{"id":3209,"date":"2017-07-03T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2017-07-02T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T18:09:16","slug":"mains-marathon-upsc-mains-current-affairs-questions-july-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mains-marathon-upsc-mains-current-affairs-questions-july-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mains Marathon \u2013 UPSC Mains Current Affairs Questions \u2013 July 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/initiatives\/mains-marathon-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archives<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Read the\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>following questions and answer them by clicking on the links in not more than 200 words<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time: 30 Minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kindly review each others answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/farm-loan-waivers-are-more-of-a-political-imperative-than-a-solution-to-agrarian-crisis-discuss-the-given-statement-highlight-the-arguments-for-and-against-farm-loan-waivers-what-alternate-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farm Loan Waivers are more of a political imperative than a solution to agrarian crisis. Discuss the given statement. Highlight the arguments for and against farm loan waivers. What alternate measures can you suggest to solve the financial agrarian crisis? <\/a>(GS 3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/wooFBiehXpK9MMptszx2SL\/The-farm-loan-waiver-conundrum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Mint<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/toi-edit-page\/does-debt-waiver-improve-living-conditions-of-poor-farmers-data-for-the-2008-scheme-paints-a-very-bleak-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/discuss-the-long-term-and-short-term-benefits-of-gst-what-can-be-the-challenges-in-implementing-the-same\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss the long-term and short-term benefits of GST. What can be the challenges in implementing the same?<\/a> (GS 3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/entering-the-age-of-gst\/article19190673.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>3.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/bureaucracy-is-not-an-obstacle-to-democracy-but-an-inevitable-complement-to-it-critically-examine-gs-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. Critically examine this statement<\/a>.\u00a0(GS 4)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives\u00a0 Read the\u00a0following questions and answer them by clicking on the links in not more than 200 words Time: 30 Minutes Kindly review each others answers. 1.\u00a0Farm Loan Waivers are more of a political imperative than a solution to agrarian crisis. Discuss the given statement. Highlight the arguments for and against farm loan waivers. What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mains-marathon-upsc-mains-current-affairs-questions-july-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mains Marathon \u2013 UPSC Mains Current Affairs Questions \u2013 July 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mains-marathon-questions","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pen-paper-laptop.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704362475},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}