Doubt Clearance Thread: UPSC 2021

Is this Correct? Headline Inflation isnt it CPI?

in this question, why 3rd option -giving tax benefits is wrong. reduction in indirect tax can reduce inflation....

NCERT Physical Geography book Page 59:

"Normally, in meanders

What is the ratio of direct-to-indirect tax in India? I read somewhere that direct taxes form about 50% of tax revenue. 

But, which is higher - direct or indirect tax revenue?

https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/Budget_at_Glance/bag5.pdfthe official budget statistics. 

direct tax collection is higher than indirect tax

Do you also know Govt subsidy to GDP ratio and %age of govt expenditure in subsidies?

Also, how can I check such statistics? I am not able to find them in Budget documents. 

@forumiasacademy 

Sir,

SFG 2.0 Test 27

Question 19 

Statement 1: NNP is National Income of an economy.

You have mentioned only NNP and not NNP at factor cost.

As per NCERT CSO consider GDP at market price as GDP only.

So NNP in question means NNP at market price.

It should have mentioned clearly NNP at factor cost

Question 23

As per class 11 ncert number of poor in absolute terms has declined.

Question 36

Statement 4

Appointment of Advisory planning Board was first done by British Indian govt in 1944 then by interim govt in 1946

Do we really need to read and remember such fact?
Economic survey is a rich repository of data and facts of the economy.

A significant amount of money goes into subsidies. 70% of govt expenditure in agriculture and allied sector is in the form of subsidies. So, I thought that such data becomes automatically important 😅

Prelims 2019 Question

With reference to the legislative Assembly of a state in India, consider the following Statements:

1. The Governor makes a customary address to Members of the house at the commencement of the first session of the year.
2. When a State Legislature does not have a rule on the particular matter, it follows the lok Sabha rule on that matter.

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Official answer given is 'c'. Somebody please confirm the source of option 2. 

ethics

if morals stem from inside a person how can morals be judged as good or bad?

ex:-suppose a sucide bomber believes he is doing good, isnt he being morally good?

or does morals has to be in concurrence with societal ethics?

no but constitutional amendment should not violate the fr which is a part of basic structure

Remember that this was a controversial question last time and the jury was out. The statement was verbatim from an article written by PDT Achary in the Indian Express. 

Do farmers sell their produce to FCI or to APMC mandis?

It's confusing because in some source it's written that farmers sell their produce to FCI at MSP and in other sources, it's written that farmers sell to APMC mandis.

RonWeasleysaid

Do farmers sell their produce to FCI or to APMC mandis?

It's confusing because in some source it's written that farmers sell their produce to FCI at MSP and in other sources, it's written that farmers sell to APMC mandis.

both

fci procures at msp but there is no guarantee that it will from all farmers

farmers can also sell to apmc mandis but if the buying cost at apmc mandis is less than msp,then fci has to procure from farmers(though practically it doesnt happen)

Farmers can sell in APMC mandis only( all agri products). But some crops have MSP which will be procured by Govt. Those crops can be sold at mandis or to FCI, depending on the price. There is no compulsion on the farmer to sell to FCI.