Correct Answer - Option 4 : a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2
The correct answer is a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2.
- Government's different policies and their starting date:
Column-A |
Column-B |
a) National Agricultural Policy |
2000 |
b) Marine Fishing Policy |
2004 |
c) New Foreign Trade Policy |
2014 |
d) Seventh Finance Commission |
1978 |
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National Agricultural Policy:
- The following are the objectives of the New Agricultural Policy (NAP), 2000:
- Over 4 per cent annual growth rate aimed over next twenty years.
- Participation of the private sector by encouraging contract farming.
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Price protection for farmers along with the launch of the National agricultural insurance scheme to protect farmers in case crops are destroyed.
- Removing restrictions on the movement of agricultural commodities throughout the country.
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Rational utilization of country’s water resources for optimum use of irrigation potential.
- High priority to the development of animal husbandry, poultry, dairy and aquaculture.
- Marine Fishing Policy:
- Marine Fishing Policy plans to provide the fishermen community, mainly small-scale and artisanal fishers, and financial assistance and introduce norms to improve labour conditions in the sector.
- The draft on the National Policy on Marine Fisheries lays emphasis on bringing in Blue Revolution by sustainable utilisation of the fisheries wealth from the marine and other aquatic resources.
- Some of the flaws of the 2004 Policy are:
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Non-identification of a legal instrument
- No stress gender equality, the role of women and their participation in the fisheries sector Importance has not been given to the category of “traditional fishers”.
- A precise time frame hasn’t been defined.
- Non-linking of technology to the different sectors of fisheries activities.
- Absence of Conflict resolution.
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New Foreign Trade Policy:
- The New foreign trade policy 2015-20 was unveiled on 1st April 2015 at Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi.
- It provides a roadmap for the trade engagement of India in future.
- The new trade policy focuses on supporting both the manufacturing sector and the service sector.
- It puts emphasis on the improvement of India's ease of doing business.
- The new policy provides a five-year roadmap for employment generation, and value addition to the Indian economy.
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Seventh Finance Commission:
- Recommendations An Evaluation N J Jhaveri The Seventh Finance Commission has avoided taking a strong position on the question of Centre-state financial relations.
- It has taken the view that the framework of Centre-state financial relations embodied in the Constitution has stood the test of time and has worked fairly and smoothly.