1. On 8th November 2016, with the announcement from Government of India, all the ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi series have ceased to be a legal tender. The givemment also announced the issuance of new ₹500 and ₹2,000 banknotes in exchange for the demonetised banknotes. Identify the concept being described in the above lines.

2. According to a report by the India Staffing Federation (ISF), India has emerged as the

3. India’s population is expected to grow under 0.5 per cent during 2031-41 due to decline in fertility rate and increase in life expectancy. These changes in India’s demography will also have implications such as the proportion of elementary school-going children will witness significant declines, lack of hospital beds and increase in retirement age. The related feature of business environment being described in the above lines is

4. As a result of major government initiatives, more and more people are going ‘green’. In order to keep in line with the trend, ‘Clapaway’ a carpet cleaning company has advertised that they only use natural cleaners that come from renewable resources and that all their service vehicles are hybrid vehicles that use both gas and electricity. Identify one of the points related to the importance of business environment and its understanding by managers which is being highlighted in the above case.

5. Electric vehicles with zero tail pipe emission are emerging as a good alternative to ‘ problems like climate change, surging pollution leading to ill health, crude import bill and energy security. Identify the related dimensions of business environment.

6. In order to boost and double India’s export of goods and services to over USD 1,000 billion by 2025, it is important to lower effective corporate tax rate, bring down cost of capital and simplify regulatory and tax framework. Identify the related dimension of business environment.

7. DigiLocker is the country’s first secured cloud-based platform for the storage, issuance and verification of documents with the Driving Licence & Vehicle Registration System of the Road Transport Ministry. The integration of a government department with DigiLocker since its launch last year is one of the biggest of its kind. It will spare 1 people the trouble of carrying licences & vehicle papers, which can be accessed on phones using the DigiLocker app. Identify the related dimension of business environment.

8. Any kind of external devices, like compact discs (CD’s) for computer, have become obsolete. Google, with its Google Drive service, Apple with its iCloud offering, enables the users store documents, photos, music and movies on web-based servers. Identify the feature of business environment being described in the above lines.

9. Since more number of people have become more beauty and health conscious, our economy has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the number of health and beauty spas and wellness clinics. Related feature of business environment being described in the above lines is —