[Insights Secure – 2018] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 30 March 2018

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How to Follow Secure Initiative?

How to Self-evaluate your answer? 

LIST of TOPICS (Static)

REVISION TIMETABLE FOR PRELIMS – 2018 

Revision Tests

 

Henceforth, we will cover MORE issues in Secure, and provide explanations/directions/hints to 4-5 most important questions.  

Meanwhile, Please Give us 3-4 days to come back to New Secure –  Trying to cope up with many  things at a Time. 

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General Studies – 1

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Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues 

1) The Congress was started more with the object of saving the British Empire from danger than with that of winning political liberty for India. Comment. (250 Words)

Bipan Chandra, India’s Struggle for Independence, Chapter – 4

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General Studies – 2

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Topic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability; Regulatory bodies

2) While societal attitudes towards gambling have changed in the last century, with gambling now seen as a legitimate form of recreation, Indian laws have not kept pace with the times. Has time come for legalising gambling in India? Substantiate. (250 Words)

The Hindu

 

Topic: Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections

3) Analyse challenges and solutions that exist in making members of the transgender community part of the mainstream. (250 Words)

The Hindu

 

Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources

4) Today, what is needed is a credible testing method to assess a student’s aptitude and learning. But the answer may lie not in one all-important examination, but in multiple assessments that achieve the same goal. Discuss in the Indian context. (250 Words)

The Hindu

 

Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources

5) It is said that with the idea of NEXT, a window of opportunity has opened to rectify ills in medical education. Analyse.  (250 Words)

Livemint

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General Studies – 3

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Topic: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.

6) What are the objectives of introducing the  Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill of 2017? Also discuss its significance. (250 Words)

The Hindu

 

Topic:  Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; 

7) Better designed Kisan Credit Card can help improve access to institutional credit and ensure crop insurance. Discuss. (250 Words)

The Indian Express

 

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General Studies – 4

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Topic: Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics

 

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 Other IMPORTANT issues that are NOT covered Today in Secure/Covered Previously:

1. GSLV – Significance – The Indian Express
2. Autonomy to Higher Educational Institutions – The Indian Express