Major Challenges Of Indian Economy
- Discuss the nature of sectoral contribution of income to national income of India since independence. Also examine whether the changes in sectoral contribution to national income of India followed Kuznets-Clark hypothesis.
- What is human development ? Discuss the importance and measurement of Gross National Happiness Index.
- What are the objectives of the demonetization policy announced by the Central Government on 8th November, 2016 ? Discuss its impact on various sectors and various categories of people in the society. Analyse its scope for cashless economy in the near future.
- ‘‘Selfish attitude of human beings is the sole cause of environmental degradation.’’ Discuss.
- Discuss the difficulties faced in measuring the developmental level of economy and justify whether the current method of measurement in India overcomes the difficulties.
- Discuss briefly the major changes involved in the recent revision in the base year and method of national income accounting.
- Describe be the factors responsible for the low level of Human Development Index of India during the last two decades.
- Explain the specific, problems encountered by Indian economy with increasing share of private sector in the’ context of globalisation.
- Analyse the strategy adopted by Reserve Bank Of India to control the rising prices in last two years?
- Justify the view that public debt is essential for the development of Indian economy endowed with natural resources.
- Do you consider Human Development Index as an alternative to National Income? Justify your answer.
- Explain the important sectoral changes in post-independence Indian economy with respect to income and work-force.
- Explain various approaches to measure national income.
- Explain the problems in measuring national income.
Resource Mobilization In Indian Economy
- Critically analyse the causes and consequences of India’s public debt relating to the period from 1991 till date.
- Discuss the nature and importance of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in health care and basic education in India.
- Eleventh five year plan identified the weaknesses on the employment front during the period of reforms. Describe them.
- Discuss briefly the recommendations of the expert committee constituted “To revise and strengthen the monetary policy framework”.
- Explain the need for emergence of Regional rural banks, and discuss the problems faced by them and the corresponding revisions made.
- Briefly discuss the main Objectives and strategies outlined in the XII Five Year Plan of India?
- State the measures initiated by Reserve Bank Of India to regulate credit disbursed by Non-Banking Financial Institutions.
- Examine the relative shares of direct and indirect tax revenues of Indian Government in the post-reforms period.
- Critically examine the performance of X Five Year Plan.
- What is the scope for public-private partnership in post-economic reform period in India? Elaborate.
- Explain the structure of Indian Banking.
- Critically examine the role of RBI in credit control.
- Explain the role of Finance Commission in a federal country like India.
- What are the important tax reforms in India since 1991?
- Explain the important objectives of the 10 Five Year Plan.
- Explain the role of private sector after economic reforms.
- Explain the objectives of monetary policy.
- Explain the impact of economic reforms in the Banking sector.
- Explain the pattern of revenue collection after economic reforms in India.
- Explain the principles of public expenditure.
Government Budgeting
- Describe the highlights of Fiscal Reforms and Budget Management Act 2003?
- Discuss the concept of revenue deficit and effective revenue deficit and justify the reasons for introducing effective revenue deficit. Give the details of the expected revenue deficit & the effective revenue deficit by the fiscal 2016-17, as per the Union Budget 2013-14.
Inclusive Growth
- According to the Economic Survey 2016 – 17, Universal Basic Income (UBI) aims at achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of ‘‘wiping every tear from every eye’’. In this backdrop, explain the concept of UBI and discuss how it is expected to achieve the stated objective.
- What is relative poverty ? What are the reasons for its presence in India ? Explain the Gini-coefficient and Lorenz curve methods of measuring relative poverty.
- Discuss briefly the guiding principles in setting up the NITI Aayog.
- Explain the possible limitations in the strategy for poverty alleviation adopted by the Government of India.
- Discuss the possible consequences of rural unemployment on the society and suggest two effective remedial measures.
- Comment, on the recent controversies relating to the estimates rural-urban poverty in India.
- Assess the impact Of, MGNREGS in reducing the intensity Of unemployment in rural areas of our country?
- What are important concepts of employment/unemployment used by National Sample survey Organisation (NSSO)?
- Discuss the important anti-poverty programmes implemented by Government of India.
- Explain the methods of measuring poverty in India.
- Explain the methods of measuring unemployment in India.
Agricultural Development
- Analyse the possible reasons for placing ceilings on agricultural holdings. Give two possible disadvantages to the economy due to such ceilings.
- Declining share of agriculture sector in national income facilitated a rise in the rate of economic growth in India. — Justify your answer.
Industrial Development And Policy
- ‘‘The aim of economic reforms in India is to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of domestic industry and pave the way for achieving high rate of economic growth.’’ Discuss.
- Describe the salient features of National Manufacturing Policy and also the critical role of manufacturing sector in employment generation.
Infrastructure In India
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