UPSC Mains Writing Practice Questions – 19-11-2017- Indian Economy & Development

UPSC Mains Writing Practice Questions for November 19, 2017 for General Studies Topic: Indian Economy & Development GS-3

1. Discuss the socio-economic and environmental consequences of wheat-paddy cycle becoming the dominant cropping pattern on states in northern India.

Category – GS-III: Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country

2. While elucidating the loopholes in regulatory mechanism, critically discuss the threat of Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR) spreading out of livestock farms due to over-use of Antibiotics in Animal Husbandry in India.

Category – GS-III: Economics of animal-rearing

3. How the Point of Sale (PoS) based Aadhaar authentication system in the Public Distribution System works? Critically examine the problems faced due to requirement of multiple technologies working in tandem in such transition.

Category – GS-III: Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping

4. “From both economic and environmental standpoints, cultivation of pulses make sense.” Explain.

Category – GS-III: Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country