Astivya RAS notes

Natural Hazards : Floods, Droughts, Cyclones, Landslides

  Natural Hazards of India Disaster A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s capacity to cope using its own resources. Vulnerability + Hazard =Disaster Vulnerability- it is defined as the diminished capacity of … Read more

CHARACTERISTICS AND PROBLEMS OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE

CHARACTERISTICS AND PROBLEMS OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE Subsistent in Character Heavy Pressure of Population Predominance of Food Grains Mixed Cropping High Percentage of the Reporting Area under Cultivation Small Size of Holdings and Fragmentation of Fields Limited Intensive Agriculture Primitive Technology Indian Agriculture is Labour Intensive Rain-fed Agriculture Less Area under Leguminous and Fodder Crops Tradition … Read more

Concept of Money Supply and High Powered Money

Money supply is the entire stock of currency and other liquid instruments in a country’s economy as of a particular time. The money supply can include cash, coins and balances held in checking and savings accounts. Money Supply can be estimated as narrow or broad money. There are four measures of money supply in India … Read more

Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms and Rowalt act- For RAS RTS Mains Exam and Ras Rts Prelims Examination

Provincial LC enlarged. More elected members Dyarchy Some subjects were reserved and remained under the direct control of the Governor; others such as education, public health and local self-government were called transferred subjects and were to be controlled by the ministers responsible to the legislature. At the centre, there were two houses of legislature. Response … Read more

Mineral Resources of India:Non Metalic

Limestone M.P, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan Dolomite Orissa (Birmitrapur in Sundergarh District-largest in India), M.P & Chattisgarh Phosphate Rajasthan (Udaipur) Uttaranchal (Dehradun), M.P. (Jhabua), U.P. (Lalitpur) Kaolin Kerala is largest producer. Mica Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand (Kodarma-Large) & Rajasthan Gypsum Rajasthan & J & K. Steatite Rajasthan. It is also called soapstone/ Potstone. Magnesite Tamil Nadu … Read more

ANALOGY LEVEL 1

  When you draw an analogy between two things we compare them for the purpose of explanation. If a scientist says that earth’s forest functions as human lungs then we instantly draw an explanation that both lungs and trees intake important elements from air. As far as SSC exam is concerned this is one of … Read more

Spread of Modern Education

1781: Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasah for the study and teaching of Muslim law and related subjects 1791: Jonathan Duncan started a Sanskrit College at Varanasi for the study of Hindu law and philosophy. 1813: Charter of 1813 directed the Company to spend Rs. 1 lakh for promoting modern sciences in the country. This … Read more

subsidies, MSP, PDS, FOOD SECURITY

yojna managing inflation aug 2010 here read FOOD INFLATION IN INDIA: CAUSES AND REMEDIEShttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_FR6Jkv0z2cNDFuTDdBRnA5YkE/edit?usp=sharing   krukshetra tribal development nov 2010here read sucsess stories how farmer get a better prisehttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_FR6Jkv0z2cU3diSVlkVmNKOTA/edit?usp=sharing  yojna monsoon july 2012 here read monsoon and fool inflationhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_FR6Jkv0z2cZENhRERWMkJhdHc/edit?usp=sharing rest there are certain article reports and no doubt ignou booklets there links are  FOOD SECURITY- TPDShttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_FR6Jkv0z2cSTlVcXQ3dDVEV0k/edit?usp=sharing