Author Index

A

Mrs. A Srija, IES(1996) – (14)

• Agricultural Regions of India
• Budget Making Exercise in a Federal Set up
• Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes
• Cropping seasons of India- Kharif & Rabi
• Estimates of Crop Production
• Factory
• Five Year Plans
• Functions of Planning Commission
• GDP / National Accounts Revised Series with 2011-12 as base year
• Internal Planning Commission (IPC)/Full Planning Commission (FPC) Meetings
• Mid-Term Appraisal of Five Year Plans
• National Development Council (NDC)
• NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)
• Planning Commission

Ms. Aakanksha Arora (IES 2013)– (02)

• GDP deflator
• Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices and GVA at Factor Costs

Mr. Abhijit Phukon, IES(2004)– (02)

• National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme (STAR)
• National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

Mr. Abhinash Dash, IES (2009) – (05)

• Food Security
• Goods and Services Tax
• Inclusive Growth
• Informal Sector /Unorganised sector
• Poverty, Poverty Line, Below and Above poverty line (APL, BPL)

Mr. Abhishek Acharya, IES (2008) – (04)

• Climate Change and Climate Variability
• Demand for Grants
• Green Climate Fund
• Supplementary Grants

Mr Abhishek Anand (IES 2014) – (05)

• Bank Rate
• Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
• Monetary Policy Framework Agreement
• Policy Rate
• Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate

Ms. Aditi Ray, IES (1979) – (06)

• Cabinet Committee
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
• Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI)
• Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA)
• Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM)
• Index of Eight Core Industries

Dr. Anandi Ravichandran, IES(1982)– (01)

• Mandi

Dr. Anuradha Balaram, IES (1986) – (19)

• Appraisal of Plan Schemes (Union Government)
• Appropriation
• Cash based Accounting System Versus Accrual Accounting System
• Charged Expenditure
• Consolidated Fund of India
• Contingency Fund of India
• Demographic Dividend (India)
• Dumping
• Flagship Programmes
• Green Building
• Kudumbashree
• National Food Processing Mission
• Non Plan Expenditure
• NORKA
• Public Accounts
• Public Sector Undertakings/Enterprises
• Railway Budget
• Totally Sanitized Towns
• Traditional Industries

Dr. Anuradha Guru, IES(1999) – (04)

• Financial Conglomerates or systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs)
• Financial Inclusion
• Minimum Export Price
• Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA)

Dr. Archana S Mathur (IES 1982) - (1)

• Revenue Sharing Contract (RSC)

B

Ms Bidisha Chaudhuri, IES 1992 – (03)

• Backwardness
• Effective States and Inclusive Development
• Evaluation and Monitoring

C

Dr. C.K.G. Nair, IES (1985) – (01)

• Mandi

Mr. Chanchal C. Sarkar, IES(1999) – (02)

• Import Tariffs, Open General License, Restricted List and Negative List
• Most-favoured-nation (MFN)

D

Mr. Danny Lewin Wankhar (IES 1999) – (02)

• Drug Price Control Orders (DPCO)
• Essential Medicines

Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao – (01)

• Monetary Policy Dilemmas: Some RBI Perspectives (Dr. D. subbarao, Governor, RBI)

G

Mr. Gaurav Kumar Jha IES (2013)– (09)

• Buffer Stock
• Decentralised Procurement Scheme
• Fair Price Shop
• Food Grain Management in India
• Negotiable Warehouse Receipts (NWRs)
• Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS)
• Ration Card
• Warehouse Receipts
• Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007

Ms. Gayatri Nair, IES(2004) – (26)

• Base Rate
• Concessionaire
• Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI)
• Consumer Price Index
• Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers (CPI(AL) & CPI(RL))
• Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers CPI(IW)
• Consumer Price Index for Urban Non Manual Employees (CPI(UNME))
• Consumer Price Index(Urban) and Consumer Price Index(Rural)
• Escrow Account
• Financial Closure
• Index of Industrial Production
• India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL)
• Infrastructure
• Labour Bureau
• Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF)
• Mezzanine Financing
• Model Concession Agreement
• National Highways Development Programme
• Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY)
• Quick Employment Survey
• Regional Rural Banks
• Repeat House Rent Survey
• Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme(R-APDRP)
• Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate
• Sagar mala
• Section 25 Company

I

Dr. Ishita G Tripathy, IES(1999) – (16)

• Carriage by Road Act, 2007
• Drug Price Control Orders (DPCO)
• Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) in India
• Integrated Transport System
• Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of 2005
• Micro-finance
• Models of Microfinance in India
• Motor Vehicle Taxation
• National List of Essential Medicines of India 2011
• National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC)
• New National Permit System
• Non-Resident Indian Deposits (NRI Deposits)
• Passenger Kilometre (PKM)
• Sarathi
• Tonne Kilometre (TKM)
• Vahan

J

Mr Jaipal (IES 2010) – (02)

• Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvITs)
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Mr. Jitender Singh (IES 2008) – (01)

• GDP / National Accounts Revised Series with 2011-12 as base year

Mr. Jitendra Asati (IES 2009) – (01)

• Financial Inclusion

Mr. Jithesh John, IES(2001) – (02)

• Public Private Partnership (PPP)
• Viability Gap Funding (VGF)

K

Dr. K. K. Tripathy, IES(1999) – (01)

• Labour Budget

Mrs. Karamjeet Kaur , IES(2012) – (04)

• Deficit Measurement in India
• Gold Monetisation Scheme
• Gold Reserve Fund
• Sovereign Gold Bonds

M

Mr. M Rahul (IES 2013) – (02)

• Ambient Air Quality Standards in India
• Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Mr. Manu J. Vettickan IES (2008) – (09)

• Central Plan Assistance
• Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes
• Current Daily Status (CDS) Unemployment
• Current Weekly Status (CWS) Unemployment
• Depository Receipts
• Flagship Programmes
• Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT)
• Principal Status Worker
• Subsidiary Status Worker

Mrs. Monica Thind, IES(2009) – (08)

• Current Daily Status (CDS) Unemployment
• Current Weekly Status (CWS) Unemployment
• Labour Force
• Labour Force Participation Rate
• Trade Union
• Unemployment measurement in India
• Usual Status Unemployment
• Worker Population Ratio

Mrs. Monika Singh, IES(2009) – (04)

• Micro-finance
• Models of Microfinance in India
• Special Category States
• Special Economic Zone (SEZ)

N

Ms. Nalini Pathak, IES(2011) – (01)

• Guarantee Redemption Fund

Ms. Nikhila Menon, IES(2004) – (10)

• Agricultural Labourers
• Cultivators
• Gross Budgetary Support (GBS)
• Household Industry Workers
• Internal and Extra Budgetary Resources (IEBR)
• Marginal Standing Facility
• Non-Workers
• Other Workers
• Swayam Sidha Scheme
• Worker (Census Definition)

P

Mr. P K Abdul Kareem, IES(1996) – (14)

• ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist)
• AYUSH
• Digital / Electronic Wallet (e-wallet)
• FBIL-Overnight MIBOR
• Health and Well being
• Health and Well-being Indicators
• Indigenous Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Yoga, Homeopathy and Naturopathy
• Inflation Indexed Bonds (IIBs)
• Inflation Targeting In India
• MIBOR and MIBID
• Out of pocket expenditure
• Payment Banks
• Pre-paid Payment Instruments (PPIs)
• Primary, Secondary and Tertiary HealthCare

Mr. P R Devi Prasad (IES 1982) – (03)

• Drought
• Estimates Committee
• Finance Bill or Finance Act

Ms. Pragyansmita Sahoo (IES 2010)– (03)

• International Labour Standards and India
• Skill India Portal
• Social Protection Floor (SPF)

Mr. Prasanth C, IES (2007) – (01)

• Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP)

Mr. Praveen Kumar (IES 2007) – (01)

• Backwardness

Ms. Puja Rustagi, IES (2009) – (02)

• Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act
• National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) 2005-2012

Mrs. Purnima M Gupta, IES(1979) – (01)

• Integrated Transport System

R

Ms. Rajasree Ray, IES (1995) – (6)

• Climate Change and Climate Variability
• Green Climate Fund
• India's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution
• Paris Agreement on Climate Change
• Sustainable Development and Green Economy
• Sustainable Development Goals

Mr. Rangeet Ghosh, IES(2008) – (10)

• ‘Back-to-Back’ Loans
• Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
• Decentralization and Rural Governments in India
• External Debt
• Guillotine
• Local Governance system in rural India (Panchayati Raj) and the 73rd amendment of the Constitution
• Market Stabilization Scheme (MSS)
• Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) Database
• Statutory Liquidity Ratio
• Structure and Major Functions of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in India

Ms. Reetu Jain,IES(2011) – (01)

• E-Commerce

Ms. Ritika Narula,IES(2009) – (02)

• Food Processing in India
• Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

Mrs. Rosemary K Abraham (IES 2006) – (165)

• Aadhaar
• Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)
• Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs)
• Annual Financial Statement
• Atal Pension Yojana (APY)
• Backwardness
• Bank Rate
• Banking Correspondent (BC)
• Begging
• Bio-fuels
• Black Money
• Body Corporate
• Broad Based Fund
• Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI)
• Cabotage
• Calamity Relief Funds (CRF)
• Capital Budget
• Central Road Fund (CRF)
• Chit Funds / Chitty / Kuri/ Miscellaneous Non-banking Company
• Cities and Towns
• Clean Energy Cess - Carbon Tax of India
• Clean Environment Cess
• Collective Investment Scheme (CIS)
• Commodities Transaction Tax (CTT)
• Compensatory Afforestation
• Concession Agreement
• Contingent Asset
• Contingent Liabilities
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Digital Employment Exchange
• District Mineral Foundation (DMF)
• Drought
• Drought Year
• Drug Price Control Orders (DPCO)
• E-Biz
• E-Commerce
• Economically Backward Classes (EBCs)
• Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)
• E-gold/ silver / metals
• E-Kuber
• Electoral Trust
• Electronic Development Fund (EDF)
• Employment Exchanges
• E-Nivesh
• Essential Medicines
• Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP) in India
• Finance Bill or Finance Act
• Financial Inclusion
• Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC)
• Financial Stability and Development Council
• Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement
• Foreign Company
• Foreign Institutional Investor (FII)
• Gold Coin / Bullion Scheme
• Gold Reserve Fund
• Goods and Services Tax
• Government Company
• Gram Sabha
• Grants for creation of capital assets
• Grievances Against Misleading Advertisements (GAMA)
• Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP)
• India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF)
• Indian Basket Price of Crude Oil
• Indian Labour Conference (ILC)
• Infrastructure Cess
• Infrastrucuture Debt Funds (IDFs)
• Interest rate corridor
• Invest India
• Investment Advisor
• Jan Aushadhi Scheme
• Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP)
• Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC)
• Know Your Client (KYC)
• Local Area Banks
• Macro-economic Framework Statement
• Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Surksha Yojna (MGPSY)
• Make in India Programme
• Market Intervention Scheme (MIS)
• Marketplace
• Masala Bonds
• Medium-term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) Statement
• Medium-term Fiscal Policy (MTFP) Statement
• Micro Enterprise
• Micro Units Development Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank
• Micro-insurance
• Minimum Export Price
• Minimum Wage
• Minor Forest Produce (MFP)
• Minor Minerals
• Minority Communities
• Money Bill
• National Agricultural Market (NAM)
• National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF)
• National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF)
• National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF)
• National Floor Level Minimum Wage
• National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
• National Investment Fund (NIF)
• National Mineral Exploration Trust
• National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)
• National Skill Development Mission
• New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP)
• Nidhi(Mutual Benefit Society)
• NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)
• Open Acreage License Policy (OALP)
• Organisation of Derivatives Market in India
• PaHaL – Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG
• Panchayat
• Parity Pricing of petroleum products in India
• Participatory Notes (PNs)
• Payment Banks
• Payment System
• Planning Commission
• Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojna (PMJDY)
• Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)
• Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY)
• Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojna (PMSBY)
• Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF)
• Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLC)
• Priority Sector Lending (PSL)
• Production Sharing Contract (PSC)
• Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA)
• Public Debt Management of the Union Government in India
• Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS)
• Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)
• RBI Reference Exchange Rate
• Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate
• Research Analysts
• Retail Investor
• Revenue Budget
• Revenue Sharing Contract (RSC)
• Rupay Debit Card
• Rural
• Rurban
• Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)
• Securities
• Securities Transaction Tax (STT)
• Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)
• Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM)
• Skill India Portal
• Slums
• Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SMEs)
• Small Finance Bank
• Smart City
• SME Exchange / Platform
• Soil Health Card (SHC)
• Sovereign Guarantee
• Space Programme in India
• Special Investment Regions (SIR)
• Special National Investment Fund
• Spot Contracts / Markets
• Spot Exchanges
• Start-up firm
• State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF)
• Sub-accounts
• Swachh Bharat Cess (SBC)
• Tax Expenditures
• Under-recovery
• Unorganised Sector
• Unorganised Worker
• Urban
• Urban Agglomeration
• Vanishing Companies
• Village
• White Label ATMs (WLAs)

S

Mr. Saju S., IES (2006)– (01)

• Deemed Export Benefit Scheme

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, IES(2009) – (12)

• Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU)
• Basic Port Statistics of India (BPSI)
• Basic Road Statistics of India (BRSI)
• Central Road Research Institute (CRRI)
• Indian Roads Congress (IRC)
• Motor Vehicles Act 1988
• National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
• National Road Safety Council (NRSC)
• National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC)
• Road Accidents in India
• Road Transport Year Book (RTYB)
• Vahan

Dr. Seema Gaur, IES (1984) – (05)

• Abuse of Dominance
• Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)
• Bid Rigging
• Competition Commission of India
• Competition Law in India
• Regulation of Combinations

Ms. Seema Jain (IES 2011) – (04)

• Employee State Insurance (ESI)
• ESIC-2.0
• Unorganised Sector
• Unorganised Worker

Ms. Sheela Prasad (IES 1983) – (01)

• Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)

Ms. Shweta, IES(2008)– (06)

• Base Effect
• Core inflation
• Headline inflation
• Paris Agreement on Climate Change
• Seasonality
• Sustainable Development Goals

Mr. Sudhir Kumar Tiwari IES (1985) – (11)

• Agricultural Census
• Assigned Revenue
• Central Plan Assistance
• Equalization
• Gadgil-Mukherjee Formula
• Hindu rate of growth
• Jhum (Shifting) Cultivation
• Kisan Credit Card
• Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS)
• Rurban
• Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP)

Mr. Sumantra Pal, IES(2001) – (02)

• Financial Stability
• Swavalamban

Ms. Sunita Sanghi, IES (1984) – (04)

• Coordinated Action on Skill Development (CASD)
• Educationally Backward Blocks
• Independent Evaluation Office (IEO)
• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)

Ms. Surbhi Jain, IES (2001) – (09)

• Agricultural Marketing Information Network (AGMARKNET)
• Educationally backward Districts
• Essential Commodities Act (ECA)
• Forward Markets Commission (FMC)
• Minimum Support Prices
• National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
• National Food Security Mission (NFSM)
• National Small Savings Fund
• Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana

Mr. Surjith K., IES(2010)– (07)

• Eco-mark
• Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) in India
• Environment Information System (ENVIS)
• Green GDP
• Green India Mission (GIM)
• National Forestry Information System (NFIS)
• Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess

T

Ms. Tamanna Sinha, IES(2012) – (02)

• Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI)
• Qualified Foreign Investors (QFIs)

V

Mr. V. Srikanth, IES(2008) – (06)

• Debt Consolidation and Relief Facility (DCRF)
• Effective Revenue deficit
• Finance commission
• Fiscal Consolidation
• Revenue Deficit
• State Finance Commissions