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What is money Laundering ?Discuss it Impact on Indian Economy ?How India is prevented from money laundering ?  Money Laundering as a socio economic offence is a menace across the globe.  It is the conversion of illegally owned money through processes into legitimate money- also popularly known a “black money” into “white money”.  The developed nations have been dealing with the crime through conventions and legislations- penalising the crime.  The preamble of the Indian Legislation on prevention of the crime of money laundering also mentions about the Political Declaration and Global Programme of Action as adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Political Declaration in the year 1998 that called upon the member states to adopt money laundering legislation and programme. Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 . Impact of Money Laundering:  Money Laundering cripples the economic development and the growth of the nation;  Integrity of the Finan...

  Capacity of Civil Services plays a vital role in rendering a wide variety of services, implementing welfare programs and performing core governance functions. A transformational change in Civil Service Capacity is proposed to be affected by organically linking the transformation of work culture, strengthening public institutions and adopting modern technology to build civil service capacity with  the  overall aim of ensuring efficient delivery of services to citizens. National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) with the following institutional framework:-   (i)     Prime Minister's Public Human Resources (HR) Council, (ii)    Capacity Building Commission. (iii)    Special Purpose Vehicle for owning and operating the digital assets andthe technological platform for online training, (iv)   Coordination Unit headed by the Cabinet Secretary.   Salient Features NPCSCB has been carefull...

 Agriculture is one of the very important factors in economic development of a country. Agriculture has also been one of the oldest and very significant means of livelihood in an economy. The role of agriculture in economic development can be identified mainly through two aspects- supply and demand in an economy. Relevance of cropping pattern in agriculture: Cropping pattern highlights the degree of extensive and intensive farming. This also highlights the diversified pattern of crops produced considering the need of the economy. The cropping pattern has two important roles:  firstly, if the existing cropping pattern is able to meet the domestic demand for different food items and therefore ensures the balanced diet of households in the economy. It also emphasizes the role of agriculture in meeting the demand in the economy. It ensures development of an economy by meeting demand with the sufficient production of different food items keeping in mind the need of balanced di...

  Despite rapid progress, rural India suffers from an infrastructure deficit.? Discuss major Constraints in Supply chain and rural infrastructure and give suggestions?10M Physical infrastructure investments are important determinants of economic growth (World Bank, 1994), and are one of the main United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, estimating the causal effects of infrastructure on the local economy is often very challenging. This is because these investments are either directed to fast-growing regions or to economically lagging regions, making comparisons between places that received infrastructure and those that did not infeasible. Among rural, remote, and low-income households, where the demand (and willingness-to-pay) for these services is low, studying the effects of infrastructure is especially complicated.   Constraints 1. Public and private investments in agriculture have remained low since the early 90 s.Bottlenecks in implementation and a hi...

  Understand the problem of food security in India  Understand the rationale behind government operations in food grains  Analyze the impact of government operation on the food economy  Analyze the issue of agricultural subsidy in relation to food security At the beginning of the 21st century the world’s leading development institutions and countries reached a consensus at the United Nations to define a Sustainable development goals , These goals range from poverty reduction to imparting primary education to gender equality and better health with an aim to improve lives of people, particularly in the developing world, threatened by disease and hunger. Of these the very first and second  goal define as "No Poverty and Zero Hunger " Food security was initially understood as food self-sufficiency or adequate availability of basic food products. However this definition is incomplete and needs to be broadened as mere availability cannot ensure accessibility. Availability must b...

 India preached non- violence to the world through Mahatma Gandhi. It is an irony that the country which stood as a role model has been suffering from the curse of communal violence. The violence in this context is considered as communal because it is orchestrated event which is based on the collusion and involvement of political leaders who employ the tactics of religious appeasement. Communalism is defined a s a strong allegiance or loyalty to one’s own community rather than society at large Abdul Ahmed observed that communalism is a societal phenomenon featured by the religion of two communities which often lead to animosity, strain and rioting between them  Causes of Communalism which Disturb Internal Secur ity Electoral Incentives: The political parties often arouse people’s religious sentiments and identity for their vote bank. The electoral incentive may not be the only cause but it does leads to communal violence. Politicians in electoral races generally sensitize peop...