KPSC Prelims and Mains Notes, KPSC Test Series
Migration in India 2020-21 report was recently released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). Report highlighted that, with the onset of covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, 0.7 per cent of India’s population was ‘temporary visitor’ in households during July 2020-June 2021. More than 84 per cent of these ‘temporary visitors’ moved places … Read more
Migration in India 2020-21 report was recently released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). Report highlighted that, with the onset of covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, 0.7 per cent of India’s population was ‘temporary visitor’ in households during July 2020-June 2021. More than 84 per cent of these ‘temporary visitors’ moved places … Read more
Annual report of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) was recently released by the government, for the period of July 2020 to June 2021. As per report, unemployment rate or proportion of persons in labour force who could not find jobs, decreased to 4.2 per cent in July 2020-June 2021 as opposed to 4.8 per cent … Read more
Beti Bachao Beti Padho’. The scheme ‘ Beti Bachao Beti Padho’ revolves around the notion of female feticides. It is campaign which aims at eradication of female feticides and to make girls socially and financially self-reliant through education. The movement came into force in 2015. It is a joint initiative run by the … Read more
At the GST council meeting in December 2021, Tamil Nadu’s finance minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, opened the Pandora’s box by insisting that the Union government should compensate the states on market value in case of monetisation of assets of central public sector enterprises (CPSE’s) for which states had contributed land. This statement gives a new dimension … Read more
The top 30 export districts in India exported merchandise valued at more than $120 billion in the first two quarters of the fiscal — April to September 2021 — with petroleum and gem-and-jewellery trade leading the table. And, three districts from Karnataka — Bengaluru, Dakshina Kannada and Ballari — accounted for more than $7.8 billion of … Read more
The metaverse is a virtual world where people interact via their digital avatars! In that virtual world, people will be able to do almost anything – go shopping, attend meetings, play with their friends and so on. This virtual universe can be accessed from devices like smartphones, or computers. However, to get the complete immersion … Read more
India has imposed anti-dumping duty on five Chinese products, including certain aluminium goods and some chemicals, for five years to guard local manufacturers from cheap imports from the neighbouring country. A remedy sanctioned by the WTO to protect a member country’s domestic industry from imports that have been priced at levels below those prevailing in … Read more
Gender inequality is the social process by which men and women are not treated as equals. The treatment may arise from distinctions regarding biology, psychology, or cultural norms. Some of these distinctions are empirically-grounded while others appear to be socially constructed. The under-representation of women in the workforce is both a social and economic loss. … Read more
The ongoing struggle of farmers is not for political power. It is a struggle to transform Indian agriculture and the livelihoods of the farming majority which are in ruins in most parts of the country. The compulsion of our time is to give a new direction to a peaceful peoples’ movement to generate momentum in … Read more
