Unnat Bharat Abhiyan was launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in Novembter, 2014. It is based on the premise that to promote development of rural areas in tune with Gandhian vision of self-sufficient ‘village republics’, based on local resources and using decentralized, eco-friendly technologies so that the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, health care, energy, livelihood, transportation, and education are locally met. The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors in responding to the development needs of rural India.
GOALS OF UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAN
To build an understanding of the development agenda within institutes of Higher Education and an institutional capacity and training relevant to national needs, especially those of rural India.
To re-emphasize the need for field work, stake-holder interactions and design for societal objectives as the basis of higher education.
To stress on rigorous reporting and useful outputs as central to developing new professions.
To provide rural India and regional agencies with access to the professional resources of the institutes of higher education, especially those that have acquired academic excellence in the field of science, engineering and technology, and management.
To improve development outcomes as a consequence of this research. To develop new professions and new processes to sustain and absorb the outcomes of research.
To foster a new dialogue within the larger community on science, society and the environment and to develop a sense of dignity and collective destiny.
FUNDING
The requisite funding for the working of subject expert groups for preparation of resource materials, training workshops, etc. is provided by the Ministry of HRD
NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
An empowered Steering Committee has been constituted by the Ministry of HRD for actual implementation, continuous guidance and monitoring of the programme at the national level. Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, an eminent scientist and rural development enthusiast has been designated as the Chairperson of the National Steering Committee (NSC) with stalwarts like Dr. Mashelkar (Ex Director General, CSIR), Dr. Ved Prakash (Ex-Chairman, UGC) and Dr. Sahasrabudhe (Chairman, AICTE) and others as the members.
COORDINATING INSTITUTE
IIT Delhi has been designated to be the Coordinating Institute (CI) for the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA). The main task of the coordinating institute will be to facilitate mutual interaction, consultation, responsibility allocation and an active liaison among the mentoring institutions, the subject expert groups as well as the Ministry of HRD.
Section 144 imposed over uttarpradesh , and major cities of other states .....RBI has to reconduct examination atleast in these areas otherwise plenty of legal cases will be filed against RBI
Numbers are not much important: Many aspirants start mugging up the percentage change, numerical data etc. Remember one thing, they want you to be smart human not a dumb Robot. Try to focus on the trends and patterns rather than engulfing numbers.
Remember the importance of first chapter: Read first chapter with utmost care because this part contains brief summary of whole survey. You will get a chance to identify the part to be focused on.
Divide it in different parts: The best and efficient way to read survey is divide it in different sections and each section contains different sector facts. Like if you are preparing for UPSC then divide whole survey for three sections.
Section 1-Society, Role of women, Urbanization, Social Empowerment etc.Section 2-Welfare schemes and their analysis, Schemes for vulnerable sections, Government initiatives, Human resource, Hunger, Malnutrition, poverty, etc.Section 3-Agriculture, Subsidy issues, sustainable tech initiatives, Macroeconomics tangibles, and intangibles, etc. And more topics that are included in your syllabus and asked in exams.a. Mug up all stuff that is in boxes-This is most important you should mug up all the stuff that is in boxes because many times question the stuff put in the box have been directly asked in exams. So read them properly.b. Read it at least two times-As we know we are not Einstein or Newton that only one reading can remember whole life. It is not important to read the survey again and again because it is time-consuming. So as I previously said if you divide it into sections and make your own notes then only that notes will be helpful. So instead of reading whole survey read only your own notes again and again will be less time consuming and easily memorable.
Don’t mug up all graphs and charts: Survey contains a heck of graphs, charts and plots . You don’t need to put all of them in your head. Just try to prioritize things up and select some important things.
Bottomline
Read the Economic survey but don't get too engrossed in it. This year the survey is more like a doctoral thesis.
Avoid useless information and loads of data if you want to score well in the exam.
Make a simple one pager note of every chapter jotting down key takeaways
Pay heed to schemes and policies mentioned in the Survey. For eg. Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A)
Focus on the bigger picture, trend, arguments, analysis.
Geo-Politics: Global geopolitics today represents the case of a tug of war and India finds itself in the middle of it. This has made difficult for India to carve a middle path for balancing its strategic interests between the U.S and the Russia-China axis.
Therefore, BRICS platform provides an opportunity for India to balance Russia-China axis.
Global Economic Order: BRICS countries shared a common objective of reforming the international financial and monetary system, with a strong desire to build a more just, and balanced international order
To this end, BRICS community plays an important role in the G20, in shaping global economic policies and promoting financial stability.
Voice of Developing Nations: As the western countries are raising challenges on issues ranging from World Trade Organisation to climate change, the developing countries are crippling under the onslaught of these policies.
In recent period, BRICS has emerged as the voice of developing countries, or the global south and playing a significant role in protecting the rights of developing countries.
Terrorism: BRICS also provides a platform for India to galvanize its efforts against terrorism and has worked within the grouping to take a strong stand against terrorism and bring about focused consultations on specific aspects relating to terrorism.
Global Grouping: India is actively pursuing its membership for United Nation Security Council (UNSC) and Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG).
China forms the major roadblock in pursuing such goals. Therefore, BRICS provides an opportunity to actively engage with China and resolve the mutual disputes. It also helps in garnering support of other partner countries.
Geo-Politics: Global geopolitics today represents the case of a tug of war and India finds itself in the middle of it. This has made difficult for India to carve a middle path for balancing its strategic interests between the U.S and the Russia-China axis.
Therefore, BRICS platform provides an opportunity for India to balance Russia-China axis.
Global Economic Order: BRICS countries shared a common objective of reforming the international financial and monetary system, with a strong desire to build a more just, and balanced international order
To this end, BRICS community plays an important role in the G20, in shaping global economic policies and promoting financial stability.
Voice of Developing Nations: As the western countries are raising challenges on issues ranging from World Trade Organisation to climate change, the developing countries are crippling under the onslaught of these policies.
In recent period, BRICS has emerged as the voice of developing countries, or the global south and playing a significant role in protecting the rights of developing countries.
Terrorism: BRICS also provides a platform for India to galvanize its efforts against terrorism and has worked within the grouping to take a strong stand against terrorism and bring about focused consultations on specific aspects relating to terrorism.
Global Grouping: India is actively pursuing its membership for United Nation Security Council (UNSC) and Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG).
China forms the major roadblock in pursuing such goals. Therefore, BRICS provides an opportunity to actively engage with China and resolve the mutual disputes. It also helps in garnering support of other partner countries.
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China has been seeking to tie up the deal expeditiously as the country faces slowing growth from a trade war with the U.S.
This shifted the focus somewhat from crafting an agreement that worked for all to an early conclusion of agreement.
RCEP lacking balance and fairness:
India was not able to get several of its key concerns addressed.
The biggest concern in the bloc is still with China with whom the Indian bilateral trade deficits lurk around USD 55-60 billion.
There are too many non-tariff barriers in place in China which have to be removed.Otherwise, progressively low tariff rates which form the core of the RCEP treaty, will seriously hurt our dairy, steel, MSME and textile sectors.
Lopsided ‘Free Trade Agreements’:
India has already signed a host of free trade agreements (FTAs) and comprehensive economic cooperation agreements (CECAs) with the South-east Asian nations, with whom India’s trade deficit only increased after the agreements came to effect.
Even with other RCEP nations with whom India does not have trade agreements, namely, Australia, New Zealand, and China, India faces a massive and growing trade deficit.
Domestic opposition: Agricultural producers and farmers are fearing that cutting tariffs on dairy and other produce would open the door to cheap Chinese imports and threaten sectors that support a vast swathe of the population.
The economic slowdown: Indian industries facing consumption slowdown, would have been further hit by cheap imports.
Stagnating Indian exports: India's exports have declined along with an increase in imports.
India’s main issues with RCEP:
The main issues that need resolution include
e-commerce chapter
number of goods on which import duties should be completely eliminated
norms to relax services trade
investor-state dispute settlement
Rules of Origin (ROO)
The e-commerce chapter & the issue of cross-border transfer of electronic information:
The e-commerce chapter contains clauses that, if India had agreed to them, would have prevented it from implementing data localisation rules on companies doing business in India.
India has proposed locating computing facilities inside the country if it is meant to protect its essential security interests and national interests.
Also Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) in its April 2018 notification mandated “all system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India”.
RCEP does not want data localization. It said that these requirements raise costs for suppliers of data-intensive services by forcing the construction of unnecessary, redundant data centres.
Number of goods on which import duties should be completely eliminated
RCEP members want India to eliminate or significantly reduce customs duties on maximum number of goods it traded globally.
To protect domestic industry against surge in imports, India suggested an auto trigger method that would automatically increase import levies once shipments cross a given threshold limit.
India is negotiating ‘standstill’ and ‘ratchet’ clauses which mean that the governments have to freeze their current levels of market opening, and if they liberalise more they cannot go back.
Dairy Sector - New Zealand and Australia would gain significantly for commodities- Milk powder and fat. Already Malaysia and Indonesia have successfully exploited the Indian market in palm oil, as did Argentina and Brazil in soyabean oil and Ukraine in sunflower oil.
2. Norms to relax services trade
Under services, India wants greater market access for its professionals in the proposed agreement.
But the RCEP grouping had earlier rejected India’s proposal for a visa fee waiver on a common reciprocal basis, fearing migration and subsequent loss of jobs.
Computer related services is a sector of India’s interest and in that Mode 4 is India’s main concern.
3. Proposed inclusion of the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS):
This mechanism gives the exclusive right to bypass domestic legal systems and sue governments at international arbitration tribunals whenever they feel government regulation can limit their profits.
India does not want an ISDS mechanism in RCEP as it does not want its domestic laws to be challenged in offshore arbitral tribunals.
4. Rules of Origin (ROO):
Rules of origin are the criteria used to define where a product was made and are important for implementing other trade policy measures, including trade preferences, quotas, anti-dumping measures and countervailing duties.
India wants strict rules of origin to prevent Chinese goods from flooding the country through member countries that may have lower or no duty levels.
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