Topic: Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
3. With the backdrop of the pandemic advanced use of digital technologies has led to deepening socio-economic inequalities in the country. critically examine. (250 words)
Reference: The Hindu
Why the question:
The article talks about decoding inequality in a digital world.
Key Demand of the question:
Critically analyse in what way with the backdrop of the pandemic advanced use of digital technologies has led to deepening socio-economic inequalities in the country.
Directive:
Critically examine – When asked to ‘Examine’, we have to look into the topic (content words) in detail, inspect it, investigate it and establish the key facts and issues related to the topic in question. While doing so we should explain why these facts and issues are important and their implications. When ‘critically’ is suffixed or prefixed to a directive, one needs to look at the good and bad of the topic and give a fair judgment.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Start with recent advancement made in the digital world owing to the onset of the Pandemic.
Body:
The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies in India, even for essential services such as health and education, where access to them might be poor.
Economic inequality has increased: people, whose jobs and salaries are protected, face no economic fallout. The super-rich have even become richer.
Worse than the immediate economic setback is that well-recognized channels of economic and social mobility — education and health — are getting rejigged in ways that make access more inequitable in an already unequal society.
Conclusion:
Conclude with solutions to overcome these above mentioned issues and suggest way forward.
