What are the three basic sources of generating power?
The three basic sources of generating power are thermal, hydro-electric, and nuclear power. Thermal power uses heat energy as its base for the production of electricity. Hydro-electric power involves production of electricity through the use of kinetic force of falling water. And the nuclear power involves the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate electricity. The thermal sources, hydro-electric sources and nuclear power accounts for 70%, 28% and 2% of the power generation capacity respectively in India.
Infrastructure contributes to the economic development of a country. Do you agree? Explain.
Discuss the main drawbacks of our health care system.
What are the various non-commercial sources of energy?
What is the significance of ‘energy’? Differentiate between commercial and non-commercial sources of energy.
What is the state of rural infrastructure in India?
How do infrastructure facilities boost production?
What is a ‘global burden of disease’?
Describe the meaning of public health. Discuss the major public health measures undertaken by the state in recent years to control diseases.
What problems are being faced by the power sector in India?
How are the rates of consumption of energy and economic growth connected?
What was the focus of the economic policies pursued by the colonial government in India? What were the impacts of these policies?
What are the two major sources of human capital in a country?
What do you mean by rural development? Bring out the key issues in rural development.
Define a plan?
Who is a worker?
What is meant by environment?
Why are regional and economic groupings formed?
Why were reforms introduced in India?
Why calorie-based norm is not adequate to identify the poor?
Name some notable economists who estimated India’s per capita income during the colonial period?
How can creation of income earning assets address the problem of poverty?
Comment on the growth rate trends witnessed in China and India in the last two decades.
What is marketable surplus?
How does investment in human capital contribute to growth?
How is human development a broader term as compared to human capital?
Enlist some problems faced by farmers during the initial years of organic farming.
What are the main problems of human capital formation in India?
Why is it necessary to became a member of WTO?
Critically appraise some of the shortfalls of the industrial policy pursued by the British colonial administration.
What factors contribute to human capital formation?