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  • NABARD EXAM : Social and Economic Issues Preparation Syllabus and Tips

    Updated : 11-Nov-2017
    NABARD EXAM : Social and Economic Issues Preparation Syllabus and Tips

     NABARD examination notification is announced every year by NABARD for Officer Posts in grade A & B cadre. A total of one hundred and fifteen vacancies are to be filled by the bank it since it does not participate in IBPS banking exams. The agriculture credit bank is fully owned by government of our country & hence recruitments are to be made only through competitive exams all over India. With the first phase of this exam includes social and economic issues, in this article you can find the topics that you have to prepare for the social and economic issues topic.

    Course structure :

    1. You get more than eight hundred MCQs as per latest paper pattern
    2. You get topic wise notes on below topics:

    Syllabus for NABARD Exam

    • Economic & Social Issues :
      Nature of Indian Economy - Structural and Institutional features -
      Economic underdevelopment - Opening up the Indian Economy - Globalization - Economic
      Reforms in India - Privatization. Inflation - Trends in Inflation & their Impact on National
      Economy and Individual Income. Employment Generation in India - Rural and Urban -
      Measurement of Poverty - Poverty Alleviation Programmers of the Government. Population
      Trends - Population Growth and Economic Development - Population Policy in India.
      Agriculture - Characteristics / Status - Technical and Institutional changes in Indian Agriculture
      - Agricultural performance - Issues in Food Security in India - Non Institutional and
      Institutional Agencies in rural credit. Industry - Industrial and Labor Policy - Industrial
      performance - Regional Imbalance in India's Industrial Development - Public Sector
      Rural banking and financial institutions in India - Reforms in Banking or Financial
      sector. Globalization of Economy - Role of International Funding Institutions - IMF & World
      Bank - WTO - Regional Economic Co-operation. Social Structure in India - Multiculturalism -
      Demographic trends - Urbanization and Migration - Gender Issues Joint family system - Social
      Infrastructure - Education - Health and Environment. Education - Status & System of
      Education - Socio -Economic Problems associated with Illiteracy - Educational relevance and
      educational wastage - Educational Policy for India.
    • Social Justice : 
      Problems of scheduled
      castes and scheduled tribes - socio-economic programmers for scheduled castes and
      scheduled tribes and other backward classes. Positive Discrimination in favor of the under
      privileged - Social Movements - Indian Political Systems - Human Development. Current
      Economic & Social Issues.

     Introduction of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

     In the past fifteen years, interest in promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights has increased vastly. Non-governmental organizations, academia, Governments and the judiciary are paying true attention to the protection of these fundamental rights in their programmers, policies and case law, and highlighting the need to respect them as a key to be got the greater overall happiness of human rights that belongs to them. The Optional Protocol to the global covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights raises the hope of a renaissance for the protection of these rights, both nationally and internationally. This is timely, mainly given that the denial of economic, social and cultural rights keeps going on and is even testifying, in wealthy and poor countries in the world.

     What to study?

    To be free of doubt, Refer to the syllabus given by NABARD with its official notification on their website. Following is a list of topics that appeared in the previous year Economic and Social Issues exams of NABARD. Note that the below mentioned list is indicative and not exhaustive type:

    • Nature of Indian Economy
    • Opening up of Indian Economy – LPG
    • Inflation
    • Indian Planning
    • Poverty Alleviation
    • Employment Generation
    • Population
    • Agriculture
    • Industry and Labor
    • IMF
    • World Bank
    • WTO
    • Regional Economic Cooperation
    • Social Structure in India
    • Urbanization
    • Migration
    • Gender Issues
    • Education
    • Health
    • SC or ST or OBC issues and schemes
    • Social movement
    • Indian Political system
    • Human development
    • Current affairs

    Preparation tips

    • Majority of the questions that appeared in the previous year Economic and Social Issues exam were current affairs based which were published in newspapers like The Hinduand magazines like Yolanda, and also from the Economic Survey, Union Budget and various government made schemes.
    • We suggest you cover current affairs of the year in which you are preparing related to Economic and Social issues topic. It is important that you memorize facts and figureslike percentages and other numbers in your mind or keep a notebook handy in which you can note down all the important points.
    • The questions are based on the various government Policies in Economic sector, banking and social issues taking place in our surrounding, etc. Follow news related to economics and social issues regularly and

    Mock tests

    The syllabus of Economic and Social Issues [ESI] of NABARD examination can be hard to prepare since it is vast. However, reading books cover to cover to understand concepts will only end up confusing you at the moment. You might even spend a lot of time on learning topics that aren’t even in the syllabus. Therefore, to save that hard work and your precious time and energy.

    Why should you take NABARD Mock Tests?

    The mock tests are prepared by people who are experts in this topic of NABARD examination, who know the latest NABARD ESI examination syllabus and pattern, after thorough research and analysis. They cover the most important topics in the mock tests that will appear in the exam. Taking the mock tests will give you a fair idea about the topics that will be asked, and also the pattern and difficulty level of the questions. Using this information, you can fine-tune and tailor your Economic and Social Issues preparation and save time and energy.

    Hope you found all the necessary information on NABARD Social and economic issues preparation. If you have any queries, suggestions, complaints or question please mention them in the comment section and we will try to resolve them to make you aware of all the queries. To keep yourself updated, check more articles on our website.

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