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National Events/Issues/Policies/Organisations
The inter-state river dispute has once again assumed centre-
1 stage after the Punjab Assembly's Bill terminating all previous 2004 1*30 250
accords on river waters. Discuss.
2 What is PURA? Discuss its major objectives. 2004 1*30 250
3 Explain UNDP Report on human development in India. 2004 2*10 125
What is WTO? What are India's objections to its overall
4 2004 2*10 125
functionality?
5 Discuss the utility of e-governance in the Indian context. 2004 2*10 125
Housing for all by 2010 is the goal set by the National Habitat
6 2004 2*10 125
Policy. How afar is it achievable?
Is greater spending on education linked to higher literacy?
7 2004 2*10 125
Discuss.
8 What is Enterprise Resource Planning? 2004 2*10 125
9 ISRO 2004 5*2 20
10 Central Vigilance Commission 2004 5*2 20
11 NDDB 2004 5*2 20
12 Hiren Mukherjee 2004 5*2 20
13 Pareechy Lake 2004 5*2 20
Discuss the steps taken by the Government to check child
14 2003 1*30 250
labour & promote child welfare.
Suggest measures for the eradication of wide spread
15 2003 1*30 250
corruption in Public Life India.
16 The issue of gender equality in India 2003 2*10 125
17 Natural Heritage & Cultural Heritage 2003 2*10 125
18 Identify the types of disabilities. 2003 2*10 125
What are the distinctive features of Lokpal Bill introduced in
19 2003 2*10 125
the Parliament this year?
What is Prime Minister's Five-point agenda for India's
20 2003 2*10 125
development as a knowledge society?
What are the preconditions for the growth of Civil Society? Is
21 2003 2*10 125
Indian democracy conducive to it?
22 Anthrax 2003 5*2 20
23 Radiation & its effects 2003 5*2 20
24 The Statue of Liberty 2003 5*2 20
25 George Walker Bush 2003 5*2 20
26 Genome 2003 5*2 20
What is the composition of Electoral College for the election
27 of the President of the Indian Republic? How the value of 2002 1*30 250
votes cast is counted?
28 Biotechnology boom may pave a golden path for India. 2002 1*30 250
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Discuss.
What were the main strategic concerns of the Indonesian
29 President Megawati Sukarnoputri during her recent visit to 2002 2*10 125
India?
30 What is 'TRIFED'? What are its objectives? 2002 2*10 125
How has the dwindling of barbed variety of rice affected the
31 2002 2*10 125
Siliguri-Bagdogra belt with respect to man-animal conflict?
32 What is Integrated Wasteland Development Programme? 2002 2*10 125
33 Write briefly about Desert Development Programme. 2002 2*10 125
Write briefly about the Programmes for 'Welfare of the
34 2002 2*10 125
disabled'.
35 Prof. B. P. Sinha 2002 5*2 20
36 Maj. Gen. S. S. Sharma 2002 5*2 20
37 Konapalli Seetaramaiah 2002 5*2 20
38 Aung San Suu Kyi 2002 5*2 20
39 Thalassery, Kerala 2002 5*2 20
Review the Population policy of the Government of India
40 2001 1*30 250
giving the distinguished features.
41 Discuss the significance of GSLV in space research. 2001 1*30 250
Determine the utility of Direct to Home in broadcasting
42 2001 2*10 125
system,
What are the UNDP indications with reference to the planning
43 2001 2*10 125
process?
What are the Human Rights issues involves in relation to the
44 2001 2*10 125
arrest of M. Karunanidhi in Tamilnadu in July 2001?
45 Swarn Jayanti Gram Swaraj Yojna 2001 2*10 125
46 Law Commission of India 2001 2*10 125
47 Lalit Kala Academy 2001 2*10 125
48 Fullela Gopichand 2001 5*2 20
49 E-commerce 2001 5*2 20
50 ICCR 2001 5*2 20
51 NCERT 2001 5*2 20
52 Sports Authority of India 2001 5*2 20
Discuss the provisions of the Human Rights Protection Act
(1993) relating to the following - (i) Definition of Human
Rights (ii) Composition of National Human Rights
53 2000 1*30 250
Commission (iii) Functions of the Commission (iv) What
suggestions have been made for amending the Act for making
the role of the NHRC more effective?
Discuss the propositions laid down by the Supreme Court of
54 2000 1*30 250
India in the context of torture in prisons & human dignity.
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Explain Public Interest Litigation. Who can file it & on what

55 2000 2*10 125
basis can it be rejected by the Court of Law?
56 Discuss Human Genome. 2000 2*10 125
What are the features of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of
57 Public Religious Buildings & Places Bill, 2000, that have 2000 2*10 125
caused widespread protests from minorities?
58 Universal Postal Union 2000 2*10 125
59 Economic & Social Council 2000 2*10 125
60 Florence Nightingale 2000 2*10 125
61 CRY 2000 5*2 20
62 Baba Amte 2000 5*2 20
63 Ali Sardar Jafri 2000 5*2 20
64 ‘Water' 2000 5*2 20
65 Aruna Roy 2000 5*2 20

• Total Marks – Current National Issues + General Awareness = 80 marks

• Pattern of questions –
o Any One out of Two for 30 marks (250 words)
o Any two out of Three for 10 marks each (125 words)
o Notes on any two out of Three for 10 marks each (125 words)
o 5 out of 5 for 2 marks each (20 words)
• Classification-
o Contemporary National Issues
o Indian Socio-economic Issues
o Indian Political Issues/Scenario
o Indian Social Issues
o National Institutions
o International Institutions & role of/impact on India
o Various Commissions, Committees, their reports
o Health/Environment
o Persons/places in news
o Science & Tech in India
• Broadly speaking, every paper has question or two on contemporary national
issues, on socio-economic issue, a question on Org/Committees/Commissions, on
polity, on advances in science etc. There is no definite pattern as such.