General Studies 3

📘 General Studies – Paper III

(Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)
Marks: 250 | Time: 3 hours

1. Indian Economy & Development

  • 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 India—scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management.
  • Land reforms in India.
  • 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.

2. Science & 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, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and issues relating to intellectual property rights (IPR).

3. Environment, Ecology & Biodiversity

  • Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
  • Disaster and disaster management.

4. Security Issues

  • 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.

👉 In short, GS-3 = Economy + Agriculture + S&T + Environment + Security + Disaster Management. It’s a mix of static + dynamic + current affairs-heavy paper.

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