09.02.18 Telangana(TSPSC) Current Affairs

TELANGANA 8,400 hectares of forest land diverted after Telangana formation   Over 8,400 hectares of forest land has been diverted for irrigation, drinking water and other development projects in Telangana in the past three years, as against diversion of 24,000 hectares in united Andhra Pradesh in 34 years. The issue of diversion of land for … Read more

BUDGETING

Budgeting Budgeting is the process of estimating the availability of resources and then allocating them to various activities of an organization according to a pre-determined priority. In most cases, approval of a budget also means the approval to various spending units to utilize the allocated resources. Budgeting plays a criucial role in the socio-economic development … Read more

Multipurpose Projects & Hydro-Electric Projects in India

Damodar Valley Project—- Damodar—– West Bengal & Jharkhand. It includes Maithon & Tilaiya Dam on Barakar river in Bihar, Konar Dam (Konar river) & Panchet Dam (Damodar). Rihand Dam —-Rihand —–Uttar Pradesh Nagarjunasagar Project —–Krishna—- Andhra Pradesh. Consists of two canals – Lal Bahadur Canal (Left) & Jawahar canal (Right). Tungabhadra Project Tungabhadra JV of … Read more

12 Finance Commission of India

  The Twelfth Finance Commission  was appointed under the chairmanship of C. Rangarajan on November 1, 2002 to make recommendations regarding the distribution between the Union and the States of net proceeds of shareable taxes, the principles which should govern the grants- in-aid of the revenues of States from the Consolidated Fund of India and … Read more

02.05.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN South Western Command’s Exercise Vijay Prahar   South Western Command is carrying out Exercise VIJAY PRAHAR employing more than 20000 troops in the Mahajan Field Firing Ranges close to Suratgarh in Rajasthan.   The exercise is aimed to orchestrate wide spectrum of threats which are planned to be tackled through high tempo joint air … Read more

11 & 12.09.17 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Organise awareness camps: Rajasthan government to schools   State education department asked schools to start awareness programmes in schools to educate students about the danger of on-line games like Blue Whale. State Education Minister Vasudev Devnaniasked all schools to start communication programs in schools so that students and even parents get the knowledge of such games. … Read more

DMPQ- Highlight the economics of Climate Change.

Abatement of GHGs, particularly CO2 , implies curtailment of energy consumption. Energy is a vital factor of production, and its replacement and/or reduction will entail a shift away from current production methods. If current systems employ efficient production techniques, a change in factor proportions will increase the cost of production, and have an adverse impact … Read more

DMPQ: Write a short note on Living Planet Index (LPI).

The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of global biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from around the world. It does this in much the same way that a stock market index tracks the value of a set of shares or a retail price index tracks the cost … Read more

20.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Jaipur’s Gandhinagar Railway Station Becomes Fully Women Operated Station   The Gandhi Nagar railway station in Jaipur, Rajasthan became railway station to be fully-managed by women. Gandhi Nagar is an important railway station in Jaipur situated on the Jaipur-Delhi rail route. The station has a footfall of more than 7,000 passengers every day.   There are … Read more

ANDHRA PRADESH : ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

  Since time immemorial Human Prosperity is linked with the livestock wealth.  It has been rightly said by late U.N.Dhebar that “To think of Rural Development without Livestock Improvement is to think of Modern Industrialization without Power Stations”. Andhra Pradesh has some of the richest livestock resources in the Country and is one of the … Read more