PAPER-IV
General
Studies-III: Technology, Economic Development, Bio diversity, Environment,
Security and Disaster Management.
- Indian Economy and issues relating to
planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- Inclusive growth and issues arising from
it.
- Government Budgeting.
- Major crops cropping patterns in various
parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems
storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and
related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers
- Issues related to direct and indirect
farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System-
objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks
and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing.
- Food processing and related industries
in
- Land reforms in
- Effects of liberalization on the
economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
- Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads,
Airports, Railways etc.
- Investment models.
- Science and Technology- developments and
their applications and effects in everyday life
- Achievements of Indians in science &
technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
- Awareness in the fields of IT, Space,
Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating
to intellectual property rights.
- Conservation, environmental pollution
and degradation, environmental impact assessment
- Disaster and disaster management.
- Linkages between development and spread
of extremism.
- Role of external state and non-state
actors in creating challenges to internal security.
- Challenges to internal security through
communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in
internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering
and its prevention
- Security challenges and their management
in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism
- Various Security forces and agencies and
their mandate
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