Infrastructural development and issues

Advance Infrastructure Good quality infrastructure is critical to sustainable growth, especially for rural areas. As over 60 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, with low levels of per capital income, there is need to impart greater attention in improving rural infrastructure. Currently the rural infrastructure is inadequate to support over 600,000 villages. … Read more

Financial and Banking sector reforms

The Banking System at the time of independence was largely urban oriented and remained out of reach of rural population. Commercial Banks mostly confined their lending to trade, commerce and industry and treated agriculture as a non priority. Security- oriented lending was the order of the day. Banks did not pay any attention to the … Read more

Food processing and related industries in India- scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management

Agro Food Processing: Forming village clusters and establishing Food Storage, Food Processing Industry is of enormous significance for India’s development because of the vital linkages and synergies that it promotes between the two pillars of the economy, namely Industry and Agriculture. India is world’s second largest producer of food and has the potential to become … Read more

09.01.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan to digitise all historical records; 10k pages a day With an aim to protect old and fragile documents, the Rajasthan government is digitising 10,000 pages daily to preserve administrative and historical records of Rajputana’s princely states.   The move will further boost the state government’s effort to use technology to improve the lives … Read more

Human Rights Commission

  Establishment of Human Right Commission The National Human Rights Commission is a statutory (and not a constitutional) body. It was established in 1993 under a legislation enacted by the Parliament, namely, the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. This Act was amended in 2006. The commission is the watchdog of human rights in the … Read more

02.02.18 (MPPCS) Madhya Pradesh Current

MADHYA PRADESH Clear dues or forget admission under RTE quota: Schools to govt   The state is staring at a crisis for the 2018-19 academic session as over 1,008 unaided private schools in Bhopal have decided not to admit students under the Right to Education Act quota until the government clears their dues worth crores … Read more

Indian ‘Renaissance: National Freedom movement and its leaders (with special reference to M.P.).

ORIGIN OF NATIONALISM The rise of Nationalism is reflected in the spirit of Renaissance in Europe when freedom from religious restrictions led to the enhancement of national identity. This expression of Nationalism was furthered by the French Revolution. The political changes resulted in the passing of sovereignty from the hands of an absolute monarch to … Read more

22.05.18 (MPPCS) Madhya Pradesh Current Affairs

MADHYA PRADESH Chouhan launches ‘my mp rojgar portal’   Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched ‘My MP Rojgar Portal’ in ‘Ham Chhu Lenge Asman’ Mukhyamantri Career Counselling programme ‘Pahal’ in Model School of Bhopal. This portal is equipped with providing jobs to youths as per their educational qualification, skills and interest and ensuring availability of … Read more