media Monitoring Centre
6. National Film Archives of India (Merged in NFDC)
7. Directorate of Film Festivals (Merged in NFDC)
Statutory 1. Press Council of India (भारतीय प्रेस प�रषद)
Bodies 2. Central Board of Film Certification (के �ीय िफ� प्रमाणन बोडर्) → Film
वै�ा�नक सं �ाएं Certification Appellate Tribunal (this tribunal removed in 2021)
3. Prasar Bharati: a) All India Radio b) Doordarshan. Prasar Bharati motto
is Bahujan Hitaya: Bahujan Sukhaya.
CPSE सरकारी 1. National Film Development Corporation Limited (NFDC)
कं पनी 2. Broadcast Engineering Consultants (India) Limited (BECIL)
Autonomous 1. Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune
Organizations 2. Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata
�ाय� सं �ाएं 3. Indian Institute of Mass Communication
4. Children’s Film Society of India (Merged in NFDC)
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Activities - 2019: launched Doordarshan Arunprabha, a dedicated 24x7 TV channel for
प्रवृ��यां Arunachal
- Responsible for 1) National Film Awards, 2) International Film Festival of
India- which is jointly hosted by this ministry & State Government of Goa.
INDEX? सूचकांक - Press Freedom Index: Compiled by a Paris based non government
organisation Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders)
- 2021's top3 rankers: Norway, Finland, Denmark. 142: India.
✋But this type of low profile bodies giving negative rankings about India’s
freedom/democracy are not really important for exam! #⏳📚📚थोड़ा-पढ़ो-आगे-बढ़ो
58.8.1 �🤬🤬🤬🤬 Comm → Regulators (Statutory) → Censor board
Indian Cinematograph Act, 1952 → Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC: क� द्रीय िफ� प्रमाणन बोडर्)
commonly known as ‘Censor board’, under Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. It gives
following types of movie certificates:
- Unrestricted public exhibition (U)
- Parental guidance for children <12 (U/A) e.g. “Jungle Book”
- Adult (A)
- Viewing by specialized groups only (S) e.g. documentary movie about surgeries, meant to be
shown to doctors only, because ordinary person may get disturbed by the blood & gore.
😰😰Controversy? 1) Former chairman Pahlaj Nihalani would do excessive cuts in the movies to stop
display of smoking-alcohol, Cuss words, Kiss scenes etc. leading to debate on ‘social values vs artistic
freedom of expression’. (सामा�जक मू� बनाम अ�भ��� क� कला�क �तं त्रता)
2) Film Certification Appellate Tribunal was abolished in 2021 (Ref Pillar4B)
- 1978: Press Council Act → भारतीय प्रेस प�रषद, a statutory body under Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting. Readers can complaint against violation of press ethics (e.g. yellow journalism,
paid news, hate news).
- Newspaper / Journalists can complaint if their freedom of press violated.
- Chairman + members from journalism field, (members from LS & RS), members sent by (UGC,
Bar Council, Sahitya academy).
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Digital News ⇒ (2022) Print and Digital Media Association (PADMA) setup as a self-
Publishers e.g. regulatory body.
Lallantop, ⇒ Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media
Cobrapost etc. Ethics) Rules, 2021, provide for setting up such self-regulating bodies.
News channels ⇒ News broadcaster association (NBA): Self regulatory body set up by the
e.g. news channels themselves (2008)
NDTV, ⇒ It punishes news-channels if they spread misinformation, hate news, harm
TimesNOW privacy of women by showing rape victim name / face etc.
Entertainment ⇒ Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC): Self regulatory body
channels मनोरंजन set up by non-news general entertainment channels themselves. (2011)
e.g. Colors Punishes them for objectionable content.
Over the Top e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, ALT-Balaji, SonyLIV etc
(OTT) ⇒ Before: they were regulated by the Ministry of Electronics and
platforms Information Technology.(MEITY)
⇒ 2020-Nov: Their regulation shifted to the Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting (I&B). It's likely to ⏫censorship over their content.
Notable laws ⇒ 1954: Drugs and Magic Remedies Act prohibits advertising drugs for
about TV & Ads cancer, diabetes, abortion etc. (औष�ध और जादुई इलाज कानून)
�व�ापनों के साथ जुड़े ⇒ 1986: Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) prohibits
कु छ प्रमुख क़ानून indecent representation of women in Print Media, TV etc
⇒ 1995: Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act prohibits sports-
gambling ads. �Controversy? ads about online sports gambling sites
shown in IPL
Television is a data-matrix to calculate popularity of a TV show/channel. Broadcast
Rating Point Audience Research Council (BARC), a private organization, prepared such
(TRP) TRP. 😰😰Controversy? Data Manipulation by some journalists.
58.9 🔭🔭🔭🔭SPACE TECH INFRASTRUCTURE (अवकाश �ेत्र)
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⇒ Prime Minister → Department of Space (DOS: HQ Bengaluru) → Indian Space Research
Organisation: (ISRO: HQ Bengaluru)
⇒ DOS/ISRO has two Government companies.
o Antrix: It helps foreign nations/ companies to launch satellites with ISRO's help.
o NewSpace India Limited (NSIL, 2019) for production of launch vehicles & collaboration
with private sector players.
⇒ 📙📙📙📙ES22 Vol1Ch11 showed many competitive maps to track the development of India
example. Map of Airports in India showing 2016: 60+ airports → 2021: 130 Airports. Thus, the
number of airports have increased in India
⇒ Similarly, national highways, bank branches, metros, etc. increased.
⇒ India’s night-time luminosity map → more urbanisation has taken place, access to electricity has
improved. (रा�त्र के नक़्शे म� �वगत वष� के मुक़ाबले वतर्मान समय म� भारत का �ादा इलाक़ा प्रका�शत िदखता है यानी िक
शहरीकरण बढ़ा है �बजली क� उपल�ता बढ़ी है.)
⇒ Tracking the Kharif and Rabi crop sowing cycles and crop stubble burning (फसलों का बीजारोपण और
पराली जलाना)
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⇒ so we can use such Geospatial data for planning, SDG goals, tracking scheme implementation,
deciding property tax rates, deforestation, disaster management etc. (इस प्रकार के भू-�ा�नक डेटा का
आ�थक आयोजन, सतत् �वकास ल�ों क� �नगरानी, सं प�� के कर तय करना, -वृ�छे दन/पैड-कटाई को रोकना, आपदा प्रबं धन
इ�ािद अनेक �ेत्रों म� इ�ेमाल कर सकते ह�)
Origin: Infrastructure projects require large amount of investment. Govt alone can’t finance it due to
fiscal deficit targets. राजकोषीय घाटा �नयं त्रण ल� के चलते सरकार बु�नयादी सु�वधाओं म� खुद अके ले पूरा �नवेश नहीं कर सकती
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- Such projects also require the level of technical expertise, management skills and professionalism
that may not be available in the traditional bureaucratic apparatus. (तकनीक� �वशेष�ता, प्रबं धन कौशल
और �ावसा�यकता)
- Therefore, Infrastructure investment / development has to be done through:
I. PPP: BoT, BOOT
II. Non-PPP: such as EPC, Outsourcing (Contracting-Out), Government owned contractor
operated (GOCO for Army Depots & Tanks repair)
III. Or a mixture of both e.g. Hybrid Annuity Model for highway development.
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BOT Types BOT (Toll) BOT (Annuity)
Payment pvt player will collect govt will directly pay a fixed
fees from user. amount to pvt player
if traffic decreased then pvt player Govt.
who’ll suffer problem?
More details about PPP models, features, challenges= Shifted to Mains Handout
- रा�ी� य �नवेश और बु�नयादी ढांचा कोष ₹ 40,000 crore. Out of that 49% from Dept of Economic Affairs
(FinMin), remaining by domestic & foreign investors & financial intermediaries.
- SEBI registered NIIF as Category II Alternative Investment Funds.
- NIIF is ‘fund of funds’ → gives funding to other funds. E.g. 2017: India & UK set up Green
Growth Equity Fund (GGEF) to finance green infrastructure projects in India. So, from Indian
side NIIF invested money in GGEF.
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- India requires annually ₹ 20 lakh crores (=$300 billion) investment in Infrastructure. For this,
we’ve to encourage foreign pension, insurance and sovereign wealth funds to invest in India. So,
we’ll invite them to India through annual ‘Global Investors Meet in India’, using NIIF.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. With reference to ‘National Investment and Infrastructure Fund’, which of the
following statements is/are correct?(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
1] It is an organ of NITI Aayog. 2] It has a corpus of Rs. 4,00,000 crore at present.
Answer Code: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2(d) Neither 1 nor 2
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following statements is not correct? [UPSC-CDS-2016-II]
a) Creation of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) was announced in the Union
Budget, 2015-16.
b) NIIF is a fund for enhancing infrastructure facility in the country.
c) NIIF and NIF (National Investment Fund) are the names of the same organization.
d) NIIF can finance more than one alternative investment fund.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. The Global Infrastructure Facility is a/an(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
a) ASEAN initiative to upgrade infrastructure in Asia and financed by Asian Development Bank.
b) World Bank collaboration that facilitates the preparation and structuring of complex
infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to enable mobilization of private sector and
institutional investor capital.
c) Collaboration among the major banks of the world working with the OECD and focused on
expanding the set of infrastructure projects that have the potential to mobilize private
investment.
d) UNCTAD funded initiative that seeks to finance and facilitate infra development in the world.
⇒ 15th Aug, 2019: PM Modi announced Rs.100 lakh crore would be invested on infrastructure
over the next five years.
⇒ 2019-Sept: Finance Ministry set up a task force under the Secretary of Dept of Economic Affairs
(DEA). Based on its report,
⇒ 2019-Dec: FM Nirmala S. announced NIP (रा��ीय अवसं रचना पाइपलाइन). It aims to mobilize 102 lakh
crore worth infrastructure investment in the next five year (2019-20 to 2024-25).
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⇒ 2020-Apr: Investment target has been � from ₹ 102 lakh cr to 111 lakh cr
⇒ This funding will be spread across Energy (24%), Roads (19%), Urban (16%), Railways (13%),
Irrigation (7%) etc.
⇒ Sources of Funding/investment? Centre 39% + Private 21% + State 40%=100% funding.
⇒ Further reforms : Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR🏎🏎
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NAME Announced Objectives
National 💼💼Budget- To mobilise money by above thing by selling/renting
Monetisation 2021 Government companies’ assets to mobilze ₹6 lakh crores from
Plan 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Given in Next Section →
Gati Shakti 2021-Aug National Master Plan worth ₹100 trillion to improve transport/
by PM speed of transport (rail, road, airway, waterway etc)
Given in Next Section →
59.4.1 💰💰💰💰 👜👜 Budget-2021: National MONETISATION Pipeline 2021
सरकारी सड़क, मालगाड़ी के �ड�े, रेलवे �ेशन, �बजलीघर, खेलकू द �े�डयम इ�ा�द चीजों का सरकार मुद्रीकरण करेगी अथार्त -
इ�� बेचकर/िकराए पर देकर सरकार पैसा जुटाएगी। इस कायर्क्रम क� �परेखा बनाने क� �ज�ेदारी नी�त आयोग को दी गई है.
Govt planning to sell/lease assets including Roads, Railway Wagons, Railway Station, Electricity
stations, Telecom Towers, Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Stadium etc. These assets will be sold/leased in
following models-
1) Toll operate transfer
2) InvITS (Infrastructure investment trusts, Ref Pillar#1C)
3) Operation and maintenance contract
4) Operation management development agreement (ODMA)
NITI tasked to prepare National MONETISATION pipeline i.e. how to accomplish above things in
systematic manner. Target ₹2.5 lakh crore. Out of them majority will come via Roads (27%),
Railways (25%), Power (15%), oil & gas pipelines (8%) and Telecom (6%).
(सरकारी सड़क, मालगाड़ी के िड�े, रेलवे �ेशन, �बजलीघर, खेलकू द �ेिडयम इ�ािद चीजों का सरकार मुद्रीकरण करेगी अथार्त -
इ�� बेचकर/िकराए पर देकर सरकार पैसा जुटाएगी। इस कायर्क्रम क� �परेखा बनाने क� �ज�ेदारी नी�त आयोग को दी गई है.)
59.5 💰💰💰💰:🚗🚗🚊🚊✈⛵ INFRA FINANCE: GATI SHAKTI PLAN 2021 [₹100 LAKH CR]
वतर्मान म� रेलवे, राजमागर्, वायुमागर् और जलमागर् से सं बं �धत मं त्रालय अलग अलग िक़ले/सूबे के ��प म� अपनी नी�तयां और योजनाएं
बनाते ह�। ग�त श�� योजना इन सब प�रवहन माग� को को एक�कृ त ��प म� आयो�जत कर- भारत के आम आदमी और उद्योगप�तयों
को तेज़ प�रवहन क� सु�वधा देना चाहता है
- Presently all transportation modes (rail, road, airway, waterway) etc are treated in silos while
Individual ministries design their schemes and policies.
- GATI Shakti plan will integrate them for faster connectivity with a ₹100-trillion [=100 lakh
crore]– as per PM’s 15th Aug 2021 speech.
- �How govt will mobilize ₹100 lakh cr? Critiques argue that PM Modi just renaming the same
100 lakh cr-walla National Infrastructure Pipeline (2019) again as “GATI Shakti”. But details
not announced to difficult to say whether both [NIP vs GATI] are same or different?
- Common man will be able to travel at a faster speed.
- Biz man will be able to receive raw materials and send finished goods at a faster speed
- It will help creating new (special) economic zones for exports, synergy with make in India,
assemble in India, production linked incentive scheme.
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- Thus, our local manufacturers will become globally competitive → � Jobs, GDP. [यह तेज प�रवहन
योजना द्वारा भारत के �व�नमार्णकतार् अंतररा�ी� य �र पर दू सरे �नयार्तकों को �धार्/ट�र दे पाएं गे �जससे भारत म� रोज़गार और
आ�थक वृ�द्ध दर म� बढ़ोतरी के अवसर होंगे]
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59.6.2 �Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC),
⇒ Chairman = Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA).
⇒ members = Secretaries of Department of Expenditure, Department of Legal Affairs, the
Sponsoring Ministry/Department, and CEO of NITI Aayog.
⇒ function: appraisal / evaluation of the PPP project. (प्रोजे� का मू�ांकन)
59.7.3 ✍ 🎺🎺 Mains
Question is mostly centred around how can infrastructure help in the economic development,
challenges related to PPP, energy security, notable schemes such as PM Gati Shakti, Smart Cities etc.
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PILLAR#6A-DEMOGRAPHY, HEALTH AND HUNGER
Table of Contents
60 �HRD → Population Census (जनगणना)................................................................................................. 866
60.1.1 ��Census -2021 postponed by Corona ............................................................................... 866
60.1.2 ��Census → Demand for OBC Caste Census .................................................................. 867
60.1.3 ��Demographic transition → Census perspective ............................................................ 868
60.1.4 ��Demographic Transition → Theoretical Perspective.................................................... 869
60.1.5 �x�
�=�
��Malthusian Theory of Population Growth .................................................... 870
60.2 ��Demographic Indicators (जनसां��क� सं के तक) ............................................................................. 870
60.2.1 � Census-2011: migration & occupation (�ाना�रण) .............................................................. 872
60.3 ��� Demographic Indicators: 500 Jaat ke Reports .................................................................. 873
60.3.1 ��� NITI’s “Healthy States, Progressive India”/Heath Index ...................................... 873
60.3.2 ��� National Family Health Survey (NFHS) .................................................................. 873
60.3.3 ���Health Surveys: National Level.................................................................................. 874
60.4 �� �:�
�National Population Policy 2000 (रा��ीय जनसं �ा नी�त) ................................................. 875
60.5 ���:�
� Reports/Ranking: Global Level................................................................................... 876
60.5.1 ���:�
� World Population Prospects 2022 (Released in 2022-Jul).............................. 876
60.5.2 ���:�
� State of World Population Report..................................................................... 876
60.6 �� ES19: Indian Demography @2040- Policy suggestions ......................................................... 876
61 � HRD → Health (�ा�) ............................................................................................................................ 877
61.1.1 � � � [YEARBOOK] Ministry of Sci and Technology (�व�ान और प्रौद्यो�गक� मं त्रालय) ......... 877
61.1.2 ��� [YEARBOOK] Ministry of Health And Family Welfare........................................ 878
61.1.3 ���
� World Health Organization (WHO: �व� �ा� सं गठन)............................................. 879
61.1.4 ���[YEARBOOK] Ayush Ministry ................................................................................. 880
61.1.5 � �:�
� → National Health Policy 2017 (रा��ीय �ा� नी�त) .................................................. 881
61.1.6 � �:�
� → National Policy for Rare Diseases-2021 ........................................................... 881
61.2 ��� → Cheap Medicine → NPPA Price control .................................................................... 882
61.3 ��� → Cheap Medicine → PM Bhartiya Janaushadi Pariyojana .......................................... 882
61.4 ��� → National Health Mission (2005: रा�ी� य �ा� �मशन) ....................................................... 883
61.5 � → Mother & Child Healthcare (�
��) ...................................................................................... 883
61.5.1 ���� → Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS-1975) ............................. 883
61.5.2 ���� → via NRHM’s JSY & JSSK............................................................................... 884
61.5.3 ���� → PM Matru Vandana Yojana (₹ 5k for 1st child+1k from other scheme*)
886
61.5.4 Paalan 1000 - Journey of the First 1000 Days',........................................................................... 886
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61.5.5 ��� → Vaccination (टीकाकरण) .......................................................................................... 886
61.5.6 ���� Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 (2021) & 4.0 (2022-23) ............ 887
61.6 ��� → Adolescent boys and girls (िकशोर) ................................................................................. 888
61.6.1 ���� → WCD Ministry’s 3 Umbrella Schemes in 2021 .......................................... 888
61.6.2 Saksham Anganwadis in ��Budget-2022 ............................................................................ 889
61.7 ��� → Ayushman Bharat & PMJAY ₹ 5 lakh insurance ........................................................ 890
61.7.1 �Health Cess to build hospitals-2020 ...................................................................................... 890
61.7.2 �Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi (PMSSN) 2021-March.................................... 890
61.7.3 ���15th FC: Sector Specific Grants (�ेत्र-�व�श� अनुदान)-Health .................................. 891
61.8 ��� → National Health Mission → Comm/Non-Comm diseases ....................................... 892
61.8.1 � PRADHAN MANTRI TB MUKT BHARAT ABHIYAN ................................................... 892
61.8.2 ��� Communicable Diseases: Malaria free country: ..................................................... 893
61.8.3 �[�
� �]�
� Communicable Diseases: “One Health” approach ...................................... 893
61.9 �ES21vol1Ch5 on Healthcare problems-Solutions ......................................................................... 893
61.10 �ES21Vol1Ch1- Corona Saving Lives & Livelihood................................................................... 894
61.10.1 �Basic Reproduction Number R0........................................................................................ 894
61.10.2 �Mitigation versus suppression ........................................................................................... 894
61.11 ��ES22 Barbell strategy/Agile Response vs Waterfall strategy .............................................. 895
61.11.1 �ES23- notable health initiative ki Timeline ...................................................................... 895
61.11.2 �Budget-2023: Healthcare announcements ....................................................................... 895
61.12 ��: ��� Atma-Nirbhar Bharat → Medicine / Health ................................................ 895
61.12.1 ��: ���→ Ayushman Bharat National Digital Health Mission (15th Aug, 2020)
896
61.12.2 ��: ���→Draft Health Data Management Policy (�ा� डेटा प्रबं धन नी�त) .......... 897
61.12.3 ���Health → E-Sanjeevani telemedicine .................................................................. 897
61.12.4 ���Health Training → iGOT...................................................................................... 897
61.12.5 ���� PM AtmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana [PMASBY] from �Budget-2021
897
61.12.6 ���� PM-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) ...... 898
61.13 � � ��: Corona → Vaccination Timeline ....................................................................... 898
61.14 � � ��: Corona → Vaccine Procurement Policy 2021................................................... 898
61.14.1 � Booster Dose / precautionary Dose (2022) ..................................................................... 898
61.14.2 Vaccine hesitancy- how to reduce: (टीकाकरण से डर/िहचिकचाहट) ............................................... 898
61.14.3 � � ��: Corona → Vaccine & Corona medicines pe 0% GST YES OR NO? ..... 899
61.15 ��: ���: Corona → Health Apps / Portal / ORG ........................................................ 899
61.15.1 �: COVAX Network to buy vaccine for member countries .............................................. 899
61.15.2 ���: CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) App & Portal ............................. 899
61.15.3 �� → Health: Corona related Drugs/Kits....................................................................... 900
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61.16 ��� → Health: Misc. Schemes (�व�वध गौण योजनाए)................................................................ 901
61.17 � HRD → Health → Hunger, Malnutrition, Food Security ...................................................... 902
61.17.1 � �[YEARBOOK] Min. of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution .................... 902
61.17.2 ��
�� → Hunger → Schemes before NFSA ...................................................................... 903
61.17.3 ���� → Hunger → National Food Security Act 2013 (खाद्य सुर�ा कानून) ........................ 904
61.17.4 Antyoday Anna Yojana (AAY) ke households vs Priority Households .............................. 905
61.17.5 ��
��:�
� → Hunger → NFSA → One Nation One Ration Card.................................. 906
61.17.6 �� �� Hunger → Food distribution reforms taken by Govt ....................................... 906
61.17.7 Fortification of Rice (चावल क� िकलेबंदी) ..................................................................................... 907
61.17.8 ������ Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)- free grains in
Corona 907
61.17.9 ����
�� NFSA PMGKAY Merger (1/Jan/2023 to 31/Dec/2023) ....................... 907
61.17.10 ����
�� Corona: other initiatives for cooking / hunger? .................................... 907
61.17.11 ��
�� → Hunger → Malnutrition (कु पोषण) → Poshan Abhiyaan (2018) .................. 908
61.17.12 �Poshan → National Council on India's Nutrition Challenges ....................................... 909
61.17.13 ��
�� → Hunger → Malnutrition (कु पोषण) → Mission Poshan 2.0 (2021) ............... 909
61.17.14 De-Worming important to fight malnutrition says �ES23 ............................................... 910
61.17.15 ��
� → Ranking: Global Hunger Index (GHI: वै��क भूख/�ुधा सूचकांक) .............................. 910
61.17.16 ��
� → Ranking: Food/Hunger ke 500 Types/Jaat-ke-Reports ...................................... 911
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⇒ In this phase, parallely, National Population Register (NPR: रा�ी� य जनसं �ा र�ज�र) will also be
updated for entire India except Assam. NPR exercise done under Citizenship Act, 1955)
⇒ �Corona: Above census exercise postponed till 2024-25.
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⇒ In the absence of OBC population / education / income data→ Difficult to make better quality of
government schemes and policies to help them. [ओबीसी समुदाय क� आबादी, �श�ा और आमदनी के डेटा क�
गैरहा�जरी म� उनके �लए अ�� नी�तयां और योजनाएं बनाना मु��ल]
⇒ So certain political groups demanding the next census should include OBC census as well.
⇒ 2021: Modi Govt replied in Lok Sabha: “The Government of India has decided not to enumerate
caste-wise population other than SCs and STs in Census.”
⇒ 2023: Bihar State govt begun conducting caste census.
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60.1.4 👫👫👫👫Demographic Transition → Theoretical Perspective
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60.1.5 👫👫x👫👫=🌩🌩💀💀Malthusian Theory of Population Growth
A British scholar Thomas Robert Malthus (1798) noted,
- Food production increases in arithmetic progression while population increases in geometric
progression. Therefore, Nature itself tries to establish equilibrium between population vs food
supply, using ‘Positive Checks (सकारा�क अवरोध)’ such as famine, epidemics, earthquake.
- Malthus also advised humans to initiate ‘Preventative Checks (�नवारक अवरोध)’ to control
population growth e.g. family planning (प�रवार �नयोजन), celibacy (ब्रह्मचयर्), late marriages.
60.2 👫👫👫👫DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS (जनसां��क� सं के तक)
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Indicators Census-2011 definitions
− When it’s close to zero then population is said to be ‘stabilised’ or has
reached the ‘replacement level’.
Fertility Rate − number of live births per 1000 women in the childbearing age group
(प्रजनन दर) (15 to 49 years).
Total Fertility Rate − IF woman lived through above age group, how many babies would
(कु ल प्रजनन दर) she have produced hypothetically?
🤰🤰 → 👼👼 👼👼=2 − India’s target: 2.1 (Replacement level: प्र�त�ापन �र) i.e. she + her
husband replaced by two new human beings. The Extra 0.1 is kept to
compensate risk of unforeseen accident/deaths (of the babies).
− 📙📙📙📙ES22: Total Fertility Rate (TFR) declined from 2.2 (2015) to 2
(in 2019) which is a great achievement. This was achieved by ⏫ use
of contraceptives, better family planning, and girl education.
(गभर्�नरोधक साधनों का �ादा उपयोग, प�रवार �नयोजन के बारे म� अ�धक जानकारी, और
लड़िकयों क� �श�ा के चलते हम कु ल प्रजनन दर को कम कर पाए)
IMR: �शशु मृ�ु दर Infant Mortality Rate = number infant deaths under the age of 1 year per
1000 live births. It’s ~34/1000 in 2016 & 32 in 2018 (SRS).
CMR: बाल मृ�ु दर Child Mortality Rate = number child deaths under the age of 5 years per
1000 live births. It’s ~50 in 2016. SDG-2030-Target: 11
MMR: मातृ मृ�ु अनुपात Maternal Mortality Ratio = number of women who die in childbirth per
1 lakh live births. It’s ~130 in 2016. SDG-2030-Target: 70.
Life Expectancy Estimated number of years that an average person is expected to survive.
(जीवन प्र�ाशा) Indian Females (70), Males (67)
📆📆💀💀 - 📙📙📙📙ES22: Life Expectancy higher in urban areas (72.6 years) than in
rural areas (68.0 years)
- 📙📙📙📙ES22: Life Expectancy highest in Kerala and Delhi (75-75 years).
And Lowest in Chhattisgarh (65 years)
- 📙📙📙📙ES22: Females are expected to live longer than men in all areas,
except for Bihar and Jharkhand. (मिहलाओं क� जीवन प्र�ाशा पु�षों से �ादा �सवाय के
�बहार और झारखं ड। )
Sex Ratio - Sex Ratio = number of females per 1000 males. 2011: 943.
�लंगानुपात - Child Sex Ratio = girls (0-6 years) per 1000 boys in that age group. All
India declined from 927 (2001) → 919 (2011).
?? 👧👧 - 📙📙📙📙ES22: Sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years
/ has improved in 2019-21 from 2015-16 in all states (Table 13), except
for Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha,
1000👦👦
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Meghalaya, Goa and Nagaland
- In India, sex ratio is expressed as no of females per thousand males
- But in some nations, it’s expressed as no of males per 1000 females
- @global: sex ratio is about 102 males per 100 females
- @ Asia: sex ratio is low i.e. # of men > # female
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Indicators Census-2011 definitions
Age Pyramid It’s a structure that shows proportion of persons in different age groups
relative to the total population.
Dependency Ratio - 👼👼 👴👴÷��= (population below 15 & above 64) divided by
�नभर्रता अनुपात (%) population in the 15-64 age group.
Demographic - Phenomenon when dependency ratio of a country declines, and
Dividend larger proportion of people in the working age compared to
(जनसां��क�य लाभांश) dependency age. जब �नभर्रता अनुपात म� �गरावट , और कायर्शील आयु म� लोगो क� सं �ा
बढ़े, उसे कहते है
- demographic dividend temporary because the larger pool of working
age people will eventually turn into non-working old people.
Doctor:Patient Ratio - WHO requires 1 doctor for every 1000 people. India has 1 doctor for
every 834 people. Says 📙📙ES23 (Here, doctor= Both Allopathic and
Ayush).
You can prepare ascending descending orders of states / UTs demographic indicators from here
cbhidghs.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/Chapter%201.pdf but very poor cost benefit
60.2.1 📊📊 Census-2011: migration & occupation (�ाना�रण)
Migrant: person settled in a place different from his previous residence.
�Push factors [ध�ा देनेवाले कारक] �Pull factors [आक�षत करने वाले कारक]
Push Factors: force that drives people away from a Pull Factors: force that draws people to
place. immigrate to a place.
Lack of jobs/good salary/Biz Opportunity Presence of it (धं धे/रोजगार के अवसर)
Lack of Basic amenities: water, shelter, hospital Presence of it (उन सु�वधाओं क� मौजूदगी/ उपल�
(पानी अ�ताल घर जैसी बु�नयादी सु�वधाएँ न होना) होना)
Disasters, floods, famines (आपदा, बाढ़, अकाल) Absence of it
Crime, War, lack of safety (अपराध, युद्ध, असुर��त) Safe, peaceful society (सुर��त और शांत समाज)
⇒ 37% of Indian are internal migrants. Among them, majority are female (70%)
⇒ Main reason for migration: A) Female: marriage (70%) B) Male: work & employment (28%)>
moved with household > moved after birth.
Occupation: Census divided the working population of India into four major categories:
1.Cultivators 2.Agricultural Labourers 3.Household Industry Workers 4.Other Workers
🔠🔠❓MCQ. According to the Census 2011, in India, what is the % of people (approximately) considered
to be migrants (internal),i.e. now settled in a place different from their previous residence? (CDS-i-2020)
(a) 25% (b) 35% (c) 45% (d) 55%
🔠🔠❓ Which is the biggest cause of migration of females in India? (UPSC-CDS-i-2020)
(a) Employment (b) Education (c) Marriage (d) Business
🔠🔠❓2011 Census has divided the working population of India into four major categories. Which one of
the following is NOT one of them ? (UPSC-CAPF-2020)
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(a) Cultivators (b) Domestic workers (c) Household industrial workers (d) Agricultural Labourers
��Which one of the following is a pull factor for migration? [UPSC-CAPF-2021]
(a) Natural disaster (b) High wage (c) Housing shortage (d) Low income
- Who? Health Ministry’s International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai.
- NFHS done 5 times: 1992–93, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2015–16, & 2019-21(NFHS-5)
- NHFS-5: Phase1) Data published in 2020-Dec for 22 State/UT’s
- NHFS-5: Phase2) Data published in 2021-Nov, for remaining State/UT Uttar Pradesh (UP), TN,
Punjab, Rajasthan, MP, Jharkhand, Haryana, and Chhattisgarh etc. 14 State/UT.
Major Findings from NHFS-5
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- All India level: Total fertility rate has declined: 2.7 children (2005). This TFR � to 2.2 (2015) and
now � 2.0 (as per latest NFHS). (अ�खल भारतीय �र पर मिहलाओं के कु ल प्रजनन दर म� कमी आयी है.)
- But, still TFR>2.1 in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh. (हालाँिक कु छ रा�ों म� अभी
भी मिहला कु ल प्रजनन दर �ादा है)
- �, institutional births, breast-
Overall usage increased for Contraceptive’s usage, Vaccine usages�
feeding, women bank accounts, women mobile phones (इनम� बढ़ोतरी �ई है: गभर्�नरोधक-साधनो का उपयोग,
टीकाकरण, प्रसव अ�ताल म�, ब�ों का �नपान, मिहलाओं के ब�क खाते और मिहलाओं के मोबाइल फ़ोन)
- �child malnutrition but change is not significant as drastic changes in respect of these indicators
are unlikely in short span period. (बाल कु पोषण थोड़ा-सा/ह�ा सा कम �आ है, लेिकन बहोत प्रभावी असर अभी तक
नहीं देखी गई, �ोंिक ये कु छ सम�ाएँ है �जसम� कम अव�ध/ छोटे समय म� ज़ोरदार सुधार नहीं िदख सकता।)
- Anaemia among children and women continues to be a cause of concern. (मिहला और बालको म� अनी�मया
�चंता का �वषय अभी भी है।)
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60.4 👫👫↘ 📜📜:🧔🧔NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY 2000 (रा��ीय जनसं �ा नी�त)
⇒ Achieving TFR= 2.1 (Replacement level) by 2010. (Although now shifted to 2025)
⇒ Achieve stable population by 2045 i.e. India’s population growth rate and age pyramid
composition should remain stable. ��र आबादी
⇒ Encourage family planning, use of contraceptives, safe abortions, HIV control, universal
immunization, compulsory registration of birth and death etc. प�रवार �नयोजन, गभर् �नरोधकों का उपयोग,
एचआईवी �नयं त्रण, टीकाकरण, ज� और मृ�ु का अ�नवायर् पं जीकरण
⇒ Recommended that Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha seats be freezed based on the 1971 Census,
until 2026. So that political parties don’t encourage people to produce more babies just to
increase number of parliament seats in their state.
⇒ Setup two bodies →
⇒ A National Commission on Population (रा��ीय जनसं �ा आयोग) Under the chairmanship of Prime
Minister, all CMs, selected union ministers, NGO & experts to oversee the implementation.
(Although appears defunct body).
⇒ 2005: Population Stabilization Fund (जनसं �ा ��रता कोष): An autonomous body, chaired by
Health Minister, for awareness generation, community participation, mobilising ₹ ₹ donations
etc. Known for 2 schemes:
- � Prerna Scheme (for encouraging delayed marriage, childbirth and spacing. ASHA
workers will give counselling to couples, provide contraceptives etc)
- � Santushti Scheme (Public Private Partnership for sterilization services, नसबं दी)
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60.5 👫👫↗�:📊📊 REPORTS/RANKING: GLOBAL LEVEL
60.5.1 👫👫↗�:📊📊 World Population Prospects 2022 (Released in 2022-Jul)
⇒ Published by United Nations department of economic and social affairs.
⇒ India’s population will surpass China in 2023.
⇒ The global population is expected to grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and
10.4 billion in 2100.
⇒ By United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)- United Nations sexual and reproductive health
agency HQ: New York.
⇒ Theme for 2022’s Report: Expecting more: The preventable crisis of unintended pregnancy.
(अनपे��त गभार्व�ा का सं कट रोका जा सके ऐसा सं कट है.)
⇒ Theme for 2023: 8 Billion Lives, INFINITE POSSIBILITIES- the case for rights and choices (8
�ब�लयन जीवन, अनं त सं भावनाएँ - अ�धकारों और �वक�ों का मामला)
⇒ As per 2023’s report: India will be world's most populous with 142.86 cr by mid-'23.
🔠🔠❓ theme of the annual report UNFPA on State of World Population – 2019. (UPSC-CAPF-2019)?
a) Worlds apart : Reproductive health and rights in an age of inequality
b) The power of choice : Reproductive rights and the demographic transition.
c) �Unfinished business – the pursuit of rights and choices for all (this was correct answer)
d) How our future depends on a girl at this decisive age
60.6 📔📔📔📔 ES19: INDIAN DEMOGRAPHY @2040- POLICY SUGGESTIONS
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Shifted to Mains Handout. #Prelims-RAFTAAR�
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61 💊💊 HRD → HEALTH (�ा�)
SDG Goal#3: Ensure Healthy Lives & Promote Well-being For All
India’s Baseline (आधार रे खा) India’s SDG-Target-2030 (ल�)
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR per 1 lakh Reduce to 70: Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu
live births): 130. मातृ मृ�ु अनुपात achieved. While UP, Assam etc. have 200+ deaths
Under-5 Child Mortality Rate (per 1000 live Reduce to 11: Only Kerala achieved so far (7)
birth): 50. बाल मृ�ु दर
Annual Reported TB cases per 1 lakh Reduce to 0
population: 138
No. of Govt doctors , nurses and midwives per Increase to 550: Only Kerala achieved so far
1,00,000 population: 221 (700)
SDG Goal #3 (health) also requires nations to reduce road accidents, alcohol and tobacco abuse,
mental-illness, and end HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Hepatitis and other communicable diseases. However,
India has not put any quantifiable targets for that. (हमने अपनी औकात के िहसाब से ल�ांक चुने है. )
61.1.1 � 🧬🧬 🔬🔬 [YEARBOOK] Ministry of Sci and Technology (�व�ान और प्रौद्यो�गक� मं त्रालय)
Dept ⇒ Department of Science and Technology (DST)
⇒ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
⇒ Department of Biotechnology
Subordinate ⇒ Survey of India, The National Survey and Mapping Organisation
⇒ National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO)
Statutory ⇒ Under DST: Science & Engineering Research Board, Technology
Development Board
Autonomous ⇒ National Innovation Foundation in DST
⇒ Indian Science Cong. Association, KOLKATA, in DST
⇒ National Institute of Immunology, in Biotech Department
⇒ Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC).
⇒ ++Truckload of Science and Research bodies.
CPSE ⇒ Bharat Immunological & Biological Corporation
सावर्ज�नक �ेत्र ⇒ Indian Vaccine Corporation Ltd (IVCOL)
उपक्रम
⇒ Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)
⇒ (*) Central Electronics Ltd.
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(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
NOTE: Dept of Pharmaceutical = Chemical & Fertilizer ministry (Pillar#5)
61.1.2 �💊💊💉💉 [YEARBOOK] Ministry of Health And Family Welfare
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doctor quality etc.
− (Proposed) National Nursing and midwifery Commission Bill) to replace
Indian Nursing Council. Florence Nightingale award. She was a British
reformer & founder of modern nursing.
− 2020- National Commission for Allied Healthcare Professionals Bill to cover
physiotherapist, X-ray Machine operator, physiotherapists, optometrists,
nutritionists etc. (�ा� सेवाओं से जुड़े पेशेवर)
Autonomous − National Population Stabilisation Fund
�ाय� सं �ा − All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore
− International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, a ‘Deemed
University’, nodal for National Family Health Survey (NFHS). Five rounds of
NFHS (1992, 1998, 2005, 2015, 2019) done in India.
− Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC)
− Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR, origin in 1911)
− National Inst of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru →
��Budget-2022: we’ll launch National Tele Mental Health Programme
under this organization.
Budget − �Budget-2020 allotted <₹70,000 cr on health which is barely 0.3% of GDP.
Even if we add union+state budgets = 1.6% of GDP.
− ��ES22: presently Union+State spending total 2.1% of GDP on health.
− National Health Policy 2017 aims to � it to 2.5% of GDP by 2025.
− WHO recommends minimum 5% of GDP be spent on public healthcare
CPSE − (*)Hospital Services Consultancy Ltd. (HSCC) (*)HLL Lifecare
Intl Bodies − UN Specialized Agency: World Health Organization (WHO) HQ: Geneva,
Switzerland (1948) specialized agency of United Nations सं यु� रा�� क� �वशेष एज�सी
(*) means approved for strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
61.1.3 💊💊🌐🌐� World Health Organization (WHO: �व� �ा� सं गठन)
⇒ at Geneva, Switzerland, 1948.
⇒ Its supreme decision making body known as Health Assembly (�ा� सभा)
⇒ It consists of all member states. It elects the Director-General of WHO for a period of five year.
⇒ WHO's Health Assembly's decisions are implemented by the Executive Board (कायर्कारी बोडर्).
⇒ The Executive Board has 34 individual health experts elected for three-year terms.
⇒ 2020: India's health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan elected as the chairman of the Executive Board.
⇒ �WHO-Controversy#1? Mishandling of the Corona crisis. US President Trump wanted to
withdraw membership from WHO. Brazil also threatened similar.
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⇒ �WHO-Controversy#2? Taiwan wants to be added as an observer in WHO. China hates this
because China says 'Taiwan is a part of China. Taiwan is not a separate country.'
- Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga (Maharshi Patanjali) and Naturopathy, Unani (Arabs. Noted person
in India: Hakim Ajmal Khan freedom fighter), Siddha (by Tamil Siddhar Saints) and
Homoeopathy (by a German Physician), abbreviated as AYUSH
- 2017: Sowa-Rigpa (Tibetan) medicine system is latest to be added in the Ayush list. Later Govt
setup its national research institute in Leh, Ladakh
Dept N/A
Autonomous − Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, Delhi
− National Institutes for individual subjects of AYUSH:
o Ayurveda @Jaipur, Naturopathy @Pune (campus name “Nisarga
gram”), Unani Medicine @Bangluru, Siddha @Chennai,
Homoeopathy @Kolkata, Sowa Rigpa@ Leh
− Central Councils for research in individual subjects of AYUSH
o Siddha@Chennai, other subjects’ @New Delhi
Statutory Following bodies regulate the syllabus/practionners:
Bodies − Central Council of Homoeopathy(CCH) 2020- It was replaced by National
Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH).
− Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM). 2020- It was replaced by
National Commission for Indian System of Medicine. Common entrance
and exit exam for Ayush practitioners etc.
− 2020: Institute of Teaching & Research in Ayurveda (ITRA) at Jamnagar,
Gujarat
Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940- two statutory bodies related to Ayush
1. Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani Drugs Technical Advisory Board (ASUDTAB)
2. Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani Drugs Consultative Committee (ASUDCC),
Attached / − National Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB)
Subordinate − Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy
(PCIM&H)
CPSE [सरकारी − (*) Indian Medicine Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd. approved for
क�नी] strategic disinvestment (=privatization) in 2019
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E-Governance − National AYUSH Morbidity and Standardized Terminologies
Electronic(NAMASTE) Portal for illness/disease related database
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61.2 💊💊🤑🤑� → CHEAP MEDICINE → NPPA PRICE CONTROL
- 1997: National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA: रा��ीय औष�ध मू� �नधार्रण प्रा�धकरण) setup as
an attached office under Dept of Pharmaceuticals under Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers.
- NPPA derives power from Essential Commodities Act, 1955 → Drugs Prices Control Order
(DPCO), 1995 & 2013. → NPPA monitors availability & prices of drugs. It enforces price
ceilings on 800+ essential medicines.
- 🤳🤳 Pharma Sahi Daam: NPPA’s app & portal. Customer can check drug prices before buying.
- 🤳🤳 Pharma Jan Samadhan: NPPA’s webportal where consumers can file complaint about drug
pricing and availability. (महंगी दवाई और दवाइयों क� अनुपल�ता के �खलाफ �शकायत)
- A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the arteries that supplies blood to heart. Stent
keeps the arteries open for coronary heart patients.
- 2017: NPPA enforced price ceilings on Stent to stop profiteering by the companies and hospitals.
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Table 1: Related Terminologies
Generic Drug After a branded drug patent expires (or Govt gives Compulsory License), other
companies can manufacture the same formula. Such non-proprietary drug are
called ‘Generic’ Drugs. [पेटंट अव�ध ख़� होने पर कोई भी क�नी उस दवा को बना सकती है]
Fixed Dose It’s a cocktail / mixture or two or more drugs. Govt banned many FDCs because
Combinations they’re unsafe / multiple side effects. E.g. Corex, Saridon, D'Cold, Vicks Action
500.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statements about Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI) [CDS-2019-i]
1. It is the implementing agency of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana.
2. It has registered as an independent society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
Codes: a) 1 onlyb) 2 only c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 nor 2
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- Who? Children 0-6 years, Pregnant women and Lactating mothers. ICDS is an ‘Umbrella
Scheme’, its components include:
- Anganwadi Services Scheme
- Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (₹ 5k + ₹ 1k for birth of first live child)
- SABLA: Scheme for Adolescent Girls (11-18 years)
- POSHAN Abhiyan
- National Creche Scheme: to setup Creches for working women.
- Child Protection Scheme: for children in difficult circumstances.
- 🤩🤩Benefits? ⏬ IMR, MMR & Anaemia, Immunization, Health check-up, Pre-school edu
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a. Free normal / caesarean deliveries @public hospitals. मु� म� प्रसव
b. Free food, medicines, free transport from home to hospital by dialling 102.
4. Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (Suman-2019): if pregnant women visits a govt hospital but
denied any of the scheme/services or her dignity is not respected then complaint can be
registered through SUMAN helpline/sms/web portal & govt will adopt ZERO tolerance to the
culprit doctor/nurse/wardboy. Result? ⏬IMR,MMR, ⏫Positive birthing experience। सरकारी
अ�ताल म� गभर्वती मिहला को अ�� सेवा न �मली तो �शकायत
5. Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyaan (2016): all pregnant women given free medical
checkup, iron folic acid (IFA), calcium tablets etc. on 9th of every month. This scheme is for
‘Antenatal Period’ = before the delivery. Private doctors also encouraged to ‘volunteer’ for this
campaign (in other words, Government will not pay them ₹ ₹ )
6. Laqshya- Labor Room Quality Improvement Initiative (2017): to ensure public hospital delivery
room is sterilized & has necessary medicines/equipment to deal with delivery related
complications / emergencies. (Side Note: Swatchha Bharat Mission’s sub-component ‘Kayakalp’
aims for cleanliness in Public hospitals)
7. Mother's Absolute Affection (MAA 2016): Awareness generation to encourage mothers to
breastfeed babies. Because exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months is essential to improve
child health & immunity. [�नपान को प्रो�ाहन देना]
8. Mission Parivar Vikas (2016): Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand and Assam constitute 44% of the country’s population because of their high TFR. So
this mission aims for:
a. Encourage family planning in these states. प�रवार �नयोजन / नसबं धी
b. new FREE contraceptives in Govt hospitals:
i. ‘Chhaya’ contraceptive pill (गभर्�नरोधक गोली) which has to be taken only once in a
week. Chemical name: Centchroman, it’s a non-hormonal pill.
ii. ‘Antara’ injectable hormonal contraceptive which has to be taken once in three
months.
c. All India TFR = 2.2 (2016) → Reduce it to 2.1 (2025) कु ल प्रजनन डर म� कमी
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61.5.3 🤰🤰🤰🤰📯📯📯📯 → PM Matru Vandana Yojana (₹ 5k for 1st child+1k from other scheme*)
Manmohan launched Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog → Modi renamed as Matritva Sahyog Yojana
(2014) → again renamed Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana(2017)
- Boss? Ministry of Women and Child Development
- Core Scheme (Not 100% funded by Union). 60:40, 90:10
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Measles-rubella Vaccine (MR)
Vaccine for Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping cough), Influenza Type B and
Hepatitis B.
Although by 2014, UIP had covered only 65% of children. So,
⇒ 2014: Mission lndradhanush by Modi
To immunization 100% children (Below 2 years) against atleast 7 (=number of rainbow
colors) diseases viz. diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus (धनु�ंभ), polio, tuberculosis,
measles and hepatitis B.
In the subsequent years even more vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis etc.
Pregnant women also given vaccines for selected disease. [गभर्वती मिहलाओं के �लए भी]
⇒ 2017: Modi launches Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) to cover atleast 90% children
below age of 2 and all pregnant women by 2018 December.
⇒ e-VIN (Electronic Vaccine Network): United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) gave ₹
₹ & technology to India for online monitoring of vaccine stocks. Health ministry runs it.
61.5.6 🤰🤰🤰🤰💉💉💉💉 Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 (2021) & 4.0 (2022-23)
लॉकडाउन के चलते �जन ब�ों-मिहलाओ का पो�लयो, धनु�ंभ इ�ािद टीकाकरण न हो पाया उनका टीकाकरण कर�गे
focus on Children and pregnant women who have missed their (non-corona) vaccine doses during
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the corona pandemic/lockdown
Focus on migrants & remote area/ hard to reach areas। प्रवासी मज़दू र-प�रवार, दुगर्म प्रदेश पे �ान
Health ministry to use staggered approach = instead of inviting everyone at the same time, 10-10
beneficiaries will be invited. This will reduce crowding in Corona.
61.6 💊💊�🦸🦸 → ADOLESCENT BOYS AND GIRLS (िकशोर)
2021-March, Ministry of Women and Child Development announced that existing schemes will be
clubbed into 3 umbrella schemes. Reason? More effective monitoring & implementation.
प्रभावी �प से �नगरानी और अमल करने के �लए वतर्मान योजनाओं को तीन छतरी योजनाओं के नीचे वग�कृ त िकया गया है
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Sr Umbrella Scheme Schemes included Amt 2021
1. Saksham Anganwadi and ICDS and its components like - Anganwadi >₹20,000 cr
POSHAN 2.0 Services, Poshan Abhiyan, Scheme for
मिहला िकशोरी और ब�ों के Adolescent Girls, National Creche Scheme
�लए- भोजन पोषण इ�ा�द
2. Mission VATSALYA Child Protection Services and Child Welfare ₹900 cr
बाल सुर�ा और क�ाण Services. 📑📑More in Pill#6C weaker section
3. Mission Shakti (Mission A. SAMBAL (One Stop Centre, Mahila >₹3,000 cr
for Protection and Police Volunteer, Women's
Empowerment for Helpline/Swadhar/Ujjawala/Widow
Women) मिहला सुर�ा और Homes etc.)
सश��करण B. SAMARTHYA (Beti Bachao Beti
Padhao, Creche, Pradhan Mantri
Matru Vandana Yojana/ Gender
Budgeting/Research.
📑📑More in Pill#6C weaker section
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61.7 💊💊📯📯📯📯 → AYUSHMAN BHARAT & PMJAY ₹ 5 LAKH INSURANCE
Budget 2018: Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM). Core Scheme:
NOT 100% funded by Union. It has two components:
1. Primary Health Care Centers (PHC) to be transformed into Health & Wellness Centres (�ा�
और क�ाण क� द्र). Free drugs, checkup, mother-child care
2. National Health Protection Scheme (AB-NHPS) → Later renamed ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan
Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)’ to give free Health Insurance of ₹ 5 lakh per poor family, per year.
(More about its benefits & challenges refer to 📑📑Pillar#1D)
3. PM-JAY SEHAT:
a. Before: 6 lakh (poor) families of J&K were getting benefit of PM-JAY (₹5 lakh family
health insurance). 2020-Dec Reform: PM-JAY-SEHAT = All residents of J&K (21 lakh
families) will get benefit of ₹5 lakh family health insurance. सभी �नवा�सयों को लाभ
b. There is no cap /limit on family size. JK residents can avail these health insurance
benefits at all designated hospitals across the country = it is 'portable' in nature.
c. SEHAT = Social, Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine.
�ES23: 22 crore people enrolled in PM-JAY (as of 2023-Jan). Scheme has saved lot of money for
the poor patients.
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Govt levies 4% Health & Education Cess on direct taxes such as income tax & corporation tax.
(What is Cess? Ref: Pillar#2A) प्र�� करों पर �ा� व �श�ा उपकर
2021-March: govt created a new “Non-Lapsable” fund under Public Account. (What is “Non-
Lapsable fund? Ref: Pillar#2D). लोक लेखा म� एक ग़ैर-��गत �न�ध बनायी जाएगी
This fund will receive ₹ ₹ from above cess. Health ministry will use this money for
1) Ayushmann Bharat & its sub schemes like PM-JAY (5L-Health insurance),
2) Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (setting up AIIMS-like institutions in every state &
upgrading government medical colleges).
3) National Health Mission (NHM) रा��ीय �ा� �मशन
4) Health emergencies like Corona �ा� आपदाएँ
⇒ Union and State Government together should spend 2.5% of GDP on Healthcare sector by 2025.
(क� द्र और रा� सरकार ने �मलकर �ा� �ेत्र म� सावर्ज�नक खचर् को बढ़ाकर जीडीपी के ढाई प्र�तशत तक करना चािहए)
⇒ All-India Services Act, 1951: (presently we've IAS,IPS,Indian Forest Service) → make 4th All India
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service: "All India Medical and Health Service" → UPSC to conduct recruitment. This will help
addressing the shortage of doctor in backward states. आईएएस/आईपीएस क� तजर् पर एक और अ�खल भारतीय
सेवा बनाई जाए "अ�खल भारतीय �चिक�ा एवं �ा� सेवा" तािक �पछड़े रा�ों म� डॉ�रों क� कमी को पूरा िकया जा सके
⇒ Most of the medical colleges and super-speciality hospitals (e.g. Cancer) are concentrated in the
Western and Southern parts of India. Union and State government should make efforts to address
this.(प��मी/द��णी रा�ों के अलावा वाले �व�ार म� भी अ�� मेिडकल कॉलेज| अ�ताल बनाने पर जोर िदया जाए)
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61.8.2 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 Communicable Diseases: Malaria free country:
य�द तीन वष� तक सतत �प से आपके देश म� मले�रया के कोई भी �ानीय/आंत�रक मामले नहीं �दखते, तो �व� �ा� सं गठन द्वारा
आपके देश को “मले�रया मु�” घो�षत िकया जाता है। २०२१ म� चीन ने उपल�� हा�सल क� है।
⇒ WHO aims to eliminate Malaria from world by 2030. IF a Country has 0% local cases of Malaria
in 3 consecutive years =can apply for WHO certification of malaria-free status.
⇒ Examples: Australia, Brunei and Singapore, Algeria, Argentina, El Salvador (2021), China (2021)
⇒ ��ES22: while malaria not yet eliminated in India but we’ve eliminated polio, guinea worm
disease, yaws, maternal tetanus and neonatal tetanus. (भारत ने इन बीमारीयो को ख़� िकया)
पयार्वरण का �ा�, जानवरों का �ा�, मनु�ों का �ा� ये तीनों आपस म� जुड़े �ए ह� और एक दू सरे को असर करते ह�- इस�लए
तीनों क� सम�ाओं को एक�कृ त �प से सं बो�धत करना ज़�री- इस �ख़/अ�भगम/���कोण को “एक �ा�” ���कोण कहते ह�
⇒ One Health = An approach recognizes that animal health, human health and the environment’s
health are interconnected. Esp. for Zoonotic diseases (= spread from animal to human. [ख़ासकर ऐसे
रोग/बीमा�रयां जो जानवरों से मनु�ों म� फै लती है] For example
⇒ Environmental degradation: human encroachment in jungles → Nipah Virus spreads from
Jungle Bats to Domestic animals (Pigs) to Humans. [from Malaysia’s NIPAH Village]
⇒ Environmental degradation: Men kill Monkeys, Antelopes for meat → infected with Ebola virus.
[From Africa’s Ebola river region near Congo]
⇒ China’s Wuhan’s Wildlife Meat Market: Cats, ferrets, fruit bats, hamsters, racoon, etc. → Corona
⇒ �Boss? One Health approach is advocated by multiple orgs such as Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the World Health
Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Why in news? Indian govt’s Dept of animal husbandry also organizing seminars/workshops on this
matter. Then CA-PDF-wallas have gone “crazier than usual” over this topic.
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61.10😷😷📔📔📔📔ES21VOL1CH1- CORONA SAVING LIVES & LIVELIHOOD
⇒ COVID-19 virus - SARS-CoV-2 - first identified in Wuhan city of China in December 2019.
⇒ Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis. = father of Hand washing / hygiene & hospital
sanitisation.
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✋In the remaining chapter1vol1- economic survey 2021 has done great appreciation of
government lockdown policies. But in retrospect, when we compare the situation in Corona wave 2.0
most of that appreciation looks redundant. इस पूरे प्रकरण म� कु ल �मलाकर सरकार क� पीठ थपथपायी गई है, हालाँिक
कोरोना सं क्रमण क� दू सरी लहर के बाद ये सब चीज़� / मुद्दे इतने �ादा आकषर्क नहीं िदख रहे ह�।
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🎓🎓Homework: Corona science tech / vaccination angles
61.12.1 👻👻👻👻: 💊💊📯📯📯📯→ Ayushman Bharat National Digital Health Mission (15th Aug, 2020)
⇒ 2020-15th August speech. PM announced National Digital Health Mission रा��ीय िड�जटल �ा� �मशन
⇒ 2021-Oct: launched with the name “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)”
⇒ Boss? Health Ministry → National Health Authority (NHA) (Recall PM-JAY walli organization
from Pillar1D. This is same NHA).
⇒ National Health Authority (NHA) will act as the Health Information Exchange and Consent
Manager (HIE-CM). Which doctors/hospitals can access person’s health data? Ans. Person will
give consent about that to NHA.
⇒ Person registers on portal/App using mobile number or Aadhar card. Not compulsory to give
Aadhar card number at present. He gets 14 digit health ID number.
⇒ Citizens to be given Unique Health ID (UHID) with personal records about diseases, diagnosis,
report, medication etc. (रोग, �नदान, �रपोटर्, दवा आिद)
⇒ UHID will be free of cost, voluntary, consent-based with opt-out feature. (�न: शु�, �ै��क और
सहम�त-आधा�रत. मरीज अपना डेटा हटवा/िडलीट भी करवा सकते ह�).
⇒ Patients can share with doctors = saves time/trouble of keeping multiple files/xerox/X-rays etc.
⇒ Can person delete his account /data? Ans. Yes
⇒ Can a person add a nominee to access account? (e.g. PH person unable to use phone wants to
add his guardian/relative?) Ans. Yes.
⇒ It’ll also connect with digi-doctor, tele-medicine, e-pharmacy. (िडजी-�चिक�क , दू रभाष-दवाइया, ई-
औषधालय)
⇒ ��Budget-2022: Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission → we'll create digital database/registries
of doctor, hospital, patient records.
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Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only. (b) 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only. (d) 1, 2 and 3
61.12.2 👻👻👻👻: 💊💊📯📯📯📯→Draft Health Data Management Policy (�ा� डेटा प्रबं धन नी�त)
⇒ Released by National Health Authority (NHA) for National Digital Health Mission (NDHM):
⇒ covers all stakeholders- Patients, Doctors, Union & State Govt, Health insurance cos, pharma cos,
& research bodies. यह नी�त सभी ही धारकों को सं बो�धत करती
⇒ Patient health id number will be created free of cost. मु� म� �ा� सं �ाक िदया जाएगा
⇒ Patient will have the right to remove his personal data, get errors corrected, Restrict the disclosure
of data to other organizations, Request copy of data. मरीज अपना डाटा हटवा सकता है, डाटा गल�तयों म� सुधार
करवा सकता है, िकसी सं �ा से डाटा साझा करने से मना कर सकता है, अपने डेटा क� नकल मांग सकता है- यह सब अ�धकार प्रा�
⇒ Data will be shared with orgs only with compliance of applicable laws and international standards.
भारतीय कानून और वै��क मानकों के आधार पर ही डाटा को अ� सं �ानों के साथ साझा िकया जाएगा
⇒ Awareness program about data privacy. डाटा �नजता के बारे म� जन जागृ�त अ�भयान
🤩🤩Conclusion? NDHM will help providing access to inclusive, affordable, and safe healthcare to the
people of India. This will greatly help in SDG goals.... रा��ीय िड�जटल �ा� �मशन भारत के लोगों के �लए समावेशी,
स�ी और सुर��त �ा� सेवा प�ँ चाने म� मदद करेगा. सतत �वकास ल�ों क� प्रा�� के �लए उपयोगी
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⇒ Develop Primary, Secondary, And Tertiary Care Health Systems.
⇒ Focus on IT enabled surveillance, Public Health Labs, National Centre for Disease Control etc.
⇒ 2022: Govt started ) vaccination for 15-18 years age group teenagers.
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celebrities, fact-check videos by key experts to �Corona vaccine hesitancy among people. (जागृ�त
कायर्क्रम – तािक लोग टीका लेने से डरे निह)
⇒ 2021-Nov: A house-to-house mobilisation campaign (Har Ghar Dastak) to identify and vaccinate
those who missed 1st dose through mobile teams named ‘vaccination Toli’ along with ‘prachar
Toli’ (घर घर जाकर)
61.14.3 👻👻 💉💉 📯📯📯📯: Corona → Vaccine & Corona medicines pe 0% GST YES OR NO?
Covered in 📑📑Pillar#2: GST.
61.15.2 👻👻🖱🖱💉💉: CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) App & Portal
⇒ �Boss? Health ministry’s National Health Authority (NHA, same organization also looks after
PM-JAY ₹5lakh health insurance)
⇒ COWIN App & Portal helps people to register for vaccination slot and download the vaccine
certificate. [टीकाकरण के �लए पं जीकरण और प्रमाण पत्र उपल� करता है]
⇒ IF person does not have Aadhaar card then he can register with other documents like voter ID,
driving license, etc.[आधार काडर् आव�क नहीं]
⇒ 2021: PM Modi declared COWIN will be given Open source/free to all the nations, so other
nations don’t have to spend ₹₹ on developing similar software/app. [अ� देशों को मु� म� सो�वेयर द�गे]
Table 3: don't loose sleep
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🤳🤳🤳🤳 ⇒ uses Bluetooth technology and GPS location data to track people infected
Aarogya Setu with Corona / came in close contact with infected patients.
2020-April
⇒ Developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC, under MEITY) with help
of NITI Aayog & private sector IT experts.
😰😰Controversy? Privacy / hacking / misuse of data. (नाग�रकों क� �नजता पर खतरा)
🤳🤳😷😷 Ministry of Science & Technology → CSIR → AarogyaPath Supply Chain
AarogyaPath Portal gives info about real-time availability of masks, PPE (Personal Protective
2020 Equipment), medicines and other critical healthcare supplies for Corona
Health Ministry →National Health Authority portal for Corona vaccine
Co-WIN
distribution/supply chain management, monitoring adverse/side effect etc.
Mission COVID Atma-Nirbhar: Ministry of Sci & Tech → Department of Biotechnology
Suraksha (DBT) given ₹900 cr to help companies develop Corona Vaccine😷😷😷😷
Niti Aayog & Dept of Biotechnology's Consortium for Affordable & Rapid
😷😷Project Card
Diagnostics (CARD) to ⏫ Indian production of coronavirus testing kits.
📊📊📊📊 Oxford University to how strict a country's Corona lockdown measures were.
Stringency Marks: 0 to 100 (100 = strictest). Scoring changes with time. E.g India <20 in
Index January, but 100 during March-April. िकस देश ने िकतने कठोर तालबं धी के कदम उठाए।
Diganostic kit: Corona Self Diagnostic kit developed by Defence Research and Development
DIPCOVAN Organisation's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS)
laboratory. Can give result in 75 minutes & cost ₹75. This will be commercially
launched Delhi-based Vanguard Diagnostics company. डीआरडीओ द्वारा कोरोनावायरस
का घर पे ही �-परी�ण के �लए नई क�ट का �नमार्ण. ₹75 म� �मलेगी पर 75 �मनट म� नतीजा देगी
Corona Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)'s new oral drug 2-
Medicines: deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug can provide early relief from oxygen
2DG dependency among the Corona patients. Drugs Controller General of India
(DCGI) granted emergency use permission to it. कोरोना मरीज यह दवाई मुंह से लेगा तो
उसे ऑ�ीजन क� ज�रत कम होगी.
Amphotericin- ⇒ Myucomercosis is a black fungal infection occurring as a post-coronavirus
B complication. result in loss of vision if not treated immediately.
FOR ⇒ Excessive use of steroids in diabetes patients increases their vulnerability.
Mucormycosis
⇒ Myucomercosis is not contiguous from one person to another but, fungus is
present in a closed area and enters the respiratory system through air.
⇒ Antifungal injection Amphotericin-B required
Remdesivir This Anti-viral injection is meant to be used for critical/severe case of Corona.
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But excessively prescribed even in normal cases → supply shortage of
injection and its black marketing. [अनाव�क �प से दे दनादन सभी मरीज़ों को दी गई �जसके
चलते स�ाई/आपू�त म� कमी �ई थी और कालाबाज़ारी म� शु� �ई थी]
61.16💊💊📯📯📯📯 → HEALTH: MISC. SCHEMES (�व�वध गौण योजनाए)
Pradhan Mantri सभी रा�ों म� ए� जेसे अ�ताल बनाओ योजना Central Sector Scheme: 100% funded by
Swasthya Union to ⏬regional imbalance in Healthcare infrastructure of India by
Suraksha 1. Setting up new AIIMS like Institutions
Yojana 2. Upgrading Government Medical Colleges.
Rashtriya Health Ministry gives ₹ ₹ for BPL patient suffering from major life threatening
Arogya Nidhi diseases to get FREE treatment at super specialty hospitals from this RAN fund
National Health Ministry to monitor
Pharmacovigila ⇒ Adverse Drugs Reactions (ADR: दवा क� प्र�तकू ल प्र�तिक्रया),
nce Programme ⇒ Spurious/Fake drugs. (�मलावटी / नकली दवा)
Deworming Children given Albendazole tablets, awareness, cleanliness etc. [कृ �महरण]
Science Ministry → Dept of Biotechnology launched this with 5 sub-missions:
1. GARBH-ini: A research mission to find out reasons for for pre-term /
Atal Jai
premature births. So such babies can be saved accordingly.
Anusandhan
2. IndCEPI: A Mission to develop affordable vaccines for endemic diseases.
Biotech
3. UNaTI: to transform health, agro & energy e.g. research on bio-fortified
Missions
and protein rich wheat.
2019
4. Mission on Antimicrobial Resistance
5. innovative technological for the Swachch Bharat mission
Boss? Ministry of Ayush
- Core Scheme (Not 100% funded by Union)
National Ayush
- Encourage the use of AYUSH medicine, setup new colleges, setup new
Mission (2014)
hospitals, increase manpower etc.
- Encourage Medicinal plants cultivation, ensure quality control of drugs
PM Vrikshayush Ayush Ministry scheme for medicinal plants’ cultivation and post-harvest
Yojana management (कटाई के बाद का प्रबं धन)
Ayush Ministry portal for online licensing of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and
🤳🤳 Homoeopathy drugs. It’ll also provide information of cancelled and spurious
e-AUSHADHI
drugs.
⇒ BHUVAN-YOGA: ISRO app to know about how many people participated
🤳🤳Yoga Apps International Yoga day across different venues.
⇒ Yoga Locator: to find venues for International Yoga day.
⇒ 21 June: Day of Yoga (started since 2015, by UNGA)
🤳🤳Imp. Days ⇒ 4th January: Siddha Day. Ayush Ministry started this from 2018.
⇒ 1 Dec: World AIDS Day.
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Disease ��ES22: India has eliminated eliminating polio, guinea worm disease,
eliminated yaws and maternal tetanus and neonatal tetanus.
- Hunger =distress arising from insufficient calorie / food intake. (भूख: भोजन न �मलने पर होने वाली पीड़ा )
- Malnutrition is the deficiency arising from insufficient calories and / or insufficient nutrients in
a person’s diet. (कु पोषण: अपयार्� भोजन / पोषक त�ों के चलते होंने वाला शारी�रक अभाव /सम�ा)
- खाद्य सुर�ा Food security means the availability of nutritious food at stable & affordable prices
round the year for all the people. (��र / िकफायती दामों पर पूरे साल पोषण�म आहार/भोजन �मलना )
SDG Goal#2 requires India to end hunger & achieve food security.
Food security Pillar What has India done to achieve it?
food should be available in Union: MSP, fertilizer subsidy, PM-KISAN
sufficient quantity at all times and States: cheap canal water and electricity to farmers.
at all places [पयार्� मात्रा म� भोजन �मले Together, they encourage farmers to produce more
सबको] grains.
Food should be affordable To Through National Food Security Act (NFSA), Govt provides
poor people. िकफायती दामों गरीबों को cheap grain to poor.
�मले
Food should be nutritious to Through Poshan Abhiyan, Mid-day meal, Integrated-Child
ensure healthy development of Development Services (ICDS) and half dozen other schemes,
body of mind. पोषणयु�, शरीर म��� Govt ensures nutritious food to children & women.
�वकास
In food prices and supply must be FCI keeps ‘buffer-stock’ of grains. It can be sold to open
stable. खा� चीजों म� दामों म� ��रता रहे market or distributed among people during high inflation,
natural disaster etc. (More in 📑📑Pillar#4A: agri)
61.17.1 🍴🍴 �[YEARBOOK] Min. of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
उपभो�ा मामले, खाद्य और सावर्ज�नक �वतरण मं त्रालय consists of <notable organizations are >
Dept − Dept. of Consumer Affairs → Integrated Grievance Redress Mechanism
(INGRAM) portal for consumer complaints.
− Dept. of Food and Public Distribution
Attached / − Directorate of Sugar and Vegetable Oils → National Sugar Institute
subordinate offices − Indian Grain Storage Management & Research Institute
Statutory Bodies − Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority (2007)
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(we learned them − National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
in 📑📑Pillar#4A) − Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)- ISI & Gold hallmarking
− + enforcement of Essential Commodities Act, 1955
Commercial − Food Corporation of India (FCI-statutory corporation, 1964)
Undertakings − Central Warehousing Corporation (Statutory corporation, 1962)
− Central Railside Warehouse Company Limited
− Hindustan Vegetable Oils Corporation Limited
Autonomous N/A or not MCQ worthy.
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61.17.3 🍴🍴📯📯📯📯 → Hunger → National Food Security Act 2013 (खाद्य सुर�ा कानून)
- aims to provide subsidized food grains to poor families. स�ी क�मतों पर गरीब प�रवारों को भोजन /अ� देना
- Boss? Dept of Food and Public Distribution (खाद्य और सावर्ज�नक �वतरण का �वभाग)
- Union procures grains from farmers at Minimum Support Price (MSP: �ूनतम समथर्न मू�, Ref:4A).
- Union sells the grains to States at Central Issue Price (CIP: क� द्रीय �नगर्म मू�). Quantitative allotment
to each state is done on the basis of number of beneficiaries.
- NFSA Act requires that CIP can’t be greater than MSP.
- Food Subsidy = FCI’s Economic Cost MINUS Central Issue Price (CIP)
- States ultimately sell the grains to beneficiary through Fair Price Shops/Ration Shops/ Public
Distribution System/PDS Shops. (राशन क� दुकान�)
- It’s a Central Sector Scheme. Budget-2019 allotted >₹ 1.50 lakh crore for this.
- States shortlist the beneficiaries & sell them foodgrains in such manner that
- ~2/3rd =67% Indian population is covered, including
- 75% rural population is covered (तीन-चौथाई ग्रामीण आबादी को शा�मल िकया)
- 50% urban population is covered. (आधी शहरी आबादी को शा�मल िकया)
- Thus, both BPL and (slightly) above poverty line (APL) families are covered. गरीबी रेखा के नीचे/ऊपर
- These beneficiaries are entitled to grains at subsidized rate, through PDS shops →
Rice ₹ 3/kg These prices are fixed by Union. Union may update these subsidized
Wheat ₹ 2/kg prices, but not higher than MSP.
Coarse grains ₹ 1/kg This food is made free from 1/Jan to 31/Dec’23 for beneficiaries.
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There are two categories of households under NFSA Act:
Priority Households (PHs): 5 kg of foodgrains for each family member at above price
- Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households= 35kg grain at above price. Doesn’t matter
how many members are in the family.
If State / UT doesn’t want the administrative burden of providing grains in PDS shop at above
price, they may do Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT: प्र�� ह�ांत�रत लाभ) to beneficiaries so they can
purchase @market prices (such as ₹ 35/kg rice, ₹24/kg wheat). Chandigarh, Puducherry, Dadra
& Nagar Haveli adopted this route. [खुद अनाज नहीं दे सकते तो बाजार से खरीद ने के �लए पैसा दे दो गरीब को]
If State / UT can’t provide food within stipulated time / quantity then they’ve to pay food
security allowance (खाद्य सुर�ा भ�ा) to the beneficiaries.
Beneficiary can complaint at district & state level. States required to form State Food
Commissions for monitoring / implementation.
For women empowerment: The eldest woman in the household (aged 18/>) shall be considered
the head of the household for issuing ration card. (घर क� सब से बुजुगर् मिहला के नाम पर राशन काडर् बने)
Pregnant and lactating mothers (upto 6 months) are eligible for
- "Take home ration" of 600 Calories.
- entitled to a free meal at the local Anganwadi (including their 0-6 years child)
- Maternity benefits of min. ₹ 6,000, in instalments. (Ref: PM Matru Vandana Yojana in
previous section.)
6-14 aged children entitled to one free hot meal or ‘take home rations’ in Govt schools (Ref: Mid
Day Meal Scheme under Education section). [ब�ों को �ू ल म� खाना �मले]
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statement(s) about National Food Security Act, 2013 (UPSC-Pre-2018)
1. The families coming under category of 'below poverty line (BPL)' only are eligible to receive
subsidised food grains.
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2. The eldest woman in a household, of age 18 years or above, shall be the head of the household for
the purpose of issuance of a ration card.
3. Pregnant women and lactating mothers are entitled to a 'take-home ration' of 1600 calories per
day during pregnancy and for six months thereafter.
Codes: (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 3 only
😰😰BEFORE 🤩🤩AFTER
⇒ Generally ration card is made in the name of ⇒ WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT.
a family and it is location specific. ⇒ Project started from 2019 but in 2021: Four
⇒ So, if a migrant worker has got a ration card states were yet to join the scheme — Assam,
in Mumbai → he cannot use it for buying Chhattisgarh, Delhi and West Bengal. :
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61.17.7 🍚🍚💪💪 Fortification of Rice (चावल क� िकलेबंदी)
Rice fortification involves artificially adding extra vitamins & micronutrients such as Iron, Folic
Acid, and Vitamin B12 in rice before supplying to customer. PM announced to finish this by 2024.
(ग्राहक को चावल देने से पहले उसम� अ�त�र� �वटा�मन और पोषक द्र� डालना)
61.17.8 👻👻👻👻🍴🍴📯📯📯📯 Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)- free grains in
Corona
⇒ Corona → Atma-Nirbhar → PMGKAY: 80 crore poor people will to get 5 kg [wheat or rice] + 1
kg of pulses for free every month for the next three months.
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution → FCI → releases the foodgrains
to State government. Funding: ₹1.5 lakh crores
⇒ Duration? Phase-1: from April to June 2020. Phase-2: July to November 2020. Then in 2021:
Scheme is extended, but only 5kg grain given, no pulses given. [दू सरे चरण म� दाल नहीं, के वल अनाज द�गे]
⇒ This scheme discontinued from 2023-January
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(NFSA) or unable to get food because he does not have a ration card….then, State Government
will distribute (5kg grain per person + 1 kg chana per family) per month x for 2 months. Union
will bear its full cost. [प्रवासी मजदू र के पास भले राशन काडर् न हो, उसे अनाज िदया जाए]
� One Nation One Ration Card to be implemented across India by 2021-March. (At present
only 20 States have done it) → Then migrants will be able to get NFSA’s subsidized food at any
place, irrespective of whether his name entered in given State’s ratio card database or not.
With National Food security act, India achieved ‘food security’ but not nutritional security, because
malnutrition is caused by →
1. Income Inequality: Poor people unable to buy milk / veggies / almonds. Since ~21% of Indian
population is Below Poverty Line (2011), this is bound to happen. (आय म� असमानता)
2. Gender Inequality: Women eating last and least. >1/3rd of Indian women have low Body Mass
Index (BMI) (मिहलाओ से भेदभाव)
3. Social Inequality: SC/ST etc deprived of economic opportunities → unable to buy good food.
(सामा�जक असमानता- अनुसू�चत जाती/जनजा�त के प�रवार गरीबी के चलते अ�ा भोजन ले नहीं पाते)
4. Water-sanitation-disease e.g. open defecation → worms in intestine, enteropathy. (गं दगी, अंतड़ी म�
कृ �म/सूजन)
5. Psychological issues e.g. Anorexia nervosa: person fears gaining weight so avoids eating. Social
media/instagram → insecurity about weight gain & body image. (मनोवै�ा�नक कारण। अपने
�प/सुंदरता/बाहरी िदखाव के �लए असुर�ा क� भावना )
6. Dietary habits: Vegetarians suffer from protein deficiency, according to Western scientists.
(शाकाहार के चलते शरीर म� प्रोटीन क� कमी)
To address above problems, Govt. launched ….
2018: National Nutrition Mission = POSHAN = Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic
Nutrition. Motto: Sahi Poshan, Desh Roshan
- Boss? Ministry of Women and Child Development (मिहला एवं बाल �वकास मं त्रालय)
- Core Scheme (Not 100% funded by Union). 60:40, 90:10. Union will arrange its side of money-
half from budget and half from World Bank (IBRD) and other Multilateral Development Banks
(MDBs).
- Iron Folic Acid (IFA)tablets, nutritious food in Anganwadi / Schools, convergence with ongoing
schemes for women/child, Online monitoring, IEC awareness generation, E-learning, even Yoga.
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- Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK) database of diverse crops across 128 agro-climatic zones
in India for better nutritional outcomes.
- Poshan Anthem song by Prasoon Joshi and Shankar Mahadevan.
- Rashtriya Poshan Mah – celebrated every year in the Month of September.
Objective & Indicators Target
1) Stunting in 0-6 group (all India average above 35%) In Bihar Reduce to 25% by 2022 (=
& Madhya Pradesh etc. it’s >40% Mission25 by 2022)
2) Stunting (low height for age), undernutrition, low- Reduce by 2% every year upto
birthweight. 31/3/2020
3) Anemia (र�ा�ता) in 0-6 age children, adolescent girls, Reduce by 3% every year upto
women. 31/3/2020
- Anaemia is a condition when blood doesn’t have enough Red
Blood Cells (RBC) or Haemoglobin → Blood unable to
transport enough Oxygen → Fatigue.
- Anemia results from poor diet, malaria etc. or genetic
disorders- sickle cell disease, Thalassamia.
- >½ of Pregnant women suffer from Anaemia in India.
61.17.13 🍴🍴📯📯📯📯 → Hunger → Malnutrition (कु पोषण) → Mission Poshan 2.0 (2021)
💼💼Budget-2021: we will launch Mission Poshan 2.0 by merging following two schemes
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� Poshan Tracker Portal: to moniter — pregnant women, lactating mothers, children and
adolescents. � Boss? Women-Child Ministry. माता, ब�ों और िकशोरीओ के कु पोषण क� �नगरानी के �लए।
� Poshan Gyan Portal: national digital repository / knowledge bank / Wikipedia type thing on
nutrition. � Boss? NITI Aayog, in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation etc orgs.
What about free meal in schools? Ans. Refer Pillar6B: → HRD Education
61.17.15 🍴🍴🍴🍴 → Ranking: Global Hunger Index (GHI: वै��क भूख/�ुधा सूचकांक)
Annual reported by Concern Worldwide (Ireland) and Welthungerhilfe (Germany). Previously this
report was prepared by IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute).
To compute the GHI, they measure four indicators:
1. Undernourishment: Population whose caloric intake is insufficient
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2. Child wasting: low weight for height.
3. Child stunting: low height for age. caused by (chronic) long-term insufficient nutrients
4. Child mortality (0-5 age)
�India’s rank fallen: 94th (2020) → 101st (2021) to 107 (2022).
Although NITI Aayog defends, “International surveys’ methodologies are faulty, otherwise as per
Indian Govt’s own surveys there has been improvement in India.” (वै��क सं �ाओ के �गनती करने के तरीकों म� ही
गलती है, हम गलत नहीं है)
Next Handout📑📑
#6B: Education, Skill Development.
#6C: Poverty.
#6D: Women & other Weaker Section, UNDP, HDI, SDG
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PILLAR#6B-EDUCATION, SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Table of Contents
62 �HRD → Education (�श�ा) ...........................................................................................................914
62.1.1 School Dropout .....................................................................................................................915
62.1.2 Teacher to Student Ratio ......................................................................................................916
62.1.3 � Edu →�
�[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Human Resource Development/Education
917
62.1.4 � � Bodies → Higher Edu → HEFA (2016) .............................................................918
62.1.5 � � Bodies → Vedic Edu → Bharatiya Shiksha Board ..........................................918
62.1.6 ��[YEARBOOK] Notable Schools funded by Union .............................................918
62.2 ���New education policy 2020 (नई �श�ा नी�त)...............................................................919
62.2.1 �NEP-2020: Introduction (प�रचय)...................................................................................919
62.2.2 �Education: Schooling → Curriculum changed (�ू ली पाठ्यक्रम म� बदलाव) ...................919
62.2.3 �Education: Primary- other reforms (प्राथ�मक �श�ा म� सुधार) ..........................................920
62.2.4 �Education: Primary- ECCE upto age 8 ........................................................................921
62.2.5 �Education: Language / Medium (भाषा /मा�म) .............................................................921
62.2.6 PM SHRI Schools Scheme (2022) .......................................................................................921
62.2.7 �Education: Higher (उ� �श�ा) ........................................................................................922
62.2.8 �Education: Higher → Credit (गुण आधा�रत �श�ा) ..........................................................922
62.2.9 �Education: Higher → Entry & Exit (प्रवेश और प्र�ान)..................................................923
62.2.10 ��Education: Higher → New Orgs → HECI .....................................................923
62.2.11 ��Education: Higher → New Orgs → Others ...................................................924
62.2.12 ���Education: Adult/PH (प्रौढ़ �श�ा और �वकलांग �श�ा) .......................................925
62.2.13 �Education: Open/Distance/E-Learning (दू र - �श�ण/ई �श�ा) .................................925
62.2.14 ��Assessment of students (छात्रों का मू�ांकन)...........................................................925
62.2.15 ��Assessment of students: bodies (मू�ांकन/परी�ा के �लए सं �ाएं ) ............................926
62.2.16 ��Assessment of schools (�ू लों का आकलन) ............................................................926
62.2.17 �Teachers recruitment and training (�श�कों क� भत� और तालीम) ...............................926
62.2.18 �NEP-2020: Funding (�श�ा �ेत्र के �लए �व�पोषण) ..........................................................927
62.2.19 �NEP-2020: Criticism (नई रा��ीय �श�ा नी�त के �खलाफ आलोचना/�नंदा) .............................927
62.2.20 �NEP-2020: Conclusion (�श�ा नी�त के बारे म� �न�षर्) ....................................................927
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62.3 ��PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education (2020-Jul) .........................................928
62.4 ����� Edu → Std1-8 → Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDM-2001-2020) ...........928
62.5 ����� Edu → Std1-8 → PM Poshan (2021-2026) ............................................929
62.6 ��� Edu → Std1-8 → Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA-2001) ....................................930
62.6.1 ���Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) → Notable Subscheme / Programs............930
62.7 ��� Edu → Std. 9-12 → RMSA (2009) मा��मक �श�ा ..................................................931
62.7.1 �����CBSE: Syllabus reduction (पाठ्यक्रम म� कटौती) ......................................931
62.8 ��� Edu → Std. Jr.KG to 12: Samagra Shiksha scheme (2018) ...............................932
62.8.1 � 2019: NISHTHA scheme for Teachers training (2019) ...........................................933
62.8.2 ��� PM Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI-2022) ............................................933
��) → Rankings for School Education ....................................................................933
62.9 Edu (�
62.9.1 Annual Status of Education Report ASER Report by NGO Pratham ...........................934
62.9.2 Education reports- Misc.......................................................................................................934
62.10 ��:�
� Edu → no detention policy & RTE Amendment 2019 ................................934
62.11 �Edu → CBSE Class12 Result 30:30:40 formula .............................................................935
62.12 ����
� Edu → National testing agency (NTA) & NEET ....................................935
62.12.1 � Edu → Libraries in �Budget-2023 ....................................................................936
62.13 � Edu → Higher Edu: Colleges & Uni. (उ�तर �श�ा) ........................................................936
62.13.1 �� Edu → Higher Edu: Number of institutes as per �ES23 .........................937
62.13.2 �� Edu → Higher Edu: Ranking by Education Ministry ..................................937
62.13.3 �� Edu → Higher Edu: Ranking : Misc ...............................................................937
62.14 ���� Edu → Portals/Apps/Orgs → Post-Corona .............................................938
62.15 �� Edu → Misc. portals / initiatives (Before Corona) ...............................................939
62.15.1 �� Edu → Misc: School infra/result monitoring................................................939
62.15.2 �� Edu → Misc: E-learning ...................................................................................939
62.15.3 �� Edu → Misc: Anti-ragging / life values/mental health ................................940
62.15.4 �� Edu → Misc: Startup ke liye.............................................................................941
62.15.5 �� Edu → Misc: Teachers’ training .....................................................................941
62.15.6 � Edu → Misc: NRI/foreign teachers/students ko bring to India?......................941
62.15.7 � Foreign Uni Campus in India- UGC Draft rules 2023 ........................................942
62.15.8 �� Edu → Misc: Girl students / girl scientists ....................................................942
62.15.9 �� Edu → Misc: Making science/research useful/popular ...............................943
62.15.10 �� Edu → Misc: National Unity ...........................................................................944
62.15.11 �� Edu → Misc: Civic duties, Adult Edu (प्रौढ़ �श�ा) ...........................................944
62.16 � Edu → Misc. → Youth org. ............................................................................................945
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62.16.1 � �Yearbook: Ministry of Youth Affairs And Sports (युवा कायर् और खेल मं त्रालय) ....945
62.16.2 �Youth Schemes= Central Sector Schemes = 100% funded by Union. .................945
62.16.3 ��Khelo India Scheme → National Sports Education Board ...........................946
62.17 � � Conclusion-Template-Education: ...........................................................................946
63 �� HRD → Skilling, Vocational Training, Recruitment .....................................................946
63.1 � Yearbook Recruitment & Training Related Ministries.....................................................947
63.1.1 � Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions.............................................947
63.1.2 � � � Mission Karmayogi: Training of Civil servants (2020-Sept) ..................948
63.1.3 � Yearbook: Ministry of Labour and Employment .....................................................948
63.2 �� �[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship ................949
63.3 ��)→ NSDC, NSDF, NSDA, NSQF, NCVET .................................................................949
(�
63.3.1 � NCVET 2018 (�ावसा�यक �श�ा और प्र�श�ण के �लए रा��ीय प�रषद)........................................950
63.4 ��)�
(� �� Skill India Campaign (2015: कौशल भारत अ�भयान) ..........................................950
63.4.1 ��)�
(� �� Skill India3 → National Policy for Skill Dev. & Entrepreneurship
2015 951
63.4.2 ��)�
(� �� Skill India4 → Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) .952
63.4.3 ��)�
�� Skill India4 → PMKVY phase 3.0 (2020) .............................................952
63.4.4 PM Kaushal Vikas 4.0 in �Budget-2023 ........................................................................952
63.4.5 PM-VIKAS / VIshwakarma KAushal Samman - �Budget-2023 ...............................953
63.4.6 Skill India Digital Platform in �Budget-2023 ...............................................................953
63.4.7 Skill: �Budget-2023 Misc. announcements...................................................................953
63.5 ��)�
(� �� Skilling → SHREYAS Scheme (2019) ..........................................................953
63.5.1 ���(�
��)Skilling → Post Corona / Atma-Nirbhar......................................954
63.6 ��)�
(� �� Skilling & Entrepreneurship → Before Corona..........................................955
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3. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER: सकल नामांकन दर) = (No. of students enrolled in an age group or
std) / (total population in that group).
I. If GER is ~97% means 3% children are out of school.
II. If GER is >100% that means some under-age children may have been admitted.
III. 💼💼Budget-2020: GER (girls) >> GER (boys) in all 3 levels i.e. elementary, secondary,
higher secondary. Thanks to Beti-Bachao-Beti-Padhao scheme.
4. Gender Parity Index (GPI: �लंग समतु�ता सूची) for education = ratio of female students enrolled in
an age or std-group divided by male students in that group.
⇒ Dropout rates ⏫ after class8 as free mid-day meal stops, while lecture difficulty and family
pressure to earn ⏫. (आठवीं क�ा के बाद �ू ल म� मु� का म�ान भोजन नहीं �मलता, ब�� �सलेबस क� किठनाई और
प�रवार से पैसे कमाने का दबाव बढ़ता है)
SDG Goal 4.1: Universal primary and secondary education
SDG Goal #4: India’s baseline in (brackets) India’s SDG Target 2030
Enrollment ratio from class 1 to 10 (75%) 100%
Dropout rate at Secondary level (17%) 10%
% of schools where Pupil Teacher ratio is 30% or less (70%) 100%
Improve Learning Outcomes in Maths, Language, Science 57-67% score in learning outcome
etc subjects at class 5 and class 8 (pathetic) quiz
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following is correct for the purpose of Census 2011 [Asked in UPSC-CDS-2017-I]
a) a person aged 7 & above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is
treated as a literate
b) a person aged 8 & and above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is
treated as a literate
c) a person aged 9 & above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is
treated as a literate
d) a person aged 10 & above who can both read and write with understanding in any language is
treated as a literate
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62.1.3 📐📐 Edu →�[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Human Resource Development/Education
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62.1.4 📐📐 � Bodies → Higher Edu → HEFA (2016)
⇒ Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA उ� �श�ा �व�पोषण अ�भकरण) is a not for Profit
company with shareholding: 91% HRD/Edu Ministry + 9% Canara bank.
⇒ HEFA is registered as a Non–deposit taking NBFC with RBI.
⇒ HEFA provides loans to IITs, IIITs, NITs, IISCs, AIIMS etc.to upgrade their infrastructure, lab
equipments etc. It also gives loan to Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalaya.
⇒ RISE-2022: Budget 2018 gave more ₹ ₹ to HEFA to give out as loans to those IIT/IIM/NIT etc.
for Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) by 2022
Kendriya Class 1 to 12, mainly for Govt employees- both in India, even abroad. Boss?
Vidyalayas Edu Ministry. Shaala Darpan: e-Governance platform for Kendriya Vidyalayas.
Kasturba Class 5 to Class 12 Residential (=with hostel) girl school for SC, ST, OBC,
Gandhi Balika Minorities & BPL. Boss? Edu Ministry
Vidyalaya
Eklavya schools Residential schools in high ST % population area. Boss? Tribal Affairs Ministry.
HRD/Edu Ministry’s free residential schools for talented rural children
Jawahar
from class 6 to 12. (प्र�तभावन ग्रामीण ब�ों के �लए �ू ल. �रहायशी छात्रालय क� सु�वधा)
Navodaya
Student has to pass an entrance exam to get admission, unlike the above
Vidyalayas
schools. [दा�ख़ला पाने के �लए प्रवेश परी�ा होती है.]
Initiative by HRD + Defence Ministry + Home Affairs Ministry for the
Seema Darshan students of Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas. Take them to
border area / meet with armed forces to cultivate the spirit of Patriotism.
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62.2 �📯📯📯📯NEW EDUCATION POLICY 2020 (नई �श�ा नी�त)
⇒ 1948-49: University Education Commission [�व��वद्यालय �श�ा आयोग]
⇒ 1952-53: Secondary Education Commission
⇒ 1964-66: Education Commission under Dr. D.S. Kothari
⇒ 1968: National Policy on Education
⇒ 1976: 42nd Constitutional Amendment: Education put in Concurrent List (समवत� सूची)
⇒ 1986: National Policy on Education (NPE) → modified in 1992.
⇒ 2015-16: T.S.R. Subramaniam Committee for education policy
⇒ 2017-19: Dr. K. Kasturirangan Committee for education policy
62.2.1 ✍NEP-2020: Introduction (प�रचय)
(Origin) 2017: HRD/Edu Ministry had set up Dr. K. Kasturirangan Committee, to replace the
education policy of 1986. Based its report, Govt announced a new National Education Policy in
2020 with following salient features: �न��ल�खत मु� �वशेषताओं के साथ)
62.2.2 🏫🏫Education: Schooling → Curriculum changed (�ू ली पाठ्यक्रम म� बदलाव)
Left hand side is also called “10+2”. Whereas Right hand side also called “5+3+3+4” (this number
indicates the years spent in each stage of the coloured box in right hand side.)
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International studies have found 3-6 years = crucial for mental development. So, the Govt will target
it via 3 three years of Anganwadi/ pre schooling. (मान�सक �वकास के �लए प्री-�ू �लंग मह�पूणर् है ऐसा अंतररा��ीय
सं शोधन म� पाया गया)
⇒ 🔧🔧Vocational Education to start from Class 6 with Internships. (�ावसा�यक प्र�श�ण द�ग)े
⇒ We'll use counsellors & social workers with schools e.g. Psychological counselling, sexual
harassment, bullying, depression (ब�ों के �लए मनोवै�ा�नक परामशर्दाता उपल� कराएँ गे)
⇒ Open / Distance learning for classes 3, 5 and 8 through NIOS. (दू र - �श�ण)
⇒ Collectively, it will help bring 2 crore "out of school" children back into the schooling. (ब�ों क�
�ू ल-वापसी)
Table 1: we will setup these institutes हम ये सब बनाएँ गे!
“Bal Bhavans” These will be special daytime boarding schools with art-related,
career-related, and play-related activities.
Samajik Chetna Kendras Social Consciousness Centres will be setup in the Free (Spare)
school infrastructure.
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�Artists- कलाकारों के �नवास क� Colleges, school complex to have Artist(s)-in-Residence. Such
�व�ा artists will promote traditional arts / Lok Vidya.
62.2.4 �Education: Primary- ECCE upto age 8
⇒ For upto class12 NCERT will develop National Curricular Framework for School Education
(NCFSE: पाठ्यक्रम क� रा��ीय �परेखा)
⇒ For upto class8 NCERT to develop a National Curricular & Pedagogical Framework for Early
Childhood Care and Education (NCPFECCE or ECCE: बचपन क� परव�रश और �श�ा के �लए रा�ी� य पाठ्यक्रम
और �श�ा शा�)
⇒ Ministries of HRD/Edu, Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD), Ministry of
Health and Tribal Affairs will jointly implement ECCE. (ये तीन मं त्रालय लागू कर�गे)
⇒ ECCE to improve syllabus (Curriculum: पाठ्यक्रम) & teaching methodology (=pedagogy: �श�ा शा�)
But basically it involves ⏬pressure of rote-learning/coaching classes to pass the exams, ⏫critical
thinking ability & emotional intelligence, 21st century skills, scientific temper etc. समालोचना�क
सोच�मता, भावना�क बु�द्धम�ा, 21 वीं सदी का कौशल, वै�ा�नक �भाव। पढ़ाई का बोझ कम करने के �लए �व�भ� कदम ल�ग।े
⇒ ⏬in Curriculum to Core Concepts. पाठ्यक्रम म� कटौती करके के वल अ�त मह�पूणर् अवधारणाओं को �सखाना
⇒ 🎯🎯 Target: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER: higher education): 26% (2018) → ⏫ 50% (2035);
⇒ Add 3.5 crore admission seats in higher education. (उ� �श�ा म� प्रवेश सीटों को बढ़ाया जाए)
⇒ Creative combinations of subjects & multi-disciplinary courses to be allowed. e.g. philosophy
and architecture, Earth Science and architecture. (अलग-अलग �वषयों का रचना�क सं योजन)
⇒ At present, most Private colleges are usually affiliated to some universities. Colleges have to
follow the admission process and syllabus defined by the university. In the next 15 years
gradually more autonomy will be given to colleges in this area. (महा�वद्यालयों को अपनी प्रवेश प्रिक्रया और
पाठ्यक्रम बनाने म� �ादा �तं त्रता दी जाएगी)
⇒ 🔧🔧Vocational education to be integrated. (�वसा�यक �श�ण को शा�मल िकया जाएगा)
⇒ IIT: 4 years course = BTech degree. If a student is weak/wants to EXIT after 3 year, IIT will give
a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree. Such proposal was approved in 2019
⇒ so with similar pattern, in NEP-2020 proposed: multiple entry and exit points with appropriate
certification. उ� �श�ा सं �ान म� प्रवेश के बाद अलग-अलग चरणों पर पढ़ाई छोड़ सकते ह� उस िहसाब से आपको
प्रमाणपत्र/उपा�ध �मले
If you Exit @ What you get? (इस चरण पर कॉलेज छोड़ �दया तो ये �मलेगा)
1 year Certificate प्रमाणपत्र
2 years Advanced Diploma उ� िड�ोमा
3 years Bachelor’s Degree �ातक क� उपा�ध
4 years Bachelor’s with Research अनुसंधान के साथ �ातक
62.2.10 �🕵🕵Education: Higher → New Orgs → HECI
🕵🕵BEFORE (पहले क� प्रणाली) 🕵🕵AFTER (भ�व� क� प्रणाली)
⇒ Multiple Regulators in the higher education Higher Education Commission of India(HECI:
sector for example UGC, AICTE, Medical भारत का उ� �श�ा आयोग) will be set up
Council of India (later replaced with ⇒ as a single umbrella body the for entire
National Medical Commission (NMC), Bar higher education, excluding medical and
Council of India etc. legal education (Bar council). भारत का उ�
�श�ा आयोग- जोिक �चिक�ा और वकालत के अलावा
सभी उ� �श�ा कायर्क्रमों का �नयं त्रण करेगा
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🕵🕵BEFORE (पहले क� प्रणाली) 🕵🕵AFTER (भ�व� क� प्रणाली)
⇒ It will penalise Higher education
Institutions (HEIs) For violating the rules.
(�नयमों का उ�ं घन करने वाले उ� �श�ा सं �ानों पर
जुमार्ना /दंड)
UGC / AICTE officers would demand bribes It will do faceless inspection with technology
during inspections/ for approving the funds =⏬ scope for bribery, similar to Faceless
(उ� �श�ा पर �नयं त्रण के �लए �व�भ� सं �ाएं थी �जन के assessment in Income Tax dept. (फे सलेस �नरी�ण)
अफसर प्र�� �नरी�ण के बहाने �र�तखोरी करते थे.)
Govt colleges may not be subjected to as strict Both Public and private higher education
rules as private sector colleges. (सरकारी कॉलेजों पर institutions will be governed by the same set of
गुणव�ा के �नयं त्रण �नजी कॉलेजों �जतने स� नहीं थे, उनक� rules.(सरकारी और �नजी सभी सं �ानों पर एक समान �नयम
खा�मयों और गल�तयों को नज़रअंदाज़ िकया जाता था।) लागू होंगे.)
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62.2.12 👨👨👨👴👴👴👴Education: Adult/PH (प्रौढ़ �श�ा और �वकलांग �श�ा)
⇒ We'll provide open learning for classes 3,5 and 8 through NIOS.
⇒ We will encourage more online / distance learning courses using Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs) technology.
⇒ E-learning content in Regional Languages. प्रादे�शक भाषाओं म� ई-�श�ण सामग्री
⇒ Divyang (PH) Friendly Education Software. �वकलांगों के �लए शै��णक सॉ�वेयर
�New ⇒ National Educational Technology Forum (NETF)
Org: ⇒ for idea exchange on how to use Technology for improving the learning, exams,
360 degree Holistic Progress Card to track Student Progress (समग्र �वकास काडर् के साथ मू�ांकन प्रिक्रया)
🔠🔠😰😰BEFORE 🔠🔠🤩🤩AFTER
Summative Assessment Exams = We'll encourage Formative Assessment = During the
only at the end of semester / year class- ask oral questions, give homework assignment etc
checking factual / memory based to check student's analytical/critical thinking, and
knowledge. conceptual clarity. [रचना�क आकलन तािक �वद्याथ� क� �व�ेषण
सत्रांत परी�ाएं �जसम� �सफर् याददा� / रटने का और वैचा�रक ��ता को जांच सके ]
मू�ांकन होता है
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🔠🔠😰😰BEFORE 🔠🔠🤩🤩AFTER
BOARD EXAM = test of memory & Board exams will test core concept and 'application of
factual knowledge. High stake exam: knowledge'. It'll be made 'low-stake' (e.g. school
life and death situation if 99% not assignments marks may be counted, more admission
scored. बोडर् क� परी�ा: जुए का ऊंचा और opportunities even with low score etc) �वद्याथ� क� रटने क�
जो�खम भरा दांव �जसम� बाजी �जदं गी और मौत क� �मता नहीं िकंतु वैचा�रक ��ता, �ान के अनुप्रयोग को परखा जाएगा. बोडर्
लगी हो. परी�ा म� अ�े गुण ना �मले तो भी “�जदं गी-बबार्द”- उस जो�खम को कम
िकया जाएगा।
62.2.15 📊📊�Assessment of students: bodies (मू�ांकन/परी�ा के �लए सं �ाएं )
�new body National Assessment Centre called 'PARAKH' (Performance Assessment,
Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) for setting
assessment standards. परी�ा म� मू�ांकन कै से करना है उसक� मानक तैयार करने क� सं �ा
�existing National testing agency will continue to function and will offer common
body NTA entrance exams for admission in various college। अलग-अलग कॉलेजों म� दा�खले के �लए
सामा� प्रवेश परी�ा
62.2.16 📊📊📊📊Assessment of schools (�ू लों का आकलन)
States/UTs to setup State School Standards Authority (SSSA: �ू ल मानक के �लए रा� का प्रा�धकरण).
⇒ These bodies will require schools to disclose information e.g. how many seats/facilities/fees in
your school, how is your school's board exam result etc. → This will � public oversight and
accountability. �ू लों ने अ�नवायर् �प से अपने �वद्या�थयों क� सं �ा, बोडर् परी�ाओं म� प�रणाम, फ�स इ�ािद अलग-अलग
जानकारी देनी होगी �जससे सावर्ज�नक �नगरानी तथा जवाबदेही बढ़ेगी
⇒ School Quality Assessment & Accreditation Framework (SQAAF)= NOTIMP �ू लों के आकलन के
मानक।
62.2.17 �Teachers recruitment and training (�श�कों क� भत� और तालीम)
⇒ by 2030: Minimum degree qualification for teachers = 4-year integrated B.Ed. (�ूनतम यो�ता)
⇒ National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) + NCERT to design as new framework for
Teacher Education (NCFTE: �श�कों क� तालीम/�श�ा के �लए रा��ीय �परेखा)
⇒ National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) will design National Professional Standards for
Teachers (NPST: रा��ीय �ावसा�यक मानक)
⇒ Teachers' Recruitment will be made more transparent, merit based promotions, they will be
given more operational freedom in teaching etc. (भत� प्रिक्रया �ादा पारदश�, यो�ता आधा�रत पदो��त, पढ़ाने म�
�ादा �तं त्रता)
⇒ A National Mission for mentoring the (College) teachers. With help of senior/retired
faculty. (व�र�/�नवृ� प्रोफे सरों द्वारा वतर्मान �श�कों को गु��श�ा/तालीम दी जाएगी)
✋ Above fullforms / features not imp for UPSC but for UGC-NET/TAT
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62.2.18 �🤑🤑NEP-2020: Funding (�श�ा �ेत्र के �लए �व�पोषण)
⇒ Union Budget’s Expenditure on Education as % of GDP= 2.8% annually from 2014 to 2018.
Then 3% (2019), 3.5% (2020)
⇒ Union+State's total public investment in education currently about 4.4% of GDP. NEP aims to
⏫ to 6% of GDP at earliest. (�श�ा म� सावर्ज�नक �नवेश को बढ़ाकर सकल घरेलू उ�ाद के 6% तक िकया जाएगा)
⇒ We'll expand & reform National Scholarship Portal to cover more SC/ST/OBC, and other
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Groups(SEDGs) such as women, transgender, etc.
(कमजोर वगर् को छात्रवृ�� देने के �लए �व�भ� सुधार)
⇒ Gender Inclusion Fund to improve education of girl child. (ल��गक समावेशन �न�ध)
⇒ Special Education Zones for disadvantaged regions and groups (�वशेष �श�ा �ेत्र)
⇒ We will encourage private colleges to give scholarship to students (छात्रवृ��)
�❓Which of the following statements is NOT correct regarding the National Education Policy
2020 in India? [Asked in UPSC-IES-2021]
(a) It proposes sweeping changes in the Education system from pre-primary to PhD and skill
development.
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(b) universities from among top 100 in the world will be able to set up campuses in India
(c) It expects that India will achieve 60% GER by 2030
(d) It suggests NAAC to be merged with UGC and AICTE
Figure 1: पूरा िदन कं �ूटर पर पढ़ाई करके मेरी आंखे दुख रही है😰😰
⇒ By HRD/Edu-Ministry ई �श�ा के बारे म� िदशा�नद�श
⇒ Corona lockdown= 240 million Indian children unable to go to school.
o Synchronous digital education: This is real-time (live) teaching. (जीवं त प्रसारण)
o Asynchronous digital education: non-real time e.g. article, recorded TV program.
⇒ PRAGYATA guidelines = eight steps of e-learning: Plan- Review- Arrange- Guide- Yak(talk)-
Assign- Track- Appreciate.
Class Screentime Recommendation (Synchronous/ Live classes)
Pre Primary not more than 30 minutes.
Classes 1 to 8 Not more than two lectures of 30-45 minutes each
Classes 9 to 12 Not more than four lectures of 30-45 minutes each on the days
⇒ Further individual school-teachers should not be required to teach more than 2 to 3 hrs of
online/day
⇒ Do's and Don'ts to ensure physical wellbeing (Back pain, eye strain), Mental health and
wellbeing, Cyber safety, Digital privacy. शारी�रक पीठ ददर्, आंखों का तनाव, मान�सक �ा�, साइबर सुर�ा,
िड�जटल गोपनीयता/�नजता।
62.4 📐📐😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋 EDU → STD1-8 → MID-DAY MEAL SCHEME (MDM-2001-2020)
2021-Oct: Modi announced that above MDM scheme will be known as PM Poshan Scheme:
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Mid-Day Meal Scheme PM Poshan (POshan SHakti Nirman)
[�नगरानी के �लए कॉलेज छात्रों क� भी मदद ली जाएगी]
�Criticism: National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 recommended breakfast in schools but not
done in new scheme. [रा��ीय �श�ा नीती म� तो सुबह का ना�ा भी देने क� बात थी, लेिकन नई योजना म� ऐसा नहीं िकया]
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Name Description
तीसरी क�ा के ब�ों पढ़ने और ग�णत क� बु�नयाद को बहेतर करो योजना
Motivate 6-18 years children to pursue Science, Mathematics and
Rashtriya Avishkar
Technology by organizing science melas, extra mentoring to bright students
Abhiyan (2015)
etc.
Involve volunteers like NRIs, retired teachers, govt officials, defence
personnel, professionals, etc. in primary govt schools for teaching & co-
scholastic activities e.g. play acting, preparing story books
Vidyanjali 📙📙ES23: more than 1 lakh volunteers helped schools in mentoring of gifted
children, teaching vocational skills, providing ceiling fans and water
purifiers, gifting digital devices & musical instruments, self-defence training
to schoolgirls, etc.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. What is the purpose of Vidyanjali Yojana?(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
1. To enable the famous foreign educational institutions to open their campuses in India.
2. To increase quality of education provided in govt schools by taking help from the pvt sector
& community.
3. To encourage voluntary monetary contributions from private individuals and organizations
so as to improve the infrastructure facilities for primary and secondary schools.
Codes: (a) 2 only (b) 3 only (c) 1 and 2 only (d) 2 and 3 only
- Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan is Core Scheme (Not 100% funded by Union).
- Boss? Ministry of Human Resource and Development / Edu Ministry
- 2007: Union created non-lapsable fund under Public Account ‘Madhyamik and Uchchtar
Shiksha Kosh (MUSK)’. It receives ₹ ₹ from the education cess levied on direct taxes.
- RMSA aims for 100% universal retention upto class 10 by 2020. (=noone should ‘dropout’
before class10, सब ब�ों ने कम से कम दसवीं �श�ा तक पढ़ाई करनी चािहए �ू ल नहीं छोड़ना चािहए)
- ₹ ₹ for building school, library, laboratory, computer lab, toilets & hostels for girls, teachers
recruitment & salary etc.etc.
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⇒ � Controversy? Federalism, Nationalism, Secularism and other important topics were also
dropped from syllabus. (सं घवाद, रा��वाद, धमर्�नरपे�ता जैसे अ�त मह�पूणर् मुद्दों को अ�ासक्रम से हटाया गया)
⇒ CBSE clarified this is only one time step for 2020-21 only. So in future these topics may be re-
added. (�सफर् एक बार के �लए �लया गया कदम है)
⇒ 2021: Board Exam cancelled ki daily commentary but now it is outdated news.
62.8 📐📐📯📯📯📯 EDU → STD. JR.KG TO 12: SAMAGRA SHIKSHA SCHEME (2018)
⇒ Union government will give money for upgrading 14000+ existing schools into PM SHRI
Schools (PM ScHools for Rising India).
⇒ PM-Shri Schools will have the best quality infrastructure and teaching facility - . labs, smart
classrooms, libraries, sports equipment, art room etc.
⇒ They will act as role model for the nearby schools in the area.
⇒ Union government will give money for the 2022-23 to 2026-27. Afterwards state
government/UT Will be responsible for maintenance of these PM-SHRI schools.
क� द्र सरकार पैसा देकर कु छ �ू लो को बेहतर करेगी तािक वे रा��ीय �श�ा नी�त को लागू कर सक� , और आसपड़ोस के दू सरे फ़ालतू/
घ�टया/ औसत-गुणव�ा वाले �ू लों के �लए एक �मसाल बन सके
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62.9.1 Annual Status of Education Report ASER Report by NGO Pratham
⇒ Latest ASER-2022 Report (released in 2023-Jan)
⇒ percentage of children attending government school increased from 65% (2018) to 73% (2022)
because poor parents cannot afford the fees of private schools. (सरकारी �ू लों म� पढ़ने वाले ब�ों क� सं �ा
बढ़ी है. �ोंिक �नजी �ू ल क� फ�स मां-बाप भरने म� असमथर् हो रहे ह�. �ोंिक कोरोनावायरस के नौकरी धं धे चौपट हो गए थे)
⇒ only 20% class3 kids can read class2 books. (तीसरी क�ा के मात्र 20% ब�े ही दू सरी क�ा क� िकताब पढ़ पाते ह�)
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- So, CCE done for namesake, every student is passed casually till class 8 → students become very
lax in studies → pathetic scores in ASER survey. [�सफर् कागजी िदखावे के �लए ये िक्रया क� जाती थी]
- Finally, Govt woke up & enacted Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education
(Amendment) Act, 2019 that from now onwards:
I. Regular exam @class 5 and 8. [परी�ा होगी, हवा म� पास करके आगे नहीं चढ़ा द�गे]
II. If student fails → re-test within 2 months → if he again fails → State Govt may hold
(detain) him in the same class for another year. So ‘yes detention policy’ (ब�ा उस
परी�ा म� असफल �आ तो उसी क�ा म� एक साल और रोकना होगा..)
कोरोना के चलते 10-12th क� बोडर् परी�ाएं �ई रद्द। तो �फर ब�ों को आगे क� क�ा/कोलेज म� दा�ख़ला कै से �मलेगा
Corona-2021: Central Board of School Education (CBSE) cancelled the Class12 board exams.
Student to get marksheet based internal exam using the 30:30:40 formula. How it worked? NOTIMP
- 2017: रा�ी� य परी�ण एज�सी (NTA) setup as an autonomous body under HRD/Edu Ministry, registered
under Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860.
- Initially, NTA given ₹ 25 cr. then it’s supposed to be self-sustained (by charging exam fees)
- Structure:
○ Board of Governors → Chairman: A noted educationist. Members: From the institutes
for which NTA conducts entrance exam. [अ�� एक जानामाना �श�ा�वद होना चािहए]
○ A CEO / Director General for day to day affairs. [रोज़ का काम देखने के �लए]
Earlier CBSE conducted JEE, NEET & UGC NET entrance. NTA’s task is to conduct those exam
(online), and then expand itself to conduct other exams as well. Presently, NTA conducts →
1. Engineering: Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)
2. Medical: National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET: रा�ी� य पात्रता व् प्रवेश परी�ा): twice a year
from 2019. It replaces the erstwhile All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT).
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a. NEET remains in controversy because of the age limit criteria, stringent security checks,
wrong questions/ wrong translation, alleged injustice to non-English medium students,
Tamilandu Govt opposed. (त�मलनाडु का इ�ाम िक हमारे ग़ैर-अंग्रेज़ी मा�म के ब�ों के साथ अ�ाय)
b. 2022: Maximum age limit for appearing in NEET-UG exam is removed. (आयु मयार्दा ख़� )
3. UGC National Eligibility Test(NET) for Assistant Professorship & Research Fellows: twice a year.
4. Pharmacy: Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT)
5. Management courses: Common Management Admission Test (CMAT)
6. Hotel Management Joint Entrance Examination
7. National Testing Agency (NTA): to get admission in 45 Central universities.
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Deemed to ⇒ Based on UGC advise, HRD/Edu Ministry grants “Deemed to be University”
be status to an institute, then it gets freedom in deciding courses, syllabus,
University admissions and fees. [ये सं �ान अपना अ�ासक्रम, प्रवेश�न�त, फ�स इ�ािद तय कर सकता है]
⇒ Deemed Universities can also grant degrees on their own. During UPA raj,
many institutes given this tag, later 40+ found deficient in faculty &
infrastructure so blacklisted.[हालांिक ऐसी क� सं �ाओं म� बु�नयादी सु�वधा और �श�कों क� कमी]
⇒ 2017: SC ordered such institutes can’t use ‘university’ tag. So, Manipal
University need to use the term ‘Manipal Academy of Higher Education’ etc.
Sanskrit Central Sanskrit Universities Act, 2020 to convert following institutions into
Univ 'Central Universities' [क� द्रीय �व��वद्यालय कानून]
- 1) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi,
- 2) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi,
- 3) Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati
(✋BUT MORE IMP for UGC-NET exam, less for IAS exam)
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⇒ Edu Ministry provides mentoring to institutions seeking NAAC Accreditation
under a scheme called “Paramarsh”
QS Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by UK based org
Ranking - Usually following organizations tend to be Top-200 ranking- IIT-Bombay, IIT-
Delhi, Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bengaluru).
📔📔📔📔ES20: Indian students spend US$ 5.0 billion (2018-19) in foreign universities’ education,
hostel etc. if we want to ⏬current account deficit, we must ⏬ such ‘education (service) imports’.
🔠🔠❓ National Institutional Ranking Framework 2021, ____ got overall top ranking? [IES-2021]
(a) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (b) Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
(c) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (d) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
62.14👻👻😷😷📐📐🤳🤳 EDU → PORTALS/APPS/ORGS → POST-CORONA
PRASHAST App by Education Ministry. - To monitor 21 disability conditions among
school-children & generate school-wise report. (ब�ों म� �वकलांगता जाँचने के �लए)
NISHTHA 4.0 Teacher training programme for Early Childhood Care and Education.
(ECCE) Aims to train 25 Lakh teachers at pre-primary and primary level.
🤳🤳 Abhyas app National Testing Agency (NTA)'s mobile app for IIT-JEE mock tests.
🤳🤳 VidyaDaan 2.0 HRD/Edu Ministry portal To help the educators contribute e-learning
(2020-April) content via DIKSHA portal
🤳🤳 YUKTI 2.0 Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and
कोरोना सं शोधन के बारे म� Innovation (YUKTI) is HRD/Edu Ministry's portal for sharing info about:
Research, Innovation, Technologies, Startup (सं शोधन,
नवप�रवतर्न,तकनीक,�ाटर्अप) esp. those related to Corona
🤳🤳Bharat Padhe HRD/Edu Ministry campaign for Crowd sourcing of Ideas for Improving
Online (2020-April) Online Education ecosystem of India
🤳🤳SAMARTH ⇒ It is an open source Enterprises Resource Planning (ERP) software. उद्यम
सं साधन आयोजन के �लए बना सॉ�वेयर
⇒ Helps keeping track of student attendance, teacher salary, fees
collection, exam score etc. It is developed by the HRD/Edu Ministry
⇒ under the National Mission of Education in Information and
Communication Technology Scheme (NMEICT). =Such microscopic
technical preparation = NOTIMP
🎅🎅STARS program ⇒ Who? World Bank, Education Ministry, Department of Economic
by World Bank Affairs (DEA, FinMin),
�व� ब�क द्वारा आ�थक ⇒ What? $500 million to � school education in six States viz Himachal
सहायता Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and
Rajasthan.
⇒ For Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States' (STARS)
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🤳🤳 GOAL Project Facebook + Tribal Affairs Ministry to skilling and mentorship of ST youth
through online mode.
📊📊Global Edu by UNESCO. 2020-June
Monitoring (GEM) Corona affected the access to education od 1.5 billion students across the
Report world. Poor suffered the most because of no access to internet.
Plus lots of data but poor cost-benefit in chasing it
🎅🎅Global launched by UNESCO. 2020-May
Education Coalition To coordinate educational activities during Post-Corona
Yuva 2.0 Competition for the young others to get their book published with the help
of national book trust (NBT)
Akhil Bharatiya It was a summit at Varanasi by the Ministry of Education in association
Shiksha Samagam with the UGC and Banaras Hindu University. The event brought together
(2022) over 300 Vice Chancellors and Directors from public and private
universities- said �ES23.
62.15 📐📐🤳🤳 EDU → MISC. PORTALS / INITIATIVES (BEFORE CORONA)
✋As such Following things more imp4 UGCNET/TAT exams. less so for IAS यूपीएससी म� तो इ�ा-दु�ा
प्र� ही �नकले है. लेिकन अगर म� content नहीं दूंगा तो आपको लगेगा िक दू सरे CA-PDF वाले बेहतर है, भले परी�ा के �लए माल
�ादा उपयोगी न हो 😅😅
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⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) portal
for school, college courses. Anyone can join and learn online for free.
SWAYAM
⇒ SWAYAM = Study Webs of Active–Learning for Young Aspiring Minds.
Portal
Launched in ⇒ National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is an
initiative by 7 IITs + Indian institute of science (IISC). They’ve launched
2017
many free courses on SWAYAM portal.
[मु� म� ऑनलाइन
⇒ 2019: Version 2.0 launched which offers 1) courses translated in Indian
पढ़ाई के �लए]
languages 2) online degrees 3) better features etc.
⇒ e-PGPathshala : For credit (marks) database for SWAYAM courses.
⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry’s project to run 32 DTH channels for education e.g.
SWAYAM
‘IITPAL’ TV Channel to assist the class11-12 students prepare for IIT
PRABHA
entrance exam.
⇒ Operation Digital Board (ODB): HRD/Edu Ministry to create minimum 2
ODB
smart classes for every Secondary/Senior Secondary schools by 2023.
E-Gyankosh ⇒ massive open online course (MOOC) portal by IGNOU.
E9 Initiative ⇒ UNESCO to focus on 9 countries for Digital Education viz. Bangladesh,
Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan. This
will help in achievement of SDG4 – Education by 2030.
⇒ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a
specialised agency of UN. (HQ: Paris, France, Founded in 1945)
DigiSaksham ⇒ Labour Ministry’s scheme for digital skills for youth with help of Microsoft
NEAT ⇒ by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE),
(2019) ⇒ National Education Alliance for Technology (NEAT),
⇒ PPP with ed-tech companies to help the poor students to get computer
related courses and devices. �पछड़े वगर् और ग़रीब वगर् के ब�ों को कं �ूटर के कोसर् और
साधन �मल सके उसके �लए सरकारी योजना
62.15.3 📐📐🤳🤳 Edu → Misc: Anti-ragging / life values/mental health
Manodarpan Edu ministry provides psycho-social support to students, teachers and parents
AntiRagging App by University Grants Commission (UGC) to complaint against ragging.
⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry’s (higher education) Student Induction Programme.
Deeksharambh UGC prepared guidelines for it e.g. setting up mentor groups, physical
2019 fitness & hobby groups, interaction with teacher before start of semester
etc. so freshers become comfortable in college.
Jeevan ⇒ UGC designed this Curriculum for Life Skills (Jeevan Kaushal) for
Kaushal Undergraduate to give them Life Skills e.g. communication skill,
interpersonal skill, time management, problem solving ability, decision
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making capacity, leadership ability [सं वाद कौशल, समय प्रबं धन, सम�ा �नवारण, �नणर्य
�मता, नेतृ� �मता को बेहतर करने के �लए]
🔠🔠❓ Find correct Statements. [UPSC-IES-2021]
1. NISHTHA is a teachers training program.
2. SVANidhi is a scheme to facilitate artisans to access affordable working capital load.
3. SATYABHAMA is a scheme to promote research and development in science and technology.
4. Manodarpan is a scheme to promote tourism in rural parts of India.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 3 and 4 only (d) 2 only
62.15.4 📐📐🤳🤳 Edu → Misc: Startup ke liye
⇒ National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT). HRD/Edu Ministry
NEAT ties up with Edutech companies for personalized learning through
Artificial Intelligence (AI) [कृ �त्रम बु�द्धम�ा क� मदद से ऑनलाइन �श�ा]
Smart ⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry’s annual competition inviting youth to develop
Hackathon hardware / software solutions to address problems faced by Govt
2017 organizations, PSUs and even NGOs.
⇒ Social Justice ministry to support 1000 Start-ups of Scheduled Caste (SC)
ASIIM, 2020
youth over next 4 years via venture capital fund.
KAPILA ⇒ Edu Ministry training college students on how to file patents
62.15.5 📐📐🤳🤳 Edu → Misc: Teachers’ training
ARPIT ⇒ Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching for online training of college
initiative faculty. [कॉलेज अ�ापकों क� ता�लम]
EQUIP five ⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry’s five year plan to improve higher education in 2019-
year plan 2024. [उ� �श�ा सं �ानों को बेहतर करने के �लए �श�ा मं त्रालय क� 5 साल क� योजना]
62.15.6 📐📐🇺🇺🇸🇸 Edu → Misc: NRI/foreign teachers/students ko bring to India?
62.15.7 📐📐🇺🇺🇸🇸 Foreign Uni Campus in India- UGC Draft rules 2023
�वदेशी �व��वद्यालय अपना क� पस भारत म� भी खोल सक� गे. उ�� अपनी फ�स तय करने म�, प्रोफे सरों क� �नयु�� करने म� खुली छू ट होगी. भारत से
कमाया �आ धन, वह अपने मादरे वतन ले जा पाएं गे इ�ािद
KIRAN � - Dept of Sci & Tech’ scheme for helping women scientists
- SEPARATELY, Social Justice Ministry has “KIRAN HELPLINE” For
mental health.
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⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry’s ‘UDAAN- Giving Wings to Girls’ scheme gives free
UDAAN coaching to 1000 selected girls so they can pass IIT/technical institutes’
entrance exam.
Dept of Sci & Tech’s scheme to encourage girls to join career in Science,
Vigyan Jyoti
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
⇒ Dept of Sci & Tech’s "GATI- Gender advancement through transforming
institutions" to encourage women scientists.
GATI
⇒ British Govt project "Athena SWAN" (Scientific Women's Academic
Network): similar objective & they’re collaborating with GATI
CURIE Dept of Sci & Tech’s scheme to improve R&D infra in women universities.
62.15.9 📐📐🤳🤳 Edu → Misc: Making science/research useful/popular
⇒ Dept of Sci & Tech (DST) and IBM Computer company collaboration to
STEM promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
learning among students.
Unnat Bharat ⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry gives ₹ ₹ to IIT, NIT etc to carry out research /
Abhiyan 2014 consultancy for rural / local problems.
⇒ ISRO to train 60 talented students from Class 9 to Class 12. ₹₹ by
DHRUV
HRD/Edu Ministry (So later some of them could become scientist)
STRIDE Faculty given ₹₹ for research in this Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for
India’s Developing Economy (STRIDE)
ECHO Prime Minister’s Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) → setup EChO Network
for providing leadership training to scientists and researchers.
PMRF Prime Minister Research Fellows by HRD/Edu Ministry
Talented B.Tech / M.Tech / M.Sc students from selected institutes given direct
Ph.D admission in the IITs / IISc + monthly stipend.
IMPRINT India IIT and IISc joint initiative to solve major engineering and technology
challenges of India, started in 2015.
IMPRESS Impactful Policy Research in Social Science (IMPRESS). It gives ₹₹ to social
science research.
SPARC Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC)
HRD/Edu Ministry gives ₹₹ for to Joint Research Projects between top ranked
Indian Institutions and globally ranked Foreign Institutions.
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NRF − While China and USA spend over 2% of their GDP on research, India
Foundation spends less than 0.7%.
(proposed) − Presently individual ministries give research grants, which results into lack
of coordination, some sectors receive too much attention, some get
neglected. So, (Full) Budget-2019 announced to setup a National Research
Foundation (NRF) to coordination research funding in India.
Further, Ref: Pillar#4 handout → Smart India Hackathon, and truckload of other
schemes for IPR but beyond a point, poor cost benefit.
62.15.11 📐📐🤳🤳 Edu → Misc: Civic duties, Adult Edu (प्रौढ़ �श�ा)
⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry Launched on the 70th Constitution day on (26/11/19).
Kartavya Portal ⇒ The portal will be used primarily for holding monthly essay / quiz / poster
making competitions for students for Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan- to
create mass awareness about fundamental duties. नाग�रक कतर्� के प्र�त चेतना
Saakshar ⇒ HRD/Edu Ministry scheme for achieving min. 80% Adult literacy, &
Bharat 2009 reduce the gap between male-female adult literacy rates.
⇒ Edu ministry scheme for adult-literacy through 4 month coaching course
Padhna Likhna
with help of civil society, NCC Cadets, CSR funding (Ref1C) etc.
Abhiyaan 2020
⇒ Main focus on Aspirational Districts (Ref:4C NITI)
⇒ Education ministry scheme for adult-education (2022-27)
New India
⇒ Target 1 crore illiterate persons every year.
Literacy
⇒ 1st priority to illiterates in 15-35 age group.
Programme
⇒ These adult learners will also use e-learning platforms such as OLTAS
(NILP)
(Online Teaching, Learning and Assessment System) for self-study.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’ aims for ?(Asked in UPSC-Pre-2017)
a) Achieving 100% literacy by promoting collaboration between voluntary organizations and
government’s education system and local communities.
b) Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development
challenges through appropriate technologies.
c) Strengthening India’s scientific research institutions in order to make India a scientific and
technological power.
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d) Developing human capital by allocating special funds for health care and education of rural and
urban poor, and organizing skill development programmes and vocational training for them.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. ‘SWAYAM’, an initiative of the Govt of India, aims at: (Asked in UPSC-Pre-2016)
a) promoting the Self Help Groups in rural areas
b) providing financial and technical assistance to young start-up entrepreneurs
c) promoting the education and health of adolescent girls
d) providing affordable and quality education to the citizens for free
According to the National Youth policy 2014: adolescents=10-19 years, youth= 15-29 years.
62.16.1 � �Yearbook: Ministry of Youth Affairs And Sports (युवा कायर् और खेल मं त्रालय)
Dept 1) Dept of Youth Affairs 2) Dept. of Sports
Attached / ⇒ National Service Scheme (NSS) is a subordinate organization
Subordinate ⇒ whereas National Youth Corps and Youth Hostel are simply names of
(सं ल� / अधीन�) schemes.
Statutory ⇒ N/A or not MCQ worthy
Autonomous ⇒ Sports Authority of India (SAI)
bodies �ाय� ⇒ National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), and Dope Testing laboratory.
सं �ान ⇒ National Sports Development Fund
⇒ Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS-1972)
⇒ National Sports University, Manipur
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62.16.3 ⚽�Khelo India Scheme → National Sports Education Board
⇒ Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports scheme that gives ₹ ₹ to financial help to meritorious
sportsmen, training of the coaches, ₹ ₹ to build stadium and other sports infrastructure,
awareness generation through mobile app, Fit INDIA campaign etc.
⇒ (Full) Budget-2019 announced to setup a National Sports Education Board (रा��ीय खेल �श�ा बोडर्)
under this scheme, for development of sportspersons.
⇒ Yogasana given status of competitive sports.
62.17 📐📐 ✍ CONCLUSION-TEMPLATE-EDUCATION:
⇒ SDG Goal #4: ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all. OR
⇒ India can’t achieve SDG Goal 1 (Poverty removal) or SDG Goal 5 (Gender Equality) without
achieving SDG Goal 4 (education). OR
⇒ Without education, a person can’t lead productive life in a globalising world OR
⇒ Education improves a society’s health and nutritional status, economic growth, population
control, empowerment of the weaker sections.
Aforementioned schemes / initiatives / challenges are important in that regard / need to be addressed
on priority basis. �श�ा प्रा� िकए �बना भारत ल� 1 (गरीबी हटाने) या ल� 5 (ल��गक समानता) प्रा� कर नहीं सकता. �श�ा के
�बना, कोई ��� वै�ीकरण क� दु�नया म� उ�ादक जीवन वहन नहीं कर सकता । �श�ा, समाज के �ा� और पोषण क� ���त, आ�थक
�वकास, जनसं �ा �नयं त्रण, कमजोर वग� के सश�ीकरण म� सुधार करती। ऊकत कदम प्रशं सनीय / ऊकत चुनौ�तयों से लड़ना ज�री।
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Statutory ⇒ Read about following in Detail from Laxmikanth:
⇒ Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) from 1985
⇒ Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) setup in the 60s based on the
Santhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption, given statutory status
in 2003.
⇒ Central Information Commission (CIC) under the Right to Information Act,
2005
⇒ Lokpal act in 2013 → 1st Lokpal Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose in 2019.
Autonomous National Recruitment Agency (NRA)
⇒ to conduct the Common Eligibility Test (CET) to screen/shortlist candidates
for Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs)
and Institute of Banking Personnel Selection(IBPS).
⇒ Based on the score obtained in the CET, candidates may appear in the
domain-specific tests by SSC, RRBs & IBPS respectively for the actual
recruitment.
63.1.2 👮👮 � 🤳🤳 Mission Karmayogi: Training of Civil servants (2020-Sept)
Mission Karmayogi:- National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) To
implement this, Govt employees will be trained for new India. Govt will setup….
- 1) Public Human Resources (HR) Council headed by Prime minister
- 2) setup a not-for-profit company Special Purpose Vehicle company for e-training
- 3) � Integrated Govt Online Training-iGOT Karmayogi Platform.
✋more details not important, unless PubAD is your optional subject
Dept ⇒ N/A
Attached/ ⇒ Director General Employment
Subordinate ⇒ Chief Labour Commissioner
⇒ Labour Bureau: It publishes Consumer Price Index Numbers for industrial
and agricultural rural workers.
⇒ Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS)
Statutory ⇒ Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)
⇒ Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
⇒ Central Govt Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Courts under the Industrial
Disputes Act 1947
Autonomous ⇒ V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, UP
CPSE ⇒ N/A or not MCQ worthy
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63.2 💇💇💇 �[YEARBOOK] MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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- 2013: National Skill Development Agency (NSDA-एज�सी) Autonomous Body under Skill
Ministry. It’s responsible for:
- Preparing National Labour Market Information System (LMIS) database.
- National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) to ensure that the coaching training
courses’ syllabus / methods are actually useful for the jobs requirements in present and
future. (सु�न��त करना क� जो �सखाया जा रहा है वह असल म� नौकरी/धं धे म� उपयोगी है िक नहीं?)
- National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF: रा��ीय कौशल यो�ता फ्रेमवकर् ) to organize
learners’ qualifications according to a levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude, including
the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL: पहले क� �वद्वता क� मा�ता). For example:
Sample NSQF Framework →
Sector Job title & Code NSQF Training Job Description & Skill Set
Level hrs
Beauty & Assistant Hair 3 150 An Assistant Hair Stylist shampoos
Wellness Stylist and conditions hair, blow dries hair,
(BWS) (BWS/Q0201) provides basic hair cuts as well as
assists the hair stylist.
Hair Stylist 4 300 In addition to above skills, he can do
(BWS/Q0202 ) advanced hair styling, color the hairs,
scalp massage etc.
63.3.1 � NCVET 2018 (�ावसा�यक �श�ा और प्र�श�ण के �लए रा��ीय प�रषद)
− ‘National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NVCET)’ under Skill Ministry, is a
non-statutory regulatory body setup through Gazette notification.
− NCVET will have Chairman + members.
NCVET will be responsible for
1. Advise on short term long term vocational programs / syllabus etc.
2. Overseeing the Sector Skill Councils (SSCs), Skill certification / assessment bodies.
3. Those SSCs will supervise ground level vocational training institutes: their recognition,
regulation, inspection, certification etc. So, NCVET will be an ‘indirect regulator’ of the ground
level vocational training institutes.
4. Grievance redressal, research, awareness generation and information dissemination and
grievance redressal.
63.4 (💇💇💇)📯📯📯📯 SKILL INDIA CAMPAIGN (2015: कौशल भारत अ�भयान)
Boss? Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. 4 components
1. National Skill Development Mission 2015→
a. 2018: SANKALP (Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood
Promotion) → To set up new training institutes, improve infrastructure of existing
institutes, Training of the trainers/assessors, encourage women, SC/ST/PH to join
programs. Core Scheme = States required to contribute some money.
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b. 2017: STRIVE (Skill Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement) → To improve
the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), National Skill Development
Agency (NSDA), etc. Central sector scheme = States not required to contribute money.
c. World Bank is giving ₹ ₹ support to both the schemes.
2. Skill Loan scheme: Students given bank loan from ₹ 5,000/- to ₹ 1,50,000/- to join skill
programs. (�वद्या�थयों को कौशल प्र�श�ण के कोसर् करने के �लए ब�क से लोन / क़ज़ार् �मले)
a. Loan tenure upto 7 years, Interest rate varies as per bank.
b. Bank will not charge processing/application fees, bank will not demand collaterals.
c. National Credit Guarantee Trust Company Ltd (NCGTC, under Department of
Financial Services) gives credit guarantee.
d. Govt / Bank ‘MAY’ give interest subsidy, if they want.
3. National Policy for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship 2015. Shortnote below
4. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme. Shortnote Given below
63.4.1 (💇💇💇)📯📯📯📯 Skill India3 → National Policy for Skill Dev. & Entrepreneurship 2015
- India’s Social-traditional view sees ‘Graduation Degree’ as a status. Vocational training
programs such as mason, carpenter, hair stylist, bicycle repairman are seen as the last option for
academically ‘weak’ students. We’ll generate awareness to break this taboo & inferiority complex
(हीन भावना को समाज से हटाया जाए क� वे��ंग-�ं �बगं का काम पढ़ाई म� कमज़ोर ब�े ही करते ह�).
- We’ll try to add vocational skilling programs from class9 itself. (�ू ल से ही �सखाना शु� कर�गे)
- When Govt offers ‘free’ skill training, students don’t take it seriously (सरकारी कौशल कायर्क्रमों म� भी
थोड़ी ब�त फ़�स ल�गे, एकदम-मु� म� निह पढ़ाएँ गे, तािक प्र�श�ु �वद्याथ� उस तालीम को गं भीरता से ले।)
- We’ll do sector-wise skill gap analysis, update training syllabus, train the workforce accordingly
with Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL- पहले से �मली सीख / कौशल क� मा�ता).
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- IT based monitoring, evaluation, placement (ऑनलाइन �नगरानी, तालीम के बाद रोज़गार िदलवाना)
- New ITIs will be set up in PPP mode. (सावर्ज�नक �नजी भागीदारी म� नए ITI खोल�गे)
63.4.2 (💇💇💇)📯📯📯📯 Skill India4 → Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)
Boss? Skill Ministry → ₹ ₹ to National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and State
Government’s State Skill Development Missions.
⇒ Centrally Sponsored Scheme → Core Scheme = Not 100% funded by Union.
⇒ Target: 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022., through following components:
1) Short Term 150-300 hrs training at public sector Training institutes (e.g. ITI,
Training (STT): Polytechnics) and empanelled private sector training institutes. These
लघु अव�ध क� तालीम centres will be designated as ‘Kaushal Vikas Kendra’.
2) Recognition of Those who already have learned from job / informal training / personal
Prior Learning experience e.g. Tailors, Masons, Plumbers, Cobbler, Hair Stylist, etc.
(RPL: पहले क� �वद्वता Their skills are tested, they’re given certificate. So accordingly they may join
क� मा�ता) ‘bridge courses’ to enhance their skills without needing to join basic level
courses.
Special Project launching training programs in sectors / persons not covered in Short Term
Training (STT). (�ज�� यिद लघु अव�ध क� तालीम न �मल पाई, उनके �लए ख़ास कायर्क्रम का)
++ Training mela, rozgar mela, tracking of how many people got placement, etc.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct about Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana: (UPSC-Pre-2018)
1. It is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
2. It, among other things will also impart training in soft skills, entrepreneurship, financial and
digital literacy.
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3. It aims to align the competencies of the unregulated workforce of the country to the National
Skill Qualification Framework.
Codes: (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2, and 3
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1. SHREYAS Webbportal to connect Non-Technical college youth (BA/Bcom/BBA type) with
industries so they can join apprenticeship, earn stipend & increase their employability. Govt to
pay 25% of stipend (upto max₹ 1500 per month), rest by the industrialist.
2. Launching B.A (Professional), B.Sc (Professional), B.Com (Professional) etc. courses - They’ll
contain educational input + vocational input + a mandatory apprenticeship for 6-10 months
3. Colleges without ‘campus recruitment / placement’ facilities- they’ll be connected with Labour
Ministry’s National Career Service (NCS) portal so their students can find jobs/placement.
63.5.1 👻👻👻👻👻👻(💇💇💇)Skilling → Post Corona / Atma-Nirbhar
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(apply biodata online) and ASEEM portals → this will help in
employment generation
SAKSHAM DST (Department of Science & Technology) → TIFAC (Technology
(Shramik Shakti Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council)→ portal for laborers’
Manch) skill mapping, skill cards, conneting with employers for jobs.
Shramshakthi ⇒ Tribal Affairs Ministry’s portal for migrant workers.
Portal ⇒ Objective? connecting them with other schemes for employment &
skill development. श्र�मकों को रोज़गार कोश� क� अ� योजनाओं से जोड़ने के �लए।
PM-DAKSH ⇒ For skilling of marginalized persons including scheduled castes,
backward classes and safai karamcharis.
IISC Network ⇒ India International Skill Centre (IISC- a body under Skill Ministry) To
provide Indian workers to foreign countries.
⇒ For this, IISC signed agreements with Germany, Belarus, United
Kingdom, France, Australia, Japan and Qatar etc.
DESH-Stack eportal ⇒ ��Budget-2022: DESH-Stack e-portal: for on-line training for skill
development.
🔠🔠❓MCQ. ASEEM is _ _ _ _. (UPSC-CDS-2020-ii)
(a) Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Measurement (b) Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee
Employer Mapping (c) Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Enterprises Medium
(d) Automatic Skilled Employee Employer Mission
63.6 (💇💇💇)📯📯📯📯 SKILLING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP → BEFORE CORONA
YuWAAH ⇒ UNICEF project for skill development of adolescent and young Indians,
2019 labelled "Generation Unlimited India"
Pradhan Mantri - Boss? Skill Ministry
Yuva Udyami - Just the usual stuff- Connect the aspiring entrepreneurs with peers,
Mitra Vikas mentors, funding and business services. Setup incubators & training centres
Yojana (YUVA)
in colleges, ITI
Ref Pillar1D & Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, Stand up India Loan Scheme
4B: Startup India Scheme, PM Rojgar Protsahan Yojana etc
Startup Village - Boss? Rural Development Ministry. Helps the rural poor to start business.
Entrep.ship - It’s a subcomponent of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural
Programme Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).
National Career 2015: Labour Ministry set up an online portal & offline centres to help ITI /
Service diploma / graduate job seekers connect with job givers. Organize rozgar melas,
spread career awareness etc.
National - Boss? Skill Ministry. After Youth has completed basic training in Industrial
Apprenticeship Training Institutes (ITIs) / Kaushal Vikas Kendra, then Industrialist takes
Promotion him as apprentice ((शा�गदर् / प्र�श�ु)), trains him in practical aspects, pays
Scheme stipend.
2016 - Govt pays part of the stipend.
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- Target: ⏫ apprenticeship training to 50 lakh youth by 2020. Online
registration of apprentice, centralized monitoring, exam & certification.
Apprenticeship Under the Apprenticeship Act, Govt has notified these rules:
Rules - minimum monthly stipend: ₹5,000 for school pass out class5-9 and ₹9,000
for graduate
- 10-15% hike in stipend for 2nd and 3rd year of apprenticeship
Disturbed areas Rural Development Ministry (ग्राम �वकास मं त्रालय) →
अशांत �ेत्र - HIMAYAT: skill development in J&K
- ROSHNI: skill development in Naxal / LWE areas.
Minorities Minorities Ministry (अ�सं �क मं त्रालय) →
अ�सं �क - USTTAD: Upgrading the Skill and Training in Traditional Art craft for
Development
- Nai Manzil: Madressa students, school-dropouts given additional training
so they can get jobs.
- Nai Udan, Naya Savera: free coaching / stipend for competitive exams.
- Learn And Earn (Seekho Aur Kamao)
Yukti Yukti - Yogya Kalakriti ki Takneek: HRD/Edu Ministry’s scheme for skill
development of traditional craftsman
Women - Social Justice Ministry: National Backward Classes Finance & Development
Corporation (NBCFDC) → Mahila Samriddhi Yojana → Concessional
Loans for female entrepreneurs.
- Department of Financial Services → credit guarantee through NCGTC ltd
→ Standup India: SC/ST & Women entrepreneurs given loans from 10 lakh
to 1 cr in each SCB Bank branch.
- Women Child Ministry →
- PM Mahila Shakti Kendra for skilling & availing scheme benefits.
- Support to Training & Employment Program for Women (STEP)
Scheme
Jan Shikshan Skill Ministry’ vocational training centres for school dropouts & illiterates in the
Sansthan age group of 15-45. (अनपढ़ लोगों को कौश� तालीम देकर रोजगार नौकरी धं धा िदलवाएं गे)
📊📊India Skill Survey conducted by Pvt orgs. & funded by AICTE, UNDP etc.
Report 2019 - More than 50% MBA and >40% of B.Tech/B.E are unemployable (रोज़गार के
�लए अयो�) because they do not have the skills required by the industries.
- Overall, ~53% of youth coming out of higher educational institutions are
unemployable. Although it is improvement compared to previous years.
Global Skills Park India’s first Global Skills Park is to be setup in Madhya Pradesh by Union Govt
(2018) + loans from Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Skill India ⇒ Government plans to open such centres in multiple cities, for example,
International Varanasi, Bhubaneshwar, etc.
Centres, ⇒ To give skill training to Indian workers wanting to migrate to UAE, Canada,
Australia and other GCC regions for jobs.
Reskilling World Economic Forum's initiative to provide 1 billion people better edu, skills
Revolution & jobs by 2030. India joined as founding member (2020-Jan)
MNGF Skill Ministry gives Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MNGF) to young
professionals for helping district level officials in skill dev programs.
ISDS Skill Ministry created this new Group A service, Indian Skill Development
Group ‘A’ Service Services (ISDS: भारतीय कौशल �वकास सेवाएं ). They’ll be recruited through Indian
Engineering Service Examination, conducted by UPSC. First batch taken in
2019, and undergoing training at Mysuru.
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PILLAR#6C- POVERTY, INEQUALITY, MGNREGA & OTHER SCHEMES
Table of Contents
64 �� HRD → Poverty (गरीबी) ................................................................................................................. 959
64.1.1 �� Factors responsible for poverty in India (गरीबी के कारण) ................................................. 960
64.1.2 ���Vicious Circle of Poverty (गरीबी का दुष्चक्र/�वषचक्र) ....................................................... 961
64.1.3 ��Economics Nobel 2019 for Global Poverty Alleviation ................................................. 961
64.2 ��� Poverty → Measurement / Estimation (गरीबी का �नधार्रण) .................................................. 962
64.2.1 ��� Videshi methods → World Bank: ~21% Indian juntaa is poor ............................. 962
64.2.2 World Bank Poverty Line Changed (2022-Sept) ........................................................................ 962
64.2.3 ��� Videshi methods → UNDP-MPI: ~16% Indian juntaa is poor ............................ 963
64.3 ��� Videshi methods → Inequality (असमानता )....................................................................... 964
64.3.1 ���World Inequality Report 2022: .................................................................................. 964
64.3.2 ��� Oxfam Inequality Index वै��क असमानता सूचकांक ......................................................... 965
64.3.3 �♀Period Poverty (मा�सक धमर् के चलते गरीबी) ................................................................................. 965
64.4 ��� DESHI methods: (BPL: गरीबी रेखा से नीचे) ............................................................................. 965
64.4.1 ��� DESHI methods → SECC-2011 ............................................................................... 966
64.4.2 ��� deshi methods → NITI-MPI: ~25% Indian juntaa is poor ................................... 967
64.4.3 ��� deshi methods → ���� Bare Necessities Index (BNI) By ��ES21 968
64.4.4 ���� BNI index Findings (सूचकांक से �ा त� सामने आए?) .............................................. 970
64.4.5 ���� �BNI index Analysis: Conclusion / Significance? [�न�षर् /मह�] ................. 970
64.4.6 �����
� Trickle Down in China [आ�थक वृ�द्ध का नीचे क� ओर टपकना] .............................. 971
64.4.7 Poverty Rural Areas - �ES23 .................................................................................................... 972
64.5 �� Poverty → Poverty Removal (गरीबी उ�ूलन) ............................................................................. 972
64.6 ��:� �� Poverty Removal → MGNREGA (2005) ................................................................. 973
64.6.1 MGNREGA Wages........................................................................................................................ 974
64.6.2 MGNREGA - DBT: Mixed Model continued ............................................................................. 974
64.6.3 �MGNREGA → �Budget-2023 allocation reduced ........................................................... 975
64.6.4 �MGNREGA → Bare Foot Technicians (BFT, 2015) ............................................................. 975
64.6.5 �MGNERGA: Misc. Reforms / Apps / Portals ....................................................................... 975
64.6.6 �MGNREGA: problems/suggested reforms/way-forward .................................................... 976
64.6.7 �(� �⛏:� ���)Atma-Nirbhar → PM Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA) ...... 976
64.6.8 Indira Gandhi Shehri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana,by Rajasthan Govt....................................... 976
64.6.9 ��:��� Poverty Removal → National Livelihood Missions =Skill+Loan ................ 976
64.6.10 DAY-NRLM: Community Resource Persons (सामुदा�यक सं साधन ���)................................... 977
64.6.11 ��:�
�� Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDUGKY-2014): 977
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64.6.12 �DAY-NULM: NIPUN - construction workers skill upgradation (2022) ........................ 977
64.6.13 ��:�
�� Poverty Removal → DAY-NRLM/NULM → sub-schemes (उप-योजनाएं ) . 978
64.6.14 ��:�
�� Poverty Removal → DISHA Committees (2016) ..................................... 978
64.6.15 ��:�
�� Poverty Removal → Mission Antyodaya (2017) ...................................... 978
64.6.16 ��:�
�� Poverty Removal → RUDSETI .................................................................. 979
64.6.17 ��:�
�� Poverty Removal → SMILE 75 (�भखारी-मु� हो 75 शहर) .............................. 979
64.7 ��:�
�� Poverty Removal → Directly give ₹ ₹ → UBI ........................................................ 979
64.8 ���Poverty Removal: DBT → E-Rupi ..................................................................................... 979
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Definition: Poverty is the lack of sufficient money to meet the minimum standard of living-
including food, clothing, shelter, health and education. भोजन, कपड़े, आश्रय, �ा� और �श�ा सिहत जीवन के
�ूनतम �र को पूरा करने के �लए पयार्� धन/पैसों क� कमी को गरीबी कहेते है।
⇒ Originally, Nobel Prizes were given for 1) Physics, 2) Chemistry, 3) Physiology or Medicine, 4)
Literature, and 5) Peace. From the fund created by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
⇒ 1968-69: Bank of Sweden started giving “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences”. So,
technically not a Nobel Prize, but it’s nicknamed as “Nobel for Economics”
⇒ 2019: Abhijit Banerjee (born in Mumbai, teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
& his wife Esther Duflo (France) and Michael Kremer (USA) received for “experimental
approach to alleviating global poverty." ("वै��क गरीबी को कम करने के �लए प्रयोगा�क ���कोण।")
⇒ They’ll receive 9 million Swedish krona, to be shared equally between the Laureates.
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2019’s winner suggested we shd divide poverty issue into smaller & manageable questions such as:
⇒ “How can we improve educational outcomes? → extra classes for the weak students
⇒ ”How can we improve child health?” → � vaccination→ give foodgrains to parents if they
bring child for vaccination. (गरीब मां-बाप को मु� अनाज दो बस शतर् है िक वह ब�े को टीकाकरण के �लए लाए)
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What is India’s new Data? Ans. Yet to be released.
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3. Extent of budget deficit and GDP growth rate at national level
Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
⇒ 1) World’s richest 10 per cent own around 60-80 per cent of wealth and the poorest half
systematically own less than 5 per cent of wealth (�व� असमानता �रपोटर् म� पाया गया िक पूरी दु�नया क� 60-80
प्र�तशत क� सं प��- के वल 10% अमीरों के क़�े म� ह� जबिक सबसे ग़रीब लोगों के पास पूरी दु�नया क� 5% सं प�� भी नहीं है)
⇒ 2) Women today get just one-third of all labour income in the world.
⇒ Suggested more tax on rich. (अमीरों पर �ादा कर लगाया जाए ऐसी �सफ़ा�रश)
⇒ India ‘very unequal’: The bottom 50% population earned less than Rs 55,000 per year, while the
top 10% Indian population earned over Rs 11 lakhs per year.
FAQ: “this data is not matching by the NSO data given in Pillar4C Handout. Ans. This data is
collected by a non-govt organisation based in foreign nation!
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64.3.2 🤲🤲💸💸📏📏 Oxfam Inequality Index वै��क असमानता सूचकांक
⇒ UK’s NGO Oxfam International’s ‘Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index’
⇒ It measures Govt’s ‘seriousness’ in reducing inequality by 3 dimensions 1) Govt’s spending on
social sector 2) progressive taxation 3) labour rights.
⇒ 2018 Ranking: #1: Denmark, #147: India, #157: Nigeria (lowest)
⇒ 2020-Jan: Oxfam presented a report in WEF-Davos summit that 1% Indian hold four times more
wealth than 70% of poor and it would take a female domestic worker in India 22,277 years to
earn what a top CEO of a technology company makes in one year.
⇒ 2021, 2022: SIMILAR BOL-BACHCHAN like above. More suited for Mains than Prelims. So not
updating it here.
इनका तो रोज का रोना लगा रहता है िक भारत म� अमीर आदमी �ादा अमीर हो रहा है लेिकन �प्र�लम म� ऐसे त�ों क� उपयो�गता कम
है. इस�लए �ादा प�े म� इधर भर नहीं रहा.
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Pradesh < Madhya Pradesh < Assam < Odisha < Bihar < Arunachal
Pradesh < Manipur < Jharkhand < Dadra & Nagar Haveli <
Chhattisgarh (most poor)
C. Rangarajan Setup by Planning Commission, this Committee suggested poverty line
(2012-14) @monthly expenditure for family of five: ₹ 4860 (Rural), ₹ 7035 (Urban).
MCQ. in India, official poverty lines are higher in some states than in other because (Pre-2019)
a) Poverty rates vary from state to state b) Price levels vary from state to state
c) Gross state product varies from state to state d) Quality of public distribution varies from
state to state
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Automatically excluded 7 Deprivation Indicators Automatically included in a
अभाव के 7 सं के त SCHEME if
1) Motorized vehicle/ 1) Landless households earning 1) Households without
fishing boat. from manual labour? shelter
2) Kisan credit card with 2) One room house with kuccha 2) Destitute / living on alms
limit of over Rs. walls & roof? (�नरा�श्रत / �भ�ु)
50,000/-. 3) No adult (18-59 aged) member 3) Manual scavengers
3) If govt employee / in household? 4) Primitive Tribal Groups
owner of non-agro 4) No literate adult in household? (आिदम जनजातीय समूह)
enterprises / earning 5) Female headed household with 5) Legally released bonded
>10k/per month no adult male member? labourers (बं धुआ मजदू र )
4) Paying income tax 6) Households with only PH
/Professional tax. members?
5) 3 or more rooms with 7) SC/ST Households?
pucca walls and roof.
6) Owns a
refrigerator/Owns
landline phone.
7) Owns more than “x”
acre of land
7 cr. (~39%) out of 18 cr 11 cr. (~43%) rural households 16 lakh (~0.9%) rural
rural households here here. households here
If a govt scheme is using SECC-2011 data then
Left column-walla: automatically excluded (�त: बाहर करना) from scheme benefit.
Right column-walla: automatically included.
Middle column-walla: included based on how deprived they are. So household with more ‘yes
tickmarks’ will get first preference in allotment of PM Awas Yojana, PM Ujjwala cylinder
connection etc. over a less deprived households (वं �चत प�रवार).
− PM Jan Arogya Yojana (₹ 5lakh annual health insurance) also uses SECC data to cover 8 cr rural
+ 2 cr urban = 10 cr families.
− During SECC (Rural) survey → Households were asked questions → results displayed at Gram
Sabha → others can ‘counter’ it (like Mr. X is not a destitute but has mercedes car!) →
reverification.
− SECC (Urban) methodology slightly different but we need not PHD. Further, Govt has not
released the ‘Caste census’ portion of this SECC (fearing demands for inclusion / exclusion of a
caste based on above data)
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⇒ This Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’s calculation methodology is inspired by MPI-
index of UN Development Programme (UNDP)+Oxford Poverty and Human Development
Initiative (OPHI)
⇒ NITI has collected data indirectly through National family health survey (NHFS-4: 2015-16)
⇒ NITI’s MPI Index has 3-Dimensions (– health, education, and standard of living): Each given
equal weight). Total 12 Questions: nutrition, school attendance, years of schooling, drinking
water, sanitation, housing, bank accounts etc.
Figure 1: % total population of India who are multidimensionally poor and deprived in each indicator
⇒ Highest Poverty: 1) Bihar (52% Population is poor) 2) Jharkhand (42% Population), 3) Uttar
Pradesh (38% Population), 4) MP (36%) 5) Meghalaya (32%)
⇒ Lowest Poverty? Kerala (0.71%), Goa (3.76%), Sikkim (3.82%), Tamil Nadu (4.89%) and Punjab
(5.59%)
(नी�त आयोग का ब� आयामी ग़रीबी-�नधर्नता सूचकांक। �ा� �श�ा और जीवन �र के तीन आयामों पर कु ल �मलाकर 12 अलग अलग प्र�ों के
आधार पर लोगों क� गरीबों को नापा जाए इसम� �बहार झारखं ड और उ�र प्रदेश म� सबसे �ादा प्र�तशत लोग गरीब/�नधर्न है)
64.4.3 🤲🤲💸💸📏📏 deshi methods → 📊📊📊📊📊📊📊📊 Bare Necessities Index (BNI) By 📙📙📙📙ES21
⇒ Nobel Winner Economist Dr. Amartya Sen defines poverty as a failure to achieve certain
minimum basic needs. Therefore, access to “the Bare Necessities” such as Food, Housing,
Water, Sanitation, Electricity, Clean Cooking Fuel are a Sine-Qua-Non / Prerequisite for
poverty alleviation and a decent life. [अम�र् सेन के िहसाब से ग़रीबी का मतलब है �ूनतम ज़�रतों या �मताओं को
हा�सल करने म� �वफलता. अत: ग़रीबी उ�ूलन के �लए भोजन, आवास, पेयजल, ��ता, �बजली इ�ािद ज़�री/ �ूनतम
आव�कता क� चीजे/सु�वधाए लोगो को �मले यह अ�नवायर् है]
⇒ So, ��ES21Vol1Ch10 prepared a Bare Necessities Index to quantify this approach. (उ�
सोच/ ���कोण के मात्रा�क �प से मू�ांकन के �लए आ�थक सव��ण ने बनाया है ‘ज़�री आव�कता / बु�नयादी आव�कता
सूचकांक’)
⇒ With 5 Dimensions viz., water, sanitation, housing, micro-environment, and other facilities and
26 indicators.
5 26 indicators (सं के तक). [Note: following table contains only
dimensions[आयाम] notable/imp/exam-worthy indicators, & NOT all 26 indicators.]
💦💦1) Water 📊📊Indicators: (सं के तक)
पानी ⇒ Source of Water? tanker-truck/ river, dam, stream etc [आपके घर म� पेय जल
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5 26 indicators (सं के तक). [Note: following table contains only
dimensions[आयाम] notable/imp/exam-worthy indicators, & NOT all 26 indicators.]
कै से हा�सल करते ह� ],
⇒ Distance from water source [आपका घर पेयजल स्रोत से िकतना दू र है],
⇒ Method of collection: through tap, carrying pot over head etc. [पानी कै से
जमा करते है? नल से, सर पे मटके पे लाते है?]
🔍🔍Implications: [प्रभाव /असर]
If water source away from home→ Water hauling→ daughters' education
suffers, since they will have to fetch water. [यिद पेय जल का स्रोत घर से ब�त दू र होगा -
लड़िकयों क� �श�ा म� हा�न, �ोंिक उ�� रोज़ पानी भरने के �लए दू र दू र तक चलते जाना होगा]
📯📯Related Scheme: Jal Jeevan Mission for Piped water supply
🚽🚽2) Sanitation 📊📊Indicators: nature of toilet, whether exclusive use for household /
��ता community toilet? etc [शौचालय का प्रकार]
🔍🔍Implications of Open Defecation: [खुले म� शौच का मानव जीवन पर प्रभाव /असर]
⇒ Infection, Disease, IMR/MMR [खुले म� शौच से बीमा�रयां / मृ�ु]
⇒ safety and modesty, �School attendance of girls, women
Unconsciously �Intake of food and water so as to avoid going in the
daytime → Malnutrition. [सुर�ा और ग�रमा को �ान म� रखते �ए िदन के समय खुले म�
शौच म� न जाना पड़े इस�लए लड़िकयाँ �ू ल नहीं जाती, मिहलाएँ भोजन और पानी कम लेती है �जसे
कु पोषण क� सम�ा बढ़ती है]
📯📯Related Scheme: Swachh Bharat Mission
🏠🏠3) Housing 📊📊Indicators: House condition, Nature of wall and roof etc. [मकान और छत क�
मकान आवास ���त]
🔍🔍Implications: Dilatated House = vulnerability to Crime, Disaster,
Diseases. [जजर्�रत मकान म� अपराध, आपदा, और बीमा�रयों का प्रभाव/भे�ता �ादा]
📯📯Related Scheme: Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana
🦟🦟4) Micro- 📊📊Indicators:
Environment ⇒ Drainage system of the household [गटर �व�ा का प्रकार]
सू� पयार्वरण ⇒ flies/mosquitoes problem during the last 365 days. Did govt authorities
came to tackle that problem? [म�र क� सम�ा के �लए �ा �पछले एक वषर् म� सरकार
मदद करने आयी थी?]
🔍🔍Implications: Vulnerability to Diarrhea jaundice malaria etc. [उ� सु�वधाएँ
नहीं होंगी तो बीमा�रयों का प्रकोप �ादा]
🍜🍜5) Other 📊📊Indicators:
facilities ⇒ �Electricity (�
�Related Scheme: Saubhagya Yojana)
अ� सु�वधाएँ ⇒ �Cooking fuel: LPG, firewood, dung cake (� �Related Scheme:
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana) [रसोई म� इ�ेमाल होने वाले �धन का प्रकार]
⇒ �Kitchen type [रसोईघर का प्रकार], Bathroom [�ानगृह का प्रकार]
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5 26 indicators (सं के तक). [Note: following table contains only
dimensions[आयाम] notable/imp/exam-worthy indicators, & NOT all 26 indicators.]
🔍🔍Implications:
⇒ Wood / charcoal / dung / kerosene → Indoor air pollution → Mother
and child health �। लकड़ी /गोबर = घर म� वायु प्रदू षण के चलते �ा� को नुक़सान
⇒ Firewood / dung collection: 1) Girls / daughters' education suffers in this
labour. 2) Deforestation. �धन के �लए लकड़ी बटोरने के च�र म� बेिटयों क� �श�ा को
हा�न , जं गलों क� कटाई से पयार्वरण को नुक़सान
⇒ Electricity =Mobile internet television radio usage� �: Education of
child, Democratic awareness of adults. �बजली उपल� होगी तो मोबाइल इं टरनेट
टेली�वज़न का प्रयोग बढ़े, �जससे ब�ों क� �श�ा तथा वय� म� देश दु�नया के समाचार और
चुनावी/लोकतां�त्रक जागृ�त बढ़ती है
⇒ Based on availability of above facilities → Arithmetic Mean (Average) → Bare Necessities
Index score will be computed → score range from 0 to 1. (उ� सु�वधाओं क� उपल�ता के िहसाब से औसत
�नकाला जाएगा और एक सूचकांक बनेगा)
⇒ Higher the score/value of index, better is the access to the bare necessities (सूचकांक म� �जतने �ादा
मा�र् �मल�गे वो अ�� बात होगी)
⇒ green, yellow and red, colors will be used in the maps show the level of a State in providing
access to bare necessities to its households. (भारत के नक़्शे पर �व�भ� रंगों म� इसे अंिकत िकया जाएगा)
⇒ Using above data, ��ES21also created sub-indices such as Drinking Water Accessibility
Index, Sanitation Index etc [उ� डेटा क� मदद से आ�थक सव��ण ने कु छ और भी घटक-सूचकांक बना िदए जैसे पेयजल
उपल�ता सूचकांक, ��ता सूचकांक इ�ािद]
⇒ Trickle Down= Economic growth→ � when rich people’s wealth �→ they will do more
investment shopping→ � jobs, income for workers. जब अमीरों क� सं प�� बढ़ेगी तो अमीर �ादा �नवेश और
ख़रीदारी कर�गे �जससे गरीबों को रोज़गार और अ�त�र� आमदनी �मलेगी।
⇒ While some critics argue that “trickle down” does not work very efficiently in real life because
rich person continues to underpay the poor, even if rich person’s own income continues to
increase. Etc. therefore economic growth does not trickle down to the poor people. हालाँिक कु छ
आलोचकों का मानना है िक इस तरह से आ�थक वृ�द्ध गरीबों क� ओर बहती/टपकती नहीं, �ोंिक चाहे आ�मर पहले से �ादा अमीर हो
जाए, वह ग़रीब को पहले से �ादा तन�ाह नहीं देता।
⇒ However, World Bank research found China’s economic growth have really trickled down
because Chinese government initiated following reforms 1) compulsory education till ninth
standard 2) Focus on rural healthcare 3) Focused on minimum wages & pension. हालाँिक �व� ब�क क�
चीनी आ�थक वृ�द्ध पर सं शोधन से मालूम �आ िक आ�थक वृ�द्ध ग़रीबो क� ओर बह सकती है, जब चीन क� तरह �ू ली �श�ा को
अ�नवायर् िकया जाए, ग्रामीण �ा�, �ूनतम वेतन और प�शन पर ज़ोर िदया जाए।
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64.4.7 Poverty Removal in Rural Areas - 📙📙ES23
Year 1960 2007 2021
Percentage population living in rural area 80 70 65
⇒ 47% of population in India depends on agriculture – said �ES23.
⇒ Then �ES23 as appreciated following schemes in improving rural economy. It also applauded
variety of insurance, pension, loans / financial inclusions schemes that we have already learned
pillar1D (Jeevan Jyoti, Mudra, Vay Vandana, Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan etc). I will not mention
them here again to save the number of pages.
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NSOAP (National Social Assistance Program- poor people given pension, insurance without
needing to pay premium/subscription fees),
PMJDY (Jan Dhan Bank Account)
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⇒ (DATA) over 5 crore households have taken employment under the Scheme. More than 50% of
MGNREGA workers were women from 2018-2022
⇒ Social audit by gram sabha once in every 6 months. (ग्रामसभा सामा�जक ऑिडट/ िहसाब क� जांच करेगी )
⇒ MGNREGA Wages are transferred into the bank account of every worker thru Direct benefit
transfer (DBT).
⇒ There are two methods of DBT used in MGNREGA (both designed by NPCi, ref Pillar1A1.)
DBT Channel ABPS NACH
Full Form Not IMP Aadhaar Based National Automated Clearing House
Payment System
Is Aadhar Yes No. This method is used if the worker
Mandatory? Aadhaar card is not linked with his
bank account.
How many workers 95% 5%**
used this system?
⇒ **2023: government wanted to stop payments thru NACH system. But because of some
operational difficulties, government has decided to continue both the systems.
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⇒ Thus using of both ABPS and NACH system known as “Mixed Payment Model”.
�Budget-2023: MGNREGA allocation decreased with the hopes that economy un-lockdown →
villagers will return to cities for work so they’ll not need so much work under MGNREGA. (अथर्तंत्र
पुनज��वत हो रहा है तो अब गांव वाले वापस शहरों म� रोजगार के �लए जाएं गे. तो गांव म� इतना सब काम देने क� ज�रत नहीं होगी)
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Gram Samvaad Mobile Here citizens can find information about the money allotted to their
App village under various rural development schemes, It has initiated
debate at the gram panchayat level why development is not happening
despite the release of funds.
JanMnREGA an asset tracking + feedback app for MGNREGA assets.
National Mobile Helps taking attendance of the worker, along with geo-tagged photo.
Monitoring Software
(NMMS) App
⇒ 🧔🧔Boss? Rural Dev Ministry coordinates with other ministries e.g. roads, mines, Jal Shakti etc.
⇒ 🌐🌐Where? 6 states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha
to help the returnee migrants. चु�नंदा रा�ों म� लागू िकया जाएगा जहां पर प्रवासी मजदू र बड़ी मात्रा म� वतन वापस आए ह�
⇒ ⏰Duration? 125 days. To build Panchayat Bhavans, Community Toilets, Rural Mandis, Rural
Roads, Cattle Sheds, Anganwadi Bhavans Etc. with help of returnee migrants. कोरोना महामारी म� वतन
वापस �ए श्र�मकों को रोजगार देने के �लए ग्रामीण बु�नयादी अवसं रचनाओं का �नमार्ण कर�गे
64.6.8 🌆🌆 Indira Gandhi Shehri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana by Rajasthan Govt (2022)
Rajasthan State Govt scheme similar to MGNREGA but for urban / city area people. 100 days work
guaranteed in areas such as as tree plantation, cleaning ponds, collecting garbage and catching stray
animals, environment and water conservation, cleanliness and sanitation, stopping defacement of
property, heritage conservation etc.
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- PM Vajpayee restructed them into Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY-1997), Swarna
Jayanti Sahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY-1999)
- ManMohan restructured them into National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM-2011) & Urban
Livelihood (NULM-2013) → Modi added Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana in prefix.
Table 1: They’re Core Schemes (Not 100% funded by Union)
Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana: National Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana: National Rural
Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NURM) Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)
रा�ी� य शहरी आजी�वका �मशन रा�ी� य ग्रामीण आजी�वका �मशन
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry of Rural Development
1. Give urban poors skill training and loan 1. Bring min.1 woman from each poor
for self-employment → Govt pays its household to Self Help Group (SHG: �यं -
interest subvention via PAISA Portal सहायता समूह) → give them training and loans
Portal. for candle/soap/handicraft etc. biz. Total 8
2. Develop vendor markets for urban crore+ poor women have joined in 81 lakh
vendors (शहरी �वक्रेता) . SHG.
3. Shelters for homeless people. (बेघर लोगों 2. Give training to rural men.
के �लए आश्रय �ल।) 1+2= They’ll do self employment or skilled
wage employment = More income then
working as farm labourers.
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− Here Govt will implement the other ongoing schemes with more vigilance and accountability
with the help of Gram Panchayat, NGOs, SHGs, ASHA workers etc.
− Target? At least 50,000 Gram Panchayats become poverty free by 2020.
नया पैसा नहीं द�गे बस अ� सारी योजनाएं अ�े से लागू करो तािक गरीबी दू र हो सके
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PILLAR#6D: WEAKER SECTION, GENDER DEVELOPMENT, HDI, SDG
Table of Contents
65 ��HRD/EDU → Weaker Section → Minorities, SC/ST................................................................. 965
65.1 �� Minorities (अ�सं �क समुदाय) ..................................................................................................... 965
65.1.1 �� Minorities → Constitutional Protection (सं वैधा�नक सं र�ण)............................................. 965
65.1.2 �� Minorities → Legal Protection (कानूनी सं र�ण) ................................................................ 966
65.1.3 ��:�
� Minorities → DATA/Index/Report: Census-2011................................................ 966
65.1.4 ��:�
� Minorities → DATA/Index/Report: Religious freedom (धा�मक �तं त्रता).............. 967
65.1.5 �� �[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Minority Affairs (अ�सं �क कायर् मं त्रालय) ..................... 967
65.1.6 ��:�
�� → Minority Schemes → PM Janvikas Karykram (2018) ............................... 967
65.1.7 ��:�
�� → Minority Scheme → Education / Exams .................................................... 968
65.1.8 ��:�
�� → Minority Skilling → USTTAD Master Trainers ........................................ 969
65.1.9 ��:�
�� → Minority Skilling → Seekho Aur Kamao (Learn & Earn)......................... 969
65.1.10 ��:�
�� → Minority Skill/culture → PM VIKAS (2022)......................................... 969
65.1.11 ��:�
�� → Minority Skilling → MANAS Academy ................................................ 969
65.1.12 ��:�
�� → Preserving a community / culture / pilgrimage? ................................... 970
65.1.13 ��:�
�� → Pilgrim → Hajj → Subsidy..................................................................... 970
65.1.14 ��:�
�� → Pilgrim → Hajj → Mehram ................................................................... 970
65.2 HRD/EDU → Weaker Section → Scheduled Tribes (ST) ................................................................. 971
65.2.1 ST → Constitutional Protection (सं �वधा�नक सुर�ा) ........................................................................ 971
65.2.2 ST → Legal Protection (कानूनी सुर�ा) ............................................................................................. 971
65.2.3 ST → Census 2011 ........................................................................................................................ 972
65.2.4 �[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Tribal Affairs (जनजातीय कायर् मं त्रालय) ........................................... 972
65.2.5 ST → Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) ............................................................ 972
65.2.6 �� ST → Tribal Sub Plan (1974: जनजातीय उप-योजना) ............................................................ 973
65.2.7 �� ST → Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (2014) ...................................................................... 973
65.2.8 �� ST → Van Dhan Yojana .................................................................................................. 974
65.2.9 �� ST → MSP for Minor Forest Produce (लघु वन-उपज के �लए �ूनतम समथर्न मू�) ................. 974
65.2.10 �� ST → Central Tribal University ................................................................................. 974
65.2.11 �� ST → ST villages: Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojna.................................. 974
65.2.12 �� ST → Goal program for leadership ........................................................................... 975
65.3 Weaker Section → Scheduled Castes (SC: अनुसू�चत जा�त) ..................................................................... 975
65.3.1 SC → Constitutional Protection .................................................................................................. 975
65.3.2 SC → Legal Protection .................................................................................................................. 975
65.3.3 SC → Census 2011 (जनगणना) ........................................................................................................ 975
65.3.4 �[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment ............................................... 976
65.3.5 � [Yearbook] Ministry of Law & Justice (�व�ध और �ाय मं त्रालय) ................................................ 977
65.3.6 �� SC → Welfare Schemes (क�ाणकारी योजनाएं ) .................................................................... 978
65.3.7 SC Welfare: Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana (PM-AJAY)........................ 978
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65.3.8 Skill Development: PM Daksha.................................................................................................... 979
65.4 Weaker Section → OBC & EWS ........................................................................................................... 979
65.4.1 Weaker Section → OBC Sub-categorization (ओबीसी उप-वग�करण) commission ........................ 979
65.4.2 Weaker Section → EWS Reservation .......................................................................................... 979
65.4.3 Weaker Section → PM-YASASVI – Scholarship for Class-9 to 12 .......................................... 979
66 � HRD/EDU → Weaker Section → Women & Children................................................................... 979
66.1 � → Constitutional Provisions (सं वैधा�नक सं र�ण) ............................................................................... 980
66.2 � → Legal Provisions (कानूनी सं र�ण) ................................................................................................... 981
66.2.1 Women → Global cooperation: Beijing+25 ............................................................................... 982
66.3 � Women →→ Census-2011 [जनगणना 2011] .................................................................................. 982
66.4 � �[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Women & Child Development .................................................. 982
66.5 �>�
� Son-Meta Preference (पुत्री के बाद पुत्र क� चाह) ............................................................................ 982
66.5.1 �>�
�= Son Meta Preference: why bad? ................................................................................. 983
66.5.2 ��
� JAYA Jaitley Task Force for �marriage age 4girls ..................................................... 983
66.6 �� Report → UNDP → Gender Inequality Index (GII) ............................................................ 983
66.7 �� Report → WEF → Global Gender Gap Report ..................................................................... 984
66.7.1 �� Report → OECD’s SIGI Report...................................................................................... 985
66.7.2 �� Gender Indices → Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) .............................................. 985
66.8 �� SDG Goal #5: Gender Equality & Empowerment .................................................................. 985
66.9 � �� Women Schemes → Health.............................................................................................. 986
66.10 � �� Women Schemes → Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (2015) ............................................... 986
66.10.1 �: ���� Atama-Nirbhar: PM GARIB KALYAN → Women will benefit, how?
987
66.11 � �� Women Schemes→ Violence / Skilling / Misc.......................................................... 987
66.12 � � �:�
�� Women Funds ................................................................................................. 988
66.12.1 � ��- 3 Umbrella Schemes to cover all women schemes .......................................... 989
66.12.2 �� Women / Gender Development: Conclusion-Template (�न�षर्)............................. 989
66.13 � Weaker Section → Children (बालक ब�े) ................................................................................... 990
66.13.1 � → Constitutional Protection ............................................................................................ 990
66.13.2 � → Legal Protection............................................................................................................ 990
66.13.3 � �� HRD Weaker Section → Children → Orphan in Corona ............................... 991
66.13.4 � �� HRD Weaker Section → Children → Misc. Portal/GK................................... 991
66.14 �) ................................................................................... 991
HRD/EDU → Weaker Section → PH (�
66.14.1 � PH → Constitutional Protection: .................................................................................... 991
66.14.2 � PH → Legal Protection: .................................................................................................... 992
66.14.3 � �� PH → Welfare schemes ....................................................................................... 992
66.15 HRD/EDU → Weaker Section: Elderly, Drug Addicts .................................................................. 992
66.15.1 � Elderly (��) ...................................................................................................................... 993
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66.15.2 � Drug Addicts (नशे के लती/ नशेड़ी) .......................................................................................... 994
66.16 ���Weaker Section: LGBT (समल��गक और िक�र) ........................................................................... 994
66.16.1 � National Council for Transgender Persons (NCTP: ट�ासं ज�डर ���यों के �लए रा��ीय प�रषद) . 994
67 ��
� � � Human Development & Sustainable Development ................................................................... 994
67.1 �� UNDP’s Human Development Report (मानव �वकास �रपोटर्) ...................................................... 995
67.1.1 ��UNDP → Human Development Index (HDI:मानव �वकास सूचकांक) ................................. 997
67.1.2 ��UNDP → Inequality Adjusted HDI................................................................................ 997
67.1.3 �� UNDP → Gender Development Index (GDI: ल��गक �वकास सूचकांक)............................... 998
67.2 �� UNSDSN → World Happiness Report ................................................................................... 998
67.3 � World Bank → Human Capital Index .......................................................................................... 998
67.4 � Human development → Misc. Indicators ................................................................................... 998
68 � Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ............................................................................................. 999
68.1.1 ���� [Yearbook] Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change .................. 999
68.1.2 ��� [Yearbook] Ministry of Earth Sciences (पृ�ी �व�ान मं त्रालय) .................................... 1000
68.2 � Sustainable Development: meaning............................................................................................. 1000
68.3 � � � SDG → India’s Implementation / Monitoring ........................................................... 1001
68.3.1 � � � NITI’s SDG India Index: overall scoring ............................................................. 1001
68.3.2 � � � NITI SDG Urban India Index ............................................................................... 1002
68.3.3 �� NITI’s VNR Review to UN ........................................................................................... 1002
68.4 � SDG Goals vs India’s Notable Schemes....................................................................................... 1003
68.5 �� Mains Answer Writing: HRD ................................................................................................ 1007
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65.1.2 ☪✝ Minorities → Legal Protection (कानूनी सं र�ण)
1992: National Commission for Minorities Act (रा��ीय अ�सं �क आयोग) → Section 2(c): we’ve 6
national minorities: Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Zoroastrians (Parsis) & Jains (Latest
added in 2014).
1995: Waqf Act → Waqf Councils @Union & State levels. When a Muslim donates property for
the society, it’s called Waqf.
2002: Haj Committee Act.
2004: Minority Educational Institutions Act.
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यहाँ ग़ैर िह�ू ब�सं �क है to a PIL in SC)
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○ 33-40% for women centric projects (which could also have overlapping objectives of
education / health / skilling.).
Nai Roshni − Minority Affairs Ministry’s leadership development among minority women.
अ�सं �क मिहला Training them on how to interact with Govt orgs, banks, etc. so they can be
नेतृ� ता�लम more assertive about their rights & more confident to use their talent.
Nai Manzil − Madressa Passout & School-dropout minority youth (aged 17-35)
मदरसा के ब�ों को − They’ve face difficulty in getting jobs because they don’t have ‘school
मु�धारा म� लाना Leaving Certificate’ or a proof of having class 8 or 10 level education
− So, Nai Manzil scheme gives them employable skills in computer, accounting
etc. + National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) certification so they can
get jobs in organized sector.
− Minimum 30% seats are earmarked for minority girls.
Competitive − Central Sector Scheme: 100% Union Funded
Exam − Naya Savera: Govt gives ₹ ₹ to public & private institutes for giving free
को�चंग के �लए पैसा coaching to minority students for competitive exams.
स��डी − Nai Udaan: Govt gives ₹ ₹ to minority students IF they clear Prelims stage of
UPSC, SSC & StatePCS Gazetted-. Provided family annual income is not >6
lakh, & he’ll not claiming it for more than once. Only 2000 students given
this ₹ ₹ annually, on first-cum-first-serve basis.
Padho Education loan subsidy for minority students for higher education overseas.
Pardesh �वदेश म� उ� �श�ा के �लए ली गई �श�ा लोन पर �ाज स��डी
Fellowship - Maulana Azad National Fellowship for M. Phil & Ph.D. minority students
for five-year financial assistance for Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Muslims,
Parsis and Sikhs to pursue MPhil and PhD.
- 2022-23: scheme discontinued. Government’s justification- “It overlaps with
some other educational schemes. so we’re stopping it.”
Pre-matric - Before: this was given for class1 to 10.
scholarship - From-2022: this will be given only for Class9 and 10.
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65.1.8 ☪✝:📯📯📯📯 → Minority Skilling → USTTAD Master Trainers
USTTAD abbreviation: Upgrading Skills & Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts for Development
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Minority Affairs. Central Sector Scheme: 100% Union Funded
⇒ Minority craftsman aged of 30 years & having 10 years experience in his field. → They are given
further training + marketing skills + stipend → they will become Ustad (Master Trainer) →
Ustad will give training to younger generation to preserve their craft.
⇒ Examples: Phulkari embroidery (Sikh), Kashmiri Shawl-Carpets & Aligarh’s handmade locks
(Muslims), Thanka Painting (Buddhist), Parsi Gara Hand Embroidered Saree etc.
Related Schemes:
- Hunar Haat: Govt organizes trade mela, marketing exhibition to help the minority craftsmen
display their work & connect with the buyers. मेलों का आयोजन
- Virasat is credit scheme for crafts persons by NMDFC.
65.1.9 ☪✝:📯📯📯📯 → Minority Skilling → Seekho Aur Kamao (Learn & Earn)
⇒ Boss? Ministry of Minority Affairs. Central Sector Scheme: 100% Union Funded.
⇒ Beneficiary? Minority person who is min. class 5 pass, aged 14-45.
⇒ They’re given training with stipend for छात्रवृ�� दी जाएगी
○ A) modern trades (saloon, restaurant, computer data entry operator etc) or
○ B) traditional crafts (Carpet, handicraft etc).
⇒ Then, Govt helps them get placement / self-employment. [नौकरी/�रोजगार के �लए मदद]
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○ To give Concessional loans to minorities for skill courses & to start businesses. [�रयायती
�ाज पर कज़र् िदया जाएगा]
⇒ + Technical & Marketing Support to new entrepreneurs.
+ online portal to monitor (private) training institutes, in collaboration with Skill Ministry.
- 1932: British Indian Govt started subsidized sea-transport Muslims going for Hajj to Mecca,
Saudi Arabia. In Modern times, Civil Aviation Ministry gave ‘Hajj Subsidy’ to Air India to provide
cheap transport, free meal etc. to them. (The beneficiaries selected by Haj Committees under
Minority Ministry).
- 2012: Supreme Court ordered Govt to gradually phase out Hajj subsidy & use ₹ ₹ for educational &
social development of Muslims instead. [सव�� �ायालय ने हज स��डी पर रोक लगायी और यह पैसा मुसलमानों के �श�ा
और सामा�जक �वकास म� इ�ेमाल के �लए सरकार को �नद�श िदए]
- 2018: Govt finally cancelled Hajj Subsidy based on Afzal Amanullah committee (2017) report.
- 2019: Minority Affairs ministry’s “E-MASIHA” health app for Haji pilgrims.
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65.2 HRD/EDU → WEAKER SECTION → SCHEDULED TRIBES (ST)
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✓ 1996: PESA- Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act
✓ 2006: Scheduled Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Recognition of Forest Rights Act
(वन अ�धकार कानून)
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− Presently, 75 such groups are spread across 18 States & 1 UT of Andaman-Nicobar.
State PVTGs (�वशेष �प से कमजोर जनजातीय समूह) (List is not exhaustive= यानी िक यहाँ पर जो
नाम िदए ह� इनके अलावा भी कु छ और समूह आ�धका�रक सूची म� हो सकते ह�)
Andhra & 1. Bodo Gadaba 2. Bondo Poroja 3. Chenchu 4. Dongria Khond 5. Gutob
Telangana Gadaba 6. Khond Poroja 7. Kolam 8. Kondareddis 9. Konda Savaras 10. Kutia
Khond 11. Parengi Poroja 12. Thoti
Gujarat 1. Kathodi 2. Kohvalia 3. Padhar 4. Siddi 5. Kolgha
Karnataka 1. Jenu Kuruba 2. Koraga
MP & 1. Abujh Macias 2. Baigas 3. Bharias 4. Hill Korbas
Chhattisgarh 5. Kamars 6. Saharias 7. Birhor
Maharashtra 1. Katkaria (Kathodia) 2. Kolam 3. Maria Gond
Rajasthan 1. Seharias
Tamil Nadu 1. Kattu Nayakans 2. Kotas 3. Kurumbas 4. Irulas 5. Paniyans 6.. Todas
Andaman 4. Negrito tribes: Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa & Sentinalese
Nicobar 2. Mongoloid tribes: Nicobarese & Shompens
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Find correct statements about PVTGs in India (Prelims-2019)
1. PVTGs reside in 18 states & one union Territory.
2. A stagnant or declining population is one of the criteria for determining PVTG status.
3. There are 92 PVTGs officially notified in the country so far.
4. Irular & Konda Reddi tribes are included in the list of PVTGs.
Codes: (a) 1,2 & 3 (b) 2,3 & 4 (c) 1, 2 & 4 (d) 1,3 & 4
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− + extra focus on Sickle Cell Anemia- a genetic disorder passed from generation to generation.
− Preserve Tribal Cultural Heritage; Promotion of Sports in Tribal Areas etc.
− 2013: Tribal Ministry announces Minimum Support Price (MSP) for 20+ Minor Forest Produce
(MFP), based on recommendations of TRIFED’s Pricing Cell.
− It covers Chironji, Tamarind, Wild Honey, Mahua Seeds Karanj Seeds, Baheda, Shikakai Pods,
Guggul Arjuna Bark Etc. State agencies procure them @MSP.
− Benefit? Prevent the exploitation of Schedule Tribes by forest contractors / merchants.
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65.2.12 📯📯📯📯 ST → Goal program for leadership
⇒ Going Online as Leaders (GOAL) program- a joint initiative of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and
Meta (Facebook).
⇒ To digitally train 10 lakh tribal youth for entrepreneurship.
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65.3.4 �[YEARBOOK] Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
सामा�जक �ाय एवं सश��करण मं त्रालय Consists of... <list not exhaustive>
Dept − Dept of social Justice & empowerment.
− Dept of empowerment of persons with disabilities. (िद�ांगजन सश��करण �वभाग,
previously called �न:श� कायर् �वभाग but Modi felt it derogatory so changed
name.)
Constitutional − Art 338 : National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC: रा��ीय अनुसू�चत
Bodies जा�त आयोग)
− Art 338B: National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC: रा��ीय �पछड़ा वगर्
आयोग) via 102nd amendment Act. 2018. Originally, it was setup as a statutory
body in 1993.
Statutory − 1992: Rehabilitation Council of India Act (for PH)
− 2019: National Council for Transgender Persons (ट�ांसज�डर ���यों के �लए रा��ीय
प�रषद)
Non-statutory − National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK). Its Act expired in
2004, since then functioning as a ‘non-statutory body’ through Gazette
notification.
− National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic & Semi-Nomadic Tribes
2003, reconstituted in 2005….. 2015 formed under Chairmanship of Bhiku
Ramji Idate to prepare state-wise list of DNTs. British Govt had notified
some tribes as ‘Criminal Tribes’ under Criminal Tribes Act (CTA), 1871.
Post-Independence this act was removed & such tribes were ‘denotified’.
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Most DNTs are categorized as SC/ST/OBC though a few of the DNTs are
not covered in any of these categories.
Autonomous − 2019-Feb: Development & Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic & Semi-
Bodies / Nomadic Communities (�वमुक्त, घुमंतू और अद्धर्घुमंतू समुदायों के �लए �वकास एवं क�ाण
Foundations बोडर्) under Society Registration Act
�ाय� सं �ाएं − Dr. Ambedkar Foundation, Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation
− National Institute of Social Defence (सामा�जक र�ा), Delhi
CPSE − National Scheduled Castes Finance & Development Corporation (NSFDC):
सरकारी क��नयां A ‘non-for-profit’ company under Companies Act.
− Similar Corporations for Backward Classes, Safai Karamcharis.
− Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO)
Imp Days − From 2015 onwards: 26th Nov observed every year as Constitution Day,
मह�पूणर् िदवस because on 26/11/1949 Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution.
− 14th April: Dr. Ambedkar’s B’day.
Notable − Justice G. Rohini Commission: OBC-Subcategorization
committee − Justice K.G. Balakrishnan Commission: SC reservation to people who
converted to religions other than Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. (e.g.
Islam, Christianity)
65.3.5 � [Yearbook] Ministry of Law & Justice (�व�ध और �ाय मं त्रालय)
Dept 1) Department of Legal Affairs 2) Legislative Department 3) Dept of Justice
Executive ⇒ Law Commission of India is a non-statutory non-constitutional body set up
body through gazette notification. 2020: 22nd commission formed for 3 years.
Statutory ⇒ National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) & SALSA @State to provide free
वैधा�नक सं �ाएं legal aid to poor people. (गरीबों को मु� कानूनी सहायता)
⇒ Bar Council of India to regulate lawyers
⇒ Delimitation Commission (प�रसीमन आयोग)
Constitutional ⇒ Election Commission (चुनाव आयोग)
App ⇒ Nyay Bandhu App by Department of Justice to connect poor people with
volunteer advocates willing to provide Pro Bono (=free) legal service.
⇒ Tele-Law App & helpline number to help rural & poor people in
understanding the legal issues.
Index 📊📊 Rule of Law Index (कानून का शासन सूचकांक)
⇒ By World Justice Project (WJP) a non-profit organization with offices in
USA, Singapore, & Mexico.
⇒ #1: Denmark, #2: Norway, #3: Finland, #79: India
Index focuses on nations' performance on factors such as Govt openness,
fundamental rights, civil & criminal justice & containing corruption. (सरकारी
पारद�शता, मौ�लक अ�धकार, नाग�रक और आपरा�धक �ाय और भ्र�ाचार)
✋We also have a Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (सं सदीय कायर् मं त्रालय) but no MCQ worthy stuff.
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65.3.6 📯📯📯📯 SC → Welfare Schemes (क�ाणकारी योजनाएं )
Most of the following schemes are part of Centrally Sponsored Schemes → Core of the Core Scheme
→ Umbrella Program for Development of SC= NOT 100% Union funded.
Schemes - SC Scholarship, fellowship, hostel facility; loans for self-employment named
after Dr. Ambedkar, Babu Jagjivan Ram & Rajiv Gandhi but nothing
particularly 🔠🔠❓MCQ worthy.
- 2020: ₹59kcr post-matric scholarship for 4 Cr SC students in 5 years. Cost
Sharing 90:10 for Sp.Category States, 60:40 for General States. Money directly
transferred to Student account.
Biz Loans - Vanchit Ikai Samooh aur Vargon ki Aarthik Sahayta (VISVAS) Yojana: Social
Justice Ministry gives 5% loan interest subvention on business related loans
taken by SC and OBC
SCDC (1979) States encouraged to setup Scheduled Castes Development Corporations
(SCDCs) with shareholding Union:States = 49:51. Their main task is to give
concessional loans to beneficiaries
Inter caste - Dr. Ambedkar scheme for Social integration through Inter Caste Marriages
marriages - Social Justice ministry → Ambedkar foundation → gives ₹ ‘x’ lakh to a
couple in two installments if one is SC & the other spouse is non-SC.
PM Adarsh Govt to focus on villages with more than 50% Scheduled Caste (SC) population.
Gram Yojana Develop these villages through better implementation of existing schemes. (Ref:
Pillar #5: infrastructure.)
ASIIM Ambedkar Social Innovation & Incubation Mission by Social Justice ministry to
(2020) Support 1000 Startups of SC Youth over next 4 Years via venture capital fund.
Standup - Each Scheduled Commercial bank branch to give Greenfield Loans between
India ₹10 lakh and ₹1 Cr to at least 1 SC/ST and atleast 1 Woman entrepreneur
with tenure upto 7 yrs.
- Boss? FinMin’s Dept of Financial Services (�व�ीय सेवा �वभाग) (Ref📑📑Pillar#1D)
SHRESHTA - meritorious SC students are provided admission in the best available
residential schools after conducting entrance exam by NTA.
- SHRESHTA = Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High
Schools in Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA).
NAMASTE - National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE)
- Provide machines so no sanitation workers come in direct contact with
human faecal matter.
- Skill development of the manual scavengers to find alternate jobs.
- Bring behavior change amongst citizens towards sanitation workers
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⇒ Babu Jagjivan Ram Chatrawas Yojana (Hostel for SC)
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(Introduction Template- Origin/DATA) While nearly half of the Indian population consists of
women, but despite more than 70 years of independence they are lagging behind in the men. For
example, हालांिक भारत क� आधी आबादी मिहलाओं क� है िकंतु आजादी के 70 साल बाद भी वे पु�षों के अनुपात म� �पछड़ी �ई है.
वै��क सं गठनों द्वारा बनाए गए अलग-अलग �रपोटर् म� भी यही बात प्र�ुत �ई है.
⇒ UNDP GENDER INEQUALITY INDEX, (यूएनडीपी का ल��गक असमानता सूचकांक)
o female Labour Force Participation Rate in India is less than 30%, (मिहला श्रम बल भागीदारी
दर)- Ref: Pillar4C-Unemployment.
o share in Parliament seats is less than 15%. (सं सद म� मिहलाओं क� सं �ा)
⇒ World Economic Forum's GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT too points towards as a similar
gloomy picture. (�व� आ�थक मं च का वै��क �लंग अंतर �रपोटर् म� भी कु छ ऐसा ही हतो�ािहत करने वाला �चत्र उभर आता है)
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✓ 44: State shall endeavour for a Uniform Civil Code (समान नाग�रक सं िहता).
✓ 46: State to promote educational & economic interests of the weaker sections, & protect them
from social injustice & exploitation. [कमज़ोर वगर् को सामा�जक अ�ाय और शोषण से बचाना]
✓ 47: raise nutrition level & standard of living of people [पोषण और जीवन �र बेहतर करना]
✓ 51/A/e: Duty to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women
✓ 243: 1/3rd reservation to women in PRI / ULBs. [Some states have already kept even higher- 50%
reservation e.g. Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh]
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this day in 2019.
66.2.1 Women → Global cooperation: Beijing+25
- 1995: UN World Conference on Women, Beijing, China → Beijing Declaration
- 2010: UN setup a body called “UN Women” (HQ: New York)
- 2020: marks 25 years so, Beijing+25 revise exercise by UN Women.
Due to strict implementation of Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act
in India, the sex-selective abortion of female foetus have become difficult.
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− So, couples have adopted a different strategy where they’ll continue to produce children until
desired number of sons are born. Economic Survey 2017-18 used the term ‘Son Meta-
Preference’ to describe this phenomenon. [जब तक बेटा नहीं पैदा होता तब तक माँ बाप ब�े पैदा करते रहे]
− According to this survey, there are 21 million+ ‘unwanted girls’ in India.
66.5.1 👶👶>👧👧=😰😰 Son Meta Preference: why bad?
− As such girls & women are neglected in their food & health needs. Majority of them suffer from
Anaemia & malnutrition. When wife is often forced to produce more children to have a son →
detrimental to her health → high MMR. (भोजन �श�ा और �ा� म� बेिटयों क� अवहेलना)
− Since daughters seen as burden, poor parents are keen to marry them off as soon as possible.
Child Marriages → early pregnancy before the age of 19→ high MMR.
− Girl married off early → she becomes mother at early age → can’t pursue higher studies / career
ambitions → low Labour Force Participation Rate. (छोटी उम्र म� शादी)
− Economic Survey 2017-18 noted Economic Development is not an antidote to gender inequality
or Son Meta preference because per-capita income & GSDP wise Punjab is better than North
Eastern states YET Punjab’s gender indices (sex ratio, violence against women) etc. are pathetic.
− As a result, India lags behind in UNDP’s GII Index & WEF’s Global Gender Gap report.
66.5.2 👣👣📅📅 JAYA Jaitley Task Force for ⏫marriage age 4girls
⇒ 1929: Sharda Act - Minimum age of marriage was 15 for girls → 1978 ⏫to 18
⇒ 2020-Feb: Budget- Finance minister observed: to ⏫ nutrition, higher education, career
opportunities & to ⏬MMR, TFR, we need to re-examine the minimum of marriage /
motherhood. we'll setup a taskforce for this. (लड़िकयों क� शादी क� �ूनतम आयु म� बढ़ोतरी)
⇒ 2020: Ministry of Women and Child Development setup Jaya Jaitley taskforce → Prohibition of
Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 to raise the age of legal marriage for girls from 18 to 21.
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3 Dimensions Indicators & Data: 2020’s Report → India Denmark
Note: these datasets copied from UNDP
report. They may not always match with
📙📙📙📙ES21or NITI Data. [यहाँ पर आंकड़े
अंतररा��ीय �रपोटर् से �लए ह� वो अपने सरकारी �रपोटर् के
आँकड़ो से थोड़े अलग हो सकते ह� ]
1) Reproductive Maternal Mortality Ratio: Number of deaths 133 4
Health due to pregnancy-related causes per 100,000
(प्रजनन �ा�) live births. [मातृ मृ�ु अनुपात]
Adolescent Birth Rate: Number of births to 17 2
women aged 15–19 per 1,000 women in that
age
2) % of females aged 25/> who at least enrolled 42% (for 95% (for men
Empowerment till Secondary Education [कम से कम मा��मक �र men 47%) also 95%)
सश��करण तक दा�ख़ला]
Share of seats in parliament 13% 40%
3) Labour Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR:श्रम 19% (for 57% (for men its
Market [श्रम श�� क� भागीदारी दर ) Proportion of the females men its 67%)
बाज़ार म� मिहलाओं (15 years/>) who’re employed or seeking 70%)
क� ���त] work as a % of the total female working-age
population.
Plug above values in GII formula, you get score → 0.490 0.013
Based on score, you give ranks India#122 Denmark#1
- Lower GII score = less inequality = better rank will be given.
- 2021-22’s Ranking: #1: Denmark, #2: Norway, #3: Switzerland, #122: India…... Yemen #170.
- India’s rank has improved from last report #123 (in 2020) to #122 (in 2021-22)
- While UNDP’s HDI index ranked 191 nations, GII covers 170, due to lack of data for some
nations / some nations don’t have system of parliament with women seats.
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Overall Rank of India → 140 135
Bottom Ranker [सब से �न� �र पर यह देश है] Afghani Afghani
(156) (146)
Top Ranker = Iceland since last 13 years. Iceland Iceland
2021’s report found 1) It will take more than 135 years to bridge the gap between male and female
development. 2) Corona has increased in the jobloss and gender gap for women.
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66.9 👩👩👩📯📯📯📯 WOMEN SCHEMES → HEALTH
Umbrella ICDS Seen in health section. Core Scheme: not 100% funded by Union.
By WCD Ministry Its sub-components include:
1. Anganwadi Services Scheme
2. PM Matru Vandana Yojana (₹5k + ₹1k for birth of 1st child)
3. SABLA: Scheme for Adolescent Girls (11-18 years)
4. POSHAN Abhiyan
5. National Creche Scheme (�शशु-गृह): to setup Creches for working women.
6. Child Protection Scheme: for children in difficult circumstances.
Janani Suraksha Seen in health section. BPL mothers given conditional ₹ ₹ for delivering child
Yojana By Health in public hospital. No limit on age or number of children.
Ministry
Stree Swabhiman - Ministry of Electronics & IT’s Common Service Centres (CSC) will
provide affordable sanitary napkins to females in rural areas.
- MEITY will also help village level entrepreneur & self help groups to
manufacture sanitary napkins.
- Generate awareness about menstrual hygiene among girls etc.
Udaan - Rajasthan State Govt scheme for free sanitary napkins for all woman
All India Child Sex Ratio (CSR: 0-6 years) ⏬ from 927 (2001) → 919 (2011). So, 2015: BBBP
launched to improve it by targeting 161 districts with lowest CSRs.
⇒ Boss? WCD Ministry with coordinated efforts of Health Ministry, HRD/EDU Ministry.
⇒ Stronger enforcement of PCPNDT Act to stop female infanticide.
⇒ Digital Guddi-Gudda Board to display birth statistics of boy : girl births in a given district.
⇒ HRD/EDU ministry: separate toilets for girls in schools.
⇒ Information Education Communication (IEC), campaigns in TV, Radio, Social Media etc.
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⇒ Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana: Bank savings account in the name of girl child that offers more
interest rate than ordinary bank accounts. Interest rates decided by Dept of Economic Affairs.
(Ref: Pillar1D: Financial Inclusion → Small Savings Schemes).
⇒ UDAAN: CBSE’s scheme to give free coaching for girls in entrance exams of IIT etc
⇒ PRAGATI: AICTE’s scholarship to girls who qualify in entrance exams of IIT/ technical courses.
⇒ Gender Champions scheme: WCD Ministry → Boys & girls aged 16 years/> nominated as
‘Gender Champions’. They’ll try to spread awareness in their school / college / society for gender
sensitization, dignity & respect for women etc.
66.10.1 👩👩: 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 Atama-Nirbhar: PM GARIB KALYAN → Women will benefit, how?
Table 1: plus, many other initiatives refer to respective pillars for more!
⇒ ₹500 per month x 3 months=₹1500 to 20 crore women PM Jan Dhan Bank
accounts. (April, May, June 2020)
⇒ (Single time) ₹1,000 to 3 crore poor senior citizen, poor widows & poor
disabled
Social
��Further, male & female workers will benefit from following
Security
⇒ If worker earning <₹15,000 per month in a firm with <100 workers → Govt
(More in 📑📑
will pay 24% of his monthly wages into his EPFO account for next 3 months.
Pillar#1D)
⇒ EPFO workers can withdraw xx% from their account for next 3 months.
⇒ ₹50 lakh insurance cover for health workers involved in managing the
Coronavirus such as doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, ASHA workers etc. for
the next 90 days.
📑📑1D:Loans Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) to be given ₹20 lakh collateral free loans.
MGNREGA ��MNREGA wage ⏫ from ₹182/day to ₹202
Food/ ⇒ (Pillar6A: Malnutrition) PM Garib Kalyan Ann (अ�) Yojana
Cooking ⇒ (📑📑Pill: 5A) PM-Ujjwala LPG
66.11👩👩 📯📯📯📯 WOMEN SCHEMES→ VIOLENCE / SKILLING / MISC.
In following table, by default the boss is WCD Ministry, unless mentioned otherwise:
SHe-Box (2017) − Online portal where Women employees (both in public & private sector
jobs) can register sexual harassment complaints. → Govt initiates action
under the POSH Act 2013. [यौन उ�ीड़न के �ख़लाफ़ �शकायत के �लए]
Helpline (2015) − Women Helpline Scheme Number: 181
Pradhan Mantri − Petroleum Ministry gives free LPG connection for BPL women. 📑📑Ref:
Ujjawala Yojana Pillar#5: Infra handout
Ujjawala Scheme − WCD Ministry scheme for women-children trafficking / prostitution
(2007)
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− Prevention, rescue & rehabilitation of victims: send them to shelter homes
or reconnect with family, give skill training to former prostitutes etc.
Swadhar Greh − To setup 1 Swadhar Greh Shelter home in each district to provide shelter,
Scheme food, clothing & skill training for women in distress.
Sakhi One Stop − Setup using ₹ ₹ from Nirbhaya Fund. These centres provide assistance to
Centres (2015) women victims of domestic abuse / rape / prostitution / trafficking etc.
(and depending on case they may be sent to Swadhar Greh Shelter homes
or reconnected with family.)
PM Mahila − This is for all women who want to enroll in Govt schemes - be it for
Shakti Kendra education, skill, entrepreneurship, LPG connection etc.
(2017) − NCC/NSS/Students are placed as ‘Volunteers’ in these centres to help
women fill up forms etc.
STEP (1986) for − ‘Support to Training & Employment Programme for Women (STEP)
skilling − Girls aged 16/> are given skill training & support for Agriculture,
Horticulture, Food Processing, Handlooms, Tailoring, Stitching,
Embroidery, Zari etc, Handicrafts, Computer, spoken English, Gems &
Jewellery, Travel & Tourism, Hospitality etc.
Entrepre- − Social Justice Ministry: National Backward Classes Finance &
neurship Development Corporation (NBCFDC) → Mahila Samriddhi Yojana →
उद्य�मता
Concessional Loans for female entrepreneurs.
− Department of Financial Services → credit guarantee through NCGTC ltd
→ Standup India: SC/ST & Women entrepreneurs given loans from 10
lakh to 1 cr in each SCB Bank branch.
− MSMS Ministry: Public procurement quota for women entrepreneurs’
Micro & Small Enterprises.
#www: Web- − WCD Ministry’s online campaign to recognize women who did good
Wonder Women work through social media. Any Indian origin woman working anywhere
in the world is eligible.
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66.12.1 👩👩👩📯📯📯📯- 3 Umbrella Schemes to cover all women schemes
2021-March, Ministry of Women and Child Development announced that existing schemes will be
clubbed into 3 umbrella schemes. Reason? More effective monitoring & implementation.
प्रभावी �प से �नगरानी और अमल करने के �लए वतर्मान योजनाओं को तीन छतरी योजनाओं के नीचे वग�कृ त िकया गया है
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66.13 👶👶 WEAKER SECTION → CHILDREN (बालक ब�े)
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66.13.3 👶👶 📯📯📯📯 HRD Weaker Section → Children → Orphan in Corona
PM CARES for - �Boss? Women and Child Development Ministry
Children Scheme - To identify the children who lost both the parents during Corona, and
help them [कोरोना म� अनाथ �ए ब�ों क� मदद करो योजना]
- They’ll be given free Education in School, Eligible for PM-JAY: ₹5
lakh health insurance, Interest free loans for higher education etc.
Bal Swaraj portal National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Bal Swaraj
portal for children in need of care and protection. And it is also used for
helping children/orphans who lost both their parents in Corona.
Boss? Social Justice Ministry → Dept of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (िद�ांगजन
सश��करण �वभाग)
66.14.1 ♿ PH → Constitutional Protection:
- Art. 16: Equal opportunity in Govt jobs. (सरकारी नौक�रयों म� समान अवसर)
- Art. 41: The State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity make effective provision for
the right to work, right to education & right to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old
age, sickness & disablement. [बेरोज़गार, बुजुगर्, बीमार और अपािहजों/ �वकलांग क� सहायता सरकार का कतर्�]
- Art. 46: State to promote educational & economic interests of the weaker sections, & protect
them from social injustice & exploitation. [कमज़ोर वगर् को सामा�जक अ�ाय और शोषण से बचाना]
- 7th Sch: State List Entry 9: Relief of the disabled & unemployable.
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66.14.2 ♿ PH → Legal Protection:
- 1987: Mental Health Act (मान�सक �ा� कानून)
- 1992: Rehabilitation Council of India Act (भारतीय पुनवार्स प�रषद अ�ध�नयम).- A statutory body under
Social Justice Ministry.
- 1999: National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with. Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental
Retardation & Multiple Disabilities Act
- 1995: Persons with Disabilities Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights & Full Participation
Act (replaced with new act in 2016, given below)
- 2016: Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act: (िद�ांग अ�धकारअ�ध�नयम 2016) It increases PH
reservation from 3% to 4%, & recognizes new types of disabilities like Acid Attack victim, Sickle
Cell disease etc. <Full list given below>
Legally recognized Disabilities: →
✓ Blindness, Low-vision ✓ Muscular Dystrophy
✓ Mute / Speech & Language disability ✓ Chronic Neurological conditions,
✓ Hearing Impairment (deaf & hard of Parkinson's disease, Specific Learning
hearing), Locomotor Disability, Dwarfism Disabilities, Multiple Sclerosis
✓ Leprosy Cured persons, Intellectual ✓ Thalassemia, Hemophilia, Sickle Cell
Disability, Mental Illness disease
✓ Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy ✓ Acid Attack victim
66.14.3 ♿ 📯📯📯📯 PH → Welfare schemes
Ministry of Social Justice runs following schemes →
Scheme features
Sugamya Bharat 2015: launched to make the public buildings & websites more accessible to
Accessible India PH. Ref: Pillar#5 Infra
ADIP - Assistance to Disabled Persons for purchase of Fitting Devices (ADIP)
(2005) e.g. Tricycles, Wheelchairs, Crutches, Walking Sticks, Brail kits,
Hearing Aids etc
- Social Justice Ministry → Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation
of India (ALIMCO) implements it.
DDRS Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS)
(1999) - It has subschemes like Samarth, Nirmaya, Sahyogi, Gharaunda, Gyan
Prabha, Uddyam Prabha etc. for scholarships for students with
disabilities, Skill training, rehabilitation, awareness generation etc.
66.15 HRD/EDU → WEAKER SECTION: ELDERLY, DRUG ADDICTS
Social justice ministry is also responsible for ‘social defense’ (सामा�जक सुर�ा)…
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66.15.1 👴👴 Elderly (��)
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Conclusion? XYZ issue need to be address to ⏫ older persons' well being, dignity & participation in
social, cultural, economic and civic and political life (वृद्धो क� प्र�त�ा और स��लयत, वृद्धो क� सामा�जक, सां�ृ�तक, आ�थक
और नाग�रक और राजनी�तक जीवन म� भागीदारी के �लए कदम उठाना ज�री )
66.16.1 � National Council for Transgender Persons (NCTP: ट�ांसज�डर ���यों के �लए रा��ीय प�रषद)
2016: Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill → became Act in 2019. to prohibit
discrimination against them in education / employment / residence; National Council for
Transgender (NCT) for their welfare. While SC earlier directed Govt to give reservation to TG but
bill did not have it.
⇒ NCPT is a statutory body under Transgender Persons Protection of Rights Act, 2019
⇒ Chairman = Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment
⇒ Vice Chairman= Union Minister of state for Social Justice & Empowerment (उपा��)
⇒ representatives of various Ministries/Departments, NHRC & NCW, State Govt/UT, NGOs.
⇒ Five representatives of transgender community.
⇒ Non ex-officio members will have 3 years tenure.
⇒ More details about the functions & responsibilities prepared from CA-PDF/Polity courses.
67 ��
� � 🌿🌿 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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Introduction: Human development measures the ‘richness’ of human life, rather than measuring
‘richness’ of the economy. It stands on three foundations 1) To live a healthy & creative life 2) to be
knowledgeable 3) A decent standard of living. मानव �वकास अथर्�व�ा क� ’समृ�द्ध’ को मापने के बजाय मानव जीवन
क� ‘समृ�द्ध ’को मापता है। यह तीन नींवों पर खड़ा है 1) एक �� और रचना�क जीवन जीना 2) �श�ा हाँसील करना 3) एक अ�ा
जीवन �र हाँसील करना ।
As per NCERT: Four pillars of human development are Equity, Sustainability, Productivity &
Empowerment. Four approches (���कोण) to human development are:
Approch Description (वणर्न)
1. Income - Oldest approch. Higher income = higher human development. (आय
Approach ���कोण)
2. Welfare - People are not participants in development but only passive recipients.
Approach - higher Govt expenditure on education, health, social services etc welfare
⇒ क�ाण ���कोण scheme required to help them.
3. Basic needs - by International Labour Organisation (ILO).
⇒ बु�नयादी ज�रत� - Six basic needs: health, education, food, water supply, sanitation, &
housing need to be focused
4. Capability - By Prof. Amartya Sen: Govt should focus on building human capabilities
Approach in health, education & access to resources (such as jobs, loans etc) = ⏫
⇒ �मता ���कोण human development.
🔠🔠❓Which of following are the 4 pillars of human development? (UPSC-CDS-i-2020)
a) Equity, inclusion, productivity & empowerment
b) Equity, productivity, empowerment & sustainability
c) Productivity, gender, inclusion & equity
d) Labour, productivity, inclusion & equity
🔠🔠❓Which one of the following approaches of human development was initially proposed by
the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and emphasised on health, education, food, water
supply, sanitation and housing ? (UPSC-CDS-2021-i)
(a) Welfare approach (b) Basic needs approach (c) Income approach (d) Capability approach
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based formula devised by Economists Mahbub ul Haq (Pak) & Amartya Sen (India). Mahbub ul
Haq was the first to give human dev concept
Published in THEMES
2020-Dec next frontier human development and anthropocene. [Earth’s history is
divided into time series known as eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages.
Officially the current epoch is called 'Holocene' (began approx 11,000 yrs ago)
although unofficially called Anthropocene - to mark the impact of human
activity.]
2021 No report published
2022-Sept “Uncertain times, unsettled lives Shaping our future in a transforming world”
It covers period from 2021-22
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FIVE INDICES (started 2021-22 Report (Released in Sept’22)
from) #1-5 🧔🧔 India #bottom
�लंग असमानता सूचकांक
2014: Gender Development - Group#1: Norway, Iceland, Sweden etc
Index (GDI). Doesn’t give - Group#5: India, Niger, Chad etc.
‘rank’, it clubs nations into
group 1 to 5
2010: Inequality Adjusted Not important / poor cost benefit in chasing it for exam
HDI
67.1.1 📊📊📊📊UNDP → Human Development Index (HDI:मानव �वकास सूचकांक)
It’s the geometric average of three basic dimensions of human development:
Table 2: पैदा होता → पढ़ता → पैसे कमाता
Dimension Indicators 🧔🧔 Swiz.
India
Healthy Life Life expectancy at birth yrs (आयु सं भा�वता) 67.2 84
(before
corona it
was 69
yrs)
Knowledge Expected years of schooling 17 12
�ान Mean years of schooling 14 7
Standard of Per capita gross national income (GNI:सकल रा��ीय प्र�त ��� $66,933$6,590
Living आय) in US$ (PPP Exchange rate @2017)
(जीवन �र)
Plug above values in HDI formula you get HDI score between 0.000 to 0.633 0.962
1.000 (higher score is better)→
Based on above HDI Scores,
- Nations are given rank: Swiz. #1, India #132 in 2021-22’s Report (published in 2022-Sept)
- Nations are clubbed into groups: 1) Very High Human Development (उ�तम मानव �वकास)2) High
Human Development 3) Medium Human Dev (India is here) 4) Low Human Development. ‘
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Which one of the following educational development indicators is currently used by UNDP to
construct the Human Development Index ? (UPSC-CAPF-2020)
(a) Level of Literacy (b) Gross Enrolment Ratio (c) Mean Years of Schooling (d) Dropout rate
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- So while India’s HDI score = 0.633 but inequality adjusted HDI (असमानता समायो�जत मानव �वकास
सूचकांक)= 0.475. Lower score = more inequality. Separate rank is given but NOTIMP.
67.1.3 📊📊📊📊 UNDP → Gender Development Index (GDI: ल��गक �वकास सूचकांक)
It’s simply the (Female HDI) divided by (Male HDI) for a given country. (पु�षों के अनुपात म� मिहलाओं का
मानव �वकास अनुपात िकतना है?)
- Based on this score, nations are not ‘ranked’ but clubbed into five groups. India is in bottomest
group #5 along with Niger, Chad et al.
- GDI value could even be even greater than 1 if female life expectancy, education, income) is
more than men e.g. Estonia, Latvia where more men dropout of school & die early by desi-liquor
addiction.
67.2 📊📊📊📊 UNSDSN → WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT
Annual report by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network since 2012
- Citizens are asked to give score 0 to 10 on how happy they’re for following parameters: income,
freedom, healthy life expectancy, social support by friends & relatives, generosity & corruption.
Ranking 2020 2021 2022
Most Happy #1 Finland Finland Finland
India** @144😰😰 @139 @136
Most unhappy Afghan Afghan Afghan
bottom rank
⇒ In 2020- the report even ranked ‘cities’ for happiness. But poor cost benefit chasing.
⇒ China, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh - all are more happier than us. ये बात कु छ
हजम नहीं होती है.
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Physical Quality - mid-1970s by Morris D Morris (जीवन �र क� भौ�तक गुणव�ा का सूचकांक)
of Life Index - Focuses on 1) life expectancy, 2) infant mortality rate 3) literacy rate
(PQLI) - Scores a nation on a scale of 1 to 100. Score 1 = represents the worst
performance. 1) जीवन प्र�ाशा, 2) �शशु मृ�ु दर 3) सा�रता दर)
🔠🔠❓MCQ. Human capital formation as a concept is better explained in terms of a process which
enables (Pre-2018)
1. Individuals of a country to accumulate more capital.
2. Increasing the knowledge, skill levels & capacities of the people of the country.
3. Accumulation of tangible wealth.
4. Accumulation of intangible wealth.
Answer Codes: (a) 1 & 2 (b) 2 only (c) 2 & 4 (d) 1, 3 & 4
🔠🔠❓MCQ. In any country _ _ _ would be considered as part of its social capital? (Pre-2019)
a) The proportion of literates in the population.
b) The stock of its buildings, other infrastructure & machines.
c) The size of the population in the working age group.
d) The level of mutual trust & harmony in the society.
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⇒ 1972: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau under Wild Life (Protection) Act, Delhi
⇒ 2002: National Biodiversity Authority, under Biological Diversity Act,
Chennai
⇒ 2010: National Green Tribunal, under National Green Tribunal Act, Delhi
⇒ 2021: Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM)- is an Statutory
body under The Commission For Air Quality Management in National
Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Act, 2021 set up to curb air pollution in
the National Capital Region NCR, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Autonomous ⇒ Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development,
Uttarakhand
⇒ Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Dehradun
⇒ Indian Institute of Forest Management, Madhya Pradesh
⇒ Indian Plywood Industries Research & Training Institute, Punjab
⇒ Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun
⇒ Salim Ali Center for Ornithology & Natural History(SACON), Anaikatti,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
CPSE ⇒ Andaman & Nicobar Islands Forest & Plantation Development Corporation
Limited, Port Blair
E- ⇒ Parivesh Portal for environment clearance for various projects e.g. cutting
Governance trees to build factory/highway etc. 👜👜👜👜Budget-2022- we’ll make this portal
better. (�व�वध प्रोजे� के �लए पेड़ कटाई इ�ािद क� मं ज़ूरी के �लए ओनलाइन पोटर्ल।)
68.1.2 �☔🌪🌪 [Yearbook] Ministry of Earth Sciences (पृ�ी �व�ान मं त्रालय)
Dept ⇒ N/A
Attached ⇒ National Center for Seismology, Noida
⇒ Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Kochi
Subordinate ⇒ India Meteorological Department (IMD), New Delhi
⇒ National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida
Autonomous ⇒ National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai
⇒ National Centre for Polar & Ocean Research, Goa
⇒ Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
⇒ Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Service, Hyderabad
⇒ National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Kerala
CPSE ⇒ N/A or not Not MCQ worthy
68.2 🌱🌱 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: MEANING
1980s: UN’s Brundtland Commission on Environment & Development → “Our Common
Future” Report → defined “Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” [सतत
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�वकास वह �वकास है जो भावी पीिढ़यों क� अपनी ज�रतों को पूरा करने क� �मता से समझौता िकए �बना वतर्मान क� ज�रतों को पूरा
करता है]
1992: Earth Summit @Rio, Brazil → 2012: Rio+20 summit: leaders announced to prepare
“Sustainable Development Goals” (SDG:सं धारणीय/सतत �वकास ल�) for post-2015 era when MDG
goals expired.
Year UN Approved Goals Target
2000-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG:सहस्रा�ी �वकास ल�) 8 18
2015-2030 “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDG:सं धारणीय/सतत �वकास ल�) 17 169
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Score → 2018’s Report 2019’s (Released in Dec’19) 2020’s (Released in 2021-Jun)##
and Nicobar, J&L, Ladakh
⇒ Total 22 State/UT
Achiever: 100 सफल: all SDG goals achieved but no one here YET.
For example, SDG Goal#3 Ensure Healthy Lives & Promote Well-being For All
Associated Targets under Goal#3 SDG Goal#3 States/UT categorization
Reduce MMR (Baseline:130) → Target 70 Achiever: None achieved all targets
(by 2030), Kerala already achieved. Frontrunners: Kerala, TN, Puducherry etc
Eliminate TB by 2030 (No State Yet Performer: Bihar, UP, MP, Odisha, etc.
Achieved) Aspirants: None (because each state has
Reduce Under-5 Child Mortality Rate made some progress)
(Baseline:50) → Target 11 (by
2030),Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu
achieved.
Increase no. of Govt doctors , nurses &
midwives per 1,00,000 population:
(Baseline:221) → Target 550 (by 2030).
Kerala already achieved.
🔠🔠❓Which one of the following States ranked first on Sustainable Development Goal India
Index, 2020-21 released by NITI Aayog? [UPSC-CAPF-2021]
(a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Kerala (d) Goa
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68.4 🌱🌱 SDG GOALS VS INDIA’S NOTABLE SCHEMES
SDG Goal India’s Notable Schemes <List not exhaustive>
Goal End poverty in all its forms MGNREGA & the National Livelihood Missions
1 everywhere Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Beema Yojana
(PMJJBY) & Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Suraksha
गरीबी क� पूणर्तः समा��
Beema Yojana (PMJSBY), National Social Assistance
Programmes (NSAP) which provides pension to the
elderly, widows, PH in BPL category.
PMJAY ₹ 5l health insurance that reduces healthcare
burden on poor people.
Goal End hunger, achieve food Green Revolution — Krishonnati Yojana & its 11
2 security & improved nutrition sub-schemes, esp. National Mission for Sustainable
& promote sustainable Agriculture, National Food Security Mission
agriculture
Food Security Act, POSHAN Abhiyaan, Mid-day
भुखमरी क� समा��
Meal (MDM: New Name PM Poshan),
Goal Ensure healthy lives & National Health Mission & its rural, urban
3 promote well-being for all at components, various schemes for Communicable &
all ages noncommunicable diseases
Ayushman Bharat: 1) transform PHC 2) PMJAY ₹ 5l
अ�ा �ा� और जीवन�र
health insurance that reduces healthcare burden on
poor people.
Intensified Mission Indradhanush vaccination.
PM Matru Vandana Yojana (₹ 5k), Janani Suraksha
Yojana (₹ 1k to BPL) Janani Shishu Suraksha
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SDG Goal India’s Notable Schemes <List not exhaustive>
Karyakram (Free delivery) etc.
Goal Ensure inclusive & equitable Samagra Shiksha by merging 1) Sarva Shiksha
4 quality education & promote Abhiyan (SSA) 2) Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha
lifelong learning opportunities Abhiyan (RMSA) 3) Teacher Education (TE).
for all- सभी के �लए समोवेशी तथा
SWAYAM online portal for free learning etc.
गुणव�ा यु� �श�ा
Goal Achieve gender equality & Gender Budget Statement from 2005 onwards
5 empower all women & girls Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, Sukanya Samridhi (Bank
ल��गक समानता Savings) Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (LPG connection to
BPL women),
Procurement quota for MSME owned by Women,
Standup India loan scheme
Goal Ensure availability & Swachh Bharat Mission, National Rural Drinking
6 sustainable management of Water Programme.
water & sanitation for all
साफ पानी और ��ता
Goal Ensure access to affordable, Target: achieve 40% electricity from non-fossil fuel
7 reliable, sustainable & modern sources by 2030;
energy for all LPG: PAHAL subsidy, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala
स�ी और �� ऊजार्
Yojana (LPG connection to BPL women),
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana →
Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
(Saubhagya) to give electricity connection to all,
Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme
National Solar Mission, Green Energy Corridor etc.
National Bio-fuels Policy 2018: 20% of ethanol in
petrol & 5% blending of biodiesel in diesel by 2030.
PM Ji-Van Yojana: biowaste → biofuel; GOBAR-
DHAN) scheme, UJALA LED, Gram Ujala LED
International Solar Alliance (ISA, HQ: Gurugram,
Haryana) launched following initiatives
1) World Solar Bank to provide loans for solar
energy projects
2) One Sun One World One Grid Initiative/Green
Grids= to create interconnected electricity grids to
transfer solar electricity among nations.
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SDG Goal India’s Notable Schemes <List not exhaustive>
3) 2020: First World Solar Technology Summit
(organised in virtual mode because of corona)
Goal Promote sustained, inclusive Make India, Startup india, Skill India → Pradhan
8 & sustainable economic Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
growth, full & productive Mudra loans,Standup India loans
employment & decent work
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation
for all
अ�ा रोजगार, आ�थक �वकास Programme (PMEGP): credit linked subsidy for
Micro enterprises in non-farm sector.
Goal Build resilient infrastructure, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Pradhan Mantri gram
9 promote inclusive & Sadak Yojana, Bharat Mala, Sagar Mala,
sustainable industrialization Digital India, Smart City, AMRUT.
& foster innovation
उद्योग, नवाचार और बु�नयादी सु�वधाओं
का �वकास
Goal Reduce inequality within & To reduce inequality within the country- all the
10 among countries schemes that are focusing on rural area & weaker
देशों के भीतर और देशों के बीच section e.g. MNREGA, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
असमानता म� कमी
Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), Standup
India loans for SC/ST & Women, Pradhan Mantri
Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) Rurban Mission
To reduce inequality among countries - Technical
& Financial Assistance given by India to its
neighbouring countries, & least developed countries
Goal Make cities & human Smart City, AMRUT, Rurban Mission, PM Awas
11 settlements inclusive, safe, Yojana, Swachh Bharat Mission etc Which we
resilient & sustainable learned in pillar#5
िटकाऊ शहरी �वकास
Goal Ensure sustainable Targets: 1) ⏬ emissions intensity of GDP by 45%
12 consumption & production by 2030 compared to 2005; (earlier target 33-35%)
patterns
2) ⏬ per capita consumption of fertilizer, fuel,
�ज�ेदारी के साथ उपभोग और उ�ादन
plastic waste etc.
2021: SEBI rules: Top-1000 Listed Companies
required to publish Business Responsibility and
Sustainability Report (BRSR)- showing their
environmental, social and governance standards.
This reporting will be voluntarily in 2021 but
compulsory from 2022. सेबी के �नयमानुसार शेयर बाज़ार म�
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SDG Goal India’s Notable Schemes <List not exhaustive>
�ल�ेड बड़ी कं प�नयों ने 2022 से अ�नवायर् �प से “�ापार उ�रदा�य�
और सतत-��रता �रपोटर्’ प्रका�शत करनी होगी। इस �रपोटर् म� कं पनीने
अपने द्वारा उठाए गये पयार्वरण, समाज-क�ाण और कॉरपोरेट शासन के
कदमों क� जानकारी देनी होगी।
Goal Take urgent action to combat India’s national Greenhouse Gas Emission (2014) is
13 climate change & its impacts made up of: Energy sector > industrial process >
जलवायु प�रवतर्न और उसके प्रभावों से Agriculture > Waste material.
�नपटने के �लए त�ाल कारर्वाई
Targets: 0 Deaths in Extreme weather events, 40% of
electricity generation from renewable sources,
increase adoption of LED bulbs etc.
National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
& its 8 missions.
National Air Quality Monitoring Programme
National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change
(NAFCC) under NABARD
Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP, 2014) to
improve scientific analysis of climate change. It has
two components: A) National Carbonaceous
Aerosols Program (NCAP) led by IIT-Bombay &
other institutes. B) Long-Term Ecological
Observatories (LTEO).
Goal Conserve & sustainably use Marine protected areas, Coastal Regulation Zone,
14 the oceans, seas & marine National oil spill disaster contingency plan.
resources for sustainable If a States mangrove forest cover decreases then it
development
will be awarded ZERO marks in the SDG index.
समुद्री सं साधनों का सं र�ण
Goal Protect, restore & promote NAPCC → National Mission for a Green India,
15 sustainable use of terrestrial National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan
ecosystems, sustainably
Ecosystem
manage forests, combat
Project Tiger, Elephant etc.
desertification, & halt &
reverse land degradation & Target-2030: 1) increase Land area under forest from
halt biodiversity loss 21.54% (Baseline) to 33% 2) Use these trees/forests
�लीय पा�र���तक�य प्रणा�लयों, भू�म to add carbon sink equivalent to 2.5-3 billion tons
CO2
�रण और जैव �व�वधता का सं र�ण
Goal Promote peaceful & inclusive Target-2030:
16 societies for sustainable Reported murders per 1 lakh population (from 2.4
development, provide access to To 1.2)
justice for all & build effective,
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SDG Goal India’s Notable Schemes <List not exhaustive>
accountable & inclusive Reduce reported corruption crimes per 1 crore
institutions at all levels population (from 34 to 17)
शां�तपूणर् समावेशी समाजों को बढ़ावा increase number of courts per 10 lakh persons (from
देना,सभी के �लए �ाय तक प�ंच
12 to 34)
सु�न��त करना
Cover 100% population with aadhar card
Etc. so accordingly more ₹ funding, amending
criminal laws etc.
Goal Strengthen the means of India has joined International Solar Alliance, India
17 implementation & revitalize has committed to Paris deal on Climate Change etc.
the global partnership for 2019: India became founding member of European
sustainable development commission’s International Platform on Sustainable
सामूिहक साझेदारी-वै��क भागीदारी को Finance
पुनज��वत करना NITI has set no quantitative targets for this Goal
because MOSPI is unable to frame statistical
methods to capture it. (e.g. SDG Target 17.15:
‘Respect each country’s policy space’ - difficult to
quantify & compare!). But in 2021’s SDG Index
Report, NITI provided some qualitative assessment
e.g. we need to increase the cooperation at global
level, Corona has created new challenges etc. [यहाँ पर
मात्रा�क �प से तो ल� नापना सं भव नहीं है िक�ु गुणा�क समी�ा
नी�त आयोग ने द्वारा क� गई है]
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