Category: Civil Services

  • Unemployment: Definition, Types, Causes, Solutions and The Way Ahead

    Unemployment is a situation where a person who is capable, qualified and willing to work at the existing wage rate does not get work. Thus two kinds of people are not considered unemployed, those who do not have the capabilities or qualifications required for the job they seek or those who do not wish to…

  • Essay on How Labor Market Suffered Due to Coronavirus

    This essay discusses the various ways through which the pandemic has affected the lockdown, the crisis that the labour market faces, and suggestions laid by various people on how to combat the serious effects of the same. The Coronavirus pandemic and the pandemic induced lockdown have brought the world into a standstill, affecting different sectors…

  • Economics for Beginners: An Introduction to Concepts and Applications

    What is Economics? Economics is a social science that studies how the society employs its scarce (limited) resources for alternative uses. It also looks into how people make decisions, use wealth and respond to incentives. There are different definitions for economics, given by Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall and Lord Robbins, but fundamentally, they have many…

  • What is Urbanisation and Urban Problems in India

    In the last decade saw more than half the world population becoming urbanised and India is the rate of urbanisation is growing at a rapid rate. Over the last 17 years, the urban population in India has been growing by 5.4% and in the year, 2030 more than 41% of the Indian population is expected…

  • What are the impacts of globalization in India? Explained

    Globalization incorporates a huge impact on various aspects of people’s lives such as culture, social-economic, political, and community life. Ample theoretical studies proved that globalization intervenes in a cultural life of public that raises numerous critical issues (Robertson, 1992). In a broad sense, the term ‘globalization’ means a blend of economies and societies through cross…

  • Ideological similarities and differences between Gandhi and Ambedkar

    Read this article to learn, ideological similarities and differences between Gandhi and Ambedkar! Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi considered the ‘Father of the Nation’, is renowned as the leader of the nationalist movement against British rule in India. He is very eminent for his doctrine of Satyagraha (non-violent protest). On the other hand is Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, the architect…

  • Right to Health as a Fundamental Right – Explained

      The preface of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines the term Health broadly as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” and the Constitution of India defines the right to health as “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health,” As we…