public policy and governance

Public Policy and Governance – Interview Experience

We interacted with a student of this course to know her experience, Her first extempore topic was “Is Atma Nirbhar Bharat able to work at global level”. She was not comfortable and asked for another one. Another was “Women at workplace”. Questions asked from her are as follows: – Why from science to public policy? […]

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MA Public Policy and Governance – Interview Experience

A candidate from the course, Public Policy and Governance shared her experience of appearing in the TISS interview. She did her graduation from Law. There were three panelists. They started the interaction by general introduction. The first topic which was assigned to her for her extempore was ” Patent rights on medicines”. As she was

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Power Sector Reforms

Note: This topic is important for TISSNET. During the Covid-19 outbreak last year, the Indian government proposed the Atmanirbhar Bharat plan, a rescue package for the power sector. This rescue package was put in place to ensure that the entire power sector chain was not harmed as a result of the discoms’ failure to meet

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Namami Gange Programme

Note: This article is important for TISSNET. Under the Namami Gange Programme, a contract was recently reached for the development of a 35 MLD (Mega Liters per Day) sewage treatment plant in Maheshtala (a city on the east bank of the River Ganga in West Bengal). The Hybrid Annuity PPP technique was used to sign the project. Namami Gange Programme: The Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission that was authorized by the Union Government in June 2014 as a “Flagship Program” to achieve the twin goals of effective pollution abatement and conservation and restoration of the National River Ganga. It is run by the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s Department of Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation. The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and its state counterpart organisations, State Initiative Management Groups, are in charge of implementing the programme (SPMGs). The National Ganga Council’s implementation arm is known as NMCG (set in 2016; which replaced the National Ganga River Basin Authority – NGRBA). It has a corpus of about 288 projects and a centrally supported, non-lapsable corpus of Rs 20,000 crore. The program’s key pillars are as follows: Sewage Treatment Infrastructure River-Front Development River-Surface Cleaning Biodiversity Afforestation Public Awareness Industrial Effluent Monitoring Ganga Gram The Ganga River System The Gangotri Glacier feeds the Bhagirathi, the Ganga’s headwaters, which are joined by the Alaknanda at Devprayag in Uttarakhand. The Ganga emerges from the mountains into the lowlands at Haridwar. Many Himalayan tributaries join the Ganga, including significant rivers like the Yamuna, Ghaghara, Gandak, and Kosi.

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Issues faced by Dairy Industry

Note: The article is important for TISSNET The second phase of the Covid-19 outbreak has made things more more harder for milk producers. During the pandemic, householders in both urban and rural regions established a self-imposed restriction on selling liquid milk door-to-door, compelling farmers to sell their entire crop to dairy cooperatives at a significantly

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