Revisiting innovation at the bottom of the pyramid How do you come up with disruptive differentiators that will serve the unique needs of millions of Indians with limited purchasing power, and who are difficult to access? Co-create and build ground-up Amazon reaches a billion dollar in revenue in India in just three years.” “Drones will […]
Read MoreToday’s productivity paradox Economists argue over whether the slump in global productivity growth reflects the stagnation of technology Recent trends in productivity growth make it hard to be optimistic about the future. In 2014, the global growth of total factor productivity, or TFP, which measures the combined productivity of capital and labour, was essentially zero […]
Read MoreIn March this year, Rajasthan became the first state to insist that candidates for the panchayat polls meet minimum educational qualifications—Class VIII for sarpanches, Class X for the zila parishad and panchayati samiti elections and Class V in tribal reserved areas. Oh, and one more thing, you had to have a functional toilet at home. […]
Read MoreNational policy on Voluntary Sector 2007 Scope of the Policy In the Policy, voluntary organizations (VOs) mean to include organizations engaged in public service, based on ethical, cultural, social, economic, political, religious, spiritual, philanthropic or scientific & technological considerations. VOs include formal as well as informal groups, such as: Community-based organizations (CBOs) Non-governmental development organizations […]
Read MoreFinancial Impact on Employees Under National Pension Scheme (NPS) The National Pension System (NPS) has been designed giving utmost importance to the welfare of the subscribers under NPS. There are a number of benefits available to the employees under NPS. Some of the benefits are enlisted below: • NPS is a well designed pension system […]
Read MoreSocial Security Scheme for Farmers The Government is implementing a number of schemes to help the farmers in increasing their productivity by reducing cost of cultivation, achieving higher yield per unit and by realizing remunerative prices. Some of the important new initiatives in this context are: (i) Soil Health Card (SHC) scheme by which the […]
Read MoreIndia, Japan agree on military sales, bullet train and nuclear deal Abe says Japan’s cooperation with India in the nuclear field will be limited to peaceful objectives India and Japan on Saturday cemented their strategic partnership with the signing of a preliminary pact on civil nuclear cooperation, capping years of negotiations. The two sides also […]
Read MoreNational Population Policy As per the latest World Population Prospects released by United Nations (revision 2015), the estimated population of India will be 1419 million approximately whereas China’s population will be approximately 1409 million, by 2022. In spite of the perceptible decline in Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 3.6 in 1991 to 2.3 in 2013, […]
Read MoreCabinet approves Central Legislation to declare 106 additional inland waterways as national waterways The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to carry out official amendments in “The National Waterways Bill, 2015”. The amendments are based on the recommendations of the Department related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, […]
Read MoreHighlights of agriculture census 2010-11 Department of Agriculture, Cooperation& Farmers Welfare has released Agriculture Census 2010-11(Phase-II). Highlights of the Census are: Highlights As per Agriculture Census 2010-11, Total number of operational holdings were estimated as 138.35 million. The total operated area was 159.59 million hectare. The average size of the holding has been estimated as […]
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