GS Paper 4 Syllabus: Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers Context: Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, address at Delhi’s Metcalf House gave a very important message to the civil servants, the “steel frame of India”. Values that Civil Servants must have: A civil servant must cultivate an esprit de corps. It means to have a shared …
GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Science and Technology Context: The world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will begin smashing protons into each other at unprecedented levels of energy beginning July 5. It is expected to throw up evidence of “new physics” — or physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics, …
GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment. Context: A Niti Ayog report has suggested on plastic alternatives or technologies making plastic degradable What does the report say? Status: India produces 3.47 mn tn of plastic waste/year, out of which 60% is collected for recycling. Goa, Delhi & Kerala have …
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GS Paper 3 Syllabus: Effects of liberalisation on the economy (post-1991 changes), changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth. Context: The government plans to table the Development of Enterprise and Service Hubs (DESH) Bill to overhaul the special economic zones (SEZ) legislation. DESHs as the DESH Act will replace the current SEZ …
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GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of society, issues related to the development of the social sector, issues related to poverty and hunger etc Context: Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 2019-21, as compared to NFHS-4 2015-16, reveals a substantial improvement in the period of four to five years …
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