GS 3

Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development, and employment


Indian Economy

  • Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.

  • Government Budgeting.

  • Major crop 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.


Science and Technology

  • Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life

  • Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and development of 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.


Internal security

  • 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, the 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.