Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources. Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
1. Critically analyse the right to the life situation in India amidst the pandemic. (250 words)
Reference: The Hindu
Why the question:
The article presents a critical analysis of the right to the life situation in India amidst the pandemic.
Key Demand of the question:
Critically analyse the right to the life situation in India amidst the pandemic.
Directive:
Critically analyze – When asked to analyse, you have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them as a whole in a summary. 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 highlighting the multiple impacts of the pandemic on livelihoods.
Body:
Explain how the pandemic has led to – A health emergency more ferocious than any in independent India. Massive job losses significantly increased mass hunger and worsening nutrition. Discuss how it has led to a dire account of a humanitarian crisis in India.
Then explain how it is an example of violation of right to life? – Limited court intervention, Violation of right to life in vaccine policy, precarious situation in the informal sector, Lack of significant fiscal package etc.
Conclusion:
Suggest solutions and conclude by urgent measures to prioritise the right to life.
