UPSC,JPSC,BPSC,Mains GS topics

• Adhar project
• What is National income?
• Highlight the measures taken by India to control food inflation.
• Discuss India’s spending for Green IT and its sustainability.
• What is UNCTAD’s (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) projection on the economic growth for India for 2011?
• Supreme Court’s Verdict on Khap Panchayats
• Stockholm Convention on Production and Use of Endosulfan & Isomers
• Delhi Declaration
• Festiva Gangaur
• Vedaranyam Coastal Zone project
• Strategies for low carbon growth
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Tiangong-1
• AP Columbae
• Schizophrenia
• ESA
• Project Unnati
• Yulia Tymoshenko
• SeL4
• Salwa Judum
• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna
• Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility
• Tianhe-1A
• Damodaran Panel
• 4G Communications
• UNDP

Full Length GS Questions for UPSC ,BPSC,JPSC main Exam 2011

1.Critically examine India-US strategic relationship. Do you think that India necessarily should keep a healthy relationship with the US?

2.    Discuss India’s ties with the other developed countries of the world.

3.    Examine the recent development of India-Bangladesh boundary dispute. Will the dispute end forever or the recent solution to the dispute is just another beginning?

4.    China became Russia’s biggest trading partner in 2011. Will it have any impact on India-China bilateral trade targets?

5.    Comment on BRICS 2011 declaration. How do you foresee BRIC after becoming BRICS by adding South Africa to its member countries list?

6.    What are challenges before the Indian economy that threatened to lower the economic growth of India? What measures does the RBI suggest to deal with these challenges?

7.    Bring out the main features of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011.

8.    Discuss the progress of e-governance in India.

9.    Discuss the differences in the capacity and process of storing data among the data storage devices namely CD, floppy, pen drive and hard disc.

10.    What is All India Computer Saksharta Mission? How far is it successful in the practical field?

11.    Examine Fourth-Generation Communications System. What are its different objectives?

12.    Comment on the growing Human-computer Interaction.

Model Question Paper for JPSC,BPSC,GS Paper - I of the IAS Main Exam 2011

Time Allowed: Three Hours

Maximum Marks: 300

Candidates should attempt ALL questions strictly in accordance with the instructions given under each question.

1.    Answer the following (in about 250 words for each answer):   20x2= 40

(a)    What is the meaning of ethnicity? Which way has ethnicity affected the Indian polity?

(b)    Which measures would you suggest to make RTI effective and operative?

2.    Answer any TWO of the following in about 150 words each:    12x2= 24

(a)    Who established the Arya Samaj? What were its objectives?

(b)    Trace the different phases of peasant movements in India.

(c)    Analyse the growth of Indian Civil Services till the passing of the government of India Act 1919. Discuss the various aspects of the changes introduced to it by this Act.

3.    Answer any TWO of the following in about 150 words each:    12x2= 24

(a)    Describe the main characteristics of the tropical rain forests in India. How do they contribute to the ecosystem of India?

(b)    Comment on the current genetic diversity on the basis of the demographic history of India.

(c)    Identify the ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) along the Western Ghats, and suggest how to manage them.

4.    Answer any TWO of the following in about 150 words each:    12x2= 24

(a)    Can the President of India overrule any of the provisions of the Indian Constitution? Explain the constitutional provisions in this regard.

(b)    Centre has absolute veto over states in India. Give sufficient reasons to support this statement.

(c)    Elaborate and comment on double jeopardy.

5.    Write brief but precise notes on any SIX of the Following. Your answer should not exceed 50 words in each case.  5x6= 30

(a)    Emissions of atmospheric compounds

(b)    Aborigines

(c)    Biodiversity

(d)    La Nina

(e)    International Date Line

(f)    Natural Vegetation of India

(g)    Nomadic Tribes

6.    Answer any THREE of the following in about 150 words each:  12x3=36

(a)    Bring out the powers and responsibilities attached to the Protem speakers.

(b)    Enlist the factors responsible for the disintegration of the Mughal Empire? Do you think that the Rajput policy of the Mughal Emperors contributed in the disintegration of the Empire?

(c)    Discuss the main dance forms of India.

(d)    Why was the Janani Shishu Suraksha yojana launched? Elaborate its scope.

7.    Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each:  12x5= 60

(a)    How has the post-1991 liberalisation affected the financial relations between the centre and states?

(b)    What is meant by Fiscal Policy and Monetary policy? How are they used to control inflation?

(c)    Assess the significance of natural resources in the economic development of India.

(d)    What is disaster management? Discuss the pros and cons of the existing system of disaster management and suggest measures to improve the system to tackle natural disaster better.

(e)    Is National Literacy Mission successful in India?

(f)    How do you Calculate National Income? Discuss its different methods.

8.    Answer each of the following, briefly but precisely. Each answer should be less than 50 words. 5x6= 30

(a)    You arrive first at the scene where an ATM outlet had just undergone a robbery. What emergency measures should you immediately and safely adopt?

(b)    What ways do you suggest to lower down food inflation in India?

(c)    What is Carbon footprint? How is it measured?

(d)    What are the salient features of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ)?

(e)    Bring out the controversy of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power project. What is your opinion on the controversy?

(f)    What are the challenges before the Indian economy to maintain itself as the second fastest growing economy in the world?

9.    Write brief notes on each of the following, in about 20 words each: 2x8=16

(a)    NASA’s Kepler Mission

(b)    India’s Foreign Exchange Reserves

(c)    SABLA

(d)    Independent Evaluation Office

(e)    Sterlite Project

(f)    Prithvi – II

(g)    G-24

(h)    Nationwide come and play scheme

10.    Who are the following and why have they been in the news recently? (Each answer should not exceed 20 words) 2x8= 16

(a)    Helle Thorning-Schmidt

(b)    Justice Soumitra Sen

(c)    Dominique Strauss-Kahn

(d)    Lobsang Sangay

(e)    Mrinal Pande

(f)    Rajiv Takru

(g)    Dr S S Sidhu

(h)    Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

Former JPSC Governing Body Celeberates Diwali in Jail

This year several high profile people's of Jharkhand celleberated dewali behind bars.

The guest includes Former CM of Jharkhand Chaibasa MP Madhu Koda who is facing multi crore bribe charges ,former Chairman of JPSC Dilip Prasad, former members of JPSC Shanti Devi, Gopal Prasad Singh and Alice Usha Rani Singh, are the new inmates of the Ranchi jail who have been arrested by the State Vigilance Bureau on charges of corruption in the recruitment process of JPSC. 

"No special programme has been organised for inmates this time. The food menu will be same for the inmates. We have made some lighting arrangements, but it will not be a grand celebration," said Jail Superintendent of Birsa Munda Central Jail DK Pradhan. "Lakshmi Puja will be performed by jail staffs at the administrative side; besides that, there are no special arrangements," said Pradhan, adding that the inmates could also perform Puja inside their respective cells.

UPPSC cut off Marks for the Combined State/Upper Sub. Services (Pre.) Exam. 2010.

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission(UPPSC) has revealed the Revised cut off  Marks of Last Selected Candidate (Category-Wise) for the Combined State/Upper Sub. Services (Pre.) Exam. 2010.

CATEGORY                                                             MARKS OF LAST SELECTED CANDIDATE
EXECUTIVE GROUP
General                                                                    334.47
SC                                                                           284.09
ST                                                                            214.12
OBC                                                                        334.50

HORIZONTAL CATEGORY

DEPENDENT OF FREEDOM FIGHTER                                  340.90
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPED IMPAIRED VISION (PH1)     273.50
IMPAIRED HEARING (PH2)                                                     209.76
LOCOMOTOR OR CEREBRAL PALSY (PH3)                        310.47
EX-SERVICE MAN                                                                   202.05
FEMALE                                                                                     303.37

HORTICULTURE GROUP

General                                                                   251.91
SC                                                                          247.44
OBC                                                                       251.91
HORIZONTAL CATEGORY
FEMALE                                                                183.43