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The agricultural sector was adversely affected by the reform process in the following manner- 

(i) Public investment in agriculture sector especially in infrastructure like irrigation, power etc. has been reduced in the reform period 

(ii) Reduction of fertilizer subsidy has increased the cost of production affecting thereby the small and marginal farmers 

(iii) Increased international competitiveness due to liberalisation and reduction of import duties. 

(iv) Shift from food crops to cash crops due to export-oriented policy in agriculture led to a rise in prices of food-grains.

The correct answer is What is the nature of knowledge?

• Ontology:

  • Ontology is the philosophical study of being.
  • It is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
  • The word realism is related to ontology because realism means the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it.
• Following is a principal question of ontology:
  • ​What can be said to exist?
  • What is a thing? ​
  • Into what categories, if any, can we sort existing things?

3 industries. They are: 

1. Atomic energy 

2. Minerals enlisted under schedule of atomic energy. 

3. Rail transport.

The headquarters of UNESCO is located at Paris.

BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcing.

The growth rate of service sector was very high in India compared to other sectors. After adopting new economic policy, the growth rate was 8.2%. The liberalisation and privatisation policy are responsible for the fast growth rate in service sector.

Andhra Bank. Others are national banks.

if refers to investment directly undertaken by the foreign companies and nationals in various sectors of the economy.

The industrial sector has performed poorly in the re-form period due to the following reasons : 

1. The shortage of electricity and raw materials affect the quality of goods produced. 

2. NEP has seriously affected local industrial production.

The major causes of globalisation are given below: 

1. rapid growth of research and development. 

2. Improvement in communication facilities. 

3. deregulation of money market. 

4. removal of artificial barriers.

Nationalized banks 

• Bank of Baroda 
• Union bank of India 
• Punjab National bank 

Private banks 

• Andhra Bank 
• Oriental Bank of Commerce 
• Punjab and Sindh Bank Private 

Foreign Banks 

• Deutsche Bank 
• HSBC

Yes, Agricultural sector appears to be adversely affected by the reform process. The agricultural sector has not been able to be benefited by the reform process, rather the growth rate has decelerated. Public investment in agriculture sector has been reduced during the reform period. Further, the removal of fertilizer subsidy severely affected the mall and marginal farmers. 

Due to commencement of WTO a lot of policies have changed which have adversely affected the Indian farmers. Moreover, because of export oriented policy in agriculture, there has been a shift from production for the domestic market towards production for export market focusing on cash crops instead of food grains. This has resulted in the price rise of food grains. In short India’s agricultural sector is badly affected by the reform process.

Yes, I agree. India at the time of independence, adopted a mixed economy framework and accordingly rules and laws were framed which aimed at controlling and regulating the economy. However, in the long run, theses ended up hampering the process of growth and development. 

In 1991 India faced an acute economic crisis relating to external debt. The government was not able to make repayments on its borrowings from abroad. Foreign exchange reserves dropped at such a level that it was not sufficient for even a fortnight. Prices of essential goods were rising high. All these factors led to the need for reforms to be introduced in India.

1. WTO was found in 1995 as successor organisation of G#TT- True. 

2. India signed NEP in 1991- True.

In 1996, in order to improve efficiency, infuse professionalism and enable them to compete more effectively in the liberalized global environment, the government chose nine PSUs and declared them as nava-ratnas.

They were given greater managerial and operational autonomy, in taking various decisions to run the company efficiently and thus increase their profits. Greater operational, financial and managerial autonomy had also been granted to 97 other profit-making enterprises referred to as mini-ratnas.

The WTO was founded in 1995 as the successor organization to the General Agreement on Trade and Tari (GATT). GATT was established in 1948 with 23 countries as the global trade organization to administer all multilateral trade agreements by providing equal opportunities to all countries in the international market for trading purposes. 

WTO is expected to establish a rule based trading regime in which nations cannot place arbitrary restrictions on trade. In addition, its purpose is also to enlarge production and trade of services, to ensure optimum utilization of world resources and to protect the environment. 

The WTO agreements cover-trade in goods as well as services to facilitate international trade (bilateral and multilateral) through removal of tariff as well as non-tariff barriers and providing greater market access to all member countries.

Privatisation means removing strict control over private sector and making them free to take necessary decisions. Since independence, we accorded top priority to the public sector but the desired results could not be achieved with the encouragement of the public sector. Now the new economic policy tries to expand private sector. In order to encourage private sector following measures have been adopted. Measures to encourage Private Sector in the economy are the following 

1. Reduction in the number of reserved public sector industries. The number of Public Sector industries from 17 to 4.

2. Increasing the share of private sector investment. 

3. Selling the share of public enterprises.

4. No insistance on conversion. Now the financial corporation can not insist the industries for conversion of their loans into equity shares. 

The government has also made attempts to improve the efficiency of PSUs by giving them autonomy in taking managerial decisions.

• Labourers of unorganised sector migrate in search for work. 
• They have no social security such as housing, health benefits, water, food or equal opportunity to work, 
• Unorganised sector workers are not covered by legal provisions. 
• They are paid less than minimum wage act. 
• Child labour is rampant in unorganised sector. It forsters child labour. 
• Unorganised sector labourers face physical and mental exploitation of men, women and children. Women and children are subjected to sexual exploitation.

Outsourcing is one of the important outcomes of the globalization process. In outsourcing, a company hires regular services from external sources, mostly from other countries, which was previously provided internally or from within the country (like legal advice, computer service, advertisement, security each provided by respective departments of the company). 

As a form of economic activity, outsourcing has intensified, in recent times, because of the growth of fast modes of communication, particularly the growth of Information Technology (IT). Most multinational corporations, and even small companies, are outsourcing their services to India where they can be availed at a cheaper cost with reasonable degree of skill and accuracy. 

The low wage rates and availability of skilled manpower in India have made it a destination for global outsourcing in the post-reform period. Thus I think in this reform period outsourcing is good for India.

Given:

8, 24, 36, 54

Concept Used:

Least common multiple(LCM): The least number which is exactly divisible by each of the given numbers is called the least common multiple of those numbers.

Calculation:

8 = 2 × 2 × 2 = 2³

24 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 = 2³ × 3¹

36 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 = 2² × 3²

54 = 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 2¹ × 3³

Least common multiple of 8, 24, 36, 54 = 2³ × 3³ = 8 × 27

⇒ 216

∴ LCM of 8, 24, 36, 54 is 216

Labour intensive technique of production.

The correct answer is 1 - A, 2 - C, 3 - D, 4 - B.

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• The org domain extension stands for “organization” and is most commonly used for nonprofit organizations.
• The domain name edu is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
• .net (pronounced dot net) is a framework that provides a programming guidelines that can be used to develop a wide range of applications.

This fact suggests two alternate strategies for controlling the costs of health care: demand-side cost sharing, where patients must pay more in co-payments or deductibles, and supply-side cost sharing, which seeks to alter the incentives of health care workers to provide certain services.

Measures taken are : 

1) oil is limited so it should be efficiently and fully(optimum use)used.

2)Massive awareness on shortage of oil and people should be encouraged to use public transport system.

The gap between supply and demand not only contributes to a delay in meeting patients' needs, but it can also be expensive and generate waste in the system. The experience of many health care organizations demonstrates that demand is not really insatiable, but actually predictable.

Helps in saving paper, cashless society so transport cost decrease.

Business activity between two or more parties is called trade. The trade within the country is called local trade or domestic trade. The trade between two countries is called international trade.

Means of transport provide seamless movement of goods and people and thus facilitate various economic activities. Means of communication help in flow of information which is necessary for proper management of supply chain and financial transactions. Thus, means of transport and communication put life into a nation and its economy. Hence, they are called the lifelines of a nation and its economy.

(a) Where Rashtrapati Bhavan is situated

Shipki La passes lies in the Sutlej valley.

Mudumalai Sanctuary famous for elephants and deer is situated in  Tamil Nadu.

Pakistan is Khyber Pass situated.

Konark is the Black Pogoda.

(d) Arunachal Pradesh

(c) They prevent the monsoons from crossing to the north and also serve as a reservoir of water from which our perennial rivers flow

(c) They prevent the monsoons from crossing to the north and also serve as a reservoir of water from which our perennial rivers flow