Mains Practice Questions

Q. Do simultaneous elections compromise democracy and federalism? Analyze.

Q. Globalization is a phenomenon driven by technology and the movement of ideas, people, and goods. Discuss.

Q. What rives a man to be a leader? Is it love? Is it hatred?

Q. Discuss the role of emotional intelligence in handling mob protests and violence. 

Q. Over the past few decades, the Dairy sector has emerged as a lifeline of the rural economy in India. However, it has become one of the most vulnerable sectors of the rural economy too. Discuss.

Q. Courts are sitting on a pendency bomb and it has never been more urgent to strengthen the Indian judiciary. Discuss.

Q. What are seismic waves? Give a detailed account of different types of seismic waves.

Q. Discuss the role of the family in the development of the value system in an individual.

Q. Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

Q. Green taxes shall have a deterrent effect, sensitizing the citizens about pollution control and management. Discuss.

Q. Establishing the National Tribunal Commission will definitely entail a radical restructuring of the present tribunal system. Discuss.

Q. Explain the geological and palaeontological evidence of continental drift theory.

Q. Sense of unity, pride in the past and sense of mission – which Vivekananda proclaimed greatly strengthened India’s nationalist movement. Discuss. 

Q. In the present context of the need to balance between economic growth and social development, can the Public Sector Lending as a concept and as a practice be ‘reprioritized’?

Q. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Q. Maruti is working as deputy secretary in Uttar Pradesh’s revenue department, dealing with grants of government land for various purposes. As land has become very scarce and very expensive, such grants have to be carefully made. The government has formulated a policy for the grant of its land for public purposes. 

The Government’s policy has been that government lands can be granted for purposes such as public educational institutions, hostels, hospitals, charitable institutions, government offices and rural infrastructure. 

Further, land could be given to private parties in a few cases for institutions that undertake programmes of education, health and skill up-gradation for weaker sections of society. 

One day a proposal for granting land to a cultural centre proposed in a prime urban location reached Maruti’s desk. The centre was not proposed by the state culture department, but by a private group. 

As Maruti was reading the file, he received a phone call from the Revenue minister’s private secretary that the person who wants to set up the centre is closely related to a prominent central leader of the ruling political establishment. 

The private secretary added that the proposal was cleared by the lower levels in the department and that Maruti should also endorse it positively. Maruti saw that the proposal could not be cleared under the government’s policy. 

The lower level staff justified the proposal since the official policy resolution contained a residual phrase that grants can be made for “other public purposes as may be decided by the government”. Maruti feared that the grant of valuable land to a private person with political connections could lead to controversy.

In this situation, what should be the correct course of action and why?

Q. While there are positive aspects about the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, there are, equally, glaring ambiguities and susceptibilities. Discuss.

Q. Discuss the internal structure of the Earth and comment on S and P-waves shadow zones with suitable diagrams.

Q. "Public service is a public trust."  In light of the statement highlight some of the major principles of the Public Service.

Q. ‘Natural Gas is going to be a very important part of the country's economy’. Discuss the benefits and the challenges associated with the natural gas sector in India. (250 Words)

Q. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Q. Though food wastage is a global problem, India stands a chance to convert this into an opportunity, if it can address it properly. Comment.

Q. Discuss the major challenges for India in framing a credible Maritime Doctrine.

Q. Discuss, in a nutshell, the causes of the downfall of the Mughal empire in India.

Q. Analyse John Rawls’s concept of justice as fairness.

Q. The Covid-19 pandemic has revived the debate on the government's policy of minimising presence of PSEs’ and creating new investment space for the private sector. Discuss.

Q. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Q. In the present geo-political scenario, the EU and India appear to be natural partners and they need to leverage existing opportunities. Discuss.

Q. In what ways the Non-cooperation movement was different from the civil disobedience movement. Discuss.

Q. Corporate social responsibility envisages ethical corporate governance. Discuss.