GS-3 · 2) PDS (objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping, issues of buffer stocks & food security)
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Petroleum refineries are not necessarily located nearer to crude oil producing areas, particularly in many of the developing countries. Explain its implications.
Describe the key points of the revised Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) recently released by the World Health Organisation (WHO). How are these different from its last update in 2005? What changes in India's National Clean Air Programme are required to achieve these revised standards?
Discuss in detail the photochemical smog emphasizing its formation, effects and mitigation. Explain the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol.
Explain the rationale behind the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act of 2017. How has COVID-19 impacted the GST compensation fund and created new federal tensions?
Define potential GDP and explain its determinants. What are the factors that have been inhibiting India from realizing its potential GDP?
Explain intra-generational and inter-generational issues of equity from the perspective of inclusive growth and sustainable development.
Explain the meaning of investment in an economy in terms of capital formation. Discuss the factors to be considered while designing a concession agreement between a public entity and a private entity.
Suggest measures to improve water storage and irrigation system to make its judicious use under depleting scenario.
What are the major factors responsible for making rice-wheat system a success? In spite of this success how has this system become a bane in India?