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GS I (Geography) (Duplex)

What is sea floor spreading?  Explain with the evidences in support of it. Describe link between it and the Plate Tectonic Theory

Demand-

Static Question.  Define sea floor spreading with evidence. Last part, define relation between both theories.

Approach-

– Define & explain sea floor spreading. Provide evidences in support (3+4 marks)

– Explain relation between two- Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics (3 marks)

 

GS II (Representation of People Acts) (Duplex)

The Representation of People Acts (RPA) of 1950 and 1951 form the foundation of electoral democracy in India. Elucidate the limitations RPAs & measures required to strengthen it.

Demand-

RPA provisions need to be known and how it has helped electoral democracy. Bring its general limitations and solutions to improve it.

Approach-

– RPA 1950 and 1951 provisions which has strengthen electoral democracy (3 marks)

– Limitations ( 3 marks)

– Measures and challenges (4 marks)

 

GS III (Issues relating to intellectual property rights) (Hattrick)

New Intellectual Property Rights Policy 2016, designed to strengthen India’s IPR regime “to foster creativity and innovation,” indicates that it has put the interests of intellectual property owners, or global capital above that of public. Critically examine.

Demand-

– Private sector organisations in the US such as the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) consider it as weak and ineffectual.

– In its IP index, India’s IPR score is only 7.05 out of 30, while it is 10.41 for Brazil, 12.64 for China, 13.06 for Russia, and 28.61 in the case of US

Approach-

– Explain the Property rights policy of India in brief. Try to quote few objectives (2 marks)

– One side-Many commentators are of the view that India’s TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) compliant patent regime is quite adequate for balancing the interests of both inventors of new technologies and its users.

Other side- The pharmaceutical multinational corporations (MNCs) and the government of the United States (US) have been extremely critical of India’s IPR regime. Explain both sides (6 marks)

-Challenges and way ahead (2 marks)

 

GS IV (Ethics) (Hattrick)

What is meant by environmental ethics? Why is it important to study? Discuss any one environmental issue from the view point of environmental ethics ?

Demand-

–  Ethics that studies the relation of human beings and the environment and how ethics play a role in this.

Approach-

–          Environmental ethics believe that humans are a part of society as well as other living creatures, which includes plants and animals. These items are a very important part of the world and are considered to be a functional part of human life.

-Give example- Global warming, global climate change, deforestation, pollution, resource degradation, threat of extinction are few of the issues from which our planet is suffering. With environmental ethics, you can ensure that you are doing your part to keep the environment safe and protected.

GS IV (Ethics) (Hattrick)

What is meant by environmental ethics? Why is it important to study? Discuss any one environmental issue from the view point of environmental ethics ?

Best answer

Kunal Aggarwal wrote the best answer for this question and got a score of 4/10. The answer is being reproduced below for everyone’s convenience. Of course these answers can always be improved. (Best answer  of a particular only involves those given on that day, later answers may not have been checked)

Environmental ethics refers to the values attached with environment. It studies the moral relationship of humankind with its environment. Environment plays an important role by
– providing resources
– sustaining life
– waste management

It is important to study environment ethics as it brings us closer and the help us understand the relationship. It will help in many ways:
– Provide better quality living to current generation
– Protect environment for future generation through regulated use of environment
– It will help spread awareness among people and thus protect the environment
– It sustains other species as well which is moral responsibility of one species i.e. humankind towards all others

Excessive global warming has come out to be major problem and is impacting the lives of everyone across the globe. We have violated our moral responsibilities towards environment by:
– Cutting forests indiscriminately on large scale
– Releasing green house gases in atmosphere for industrial products
– Excessive use of fossil fuels like coal, petrol etc

These raise major ethical issues for humankind:
– Responsibility towards other species: Extinction of species due to excessive warming, change in monsoon pattern is also impacting them. Their natural habitat has been destroyed to high extent.
– Responsibility towards other humankind: It impacts poor indiscriminately and people from other countries who are not responsible for it are also impacted. Food quality and quantity is also at risk because of increased global warming.

GS III (Issues relating to intellectual property rights) (Hattrick)

New Intellectual Property Rights Policy 2016, designed to strengthen India’s IPR regime “to foster creativity and innovation,” indicates that it has put the interests of intellectual property owners, or global capital above that of public. Critically examine.

Best answer

Aman Chauhan wrote the best answer for this question and got a score of 4.5/10. The answer is being reproduced below for everyone’s convenience. Of course these answers can always be improved. (Best answer  of a particular only involves those given on that day, later answers may not have been checked)

GS II (Representation of People Acts) (Duplex)

The Representation of People Acts (RPA) of 1950 and 1951 form the foundation of electoral democracy in India. Elucidate the limitations RPAs & measures required to strengthen it.

Best answer

Narayana Sarma wrote the best answer for this question and got a score of 5.5/10. The answer is being reproduced below for everyone’s convenience. Of course these answers can always be improved. (Best answer  of a particular only involves those given on that day, later answers may not have been checked)

With an aim of ensuring free and fair elections, the parliament enacted The Representation of People Acts 1950 and 1951. The former deals with the seats allocation, delimitation of constituencies, voters’ qualifications whereas the latter deals with the conduct of elections, qualification and disqualification of contestants, election offences primarily. In following ways, the RPA of 1950 has strengthened the electoral democracy:
-It mandates the ‘direct election’ for Lok Sabha, making the system of election understandable by commons
-No person can be registered in electoral rolls of 2 or more consituencies
Similarly, the RPA of 1951 has ensured strong foundation of electoral democracy in following ways:
-It provides that only an elector can be a representative in parliament
-Provisions advocating stringent disqualification norms. Eg: A person sent to jail for atleast 2 years will be disqualified to contest elections for 6 years after his release.
-Confers enormous power on Election Commission of India. Eg: From acceptance of nominations to counting, if at all any enquiry arises, Election Commission can act as a civil court issuing summons
-Declaration of assets of elected candidates within 90 days
-Mandating the maintenance of account of election expenses
However, it does have some limitations in the form of loopholes, some of which are given below:
-It fails to make excessive/under-assessed campaign expenditure an offence
-Section 77 of the RPA of 1951 deals with expenditure of candidate and not political party, in whose name large expenses are made. This leads to under-assessment of campaign expenditure.
-Section 29B of the RPA of 1951 allows candidates to accept unlimited contribution from non government company/non-foriegn individuals and these are unaccounted
-Does not address the less popular contestants who lack funding
-No statutory backing for powers of ECI
-It prohibits poll campaign only in poll-bound area, allowing a candidate to carry out campaign via video conferencing from a different location
-Doesn’t address the opinion polls advertised by news channels
Some solutions proposed are
-Video monitoring of campaigns, cyber squad to curb under-assessment of physical and virtual campaign expenditure respectively
-Making amendments to remove loophole sections such as 29B and 77
-Researching on the feasibility of state funding to ensure fair and inclusive competition
However, the recent proposal to introduce totalizers, which makes booth wise results unavailable to curb harassment of political parties, is a step forward in strengthening electoral democracy.

GS I (Geography) (Duplex)

What is sea floor spreading?  Explain with the evidences in support of it. Describe link between it and the Plate Tectonic Theory.

Best answer

Kunal Aggarwal wrote the best answer for this question and got a score of 4/10 (sometimes the best answer is an image, hence scroll down to check out the other answers!). The answer is being reproduced below for everyone’s convenience. Of course these answers can always be improved. (Best answer  of a particular only involves those given on that day, later answers may not have been checked)

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Hello friends
I hope, your preparation of prelims 2017 is going well and you are doing great in CD test series.
This thread is exclusively for those targeting prelims 2017. Ask any generic doubt like and get them clarified.
Remember friends, don’t take prelims lightly. Many, who reach till interview, get into allied services bite the dust in prelims in next attempt. So, while holistic integrated study of prelims, mains and interview is necessary, taking prelims lightly would be a fool’s choice.

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Hello Friends
Congratulations to all those who have cracked prelims. You will have to fill DAF now to write your mains examination. It’s a very crucial document and most of your interview revolves around DAF. So every word you write in your DAF is very important.
Though, I would do a detailed write up on how to fill DAF and some do’s and don’ts, this thread is an opportunity for all of you to get your doubts, if any, regarding filling up DAF clarified.

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