Indian Economy
Q1. Outline the aims and significance of seven priorities (“Saptarishi”) unveiled in the Union Budget 2023-24 for Indian economy? (10M)
Q2. How do cooperatives contribute to the overall economic growth and inclusive development of rural communities in India? (15M)
Ethics
Syllabus: Laws, rules, regulations, and conscience as sources of ethical guidance
Q3. Should laws override the directions given by your conscience when confronted by moral dilemmas in life? Critically Analyse (10M)
Case Study
Q4 As a District Collector you meet the public directly in the weekly grievance redressal day. A young couple Antony and Saraswati reach you. Following is the description of the two persons:
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- Saraswati lost her vision at age of four while she was suffering typhoid, in few months she lost her parents. Without any siblings, from then she was taken care by a Government Blind School and now a Blind-Persons Protection Centre (BPPC).
- Antony, months back joined BPPC as an employee for a salary of Rs. 6000 per month. Antony is a compassionate person and, he genuinely wished to marry Saraswati after a short relation of friendship with her.
Antony’s demand to you is to convince his parents and ensure that with their consent he can marry Saraswati and claims he approached you since a Collector is a stakeholder in welfare of vulnerable like Saraswati. You are the Chairman of District Vulnerable Welfare Committee.
On interrogation, you come to know the reason behind Antony expecting his parent’s consent if he can live with them and their income can complement his meager salary. Without his parent’s financial support, it is difficult to manage a married life with Saraswati.
You summon Antony’s parents and you come to know the following shocking truths from his parents:
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- His mother says, Antony is an immature person who can’t take a reasonable decision
- He is also lazy and cannot take care of himself, then how can he care a blind woman?
iii. He is highly sensitive and short-tempered which is unsuitable for Saraswati as her supposed husband needs intense patience
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- He, despite being 25 years old, is a coward who never spent a single night alone at home and expects his parent’s company when he steps out of the home during night times
- She sums up him as “a 25-year-old man with 15-year-old boy’s maturity”.
You understand that the above information by his mom is true and you are now in a dilemma. Antony cries and begs his mom to accept their marriage, but she repeatedly makes a sensible comment that “I am not worried about you, but about that blind girl, marrying you will spoil her life.”
Finally, her mom comes out with a solution. Since she feels this decision of Antony might be hasty and lacking introspection, she asks her son to wait for 1 year so that she can test his relationship’s gravity and strength and his maturity. If their relation stands test of time, she will accept their decision to marry.
But her son is stubborn, impatient and is not giving a second thought. Finally, he says to you, if his parents are unwilling, he is ready to abandon them and go ahead to marry Saraswati and live alone. Saraswati repeatedly claims she is confident of Antony and wants to marry him immediately. The law in no way prevents them from marrying.
What will be your decision keeping in mind that Saraswati needs a long-lasting durable relationship? (20M, 250W)
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