Committees,Panels,commissions

Liberhan commission Babri Masjid demolition
Nanavati commssion Anti Sikha riots
K T Shah commission
R K Raghavan committee Ragging in colleges
Madhava Menon committee Criminal justice……
Narayana Kurup Journalist wage
Raghuram Ranjan Financial sector reforms
Percy Mistry Mumbai into an IFC
Arjun Sengupta Unorganised Sector Workers …...Central Public Sector Enterprises (1984)
Malcolm Adishesaiah National Review Committee for Plus Two Curriculum of School Education.
Raja Mannar Centre state relations
Knowledge commission Sam Pitroda
Kelkar committee Direct and indirect taxes
Rangachari committee Plantation sector
Narasimhan committee Banking sector reforms
Tarapore committee FCC…….

ARC-2 Veerappa Moily
B P Mandal OBC quota……
Sachar committee
Srikrishna panel Mumbai riots
Jain commission Rajiv Gandhi assasination
Raja Chelliah Tax reforms(1 and 2)
Yashpal LOAD OF SCHOOL BAG..reduce academic burden
C N R Rao Regarding allowing foreign universities in India (based on GATS)
Lyngdoh Regarding politics in Colleges
Gupta Regarding registering of money lenders
Deepak Parekh(IDFC chairman) SEBI panel on primary market …..2)Infrastructure sector…3)On UTI scheme 1964
Malhotra committee Evaluate the Indian insurance industry and recommend its future direction
C H Hanumantahappa Commission on Rural Labou
Ela Bhatt National Commission on Self-Employed Women
Swaminthan M S NCF
Swaran Singh studying the Constitution of India in 1976 during the national emergency
Anti Sikh riots "1 Marwah Commission
2 Misra Commission of Enquiry
3 Kapur Mittal Committee
4 Jain Banerjee Committee
5 Potti Rosha Committee
.6 Jain Aggarwal Committee
7 Ahuja Committee
8 Dhillon Committee
9 Narula Committee
10 The Nanavati Commission "

C Subramaniam 1)Chairman of the National Commission of Agriculture.2)Chairman of the Committee on the Aeronautics Industry
M M Punchi Centre State relations
Sundar Committee on Road Safety and Traffic Management
C D Deshmukh Three-year Degree Course in

ASEAN looks to India and China to free Suu Kyi:

• Asean helpless in engaging Myanmar to free Suu Kyi(Myanmar is a member state)
• Secretary general-On Keng Yong
• It is keen to find a solution within an Asian framework
• India-China have been involved in lot of economic and defence deals
• Myanmar has declared that Suu Kyi is no a longer a political threat.
• SPDC-State peace and development council thinks that military rule is a normal form of governance
• ASEAN hopes to divest its responsibility to India and China
• “Washington” mode of thought cannot be applied in this context.
• China has already rebuffed a US move to create a consensus among the big powers in favour of a worldwide pro-democracy agenda
• India played a big role in the placing democracy in its neighbour, Nepal.This is being looked upon interestingly by the international community.

Notes:
India currently has announced its plan to give training to Myanmar air force personnel in Kochi. Transfer of transport aircrafts is also in the agenda.

New questions?

1) Who was the President of India during the emergency?
2) Who was the first defence minister of India?
3) Where is the Darfur conference being held?
4) Which body confirms and certifies the gas and oil discoveries in India?
5) Who are actuaries,underwriters?
6) What is the rough estimate of NPA (non performing assets?
7) What is the levy quota for sugar mills?
8) What is H5N1?
9) Who are Prahlad Kakkar,P K Iyengar?
10) What is India’s quota in IMF voting?
11) Which Asian countries are the temporary members inn the security council?
12) What is the bone of contention pertaining to the trade between India and Asean?
13) What is MQM in Pakistan?
14) What is the budget for Bharat Nirman?
15) Where is the next G8 summit to be held?
16) What were the conclusions of the G8 summit in Germany?
17) What is the Delhi Declaration?
18) Who is the new PM of Palestine(recognized by Israel)?
19) When was the Munich olynpics held?
20) Who won the Sultan Azlan shah cup this year?

Questions X

1)Who is Kurt Waldheim?
2)In how many countries does OVL have investment?
3)What is the Shankar committee involved in?
4)Where is VAGAMON.......and what is it famous for?
5)Which terrorist responsible for the bombing of a Cuban airlines released by US?
6)Which team was investigating the Kanishka bombing?
7)Which country has the largest yield of rubber according to the latest suveys?
8)Where are the Shevaroy hills?
9)What is the Indus water treaty and the Shimla pact?
10)What is the Washington accord?
11)Why is Indo-Russian bilateral trade meagre(compared to India and US)?
12)Which Indian scientist was awarded the Peter the great award and is a honorary professor of a russian naval institution?
13)What are scramjets?
14)What is cold fusion?
15)What is the Surya missile project?
16)What are the action plans launched to clean the Ganga and Yamuna?
17)What is Medium term note?
18)What is reverse repo rate?
19)How was the ECB limit for the last year breached?
20)Who was Golda Meir?
21)Which Japanese minister did suicide recently amidst a corruption charge?
22)Which is the largest cruise ship in the world?
23)What is NCAER?
24)Who won the Kabir Puraskar?
25)What are the FDI caps on each sector?
26)What is license raj?
27)What is the Emma Nicholson report on?
28)Which defence company is facing the largest ever bribery allegation against it?
29)Which company is going to launch the aircraft "dreamliner"?
30)What is a company,division,brigade,platoon in armed forces?
31)Which are the two companies in India whic process opium(PSU's)?
32)Who is the second Sarsanghachalak of the Rss?
33)What is the problem of an MP becoming a CM of a state?
34)Who is the youngest person to get the Param Vir Chakra?
35)What is orthodox tea?
36)What is the difference in the different blood groups?
37)Who was general Macarthur?
38)When did the military rule in Burma start?
39)What is the namre of the storm that hit Oman?
40)

New QUESTIONS

Who is the new Forwards Market Commission head?
Who is the richest Asian woman, who recently expired?
Who received the 2007 Malcolm Adishesaih award?
Who is the new Miss Universe?
What is the new concept of Global navy?
Which is the oil and gas company which has taken over the private oil fields and production in Venezuela?
Which company bought Covansys?
Who is the head of the Italian space agency?
Which CM in India got the Millennium development Goals award of the UN?
Who is the chief of UGC?
What are the Marine Commandos called?
Who is the head of the commission on Centre State ties?
Which university is in the development of the “cloak of invisibility”?
What is NIPER?
Who is the CARLOS THE JACKAL?
What is NTC? How many mills does it have now? What are the problem faced by it?
What is PCPIR? When was it released?
How much stake does Holcim have in ACC?
What is IMDEX 2007?
Which states form the “Gang of Four “ in Self help groups?
Who is Gordon Scott,Roman Polanski?
What is an SLP in judiciary?
Who received the Prem Bhatia award?
Who received the Florence Nightingale award?
What is backwater effect related to a dam?
Where is IISER located?
Which official of the DRDO has been appointed by the UN to report on the implementation of the UNSC resolution?
Which country has the largest Catholic population?
Who are Metric Martyr’s?
Which country leads in wind energy production?
What are VAJRA corps?
Which two directors are planning to produce films on TINTIN?
Where is the 2008 Olympics to be held?
Who is Jose Ramos Horta?
What is the 93rd amendment?
Who is the new cabinet secretary?
What is demutualization?

Questions

Which tigers are facing extinction in Russia?
Who is the lady officer of World bank involved in scandal with Paul Wolfowitz?
In which marathon did Sunita Williams participate from the space?
What are MRO’s in aviation sector?
Who is the president of ASSOCHAM?
A new scheme for “destitute woman” to find husbands has been launched in which Indian state?
What is the name of the new airport coming in the outskirts of Hyderabad?
Who is the head of Belarus who visited India?
Who is the first Russian PM to visit Pakistan in 40 years?
Which is the latest jet fighter being sold by China to Pakistan?
What is pod casting?
What is the NMITLI program of the CSIR?
Who is the head of CSIR?
What is Jetlite?
Who are the Los Angeles times journalists who won the Pulitzer award?
Who received the 20007 Malcolm Adisheshiah award?
Who is the chairman of the national commission for minority educational institutions (NCMEI)?
Which company launched the TENEA?
What is a limbo for Christians?
Who founded the city of Rome?
Which company launched the fastest inkjet printer?
Which civil servants received the award for excellence in public administration?
Which is the largest automobile maker in India and the world?

What Indian can learn from Oregon?

Striking a balance between land requirements for SEZ’s and protection of fertile farmlands.

The concept of capping the the SEZ can be circumvented by dividing the project into parts.

The concept of limiting the role of states can bring in the problem of land mafias who will use their muscle and money power to marginalize the rural landless laborers.

The American state of Oregon since the days of Silicon valley development have a clear vision on striking a balance between the urban growth and the rural land usage.

Growth boundaries were identified, only inside which the urban growth was allowed. New expansion projects were done on the old structures which were not used. Instead of expanding on green field areas the projects were given opportunity in brown field structures.

Lot of time was spent on planning by the planners by considering the opinion from the local communities on mega projects.

Satellite imaging and spatial database management can be very well used for deciding the land management policy of each zone.

District level spatial plans to identify growth areas for future investments along with alternative employment generation for the affected people

Food shortage likely in global rush for biofuels

The global rush to switch from oil to energy derived from plants will drive deforestation, push small framers off the land, and lead to serious food shortages and increased poverty unless carefully managed.

The UN report compiled by all 30 of the world agencies points to crops like palm oil, maize, sugarcane, soya and jatropha. Rich countries want to see these extensively grown for fuel as a way to reduce their own climate changing emissions.

Their production will stabilize the price of oil, open up new markets and lead to higher prices for food.

Last year a third of the entire maize crop went to ethanol for fuel. EU wants a 10%of all fuel must come from biofuels.

Some positives are that it can be very beneficial to poor countries. But a UN report acknowledges that forests are already being felled for plantations of palm oil. Environmentalist argue an irreversible consequence.

Global food prices tend to increase because of the shortage.

The 123 agreement has nothing to do with energy

Nuclear power contributes less than 3 % of India’s energy consumption basket. Even if the most optimistic projections work out the figure is not expected to rise beyond 8 to 10% by 2020.

The share of this may be a key factor in India’s long term energy basket but for the short and medium term, there is no getting away from the conventional sources. Put another way the nuclear deal with the US might be welcome as an additionality, the more pressing task for Indian energy diplomacy is to work in tandem with our neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood to ensure stable supply of oil and gas.

Indeed the challenge is to harmonize the short and medium term with the long term so that there are no zero sum games. India needs to have a constructive energy relationship with the US, Iran, China, Russia, CIS,Myanmar.

If increased access to nuclear reactors comes at the expense of the diminished access to other forms of energy, the gains will get cancelled.

The nuclear deal is about a strategic partnership extending to business and technology. The deal will help India to be absorbed into the world order as a major power, which till now has not been completely possible. And not only the Indian establishment is not used to think about the world in strategic or structural terms.

Nicholas Burns wrote in an article that :India is likely to be one of our two or three most important partners” in the years to come on a par presumably with the top two-UK and Japan.
There are 4 deliverables that the US has in mind:
1) The least objectionable one is that to bring India out of its self imposed isolation to a nuclear deal which will help the US companies to make billions from the reactor business.
2) The defense relationships to be established to respond to the global contingencies like the post Tsunami naval effort by India, US,Australia and Japan.
3) The 126 advanced fighters India is to buy.
4) To participate India in multilateral military operations and undertakings not the sort of Iraqi type.
5) Also an energy type with CIS states to ensure supply of oil and gas there by excluding IranThis factor has of course been taken by Russia and China during the trilateral meeting with India.
6) Isolation of Iran at any cost.

Proven success of reservations in Tamil Nadu

The long presence of the reservation system in the state is one of the many reasons for its better show in health and education. Its century old social justice movement has aided state intervention o benefit the poor and the needy.

All the parties expressed shock over the supreme cout judgment.

Madras presidency was the first to use reservation as an instrument of affirmative action to ensure justice to the deprived.

In the early 20th century “Periyar” and the Dravidian movement worked for reservation for the oppressed caste, based on which a government order was passed giving a 44% reservation for all non Brahmins,16%each to Mohammedans, Christians, Brahmins, and 8% to Scheduled casts.

Later Kamaraj took the struggle and helped in getting the article 15 and 16 to be amended, which empower the states to provide reservation for the educationally and socially backward classes.

Successive govt have increased the reservations and taken it 69%, which is against the 50% compliance of the Supreme Court ruling. In view of this ruling the state passed an act in 1994 to include the reservation act in Schedule 9.

The allegation that reservation tends to decrease the quality of education by the fact that best medical and professional colleges are in southern states.

“Ice breaking” visit:

Wen Jiabao is the first Chinese premier to visit Japan in 7 years.

Shinzo Abe has worked vigorously to stabilize the relations. He has not visited the controversial Yasukuni shrine which is a memorial of the Japanese war heroes including 14 war criminals.

Given the tension in the region due to the nuclear programs of North Korea ,any further problems between the two countries will only exacerbate the already delicate balance of power in the area.

There are a number of unresolved issues like the dispute over the gas fields exploration rights in the East China Sea, and the Taiwan issue.

China continues to oppose Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the UNSC even as Tokyo is openly against the lifting of the EU’s arms embargo against China.

On the up side the two countries have become integrated giving both a strong stake in ensuring that even when tensions begin to simmer they are not allowed to boil over. Bilateral trade in 2006 was worth a whopping $207.4 billion. Japan has also invested some $58 billion in more than 300 projects across China.

In alliance with the US, Japan seems to be opposing the emergence of China in South East Asia. Taiwan remains a bone of contention.

Abe is seeking to have the pacifist article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which forbids the country from maintaining a standing army, revised.

Tokyo also continues to publicly cast aspersions on China’s military modernization programme and its purported lack of transparency.

During the visit all the points may be covered. Japanese energy savings technology and the resumption of Chinese rice exports will also be discussed

Euro nationalists’ exploiting history:

Across Eastern Europe, memorials to those died fighting the Nazi’s are being dismantled and the far right rehabilitated.
Eg-Estonia, Latvia, Poland etc

Estonians who have worked in German SS divisions are described as fighters for Estonia’s independence and on the retirement record being added.

In Poland names of streets, Soviet memorials are being removed.

May be an added factor in the present stand off between Russia and NATO on the location of interceptors and radars in Poland..

DRDO-Look who’s talking:

Balasaheb Vikhe Patil haeded parliamentary standing committee on defence has noted that many of DRDO’s difficulties are caused by the changing of the QR (qualitative requirements ) by the services midstream ,and the long and extended trails by them.

For imported items ,a DRDO scientist noted that”the services are willing to dilute their QR if the supplier can bring down the price.Why cant they extend the same concessions to systems developed by our scientists”
Committee also noted that the indigenously developed systems are subjected to prolonged and exhaustive trials and evaluation
Most of the problems are with IAF.Navy has an excellent co opration with the DRDO.

Navy is very much satisfied with the capabilities of the DRDO.Sangraha,Varunastra,Mareech projects were completed successfully with no cost over run.
Not enough design engineers in DRDO ,and the rate of the attrition is also high.

Pollution,traffic could have cost Delhi the Asian games:

Evaluation committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) listed the 2 areas of concern in its report following its visit to Delhi to assess its readiness to host the games

The bidding committee had assured a separate lane to avoid traffic congestion

Also small counties may have ditched India during the secret ballot voting

New Delhi also banked on the fact that it is hosting the 2010 Commonwealth games and most of the infrastructure would be ready for the Asian games.

India hosted the 1951 and 1982 games.

Smuggling rampant on Tamil Nadu coast:

State is witnessing an influx of Sri Lankan –Tamil refugees and also smuggling.

Fuels, medicines, calipers, components for explosive manufacture are being smuggled from several “landing points” along Ramanathapuram coast.

Loads of ball bearings and aluminium ingots were found in raids.

LTTE in possession of high speed boats. Couriers and crew members are either fishermen or refugees already staying in southern districts.
Smuggling done for cash and liquor from Sri Lankan side.
Thousand of Indian boats entering sea and cross IMBL (International Maritime Boundary Line) freely across Palk Strait and Mannar.
LTTE is under pressure with depleting financial resources and increasing war excpenditures.India offers the only easy access to essential supplies.
Consignments being routed from AP, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu

Village service for doctors:

Govt to make it mandatory from 2008-09 for all new MBBS graduates to serve in a rural area for one year as a pre condition for being granted permanent registration is commendable.

The rural posting will underpin NRHM (promise made in CMP)

Today upto 40% of doctors posted in primary and community health centers fail to turn up
This will decrease quackery which is flourishing due to lack of enough number of doctors in rural areas
In contrast to urban presence of allopath , 60% of 5.5 lakh practitioners of traditional medicals systems are in rural areas
Lot of other challenges many rural health centers lack infrastructure, diagnostic tools, drugs etc.
A move to make it mandatory for doctors to attend periodic CME-continuing medical education is highly laudable.
Some 70% of India’s 4.5 lakh + doctors and 80% of 6 lakh hospitals are in the urban areas.

Is Contract farming the answer to the current woes confronting the nation’s farmers ?

Amendment of agricultural produce marketing committee (APMC)act in 14 states allows farmers to sell their produce in the open markets.

ITC,Reliance,Pepsico involved.Pepsico started the trend with tomatoes in Punjab

Good prices for the farmers, all technical know-how, guaranteed buying, no middlemen involved.

Farmers need to give only the land, and the labour.

Contract farming has come at a time when farmers are suffering because of high fertilizer, insecticide and power costs.

It generally involves: a pre agreed price between the company and the farmer, alongwith measures of quality, quantity, acreage to be farmed, duration of the contract.

Cash crops, crops for food processing industry will replace staple food like rice and wheat, so we lose food security.

But income from exports to increase a lot.

70% of the population dependent on agriculture, it is not just a trade, it is a way of life.

Agriculture to agribusiness………………………and it is a form of capitalist penetration

Corporate will dictate, what crops to be grown which will result in loss of natural seeds.

Incidence of pre-determined prices being rejected on pretext of inferior quality of crops.

Corporate can integrate the supply chain by ensuring timely availability of quality and quantity of materials.

SEZ :Lessons from China

China’s record economic growth fuelled by SEZ is often advocated as the reason for India to adopt this approach.

China’s SEZ policy driven only to achieve growth since 1980’s incurring huge resources and environmental costs.

It is home to 26 million poor, adding 10 million mouths to be fed each year. Even with this daunting target between 1996-2005 “development” caused diversion of more than 21% of arable lands to non-agricultural uses, highways, industries, and SEZ’s .20 million farmers were laid off agriculture due to land acquisition.

Protests against land acquisition and deprivation have become a common feature in rural China. Some 74,000 riots were reported in 2004.

SEZ like Shenzen which clocked 28% growth for 25 years has become a hotspot of crime, corruption, prostitution.

UNEP has designated Shenzen as a “global environmental hotspot” meaning a region had suffered rapid environmental destruction.

High input, high consumption are the mantras of development in China. Most of the companies violate emission rules. And China has officially admitted that pollution costs it 10% of GDP.

Income gap is widening.GINI coefficient –a measure of income destruction where 0 means perfect inequality and 1 means maximum inequality. For China it is 0.496,wherea for India it is 0.33.

In case of a country with a a sizeable domestic market, the choice lies with the producer to export or supply to domestic market.

Indian consumption is 68% GDP, Chinese consumption is only 35% GDP.

The good point are: New insurance policy for farmers, medical services,$ 1.5 billion dollars as subsidies ,More selling price for the crops.

So it is for India to decide whether to follow the “Chinese model”.

Demilitarisation of J&K

1)Discussion on whether the perfect time has come.
2)Political motives should be discouraged
3)Except Congress and BJP all other parties-both secessionists and unionists have supported the idea.
4)Fearing that the All Party Hurriyat Conference will fight the next elections,the PDP and National Conference are seeking for getting the demilitaristaion done as part of their struggle.Mufti Mohammed seems to have gained some advantage by getting promised from the centre to set up a panel for studying the demilitarization.
5)A steady decline in violence from 2002 in J&K gives a seeding for this demand
6)The Jihadi terrorists are moving their concentration from J&K to other cities og economic and strategic importance.
7)Army withdrawal and the deployment of CRPF is not clearly defined
8)In 1999,58,000 Army personnels were withdrawn for fighting the Kargil war,terrorists cashed on this situation and the disruption of the security grid ,and it tokk one whole year and a few hundred deaths to contain the damage.
9)Islamists forces are constantly on the sie in Islamabad and the Pakistanai govt has failed to contain the damage.
10)But the idea cannot be put back into the shelves for a long time.Policy makers have to think on the demilitaristaion with a view of the security and civil liberty of the people in mind.

Decongesting the airports

1) Charges to be levied for landing during peak hours in Delhi,Mumbai and Bangalore
2) Peak hours are 7 am to 10 am and 6 pm to 10 pm
3)An increase of 25000 rupees per landing is estimated
4) But the airlines feel that the rush cannot be avoided in these hours.
5) Work should begin for developing new runways.
6) Flights get delayed, because airports cannot handle so much aircraft movement.
7)Wastage of ATF while the planes circle over airports waiting to land or while taxing long distances from the bay to the runways.
8) The costs are Rs 500/minute for circling and Rs 2000/minute for taxing.
9) Distance before the take off or while coming to a bay for parking can be decreased.

Moving beyond reciprocity-SAARC

1)PM’S announcement at the SAARC summit to allow duty free access to the less developed neighbours in the region has come not a day too soon.
2) Bangladesh,Nepal,Bhutan,Mladives,Afghanistan will benefit from this offer. New Delhi already has an FTA agreement with Sri Lanka
3) Unfortunately it has not taken off between the two large neighbours-India and Pakistan
4)A very responsible move by a more developed nation for the upliftmentb of the neighbours
5)Eventhough we have FTA and Border trade agreements, import from these countries are only ¼ th of export to the region.
6) Indian exports to SAARC countries itself is very low-$5.5 billion
7) SAARC is one of the least integrated trade bloc in the world.

Indian Railways-Operating ratio

1)It has entered an elite group of organizations,who have a good operating ratio. For this year the Indian Railway’s operating ratio is 78.7 which clearly explains how it earned a surplus of Rs 20,000 crore.
2)This shows the capacity of the system to perform well if given the right working environment
3)Earlier political interference and the inability of the railway administration of working with a free will proved a problem.
4)In recent times the operating ratio reached an alarming ratio of 94.
5)Within the framework of social burdens, it has very well increased the performance.
6)An International Railway Strategic Management Institute ,New Delhi is coming up, which will be providing the needed advise in the long term policies.

Pakistan’s role in middle east:

1)Musharaff talks about a “new Middle East initiative”.Visits several Muslim countries.

2_Last week Paksitan played host to foreign ministers from 6 countries—Egypt,Indonesia,Malayasia,Saudi Arabia,Turkey and a representative from OIC

3)Endeed with a joint declaration calling for immediate establishment of a Plaestinian state and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Syrian and Lebanese capitals.

4)Expressed concern over the Iranian nuclear issue and called for a diplomatic solution.

5)Motive of Musharaff is to put the Kasmir issue again on the top (now which is hardly mentioned)

6)Musharaff fighting Islamic terrorists with the US,and US warned Paksitann to show results.This has bought a hostile response from other Muslim countries eventhough not openly(Saudi and Egypt being close US allies)

7)Paksitan wants to show it is serious ,as it is hardly considered important by Hamas,Hezbollah and countries such as Iran,Syria,Iraq,Palestine and Lebanon.

8)Allegation is there that Pakistan is forming a Sunni bloc against Iran under the pressure of US.

9)Ahmedinijad concerned over the meeting its objectives and goals of the 6+1 meeting in Pakistan..

Last Round in the Indo-US nuclear deal

1)India being trapped by the US in the Hyde act in the areas of reprocessing,enrichment,future tests etc.
2)India needs a secure future,for which US has to provide the green signal for the amendment of the NSG guidelines.NSG,which has almost 45 countries ,of which most of them are easily influenced by US has to give the consent.
3)US MNC's desperate to get the business.They have met with Anil Kakodkar and S K Jain inorder to be in the race and they dont want to loose to their French and Russian counterparts.
4)In the US-Sweden deal,it has allowed Sweden to send the used fuel to UK and France for conversion to MOX and send back to Sweden.India expects a similar approval for reprocessing.
5)India waiting to just pass the NSG test and give orders to the Russian companies who dont have any restrictions on the stockpile of fuel,future tests and will guarantee perpetual fuel supply.
6)Anil Kakaodkar has clearly told that the voluntary moratorium on future tests cannot be converted into a legal instrument.

Union budget and polio eradication

1)The Union budget has provided a significant outlay of 1290 crores for polio eradication and announced a revised immunisation paln particularly fort some dsitricts of UP and Bihar wherev the virus persists.
2)Outbreaks in UP have prevented the dream of eradicating polio by December 2007 from coming true.
3)This realistaion has prompted the Centre to take some welcome decisions to strengthen the campaign.Among these is the introduction of monovalent vaccine that gas graeter efficacy against both Type 1 and the less prevalent Type 3 viruses.
4)Another important aspect is the integration of the campaign with National Rural Health Mission,which will make available critical human resources.
5)Regualr monitoring by health workers and introduction of a better vaccine for the common Type 1 poliovirus can potentially achieve good results.

Russia's role in the middle east

1)Russia forming a bridge between the west and the Hamas
2)Hamas chief visits Russia twice in a year
3)Hamas promises to take Russian initiative seriously,and to end missile attacks on Israel.They also accept Mahmoud Abbas to be the authority to conduct negotitaions with Israel.
4)Eventhough the other members of the Quartet-EU,Israel and US are disagreeing on the increasing Russian infleunce in the middle east,they look forward for a good outcome from the talks.
5)By these talks Russia hopes to increase its business with the Muslim world and solve the Chechnyan problem.
6)Russian support to the Makkah agreement brokered between the Hamas and Fatah by the Saudi king is to be highlighted.

Where are the master control facilities of ISRO?
What is the commercial arm of ISRO?
Who is V K Saraswat?
What is RNTCP in TB control?
Where is Mittal steel headquarters?
Where are the main Jatropha cultivation in India?
Who is Anuja Thakur?
Who is OIL chairman?
How many troops does NATO have in Afghanistan?
Which state transport corporation is using Enerdiesel---Ethanol blended diesel?
Where is the only woman's contingent of UN peacekeeping force?
Whos got the Gandhi PEACE prize?
What is Searcher 2 in Indian defence facilities?
What is the parentb comapny of Airbus?
What is the Roshni bill passed by the J&K assembly?
Who is the head of World bank?

Where are the master control facilities of ISRO?
What is the commercial arm of ISRO?
Who is V K Saraswat?
What is RNTCP in TB control?
Where is Mittal steel headquarters?
Where are the main Jatropha cultivation in India?
Who is Anuja Thakur?
Who is OIL chairman?
How many troops does NATO have in Afghanistan?
Which state transport corporation is using Enerdiesel---Ethanol blended diesel?
Where is the only woman's contingent of UN peacekeeping force?
Whos got the Gandhi PEACE prize?
What is Searcher 2 in Indian defence facilities?
What is the parentb comapny of Airbus?
What is the Roshni bill passed by the J&K assembly?
Who is the head of World bank?

What is GTRE (wrt aero engine development)?
Which former foreign minister of Iran is playing a major role in the peace accord with Saudi and agreements with Russia?
What is the cap in FDI in retail?
Who are Bhikhu Parekh,Raja Chelliah,Shiv Kumar Sarin and Amitav Ghosh?
Who are the members of Arab Maghreb Union?
Who is the largest producer of Iron ore?
What are the KBK districts in Orissa?
How many coal based power plants are owned by NTPC?
Who are Gramin Dak Sevak's?
How many CWC storage godowns are there in India?
What is the Antyodaya Anna Yojana?

1)Who was the youngest person to get Param Vir Chakra?
2)What is the war of thermophyle?
3)What is NCLP?(Child issues)
4)Which country has the largest yield of rice?
5)Which four states constitute for the highest child labour?
6)Who is the President of Italy?
7)Which is the longest river in Southern India?
8)Where is the next Asian games to be held?
9)Which committee is enquiring about the financial details of Margadarsi chits?
10)What is the START 1 and START 2 treaties?
11)Which is the longest river in China?
12)Where is the Bay of Biscay?
13)Which is the famous volcano in Equador?
14)Which is the largest desert in the world?
15)Is Manual scavenging banned in India?
16)What is Loess?
17)What is Lacolith,Cirque?
18)Who is John Nash?
19)When did Thomas Edison win Nobel prize?(Actually did he win)
20)Whos was the Secretary of state in US during the Indo-China war?

To which country does GRIPEN belong ?
Does India have a license to manufacture SUkhoi?If yes where is the factory?
What is Bhishma?
What is the Intermediate rockets ban treaty?Who signed it?What is its implication now?
Where does the Aravalli range start and where does it end?
What is a shale?
What is a lateral moraine?
What are oxbow lakes?
Which is India's biggest lake?
Which is India's oldest dam?And which is India's fiorst Hydroelectric project?

Where did Sonath Chatterjee visit in the near past(middle east)?
Which country is making tougher rules doctors of Indian Origin?
Which three countries are having a meet in India(right now)?
Who submitted the Baghlighar report?
What is the present CRR?
Who is the head of national institute of advanced studies?
Where is the KORBA power statyion located?
How many kilometer of road has been laid in India?
When was NTPC formed?
Who is the head of national scheduled tribes commission?
What is ARC in India?
Who is heading the second ARC?
Where is the Bay of Biscay?

new questions

What is IPCC?and what is its recent conclusions on the world cliamte?
What is isostasy?
Where is proposed space command of India coming?
Where is INS Zamorin located?
Which country has the highest cashewnut production?
Between whom was the third battle of Panipat fought?
Where is Isfahan located?
Where is the river Irawady located?
Who is the military general of Myanmar?
Against whom did Che and Castro wage the war?
Who are the Sandinistas?
Which is the second highest gallantry award in India?

new questions

Why is Ganderbal in the news?
What is ECGC?
Who is the head of RAW?
Who is the field medal winner for mathematics for the last year?
What is the percentage of Shia muslims in the total population of muslims?
Are "Jains" a minority community?

Which is the largest oil company in Russia?
How many heavy water plant are there in India?
What is SLR in economic terms?
What is money laundering?
What is third party insurance?
What is Balkanisation?
Which is the largest province in Pakistan?
Which is the largets mountain range in the world?
What is a Graben and Horst?
Who was the 2nd Sarsanghachalak of RSS?
Who is Asma Jahangir?
Who was the first foreigner to lead an Indian unit for the republic day parade?
Who is Ajeet Bajaj?
Who is the head of BHAVINI?
Who heads the Economic Advisory committee of the Indian Govt?
What is sea floor spreading?
What are the fundamental duties?

Fazl ali commission

Formed in 1953 to examine whether there was a need to create new states on linguistic basis.

Comprised of Fazl Ali,K M Panikkar,H N Kunzru.

It accepted language as the basis of creation of new states..But rejected that one state should be based on one language.

The four fold classification of states was abolished.

general studies 2

General studies 4

Who is S K Poddar?
Write about Winter games?
Which Padma award winner has created a controversy saying that giving Padma awards is unconstitutional?
Who is PC Haldar?
Who is the new head FICCI?
What is Muharram?
Which is the land of lakes?
Who was VD Savarkar?
What is Magna Carta?
What is Truth Serum test?
What is brain mapping?
Who is the head of coast guard?
Who is the head of backward class commission?
When was IIT Kharagpur sestablished?
Where is the Indian Institute of Horticulture located?
Who is ECG Sudarshan?
Whos is the present head of Muslim personal law board?
Whos is the head of minorities commission?
Which committee enquired the oil controversy related to Natwar Singh?
Which committee enquired the MPLADS scam and the cash for question scam?
Who is the CM of Sikkim?
Which is India’s 17th state?
What is the capital of Kazhakstan?
What is GUAM?
What is the capital of Armenia?

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questions for general studies preparation for civil services:

What is ETA in Spain?
Who is the Israeli president who is facing charges on rape?
What is Indo Russian trade volume?
What is Sinopec?
Who is Jagdish Khattar?
What is IRDA in insurance terms?
Write the full form of TRAI?
Who has the major stake in VSNL?
What is MIDHANI?
How many sites in India are there in the world heritage list?
Who is the head of SBI?
Which Indian bank is having the largest number of foreign branches?
What is the institute started in Chennai testing on newsprint and inks?’
Who are the largest producers of gas?
Which country is supporting the Koodankulam reactors?
Who is the guest for this years Republic day celebrations?
What is FBTR?
What is bio dynamic farming?
What are the different types of diabetes?
Which company produces the Flexcube banking software?
What is OVL’s stake in Sakhalin 1?
Who was the Armenian journalist shot dead recently for condemning the Armenian genocide by Turkey?
Where is Karwar naval base?
What is a bogoslof?
When was the Secretary of State post established in India?
Who is the head of Tata steels?
What is POSCO famous for?
Who is the head of HAMAS?
Who is the PM of PoK?
Where was Vijay Nambiar selected?

vapicha reunion

yes....finally after one year it happened