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Assam Flood: A Much Important Topic for Mains
Major Factors behind the Flood problems in Assam
Child Labour: Constitutional and Legal Provisions
ONDC Network and Digital Commerce (Science & Technology Current Affairs)
Economics: Fiscal measures to contain inflation
List of Fiscal Measures to Contain Inflation:
- Increase subsidies
- Increase export duty to discourage exports, eg. wheat exports
- Reduce import duty to make products available in the country, eg. edible oil
- Crackdown on hoarding of essential supply
- Release buffer stock of food items
- Price Stabilization Fund (PSF) is being implemented to control price volatility of agricultural commodities like pulses, onions etc.
If government borrows from market to meet its rising expenditure, it may lead to crowding out of private sector. This will reduce private investment in the economy. High inflation also adversely impact government’s tax collection. Overall, economic growth is negatively affected. (One question from Inflation and government deficits in UPSC prelims every year).
DoNER Ministry and its various development initiatives in the Northeast
Coal & Thermal Power Production in India
Coal (fossil fuel) accounts for 55% of the country’s energy need.
- Hard coal deposit spread over 27 major coalfields, are mainly confined to eastern and south central parts of the the country.
- The lignite reserves stand at a level around 36 billion tonnes, of which 90 % occur in the southern State of Tamil Nadu.
- The Coal resources of India are available in older Gondwana Formations of peninsular India and younger Tertiary formations of north-eastern region. Jharkhand accounts for the highest reserve followed by Odisha.
- Coal reserves in North-East : Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh.
Import of Coal:
- Coal can be freely imported (under Open General Licence) by the consumers themselves considering their needs based on their commercial prudence.
- Coking Coal is being imported by Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and other Steel manufacturing units mainly to bridge the gap between the requirement and indigenous availability and to improve the quality.
- Coal based power plants, cement plants, captive power plants, sponge iron plants, industrial consumers and coal traders are importing non-coking coal.
- Coke is imported mainly by Pig-Iron manufacturers and Iron & Steel sector consumers using mini-blast furnace.
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