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🔆 Question: Digitization of land records is a commendable initiative, but it also presents certain challenges that require attention. Discuss.
📍 Answer
✅ Introduction
Significance: Access to reliable land records is critical for economic growth and minimizing disputes. Digitization offers transparency and efficiency in land management.
India’s Context: Historically, India has faced challenges like outdated records and fragmented systems, impacting development.
✅ Benefits of Digitization
🌾 Reducing Litigations: Land disputes in India take an average of 20 years to resolve, burdening courts and hindering development.
💳 Boost to Agricultural Credit: Farmers can secure loans faster by using digitized land as collateral.
🏗 Accelerating Infrastructure Development: Updated records enable smooth land acquisition for projects.
🏘 Urban Housing Clarity: Digitized records reduce ownership ambiguity, benefiting urban slums and housing approvals.
🚫 Curbing Benami Transactions: The 2015 Standing Committee on Finance highlighted digitization’s potential in reducing black money.
✅ Challenges in Implementation
📜 Fragmented Legal Framework: Rooted in the Zamindari era, India lacks unified laws for guaranteed ownership.
👷 Manpower Shortage: Inadequate skilled personnel for updating records.
📊 Interdepartmental Synergy: Revenue, survey, and registration departments often work in silos, reducing efficiency.
📡 Digital Divide: Limited digital literacy in rural areas hampers the success of digitization initiatives.
✅ Suggestions
🛰 Technology Adoption: Use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for land surveys and data warehouses for central record management.
📞 Centralized Online System: Establish an online land record department for updates and maintenance.
👩💼 Capacity Building: Train personnel in state land departments for efficient management.
📢 Awareness Campaigns: Promote digital literacy and awareness in rural areas to bridge the divide.
✅ Conclusion
Digitization is a transformative step toward land management reform, but holistic efforts, including legal unification, technological integration, and awareness, are essential to maximize its potential.
🔆 Question: Discuss the need for holistic solutions to address the problem of air pollution caused by crop residue and stubble burning in North India.
📍 Answer
✅ Introduction
Stubble burning in states like Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan is a major contribution to North India’s air pollution crisis.
The short window between paddy harvest and wheat sowing forces farmers to burn stubble, leading to severe air pollution, health issues, and soil degradation.
✅ Environmental and Health Impacts
Pollutants Released: Stubble burning emits methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and carcinogenic hydrocarbons, worsening urban air quality.
Health Problems: Causes respiratory issues like asthma, lung disease, and cardiovascular problems, especially in cities like Delhi.
✅ Impact on Soil and Agriculture
Soil Degradation: Burning destroys essential nutrients and increases soil erosion.
Loss of Soil Health: Reduces soil moisture and kills beneficial microbes critical for fertility.
✅ Need for Holistic Solutions
Limitations of Current Measures: Laws like Section 188 IPC and incentives exist, but they lack widespread impact.
Proposed Solutions:
Technological Innovations: Enzyme-based decomposition, biochar, and biogas plants.
Alternative Uses: Stubble for cattle feed, mushroom cultivation, and bioethanol production (e.g., Rice Bio Parks as suggested by M.S. Swaminathan).
Incentives and Awareness: Models like Balloh village offering Rs. 500 per acre for not burning stubble.
✅ Conclusion
A holistic approach, combining technology, policy support, and farmer participation, is essential to address stubble burning sustainably and mitigate its impact on air quality and public health.
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Q.)Discuss the key strides in India’s defense modernization and the challenges faced in achieving self-reliance in defense production. Suggest measures to overcome these challenges.” (200 words)
✅Introduction:
India is rapidly modernizing its defense sector to achieve self-reliance in defense production under the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative. The focus is on indigenization of technology, reducing imports, and enhancing domestic manufacturing. However, challenges persist.
🙌🏻Key Strides in Defense Modernization:
✅ Indigenous Platforms: Development of advanced systems like the Tejas fighter jet, INS Vikrant, and BrahMos missile system. ✈️🚢
✅ Policy Reforms: Introduction of the Defense Acquisition Procedure 2020 and promotion of FDI in defense. 📜💼
✅ Start-Up Ecosystem: Launch of the iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence) to foster defense startups and MSMEs. 🌟🏭
✅ Make in India: Increased focus on local production under the Strategic Partnership Model and DRDO's initiatives. 🇮🇳⚙️
Challenges in Self-Reliance:
⚠️ R&D Deficiency: India invests only 0.65% of GDP in R&D, limiting innovation in critical defense technologies. 🔬📉
⚠️ Import Dependency: Continued reliance on foreign suppliers for advanced technologies like semiconductors and stealth systems. 🛒
⚠️ Delayed Projects: Bureaucratic hurdles and inefficiencies lead to time and cost overruns in defense projects. ⏳💰
⚠️ Talent Shortage: Limited skilled workforce in emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and cyber defense. 🤖
Measures to Overcome Challenges:
✅ Increase R&D Investment: Allocate at least 2% of GDP for defense innovation and research. 📈
✅ Public-Private Partnerships: Promote collaboration between DRDO, private firms, and academia for faster results. 🤝🏢
✅ Skilling Programs: Develop a strong talent pipeline through defense-specific skilling and training initiatives. 🧑🎓⚙️
✅ Boost Domestic Manufacturing: Incentivize domestic firms to manufacture advanced weaponry and reduce imports. 🏭
Conclusion
By addressing challenges in R&D, imports, and policy delays, India can achieve its goal of self-reliance in defense production. A collaborative innovation ecosystem will not only strengthen national security but also boost the economy. 🌍✨
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Q. The political and administrative reorganization of states and territories has been a continuous ongoing process since the mid-nineteenth century. Discuss with examples. (10 Marks)
✅ British government reorganised states and territories into various provinces for administrative
efficiency and political significance.
▪️British government carved following provinces:
✅ Central Provinces: Created in 1861 from Nagpur Province.
✅ Assam: separated from Bengal in 1874 as the North-East Frontier province.
✅ Andaman and Nicobar Islands: established as a province in 1875.
✅ North-West Frontier Province: created in 1901 from Punjab Province.
✅ Eastern Bengal and Assam: created in 1905 upon the partition of Bengal.
✅ Britisher followed policy of divide and rule on the basis race, religion, language which is impacting Indian polity till date leading to various reorganization.
▪️Political and administrative reasons for reorganization:
✅ In 1953, a separate state Andhra Pradesh was forcefully established for Telugu speaking people.
✅ Fazl Ali Commission recommended creation of states based on language.
✅ Reorganisation of States acts 1956 re-established the boundaries of Indian territories and states based on regional language.
✅ Separation of Maharashtra and Gujarat due to political reason
✅ Creation of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand for administrative efficiency and development.
✅ Recently, Telengana was created to address development deficit
▪️Present scenario:
✅ Demand for creation of Vidharbha & Marathwada in Maharastra and Surashtra & Kutch in Gujarat for development
✅ Demand for creation of Gorkhaland, Bodoland and Greater Nagaland for political reasons
✅ Demand for creation of Dravidland for ethnic and political reasons
▪️Way Forward:
✅ Economic and social viability rather than political considerations must be given primacy.
✅ It is better to allow democratic concerns like development, decentralisation and governance rather than religion, caste, language or dialect to be the valid bases for conceding the demands for a new state.
Q. Evaluate the policies of Lord Curzon and their long-term implications on the national movement.
Lord Curzon served as India’s Viceroy between 1899 and 1905. He represented the peak of the imperialist tendency who largely focused around institutionalising paramountcy and checking the anti-British movement. This reactionary approach gave the national movement a mass push.
▪️The Policies of Lord Curzon:
✅ Calcutta Corporation Act,1899: Reduced the number of elected Indian members.
✅ Ancient Monuments Act, 1904: Aimed to protect the important monuments.
✅ Educational Reforms,1904: The real motive was to control the voices coming from the university, and to suppress them.
✅ Partition of Bengal: Considered as one of the major drawbacks of Curzon. Its aim was to divide Bengal into a
communal division.
✅ Agricultural Reforms: The Punjab Land Seizure Act in 1900 & The Co-operative Credit Union Act in 1904.
✅ Railways: He also abolished the railway department. He organized the Railway administration on a commercial
line with the objective of earning profit.
Foreign policies of Lord Curzon:
With Afghan: Motivated by fears of Russian expansion.
With Tibet: Curzon broke the 1890 trade relations between Tibet and British India.
With the Northwest Frontier: Curzon pursued a policy of consolidating and protecting British-occupied
territories in the North-West.
With Persia: Curzon personally visited the gulf in 1903 to protect the British interest by getting their
support.
The Implication of Lord Curzon Policy:
Positive:
Rise in Nationalist sentiments like the Swadeshi and Vande Mataram Movement.
Curzon’s anti-Indian policies helped India gain the support of the Indian diaspora.
✅ Curzon’s policies made Indians proud of their rich heritage and the inferiority complex of Indians was greatly
reduced
✅ It strengthened the nationalist feelings of the Indians, and the request for swaraj became more intense.
✅ Many factories, schools, and colleges were opened. Such gives step gave Indians the confidence to be self-reliant.
▪️Negative:
✅ It was his policy that gaves birth to the divide and rule policy in India.
✅ It led to the rise of extremism in the Indian National Congress.
Though Curzon’s courses of actions had caused a great amount of resent-ment among the Indians, yet unknowingly, it created a national awakening and religious renaissance as well.
Q. What are the major challenges of Public Distribution System (PDS) in India? How can it be made
effective and transparent? [150 Words]
The concept of Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country evolved during the 2nd World War (1942) due to the shortage of food grains. PDS has evolved as a system of management of scarcity and for distribution of food grains at affordable prices. PDS is incremental in nature and is not intended to make available the entire requirement of any of the commodities distributed under it.
▪️The PDS faces certain challenges mentioned below:
✅Most of the states distribute only wheat and rice under PDS resulting in deficiency of nutrients among poor
✅ The food grains distributed under PDS lacks in quality
✅Inadequate storage capacity with FCI leads to wastage of food grains
✅Centralized procurement leads to transport of food grains from surplus states to deficit states leading to
wastage of Govt.’s resources
✅FCI’s procurement of only wheat and rice has distorted the cropping pattern
▪️Taking a cue from the recommendations of the Shanta Kumar Committee, it can be made more effective and transparent in the following ways:
✅FCI should hand over the procurement operations to states
✅The coverage of beneficiaries should be brought down from the present 67% to 40%
✅FCI should outsource its stocking operations to private sector and other agencies
✅ Liquidation of stocks should automatically kick-in when FCI is faced with surplus stocks than buffer norms
✅ End to end computerization of the entire food management system, starting from procurement from farmers, to stocking, movement and finally distribution through TPDS
It’s time to introduce DBT in procurement and distribution of food grains and FCI should keep only a minimum level of buffer stock for food security purpose.
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🔆 Q: What are the goals of government budgeting? List the key components of the government budget in India.
📍 Answer
✅ What is the Government Budget?
The government budget is a statement of estimated receipts and expenditures for a financial year (April 1 – March 31), as per Article 112 of the Indian Constitution.
It is a crucial tool for fiscal management, ensuring economic stability and resource allocation.
📍 Goals of Government Budgeting
✅ 📊 Allocation of Resources
The government funds public goods like national defense, roads, and governance, which markets cannot provide efficiently.
✅ 💰 Redistribution of Income
Uses taxation and subsidies to reduce income inequality and ensure equitable resource distribution.
✅ 📈 Economic Stabilization
Implements fiscal policies to manage inflation, boost demand during downturns, and stabilize the economy.
📍 Key Components of the Government Budget in India
✅ 📑 Revenue Budget (Day-to-Day Expenditures & Earnings)
Revenue Receipts: Includes tax revenues (income tax, GST) and non-tax revenues (fees, dividends, fines) that do not create liabilities.
Revenue Expenditure: Covers salaries, pensions, subsidies, interest payments, and grants to states.
✅ 🏗 Capital Budget (Long-Term Investments & Liabilities)
Capital Receipts: Generated through borrowings, loans, and disinvestment (sale of government assets).
Capital Expenditure: Invested in infrastructure, machinery, and financial assets, ensuring long-term growth.
📍 Conclusion
✅ The government budget plays a critical role in resource allocation, economic stability, and social equity. By balancing expenditures and revenues, it ensures sustainable economic growth.
Q.Discuss the availability of natural gas hydrates in India, highlighting both the potential benefits and the challenges involved in their exploration. (200 Words)
☑️INTRODUCTION
✅What are Natural Gas Hydrates?
Crystalline compounds formed by methane and water, found in shallow sediments of the outer continental margins.
✅Relevance to India:
Significant for India’s growing energy demands, offering a future energy source.
📍Availability of Natural Gas Hydrates in India
✅Estimated Resources: 1,894 tcm, concentrated in the Eastern, Western, and Andaman offshore areas.
✅Promising Sites:
Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin and Mahanadi Basin.
✅Recent Discovery:
First producible gas hydrate deposits found in the Bay of Bengal, marking a major milestone in India’s energy exploration.
📍Potential Benefits
✅Energy Source: Methane in gas hydrates exceeds all known conventional gas reserves.
✅Cleaner Fuel: Methane combustion is twice as efficient as coal, reducing environmental pollution.
✅Seafloor Stability Research: Gas hydrate studies help understand underwater landslides and other geological risks.
📍Challenges
❌Detection Issues: Traditional seismic methods often fail to identify gas hydrates.
❌Extraction Difficulties: Gas hydrates disintegrate upon drilling, making methane recovery inefficient.
❌Geohazards: Dissociation could cause seafloor instability and underwater landslides.
❌Climate Risks: Rising ocean temperatures could release methane, worsening climate change.
☑️WAY FORWARD
✅Focus on advanced seismic technologies for better detection and mapping of deposits.
✅Develop innovative extraction techniques to ensure efficiency while minimizing environmental damage.
✅Strengthen international collaboration to adopt best practices and technologies.
✅Conduct detailed environmental impact assessments to manage risks like geohazards and methane release.
📍Conclusion
✅Gas hydrates can secure India’s energy future, but challenges in detection, extraction, and environmental risks must be addressed.
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Has caste lost its relevance in understanding the multi-cultural Indian Society ? Elaborate your answer with illustrations.
Caste is a system of social stratification with associated values and ideas that legitimized and reinforced the existing social structure in Indian society. Caste has for long been viewed as a distinctive feature of Indian society.
▪️But due to many factors such as the visionary Indian Constitution, modern education, industrialisation, urbanization, etc. Indian society has started giving less consideration to „caste‟. It can be seen in following ways:
✅ Achieved status is of greater importance: Class is more important today than caste. Educational qualification, occupational position, income etc. are the bases of identification of the individual rather than caste identity.
✅ Reservations have improved socio-political representation: This has changed the very
basis of caste-based discrimination.
✅ Caste no longer decides occupation: One can no longer deduce a person‟s caste by looking at his occupation. People today want to be identified as liberal, broad-minded and cosmopolitan. This multi-cultural society finds caste to be a backward mindset, disrespectful and violative of the Constitution.
✅ Public and private establishments: Restaurants, shopping malls, regional celebrations, local festivals, public institutions, private establishments, do not consider the caste factor.
✅ Inter-caste marriages: Strict codes of marriage and inheritance have been diluted due to increased inter-caste marriages. But caste as an entity has not become completely irrelevant even in today‟s society.
✅ Caste decides aspirations: Caste still plays a great role in deciding personal aspirations and social capital. This is particularly strong in the rural areas.
▪️Inter-caste marriages are not that common. Even matrimonial sites cater to caste-based preferences for marriage.
✅ Casteization of Politics and Politicization of Caste: Politics in today‟s Indian society is
ridden by caste-based identities.
✅ Violence based on caste is still prevalent: Several incidents have been highlighted in the media and rogue elements in social media have sometimes used these incidents to flare up caste sentiments.
✅Manual scavenging: Most of the occupations must have become caste-free, but Manual
scavenging, the worst surviving symbol of untouchability, is still an occupation of the people from the so-called untouchable caste.
Conclusion: It can be difficult to fully eliminate the influence of caste, as it is deeply ingrained in many aspects of Indian culture and society. Caste as a dominant force may not be easily visible today in our multicultural society, however, it still thrives in subtler ways and holds clues to the dynamics of our society. Caste has become less relevant for the upper caste and upper class, while for the lower castes, caste has become all too visible in both, suffering as well as getting benefits from the State.
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‘The USA is facing an existential threat in the form of China, that is much more challenging than the erstwhile Soviet Union.’ Explain. (150 words )
It is rightly said the 21st century is Asian century, which is being led by China and this brings China in direct confrontation with the USA which is known for its hegemony since the end of the second world war.
▪️During the period of 1940-1990, there has been a direct confrontation with erstwhile Russia, but the competition with China is different in the sense:
✅ Ideological vs Economical War: USA and USSR were locked in ideological battle China continues to be the world’s largest supplier of rare earth, used for high-technology consumer products and military equipment, accounting for roughly 90 per cent of the world’s production and a lion’s share of the United States’ imports.
✅ Bipolar vs Multipolar world: World was Bipolar thus all the countries were forced to fall in either of the two camps, but today the world is in flux, no one knows who stands where.
✅ Pax Americana vs Indo-pacific: The 20th century was known as US dictating relations with the countries, but today with the centrality of the Indian ocean, US is looking for a partner to check China which was not the case with confrontation with the USSR.
✅ Restricted USSR vs Diversified China: USSR was restricted largely to Eurasia, while China is following Belt and Road initiative enveloping the countries from Eurasian region to African continent.
✅ Military vs Currency War: USA and USSR were locked in military race, evident in stockpiling of conventional and non-conventional weapons while China does carefully manage its currency to keep the yuan at a stable and targeted value through a host of measures, chiefly through buying and selling U.S. dollar bonds and controlling the outflow of yuan from its borders.
The war between China and the USA is very different from the times of the USSR, as it is about who will rule the coming century. The coming age will be defined by technology, not by military might, which makes the case for existential threat for the USA.
Que. “While the national political parties in India favour centralisation, the regional parties are in favour of state
autonomy.” Comment. (Answer in 250 words) 15 marks
Answer: India opted for federal structure of the government, after independence. Our federalism is tilted towards centre to maintain unity and integrity of India. National parties favours Centralisation:
✅ Easy to govern
✅ Ideological base is wide.
✅ Considers Regional aspiration as disintegrating force.
✅ Understand the issue of National security comprehensively.
✅ Represents the wider presence of different sections in the party itself.
✅ Delays the international negotiation and hampers Bilateral relation.
Ex:- Teesta issue.
▪️State Parties Favours Decentralisation:
✅ Appoint of Governors and misuse of Article 356
✅ Emergency powers with centre
✅ Dependence of the states on the centre for financial assistance
✅ Appoint of Governors.
✅ Residuary power with centre.
Commissions’ setup by regional parties to review federal structure:
✅ Rajmannar Commission, 1969: demanded readjustment of the VII schedule and residuary power to the states.
✅ Anandpur Sahib Resolution, 1973: It demanded greater autonomy for the States seeking Centre’s authority to be confined to only :
🔸Defence,
🔸Foreign relation,
🔸Communications,
🔸Railways, and
🔸Currency.
Commissions’ setup by National parties to review federal structure:
✅ Sarkaria commission recommended status quo in the Centre-State relations, especially in the areas, relating to legislative matters, the role of Governors, and the use of Article 356.
✅ M.M Punchi 2007, suggested reforms to address the issue of states.
In this situation we can say that if there is a demand for greater state autonomy, creates instability in the government
and developmental works will be affected. However genuine autonomy to states with necessary centralization factor is the way for political progress.
Q.Discuss the significance of the lion and bull figures in Indian mythology, art and architecture. (15 Marks)
Answer: Animals played a very significant role in early Indian art and iconography. Among the elements in nature, animal portrayals received greater attention. Among animals lion and bull received much attention in mythology, art and architecture.
Significance of the lion figure:
✅ From the primitive era, the lion is considered as the symbol of strength and power and worshipped through all ages in India as a symbol of royalty, leadership and protection as well as of wisdom and pride.
✅ Lions symbolically have played significant roles in magic, as deities or close association with deities.
✅ The lion symbolism and its cultural depictions can be found in Hindu and Buddhist art of India and Southeast Asia.
✅ Narasimha ("man-lion"), Narasinga, is described as an incarnation (Avatara) of Vishnu in the Puranic texts of Hinduism.
✅ Lions are also found in Buddhist symbolism. Lion pillars (Sarnath Lion capital, Sanchi Lion capital) erected
by Ashoka show lions and the chakra emblem.
✅In Buddhist architecture, lion figure were used as protectors of Dharma and symbolic of the Bodhisattvas.
Significance of the bull figures:
✅ The Bull is associated with a number of divinities but, primarily, its association with Siva in Hindu religion, Adinatha in Jaina religion and its relation with the Buddha Sakyamuni. It was a secular symbol.
✅ Nandi is the sacred bull of the Hindu god Shiva. Nandi is Shiva’s animal form, his means of transportation, and his most ardent worshiper.
✅ The white colour of the bull symbolizes purity and justice.
✅ Nandi is also believed to promote fertility, its relation to the fertility cult and its usefulness as a domesticated animal as reflected in ancient Indian art.
✅ During Indus valley civilization bull was presented in stone, clay, metal, seals and terracottas.
✅ In Ashoka pillar, the figure of bull was embossed on their capital or found relieved on abacus.
✅ During Gupta period, it became an established religious symbol.
✅ Chola’s constructed sacred bull of shiva (nandi) in various temples.
Thus, In Indian mythology, art and architecture animal not only represents just nature element but also religious, cultural and social significance.