The present volume, Practitioners' Experiences in Tackling the Second Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Indian Villages: A Compendium of Statewise Deliberations - Rural Realities 2021is a compilation of intellectual and analytical deliberations on the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural India. The compendium is a product of the series, The State of Villages- #RuralRealitiesunder the IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS). It incorporates the composition of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, faculty, and University and college students across India and other countries. The discourses highlight the community's role in mitigating the pandemic's impact and recoupment strategies, with the lack of awareness, reluctance towards and fear of testing and isolation, hesitancy towards vaccines, and a general feeling of mistrust for the government posing as major barriers. The series focuses on the states and union territories of India, including Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh. The objective is to acknowledge the geographic, socio-economic and political uniqueness and suggest recommendations in accordance with these differences.
The system of official economic statistics in India has undergone myriad changes since Independence. There have been various developments in its administrative structures and changing levels of focus on different economic sectors. The types of datasets available for these sectors have been ever-evolving and undergo dynamic changes owing to real-time measurement and analysis using ICT. The Agricultural and Livestock Censuses capture data on the agricultural sector. For the Industries sector, Annual Survey of Industries and the Directorate of Industries in states are the two major sources of data. Since economic liberalisation in India, there has been an increased focus on the Services sector and developing a well-organised mechanism to cover it. This sector is covered by National Sample Surveys, Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ MCA-21 Database, GSTN and others. The unorganised and informal sectors of the economy also find coverage in NSS Rounds on Employment and Enterprises. The Census of India, the Economic Census, Price Indices and NSS Rounds on Consumption Expenditure, Enterprises and Employment, among others, are major sources of economic statistics as well. We also have new arrays of data for the formal sector in the form of EPFO, Direct Tax, Property Tax and others. Using this sector-wise classification of Agriculture, Industries, and Services, and also including the unorganised and informal sectors, the paper explores India’s structure of economic statistics. While the paper draws attention to recent datasets and rounds of surveys, the focus is also on the evolution of the system of official economic statistics in India. The paper highlights issues with the credibility and utility of the available data, in light of a declining GDP growth which also gives rise to more serious questions on the reliability of the country’s data architecture and system of economic statistics. It also discusses structural changes such as those of the MoSPI and NSC. The system of official economic statistics in India now faces the challenge of adapting to Information and Communication Technology. The paper thus emphasises the role of strengthening realtime and Management Information Systems’ data to enable evidence-based policymaking and planning and realise the vision of ‘New India’ and a US$ 5 trillion economy.
The entry-level to Company Secretary course is witnessing a paradigm shift in the methods of learning. The book is an endeavour to provide aspirants of the Company Secretary Executive Entrance Test (CSEET) a complete book to strengthen and incorporate student-centric learning. This question bank has been prepared with determination and perseverance that students who use it should succeed in the examination and keep them abreast of current affairs included in their curriculum. This book has been divided into four parts to cover the entire syllabus: • Business Communication (50 Marks) • Legal Aptitude & Logical Reasoning (50 Marks) • Economic & Business Environment (50 Marks) • Current Affairs, Presentation & Communication Skills (50 Marks) The Present Publication is the 2nd Edition, authored by CA (Dr.) K.M. Bansal, Adv. Ritika Godhwani & Dr. Ritu Gupta, with the following noteworthy features: • [Scientific Methodical Approach] has been followed in the sequence of the topics included in each chapter • [7,000+ Topic/Chapter-wise Questions in MCQ Format] strictly as per the CSEET Guidelines • [Hints for Numerical Questions] included in chapters on 'Economics' & 'Logical Reasoning' • [Mock Test Papers] along with answers are incorporated in this book • [Division Test Papers] are given at the end of each chapter The detailed contents of this book are as follows: • Business Communication 𝚘 English Grammar and its Usage 𝚘 Enriching Vocabulary 𝚘 Comprehension of Passage and Art of Summarising 𝚘 Concept of Business Communication 𝚘 Listening Skills 𝚘 Business Correspondence 𝚘 Concept of E-Correspondence 𝚘 Common Business Terminologies • Legal Aptitude & Logical Reasoning 𝚘 Indian Constitution 𝚘 Elements of General Laws 𝚘 Elements of Company Secretaries Legislation 𝚘 Elements of Company Law 𝚘 Legal Terminology and Maxims 𝚘 Logical Reasoning 𝚘 Verbal Reasoning 𝚘 Analytical Reasoning • Economic and Business Environment 𝚘 Basics of Demand and Supply & Forms of Market Competition 𝚘 National Income Accounting and Related Concepts 𝚘 Indian Union Budget 𝚘 Indian Financial Markets 𝚘 Indian Economy 𝚘 Entrepreneurship Scenario 𝚘 Business Environment 𝚘 Key Government Institutions • Current Affairs, Presentation and Communication Skills 𝚘 International & National Affairs 𝚘 Financial Affairs 𝚘 Political Affairs 𝚘 Legal and Other Affairs 𝚘 Recent Current Affairs 𝚘 Presentation and Communication Skills (Viva-Voce)
This book brings together unique experiences of India, China and Israel in overcoming economic, social, and natural resource challenges. Through its eleven chapters, the book captures the role of groundbreaking innovations in achieving unprecedented agricultural growth and stabilizing these nations. It provides a future outlook of the new challenges that will confront these countries in 2030 and beyond, related to tackling food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural growth and adhering to improved food safety standards. This book provides useful insights for exploring technological innovations and policies that can address these future challenges and develop profitable and sustainable agriculture. This volume also highlights valuable lessons that India, China and Israel provide for the rest of the developing world where population is growing fast; natural resources are limited; and it is a challenge to produce enough food, feed and fibre for their populations. Tracing the historical past, this book is an impressive resource for academicians, policymakers, practitioners, agribusiness players, entrepreneurs in understanding the role of innovations in addressing future challenges.
This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of fictional and non-fictional narratives of 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India. This volume contributes to the expanding field of trauma and memory studies in literature through an interdisciplinary approach. It takes perspectives from the fields of neurobiology, sociology, psychology, and literary theory to offer an integrative and fresh approach to reading and locating trauma in narratives. Going beyond a simple reading of silence, the author discusses themes which encompass othering of the Sikh body; visual, echoic, and olfactory memories; somatic expressions of trauma; experiences of women and instances of rape and sexual atrocities; and children as young witnesses and intergenerational trauma, to understand questions of agency and politics of remembering. Incisive and invigorating, this book is a must read for students of memory and trauma studies, Sikh studies, South Asian literature, gender studies, English studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, psychology, exclusion studies, and political sociology.
The entry-level to Company Secretary course is witnessing a paradigm shift in the methods of learning. The book is an endeavour to provide aspirants of the Company Secretary Executive Entrance Test (CSEET) a complete book to strengthen and incorporate student-centric learning. This question bank has been prepared with determination and perseverance that students who use it should succeed in the examination and keep them abreast of current affairs included in their curriculum. This book has been divided into four parts to cover the entire syllabus: • Business Communication (50 Marks) • Legal Aptitude & Logical Reasoning (50 Marks) • Economic & Business Environment (50 Marks) • Current Affairs, Presentation & Communication Skills (50 Marks) The Present Publication is the 2nd Edition, authored by CA (Dr.) K.M. Bansal, Adv. Ritika Godhwani & Dr. Ritu Gupta, with the following noteworthy features: • [Scientific Methodical Approach] has been followed in the sequence of the topics included in each chapter • [7,000+ Topic/Chapter-wise Questions in MCQ Format] strictly as per the CSEET Guidelines • [Hints for Numerical Questions] included in chapters on 'Economics' & 'Logical Reasoning' • [Mock Test Papers] along with answers are incorporated in this book • [Division Test Papers] are given at the end of each chapter The detailed contents of this book are as follows: • Business Communication 𝚘 English Grammar and its Usage 𝚘 Enriching Vocabulary 𝚘 Comprehension of Passage and Art of Summarising 𝚘 Concept of Business Communication 𝚘 Listening Skills 𝚘 Business Correspondence 𝚘 Concept of E-Correspondence 𝚘 Common Business Terminologies • Legal Aptitude & Logical Reasoning 𝚘 Indian Constitution 𝚘 Elements of General Laws 𝚘 Elements of Company Secretaries Legislation 𝚘 Elements of Company Law 𝚘 Legal Terminology and Maxims 𝚘 Logical Reasoning 𝚘 Verbal Reasoning 𝚘 Analytical Reasoning • Economic and Business Environment 𝚘 Basics of Demand and Supply & Forms of Market Competition 𝚘 National Income Accounting and Related Concepts 𝚘 Indian Union Budget 𝚘 Indian Financial Markets 𝚘 Indian Economy 𝚘 Entrepreneurship Scenario 𝚘 Business Environment 𝚘 Key Government Institutions • Current Affairs, Presentation and Communication Skills 𝚘 International & National Affairs 𝚘 Financial Affairs 𝚘 Political Affairs 𝚘 Legal and Other Affairs 𝚘 Recent Current Affairs 𝚘 Presentation and Communication Skills (Viva-Voce)
This book shows how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly and inextricably woven into everyday life in colonial South Asia.
The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of ‘development’, is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India. It says that Contract Farming (CF) acts as a conduit that enables the coming together of myriad production relations (mercantile, finance, productive) to sell agri-commodities to the capitalist peasant. It is an accumulation strategy that brings together various factions of domestic and foreign capital together. It shows that CF as an accumulation strategy is enabled by an active interventionist state and this neoliberal Indian state mediates the relation between the agri-capital and Indian peasantry. The book further analyzes contract farming as a part of the totality of the capitalist mode of production in context of developing countries with a large agrarian base--- asking three fundamental questions – what is CF, how and why is it done and what are the implications of it.
An excellent book for commerce students appearing in competitive, professional and other examinations 1.Indian Business Environment : Concepts, Components and Importance, 2. Environmental Analysis or Scanning, 3. National Income in India, 4. Savings and Investment in India, 5. Industrial Development of India, 6. Public and Private Sectors in India, 7. Foreign Trade in India, 8. Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, 9. Money and Finance in India, 10 . Price Trends and Inflation, 11. Problem of Poverty, 12. Unemployment Problem in India, 13. Regional Imbalances, 14. Parallel Economy, 15. Industrial Sickness, 16. ndustrial Policy, Industrial Licensing and National Manufacturing Policy [New Industrial Policy, Industrial (Development and Regulation) Act. MRTP and Competition Act. 2001, 17. Monetary Policy of India, 18. Export-Import Policy of India or Foreign Trade Policy of India, 19. Fiscal Policy of India, 20. Privatisation and Disinvestment in India, 21. Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, 22. Foreign Capital, Collaboration and Multinational Corporations, 23. International Trading Environment, World Trade & Problems of Developing Countries, 24. Foreign Trade and Economic Growth, 25. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organisation (WTO), 26. The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development), 27. International Monetary Fund, 28. Devaluation, 29. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 30. International Economic Grouping EU, EFTA, ASEAN, SAARC, SAPTA, 31. International Trade Agreements—GSP, GSTP and Counter Trade, 32. Twelfth Five Year Plan, 33. Social Injustice.
Business Economics - B.Com Semester-II (According to Minimum Uniform Syllabus Prescribed by National Education Policy): 1. FAMOUS ECONOMIST OF INDIA 2. BUSINESS ECONOMICS : AN INTRODUCTION 3. THEORY OF DEMAND 4. ELASTICITY OF DEMAND 5. DEMAND FORECASTING 6. THEORY OF COST (Short Run and Long Run Cost Curve) 7. PRODUCTION FUNCTION AND LAW OF VARIABLE PROPORTION 8. EQUAL PRODUCT CURVE ANALYSIS : OPTIMUM COMBINATION OF FACTOR AND EXPANSION PATH 9. RETURNS OF SCALE 10. ECONOMIES OF SCALE 11. PRICE AND OUTPUT DETERMINATION UNDER PERFECT COMPETITION 12. PRICE AND OUTPUT UNDER MONOPOLY 13. PRICE AND OUTPUT UNDER IMPERFECT OR MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION 14. BUSINESS OR TRADE CYCLE 15. THEORIES OF DISTRIBUTION 16. WAGES 17. RENT 18. INTEREST 19. PROFIT
The system of official economic statistics in India has undergone myriad changes since Independence. There have been various developments in its administrative structures and changing levels of focus on different economic sectors. The types of datasets available for these sectors have been ever-evolving and undergo dynamic changes owing to real-time measurement and analysis using ICT. The Agricultural and Livestock Censuses capture data on the agricultural sector. For the Industries sector, Annual Survey of Industries and the Directorate of Industries in states are the two major sources of data. Since economic liberalisation in India, there has been an increased focus on the Services sector and developing a well-organised mechanism to cover it. This sector is covered by National Sample Surveys, Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ MCA-21 Database, GSTN and others. The unorganised and informal sectors of the economy also find coverage in NSS Rounds on Employment and Enterprises. The Census of India, the Economic Census, Price Indices and NSS Rounds on Consumption Expenditure, Enterprises and Employment, among others, are major sources of economic statistics as well. We also have new arrays of data for the formal sector in the form of EPFO, Direct Tax, Property Tax and others. Using this sector-wise classification of Agriculture, Industries, and Services, and also including the unorganised and informal sectors, the paper explores India’s structure of economic statistics. While the paper draws attention to recent datasets and rounds of surveys, the focus is also on the evolution of the system of official economic statistics in India. The paper highlights issues with the credibility and utility of the available data, in light of a declining GDP growth which also gives rise to more serious questions on the reliability of the country’s data architecture and system of economic statistics. It also discusses structural changes such as those of the MoSPI and NSC. The system of official economic statistics in India now faces the challenge of adapting to Information and Communication Technology. The paper thus emphasises the role of strengthening realtime and Management Information Systems’ data to enable evidence-based policymaking and planning and realise the vision of ‘New India’ and a US$ 5 trillion economy.
The present volume, Practitioners' Experiences in Tackling the Second Wave of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Indian Villages: A Compendium of Statewise Deliberations - Rural Realities 2021is a compilation of intellectual and analytical deliberations on the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural India. The compendium is a product of the series, The State of Villages- #RuralRealitiesunder the IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS). It incorporates the composition of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, faculty, and University and college students across India and other countries. The discourses highlight the community's role in mitigating the pandemic's impact and recoupment strategies, with the lack of awareness, reluctance towards and fear of testing and isolation, hesitancy towards vaccines, and a general feeling of mistrust for the government posing as major barriers. The series focuses on the states and union territories of India, including Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh. The objective is to acknowledge the geographic, socio-economic and political uniqueness and suggest recommendations in accordance with these differences.
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