The States People’s movement contributed towards the integration of princely states into the Indian Union. Discuss. (250 words)

Essay Topics

1. “Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
2. There is no tool more effective than the empowerment of women for the development of a country.

Q. You are Abhishek and you went to Jodhpur to attend the wedding of your friend Neeraj. The wedding went very well and all the rituals were properly followed. At the end of the wedding, the father of the bride offered Rs 10 Lakh to Neeraj to buy a car as a dowry. Since Neeraj and his family are very progressive, they are against the practice of dowry, they denied it. They also reminded the father that under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, it is illegal to offer a dowry. But the father insisted that being a father, he has the right to give his money to his daughter and her husband.

1. Identify the ethical dilemmas involved in the case.
2. What suggestions will you give to your friend Neeraj in this scenario? 
3. Are legislative solutions effective to solve social issues?

Q. Examine the types of value conflicts that may be present in public service. (250 words)

Q. Examine the role of emotional intelligence for an administrator. Also enumerate, with examples, the key attributes that an emotionally intelligent administrator should imbibe. (250 words)

Q. Discuss whether the frequent viral outbreaks can be termed as man-made disasters. (250 words)

Q. What do you understand by precision irrigation? Discuss the advantages of precision irrigation in India. (250 words)

Q. Explain the significance of the right to protest in a democracy. (250 words)

Q. Speakers are not apolitical entities and are embedded in party politics. Critically examine. (250 words)

Q. Examine the significance of pillars in Mauryan architecture. (150 words)

Q. What were the different types of art and crafts of Harappan civilization? Also, examine their significance. (250 words)

Essay Topics

1. The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.
2. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Q. Suppose you are an officer-in-charge of implementing a social service scheme to provide support to old and destitute women. An old and illiterate woman comes to you to avail the benefits of the scheme. However, she has no documents to show that she fulfils the eligibility criteria. But after meeting her and listening to her you feel that she certainly needs support. Your enquirers also show that she is really destitute and living in a pitiable condition. You are in a dilemma as to what to do. Putting her under the scheme without necessary documents would clearly be a violation of rules. But denying her the support would be cruel and inhuman.

1. Can you think of a rational way to resolve this dilemma?
2. Give your reasons for it. (250 words)

Q. What is international ethics? Explain its significance with the help of examples. (250 words)

Q. A technology should be evaluated both on the basis of its utility and the intention of its creator. Critically examine. (250 words)

Q. Genome India Project provides an opportunity for India to make great progress in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture and healthcare. Discuss. (250 words)

Q. Indigenous people are one of the most vulnerable sections facing climate change, however, they can act as change agents, towards mitigating and adapting to climate change. Discuss. (250 words)

Q. Progress from Millennium Development to Sustainable Development entails a shift in the focus from universalizing access to education towards the delivery of quality education. Explain. (250 words)

Q. Growing criminalisation of polity is a threat to the basic structure of the constitution. Discuss. (250 words)

Q. What do you understand by sex ratio? Examine the implications of a declining sex ratio and meta son preference? What are the reasons for such trends in India? (250 words)

Q. Examine the significance of prehistoric paintings found in India. Also, trace the changes that occurred in the painting styles during this period. (250 words)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of Computer Science that enables the computer system to analyze data and situation and make a decision as a human do. It learns from experience, uses learning to reason, recognizes images, solves complex problems, understands languages and creates perspective, etc. It is seen as a foundation of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Many companies have already started to use AI to do some of the work. 

But such applications raise troubling ethical issues because AI systems can reinforce what they have learned from real-world data, even amplifying familiar risks, such as racial or gender bias. Examples abound. In 2014, Amazon developed a recruiting tool for identifying software engineers it might want to hire; the system swiftly began discriminating against women, and the company abandoned it in 2017. In 2016, ProPublica analyzed a commercially developed system that predicts the likelihood that criminals will re-offend, created to help judges make better sentencing decisions, and found that it was biased against blacks.

1. Identify the ethical issues involved in the use of AI.
2. By what means, we can inculcate ethical and moral values in an AI-based system?
3. Is it too soon for the world to adopt the AI?

Q. What do you understand by the following quotation?

"If there is a sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, weakness is sin, weakness is death."

Q. Putting the citizen first is the guiding principle of good governance. Discuss. (250 words)

Q. What do you understand by 'curtailment of power' in the energy sector? How is it affecting the generation of renewable energy in India? (250 words)

Q. Discuss the significance of National Infrastructure Pipeline for India. Also examine the associated challenges. (250 words)

Q. What do you understand by Digital literacy and financial literacy? Explain their significance for India. (250 words)

Q. Decentralisation in school management and governance is the key for fixing and reviving the broken governance system of rural education in India. Discuss. (250 words)

Q . What is meant by the ‘age structure’ of a population? Why is it relevant for economic development and growth? (250 words)

Q.  The environmental problems are simultaneously linked with social problem. Discuss. (250 words)