Science & Technology
Q1 Amidst the new challenges the growing space industry is facing across the world; discuss the aspects necessary to be considered for India’s space vision.10M
Q2. How has the digital transformation of India impacted the everyday life of human beings? Discuss the steps required to ensure that a future powered by the internet is more equitable and prosperous. 10M
Ethics
Q3. Would you consider discipline and probity as the backbone of good governance? Give reasons for your argument. 10M
Case study 20M
Q4. Sushma is a young, talented, and honest individual. She has got a job as a junior officer in the city municipal corporation. Her role involves verification of documents of the beneficiaries of various social welfare schemes. The city corporation is known for corruption and many officers usually ask for bribes. Being an honest individual Sushma is not ready to accept bribes and she starts doing her work with integrity and honesty. She promptly verifies all beneficiaries and this earns her a good reputation among the public. Irked by her honesty and rising popularity her colleagues try to intimidate her by being rude and arrogant. They stop speaking with her and they are very unfriendly, they complain about every small mistake in her work. Her work life is getting disturbed by such actions. She complains to her seniors but they don’t take any action. Fed up with this, Sushma wants to resign from her job. Finally, the senior officer responds by changing her job profile. Her new role is the digitization of public records, which does not involve public interactions. Sushma is upset as she feels it is a punishment for being honest rather than a solution for her complaints. Reluctantly she continues to work. Now, her colleagues are friendly towards her. She continues to work and finds major discrepancies and multiple entries on the land records which she has to digitize. She reports the issue to her seniors. They ask her to digitize only the recent entries. She comes to know that lands with a lack of clear ownership have been secretly allocated to people who have offered bribes. With no one to resolve the issue within the office, she thinks of leaking the documents to the public through social media. However, she is scared and afraid to do so.
- a) Discuss the values displayed by Sushma in this situation and their importance in good governance.
- b) When Sushma is not getting any support from any corner, should she wage a war on the system? Justify.
