I messaged you, and you was like, my profile was ghost town. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, so I've been, I don't know what's going on, man. So first, so firstly, I learned how to get around like the Facebook account for like adding friends instead of doing it right away. I do, I add 20 like every hour. So I learned that, but the thing I come across now is nobody's actually accepting my request. Like, I DM, I sent one for like, what? One second, one second. All right, hello. Yes, sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I messaged people, at least 60 people yesterday and only got like two that actually accepted. Okay, okay. So then this is, so then here's where you, here's what you kind of want to do. That's why like, when your page is this blank, cause this is what I see when I'm not your friend, right? So when we're not friends, this is all we see. So I don't know if you have a bunch of other stuff on here but you're only showing. Oh, you can only see real Tgram? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.  I see born, I see real Tgram, and that's it. So, man, cause I do have a couple of pictures up there. So I don't know what's going on. So you just have them set to private, that's all, or not private, but you have it set to only your friends. So only the ones that can see it. Yeah. That's how you have it said, you gotta have it public. But what I'm saying, the reason for that is because what I'm saying is that as you go and request somebody, and let's say they're just tripping out, they're like, who's this dude Trem on? Like I don't know him.  But, right? So it must be set to only friends. Yeah, your other stuff, your other stuff is. Yeah, it is. That's why I don't, yeah, that's why I don't see it. Yeah, you wanna release that. You wanna make it public. And then also up here in the intro, you gotta up your game over here too. This intro, you gotta add it, like for example with mine, let me just show you an example. So again, as people, as they come to your page, prior to them accepting your friend request, they gotta see some stuff in that intro. And so this is how you wanna just kind of step it up a little bit. Let me show you, let me show you mine. So, and it's public. So you would see this before we're even friends. So when you come to my intro, look at the difference. So right away, I'm showing you a link to my business page. Right away, I'm showing you all these other platforms. I'm showing you my website address, which is really my.tv, which is really my YouTube channel. But I'm showing more, I'm showing more. I'm letting people know, hey man, I'm on IG, catch me there, I'm on LinkedIn, catch me there. And if you look closely, every single one of them is identical. So I'm just, I'm matching that brand name, right? I'm matching that brand name. Yeah. So when I come here, and then this is what you see before we're even friends, because it says public, so that's just basic right there. Basic, basic, basic, what I call step one is optimizing all your social media links and listing them on your Facebook page. And then when it comes to step two, step two is ask people come to your business page because you're gonna have it linked right here in the intro. So it's gonna say CEO at RealtyGram, right? You're gonna have that link right there. So as I come over to your page, there better be a big number right here. Mm-hmm. See, so look, as I land on the page, I didn't even have to scroll, I just land. I don't even have to scroll. I remember watching that on one of your videos too, running ads to social proof. Yeah, and that's a one-time ad. That's not an ad you gotta run all the time. It's just, you don't have to necessarily take a 10,000 like I did. Like you don't gotta go that high at all. I mean, there's cats that are way higher than that. There's cats that I come across that are at 300,000, right? But you don't even gotta be there right now. You know what I mean? But if I come here and I see 2,500 or if I see 3,200, at least it's a little bit of something and there's a comma in that number and not too many people even have more than 1,000 likes. Mm-hmm. Because what everybody does is they'll come over here to their personal page. They got 300 friends. They got a business page. So they're clicking invite to get the 300 friends to like the page and before you know it, 20 people like it. So if I can come here and if I can see at least 1,700, okay, shit, he must be doing something. Right? Like that perception, that's what it is. So that's what I call step two, that like number. That's a Facebook ad. It's an engagement ad. It's a like ad. It's not for leads. It's just to get that like number up. Those likes are gonna come from everywhere. They're not targeted. They're targeted as far as a key word. So you could target digital marketing. You could target real estate. You could target any key word, but you're targeting everyone on Facebook. And you're only doing that to get the number. You're only doing it to get the number, the credibility of the number. That's why you don't spend too much.  But then also if you look over here, down here when you go a little lower, you start seeing inspired digital. There's my business email it's not a Gmail, right? A lot of people have their Gmail up there.  Inspired digital, inspired digital, inspired digital, inspired digital, everything is one name. That's what most people don't do. And that right there alone, bro, that right there alone, you could charge these businesses or these real estate agents do because none of them have that. No business.    And then I can end up charging them, I can end up charging them a couple of hundreds. I'm gonna take a screenshot right clip because I don't have my book right now for notes. No, I'm recording it. That's all good. I'm recording. So I could charge someone, I could charge a small business owner or a real estate agent. I could charge anyone a couple of hundred just to go optimize all that for them. All I get from them is send me your login and I tell them, because sometimes they'll trip out, sometimes they'll say, I love giving them my password. Yeah, I know. It's like, shit, let me change it.  How many of them accept it? Yeah.  Yeah. You know, so and all of them are real estate agents. So that right there is basic. And normally it's that right there that I start people at. Like I don't approach a real estate agent and say, hey man, pay me two Gs a month and I'm gonna do all this for you. I don't do it that way. Like I believe in a value ladder and I believe in starting people out small because you gotta keep in mind, like no one knows you, bro. Like on social media, no one knows me. No one knows each other. We don't know each other on social media, especially when we start building a business. And this applies to when you're building a business. If you're just like my wife and she just, you know, don't have a business. She just got, you know, her 200 friends on Facebook that she actually knows, right? If you're like that, okay, cool.  But that's a hundred. If you're building a business, that number is at 1,100. If you're building a business, you're scaling your friend number to 3,200. And aren't you gonna know all of them? Hell no. They gotta be on your niche.  These are people that you don't know. They're people that you don't know. And as you take that number up to 5,000 friends or if on IG you take it to 10,000 followers, you ain't know none of them, right? You're not knowing any of them. So as I approach these business owners and as I hit them in the DM, they don't know me. And they're not getting 15 other messages just like that. You know what I mean? So rather than me coming from left field and saying, hey man, yeah, I charge 2,500 a month. Take it or leave it. I don't like that approach, man. I'll end up building a relationship first. I'll end up starting them small first. I'll end up sharing. I use Zoom, so I don't do a phone call. I use Zoom just like this so I can visually show them everything. I'll show them their page and then I'll show them either my page or I'll show them a client's page. And right now, if you don't have any other clients, that's why you need to step up your game because you can use your page as an example. You use your intro on your personal page and you use your business page. You use that as the example. And just be like, hey man, this is all I wanna do. We're not talking about lead capture. We're not talking about monthly retaining monthly. I don't wanna do any of that right there. Let me do this one time thing and let me show you how much I'm gonna change just the way your page looks. And that right there's value. The thing is, I got one client right now but that was because, I guess that's because he had sent me my friend request and actually seen my page because he's on the trial right now but I haven't been able to get any more after that. That's what I'm saying bro, it starts with your page. Like it starts with the intro. You gotta step this intro up. You gotta list everything. And again, I'm showing you how you should list it. List all that. Get that business page up and run that like ad. Take that like count to a few thousand likes. That way when people see you and they get your message and they go to your page and they do a little due diligence, it stands out. That right there is bottom basic credibility. Like we all need that because no one knows you. So if I go to your business page and you show me 57 likes and none of this is even listed. You ain't got no links over here on your business, your personal page. You ain't got nothing over here. It's like I'm gonna think you're from Nigeria or I'm gonna think you're from freaking Pakistan and I'm gonna think you're just a lot just direct messaging me. You know what I mean? And that's why a lot of the times a lot, I did not start putting YouTube videos on my personal page until a couple months ago. Prior to that and this is what I've been doing since 2016. I've been on this hustle since 2016, DM, small business owners, real estate agents specifically, social media marketing, running this Facebook app for them. I've been doing that since 2016 full time. It's my only hustle, full time. And it wasn't until a couple months ago when my YouTube channel started taking off and I'm like, man, I'm gonna start putting my YouTube videos everywhere. I'm gonna start sharing them on my personal page. I'm gonna start sharing them on my business page which I never did before. I'm gonna start sharing them on Twitter. I'm gonna start sharing them on LinkedIn but really the personal Facebook page is what I'm really talking about.  My YouTube income was increasing.  I want to make money on everybody watching.  But before that, before that, all I was posting, this is another key, another tip that most people don't even, they don't even, your mentor ain't even probably telling you this. What I believe is that social media is personal.  Yeah, it's gonna be hard to sell them because as soon as you accept the request, they think it's basically, I think it's basically because you're trying to sell them before you talk to them. Yes, yes, and that's why all I posted previously, like this is September, but even if I go back, there's still YouTube videos. But before that, I would say August. Let me take it back real quick. August, that's September. So it was really August and back. It's really just pictures of me and my family, bro. Like it's keeping it real, like it's keeping it real. So that's why when these agents or whoever, when they connect with me, they're like, okay, Dan, this guy's a normal person. And then I hit him on the back end. I hit him in the DM, right? I hit him in the DMs. But when they're looking at my DM message and then they're looking at my profile to see my pictures of my family, it's different. It ain't like you're reading my DM and then you're coming to my page and all I do is I'm pitching all these different programs on my personal page. It's like, dude, that's a turn-off, you know? So look, like just me and my little daughter, like getting it in. That's realness. That's realness. People connect with people. People don't connect with your pitch. People don't connect with your brand.   They're connecting. And ain't no one connecting like that on social media. We connect with people on social media. We don't connect with brands on social media. You know? That's why as you start to run Facebook ads, that's why I'll be here on my personal page.  What a lot of people do is they'll put a logo right there in the profile picture. It's like, no, dude, that's me. Like that's my real picture because as you start to see ads in the news feed, you wanna watch, I'll show you. This is a big difference. And these little tweaks, man, it's these little tweaks that no one even pays attention. As I scroll through, and I'm just seeing what my friends are up to, seeing what everyone's posting. And then all of a sudden I come across a sponsored app. There's a logo. Like automatically, if I was here, like I'm a digital marketer, you're a digital marketer. So we already know who this is. That has to be a picture, man. Right? It's like, I already know who this is. Group funnels, like I already know who it is. So it stands out to me. But the average consumer that just sees a logo right away, they just keep going. They just keep going. That's why it's not impossible to build a brand that way. It's just gonna cost you more money. Cause now you gotta spend more to get the attention because no one's connected with you upfront. But if I scroll down, like let me just see if I can see another ad. If I scroll down, look, right away, sponsored, there's his face. Like right away in the profile picture, right away I can connect to that. Right away. You know? And then I just hover over and I see 41,000. So I hover over yours and you're running an ad to me and I'm a real estate agent. And then let's say, let's say your profile picture, you got your company logo right there cause you think it looks hot. But then I scroll over it and I see 37 likes. Right? It's like, hey, I'm gonna keep going. That guy just started. Right? So it's these little things, man, that I teach. And it's these little things that I implement myself that I think are a big difference. You know, this guy right here, Alec, he's killing it. YouTube guy, this is a YouTube ad guy killed it right there. Boom, that's him. Right? So the little things like that, man, is what's gonna allow these people to accept you even faster. And that's kind of what allowed me to take mine, you know, all the way to 5,000 is just showing the realness of me. And then putting some credibility right here so people can see that. And then when they click on my business page, taking that light count up, so they automatically assume that I'm the shit, right? They come in here, they see 10,000, like, damn, this dude must be crushing it. When little do they know, I could have just started. I just ran a Facebook ad, took it up to 10,000 in a couple of days. Little do you know. Right? So it starts there, man. It starts there. Get your links up and listed, get them all matching, get that light count up. And then people will start taking your page more seriously and you'll be, people will start accepting your request much more faster. Yeah. That sounds good. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, man. What else you thinking? I kinda, I don't wanna steal yourselves but I kinda wanna steal like the link strategy. You said you don't need them. No, don't, you steal it all, bro. Steal it all. I don't know shit, I ain't sure about it. No, I mean, but I just don't know how I would pitch. How I would pitch to them, like, let me do this for $100, $200. Well, again, you're gonna use yours as an example or with your client, go link all of his. Go link all of his as an example. And that's your blueprint. And that's what I always do. Now, when I'm on a call, when I'm on a Zoom call like this, I'm telling you, I'm looking at everyone's, look, I'm gonna show you right now, man. I'm gonna show you right now. Let's just scroll through the news feed. All these people are my friends. Let's just click on someone who is not my client. That's a sponsored ad. Let me just click on someone random. Tracy, let's click on Tracy. I come over to Tracy's page, look at her intro. This is a real estate agent, dude. I don't see nowhere on here real estate. I gotta click about, let me click about. And then it says real true right there. But prior to that. They were never new.  Like I don't see no business page. I don't see no social media links. I don't see any of that. And then, let's say I reach out to Tracy. And it's a simple message. Once she accepts my request, here's where I'm gonna throw you a game. Here's some games. Once they accept the request, you don't need to send them a message right away because that's a little creepy. So don't message them right away. Wait maybe a couple of days. Like take your, here's what I would do. Here's what I would do. Over here, well actually, well you're at like, let's just call it a, let's call it 115, right? You're at 115. I would take that number to 200. Take that number to 200 and then start DMing. Make that part of your daily routine where you're gonna send all the people who actually already accepted your request.  I don't care if you were my 17th person and now I'm on 213. It don't matter. It don't matter when it was. But the fact is it'll be way days later. So if you take it to 200 and then you go back and DM everybody a hello message, then that doesn't seem as creepy because these are gonna be people you probably requested five days ago, 10 days ago, last month, and now they're getting a hello message from me. So that first welcome message, that first hello message is everything. And that's what I do, man. So I'll send that person a message. And that first message, in fact, you know what? I'm gonna keep it real. Have I messaged this person? Okay, okay, actually that was back in April. That's not the first message. But let me, actually my cell phone's not on me. But here's the first message. Here's the first message. I would send her message and it would say something like this. Hey Tracy, this is Trayvon. Just wanted to say hello and say thank you for accepting my friend request. I know that you're a successful real estate agent and that's really cool. In fact, I help real estate agents with their social media marketing and Facebook advertising. I'd love to give you some free tips to help you capture more leads on social media and take your brand to the next level. If you ever open- Man, that's exactly how I set up my messages. Okay, if you're ever open for a strategy call, again, these are free tips. And all I ask from you, Tracy, is a good review on my business page. Let me know if you're up for it and we'll schedule a good time to chat. Other than that, again, thanks for accepting my request. Talk to you soon. That's the welcome message. What's gonna happen is you're gonna start requesting a lot of people and then you're gonna start setting out that message. And at the end of the week, you're gonna have a percentage of people reply to that message because they're psychology. You might have had something down like that, but what you didn't have down was the review. So there's psychology in me saying that. When they're reading that message, hey, this guy, David, he's introducing himself. He's saying thank you for accepting his request. He's complimenting me. He said that it looks like I'm a successful real estate agent. He's complimenting me. And he's saying that he would give me some free tips in exchange for a good review. When they're reading that, there's psychology in that. When they're reading that, they're like, damn, I could do that.  He's just asking for a review. He's gonna give me some free tips.  It says, I could do that. And then you reply back and say, okay, cool. Send me your email and best time tomorrow. I'll email you a confirmation and the link to my Zoom call. They reply back Tuesday at 10 a.m. You schedule that. What I do is I schedule that on my cartridge calendar because my cartridge calendar sends them a booking confirmation and it sends them a reminder prior to our call. So I'll book them. I don't send them a room to my calendar. I ask them. They say, hey, send me your email and best time tomorrow. All schedule us, all attitude calendar and email you a confirmation. That is it, bro. I don't go into any other dialogue. It went from message to reply to my cartridge to reply to both of your questions. I don't have dialogue. I'm not over here DMing asking how the weather is. How's business lately, Tracy? I ain't saying nothing like that. I'm not getting into any of that fake conversation. It's just message. It's all copy and paste, bro. It's all copy and paste. It's all copy and paste. I don't, 99.99% of my messaging is copy and paste. I don't go off of it at all. It's message, reply, message, reply, message, reply for a confirmation, book confirmation, book schedule call. Yeah. So that's how I hit them in the DM, man. I request them, I up my game on my profile. Look, and then again, with Tracy, once I get her on the line, remember, the whole message was I'm here to give you some social media marketing tips for free in exchange for a good review on my business page. That's all I ask. I help the list of agents.  I'd love to give you some free tips. That's all it is, bro. And then once I get them on the call, then I'm gonna say, Tracy, here's where normally everything starts because all Tracy is thinking about, bro, is how does she capture her next buyer lease? How does she capture her next seller lease?  That's all any business owner is thinking of. How do I make my next sale? How do I capture that next lease? That's all they're thinking of. But what I do when I'm on the call with Tracy, I tell her, I call her out. I say, Tracy, I already know what you're looking for.  You're looking for the next buyer seller. I already know that.  Let me show you what your pages are missing and let me show you how basic this is, but let me also show you how important it is to your branding and why it's probably one of the reasons your business isn't crushing it on social media. And so what I do is I bring her here and I say, Tracy, here's where it all starts. As we connect with people on social media, no one knows you. The 2375, I'll give it to you. You may be no 200, but the other freaking 2100 are people like me who you just happened to accept a friend request from that you don't even know.  No, they don't.  You're taking that number up as high as you possibly can because you're thinking the more exposure, more business, which logically thinking that is true. But at the same time, let me just show you what's hurting your brand as these 2300 people land on your page. Let me show you your intro and then let me show you a friend of mine. And this is what I do, man. I'll either show her my page, but a lot of times I don't even show her my page. I want to show her someone in her industry. That's what's gonna solidify it, is if I show her another agent, I'll say let me show you my friend Candy's page. So as I come to your page, Tracy, I'm friends with you on Facebook. I'm friends with Candy on Facebook. But here's the deal. I don't know either one of you. So as I come to your page, this is what you're showing me. As I come to Candy's page, this is what she's showing me. Business page link, IG, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, website address, every single one of them is identical. I say, Tracy, I already know you're looking for that lead. I already know you want to close that next escrow. I get it, but this is basic social media branding that is hurting your page. Yeah. So when she sees that, bro, I don't care what type of business you're in. If you're a gym owner and I show you another gym that have all their links listed and it looks like that. And then your gym page, your personal page looks like that.  You ain't a normal consumer.  And you could tell me it's your personal page, whatever. You got your business page, okay, cool. You got your business page, whatever. But that business page, you got 110 likes. All those people came from over here. And the only reason why you even need that business page is if you're running Facebook ads, which I'm willing to bet you're not. So this personal page is more important than you could possibly imagine, because this is where you're adding all the friends and connecting with all these people. It's here. So it starts here. We'll get to the business page, Tracy. Don't even trip. I'm gonna bring you to the business page for sure. But this right here, all I'm saying is you, does it not look different? This is a competitor. Does it not look different, right? And that alone, bro, to any business owner, that's value to any business owner. So again, if you think you can go out there and close people at two grand when they don't even know you yet, okay, cool, do it.  And now I don't do it. Now I don't do none of this. I send them a video, they do it themselves. So, but this word all started. It started by just adding that little value, getting them for a few hundred up front. That few hundred feeds my family. So if I could do a few clients per week, start them small, make about 1500 per week just on the up front, and here's what I do. Then now I put them, I onboard them as a client. They send me all the passwords. I make their page look like this. Prior it looked like this. And then I do the business page, and then I run a like ad. Look, I come over to Kandy's page. I'm showing her, she's showing me her business page. She got 110 likes. I show her Kandy's business page, and Kandy has 3,500. This is what I'm showing her, bro. This is where we're starting. So I'm starting with these links, and I'm starting with that like ad. That's where we're starting. We're not starting on lead capture. We're not capturing buyer leads right now. We're not there yet, Tracy. We ain't there yet. Let's get your page up, and by me pitching her this way, bro, no one's pitching her this way. Let's keep it real.  So with me, I just take them for a few hundred, 300, 400, 500 to do this. Like that. And there's a very, very big profit margin in there for me. And then all I'm doing is that, and then I put them into my carture. I onboard them through my carture email auto responder, and now I have about seven emails that are already set to go out to this new client, and those seven emails are priming her, are preparing her for the next step. Once we take care of this, the next step is when we start running local ads to capture buyer installers. That's the next step. But by the time I get there, and those are all automated emails that I have preset ready to go out with links to my calendar where they schedule a call. And when they schedule that call, now I'm on the phone getting them to 1500 a month. Because by that time, let's just call it two weeks later, my emails were priming her, my email automation. I was adding value. I was showing her what the next step is gonna be. I'm showing her different funnels. I'm showing her a listing funnel. I'm showing her a buyer guide funnel. I'm showing her an open house funnel. I'm doing this via email automation. And so now I'm just adding value, adding value. So by the time two weeks comes and we're looking to schedule that next call, you're like, holy shit, this guy, David, he hooked up all my links. He got me at 3,500 likes. He's been showing me emails over the last week or so about what the next step is and how all these funnels are gonna help me capture leads.  And by that time, now we're talking monthly retainers. So that's just what I've done, bro, since 2016. Now today I don't have monthly clients, nor do I want monthly clients. Now today I just teach people how to do it themselves. So I'll take Tracy and I'll take her for the first few hundred up front, the links, the like ad. But now my whole back end for the next step is to not really run ads for her and get her as a retain client. That's just where I'm at in my business. You may be looking for monthly retained clients where you're at in your business and that's totally fine. I've already done all that. That's not my model anymore. Now I'm just teaching people how to do it themselves. So let's just say charging them a thousand up front for some coaching calls and some coaching videos that teach them how to run ads themselves. That teach them how to build tunnels themselves. And so where I'm at now is these coaching programs. And again, I run everything through Cartra. So now I have a 55 video coaching program that I'm now scaling at a thousand. And that's what I wanna be selling all day while I'm sleeping through Facebook ads. But everyone's modeled a little different, but all I'm trying to do is just give you a little game on how to get these people to accept you as friends and what I would recommend your entry level service could be. Because again, I try that whole go after them and get them at 2,000 a month right away. You're gonna starve, bro. You're gonna starve. And here's what you do. Here's what you do. And this is the last thing I have to say and then if you have any other questions I'm gonna have to answer them. Here's the last thing you wanna do. As you get this person's links up and you get that life count up and that person comes back and says, hey T, let's talk about lead capture now. Let's talk about getting listings and buyers. That's the next step. As you change that one client and you help them be successful and you start capturing leads, it's no more requesting them as friends on Facebook. Now you take that as a case study and you start running Facebook ads, targeting agents to get a list of them. Oh, okay. So that's what you do with your case studies? You run ads with them? You run ads to capture appointments that way. It's no more friend requests after that. Yeah, okay. So the friend request is just in the beginning to get you a handful of clients to feed your family to get that case study. Once I get that case study I'm running Facebook ads to capture more agents to schedule appointment with. Now you just wake up every day to a calendar full of agents ready to talk to you because they came from your ad because you showed them that one case study of you capturing 37 buyer leads in the last three days for tracing. Right, and that ad is a video, that ad is you on screen share, that ad is you showing them the ad, that ad is you showing them your ad's manager so you're looking at the analytics and you're showing them the numbers. That's a full blown case study. Pull the curtains back, show me what the real numbers look like, type of a video ad. And that could be a two minute ad, that could be a three minute ad. Hey guys, this is Trayvon. Let me just show you what I did for Tracy to decline in mind in the real estate space all day to capture 37 leads in the last three days and she already has three of them in escrow. Let me show you what I was able to do. We ran this Facebook ad, blah, blah, blah. That's a three minute video. And I'm doing it on Zoom. I'm doing it on screen share. I'm taking that video. I'm uploading it to my Facebook business page. I'm running a Facebook ad to a landing page to get people to schedule a call. Mm-hmm. You feel me? Yeah, I got it. So, but in the meantime, you got to feed your family and it can happen with the direct message, friend requesting, and starting with the links and that like ad. Yeah. Because I'm challenging, that like ad, go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead. No, no, I was talking to somebody. Okay, okay. So, what I do know for a fact, also the reason why the like ad is so valuable and they're willing to pay. Man, I'm sorry, man. I got it in the car real quick. No, no, no, good, man. Get at me later on. I'll record this and I'll put it up on YouTube tomorrow. All right. Right on, man. Hit me up later. All right. Okay, man, peace.


Good evening aspirants. Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankara Ace Academy for the date 2nd July 2019. The list of articles which has been chosen for today's analysis along with the page numbers of Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Tiruvannapuram Editions are provided here. The link for the handwritten notes in the PDF format and the time stamping for the displayed articles is provided in the description box below and for the benefit of smartphone users the time stamping is also provided in the comments section. Let's move on to our first article This article is an editorial which discusses about the education sector of India. The discussion is relevant in brilliant syllabus under current events of national and international importance, then in Indian polity and governance particularly under public policy, then in economic and social development, then the discussion is relevant in main syllabus in GS paper 2 under the area government policies and interventions for development in various sectors, then in issues relating to development and management of social sector relating to education, then also in important aspects of accountability. In this editorial the author discusses about the education sector of India that is especially about improving the status of teaching profession by providing high wages. So for that the author takes the example of Bhutan where the prime minister has recently announced a new policy which is not yet implemented. The new policy is that the teachers, doctors and other medical staff of Bhutan will earn more than civil servants of the corresponding or comparable grades. Now this new salary scale is expected to benefit about 13,000 teachers and doctors in Bhutan. The author calls this announcement of new policy as a novel move which means a groundbreaking move. This is because no other country has accorded the teachers and doctors in their country with such a pride of place or the most prominent position in its government service because the pride of place or the most prominent position are expressed both in terms of renumeration and also in terms of symbolism. Providing more wages than the civil servants is what the author is calling as symbolism here. We saw that the proposal was announced by Bhutan's prime minister who himself is a qualified doctor. So the author says this suggests that professional experience of a higher authority informs the policy that is it gives essential quality to the policy framed by the government. Even though we are praising the idea of Bhutan, one question arises here. What is the educational aspect of this policy? Is it possible to demonstrate that improving the status of the teaching profession positively influences the educational outcomes? Is it possible to demonstrate this? For this question the author gives an example of a study. The study is called as Global Teacher Status Index of 2018. The Global Teacher Status Index is based on in-depth opinion by population in 35 countries which also includes India. The index explores the attitudes on issues ranging from what is a fair salary for teachers to whether they think pupils or students respect teachers to how highly people rank their own education system etc. There are many international comparisons in education but this is the first time that the role of teacher status has been studied in-depth. It also demonstrates a distinct correlation between student outcomes in a country which has been measured by PISA scores and the status that its teachers enjoy. The report of 2018 concluded that the teachers wages as well as the teacher status both significantly contribute to the determination of students' performance. Also know that India scored 58 in this study. Here the PISA is the organization for economic cooperation and developments that is OECD's program for International Student Assessment. It is a triennial international survey that is conducted every three years which aims to evaluate the education systems worldwide. It is done by testing the skills and knowledge of 15 year old students who are nearing the end of their compulsory education. It measures and compares student ability in reading, mathematics, science and global competence and also in financial literacy. Based on this study the PISA ranks the educational systems of countries but know that so far India is not a participant in this study. So India is not ranked in PISA but it is included in the Global Teacher Status Index of 2018. So don't confuse. So now if we look in the context of India, India currently spends about 3 percent of its GDP on education and it accounts for about 10 percent of the centers and states budgetary expenses.  If you see in the last year, Netia Yog in its report named as Strategy for New India at 75 recommended that government spending on education as a whole not just on school education but as a whole should be increased to at least a 6 percent of GDP by 2022. Then the author mentions about a World Bank study which is named as what teachers believe mental models about accountability, absenteeism and student learning. This study found that teacher absenteeism in India was nearly 24 percent. In India about one in four teachers were absent on a typical day which reached as high as one in two teachers absent in the poorest performing state. Now this high absenteeism contributes to about two thirds of total instructional time which is not being used in several countries. It also means that that is a significant fiscal or financial wastage as salaries are being paid despite unauthorized teacher absence and this absenteeism costs our country about 1.5 billion dollars annually. The author says this absenteeism could be the result of many factors which include teachers taking up second job or farming to boost their incomes. Then teachers providing parental or nursing care to their family in the absence of support systems or even the absenteeism may be because of lack of motivation also. Now when we talk about increasing the wages and salary of teachers we have to talk about the financial inputs which is required to carry out this policy. So the author also gives another example for this. Recently before few months you might have heard about the strike which was carried out by the teachers of Tamil Nadu. This strike was for the demand of increasing their wages and for better pensions. See you should know that Tamil Nadu is one of the India's better performing states on educational indices but the minister concerned with the issue turned down the demands of striking teachers by saying that wages, pensions, administrative costs and interest repayments already amounts to 71% of the state's expenditure. So already the expenditure on education is high in the state. So the minister asserted that very little amount is left for other developmental programs that is why they have turned it down. So based on the above mentioned problems the author gives some suggestions. First for tackling the financial problem the author says even though paying teachers a significantly higher salary may seem like a tall order or a difficult task but it can be easily addressed. For this the central and state governments can consider rationalizing or justifying both teacher recruitment and allocation of funds to existing programs because some programs may have completed their purpose and still may be running and it requires money so that money can be reduced and it can be better directed to other programs so that there will be more money available for education. The author adds one more point which is improving accountability in the system because it can free up huge savings. This is due to the reason that the teachers operate in a low accountability system. Normally a developing education systems do not reward teachers for teaching well nor do they penalize them for not teaching. Most importantly there is no explicit link between teacher management and student learning. Now this teacher management is characterized by very high job security then seniority is linked with salary increases etc. Then in the absence of political interference teacher promotion is based on the number of years of pre-service training, formal certificates and years of service but not on student learning. So if accountability is increased the performance will be high and only efficient teachers will be paid high so in turn it will also increase the quality of education. The next suggestion is having a pilot project to increase wages of teachers. The author said it can be done in a smaller state such as Delhi and also education is a key focus area for the Delhi government. Then also the state invests around 26 percent of its annual budget education sector and this 26 percent is way more than the national average. Then according to the author the political leadership in the state is unafraid of both bold and big moves in the social sector. So it is easy to implement a new policy in the state of Delhi. Moreover the state is highly urban and well connected so it would be easier to enforce accountability measures. These are the reasons the author gives for choosing Delhi for the pilot project. Then finally the author supports the move of increasing the wages of teachers by saying the investment cannot be considered too high by any society when the investment enables an educated healthy responsible and happy community. He also points to the OECD's another report which is named as education at a glance 2018 report. In this report it mentions that the quality of education can be a strong predictor of a country's economic prosperity and shortfalls in academic achievement are extremely costly so the governments must find ways to compensate for the shortfalls and the government should ensure the social and economic welfare of all. Then the author concludes by saying that the government's intent on improving the quality of education should offer a step out of incrementalism in policymaking. Incrementalism means believing in changes by degrees that is gradual change. So the author wants the policy makers to opt for an immediate change rather than gradual change. Since the policies act as levers that governments use to achieve desired results in focus areas. So improving the teacher status by offering top notch that is top grade salaries to attract the best candidate to the profession can be a revolutionary policy step forward that is required and Bhutan has shown a willingness to take the same. That is why the author has named the article as lessons from Bhutan so that India should learn from this policy of Bhutan. With this we have come to the end of this discussion. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Moving on to the next discussion which is about the blue flag certification for beaches. This article discussion will be relevant in your prelim syllabus under the area current events of national importance and also under general issues on environmental ecology. The discussion will also be helpful in main syllabus in general studies paper three under the heading environment particularly under environmental pollution and degradation. Now before entering into the news article discussion let us have a look at the present initiative of the government of India with respect to blue flag certification to beaches. This initiative is an integrated coastal management scheme which is named as Beams. Beams stands for beach management services. The program comes under the integrated coastal management project. This integrated coastal zone management project is being assisted by the World Bank. With respect to the Beams program we have to know about the agency that develops the beaches under this program. The agency is Society of Integrated Coastal Management which is shortly called as SICOM. This society is established under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. It is SICOM that has commenced the pilot project of blue flag beach program in December 2017 in India. Under this program the Society of Integrated Coastal Management has been identifying one beach in each of all the nine coastal states and four coastal unit territories of India. When we say some project or program as a pilot project it means that the project has been introduced at a preliminary level at some locations and on a limited scale only. The purpose of pilot project is to study the challenges, possibilities, feasibilities and requirements of the program so as to take the program to the next level. If they find that the project is not feasible in the pilot project then they will stop with the pilot project alone. Hence this Beams is one such pilot project of SICOM. Where it is limited to only one beach which is situated in nine coastal states and four coastal unit territories of India. This is the situation as of now. The main objective of the program is to promote sustainable development in coastal regions with respect to beach management. Also to attain high international standards in four categories of beaches. The main focus of this program is to attract domestic and international tourists. The four categories of beaches which we mentioned here are one is environmental management. This includes the cleanliness factor and the solid waste management system. Then is the environment education, then safety and security of beachgoers and then is the bathing water quality standards. Originally the blue flag beach standards are established by an organization called as Foundation on Environmental Education which is shortly called as FEE. This organization started its work in the year 1987. It is based at Copenhagen which is the capital of Denmark. According to this organization in order to make the beaches environment friendly there are 33 standards in four areas that we have already discussed. The blue flag beaches standards were initially popularized all over Europe and it was extended to other parts of the world also with South Africa joining these standards in 2001. Now let us come to the news article discussion. It states that the Tamil Nadu government is searching for suitable location to develop the location under the blue flag beach program. The word scouting mentioned in the news article means searching in this context. The article states that the state government receives funds under this program from the central government. Initially they have decided to develop Mahabaliburam beach which is situated in the Chennai city of Tamil Nadu but since the waves currents are strong in the Mahabaliburam beach it would not be safe for bathing requirements and other accessibility criteria. So it has been dropped. Also in the month of June the Ministry of Forest Environment and Climate Change said that the Puri beach in the state of Odisha will be the first beach in Asia to get the blue flag certification but it has not yet got it. It is wait and see which beach is getting the blue flag certification first. With this we have come to the end of this article discussion. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Moving on to the next news article discussion which talks about the violation of reservation in higher levels of teaching at various universities. This article discussion will be relevant in your prelim syllabus under the area current events of national importance and also under social development particularly in inclusion. The discussion will also be helpful in main syllabus in general studies paper one under the area social empowerment and also in general studies paper two under the area government policies and issues arising out of their design and implementation and then also under mechanisms constituted for the protection and betterment of vulnerable sections. The authors of this article talks about an anomaly in the recruitment process of positions at higher levels of teaching in central education institutions and also in the institutions that are aided by the central government. Here the word anomaly in this context takes the meaning of irregularity or abnormality in the recruitment process. The part of the anomaly is that some central universities have arbitrarily restricted the reservation of other backward casts to the level of assistant professor only. This means that the reservation for OBC will be there only till the level of assistant professor. Then for top positions such as associate professor and professor there will not be any reservation mechanism for the candidates of other backward cast. In order to redress these irregularities the central educational institutions reservation in teachers cadre ordinance 2019 was introduced. An ordinance can be promulgated by the president when any one of the houses of parliament is not in session and ordinance can also be promulgated when both the houses are not in session. We know that Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are the two houses of the parliament. This ordinance making power of president is based according to the article 123 of the Indian constitution and ordinance will have the same force and effect such as an act or law of the parliament. The author says that the central educational institutions ordinance provided for the reservation of schedule casts, the schedule tribes and the socially and educationally backward classes in direct recruitment posts in teachers cadre. This ordinance will be applicable to central educational institutions and educational institutions that are aided by the central government. The ordinance has clearly indicated that reservation to the OBCs shall be provided at all levels of teaching. But despite the ordinance some of the recent advertisements for the teaching positions in 13 central universities are in clear violations of this ordinance. Also a clarification was issued by the ministry of human resource and development regarding the ordinance. Even after the clarification just only one central university issued a revised notification that provided reservation for the other backward casts at all levels of teaching. This indicates that the other universities have violated the ordinance because they did not even care about issuing a revised notification for the recruitment. Then the authors cite an example where the reservation was provided for the economically weaker sections who are not included in the schedule casts or the schedule tribes or in the other backward casts also. This was observed in the Indra Gandhi National Tribal University. This university provided reservation for EWS category at the levels of associate professor and professor also. But the same university did not provide any reservation for the candidates from the other backward cast. This is what the authors mean by the term differential treatment because different treatment was given to EWS category and a totally different treatment was given to OBC category. In addition to this some other institutions also do not have any reservation with respect to higher levels of teaching positions. We can take Tata Institute of Social Sciences as an example for such a system where there is no reservation for higher levels of teaching positions. But it is said that Tata Institute of Social Sciences is known for its commitment for social justice. Also know that the people belonging to the other backward cast constitutes around 50% of India's population. But we could see only 9.8% representation in all faculty positions in all the central education institutions. Then according to the university grants commission only 13.87% of the positions at the level of assistant professor are occupied by the candidates of other backward castes. This is the scenario with respect to the central universities. From this we can say that there is inadequate representation of OBCs at the top posts of teaching in central universities. When we mean central universities, it means the institutions of higher learning where the administration and control of the particular university lies with the central government. Then the author draws the attention to one another inference that they have found with respect to the representation of OBCs in comparison with the people belonging to the Muslim religion. The representation of OBCs was less than that of Muslims at the higher levels of teaching. In OBC category, there are certain communities from Muslim religion also. The author says that if we exclude those communities from Muslim religion which are included in OBC, then if we look at the representation of OBCs in higher levels of teaching, the representation is almost negligible or very, very minimal. Then the author states that the professors and associate professors play a significant role in the decision making process with respect to recruitments. And at times, they also misinterpret constitutional provisions. The authors are referring to Article 16 Clause 4 of Indian Constitution that says that the state shall make any provision for the reservation of appointments in favor of any backward class of citizens if they are not adequately represented in these services. We know that Article 16 of Indian Constitution deals with equality of opportunity in matters of public employment. Then we can also note that even when there are violations with respect to the ordinance, the courts are just asking only to make correction to the advertisement. The court neither awards compensation to the petitioner, not it orders any punishment for the violators. The authors say that there was a noticeable delay in implementing the reservation for the schedule cast, schedule tribes and the other backward cast since the announcement. But for economically weaker sections, the reservation was implemented within a month of announcement. This is what the author calls as differential treatment. Finally, the authors conclude that this differential treatment will lead to imbalanced representation of a social group at the higher levels of teaching. With this, we have come to the end of this article discussion. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Moving on to the next discussion, which is about the core industries of India. The discussion is relevant in current events of national importance and then in economic development. It is also relevant in main syllabus under GS Paper 3 in the area Indian economy. The news article states that the growth in these core sectors of economy has slowed to 5.1 percent in the month of May of 2019. This value is given by the index of eight core industries. This was led by the slowing growth in the coal and refinery product sector. So, the slowdown in May was led by the refinery sector which saw a contraction or decline of 1.5 percent as compared with the growth of 4.3 percent in the previous month. Then the coal sector also saw growth slowing to 1.8 percent from 3.2 percent over the same period. Additionally, the crude oil sector witnessed a continued contraction for the 18th consecutive month in May. It was contracting around 6.96 percent in the month of May. Then the fertilizer sector also contracted in May by 1.03 percent. Whereas, the natural gas sector remained flat in May. That is it registered a zero growth. But if you see the strongest performer of the eight sectors, it was the steel sector. The steel sector grew by 19.8 percent in May which was followed by the electricity sector. The electricity sector remained at high level as it was increased by demand in the summer months. It grew 7.23 percent in May as compared with 5.99 percent in May. Then the cement sector also witnessed a subdued growth of 2.75 percent in the month of May. So, now let us know about the index of eight core industries. Index of eight core industries or ICI is released on a monthly basis. The monthly ICI is a production volume index. ICI measures a collective and individual performance of production in selected eight core industries. These eight core industries are coal, crude oil, natural gas, petroleum refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity. It is compiled and released by the Office of Economic Advisor which functions under the department for promotion of industry and internal trade of Ministry of Commerce and Industry. But remember that department for promotion of industry and internal trade was earlier known as department of industrial policy and promotion. Then the base year of the ICI has been revised to 2011 to 2012 from 2004 to 2005. Also, the combined weight of these eight core industries is 40.27 percentage of IAP that is index of industrial production. The objective of ICI is to provide an advance indication on the production performance of the industries of core nature that to before the release of index of industrial production which is released by Central Statistics Office. Then ICI is important because it is an important lead indicator for overall industrial performance and also an indicator for general economic activities in the economy. Now, let us know the components that are covered in these eight industries for the purpose of compilation of index. Under coal, coal production is included which excludes coaking coal. Then for crude oil industry, total crude oil production is included. Then for natural gas and refinery products also, their total production is included. Then for fertilizer industry, urea, ammonium sulphate, calcium, ammonium nitrate, ammonium chloride, diammonium phosphate and single super phosphate is included. Then for steel industry, production of alloy and non-alloy steel is only included. Then for the cement industry, production in large plants and mini plants are included. Then in the electricity sector, actual electricity generation of thermal, nuclear and hydro electricity generation and also imports from Bhutan is included in the compilation of index. Now, you may think what is the use of this ICI? This ICI is widely used by policy makers which includes Ministry of Finance and other ministries and departments. Then it is used in banks financing. Then it is also used in infrastructure projects. Then it is used by Reserve Bank of India and Railway Board also. With this we have come to the end of this analysis. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Moving on to the final article discussion which is about the recent decision of the state government of Nagaland to set up the register of indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland. This article discussion will be relevant in your prelim syllabus under the area current events of national importance and then also under rights issues in Indian polity. The discussion will also be relevant in main syllabus in general studies paper two under the area functions and responsibilities of the states. In this article the author shares her or his opinion about setting up of the register of indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland with a slight comparison with the present update process of NRC in the state of Assam. The author states that Nagaland is following the footsteps of its western neighbor that is Assam. Following the footsteps means adopting almost the same approach which is taken by Assam. That is why the title of the article is imitation registry. As if Nagaland's indigenous inhabitants register making process is an imitation of the update process of national register of citizens in Assam. Also know that Nagaland shares borders with three Indian states and one neighbor country. In the west it shares border with Assam. In the north it shares border with Arunachal Pradesh and in the south it borders with Manipur and the neighboring country is Myanmar which is in the east of Nagaland. Then the author says that the Assam is yet to publish its final NRC which is a year after the process began. But we know that the update process in Assam began in 2015 and it has been four years since the start of the process. But the Nagaland register is expected to be set up by December this year that too within five months. This sounds simple and yesterday we saw that the population of Nagaland is around 19.8 lakhs according to the 2011 census. But the population of Assam is 3.12 crores that is 312 lakhs. So the comparative less population in Nagaland would have convinced the government that the entire exercise of setting up the register could be over by five months. We know that the Assam update process was done to detect the illegal immigrants. So far it has seen mixed results. By mixed results the author means that the NRC update has resulted in conflicting opinions results etc. Some sections of people want the NRC update while there are significant number of Assamese populations who do not want such exercise. There has been many news like the non-inclusion of names of genuine Indian citizens in the NRC draft. Even the names of family members of a former Indian president were missing in the draft NRC. The name of the former president of India is Mr. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed. He was the president of India for period of two and a half years between 1974 and 1977. Then also the Assam exercise has left the names of around 40 lakh people in the final draft of NRC. Also recently an additional draft exclusion list was published which left names of another one lakh people. The author says there is no clear end point for the Assam experiment. This is because no one knows what the Indian government is going to do with this approximately 41 lakh people who have been left out. The government says that they have to be deported to their country from where they came to India. In the context of Assam the majority of the 41 lakh people would have certainly come from Bangladesh. So in order to deport them first the government of Bangladesh has to agree to take them back. But the Bangladesh government has in a way expressed that it will not take them back by saying that the NRC update exercise in Assam is an internal matter of India. This implies that there is no possibility of deportation. Now similar to Assam one of the objectives of the new register in Nagaland is also to identify the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Two years ago a town in Nagaland has passed a resolution to curb or restrict the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and to prevent them from integrating with other people in Nagaland. There were also restrictions against them to live and to carry on trading. Here the author gives a fact about Nagaland. We know that the capital of Nagaland is Kohima. But the largest city of Nagaland is Deemapur. And Deemapur is also the commercial capital of the state. But for whole India the commercial capital is Mumbai. The reason for this is that the most financial and trade related institutions will be in that particular city. And there will be a lot of physical activity with respect to the transactions related to commerce. Hence similar importance is there for Deemapur within the state of Nagaland. Then the author says that the situation in Nagaland is already volatile. Very recently the Ministry of Home Affairs also has extended the operation of armed forces special powers act of 1958. And the state of Nagaland is declared as a disturbed area under section 3 of the act. Therefore the author says that in such a situation the state government must proceed with caution. So in no way the register setting up exercise should make an indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland as an outsider. That is it should not say that the individual is not an indigenous inhabitant of Nagaland. And there is no clear understanding about what will happen to those who are not included in the register of indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland. The author calls for having an appeal mechanism and a humane hearing to be an inbuilt feature of Nagaland's new exercise. The NRC experiment in Assam has witnessed several extremely divisive political posturing. This we could see from the fact that there was a lot of yes and no among political parties for NRC update in Assam. As we could find some political parties favoring a certain section of population and other supporting other sections of people. Since the developments in Nagaland will be closely observed by other northeastern states, the compilation of the registry should not be driven by emotive political factors and political favoritism. That is political emotions should not drive the compilation process. With this we have come to the end of our article discussion sessions. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the next session. Moving on to the last session for the day that is the practice questions discussion session. If you look at the first question it is about the Global Teacher Status Index of 2018. Two statements have been given. The first statement is it is released by the organization of economic cooperation and development every year. That is organization of economic cooperation development is nothing but OECD. If you remember our discussion we discussed that PISA that is program for international student assessment is released by OECD. But this Global Teacher Status Index 2018 is not released by OECD. It is released by an international organization which is named as Varke Foundation which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So, this statement is wrong. If you look at the second statement it states that India has been included in 2018 index only. Now this statement is correct because before 2018 Global Teacher Status Index was released in the year 2013. And at that time India was not included and it was included only in the year 2018 index only. So, this statement is correct. So, the correct answer to this question is Option B 2 only. Now in this second question it has given a statement and four options have been given. The statement is which of the following program is associated with the objective to promote sustainable development in coastal regions and also to attain high international standards in certain categories in beaches. So, we have to look for the option which works with respect to beaches. Now we have seen in our analysis that there is a program under Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project which is called as BEAMS. BEAMS stands for Beach Environment Aesthetic Management System which can be simply called as Beach Management Services. Now the given statement is the objective of this program only. So, the correct answer to this question is Option D BEAMS. But also know that the program across stands for Atmosphere Climate Research Modeling Observation Systems Services which comes under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. And the program sweep stands for Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation Program and this program is the flagship program of Election Commission of India. And then Hriday stands for the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana. This scheme comes under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Now if you look at the next question it talks about Article 123 of Indian Constitution. It has given four options. We have to say which among the four options deals with Article 123. Now we know that the power of President to grant pardon to the sentence of a person is mentioned within the part of President and Vice President under Article 72 of Indian Constitution. So, that is not a correct option. Then the power of President to consult the Supreme Court was dealt under the chapter Union Judiciary under Article 143 of Indian Constitution. So, this is also not correct. Then the President notifying certain tribes to be deemed as scheduled tribes comes under special provisions relating to certain classes under Article 342 of Indian Constitution. So, this is also incorrect. So, the correct answer to this question is Option D which is the power of President to promulgate an ordinance when both or any one of the houses of parliament is not in session and it comes under Article 123. Now, the next question is about the National Register of Citizens. The question states recently the National Register of Citizens is being updated in which among the following states, one Nagaland, two Assam, three Manipur. We have to choose the correct answer from the code given below. Now for the past two days we have been seeing news about Nagaland and some register process. So, in a hurry please don't mark as Option 1 and 2 only because we know that the NRC process is being updated in the state of Assam. So, Option 2 is correct, but based on recent news articles don't mark Nagaland as the correct answer because Nagaland has decided to set up a register which is called as Register of Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland and the Nagaland process is no connection with the update process of NRC. So, here Nagaland is a wrong option it has been given only to confuse you. So, the correct answer to this question is Option B, 2 only. Now, in this next question two statements have been given and we have to choose the correct statement. Now, during our analysis we have seen that the Section 3 of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 allows for the governor of a state or the administrator of that union territory or the central government to declare an area of a state or union territory as a disturbed area. And also the Ministry of Home Affairs has extended the operation of AFSPA that is AFSPA in Nagaland for another six months very recently. So, AFSPA is in operation in Nagaland. Therefore, this makes statement 1 and statement 2 as the correct statements. So, the correct answer to this question is Option C both 1 and 2 only. Now, let us see one main question based on JS paper 2. Improving the status of teaching profession by providing higher wages, evaluate. So, we have to evaluate this statement. Now, during our analysis based on this topic we saw a detailed discussion and in that discussion we gave the example of Bhutan which has declared a new policy that gives doctors and teachers and other medical staffs in the country more wages than the civil servants. So, you can mention this example. Then you can also talk about the global teacher status index of 2018 and how the index has concluded that teacher wages and teacher status contribute to students performance and you can also mention India's core in this status. Then you can give some suggestions on how to manage the fiscal challenges which should be tackled if the wages are increased for the teachers in the profession. For that you can mention the same suggestions given by the author such as rationalizing teacher recruitment and allocation of funds to existing programs. Then you can talk about improving the accountability which is lacking in the teaching sector. Then you can talk about a pilot project which can be carried out in Delhi etc. Then you can add your own viewpoints also. With this we have come to the end of our analysis sessions. If you like the video don't forget to like, comment and share and do subscribe to Shankar IAS Academy YouTube channel for more updates on civil service examination preparation.


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Good afternoon and welcome. We're coming to you from day two of the Fiji Symposium in Bangalore, the platform for all dialogue on financial inclusion. And with me is Mr. Kwame Bahacham for the lead on QS Workstream for Fiji. Welcome Kwame, and how does it feel to be part of the Fiji Symposium? Thank you very much. It's great to be part of this beautiful collaboration between the International Telecom Union and the World Bank Group pursuing this global agenda of financial inclusion which has been long overdue and I think that this step takes us further to bring everybody on board in the financial inclusion agenda. Can you tell us a little more about the potential for digital financial services to actually make financial inclusion a success? What it is is that everybody loves money. Everybody wants to use money. But we also acknowledge that the most advanced rich, just as money could have gotten into the packets of everyone or into the packets of almost everyone, the means of sending money across to everyone, the potential as well as the telecommunications network which is more connected among people than usually the banks are. They are more unbanked people than they are less connected people. So we can say that the connected through technology or mobile communications is further than the connection on the bank and sector level. So the potential here is that we could spread the connectivity of spreading money around or sharing money around through the mobile technology platform and this is the potential where we can use to push for financial inclusion. Tell us how important is it for the telecom companies and the banks to come together to create financial inclusion? I think times of change. I mean there used to be the times where we could just change bread with salt and we moved into currencies. The time has come that there has to be that collaboration and just as most of the country's name they call it mobile money. So it puts mobile and technology and money on equal footing and this is where the two sectors have to come together and I believe on equal footing. On the higher level if they can go as far as having laws and regulations which really energizes them which really helps them collaborate to achieve this agenda it is very positive. Meanwhile if it is a memorandum of understanding which is between these two sectors what I will say is that it should be visible to more than just the two entities who signed these MOUs but it should be available to all stakeholders so that they know what is on this paper called MOU so everybody can take advantage of what is between these sectors for them to be really informed about the financial inclusion agenda. And what are some of the success factors and the barriers that will allow us to harness the full potential of digital financial services? This is money and money taking it around means trust. There is also the need for security. Some of the problems that we've had currently where there's financial inclusion and money going around is the people losing their money and if this keeps going on there is that the potential that people withdraw from using such a platform. So there is the need that the networks are secured. There is the need that the confidences build among users and they also have to be assured of the quality of service with these platforms. So these are very key to the success of mobile money or digital financial services. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your time Cormie.