Environment
Q1. Elaborate on India’s plan to in adopting “green hydrogen” technology as part of its clean energy transition? What technological impediments are hindering India in achieving it. (10M)
Q2. What are the anticipated scientific goals of the upcoming Chandrayaan-3 mission. Discuss the broader technological and geopolitical dimensions of a mission to moon. (15M)
Ethics
Syllabus: “Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; Philosophical basis of governance and probity”
Q3. What do you understand by the term “Public service”? How can you as a common citizen contribute towards public service in our country? Discuss (10M)
Case Study
Q4. In your country, three provincial capitals are thriving global IT hubs. Such IT corridors are accompanied by huge consumerist culture and denser populations, with time they put pressure on scare resources including water. The cities host rich, poor and middle class, with varied income status. Their access to water is determined by their status. In recent months, the cities are struck with severe water crisis. While rich and middle class can afford to buy water temporarily, poor suffer from water starvation. Finally, violent protests led by affected slum dwellers erupt. As a long-term measure the Water Secretary of Central Government proposes forcing the IT industries of three states to relocate to other states, regardless of them losing the economies of scale. Otherwise, neither the groundwater table of three states can be improved, nor could present crisis be resolved. This created resentment from corporates, white collared and blue-collared employees of service sector from the three states. The IT MNCs even threaten to exit from your country to other nations. But the protestors want closure of IT industries.
As a Cabinet Secretary, will you approve the proposal of Water Secretary?
(250 words, 20 marks)
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