Explain how the Fiscal Health Index (FHI) can be used as a tool for assessing the fiscal performance of states in India. In what way would it encourage the states to adopt prudent and sustainable fiscal policies?
What the examiner wants
For Fiscal Health Index, explain in sequence: first, how the Fiscal Health Index (FHI) can be used as a tool for assessing the fiscal performance of states in India. In; then, what way would it encourage the states to adopt prudent and sustainable fiscal policies. Keep evidence and the conclusion tied to these exact limbs.
Demand-wise check
- 1how the Fiscal Health Index (FHI) can be used as a tool for assessing the fiscal performance of states in India. In≈65 words
- 2what way would it encourage the states to adopt prudent and sustainable fiscal policies?≈65 words
- 3Use at least two question-relevant examples/evidence points to support the final judgment on Fiscal Health Index, proportionate to a 250-word answer≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Over-writing ‘how the Fiscal Health Index (FHI) can be used as a tool for assessing the fiscal…’ while reducing ‘what way would it encourage the states to adopt prudent and sustainable fiscal policies’ to a token paragraph
- Adding correct but adjacent facts on Fiscal Health Index that do not advance the exact causal, comparative or evaluative task in this PYQ
Value addition
- Fiscal Health Index: mechanism/value-chain diagram — input/constraint → transmission → outcome → policy lever
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