GS Paper 3 Mains Previous Year Quetions Yearwise 1979-2015

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1979
1.State the distinctive features of the national budget for 1979 80. To what extent
are the present inflationary trends derived from the budget provisions (About 200
words)? 25
2.Answer these:
a. Briefly review our achievements in industrial development over the plan periods.
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What roles have been assigned to the Public Sector and the Small-Scale
Industries in our industrial development plans and programmes (About 500
words)?
OR
b. Discuss the role of Village Cooperative Movements in promoting rural welfare

and development in India. How is the National Dairy Development Board
achieving their objectives (About 500 words)?
3.Briefly review India's Energy resources. In the context of the world shortage of
petroleum, how would you plan for meeting our rural energy needs? Discuss the
relative merits of centralised generation, supply and distribution of energy vis-a-vis
generation of energy at consumer points or centers (About 500 words).
OR
Comment critically on the impact that modern Science and Technology have made on
the attitudes, life styles, social structures and economic wellbeing of the people in the
rural areas in India (About 500 words).
4.Answer any two of the following in not more than 150 words each:
a.Why is there a concentration of jute mills along the Hoogly and chemical industries in
Gujarat?
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b.Explain briefly the important of the Beas Sutlej Link Project.
c.What is the economic importance of the Kandla and Paradeep ports?
d. What are the current problems facing the Tarapur Atomic Power Project and what
steps are being considered to overcome them?
5.Answer any two of the following in not more than 150 words each:
a. What has been the contribution of Science and Technology to the development of
Indian Agriculture?
b.Indicate the sources of atmospheric pollution in the major urban centers in India and
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the steps to be taken to minimise the problem.
c. Explain briefly the impact of the Computer and Industry, Education and Public
Services in India.
d. Give a brief review of India's accomplishments in the field of space science and
Technology.
1980
1.Appraise the performance of the Public Sector Enterprises in India with reference to
their objectives and the role assigned to them. Give your concrete suggestions for xxx
up their performance (About 500 words)
(The answers to each part should be contained in about 150 words) Answer any two of the following
2.What is the scope of the Farakka Barrage and what are the problems relating to it? What proposals
have been put forward to resolve the problems and with that results?
3. Briefly outline the uses of sickness of industries particularly to the xxx region of India. What are the
concrete measures which are being taken to meet the situation and with what xxx?
4. xxx the performance of the Power (Electricity) xxx India? What is the impact of xxx power xx and
frequent power cuts on production and growth? What steps could be taken to xxx up the performance
of this vital sector of the economy?
5. Can the agricultural development, we have achieved so far, be considered adequate? If so, why? If
not, why not?
6. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words):
a. Evaluate the impact and implications of the xxx and the launching of the Rohini with particular
reference to xxx
b. Why has there been a recrudescence of Malaria in India? What steps should be taken to prevent its
spread and to eradicate it eventually?
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c.What is the scope of the Silent Valley Project and what are the issues which have been raised in
relation to it? Having regard to the different views expressed. How should the Central Government
proceed further in regard to this project?
d.What are mini-computers? Comment on the economic and social implications of this innovation.
(The answer to each part should be contained in about 200 words)
Answer any ten of the following: (Answer to each question on should be given in 1 or 2 sentences) 30
What is a laser beam?
What will be your weight when orbiting in a space satellite?
Define genetic code What are antibiotics?
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Name two antibiotics which are commonly used.
What is a Blast Furnace? Name the inputs into the Blast Furnace.
What is Geothermal? Mention a few areas where we have located geothermal resources in India.
What is Bombay High? What is SAGAR SAMRT's connection with Bombay High? Name two major ports
xxx in India's eastern and western sea coasts and the major exports/imports through each of these
ports.
What is India's largest departmental undertakings public sector enterprise as measured by the
investments made in. What are the investments made in 1 and 2?
What are super thermal power stations? Where are they being established in India and by which
Agency?
Distinguish Fusion from Fission. Which process is relevant to generation of power in Atomic Power
Stations at present?
Why is fertilizer capacity expressed in terms of tons of xxx? What is India's fertilizer manufacturing
capacity?
How is solar energy collected concentrated stored?
What is meant by planning form below and planning from above
What is a solid-state device Mention two manufactured items in which such devices find applications.
1981
1.What is territorial Army? For what reasons has it been constituted? Who are eligible to join it? What
incentives are given to the members of the Territorial Army (Not more than 100 words)? 15
2.Name the main combat aircraft which are in active service in Indian Air Force. Which of them is
obsolete or obsolescent? What have been the recent acquisitions of combat aircraft for use in our Air
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Force? What options are open to Indian Air Force to match the F 16 Aircraft, which is being acquired
by xxx (Not more than 100 words)? 15
3.The phenomenon of rising prices has been largely responsible for xxx Indian economy and planning cut
of welfare; it also causes hardship to the people. What are the basic reasons for continuous inflation in
India and what has been the government strategy to control it? What specific measure have been taken
by the Government of India for controlling inflation (Not more than 200 words)? 30
4. It been estimated that over Rs. 2, 000 crores of public in sick industrial units and the number of sick
units private sector is about 22, 000. What steps have Government taken in the matter (Not more than
150 words on each)? 20 Write short notes on the following: (Not more than 150 words on each) 10
1. Thal-ghatProject
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2. Operation flood
5.Removal of Poverty was a principal objective of the Fifth plan has been reiterated in the Sixth Plan.
Analyse the problem and the impediments involved. How is this objective likely to be realised during the
Sixth Plan (About 400 words)?
6. Answer the following
1. Health care for all by 2000 A. D is an important objective of the Sixth Five Year Plan. What steps
are being taken for the supply of safe drinking water and provide adquate nutritional
safeguards, particularly to the vulnerable sections of the community? What is the present status
of preventive medical facilities in our country (About 400 words)? 50 OR
2. What are the significant achievements of Indian scientists in the context of Space Research?
How will space technology be useful for weather prediction, telecommunications and
identification of natural resources (About 400 words)?
7.
1. Bring out the findings of the 1981 Census in regard to the growth and variations in rates
of growth of population in different parts of the country. How do you account for
population explosion during the last three decades? What measures should be adopted
for population control?
2. What is shifting cultivation? Where in India has this been localized to? Consider its
consequences and examine the steps taken by Government of prevent this practice.
3. What are bearer bonds Why were special bearer bonds devised in February? What
were their budgetary objectives how far such bonds achieved their objectives?
8. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words): 15 +
15 = 30
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a. What do you understand by ecology? What measures are being taken to preserve the
wild flora and fauna and protect the endangered species of animals in India? Name
three species for which special measures have been taken to preserve. What are the
main objectives of Government science policy? What steps are being taken for the
optimum utilisation of manpower, and improvement in the quality of life and technical
education?
b. As the resources of land are getting depleted man his turning to sea for the supply of his
needs. What are the prospects of sea exploration for obtaining our requirements of
food, minerals and chemicals, oil and gas?
c. What is meant by Generic Engineering What are the dangers associated with it? Do you
recommend we should go ahead in developing this technology (Answer each question in
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about 150 words)?
1. Group B
1. What is a procurement price for foodgrains? What purpose does it serve?

2. What are multinational corporations
3. Why are most jute mills in the neighborhood River Hoogly?
4. Which are the terminal stations of the Black Diamond Express? Why is this so named?
5. Why should we import wheat from USA in spite of bumper harvest in 1980 81?
6. Is it correct to say that the land of India slopes from West to East?
2. Group C
1. What is the diamond ring effect observed during a solar eclipse? How is it caused?
2. Astronomers have of late, been discussing black holes What is a black holes
3. What is greenhouse effect?
4. What is Jaipur Food
5. What is Richter scale used for?
6. What is biological nitrogen fixation
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1982
1.Unemployment in India is of many types and therefore a complex issue. describe the nature if the
problem and the measures adopted to deal with it particularly in rural areas (about 150 words)
2.In their emphasis policy planners on the primacy of the rate of economic growth, some attention has
been paid to structural and ideological objective of planning in India. critically examine the satement.
(About in 150 words )
3.What is biogas technology? What beinfit are envisaged from its use? Describe the steps gov of India is
taking for its development discussing the salient features of the programme [250 words]
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4.Describe the various types of unemployment in India What are the measures devised in the Sixth Plan
to deal with the unemployment?
5.Examine the pros and cons of increasing the level of taxation on agriculture sector
6.When is the world environment day observed every year? what are the major g\factors which
contributed towards degradation of environment in India?
7.Discuss the impact of electronics on science, industry and society.
8.What are the main reason for launching the integrated rural development programme State the main
Objective. how it is being financed [150 words)
9.Appraise the performance of the Public Sector Enterprises in India with reference to their objectives
and the role assigned to them. Give your concrete suggestions for xxx up their performance (About 500
words).
10. Answer the questions
1. What is the global energy crisis and what is its impact on India? Having regard to our situation,
environment, resources and problems, what would be the profile of an appropriate energy
policy for India? Examine critically the available alternative options (About 500 words).
2. What is the role of Scientific and Technological Research in our Economic Development Process?
What steps are necessary to adapt the nature, structure, content and result of such research to
meet the growing and complex needs xxx increasing agricultural and industrial production.
Comment briefly on the adequacy and relevance of technology developed in Western countries
for adoption by India. Is it necessary or feasible for India to achieve scientific and technological
self-sufficiency (About 500 words)?
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1983
1.Attainment of self reliance has been a major objective of planning in India. Analyse the implication of
this policy. Asses the progress made so far in this regard.
2.Describe the organization and functions of Regional Rural Banks, Review their achievments. Is there
any conflicting jurisdiction between the rural banks and the cooperative credit societies?
3.Inflation has been one of the major and persistent cause of poverty and inequality in India Analyse.
4.There are many artificial satellites circling the earth. Describe the various uses of these artificial
satellites. Name the satellites put in orbit by India.
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5.Discuss the Industrial Policy of India adopted in the Sixth plan, tracing the changes in Industrial policy
since Independence.
6.Felling of trees indiscriminately is considered a crime against society. Why is there emphasis against
indiscriminate felling and for planting new ones? Discuss the present policy of Farm forestry in our
country.
7.Immediately after Independence, Land reform measures were initiated to achieve the twin objective
of increasing agricultural production and attainment of social justice. What types of measures have been
taken by the State to achieve the objectives and with what results? What is the role of Union
Government in this?
8.Why was the National Cadet Corps established in 1948? How is the corps organized and who are
eligible to join it? Who are responsible for XXX the organization? What incentives are available for those,
who join the N.C.C.?
9.Explain the importance of Project Tiger
10.What is mutant and what role does it play in agriculture
1984
1.What are the advantages to the nation in sending on man into space ? It is sometimes argued that the
problem of tackling poverty will get sidelined if we indulge in such luxurious experiments . What are
your views in this regard? 150 words
2.When were the first Olympic games held ? When and where was the modern series started at what
interval they are held ? when and where were the last Olympic games held ? what were the positions
and medals tally for top three countries
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3.When and where are the next Olympic games due to be held ? what is marathon ? how many players
play on each side in basket ball? what is national sports if Spain ? What is steeplechase?
4.What are Indians island territories ? What effort are being made to safeguard them ?
5.What are the terms of India china trade pact signed recently ? [1984]
6.Recall the important measures undertaken by the gov to reduce the operation of parallel economy in
India. Do you think these measures have been effective?
7.India requires 225 million tons of food grain by the end of twentieth century. briefly discuss the
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elements of the strategy of agricultural growth that can ensure an increase in food grains output to
meet the projected demand.
8.Profitability is one of the index of judging the performance of the public sector enterprises What other
indices can be used for this purpose? Do you consider the performance of the public sector has
improved in during the last decade?
9.What are the principle components of economic infrastructure? Inadequacy of infrastructure as well
as the poor utilization have been the principle bottleneck in economic development. comment
10.What is microchip? Describe the impact it can have on the technological advancement of India?
11.Describe briefly the achievements of Indian Scientist in the exploration of marine resources,
12.Protein deficiency is a major nutritional problem among the Indian masses. What are the serious
consequences of protein deficiency?
13.Evaluate the limitation and advantages of use of soya beans as a source of protein
14.Describe the different modes of irrigation practices in India and bring out the relative importance in
the field of recent development in irrigation.
15.Soil erosion is one of the most crucial problem in India as it offers the most frightening prospects for
the ### years. Describe the various Kinds of Erosion and mention the steps which may be taken for the
protection of the land
16.What are the micro components of money supply in India?
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17.per capita availability if the cereals in India has during the past two decades (it remained constt
(ii)gone up (III) Gone down
give two factors responsible for the situation
1985
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1.What measures have been taken by the gov of India to develop our own sources for the supply of
petroleum crude? Discuss the measure of success achieved in this regard.
2.Why are floods such a recurrent feature in India? Discuss the measures taken by the government to
flood control.
3.The current tech of nuclear power generation is based upon the fission process, what are the other
methods possible for the generation of nuclear power with reference to the Indian conditions.?
3.What are genetic diseases give some examples? what are the prospect of treatment of patients
suffering from such diseases? can these patients be cured?
4.What are psychotic drugs? Give a few examples? what are their effects?
5.Drug abuse and drug addiction have become a serious problem in many countries. What steps have
been taken to help the victim of drug abuse?
6.What is nuclear winter? what could be its consequences?
7.what is Chandrasekhar limit?
8.What are monoclonal antibodies? what are their use?
9.what are optical fibers? what are their applications?

10.what is agent orange? what were its effect?
11.what are carnivorous plants?
12.Examine the case for balances\d regional development as an objective economic planning in India.
How far has been achieved?
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13.What is meant by manpower planning? Has it been carried out in India? Examine the problem of
brain drain from India
14.In the context t of the challenges to be faced in the 21 st century, it is generally felt that there is an
urgent need to re orient science education and scientific research in the country. Identify the important
areas that need reorientation and suggest steps you consider necessary for the purpose.
15.Microorganisms have been harnessed by man for some time for the production of useful materials.
Point out the important developments in this area. What is the current status microbial technology in
our country?
16.What is black money and why is so called? What are the main causes of its generation in India?
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17.Examine the controversy regarding the sharp rise in the price of Sugar in India in recent past. What
steps have been taken by the government to curb it?
1986 (paper 3)
1.Objectives of Ganga Action Plan. Explain in brief the benefits of the plan(Namami Gange in 2015)
2.In course of planned economic development Indias actual growth has mostly been lower than the
projected growth. How would you explain this shortfall?
3.What is meant by a computer programme? Discuss the ### and feasibility of a computer based library
### system in India
4.What is acid rain? How does it arise? Discuss its impact on our environment.
5.What is remote sensing technique? Name the various regional remote sensing centers in India. What
specific purposes are served by remote sensing operations?
6.What are the steps taken by the Government to combat AIDS?
7.How far it is justified to say that the Budget of this country is gamble against the monsoon? To what
extent have developmental ### solved the problem
8.Recall the set of incentives available for the investment by the Non Resident Indians. What are the
likely uses and abuses of such investment?
9.What is a white revolution? Discuss the different factors which have helped to bring about this
revolution in India.
10.What is meant by DNA finger printing
11.Name three Indian reactors which supply radium isotopes
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12.What is engenics
13.What do you know about operation faith ?
14.What are test tube babies

15.What are under water nodules
1987
1.What are superconductors? What is their relevance to the future developments? What is India's
position in this field (About 75 words)?
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2.Examine the working of the Public Distribution System in India, with particular reference to its
objectives and constraints. Suggest a set of measures towards an improvement in the present system
(About 250 words). (40)
OR
Account for the growing incidence of industrial sickness in India. Would you advocate privatization of
these sick units? Give reasons for your answer (About 250 words).
3. Answer the following questions
a. Scarcity of safe drinking water is an acute problem in a large number of villages in India. Point out the
factors which make even the available water unfit for drinking by the rural population. What steps
would you recommend to make such water potable (About 250 words)? (40)
OR
Expert opinion is sharply divided regarding the advisability or otherwise of building nuclear power
plants in India. Summarize the chief arguments on either side and suggest what according to you would
be a wiser policy (About 250 words).
4.Answer the following questions What are the following and what are their functions (About 25 words
for each)? (15)
Coast Guard
Territorial Army
Border Security Force
5.Comment on the employment strategy as envisaged in our Seventh Five Year Plan.
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6.Give an account of the mechanism employed in India to transfer financial resources from the Centre to
the States.
7. Distinguish clearly between Joint Ventures and Foreign Collaboration Use appropriate examples to
illustrate from India's recent experience.
8.What do you understand by Ecological Balance? Why is this balance necessary? What is being done in
India today to maintain this balance?
9. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words) (15 + 15)
a.Some of the modern agricultural practices being used at present in India are leading to undesirable
consequences. Do you agree with this view?
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b.Comment on the state of computer technology in India today. In this context, point out the possible
uses to which super-computers could be put.
c. It is believed that the use of fiber optics will revolutionize the telecommunication technology. What
progress has been made in India in this field?
d.What is immunization? Mention the steps being taken to immunize the rural population against
common diseases to which they are generally prove.
10.What is Zercrbase budgeting?
11. What are the likely advantages of the recent Government policy of Broad-banding?
12.Despite an increase in the pay-packet, the purchasing power of the people has not really gone up.
How can this happen?
13.The economic offenders often thrive in a parallel economy. Is it true or false? Explain your view.
14. What are the limitations of mechanized farming in the Indian context?
15. Recall three specific incentives given by our government to attract industries to the backward areas.
Name two such areas and their location.
1988
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What do you know of the Project Tiger How and when was it initiated? Name any five tiger reserves in
the country (10).
Discuss the problem of rural unemployment in India. What specific schemes have been launched by the
Government to generate employment opportunities in rural areas (About 250 words)?
(40) OR
Discuss the contribution of public sector enterprises to the economic development of India. Are these
enterprises generating enough resources for further investment in the economy (About 250 words)?
Answer the following questions Trace the growth of Science museums in India. Examine their role in
promoting science awareness and the spirit of scientific temper among the common people (About 250
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words).
(40)
OR What is Integrated Pest Control Management? Comment on its current status in the Country (About
250 words)?
Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words) (20 + 20)
There is renewed emphasis on district planning in India. Examine its rationale, past experience and
scope for success
Examine the debt burden of the Government on India. Is the country heading towards a debt trap
Discuss the progress of Indian economy during Forty Years of Freedom What structural changes do you
think, have taken place in the economy?
What are administered prices and what is their role? Examine their impact on the general price level.
State the types of environmental pollution and some of the places where it has occurred due to the
progress of industrialization in India. Which parts of India were mainly affected by the severe drought of
1987 88? What were its main consequences?
The Government of India has recently set up a Department of Food Procession. What are its functions?
Some experts an of the opinion that the dams and the reservoirs located in different parts of the
country may lead to undesirable consequences. How far are these fears justified? What are the aims of
the New Technology Policy? What steps are being taken to improve the standards of technical
education? What is fluorosis? What can be done to minimise its harmful effects?
What is El Nino? How is it relevant to India? What is a Compact Disc? Explain the meaning and the uses
of gene therapy. What are the harmful consequences of excessive noise? Advances in biotechnology
have led to the creation of new micro-organisms previously unknown in nature. What are their users?
What's Ozone pollution?
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Distinguish between the status, organization and specific roles of the Planning Commission and the
Finance Commission in India (About 250 words). (40) OR What are the basic objectives of agricultural
price policy of the Government of India & how is it implemented (About 250 words)? Answer the
following questions The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has established a number of
laboratories for interacting with industry and development of indigenous technologies. Citing specific
examples, point out the significant achievements of CSIR in the last one decade (About 250 words). (40)
OR India is planning to provide for the generation and distribution of 38, 000 MW of electric power in
the Eighth Plan. How are these objectives to be achieved? What are the constraints that are likely to be
met with (About 250 words)?
What are the main components of the non-Plan expenditure of the Government of India? Discuss the
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recent trends in the growth of this expenditure.
Despite having high saving and investment rates. India is experiencing a low growth rate. Why is it so?
What is the economic rationale for undertaking the Backward Area Development Programme? Discuss
the specific measures taken by the Government in this direction.
What is meant by a high cost economy? Has India developed into a high cost economy and if so, how?
What are the salient features of the hill economy of Northern India, and how do these account for its
relative backwardness?
How has modern technology contributed to a better forecasting of weather? Mention the particular
efforts made in India in this regard.
What geopolitical and economic advantages are enjoyed by India due to its location in the southern
part of the Continent of Asia?
Examine the production and supply of edible oil in India. What are its main source crops and where are
they grown?
Do we have to import edible oil?
Describe the important new techniques which are being introduced in India for crop improvement.
It has been estimated that there are more than four million leprosy patients in India. What steps are
being taken by the Government of India for their treatment and rehabilitation?
What are the non-conventional sources of energy relevant in the Indian Context? Comment on the
status of the technologies available for their utilization.
Water-conservation has assumed an urgency particularly in drought prone areas. What are the methods
available for controlling water evaporation from large surfaces (e. g. Ponds and tanks) and improving the
water-holding capacity of the soil?
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Answer four questions from each group (Answer to each question should be in about 25 words). (30)
Group A
What is NABARD and what is its main role?
What are mutual funds? Do we have such funds in India?
What are economic offences? Name two such offences and the laws enacted in India to deal with
them.
What is meant by population explosion? Has it occurred in India.

Which part of India has developed comparatively more marine-based industries and why?
Name the minerals used in generating nuclear energy and the places where they are found in India.
Group C
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Give the names of three missiles developed by India under the Integrated Guided Missile Development
Programme. Briefly mention their capabilities.
What are anabolic steroids? Give one example. Why have they been in the news recently?
How do quark watches keep accurate time?
What is ultrasound? State two of its uses in modern medical practice.
What is a Computer Virus? What are its effects? Is there a remedy?

What is meant by a stealth aircraft? Mention two stealth technological techniques used in such an
aircraft.
1990
1. Identify and analyses a few major management problems which the Indian public
enterprises are facing today. In the light of your analysis, would you advocate
privatisation of some of our public enterprises (About 250 words)? (40) OR
2. What is the rationale for decentralized planning in India? Discuss the obstacles that have
stood in the way of such planning (About 250 words)?
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1. What are the main recommendations of the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone
layer? What are the implications for India of the latest convention held at London
(About 250 words)? (40) OR
2. What is the application of superconductors in computers?
1. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words:) (20 +
20)
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1. What is the economic rationale behind the establishment of growth centers? Explain
briefly the criteria for selecting three growth centers.
2. State and explain briefly the economic implications of the Right to Work.
3. Discuss the factors that have led to the recent increase in the general price level and the
measures taken by the Government to Combat it.
4. What measures have been taken under the Five Year Plans increase employment
opportunities in rural areas?
2. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words): (15 +
15)
1. Explain the concept of National Water Grid and its objectives.
2. What is the need for soil conservation? What are the major measures taken by the
Government towards conserving soil in India?
3. Comment on the detrimental effects of canal irrigation?
4. As part of the process of urban sprawl distinguish between urban peripheral growth,
suburbs and satellite towns giving, at least, one example of each type from any
metropolitan center of India.
3. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words) (20 +
20)
1. Briefly describe the Karimnagar experiment for application of Science and Technology
for regional development.
2. The ICMR has cautioned that the dreaded disease AIDS might spread in the next few
years in India too. What steps are recommended for its control?
3. Aqua culture (inland fish farming) is considered to have an important role in increasing
the food supply and generate employment. What steps are being taken by the
Government to encourage aqua culture?
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4. Write an account of BVO. Give reasons against its use.
Section III
1. Answer four questions from Group A, three from Group B and three from Group C (In about 25
words). (30)
1. Group A
1. What is Exchange Risk Administration Scheme?
2. What is an industrial sick unit? Name the Indian industry where the problem of
industrial sickness is very acute.
3. Explain the concept of social forestry in India.
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4. Explain the term captive power station What is the aim of setting up of such
stations?
5. Mention the states where shifting cultivation is still practiced in India.
6. What is Biosphere Reserve? Explain its significance.
Group C
1. What is frequency modulation?
2. What do you understand by nuclear fallout? What is its harmful effects?
3. What is photonics? Mention some of the areas of its application.
4. Explain the meaning of the term quantum jump

5. What is meant by global warning? What are its effects?
6. Mention the breakthrough made in NCL in the field of plant-genetics and explain its significance
(8).
1991
Answer the following questions
What role were the Public Sector Undertakings expected to play in our planning process? Briefly state
the current policy of the Government of India with respect to Public Sector Undertakings (About 250
words). (40) OR
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Are there good reasons behind the suggestion that in the new programme of economic liberalization,
India should go slow in the matter of exit policy (About 250 words)?
Discuss the potential of solar energy utilization in India (About 250 words). (40) OR
What is biodiversity? Why should it be preserved (About 250 words)?
1. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each questions should be in about 150 words) (20 +
20)
1. Analyze the main defects of Indian Trade Union Movement.
2. Bring out the main features of India's Trade Policy.
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3. What, according to you, are the remedies to the problem of rural indebtedness in India?
4. What are the factors that ensure the success of the Public Distribution System?
15)
1. What do you understand by the Integrated Rural Energy System? Also mention at least
three new sources of Energy.
2. Examine the recent developments that have taken place in identifying and mapping land
resources in India.
3. Explain the factors affecting the distribution of population in India, bringing out the
variation in density over space.
4. Account for the varied environmental problems resulting from wide spread
deforestation in both Aravallis and Himalayan regions.
20)
1. Trace the progress of India's Space Research Programmes? What are its significant
achievements?
2. What is Jal Shakti What are its uses?
3. What is the basis of monsoon forecasts now prepared by the Indian Meteorological
Department, which have been reasonably correct for the last three successive years?
4. The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is expected to set up a number of

hydroelectric projects in the Eighth plan. Summarise the salient features of the
proposal.
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1. What usually is meant by the expression an underdeveloped economy? What, according

to you, are the basic causes of underdevelopment in India (About 250 words)? (40) OR
2. Discuss the measures taken in the Five-Year Plans to mitigate rural poverty (About 250
words). (40)
3. What is artificial intelligence? What is its current scenario and what are its prospects
(About 250 words)? (40) OR
4. Give a brief account of major achievements in the realm of biotechnology in India

(About 250 words).
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1. Answer four questions from Group A, three from Group B and three from Group C (Answer to
each question should be in about 25 words each) (30)
1. Group A
1. What is Non-Plan Expenditure?

2. What is Statutory Liquidity Requirement of commercial banks?
3. What is ICICI?
4. What is Dakshina Ganga Why is it so named?
5. How was Meghataya Plateau separated from the Deccan Plateau?

6. In the context of recent institutional developments in our capital markets, what
do the following abbreviations stand for:
1. CRISIL
2. SEBI
3. SHCI
Group C
1. What are binary chemical weapons?

2. What is SQUID? Which of the CSIR laboratories are working on it?
3. What is tissue culture?
4. What is Hepatitis E?
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5. What are ocean floor polymetallic sulphides? Where is the largest occurrence of deposits
reported?
6. Name the main offshore oil field of India and the agency which operates it.
1992
1. What is Partial Convertibility & rupee? What are its basic objectives? How is it going to
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benefit the Indian economy?
2. Discuss the main features of India's Eighth Five-Year Plan with special reference to the
agricultural sector.
3. What are the main sources of short-term and long-term finance for Indian industries?
4. Explain the term Integrated Rural Development Bringing out its strategic importance.
1. What do you understand by Command Area Development?
2. Mention some of the new programmes that have been undertaken in recent years in respect of
nuclear research in India.
3. What do you understand by Environmental Pollution? Mention the various kinds of pollution
and their effect on human health in India.
4. Briefly explain the use of various chemical fertilizers in Indian agriculture.
1. Discuss briefly the importance of the cryogenic engine for India's space programme.
2. What is a fast breeder reactor? Discuss briefly its role in India's nuclear energy programme.
3. What are bio fertilizers? What advantages do they have over chemical fertilizers?
4. What are the salient features of India's missile development programme?
Section III
1. Answer four questions from three groups (Answer to each question should been about 25
words). (30)
1. Group A
1. Distinguish between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Product
(GNP)
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2. What are Footloose Industries?
3. What is fiscal drag? What is its effect?
4. What is Gini coefficient?

5. Give the full names of:
1. FAO
2. FOB
3. GATT
6. Describe the main objective of DPAP.
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1. Group C
1. What is heavy water? What is it used for?
2. What is a leap second?
3. What do the following stand for?
1. PUFA
2. VHRR
3. HDTV
4. What is Maitri
5. What is the advantage of putting a satellite in the geosynchronous orbit?
6. What is MRI? What is it used for?
1993
20)
1. What measures have been taken by the Government of India to attract direct foreign
investment, as a part of the new strategy of Industrial Development in India?
2. It is claimed that the price situation in India improved considerably in 1992 93 with a
gradual decline in the annual rate of inflation in the course of the year. What are the
factors that moderated the inflationary pressures?
3. In a developing country like ours what according to you, should be the basis of taxation-
income or consumption? Spell out your arguments clearly.
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15)
1. Give your assessment of the soundness of large river valley project a with high dams vis-
avis smaller river valley projects.
2. Which parts of India are described as arid zones Comment on the characteristics and
economic activities prevalent in these regions?
3. What is remote sensing? Describe the status of remote sensing in India.
4. What is social forestry? Describe how social forestry can help in the uplift of the rural
poor.
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20)
1. Give an account of the achievements of Indian defense scientists in technology

development.
2. Describe how biotechnology is finding use in medicine. Give a few current examples.
3. What is a CD-ROM? Describe its main advantages as a vehicle for information

dissemination.
4. What is RDX made of? Why has it been in the news lately?
Section III
1. Answer four questions from three groups (Answer to each question should be in about
2swords): (30)
1. Group A
1. What does SDR stand for? How are the countries benefited by it?
2. What do you mean by Government Buffer Stock Operations?
3. What is Opportunity Cost?
4. What is ICOR? What does a high ICOR indicate?
5. What is a biosphere reserve?
6. What is meant by growth rate of population?
7. What is an E-lamp? What are its main advantages?
8. What is DPT vaccine? What is it used for?
9. What are synthetic seeds?
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10. What are jet streams?
12. ANURAG
13. HVDC
14. GMRT
15. What is VIKAS engine? What is it being used for?
1994
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1. What was the rationale of the Mahalanobis Strategy of economic growth?
2. Indicate briefly the tax reforms that have been introduced in India after the coming in of
the New Economic Policy.
3. Discuss the desirability of removing all controls in India on the import and export of
agricultural commodities.
4. What is innovation? What kind of economic compulsions in a country like India, you
think, could really stimulate innovations?
15)
1. What is exclusive economic zone of a country. Discuss its relevance to India.
2. What is dryland agriculture? Discuss its importance to India.
20)
1. Describe briefly the different phases of India's nuclear energy programme.
2. What are high-temperature superconductors? Describe their important applications.

3. Describe the salient features of Project Tiger. How far has it helped in saving the tiger
from extinction?
4. What is DNA fingerprinting? which research institution in India is working in this area?
Section III
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1. Answer four questions for three groups (Answer to each equation should be in about 25 words):
(30)
1. Group A
1. What is meant by equity in taxation?
2. Make a case for strengthening the social sector in India.
3. Can excessive economic backwardness itself be a cause of excess population?
4. Why should fiscal deficit in India be rising again?
5. What are encilites?
6. What is Talsur?
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7. What is Piezoelectricity?
9. C-DAT
10. SROSS
11. INSDOC
12. What is Shoemaker-Levy 9? Why was it in the news recently?
13. What is a gene? Where is it found?
1995
1. In what ways do land reforms help agricultural growth? Briefly state the aim of land
reforms as envisaged in the Eighth Five Year Plan (About 250 words). 40 OR
2. Do you agree with the view that, in a country like India, a tax on wealth would be a
useful supplement to the income tax? Argue the case in the light of Raja Chelliah Tax
Reform
Committee Report (About 250 words).
1. What is greenhouse effect What are its adverse effects on the Earth's environment?
What steps are being taken to check the same (About 250 words)? (40) OR
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2. What is AIDS? Describe its salient features (About 250 words).
3. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150
words) (20 + 20)
4. Does reduction in fiscal deficit necessarily assure reduction in inflation?
5. What policy has the Government of India adopted in recent years to protect our
environment, control pollution and maintain ecological balance? State briefly.
6. Do you think that income tax reduces economic incentives? Give your reasons.
7. What has been the rationale for deregulating commercial bank's lending rates as a
policy strategy?
20)
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1. What is lead-free petrol? What are its merits and demerits?

2. What is PSLV? Describe its significance for India's space programme.
3. What do you understand by Karnal Technology What is it used for?
4. What is amniocentesis What has made it a controversial technique?
Section III
1. Answer four questions from three groups (Answer to each question should be in about 25 words):
(30)
1. Group A
1. What are fringe benefits?
2. What is croup of 77?
3. Which sector of the economy is the informal sector?
4. What is Call Money?
1996
1. Comment on the view that economic planning can raise the rate of capital formation
appreciably above the rate attainable under a system of private saving and investment
(About 250 words). 40
2. Explain the factors responsible for the decline in the value of Indian Rupee vis-a-vis US
Dollar during the Financial year 1995 96. Enumerate the corrective measures undertaken by the
Reserve Bank of India in this regard (About 250 words).
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1. Describe how India's space programme has helped in its socio-economic development
(About 250 words). 40
2. What are Intellectual Property Rights? Why are Indian scientists concerned about the
new patent regimes (About 250 words)?
20)
1. What measures do you suggest to raise the volume of Public Savings in our country?
Briefly state the importance of such savings for the contemporary economic scene.
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2. Briefly comment on the purpose and type of changes made in our tax structure in the
context of liberalisation and structural reforms during the first half of the 1990s.
3. Discuss briefly the main recommendations of the Tenth Finance Commission.
4. How is poverty-line defined in India? Briefly enumerate the measures undertaken by the
Government in recent years to alleviate poverty.
15)
1. Mention the advantages which India enjoys being at the head of the Indian Ocean.
2. What is shifting cultivation? Describe its salient characteristics with reference to India?
3. Where do mangrove forests occur in India? Describe their main characteristics
4. What is ozone hole? How is it formed and what effect does it have on the earth?
20)
1. What is nuclear medicine? Describe briefly its different uses.
2. What is virtual reality? What is it used for?
3. What is a microwave oven? How does it cook food?
4. What are transgenic organisms? What are they used for?
Section III
1. Answer four questions from Group A, three from Group B and three from Group C> (Answer to
each question should be in about 25 words): 30
1. Group A
1. What is a Loren curve?
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2. How do you distinguish between specific and ad duties?
3. What is an MOU? What does it mean?
4. Differentiate between Trade and Balance of Payments.

5. Where are India's nuclear power plants located?
6. What are Bailey's beads?
Group C
1. What is centchroman?
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2. What is ultrasonography?
1. C-DOT
2. CGCRI
3. INMAS
4. What is HIV? What does it cause?
5. Why does a lunar eclipse occur only on a hill moon?
6. Where are the following located (Give the name of the city and state)?
1. Central Drug Research Institute
2. Space Applications Centre
3. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
1997
1. Answer any two of the following: (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words)
1. Discuss the steps taken by the government in recent years to control inflation.
2. What measures has the government taken to make women economically independent
and self-reliant during the last decade?
3. Examine the important changes in India's Industrial Policy since the year 1991.
4. Discuss the advantages of Alternative Scheme of Devolution suggested by Tenth

Finance
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Commission of India.
1. Discuss the origin of Monsoon in India.

2. What measures has the Government of India taken for the development of Tribal areas
in India?
3. Why is there a demand for making Uttarakhand a Separate Hill State in India?
4. Why has the Narmada River Valley Project attracted the attention of the common
people?
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1. What is cryogenic engine? Explain its importance to our country.
2. What is Madcow disease?
3. What are fullerenes? Why are they important?
4. What is Polio? Name its few features and how it can be prevented.
Section III
1. Answer four from Group A, three from Group B and three from Group C (Answer to each
question should be in about 25 words).
1. Group A
1. Why was HODVAT Scheme introduced in the year 1986?
2. Why was the rationale for Mid-day Meal Scheme?
3. How has the Census (1991) defined the Urban Areas?
4. Describe the use of Command Area Development in India.

5. What are the objectives of Social Forestry?
6. What are the main objective of Ninth Five Year Plan?
Group C
1. What is the safe level of noise for the human ear? Give the noise level of electric bell.
2. What is the difference between a comet and a meteor?
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3. What is E-mail?
1. TIFR
2. GRDO
3. NEERI
5. What is tissue culture?
6. What are Quasars?
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1998
1. Answer any TWO of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words). 20 +
20
1. What are the main reasons for industrial sickness in India? How can it be overcome?
2. Infrastructure bottlenecks continue to stifle the economic growth in India. Comment.
3. Comment on the view that Monetary Policy in India is used more as a stabilisation
device rather than as a development tool.
4. What has been the role of NRIs in the economic development of India in the recent
past?
15
1. What are the geo-economic causes of underdevelopment of various regions in India?
2. Which parts of India have been identified as draught prone? Mention the norms for
such identification.
3. Describe the changes that have taken place in the direction of international trade of
India since independence.
4. How do the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Lakshadweep differ in the geological
evolution and topographical conditions?
20
1. Describe the development of Super-computers in India.

2. How does the development of Pinaka benefit India?
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3. What are optical fibres? What are their advantages?
4. What are enzymes? What is their importance?
4. Answer FOUR questions from Group A, THREE from Group B and THREE from Group C (Answer
to each question should be in about 25 words) 10 3 = 30
1. Group A
1. What is meant by Mutual Fund?
2. Explain per capita income as a measure of economic growth.
3. What is meant by Quality of life
4. What constitutes a Minor Irrigation Project?
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5. What is meant by Environmental Impact Assessment?
6. What is the difference between Gross National Product and Net National
Product?
Group C
1. Why are transgenic organisms important?
2. State the importance of Antrix Corporation.
3. Why is Website getting popular?
1. C-CAD
2. ICMR
3. TRAI
5. Give the functions of interferons.
6. What is the difference between E-mail and Fax?
1999
1. Answer any TWO of the following: 20 + 20 = 40 (Answer to each question should be in about 150
words):
1. What does buy-back of shares mean?

2. When and why was SEBI established?
3. What is SIDBI? What are its main functions?
4. What is Tobin tax? What are its main features?
words):
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1. How is deforestation of Himalayas disturbing the ecological balance of north India?
2. What is dry farming? Discuss its relevance in augmenting the food supply in India.
3. Name the mega cities of India and mention their specific problems.
4. What is the importance of Indian Ocean for India?
words):
1. What is the Human Genome Project? Discuss briefly its importance.
2. What is carbon dating? Describe its applications in archaeology.
3. What is ozone hole? How is it caused and what are its implications for life on Earth?
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4. What are biosensors? Describe their uses.
Section III
1. Answer any FOUR of the following: 3 4 = 12 (about 25 words each):
1. What is Swatch of no ground
2. From where was the most advanced commercial satellite of India Insat 2E launched?
3. What is Global Positioning System (G. P. S.)?
4. What is Cash Reserve Ratio?

5. How is revenue deficit different from budgetary deficit?
6. What is Plan Holiday?
Answer any THREE of the following: 3 3 = 9 (About 25 words each):

2. What is a modem? What is it used for?
3. What is CNG? How can it reduce air pollution?
4. What is a computer virus? How does it infect systems?
1. NISSAT
2. GMRT
3. INMAS
6. Where are the following located?
1. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
2. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
3. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
7. How do identical twins differ from each other genetically?
2000
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1. Answer anyone of the following (Answer should be in about 250 words). 30
1. India is rapidly emerging as an Information Technology (IT) Superpower. Discuss some

aspects of the growth of this Sector in the Indian economy. What role can public policy
play in further enhancing growth prospects in this Sector?
2. Control over growth of population in India is an essential condition for the country's
rapid economic development. Discuss.
2. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words). 2
15 = 30
1. Discuss the reasons for the failure of the Seattle Millennium talks on the WTO (World
Trade Organisation). Discuss some implications of this failure for the Indian economy.
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2. What is (Revised) Targeted Public Distribution System? What are its main features?
3. Discuss the economic effects of Black money (Parallel economy) in Indian economy.
3. Answer the following (Answer to each question should be in about 20 words). 2 15 = 30
1. What are the main objectives of the 9th Five-Year Plan of the Government of India?
2. Write a note on MODVAT Scheme of 1986.
3. Explain per capita income as a measurement of economic growth.

4. What are the objectives of Social Security?
5. What do you mean by Parallel Economy?
6. Describe the use of Command Area Development in India.
7. What is ICOR (Incremental Capital Output Ratio)?

8. What are the main objectives of NABARD?
9. What do you know about 11th Finance Commission?
10. What do you mean by revenue deficit in the Central Government's Budget?
11. How has the Census (1991) defined the Urban Areas?
12. What are the objectives of New Economic Policy of the Government of India?
13. Write a note on Rao-Manmohan model of development.

14. What is the rational for Mid-day Meal Scheme?
15. What has been the impact of the recent economic reforms programme on the incidence
of poverty in India?
4. Answer any two of the following (Answer to each questions should be in about 150 words). 15
2 = 30
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1. Define Globalisation and differentiate it with Internationalism.
2. There is a wide-spread concern about the degradation of environment and the problems
that go with it. Assess the international response.
3. How can India accommodate her foreign policy principle of non-intervention with the
emerging right to intervention?
4. Answer any one of the following (Answer should be in about 250 words). 30
5. What is the significance of the geostationary orbit? What would happen if it becomes
too crowded?
6. Why is the HIV considered so dangerous? Why has the spread of the virus proved so
difficult to contain, especially in the poorer countries of the world?
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Answer any two of the following: (Answer to each question should be in about 150
words): 15 2 = 30
7. How are transgenic plants different from hybrid plants and what is their relevance in
modern agriculture? Elaborate.
8. What are greenhouse gases? What impact do they have on the Earth's climate and with
what consequences? Elaborate.
9. What is water harvesting? Describe its relevance in the Indian context.

Answer the following: (Answer to each question should be in about 20 words) 2 5 = 10
10. What does the clock speed of a computer signify?

1. http
2. CPU
3. ROM
4. BIOS
12. What is a modem and what is it used for?
13. What is spamming?
14. How does a computer virus destroy data?
2001
1. Discuss the significance of GSLV in space research.

2. Determine the utility of Direct to Home in broadcasting system.
1. Answer any One of the following (Answer should be in about 250 words):
1. What is the incidence of poverty in India? How should poverty alleviation programmes to
constructed (30).
2. Indian economy presents a paradox of high saving rate with low-income and high saving
rate with low growth rate. Analyse (30).
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2. Answer any TWO of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words): (15
2 = 30)
1. Liberalization of the Indian economy since 1991 has led to excessive consumerism and
overproduction of white goods. Elucidate.
2. What are the hurdles faced by the Finance Ministers of India in keeping the fiscal deficit
below 3 4 percent of the GDP? Suggest steps to lower the fiscal deficit.
3. Discuss the nature and causes of the UTI crisis with particular reference to US-64. How
does this UTI fiasco affect the investment climate in India?
3. Answer the following (Answer to each question should be in about 20 words): (2 15 = 30)
1. What is CRISIL What does it do?
2. What do you understand by Current Account Convertibility of Rupee?
3. What do you mean by providing industry status to agriculture in India?
4. Elucidate Operation Flood.
5. Expand the term nasdaq.
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6. Differentiate between galloping inflation and run-away inflation.
7. What is meant by couple protection ratio?
8. Distinguish between human development index and gender-related development index.
9. What is green GNP?
10. Distinguish between a hard currency and a soft currency.
11. Explain rolling plan.
12. Illustrate Lorenz curve.
13. What is meant by trickle-down theory of development.
14. What is misery index?
15. What is meant by Most Favored Nation policy?
2002
1. Biotechnology boom may pave a golden path for India. Discuss.
Answer any two of the following (about 125 words): 2 10 = 20
1. What were the main strategic concerns of the Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri
during her recent visit to India?
2. What is TRIFED? What are its objectives?
3. How was the dwindling of barbed variety of rice affected Siliguri-Bagdogra belt with respect to
man-animal conflict?
Answer any two of the following (about 125 words): 2 10 = 20
1. What is Integrated Wastelands Development Programme?

2. Write briefly about the Desert Development Programme.
3. Write briefly about the Programmes for Welfare of the Disabled
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1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words): 30
1. Outline the main targets fixed in the National Population policy 2000. What have been
the follow up measures to this policy?
2. The main thrust of the EXIM Policy 2002 07 is on creating a framework for enhancing
India's export capability. In the light of this statement outline the salient features of
EXIM Policy 2002 07.
2. Answer any two of the following (about 150 words): 15 2 = 30
1. What are Minimum Support Prices in agricultural products? What are their objectives?
2. Outline the main objectives and achievements of the policy of disinvestment in India?
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3. With what objectives was Essential Commodities Act 1955 amended last year?
3. Answer the following (about 20 words) 2 15 = 30
1. What is the peak rate of Custom duty? What are its objectives in India?
2. Define fiscal deficit.

3. Explain the provision of OGL.
4. Elucidate Special Economic Zones
5. Highlight the salient feature of National Highway Development Project
6. What is the role of SEBI
7. Explain RBI's Automatic Route in FDIs.
8. With what objectives was the Annapurna scheme launched?

9. Elucidate Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana
10. The union budget 2002 03 recommended some servi ces to be taxed. Name any 4 of
these services.
11. What is dumping? What is its objective?
12. What do you understand by Capital account Convertibility of Rupee?
13. Define Sex ration in the population of India. What is its present status?
14. Distinguish between ad-valorem and specific duties.
15. Define zero-based budget.
1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words): 30
1. Plastic hazards. Discuss.
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2. Discuss in detail The internet telephony as an alternative.
2. Answer any two of the following (150 words) 15 2 = 30
1. What are the fundamental constants and their use in measurement system?
2. Discuss about Environment its components and its awareness.
3. What is Human Cloning? Is it dangerous or beneficial? Discuss.
3. Answer the following (about 20 words): 2 5 = 10
1. What is digital camera?
2. What is firewall in computer language?
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3. What is multimedia?
1. HTML
2. FTP
3. MFLOPS
4. PLANIT
5. What is Piracy?
2003
Write about the following (about 20 words) 5X2 = 10
1. Anthrax
2. Radiation and its effects
3. The Statue of Liberty
4. George Walker Bush
5. Genome.
1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words) 30
1. Write a note on the strategy of planning in India since 1951.
2. What were the major recommendations of the Task Force on direct taxes appointed
under the Chairmanship of Shri Vijay L. Kelkar?
2. Answer any two of the following (about 150 words) 15X2 = 30
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1. Outline the important objectives of the Tenth Five Year Plan.
2. What is a Finance Commission?
3. Point out the measures undertaken towards flexibility in capital account transactions
during the recent past.
3. Answer the following (about 20 words) 2X15 = 30
1. What is Plan Holiday?
2. Why did India have a surplus in current account balance in 2001 02 after a gap of 24
years?
3. What is Value Added Tax?
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4. What is the main objective of the Competition Act, 2002?
5. Name the two agencies that have helped to promote Foreign Direct Investment in India.
6. What is the main thrust of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill?
7. Highlight the main features of the policy relating to buy-back of shares.
8. Why was Janashree Bima Yojana introduced.
9. When was the idea of Agriculture Insurance Corporation mooted?
10. What is the policy of the Government with respect to child labour?
11. Explain the objectives of the National Health Policy, 2002.
12. What was the main objective of the Operation Blackboard scheme?
13. Explain the essential feature of differential rate of interest scheme.
14. Which are the three major items of expenditure of the Government of India on revenue
account?
15. What was the essential feature of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana?
1. Answer any one of the following (about 250 words) 30
1. What do you understand by depletion of ozone layer and why is it considered harmful?
Name ozone depleting substances and process. What international ramifications took
place to protect the ozone layer and what was the target agreed upon?
2. What is interactive television? What special advantages and derived by using VOD
services? What are the components of a typical VOD system? Which feature film was
generated first entirely on computers and in which year?
2. Answer any two of the following (about 150 words) 15X2 = 30
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1. What does the Solar system consist of? discuss the motion of most of the bodies
forming the solar system.
2. In which year and by which countries was International Space Station (IIS) launched?
How many countries are participating in this program? What are the unique studies
being made in the station which could not ve made so accurately on the earth?
3. Discuss the elements of frozen semen technology What are embryo transfer
transgenic animals DNA recombinant technique
3. Answer the following (about 20 words) 2X5 = 10

1. What is Symathetic Haptics
2. What are special feature of Linux
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3. What is an operating system? List the basic services provided by an operating system.
4. What is an Internet Worm Explain DDOS.
1. POSIX
2. EPROM
3. MODEM
4. COBOL
2004
1. Answer any ONE of the following (in about 250 words): 30
1. State the comprehensive structural reforms undertaken to improve the Indian economy
since 1991.
2. How is poverty level measured? Evaluate poverty eradication programmes in India.
2. Answer any TWO of the following (in about 150 words each): 15 2 = 30
1. Describe the recommendations of Narasimham Committee regarding the banking sector
in India.
2. Examine the effect of economic development on environmental degradation in India.
3. What ails India's road transport economy? Suggest measures of remedy.
3. Answer the following (in about 20 words each): 2 15 = 30
1. What are the major provisions of Agreements on Agriculture in the context of World
Trade Organisation?
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2. Elucidate Special Drawing Rights.
3. What is Cash Reserve Ratio?
4. What does priority sector lending mean?

5. What is Minimum Alternative Tax (MAT)?
6. What is Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)?
7. What is social justice in the context of Indian economy?
8. Explain the objectives of Plant Varieties Right Act, 2002. Answer the following questions
9. How is human development index for life expectancy measured?
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10. What are the objectives of the Twelfth Finance Commission?
11. Explain the necessity and role of controls in a mixed economy like India.
12. Distinguish between primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector. What is the
change in the share of each sector in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during period of
1950 2000?
13. What is the main objective of Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)?
14. What has been the policy of agricultural development during last two decades in India?
15. What is deficit financing?
1. Answer any ONE of the following (Answer should be in about 250 words):
1. Discuss in detail Alternative Energy Sources 30
2. Global Warming --Discuss. 30
2. Answer any TWO of the following (Answer to each question should be in about 150 words): 15
2 = 30
1. What is Superconductivity Give its uses and applications.

2. What is Biotechnology? Discuss the important applications of Biotechnology.
3. Describe the importance of Laser in war and peace.
1. What do you understand by E-governance?
2. What is a URL?
1. CD-ROM
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2. USB
3. ITES
4. FORTRAN
4. What do you understand by MP3?
5. What are cyber crimes? How are these protected?
2005
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Answer any two of the following (in about 125 words each): 10 2 = 20
1. What are the resource bases available for the economic development of the newly created
States of Jharkhand and Chattisgarh?
Write notes on the following (in about 20 words each): 2 5 = 10
1. Regurs
2. Karewas
3. Negative impacts of shifting cultivation
4. Causes of droughts in India
5. Significance of Lake Chilka
1. Genetically modified seeds
1. What is the energy independence? Discuss how India can be transformed into an Energy
independent Nation
2. What is eco-tourism? How could it be promoted in India?
Write notes on any two of the following (in about 125 words each): 10 2 = 20
1. Sethusamudram Project
2. Causes of soil erosion and its control in India
3. Use of Information Technology in health management in India
What is disaster management? Discuss the steps required to tackle natural disasters.
1. Cyber-terrorism
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1. Write about the following (answer to each question should be in about 20 words): 5 2 = 10
1. Full convertibility
2. Physical Quality Life Index

3. Differences between absolute poverty and relative poverty
4. India US nuclear pact
5. Medical tourism
2. Answer anyone of the following (in about 250 words): \30
1. Discuss the causes and ramifications of hunger in Africa.
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2. What are the reasons for industrial sickness in India?
Suggest suitable remedies.
3. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words): 2 15
= 30
1. What is the role of external financial assistance in Indian economy?
2. Enumerate the objectives of Latin American Reserve
Fund. Do you favor such a fund for Asian countries (c)?
Examine the functions of the European Free Trade

Association.
4. Answer or write about the following (in about 20 words Each): 15 2 = 30
1. What is IFC?
2. Crude oil price and Indian economy
3. What is Gandhian economy?
4. Second Green Revolution
5. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Yojana
6. What is Euro-control?
7. Dow Jones
8. Bluetooth
9. MFN status to India: Pakistan
10. The notion of development of under-development
11. Cost-push inflation
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12. What is Green GDP?
13. What were the terms of reference of the Abid Hussain Committee?
14. What is structural unemployment?

5. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words): 2 15
= 30
1. Detail the salient features of project Anthareeksha.
2. Will a grand axis of India, China and Russiachallenge the unipolar supremacy of the US?
Elaborate your views.
3. Explain the China-US textile war.
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6. Answer or write about the following (answer to each question should be in about 20 words): 5
2 = 10
1. What is Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)?
2. What is the concept of copyleft?

3. What is a rogue state?
4. Repo market
5. What is banana war?
7. Answer the following, by expanding or explaining (answer to each question should be in about
20 words): 10
1. OAPEC
2. IFAD
3. UPU
4. SAVE
5. ODA
8. Answer anyone of the following in about 250 words: 30
1. Describe the sources of ionizing and non-ionizing radiations and their effects on the
biotic components of the atmosphere.
2. What is digital convergence? Examine its implications for modern society.
9. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words each):
2 15 = 30
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1. Why do environmentalists regard asbestos and polythene as pollutants?
2. What is the therapeutic cloning? Describe briefly the method and its potential
applications.
3. Why is hydrogen being acclaimed as the fuel of the future?
1. What is an exabyte?
2. What is VIRUS?
1. XML
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2. MASER
3. SECAM
4. TIPS
4. What is avatar?
5. What is Wikipedia?
2006
ring out the prospects of development of alternative energy sources of India.
Blue Revolution has definite advantages in India but it is not free from environmental impacts. Discuss.
Why do the rivers of west coast not form a delta?
1. Mixed economy
2. Winter rains in India
3. New Moore Island
4. National Water Grid
5. Hussain Sagar
Answer any two of the following questions (in about 125 words each): 2 10 = 20
1. Explain full convertibility of Indian Rupee.
2. What are the linkages to be developed under the Knowledge Revolution for Rural India Plan?
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3. What do we understand by Doha Round oft talks?
1. Answer anyone of the following (in about 250 words): 30
1. Discuss the importance of World Trade Organisation (WTO) to Indian economy in the
light of various opportunities and challenges at the global level.
2. Describe the main sources of industrial finance in India. How could India be benefited
from recent developments in international finance?
2. Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15 2 = 30
1. Discuss the role of public sector during the post-reform period of Indian economy.
2. Examine the effects of globalization on poverty removal in India.
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3. What are the implications of gender disparities in India?
1. What is Phillips curve?
2. What is Hundi?
3. What is twin deficit?
4. What is the main difference between free trade area and common market?
5. What is forward currency market?
6. What is offshore currency market?
7. What is Laffer curve?
8. What are Eurobonds?
9. What is disguised unemployment?
10. What are nifty and the nifty junior?
11. What is Agri-Trade?
12. What is CEMA bloc?
13. What is rolling settlement?
14. What is the difference between Green Box subsidies and Blue box subsidies?
15. What are non-factor services in India's balance of payments?
1. Answer anyone of the following (in about '0 words): 30

1. Justify with necessary logic Biological clean-up methods can be cheaper than the
conventional physical and chemical pollution treatments
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2. Explain how Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have revolutionized modem technology.
2. Answer any two of the following (in about 150 words each): 15 2 = 30
1. What do you understand by optical computing? Why is optical computing envisaged to

have much better performance than that of electronic computing?
2. Write a note on Bio-refinery versus Fossil fuels
3. What are normal osmosis and reverse osmosis? Why has reverse osmosis become
popular in India today?
3. Answer all the five (in about 20 words each): 2 5 = 10
1. What do you understand by a search engine in computing?
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2. Expand the following:
1. CAD
2. CAM
3. CIM
3. Explain what is Thin Film Memory in computers.
4. Write a short note on Artificial Intelligence
5. Who are called Hackers in computer world?
2007
Technological changes have brought in a major shift in the use of roads as transport corridors in India.
How far do you agree with this view?
Explain the nature and causes of growing slum problems in the metropolitan cities of India.
1. Special Economic Zone (SEZ)

2. Inceptisol
3. Jarawas
4. Indira Point
5. Causes of Chambal Ravines
Answer any two of the following questions (in about 125 words each): 10 2 = 20
1. What is stealth technology?
1. Answer anyone of the following (in about 250 words): 30
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1. What is Dumping? Evaluate the remedial measures taken by Government of India vis-a-
vis WTO provisions regarding dumping.
2. Comment on the relationship between credit availability and agricultural growth in

India.
2. Answer any two of the following (answer to each question should be in about 150 words)
1. What is the meaning and aim of social forestry? What are the main weakness noticed in
social forestry programme?
2. Bring out the main objective of Rastriya Krishi Bima Yojana. The scheme is being
implemented by which agency.
3. Explain Mega Food park Scheme of Government of India.
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3. Write about the following (answer to each question should be in about 20 words): 2 15 = 30
1. Explain the term Merit Goods
2. What is Cheap Money?
3. What is Countervailing Duty?

4. What is Hot Money?
5. Explain the Concept Trickle Down Theory
6. What is Stagflation?
7. What is Engel's Law?
8. Meaning of CCIL
9. What is Administered Price?
10. What is Venture Capital?

11. Explain the term Balance on Current Account
12. What is Consolidated Fund?
13. What is Budget Deficit?
14. Explain the term Most Favored Nations

15. Meaning of Capital-Output Ratio
1.
2. Answer any one of the following in about 250 words: 30
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1. Explain the phenomenon of ozone depletion, its cause and effects. What efforts are
needed to reduce it.
2. what do you understanding by the term biodiversity Examine the cause and
consequence of degeneration of biodiversity?
3. Answer any two of the following (answer for each question should be in about 150 words): 15
2 = 30
1. What are the alterative fuels available for the transport sector? Discuss their
characteristics, advantages and disadvantages in their utilization.
2. Explain the objectives and the current achievements of human genome project.
3. Discuss the missile technology initiatives undertaken by India.
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4. Answer all the five (in about 20 words each): 2 5 = 10
1. What is firewall?
2. What is mal ware?

1. MPEG
2. ISP
3. HTML
4. ASCII
4. What is Root kit?
5. What is computer architecture?
2008
1.Answer any one of the following (in about 250 words} :
a.What; in your opinion; are the causes of terrorism? Suggest suitable measures to
deal with the threat of terrorism in the India.
2.Answer any one of the following (in about 250 words):

(a)Discuss Indias stand on agricultural issues in WTOs Ministerial Conferences since Doha
Round.
(b) Assess the performance of India in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).30
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5. Discuss any two of the following topics (answer each question in about 150 words):
(a) Assistance to the States for Development of Export Infrastructure and other Activitie(sASIDE).
(b) Convertibility of (Indian Rupee)
(c) India on Global Competitiveness Index-2007.
6, Write about the following in about 20 words
(a) Special Drawing Rights
(b) NAMA
(c) Non Tariff trade barriers
(d) Current Account balance
(e) Free Trade area
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6.In what way Medical Biotechnology are useful for technological development of India
7.What do you know about Indian National Satellite System? Describe its important features
8.Explain any three of the following
a. Internet Protocol Television

b.Spintronics
c.WIFI
components of Robot
9.Write Brief Notes on all the five
a.Copyright
Examrace
c.Gene Doping
d.Sappan
2009
Bring out the Significance of the various activities of the Indian Metrological Department.
Examine the status of urbanization among the states in India and bring out spatial inequalities.
Write about the following (not exceeding 30 words each) 3 10 = 30
1. Bhuvan Website
2. National Waterways
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3. Ultra Mega Power Projects
4. NNRMS
5. BSUP Scheme
6. Gagan Project
7. Fruit Production in India
8. Section 377 of IPC
9. Wherebouts clause of WADA
10. Barren Island
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In the Context of recent incidents, suggest measures on how security of passengers and property can be
improved over indian railways.
1. Comment critically on any one of the following statements in not more than 200 words: 20
1. Foreign investment is far from being critical to India's economic growth
2. The Lesson of current global financial crisis is that India should halt and may be even
reverse financial liberalization.
2. Answer any one of the following in about 200 words: 20
1. In the WTO negotiations over the years of the DOHA Rounds, India appears to be
diluting its stand on agriculture issues to pursue perceived gains in services. Critically
examine this statements.
2. Discuss the Indo US Knowledge initiative in Agriculture.
3. Answer any two of the following questions (in about 150 words each) 15 2 = 30
1. Evaluate the prospects for greater economic cooperation between India & China.
2. Does India need the world Bank?
3. Critically assesses the recent Free Trade Agreement entered into by India with ASEAN.
4. Answer any three of the following questions (in about 150 words each) 3 15 = 45
1. What do you understand by Biosignatures Discuss briefly.

2. Write about Green Florescence Protein (GFP) and its application.
3. Define Bioinformatics How does it work? What is the major branches and applications?
4. What is the Hubble Space Telescope How many Service Mission (SMs) have been
conducted for it?
5. Explain any four of the following (100 words each) 4 10 = 40
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1. DNA Finger Printing and its utility.
2. What is Nanotech Give a brief account of its basic concepts, material used and
applications.
3. What is Graphene Mention at least three of its applications.
4. Define optical frequency comb Suggest at least three applications.
5. Why is Tele-medicine important for country like India?
6. Write brief notes on any five of the following (in about 30 words each): 5 13 = 15
1. Artificial Sun
2. Vegetable Gold
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3. PFCs and liquid breathing
4. The P 8 A Poseidon
5. Biometric ATMs
6. Extra Vehicle Activity
2010
(1) Comment on the spatial components in urban solid waste management in the country. 12
(2) Assess the contributions made by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in agricultural
development. 12
(3) List the significant local storms of the hot-weather season in the country and bring out their socio-
economic impact. 12
(4) Bring out the salient features of the evolution and the current status of the Bharat Stage vehicle
emission norms in the country. 12
(5) List any eight Ramsar wetland sites located in India. What is the Montreux Record and what Indian
sites are included in this Record? 12
6)Are the Dedicated Freight Corridor railway project and the Golden Quadrilateral road project
mutually complementary or competitive? Assess. 12
(7) Comment on the recent HFC-23 emissions controversy that includes in its ambit some Indian
companies. 5
(8 What are the salient features of The National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan? 5
(9) You arrive first at, the scene where a bus accident has just occurred. What emergency measures
should you immediately and safely adopt? 5
(10) Write about the following
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Babli Project 2
Science and Tech
Chandrayaan-II 2
Agni-V 2
Aerostat balloon (common wealth games) 2
(11) Cost-benefit analysis should not be the sole consideration, while deciding to host events like the
Commonwealth Games. Critically comment on this perspective. 12
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(12 )After the September 1st changes, do you think that Unit Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs) and Mutual
Funds (MFs) are on a level playing field ? Substantiate your answer from the perspective of an ordinary
investor. 12
(13) What do you understand by repo rate and reverse repo rate? What are the implications in raising
these rates? 12
(14) Bring out the sectoral and state-wise distribution patterns of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
inflows into the country. 5
(15)ational Investment Fund 2
(16)Swavalamban Scheme (to promote New pension scheme)
2011
1. The impact of climate change on water resources in India.
2. Measures taken by the Indian government to combat privacy in the Indian Ocean.
3. The significance of counter-urbanisation in the improvement of metropolitan cities in India.
4. Problems specific to the denotified and nomadic tribes in India.
Comment on the following in not more than 50 words each: 5X6 = 30
1. Phase-IV of the tiger monitoring programme in India.
2. Why the Central Statistics Office has notified a new series of Consumer Price Index from this
year?
3. Composition and functions of the National Executive Comittee of the National Disaster
Management Authority.
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4. The Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009 and why it has been in the news recently?
5. The Telecommunications Ministry's proposed Spectrum Management Commission.
6. The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach to sanitation.
Comment on the following in not more than 50 words each: 5 5 = 25
1. Nisarga-Runa technology of BARC.
2. The first-aid that you can safely administer to a person standing next to you at the bus-stop who
suddenly faints.
3. The Kaveri K 10 aero-engine.
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4. Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) technology.
5. E-governance initiatives by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Comment on any thirteen of the following in about 50 words each: 5 13 = 65
1. International Year of Chemistry
2. The scourge of e-waste
3. Designer poultry eggs
4. INSPIRE programme of the Department of Science and Technology

5. The Kessler syndrome with reference to space debris
6. Omega-3 fatty acids in our food
7. Difference between spin-dyring and tumble-drying technology with reference to drying of

washed clothes
8. The diminishing population of vultures
9. Arensic-bug and the significance of its discovery
10. F 22 Raptor aircraft
11. Concentrated solar energy and photovoltaic solar energy
12. Analog, hybrid and IP systems in CCTV technology
13. Various applications of Kevlar
14. Differences between Compact Disc (CD), Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) and Blu-ray Disc
Why have each of the following been in the news recently (Each answer in a sentence or two only)? 2
10 = 20
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1. Tiangong-1
2. K-computer
3. Gliese 581g
4. MABLE robot
5. Operation Shady Rat
6. SAGA-220
7. Billion Acts of Green
8. L-Aquila earthquake
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9. OPERA detecter at Gran Sasso
10. Saturn's Titan
2012
1. What do you understand by the term Innovation? Discuss the need for launching a national
innovation policy in India.
2. Keeping in view the informal sectors share in the total workforce of the country, critically
examine the relevant inclusive measures initiated by the Government of India and their
effectiveness.
3. Examine the causes and the extent of desertification in India and suggest remedial measures.
4. In the context of the growing demands for the ban of Endosulfan in the country, critically
examine the issues involved. What, in your view, should be done in the matter
5. Domestic resource mobilization, though central tothe process of Indian economic growth, is
characterized by several constraints? Explain.
6. What are the salient features of the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2011 introduced in
the Lok Sabha in December 2011?
7. What do you understand by the term Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis {MDR-TB)? What
measures would you advocate for its containment and what are the implications of its spread in
the community?
8. Given the accelerated pace of development and demand for energy, would you consider
renewable energy as a viable option for Indias future?
9. Many food items contain trans fats. What do you understand by this term? Which Indian food
items contain trans fats? What are the implications of trans fats on human health?
10. List the main objectives of the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP), 2011.
11. You are stationed in a small district town in the plains of Northern India, The summer has been
severe. Suddenly, a colleague, who had been out since morning, returns to the office
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complaining of headache, restlessness and confusion. Shortly, he becomes unconscious. His

body temperature is 40C. What first aid steps would you take to revive him?
12. Significance of the SPOT-6 rocket launch for ISRO
3. Answer the following in not more than 100 words each: (106=60)
1. In the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, India has emerged as a hub of commercial
surrogacy. What key biological, legal and ethical issues merit consideration while framing the
regulation to govern surrogacy in India?
2. Why is international trade perceived to have failed to act as an engine of growth in many
developing countries including India?
3. Despite strict prohibitory regulations, doping has become increasingly common amongst
athletes. Name five commonly used performance- enhancing drugs. What are the risks
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associated with their use?
4. Explain the concepts Environmental Sustainabilty and Sustainable Development of People.
Answer the following
1. Explain briefly the Clean Development Mechanism as provided under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
2. The Human Papilloma Virus vaccine has been making the headlines in the recent months. Who
make the ideal candidates for receiving this vaccine and what are its benefits
3. The Sequoia supercomputer was launched this year. What are its specific features and what is
its purpose?
4. What is Permaculture? Give at least three common examples where permaculture concepts are
being put to use.
5. The safe landing of the Curiosity Rover under NASAs space programme has sparked many
possibilities. What are those and how could humankind benefit from them?
2013
(10 marks 200 words each, unless specifically mentioned)
1. With a consideration towards the strategy of inclusive growth, the new companies bill, 2013 has
indirectly made CSR a mandatory obligation. Discuss the challenges expected in its
implementation in right earnest. Also discuss other provisions in the bill and their implications.
2. What are the reasons for introduction of Fiscal responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM)
act, 2003? Discuss critically its salient features and their effectiveness.
3. What is meaning of the term tax-expenditure? Taking housing sector as an example, discuss how
it influences budgetary policies of the government.
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4. Food security bill is expected to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in India. Critically discuss
various apprehensions in its effective implementation along with the concerns it has generated
in WTO
5. What are the different types of agriculture subsidies given to farmers at the national and state
levels? Critically analyze the agriculture subsidy regime with the reference to the distortions
created by it.
6. India needs to strengthen measures to promote the pink revolution in food industry for better
nutrition and health. Critically elucidate the statement.
7. Examine the impact of liberalization on companies owned by Indian. Are the competing with the
MNCs satisfactorily?
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8. Establish the relationship between land reform, agriculture productivity and elimination of
poverty in Indian Economy. Discussion the difficulty in designing and implementation of the
agriculture friendly land reforms in India.
9. two questions: each with 5 marks, 100 words
a. 9A: Discuss the impact of FDI entry into multi-trade retail sector on supply chain
management in commodity trade pattern of the economy.
b. 9B: Though India allowed foreign direct investment (FDI) in what is called multi brand
retail through joint venture route in September 2012, the FDI even after a year, has not
picket up. Discuss the reasons.
10. Discussion the rationale for introducing Good and services tax in India. Bring out critically the
reasons for delay in roll out for its regime.
11. Write a note on Indias green energy corridor to alleviate the problems of conventional energy.
12. Adaptation of PPP model for infrastructure development of the country has not been free from
criticism. Critically discuss the pros and cons of the model.
13. Bring out the circumstances in 2005 which forced amendment to section 3(d) in the India n
Patent Law, 1970. Discuss how it has been utilized by Supreme court in its judgment rejecting
Novartis patent application for Glivec. Discuss briefly the pros and cons of the decision.
14. What do you understand by fixed dose drug combinations (FDCs)? Discuss their merits and
demerits.
15. What do you understand by Umpire decision review in cricket? Discuss its various components.
Explain how silicon tape on the edge of a bat may fool the system?
a. 16A. What is digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Giver various salient
built in features of a digital signature.
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b. 16B. How does the 3D printing technology work? List out the advantages and
disadvantages of the technology.
a. 17A. What is an FRP composite material? How are they manufactured? Discuss their
applications in aviation and automobile industry
b. 17B. What do you understand by run of the river hydroelectricity project? How is it
different from any other hydroelectricity project?
18. How important are vulnerability and risk assessment for pre-disaster management. As an
administrator ,what are key areas that you would focus in a disaster management
19. What are the consequences of illegal mining? Discuss the ministry of environment and forests
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concept of GO AND NO GO zones for coal mining.
20. Enumerate the National Water Policy of India. Taking river Ganges as an example, discuss the
strategies which may be adopted for river water pollution control and management. What are
the legal provisions for management and handling of hazardous wastes in India?
21. Money laundering poses a serious threat to countrys economic sovereignty. What is its
significance for India and what steps are required to be taken to control this menace?
22. What are social networking site and what security implications do these sites present?
23. Cyber warfare is considered by some defense analysts to be a larger threat than even Al Qaeda
or terrorism. What do you understand by Cyber warfare? Outline the cyber threats which India
is vulnerable to and bring out the state of the countrys preparedness to deal with the same.
24. Article 244 of Indian Constitution relates to Administration of Scheduled areas and tribal areas.
Analyze the impact of non-implementation of the provisions of fifth schedule on the growth of
Left Wing Extremism.
25. How far are Indias internal security challenges linked with border management, particularly in
view of the long porous borders with most countries of South Asia and Myanmar?
2014
1. Normally countries shift from agriculture to industry and then later to services, but India shifted
directly from agriculture to services. What are the reasons for the huge growth-services vis-a-vis
industry in the country? Can India become a developed country without a strong industrial
base?
2. While we aunt Indias demographic dividend, we ignore the dropping rates of employability.
What are we missing while doing so? Where will the jobs that India desperately needs come
from? Explain.
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3. There is also a point of view that Agricultural Produce Market Committees [APMCs) set up under
the State Acts have not only impeded the development of agriculture but also have been the
cause of food ination in India. Critically examine.
4. In the villages itself no form of credit organization will be suitable except the cooperative
society. All India Rural Credit Survey.
Discuss this statement in the background of agricultural nance in India. What constraints and
challenges do nancial institutions supplying agricultural nance face? How can technology be
used to better reach and serve rural clients?
5. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and
Resettlement Act, 2013 has come into effect from Ist January, 2014. What are the key issues
which would get addressed with the Act in place? What implications would it have on
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industrialization and agriculture in India?
6. Capitalism has guided the world economy to unprecedented prosperity. However, it often
encourages short-sightedness and contributes to wide disparities between the rich and the
poor. In this light, would it be correct to believe and adopt capitalism for bringing inclusive
growth in India? Discuss.
7. Explain how Private Public Partnership arrangements, in long gestation infrastructure projects,
can transfer unsustainable liabilities to the future. What arrangements need to be put in place
to ensure that successive generations capacities are not compromised?
8. National Urban Transport Policy emphasises on moving people instead of moving vehicles.
Discuss critically the success of the various strategies of the Government in this regard.
9. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the defense sector is now set to be liberalized: What influence
this is expected to have on Indian defense and economy in the short and long run?
10. Scientific research in Indian universities is declining, because a career in science is not as
attractive as are business professions, engineering or administration, and the universities are
becoming consumer-oriented. Critically comment.
11. Can overuse and free availability of antibiotics without Doctors prescription, be contributors to
the emergence of drug-resistant diseases in India? What are the available mechanisms for
monitoring and control? Critically discuss the various issues involved.
12. In a globalized world, Intellectual Property Rights assume significance and are a source of
litigation. Broadly distinguish between the termsCopyrights, Patents and Trade Secrets.
13. Should the pursuit of carbon credits and clean development mechanisms set up under UNFCCC
be maintained even though there has been a massive slide in the value of a carbon credit?
Discuss with respect to Indias energy needs for economic growth.
14. Drought has been recognized as a disaster in view of its spatial expanse, temporal duration, slow
onset and lasting effects on vulnerable sections. With a focus on the September 2010 guidelines
from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), discuss the mechanisms for
preparedness to deal with likely El Nino and La Nina fallouts in India.
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15. Environmental Impact Assessment studies are increasingly undertaken before a project is
cleared by the Government. Discuss the environmental impacts of coal-fired thermal plants
located at coal pitheads.
16. The diverse nature of India as a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society is not immune to the
impact of radicalism which is seen in her neighborhood? Discuss along with strategies to be
adopted to counter this environment.
17. International civil aviation laws provide all countries complete and exclusive sovereignty over
the airspace above their territory. What do you understand by airspace What are the
implications of these laws on the space above this airspace? Discuss the challenges which this
poses and suggest ways to contain the threat.
18. How does illegal transborder migration pose a threat to Indias security? Discuss the strategies
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to curb this, bringing out the factors which give impetus to such migration.
19. In 2012, the longitudinal marking for high-risk areas for piracy was moved from 65 degrees east
to 78 degrees east in the Arabian Sea by the International Maritime Organisation. What impact
does this have on Indias maritime security concerns?
20. China and Pakistan have entered into an agreement for development of an economic corridor.
What threat does this pose for Indias security? Critically examine.
2015
(Answer all the questions in NOT MORE THAN 200 words each.)
1. The nature of economic growth in India in described as jobless growth. Do you agree with this
view? Give arguments in favor of your answer.
2. Livestock rearing has a big potential for providing non-farm employment and income in rural
areas. Discuss suggesting suitable>
3. In view of the declining average size of land holdings in India which has made agriculture non-
viable for a majority of farmers, should contract farming and land leasing be promoted in
agriculture? Critically evaluate the pros and cons.
4. How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income?
What steps has the Government taken in this regards?
5. In what way could replacement of price subsidy with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) change the
scenario of subsidies in India? Discuss.
6. What are the impediments in marketing and supply chain management in industry in India? Can
e-commerce help in overcoming these bottlenecks?
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7. Craze for gold in Indians have led to a surge in import of gold in recent years and put pressure
on balance of payments and external value of rupee. In view of this, examine the merits of Gold
Monetization Scheme.
8. Success of Make in India programme depends on the success of Skill India programme and
radical labour reforms. Discuss with logical arguments.
9. To what factors can the recent dramatic fall in equipment costs and tariff of solar energy be
attributed? What implications does the trend have for the thermal power producers and the
related industry?
10. There is a clear acknowledement that Speecial Economic Zones (SEZs) are a tool of industrial
development, manufacturing and exports. Recognizing this potential, the whole instrumentality
of SEZs requires augmentation. Discuss the issues plaguing the success of SEZs with respect to
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taxation, governing laws and administration.
11. What do you understand by Standard Positioning Systems and Protection Positioning Systems
in the GPS era? Discuss the advantages India perceives from its ambitious IRNSS programme
employing just seven satellites.
12. What are the areas of prohibitive labour that can be sustainably managed by robots? Discuss
the initiatives that can propel research in premier research institutes for substantive and gainful
innovation.
13. Discuss the advantage and security implications of cloud hosting of servers vis-a-vis in-house
machine-based hosting for government businesses.
14. Indias Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) which has a database containing formatted
information on more than 2 million medicinal formulations is proving a powerful weapon in the
countrys fight against erroneous patents. Discuss the pros and cons making this database
publicly available under open-source licensing
15. The Namami Gange and National mission for clean Ganga (NMCG) programmes and causes of
mixed results from the previous schemes. What quantum leaps can help preserve the river
Ganga better than incremental inputs?
16. The frequency of earthquakes appears to have increased in the Indian subcontinent. However,
Indias preparedness for mitigating their impact has significant gaps. Discuss various aspects.
17. Human rights activists constantly highlight the view that the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,
1958 (AFSPA) is a draconian act leading to cases of human rights abuses by the security forces.
What sections of AFSPA are opposed by the activists? Critically evaluate the requirement with
reference to the view held by the Apex Court.
18. Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining the ISIS. What is
ISIS and its mission? How can ISIS be dangerous for the internal security of our country?
19. The persisting drives of the government for development of large industries in backward areas
have resulted in isolating the tribal population and the farmers who face multiple displacements
with Malkangiri and naxalbari foci, discuss the corrective strategies needed to win the left wing
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extremism (LWE) doctrine affected citizens back into the mainstream of social and economic
growth.
20. Considering the threats cyberspace poses for the country, India needs a Digital Armed Force
to prevent crimes. Critically evaluate the National Cyber Security Policy, 2013 outlining the
challenges perceived in its effective implementation.
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b. Discuss the role of Village Cooperative Movements in promoting rural welfare

b.Explain briefly the important of the Beas Sutlej Link Project.

c.What is the economic importance of the Kandla and Paradeep ports?

(The answer to each part should be contained in about 200 words)

What will be your weight when orbiting in a space satellite?

Define genetic code What are antibiotics?

How is solar energy collected concentrated stored?

What is meant by planning form below and planning from above

6. Answer the following

1. What is a procurement price for foodgrains? What purpose does it serve?

3. Why are most jute mills in the neighborhood River Hoogly?

3. What is greenhouse effect?

4. What is Jaipur Food

5. What is Richter scale used for?

6. What is biological nitrogen fixation

7.Discuss the impact of electronics on science, industry and society.

10. Answer the questions

9.Explain the importance of Project Tiger

10.What is mutant and what role does it play in agriculture

16.What are the micro components of money supply in India?

give two factors responsible for the situation

6.What is nuclear winter? what could be its consequences?

7.what is Chandrasekhar limit?

8.What are monoclonal antibodies? what are their use?

9.what are optical fibers? what are their applications?

11.what are carnivorous plants?

6.What are the steps taken by the Government to combat AIDS?

10.What is meant by DNA finger printing

11.Name three Indian reactors which supply radium isotopes

13.What do you know about operation faith ?

14.What are test tube babies

3. Answer the following questions

Border Security Force

10.What is Zercrbase budgeting?

Do we have to import edible oil?

What is NABARD and what is its main role?

What are mutual funds? Do we have such funds in India?

What is meant by population explosion? Has it occurred in India.

How do quark watches keep accurate time?

What is ultrasound? State two of its uses in modern medical practice.

What is a Computer Virus? What are its effects? Is there a remedy?

1. Answer the following questions

2. Answer the following questions

2. What is the application of superconductors in computers?

1. Explain the concept of National Water Grid and its objectives.

3. Comment on the detrimental effects of canal irrigation?

4. Write an account of BVO. Give reasons against its use.

1. What is Exchange Risk Administration Scheme?

3. Explain the concept of social forestry in India.

5. Mention the states where shifting cultivation is still practiced in India.

6. What is Biosphere Reserve? Explain its significance.

1. What is frequency modulation?

2. What do you understand by nuclear fallout? What is its harmful effects?

3. What is photonics? Mention some of the areas of its application.

4. Explain the meaning of the term quantum jump

Answer the following questions

Answer the following questions

What is biodiversity? Why should it be preserved (About 250 words)?

2. Bring out the main features of India's Trade Policy.

2. What is Jal Shakti What are its uses?

4. The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is expected to set up a number of

Answer the following questions

1. What usually is meant by the expression an underdeveloped economy? What, according