UPSC Main Examination

General Studies III
Mains Syllabus

250
Total Marks
3 Hours
Duration

Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management

Syllabus

  • • 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.
  • • 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.