UNION BUDGET
Development and Economics
- To understand the basic concept of economy and many terminologies of Economics
- Economic Systems
- Theory of Demand
- Planning in India, Niti Aayog
- Five year Plans in India
- List of Public and Private Sector Banks
- Scheduled and non Scheduled Banks
- Monetory Policy of India
- National Income
- Digital Rupee
- Macro and Micro Economics
- Financial Market
- New Economic Policy
- Agricultural Initiatives
- Fiscal Policy of India
- Scarcity definition of Economics
- Alternative uses of resources
- Resource Transfer
- Distributive effects
- To understanding progress through data
- Distributive impact of the various Economic Policies
- Inflation and Deflation
- Regional rural Banks
- Determinant of growth and development-
- Some important concepts -
- HPI /MPI ,
- PQLI ,HDI,
- GDI/GII,
- GEM,
- TAI,
- Green Index
- Concept of sustainable development : need, instruments and issues
- The source of progress, and India`s rank in the above mentioned indices
Poverty
- Definition, causes and distribution-deprivation,
- income vs. calories concept,
- World bank definition
- Measurement of poverty-Tendulkar committee
- Status of poverty- Global and Indian States
- Poverty eradication programmes
- Poverty and resource policy
- Tribal rights, Right to food, right to dignified life
- Livelihood mission-both rural and urban
Inclusion
- Definition, relevance for the individual and society
- Type of inclusion –social political, economic including financial
- Dimension of the financial inclusion
- Recent initiatives regarding the promotion of the financial inclusion
- PMJDY, Atal Pension Yojana, and other initiatives
Demographics dividend
- Census 2011 and deviations from earlier census
- Population by gender (Total and sex ratio)
- Population by state (ordering)
- By age group
Socio economic status
caste composition
religion,
gender
literacy level, and household facilities like drinking water, sanitation, health status, homeless people - Energy uses and price of energy
- Trends in human development-interstate comparisons like North and South divide
Fiscal Policy
- Definition, component
- Receipts
- Revenue Account and Capital Account
- Revenue- Tax and Non Tax ,
- Tax Revenue includes Direct and Indirect Taxes
- Expenditure –Planned and Non Planned
- Budget –Type, process (preparation ) and legislative process
Social issues
- Financing Health policy
- Education policy
- Sanitation drive
- Drinking water
- Social Security
- Infrastructure Policy especially telecommunication, energy, transport
- International trade- composition, direction and issues
- Recent regional cooperation
Issues of the Current importance
- Rationalization of MNERGS,
- Innovations in Micro Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME)-
- Skill India
- Make in India
- Industrial corridors
- Land acquisitions
- Centre State financial relation,
- NITI Ayog
- Black money
- Insurance Bill etc
- DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer)
- Debroy committee on railway infrastructure and governance
- International treaty and organisations (WTO, G-20, G-8, ADB, World Bank) Look towards and act towards East
- Indo China, Indo- Pak, Indo-Bangladesh Policy
