We have spent over 6,500 hours last year discussing the preparation strategies of over 9,000 students individually and we found that there are 2 kinds of aspirants.
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Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions. And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why?
Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master.
And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.
Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.
At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.
Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you.
Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions. And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why?
Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master.
And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.
Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.
At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.
Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you.
Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions. And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why?
Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master.
And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.
Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.
At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.
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Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions. And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why?
Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master.
And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.
Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.
At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.
Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you.
Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions. And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why?
Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master.
And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.
Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.
At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.
Finance Secretary has recently underlined the need for improving the fiscal position of the government through reforms in farm, food and fertilizer subsidies so that additional funds can be generated for the development of infrastructure and education systems.
In this article we will discuss and analyse all aspects of this issue.
Financial crunch of India
India’s fiscal deficit at 9.3% of GDP for FY21, down from a revised estimate of 9.5%.
This is expected to rise due to covid induced welfare schemes announced recently.
Role of Subsidies
In India, food and fertilizer subsidies formed a major chunk of the overall subsidy followed by education, health, corporate concession, etc.
Farm, food and fertilizer reforms are administratively easy but politically difficult in view of the ramifications.
At the present juncture we have two main kinds of buckets of reform-
We have to set our fiscal house in order and also provide for the many things that governments legitimately should provide.
We will need to reform some of our subsidies — farm subsidies, food subsidies, fertilizer subsidies. Some of them are intertwined with each other.
Burden of Subsidies in India
(1) Farm Subsidies
The continued trust in Centre is established with the ever-increasing support to farmers.
Various farm subsidies from the govt include fertilizers, farm credit, crop insurance and MSP etc.
A similar support from State Governments towards electricity power subsidies, irrigation subsidies crop insurance subsidies.
Public investment in agriculture through major irrigation projects by States, is almost equal to the annual farm subsidies of the Government of India.
In addition, 50% of the food subsidies are granted to farmers under National Food Security Mission, as 75% of rural population covered.
State Governments also waived farm loans of Rs. 1,22,000 crores.
Thus, farm subsidies form about two percent of India’s GDP.
(2) Fertilizer Subsidies
The government’s role in shaping the fertilizer landscape goes back to 1957 when it introduced the Fertilizer Control Order (FCO) to regulate the sale, price, and quality of fertilizers in the market.
This has not only contributed to the start of a green revolution but also increased the use of fertilizer by farmers and resulted in higher yields.
India is currently the second-largest consumer of fertilizer globally after China.
Over the years, the distribution of fertilizer in India became prone to leakages. This is due to:
Lack of a dedicated fertilizer beneficiary database
Absence of a cap on fertilizer entitlements (Presently farmers can buy any amount, irrespective of need)
Different levels of subsidy provided to the manufacturing plants based on their cost of production
Disproportionate use of urea as opposed to other types of fertilizer, such as fertilizers containing phosphorous (P) or Potassium (K) nutrients, or both.
(3) Food Subsidies
India has one of the largest food subsidy programmes in the world that has created a relatively effective social safety net.
Food subsidies are under increasing criticism because of its large contributions to government budget deficits, economic inefficiency and poor targeting.
The food subsidy bill is becoming unmanageably large.
For the 2021/22 fiscal year, India’s total outlay toward the food subsidy is expected to cross Rs 2.1 lakh crore.
The Economic Survey 2020-21 released on Friday recommended an increase in the issue price at which poor households receive food grains.
Central issue price (CIP) is the amount priority households pay, ₹2 per kg of wheat and ₹3 per kg of rice, to avail grain from the subsidized PDS.
This issue price for wheat and rice has not been revised since the introduction of the National Food Security Act in 2013.
The total cost of food subsidies that amounted to about 2.2 per cent of agricultural GDP during the 1990s increased significantly to about 5 per cent during the last decade.
Why these subsidies are a cause of concern?
Current level of fiscal deficit is difficult to address as even during 1991, fiscal deficit was around 7.5%
Historically countries like England and Germany faced similar problems during global meltdown.
Our type of subsidy pattern is similar to these countries.
Giving subsidies are not empowering people is not the true way. It is not helping the poors the way it should have been.
Challenges to bring subsidies reforms in India
Subsidy benefits are not reaching to intended person in supply chain due to leakages like middlemen in MSP payments, fertilizer leakage to industry, etc.
Over the years, subsidies have not empowered the poor people. Ex. Poor spends lakh and lakh of crores on health even after getting subsidy.
Political will and cooperation from opposition is required in bringing changes to subsidy structure. Ex. Due to lack of opposition support, farmers are protesting against new farm laws
Government needs to address those details mentioned in NFSA. Ex. Provision of providing rice at Rs. 3 per kg.
Subsidy reforms is really a big fraud affair that it’s hard for govt to go forward.
Way forward
Indian needs to implement Brazil “Conditional Subsidy Model” called ‘Bolsa Família’ which even Bangladesh has also adopted. It is based on conditional cash transfer.
Reform should be focused on two points – Direction of change and Time of change. In the direction of change, food subsidy reform should be at last due to covid.
There should be a public and private partnership model for community health center and public health center in rural India to utilize subsidies in a much better manner.
A voucher system can be the perfect alternative to food subsidy as it will significantly reduce administrative costs.
Active centre & states partnership is required to strengthen the health and education sector as both these comes under state legislature.
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Daily 4 questions from General studies 1, 2, 3, and 4 will be provided to you.
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Register and Zoom link for the Webinar will be mailed to you.
Every aspirant studies almost the same things and has the same time to answer the questions. And yet, only a few succeed in writing the perfect answers while others fail. Why?
Well, here’s a fact: Answer writing is not a talent that you are born with, it is a skill that you can master.
And we want students to learn this skill and apply it effectively during the exam. This is why we are pleased to present an absolutely FREE webinar by Sukanya ma’am for serious IAS aspirants to learn the techniques of answer writing that will fetch you high scores in your UPSC Mains.
Sukanya ma’am has the first-hand experience of 4 mains and 2 interviews of UPSC. She has also appeared in the State MPPCS interview. Before she has worked as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank.
At Civilsdaily, she is the Mains Initiative Coordinator and has worked as an Ethics Mentor in Smash Mains program, which had an 80% success rate in UPSC mains 2020.
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Aspirants have benefited greatly from the mock interview and the feedback they get from the panel members after their mock interview. At the same time, we work with the aspirants to improve upon the areas highlighted by the panel.
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Detailed Application Form (DAF) is one of the most important documents that you might have filled for UPSC interviews. A major part of the interview will revolve around the information and details provided in the DAF. It is more than your CV.
Your ability to defend your DAF before the panel is going to decide your success. Anticipating and preparing for the questions based on your DAF is an essential part of the interview preparation.
GS-1 Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.
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HOW TO ATTEMPT ANSWERS IN DAILY ANSWER WRITING ENHANCEMENT(AWE)?
Daily 4 questions from General studies 1, 2, 3, and 4 will be provided to you.
A Mentor’s Comment will be available for all answers. This can be used as a guidance tool but we encourage you to write original answers.
You can write your answer on an A4 sheet and scan/click pictures of the same.
Upload the scanned answer in the comment section of the same question.
Along with the scanned answer, please share your Razor payment ID, so that paid members are given priority.
If you upload the answer on the same day like the answer of 1st June is uploaded on 1st June then your answer will be checked within 72 hours. Also, reviews will be in the order of submission- First come first serve basis
If you are writing answers late, for example, 1st June is uploaded on 3rd June, then these answers will be evaluated as per the mentor’s schedule.
We encourage you to write answers on the same day. However, if you are uploading an answer late then tag the mentor like @Swatantra so that the mentor is notified about your answer.
*In case your answer is not reviewed, reply to your answer saying *NOT CHECKED*. Swatantra Sir’s tag is available, tag him.
The world is facing gloomy times in midst of the pandemic, conflicts, and natural calamities.
Recently, we witnessed the horrors caused by nature in Chamoli district, the ground of the famed Chipko movement in Uttarakhand.
Nature’s warning is evident with visible cracks in its erstwhile harmonious relationship with humanity.
This essay/article emphasizes the need for building an ecological civilization and descending from the present cliff of uncertainty towards peaceful living and inclusive development and respect for nature.
The first industrial revolution that took place 250 years ago was primarily with coal and steam; the second with electricity and oil; the third with computers and its accessories; and now the fourth is a fusion of technologies in the physical, digital and technological worlds.
Civilizational chaos
The wave of industrial and green revolution marked a major turning point in earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with the environment.
During the 20th century, with the detonation of the atomic bomb, humanity entered a new era.
Thus, we gained the power to destroy ourselves (mutually assured destruction), without the wisdom to ensure that we must avoid doing so.
Looming threats to mankind
Widespread industrialization, the proliferation of factories, destruction of forests for the construction of massive dams & power stations and the migration of people has all caused serious disturbances in the ecosystem.
The resulting climate change and global warming is a serious threat to the present as well as the future.
Both nature and world peace are under threat.
All these developments coupled with geopolitics have put humanity on a cliff and presents dangerous situations.
Future of Peace
The future of peace and harmony in the 21st century is likely to be directly linked to issues concerning five key realities of life today:
Ecology, global warming, and climate change
Nuclear weapons, the emerging technology of warfare and the continuing arms race among nation-states
Geopolitics and nationalism
Religious extremism and
Poverty and inequality
We do not know how to retrieve the present dangerous situation away from its self-destructive ways. This needs to be appreciated in a threefold perspective:
[1] Nature
Today there is a credible threat to human survival from global warming and climate change with the potential to damage the lives and habitats of billions of people in different parts of the world.
The enormity of the challenge of conservation of ecology and halting climate change is formidable and calls for making changes in our behavior and thinking.
At the heart of the matter is: How do we move towards building fresh sensitivities for conservation in our civilizational processes?
Five events of the recent times need to be particularly referred to:
Outbreak of pandemic SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in Hong Kong in 2002-03;
Bushfires in Brazil and Australia of 2019;
Continuous extinction of species
Forest fires in California alongside the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and
Coronavirus pandemic
These five events have given us signals that if ecology problems are not attended to urgently the world may not need world wars to destroy itself.
[2] Science
In the last decades of the 20th century, the focus of society has shifted decisively towards science and its domineering daughter, technology, both in the western and developing countries.
This has led to the globalization of products, cultural values, and information. It is integrating markets and trade.
But what becomes of environment and nature in such a scenario, remains a matter of great concern.
We have been brought to an alarming situation primarily on account of excessive greed, faulty planning, insensitive politics, and lack of imagination.
Technology, being value-neutral, has accelerated the pace of the downward journey.
Outcome: Climate change
Climate change and global warming are posing serious problems.
The biggest polluter has been the release of carbon dioxide.
To control it with speed, we have to change the terms of the market. It is based on the law of profit.
A change would mean rejecting the general line of dealings in the market in the world for the sake of the long-term interests of the human race. Are we ready for this major break? And, here wisdom comes.
[3] Wisdom
Wisdom is defined as ‘the ability to use one’s knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments.’
Wisdom is a product of experiences and reflections not only of the present generation but of the civilizational processes of a nation and also of the world.
Human beings can destroy their environment as well as can rise above petty interests, use technology and reverse the process of destruction of plant species and minimize carbon emissions.
At the present juncture, if we do not make use of our cumulative wisdom, nature will be harmed and succeeding generations will blame us for our failure.
We have to keep the Vedic precept of ‘माता भूमिः पुत्रो अहं पृथिव्याः ’ (‘This earth is our mother and we are its sons.’) in our minds.
Thankfully, on 12 December 2015, the Global Climate Accord was reached among 195 countries of the world in Paris.
The Paris Accord as it came to be known, commits countries to actions and policies that would restrict the rise in global temperatures ‘well below’ 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the year 2100.
Way Forward
We have to generate hope, courage, and respect for nature.
We should employ science and human ingenuity with determination to overcome the present state of despondency.
If science, spirituality, and wisdom go hand in hand, one can create a better world on this earth. Mahatma Gandhi said: ‘Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not for every man’s greed’.
It should become the maxim of the post-Covid world, that it will need farsighted leadership and efficient institutions of governance.
There is an imperative requirement to contemplate and work towards building an ecological civilization that would outline the ways of living in harmony with nature.
Bahudha Approach is based on the maxim enjoined upon us by the Rigveda. It proclaims: Ekam Sad Vipra Bahudha Vadanti The Real is One, the learned speak of it variously. This provides for dialogue among different religions, cultures, and ways of living. It celebrates diversity and respect for harmonious living and nature.
Conclusion
The post-Covid world would be a different world.
It has made evident that we are all interdependent and have to work for sharing economic benefits as well as fruits of science together, irrespective of religious, ethnic, economic, and cultural divides.
We have to move towards building an ecological civilization and descending from the present cliff of uncertainty towards peaceful living and inclusive development and respect for nature.
