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SFG-T1-[Polity]


Learning 
1)Education is related to 5th & 6th Schedule as well.

2) Trade monopoly abolished by 1813 Act | Tea- China not to be considered.

3) Gandhiji- Non Violence based on religious principles


4) Definition of State: sovereign people not Sovereign govt. !


5) Objective resolution had provisions related to world peace.


6) A 30 : Not a reverse discrimination 


7) Free education to children isn't affirmative action


8) PESA for 5th Schedule | AD-6th


9) Read options carefully , Fill bubble properly & highlight correct -incorrect




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SFG-L1-T2-Polity

  1. In 5 UTs [w/o #L] : #P can amend/repeal (P) law.

  2. FC | 280 | ≠ transparency in financial administration

  3. JSPSC | G35 | Report to #G not to #P | PB-HR-66 | G19- CPSC

  4. NCBC | 338 B- S/C need to consult for polity matters of SEBC | 105th CAA- state own list, by Law

  5. CGA - Non (s) | FinMin | Advisor

  6. AG: can practice or can’t ? | member of committee - I thought AG can only present arguments

  7. **[Trapped]**ISC: mind could not filter this out in list of extra (c) entities

  8. **[Trapped]**Mind could not filter tax vs non tax

  9. PAC report ≠ #P | PAC analyse CAG-Reports

  10. ISC: misuse of 356 | Srinagar conclave

  11. 7th


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Learnings
1) Appointment related provisions are way too confusing , revise them at least 10 times before exam. Ad Hoc, retired , transfer 


2) Did Custodian question wrong , Should be ashamed. Custodian #P or SC?


3)no monetary limit exists in applying civil cases in the Supreme Court.


4)  HC for 2 or more states | 7CAA


5)  judicial office in the territory of India for 10 years =judge in any of the state Subordinate Court


6) The constitution has explicitly endowed the power of judicial review on the Judiciary. Yes/No?

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1)Senators are directly elected .


2) What is the meaning of constituent powers of both houses of Parliament?


3)Overthinking:  If the Union Parliament wishes toremove a matter from the State list(over which only the State Legislature can make law) to either the Union List or Concurrent List in the interest of the nation, theapproval of the Rajya Sabha is necessary.


4) state councilDOES NOTreflect the federal element ! [& ULB representation is not federal]


5) Minister : chair of Consultative committee | Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.


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SFG


What toolf are youbusing for the notemaking?

Sir it is notion. 

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  1. RTI| BPL fee exempt | Only citizens have RTI
  2. Voting in India| in person, postal, proxy | armed forces: both postal & proxy |NRI ≠ Postal ?
  3. Who canavail the Postal Ballotfacility currently?
    1. Members of the armed forces, police force (serving outside the state), Government employees posted outside India and their spouses
    2. Voters under preventive detention
    3. Special voters such as the President of India, Vice President, Governors, government officers on poll duty .
    4. Absentee Voters: unable to cast | They include voters a) employed in essential services b) Persons with disabilities and c) senior citizens above 80 years of age.
  4. RPA 50| seat allocation | preparation of electoral roll | delimitation commission | Election officers | manner of filing |Barring the jurisdiction of civil courts. |Prep b4 elections.
  5. RPA 51| Nomination paper | RPA51 | Actual elections | Reg of Pol Parties | election disputes | Nomination paper | RPA51
  6. FCRA 2017 Amendment | Parties can receive from : Indian subsidiary of a foreign, A foreign company, in which an Indian holds 50% or more shares.
  7. (c) Amendment:
    1. In USA, an amendment may be proposed by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.
    2. in USA, every constitutional amendment must be ratified by at least three-fourth(75%) of the state legislatures.
  8. AIS
    1. Salaries and pensions [ by the states]VsHC #J[Pension by Center]
    2. immediate control vs ultimate control | Safeguards under A 311 - not for defense forces
  9. SPSC: 1/2 | 10 years u/r Govt.
  10. Resources
    1. Union government have exclusive rights on all lands, minerals and other things of value under the waters of the ocean within the territorial waters of India, the continental shelf of India and the exclusive economic zone of India | TW- 12 NM, EEZ- 200NM
  11. The official conduct of the president can be reviewed by a court, tribunal or any other body authorised by either House of Parliament to investigate charges for impeachment.


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  1. ASHA | pregnancy test kits for early detection
  2. Tribes | 3 basic ethnic groups - Proto Australoid, Mongoloid and Negrito
  3. SC&ST act , 1989 | Special court for this only | No prior permission of SSP needed | No anticipatory Bail
  4. Literacy
    1. Highest in South Asia: S Lanka
    2. India's literacy rate is 74.4% (7+ years old) | can read and write.
    3. UTs Literacy : Lakshadweep on Top | JK- Bottom.
    4. In India, the growth rate of female literacy is higher than the male literacy.
  5. Dependency ratio
    1. number of dependents aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, compared with the total population aged 15 to 64.
    2. In 2020, total dependency ratio (0-14 and 65+ per 15-64) for India was 48.7 percent. Total dependency ratio (0-14 and 65+ per 15-64) of India fell gradually from79 percent in 1971 to 48.7 ratio in 2020.
  6. Worker Age Population
    1. The national average of the worker-population ratio (WPR) in the country for the year 2019-2020 is 50.9 per cent.
    2. Himachal Pradesh has the highest with 70.5 per cent, way above the India average and the highest among states.
    3. Punjab and Haryana fall below the national average with WPRs of 47.8 per cent and 42.9 per cent respectively.
  7. Sex Ratio
    1. National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5, the number of women surpassed menfor the first time in Indiawith the sex ratio being 1,020: 1,000.
  8. Mortality
    1. Infant | year, Neo Natal-29 days | Post neo natal 29-365
    2. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the sum of the Age Specific Fertility Rates (ASFR) for all age groups of women multiplied by 5, the whole being divided by 1000. The ASFR is used for all age groups from 15-19 to 45-49.
  9. Population
    1. Demographic Transition:Population growth is linked to economic developmentand every society follows a typical pattern showing this relation
    2. Optimum Theory of Population (not Demographic Transition Theory)optimum population will lead to max wealth per head.
    3. Malthusian Theory:population growth (GM) >subsistence resources (AM) This will naturally lead to events like famine, war, diseases (positive checks) which will limit population to sustainable levels.
    4. Cornucopian Theory (and not the Theory of Demographic Transition) that states that human ability for invention will help it to resolve all environmental limitations and social challenges that come up due to prior population growth and so unlike Malthusian Theory, it does not believe that the human population will ever go extinct for any reason.
  10. Language
    1. The Dravidian language is spoken in southern India and in some pockets in central India;
    2. Austro-Asiatic language is spoken in some pockets in the north-eastern Himalayan region of Meghalaya, in Nicobar Islands and most part of central India;
    3. Tibeto-Burman language is spoken in the entire Himalayan region whereas
    4. Indo-Aryan language is spoken in the remaining areas of the rest of the country.
  11. New Farmer's Movements | Byfarmers rather than peasants |price and related issues
  12. New social movement | focus on quality of life instead of power distribution | other identities so notorganized along class lines alone.
  13. Important events
    1. Smiling Buddha May,1974
    2. The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, was launched in 1975 using a Russian rocket.
    3. 1977, First Non-Congress Government led by Morarji Desai was formed at the Centre. He was the candidate of Janata Party, a coalition formed by Jay Prakash Narayan during the emergency. Morarji Desai was the 4th PM of the country. First three, Pandit Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi, all belonged to Congress Party.
    4. January 1978, the Indian government demonetised Rs 1,000, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 notes, which was quite substantial at that point of time.
      1. The move was enacted under the High Denomination Bank Note (Demonetisation) Act, 1978.
      2. Under the law all “high denomination bank notes” ceased to be legal tender after January 16, 1978.
      3. People who possessed these notes were given till January 24 the same year - a week's time - to exchange any high denomination bank notes.
    5. Other events
      1. 1949: Nationalization of Reserve Bank of India. The Reserve Bank of India was state-owned at the time of Indian independence.
      2. 1953: Nationalization of Air India under the Air Corporations Act 1953.
      3. 1955: Nationalization of Imperial Bank of India and its subsidiaries (State Bank of India and its subsidiaries)
      4. 1956: Life insurance in India was nationalized, through the Life Insurance Corporation Act. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) was made after merging 245 insurance companies operating then in the country.
      5. 1969: Nationalization of 14 Indian banks (Allahabad Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Central Bank of India, Canara Bank, Dena Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Punjab National Bank, Syndicate Bank, UCO Bank, Union Bank of India, and United Bank of India)
      6. 1972: Nationalization and restructuring of 107 insurance companies under the General Insurance Corporation of India.
      7. 1973: Nationalization of Coal India Limited (CIL) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
      8. 1980 : Nationalization of another 6 banks
  14. Wars
    1. 1947 War: Karachi agreement
    2. 1965 tashkant
    3. 1971 Shimla
    4. 1999 Lahore Declaration [Before Kargil war-may 1999]
      1. Pokhran-II 11 May 1998 – 13 May 1998 |Operation Shakti
      2. signed on 21 February 1999, at the conclusion of a historic summit in Lahore, and ratified by the parliaments of both countries the same year.
      3. to avoid accidental and unauthorised operational use of nuclear weapons.
  15. Census
    1. In the census, there is no option to choose ‘tribe’ or 'aboriginal religion'. As per instructions issued for the census, the six religions - Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism - were given the code 1-6. If a person follows another religion, the enumerator is asked to write the name.
  16. S B Phule
    1. first female teacher of India |first headmistress of the country's first school for girls in Pune
    2. She published Kavya Phule in 1854 and Bavan Kashi Subodh Ratnakar in 1892.
    3. She established the Mahila Seva Mandal to raise awareness for issues concerning women's rights.
    4. Shetkaryacha Asood was written by Jyotirao Phule.
  17. MGRanade
    1. 'The texts of the Hindu law on the lawfulness of the remarriage of widows' and 'Vedic authorities for widow marriage' were written by Mahadev Govind Ranade.
    2. Vaktruttvottejak Sabha, the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, Maharashtra Granthottejak Sabha, and the Prarthana Samaj, and edited a Bombay Anglo-Marathi daily paper, the Induprakash
    3. He was given the title of Rao Bahadur.
  18. Urbanization | growth rate slowed down during last two decades | TN>Kerala Most urbanized.
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    1. Fiat vs Legal vs Fiduciary
      1. Fiat money | legal tender |issued on the order of the government | not backed by a physical commodity|fiat money has no intrinsic value. |no obligation on any person to accept this money as a medium of exchange | No legal action can be initiated in this case.
      2. Legal tender |compulsory to accept this type of money for the settlement of any monetary obligation. The government can issue fiat money and can declare it to be a legal tender.
      3. Fiduciary money |trust between the payer and payee. |Cheques
    2. Cash deposit ratio
      1. An increase in cash deposit ratio leads to a decrease in money multiplier. An increase in cash deposit ratio mean people holding cash more in hand and depositing less thus leading to decrease in money multiplier.
    3. SLR
      1. Cash, SDL, T bills, MSS etc
      2. SLR is also referred as the ratio of liquid assets to net demand and time liabilities (NDTL).
      3. Banks have to report to the RBI every alternate Friday their SLR maintenance, and pay penalties for failing to maintain SLR as mandated.
      4. SLR are not reserved with the RBI, but with banks themselves. This is unlike Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) which is kept by bank in the form of cash with the RBI.
    4. MSF
      1. borrow from the Reserve Bank of India (not within banks that is not interbank) |last resort for banks once they exhaust all borrowing options | LAF:adjusting the day-to-day mismatches in liquidity (frictional liquidity deficit/surplus).
      2. While borrowing money under MSF, banks are permitted to make use of the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) securities which is otherwise not allowed in case of Repo rate. This is up to an additional one per cent of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL), i.e., cumulatively up to three per cent of NDTL.
      3. Recently, RBI allowed regional rural banks (RRBs) to access the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF), marginal standing facility (MSF) and call or notice money markets with the aim to facilitate better liquidity management for these lenders.
    5. DICGC
      1. 5 Lakh | Premium by bank | 12 Paise every 100 | Within 90 dayswithout waiting for eventual liquidation of the distressed banks.
    6. Central Government (RBI)constitute Monetary Policy Committee by notification in the Official Gazette.
    7. IBC VS SARFESI
      1. SARFESI : not all forms of creditors |mostly banks and other financial institutions |IBC all forms of creditors
      2. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code takes precedence over SARFAESI during the Insolvency Resolution Process
    8. Why poor transmission of monetary policy ?
      1. Customers’ deposits make up almost 80% of all banks’ funds from which they then lend to borrowers. On the other hand, banks borrow a minuscule fraction from the RBI under the repo.
      2. To attract deposits, banks pay a high deposit rate to depositors. Hence their cost of funds is high.
        1. In effect, unless banks reduce their deposit rates, they will not be able to reduce their lending rates. However, if a bank were to reduce its deposit rates, depositors would shift to a rival bank that pays better interest rates. Otherwise, they would park more of their savings in small saving instruments (public provident fund, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, etc) that pay much higher interest rates.
      3. Also, 65% of total deposits are “term” deposits (fixed for a certain duration) and take, on an average, up to 2 years to get repriced at fresh rates.So, banks cannot always reduce deposit rates immediately as deposits take longer to get repriced.
    9. Accredited Investors |relaxation | net worth or income | SEBI
    10. Fisher effect |describes the relationship between inflation and both real and nominal interest rates.
    11. Rights Issue
      1. A rights issue is an invitation to existing shareholders to purchase additional new shares in the company. This type of issue gives existing shareholders securities called right.
      2. There is no listing requirement in case of a primary market.
      3. Only those securities are traded in the secondary market, which is listed in a recognised stock exchange
    12. Cash Management Bills
      1. Short term, less than 91 days, by RBI on behalf of govt. *| Not By State governments | issued at discount to the face value through auctions, as in the case of the Treasury Bills.
      2. both fungible and non-fungible form. A CMB is fungible when its maturity date coincides with the maturity of an existing Treasury -bill issuance. In the case of non-fungible CMBs, participation by primary dealers is not compulsory as it is for fungible CMBs or for regularly scheduled Treasury-bills or bond issues.
    13. AT 1
      1. Additional Tier-1 bonds are a type of unsecured perpetual bonds having no maturity period. Instead, they carry call options that allow banks to redeem them after five or 10 years. However, banks are not obliged to use this call option and can opt to pay only interest on these bonds for eternity.
      2. AT-1 bonds are generally issued by banks to shore up their core capital base to meet the Basel-III norms.
      3. The Basel III norms stipulated a capital to risk weighted assets of 8%. However, as per RBI norms, Indian scheduled commercial banks are required to maintain a CAR of 9% (and not 12%) while Indian public sector banks are emphasized to maintain a CAR of 12%.
    14. Bond Price
      1. when inflation is on the rise, bond prices fall. When inflation is decreasing, bond prices rise. That's because rising inflation erodes the purchasing power
      2. Most bonds pay a fixed interest rate that becomes more attractive if interest rates fall, driving up demand and the price of the bond. Conversely, if interest rates rise, investors will no longer prefers the lower fixed interest rate paid by a bond, resulting in a decline in its price.
    15. Green Shoe Option |
      1. Green shoe option: In the context of IPO, it is a provision in an underwriting agreement. It grants the underwriter the right to sell investors more shares than initially planned by the issuer, if the demand for a security issue proves higher than expected. A greenshoe option is anover-allotment option.
    16. PSL
      1. domestic and foreign banks to achieve a credit disbursement target of 40% of lending book while regional rural banks (RRB) and small finance banks (SFB) need to attain 75%.
      2. most important functions of DCCBs is to provide funds to the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies.
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  1. Fiscal marksmanship: accuracy of the government's forecast of fiscal parameters
  2. **Primary deficit[Concept not clear]
  3. Transfer payments | aimed at redistribution of income |Subsidies paid to exporters, farmers, manufacturers are not considered transfer payments because they are linked to a commodity transaction.
  4. Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Statement |Part of General Budget ** as per FRBM -Yes it is considered a part of Budget
  5. State Borrowing | raised borrowing limits for states to 5% GSDP subject to reform
  6. Ricardian Equivalence |government spending through borrowing is equivalent to its spending out of tax revenue.
    1. This means that attempts to stimulate an economy by increasing debt-financed government spending will not be effective because investors and consumers understand that the debt will eventually have to be paid for in the form of future taxes. Because taxpayers will save to pay the expected future taxes, this will tend to offset the macroeconomic effects of increased government spending.
  7. Wealth tax- abolished 2015| DDT abolished 2020 | Long term Capital gain- after 3years, 20 % of profit , 1 year in case of equity | Gift tax - marriage etc exempted. | fringe benefit tax abolished , now Perquisites Tax.
  8. Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant | under Article 275 of the Constitution. | released in monthly instalments as per the recommendations of the Finance Commission to meet the gap in Revenue Accounts of the States post devolution
  9. Surplus transfer | Non Tax revenue | It is not the Banking regulations act 1949, but the section 47 of RBI Act 1935 which provides for the surplus transfer income of RBI to the Centre.
  10. Fiscal drag: inflation or income growth moves taxpayers into higher tax brackets
    1. Due to progressive taxation, a greater number of people comes in high bracket of taxation. Thus, Consumer spending decreases besides rise in income growth,automatic fiscal stabilizer , prevent overheating
  11. Credit to GDP Ratio
    1. although the credit to GDP ratio of India increased to five-year high of 56% in 2020, it is way behind its peers and just half of the G20 average.
    2. A higher credit-to-GDP ratio indicates aggressive and active participation of the banking sector in the real economy. While a lower number shows the need for more formal credit. This is where the role of bank comes, where they need to work towards more formalization of credit to people.
    3. The credit-to-GDP gap ("credit gap") is defined as the difference between the credit-to-GDP ratio and its long-term trend.
  12. 15th Finance Commission
    1. additional condition is the establishment of State Finance Commission by March 2024, post which no grants will be released if not established.
    2. Sector-specific grants of Rs 1.3 lakh crore will be given to states foreight sectors: (i) health, (ii) school education, (iii) higher education, (iv) implementation of agricultural reforms, (v) maintenance of PMGSY roads, (vi) judiciary, (vii) statistics, and (viii) aspirational districts and blocks. A portion of these grants will be performance-linked.
  13. GB |no separate allocation ,recognizes the impact of budget on men and women,2005-06, remained stagnated
  14. NMP: monetisation through Infrastructure Investment Trusts
    1. Roads (not Oil & Gas Pipelines) at 27% constitute the biggest share in the sectors whose assets have been put forward for monetization. It is closely followed by Railways (25%), Power (15%), oil & gas pipelines (8%) and Telecom (6%). These top 5 sectors account for 83% of pipeline value.
  15. Disinvestment & Management Control
    1. The government in the Budget 2021 unveiled the Disinvestment/Strategic Disinvestment Policy. Under which it identifiedfour sectors-- Atomic energy, Space and Defence; Transport and Telecommunications; Power, Petroleum, Coal and other minerals; and Banking, Insurance and financial services -- as strategic sectors, where bare minimum CPSEs would be retained.
    2. The objectives of disinvestment is as pointed aboveand notGovernment no longer intends to retain the management control of the CPSEs.
  16. Inverted Duty u/r GST
    1. Earlier under GST Regime the Inverted Duty Structure have wider scope as compared to Pre-GST regime because it included input services also. But recently the Supreme Court held that inverted duty refund is admissible only with respect to inputs and not for input services.
  17. GFCF
    1. Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) is defined as the acquisition of produced assets(including purchases of second-hand assets), including the production of such assets by producers for their own use.
    2. Construction for military purposes (other than construction or alteration of family dwellings for military personnel), acquisition of defence equipment, durable goods in the hands of the households and increase in the stocks of defence materials are excluded from the scope of gross fixed capital formation.

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SFG 2022 - Level 1 - Test 13
  1. MGNREGA | at least 60 percent of the works undertaken must be related to land and water conservation | one-third of the workers should be women | payment in 15 days | social audit
  2. Fixed term employment : can be hired directly w/o middleman ,not required to provide retrenchment benefits,The Code on Social Security (2020) does not specify a minimum or maximum tenure for hiring fixed-term employees.
  3. Tendulkar Committee: shift away from calorie consumption, focus onhealth and education too,uniform poverty line basket (PLB) across rural and urban India,Mixed Reference Period.
  4. The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS)
    1. applies to investment measures related to trade in goods only. Thus, the TRIMs Agreement does not apply to services,not concerned with the regulation of foreign investment.
    2. TRIMS vs TRIPS
  5. Depreciation of Indian rupee
    1. FD➚ :risk of seeing the value of the currency fall
    2. Fed Tapering
  6. Worker population Ratio
    1. The worker-population ratio= total number of workers/ population in India
    2. In urban areas, the proportion is about 34.1, whereas in rural India, the ratio is about 35.3. Thus, the level of participation of people in economic activities is greater in rural areas as compared to urban areas.
    3. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), more than half of the population of workers in Rural India are self-employed.
  7. India's population
    1. Decadal growth rate 17%, expected to be 12.5% in the 2011-2021 decade.
    2. As per NFHS-5 Phase II, Total Fertility Rates (TFR) of India has declined from ****2.2 to 2.0 at the national level. Further. as per demographic concepts, replacement level rate is 2.1. Thus, India's TFR has gone to sub-replacement level.
    3. Nagaland was the only state that recorded a negative decadal growth of population (minus 0.40 per cent) as per the Census 2011.
  8. Post 1991
    1. Since 1991, theabsolute level of income per worker i.e. worker productivityhas increased for both rural and urban areas.
    2. rural workforce decreased , because shifting towards urban/non-agri sectors.
    3. The growth rate in rural employment decreased |increased informalisation and de-unionisation of workforce
    4. increase in casual labour and not a decline.
    5. total number of operational holdings in the country has increased, The small and marginal holdings taken together (0.00-2.00 ha.) constituted 86.08% of the total holdings [share in the operated area stood at 46.94%] , more women in the southern states hold land as compared to the rest of the country.
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SFG 2022 - Level 1 - Test 14


  1. labor code on Industrial Relations | 14 days notice before strike

    1. Reskilling Fund has been established to skill the workers who are fired from their jobs. The contribution to the fund by employer is 15 days of last wage drawn by the employee.
    2. worker definition - earning more than 18K excluded
    3. Negotiating Union :If more than one trade union, one with more than 51% of workers as member will be recognized as sole negotiating union
    4. If none eligible,negotiating councilwith representatives of union having at least 20% of workers as members
  2. DSII[NPA option could have been eliminated but Dimag nahi chala ]

    1. Criteria : global activities , size of operation | LIC, GIC, NIAC
  3. ULB

    1. The Property tax can only be decided by state government and not by Urban Local bodies.[Correct/false ?]
  4. Models

    1. EPC Model - project cost was fully covered by the Government, private entities are only exposed to the construction-related risks.
    2. In Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT-TOLL) model, the toll collection is the responsibility of theGovernment.Private
  5. Capacity utilization of power sector

    1. The capacity utilisation of thermal power plants (also called Plant Load factor or PLF) has declined from 78% in 2009-10 to 61% in 2018-19.
  6. Corporate tax [22% ]

    1. Direct tax collections for FY21 were at the lowest since 2017-18 registering a contraction of 13.1%, while indirect tax mop-up saw a growth of 12.6%. As a result, the proportion of indirect tax collections was higher than direct taxes, indicating an uneven impact of the pandemic on income and consumption. The primary reason for this was the windfall gain from excise duty collections and higher goods and services tax collections.
  7. MSME | MSME sector contributes around 48% in India's total exports basket | Currently there are no items reserved for MSMEs sector.

    1. India has 6.33 crore MSMEs out of which 6.30 crore i.e. 99.4 per cent are micro-enterprises while 0.52 per cent i.e. 3.31 lakh are small and 0.007 per cent i.e., 5,000 are medium enterprises.

    PYQs In which I committed blunder ! 

  8. GST Exemption[PYQ]**

    1. The items that are kept outside the purview of GST are petroleum products (such as petroleum crude, motor spirit, diesel, aviation turbine fuel and natural gas), electricity and alcohol for human consumption**.**
    2. Items exempted from GST include fresh or pasteurized milk, butter milk, curd, chena or paneer, and non-vegetarian items like eggs (cooked or raw), chicken, fresh meat, and fresh or chilled fish. Fruits, vegetables, as well as unit container-packed frozen branded vegetables (uncooked or steamed) are also exempt.
    3. There are other items on the exempted list like manuscripts, postal items like envelope and post cards sold by the government, newspapers, journals and periodicals, whether illustrated or containing advertising material etc.
  9. Chemical fertilizers**[PYQ**]**

    1. Ammonia, which is an input of urea, is produced from natural gas. Sulphur, which is a raw material for phosphoric acid fertilizer, is a by -product of oil refineries.
    2. The retail price of chemical fertilizersis not market -drivenas the government subsidizes the fertilizers. Under Nutrient Based Subsidy Scheme (NBS), the fertilizers are provided to the farmers at the subsidized rates based on the nutrients (N, P, K & S) contained in these fertilizer
  10. Non Financial debt [PYQ**]

    1. Non-financial debt consists of credit instruments issued by governmental entities, households and businesses that are not included in the financial sector.
    2. The Housing loans owed by households, amounts outstanding on credit cards and Treasury bills all are examples of non-financial debt.
  11. Devaluation to reduce CAD[PYQ]**

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SFG 2022 - Level 1 - Test 16 | January 28, 2022


  1. Swadeshi movement was also called Vandematram movement

  2. Events

    1. Indian national association 1876
    2. The first Delhi Durbar 1877. Here decision was taken about the creation of privy council.
    3. The Arms Act 1878, Vernacular Press Act
    4. In 1883, Ilbert Bill.
    5. Neeldarpan Dinabandhu Mitra - 1858-59 (During the Indigo Revolt)
    6. Satyendranath Tagore first ICS 1863
    7. Swami Dayanand Arya Samaj in 1875
    8. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Anandmath in 1882
  3. Rakhmabai case of 1884 | child marriage

    1. Rakhmabai Defense Committee was formed byBehramji Malabari and Pandita Ramabaiin her defence.
    2. The case was instrumental in the drafting of the Age of Consent Act in 1891.
    3. first legislation in British India which regulated child marriage: TheNative Marriage Act (or Christian Marriage Act, 1872)was passed in 1872 which signified legislative action in prohibiting child marriage.
  4. Hali system

    1. Hali system was related to the bonded labour system. Kaliparaj communit Bardoli taluq laboured as hereditary labourers for upper-caste landowners.
    2. Leaders such as brothers Kalyanji and Kunverji Mehta and Dayalji Desai worked to abolish the Hali system.
  5. Jagannath Shankar Seth(fondly called as Nana)

    1. Bombay Association was established by Jagannath Shankar Seth in 1852 to represent traders and businessmen. It was later revived in 1867 by Naoroji Furdoonji.
    2. co-founded the Elphinstone College and Native School of Bombay
    3. first Indian to be nominated to the Legislative Council of Bombay and a member of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, when Indians were not welcome there.
    4. With Jeejeebhoy, Jagannath Shankar Seth helped set up the Indian Railway Association, which was later incorporated into the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, now the Central Railway.
  6. Tilak vs Aurobindo

    1. Tilak, swaraj meant some sort of self-government, whereas, Aurobindo's meant for complete independence from foreign rule.
    2. The new party of the radicals wanted to use new methods against the government to secure political rights for the Indian people.Aurobindo thought that the method of passive resistance, which was used by the Irish nationalists, would be ideal for India. Hence, he developed theory of passive resistance in a series of articles published in the weekly called'Bande Mataram".
  7. Associations

    1. The All India Depressed Classes Association was formed by M.C Rajah (and not Baba Walangkar). This association had come into being in the wake of the All India Depressed Classes Leaders’ Conference held in Nagpur in 1926. M.C. Rajah was elected as its first president and Dr Ambedkar, was elected one of its vice-presidents. Ambedkar later resigned from this association and in 1930 at a conference in Nagpur, founded his own All India Depressed Classes Congress.
    2. B**. R Ambedkar (and not M. C Rajah)** organised the All India Scheduled Castes Federation at a conference in 1942 in Nagpur, with its constitution claiming the dalits to be "distinct and separate from the Hindus".
    3. Mahatma Gandhi set up the All-India Anti-Untouchability League at a meeting in Bombay in 1932 presided by Madan Mohan Malaviya of the Hindu Mahasabha. Industrialist G. D. Birla was made the President of the Anti-Untouchability League and Amritlal V. Thakkar, a social worker, its secretary. Gandhi started using the term Harijan for untouchables, and strove to establish dignity of labour by performing the tasks Harijan were traditionally assigned.
    4. Mohammedan Anglo Oriental Defence Association , in 1893 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, as a part of the Aligarh Movement., uniting the Muslims in India.Apart from Muslims the British too were its members, The Britishers, too, encouraged the formation of this association as they wanted to use it as a buffer and a counter against rising sentiments of Indian Nationalism, led by the Indian National Congress.
    5. British Indian Association
      1. British Indian Association was established in Kolkata (1851). Radhakanta Deb was its first President and Debendranath Tagore, the first general secretary of the association.
      2. Its main objective was to promote interests of the Indian Zamindari class, by getting concessions from Britishers. However, a few common issues like abolition of salt duty, etc were also raised by it. However, most of its interests and agendas were overwhelmingly concentrated on the zamindari class.
      3. It was formed in 1851 by combining the Landholder's Society and Bengal British India Association. This was done as both the individual associations had limited agendas and resources, and combining them helped increase their combined influence.
  8. Sir William Wedderburn and W.S. Caine committee | 1893

    1. TheBritish Committee of Indian National Congresswas founded in 1889 by Sir William Wedderburn as Chairman and William Digby as it's secretary to achieve political reforms in India by gathering support from British public.
      1. It was founded as a branch of the Indian National Congress in Britain, closer to the main British Government, which was its target. So its headquarter was located in London itself.
      2. It had INDIA as its organ (not Voice of India which was published by Dadabhai Naoraoji) in order to spread its message.
    2. Dadabhai Naroji and W.S.Caine were some of its important members. Sir William Wedderburn entered House of Commons in British Parliament in 1893 as a Liberal member.

    The British Committee of Indian National Congress decided to carry Indian Propaganda on three fronts:

    1) In House of Common by organising the Indian Parliamentary Committee

    2) On platform, by arranging meetings and lectures

    3) In the press, by founding the journal ‘India’

    The role of Sir William Wedderburn and W.S. Caine were instrumental in setting up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893. Wedderburn played a key role in passing the resolution forsimultaneously conductingCivil Services Exam in India.

  9. Calcutta Unitarian Committee

    1. TheCalcutta Unitarian Committeewas established by Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and William Adam in 1823.

      1. It sought to bring together prominent Brahmins who were friends of Roy's and supporters of his agenda for the promotion of religious monotheism and social reform among Hindus with British and European residents of Calcutta who were Unitarian Christians.
    2. On the occasion of the anniversary festival on 24th January 1886, Keshab Chandra Sen laid the foundation stone of his mandir called the Tabernacle of New Dispensation. Keshab and his followers marched to the proposed spot early in the morning performing sankirtan and this was the first Brahmo street procession and it was the first of its kind in Calcutta.

    3. Indian Reform Association was established in 1870 at Calcutta by Keshab Chandra Sen to create put into practice ideas that he got during his visit to Britain.

      Indian Reform Association was formed with Keshab Chandra Sen as its President. It represented the secular side of the Brahmo Samaj and included many who did not belong to Brahmo Samaj.

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Note to self: revise Properly 

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@Phantom You scores have been quite consistent. How are you keeping up? Any advice? My score have been ranging from 40-50.



1. Revise more frequently. Reading same thing time and again is very boring but it is very rewarding. If possible please try to follow spaced repetition.

2. Cover PYQ seriously. Try to find out the traps. Sometimes these traps are repeated. 
Thank you


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@Phantom how much are you getting in full tests?


in the range of 90-125

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Sj123said

When second weekly rank list will be out?

at the end of week 

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