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Before reviewing your answer, you should read question again and understand its demand. In the first appearance itself, your answer look neat and well presented (in case you are writing on paper). Good presentation includes neat handwriting, clean spacing between lines and paragraphs, absence of struck words/sentences. Appearance should create good impression. Presentation should be inviting and please evaluator.  Structure – don’t write in paragraphs, especially in GS-1,2 and 3. Structure your answer as per directions given in New Secure. If structure is absent, you will definitely get low marks as you are forcing evaluator to search for points – making his job difficult. Next, in the introduction, all parts of answer should be addressed in 2-3 lines. Observe if you are giving only definition or background information. Introduction is very important and when you make a valid point in it, reward the answer.  In the body, you must address all parts of the question. If any part ...

Ethics short notes for UPSC CSE 

Satyam Gandhi AIR-10 MOCK INTERVIEW Prefence  - Vajirao and Reddy (not much useful; Okayish) - Unacademy (Panel was argumentative unlike real personality test ,but valuable feedback) - Drishti IAS (Cordial panel and Valuable feedback) - Insights On India by Vinay sir ( Extremely Helpful) - KSG ( Very Helpful, particularly the questionnaire that they provide based on DAF) - Chanakya Mandal ( Didn’t find helpful, probably due to online mode) - Baliyan IAS ( Didn’t find helpful) - Classic Academy ( Not much helpful) - Shankar IAS academy ( Helpful) - ALS (Helpful)   

Indian Environmental movement are diverse and complex. RC Guha had argued that they are empty stomach movements and only post 1990s the era of professionalism was started in this sphere. It has been impacted by various factors like nature of political economy of India post 1991 LPG Reforms, changing nature of consumer demands towards more materialistic needs, etc.  Post 1990s changes • Adoption of a liberal economy where the government role declined and market forces captured the Indian economy boosting high scale capitalistic production interventions linking to increased nature of economic activities concentrated in urban areas based on deforested lands like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Bangaluru, etc. • Liberalization led market forces -Economic liberalizationbased on free market liberal era spurred economic growth, brought competition, increased production thereby increasing economic activities. But at the same time, it induced negative externalities due to high economic conce...

NCBC was given the constitutional status through 102nd Constitution Amendment Act, 2018. It has also been given the authority to examine grievances and welfare measures regarding the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes. Previously, NCBC was given a statutory status under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. In the Indian constitution, Article 340 deals with the need to, identify those "socially and educationally backward classes", and also to understand the conditions of their backwardness, and then to make recommendations to remove the difficulties they face. NCBC has proved itself to be an empowered body through - • The commission has the power to investigate and monitor all those matters relating to the safeguards provided for the socially and educationally backward classes under the Constitution or under any other law to evaluate the working of such safeguards. • It also participates and advises the government on the socio-economic develop...

Indian governance system has the provision of a bicameral system, i.e. two houses at the parliament. Upper house i.e. Rajya sabha and the lower house i.e. Lok sabha. Similarly, at the state level, the equivalent of the lower house is vidhan sabha or legislative assembly and that of upper house is legislative council or vidhan parishad. Article 169 of the constitution gives the provision for creation and abolition of legislative council in the states. Need of legislative councils- • It allows some leaders, professors, and other people who don’t participate in elections top articipate in legislative process. • It also helps to formulate better and detailed discussed legislation. • Upper House consists of representatives like- graduates, teachers, outstanding persons in the fields of art, literature, science and social service, brings in more representation in the lower house. • Having a second house at state level would allow for more debate and sharing of work between the Houses. Why le...

The Indian constitution was framed by the constituent assembly with the vision of building a unified and coherent society. Preamble of the constitution was specially designed keeping in mind all the ideals and aspirations that are forefathers wanted to see in our constitution. The preamble of Indian constitution is based on 1946 objective resolution proposed by J L Nehru. It was unanimously adopted on 22nd Jan, 1947. It shows the guiding purpose and principles of the document and also indicates the source of its power, i.e. people of India.  Our society is ever-evolving one with one of the largest diversity in the world, thus there is a need of a social contract which would be flexible, and responsible to the needed changes of the time; and while at the same time- should be rigid and robust. John Locke’s concept of social contract resembles Indian scenario the most. Both- John Locke’s state and Indian state talks about establishing- a state and how it interacts with the citizens. S...