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Detailed syllabus of Indian Economy and Social Development.

  1. Development and Economics
    • To understand the basic concept of economy
    • Definition of Economics
    • Alternative uses of resources
    • Resource Transfer
    • Distributive effects
    • Difference between Macro and Micro Economic Policy
    • Micro Macro Balance
    • To understanding progress through data
    • Distributive impact of the various Economic Policies
    • Growth Vs development
    • Determinant of growth and development-
    • Some important concepts like HPI /MPI , PQLI ,HDI, GDI/GII,GEM, TAI, Green Index
    • Concept of sustainable development : need, instruments and issues
    • The source of progress, and India`s rank in the above mentioned indices
  2. Poverty
    • Definition, causes and distribution-deprivation,
    • Income vs. calories concept,
    • World bank definition
    • Measurement of poverty-Tendulkar committee
    • Status of poverty- Global and Indian States
    • Poverty eradication programmes
    • Poverty and resource policy
    • Tribal rights, Right to food, right to dignified life
    • Livelihood mission-both rural and urban
  3. Inclusion
    • Definition, relevance for the individual and society
    • Type of inclusion –social political, economic including financial
    • Dimension of the financial inclusion
    • Recent initiatives regarding the promotion of the financial inclusion
    • PMJDY, Atal Pension Yojana, and other initiatives
  4. Demographics dividend
    • Census 2011 and deviations from earlier census
    • Population by gender (Total and sex ratio)
    • Population by state (ordering)
    • By age group, Socio economic status, caste composition, religion, gender, literacy level, and household facilities like drinking water, sanitation, health status, homeless people
    • Energy uses and price of energy
    • Trends in human development-interstate comparisons like North and South divide
  5. Fiscal Policy
    • Definition, component
    • Receipts
    • Revenue Account and Capital Account
    • Revenue- Tax and Non Tax ,
    • Tax Revenue includes Direct and Indirect Taxes
    • Expenditure –Planned and Non Planned
    • Budget –Type, process (preparation ) and legislative process
  6. Social issues
    • Financing Health policy
    • Education policy
    • Sanitation drive
    • Drinking water
    • Social Security
    • Infrastructure Policy especially telecommunication, energy, transport
    • International trade- composition, direction and issues
    • Recent regional cooperation
  7. Issues of the Current importance
    • Rationalization of MNERGS,
    • Innovations in Micro Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME)-
    • Skill India
    • Make in India
    • Industrial corridors
    • Land acquisitions
    • 14th Finance Commission
    • Centre State financial relation,
    • NITI Ayog
    • Black money
    • Insurance Bill etc
    • DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer)
    • Debroy committee on railway infrastructure and governance
    • International treaty and organisations (WTO, G-20, G-8, ADB, World Bank) Look towards and act towards East
    • Indo China, Indo- Pak, Indo-Bangladesh Policy

UPSC - Prelims Detailed Syllabus of Indian History

  1. Ancient India
    • Introduction and Prehistoric cultures in India
    • Harappan Civilization and south India
    • Iron age and Vedic age
    • Pre Mauryan period and the Mauryan Empire
    • India after Mauryans
    • Age of the Guptas
    • Harshavardhan and other smaller kingdoms
  2. Medieval India
    • Religious cultures and architectures of Early Medieval India, Delhi Sultanate (13th and 14th Century), post sultanate period and Age of Vijayanagar
    • Mughal Empire
    • Decline of Mughal Empire
    • Entry of Europeans
    • British expansion and consolidation
    • British policies and administration
  3. Modern India
    • Indian Freedom Struggle and pre-congress nationalist organisation
    • Indian National Congress and early nationalists
    • Rise of Militant nationalism and rise of revolutionary terrorism
    • Swadeshi movements and surat split of 1907
    • Indian Councils act of 1909, Muslim league
    • First world war and Freedom struggle , Gandhi and his thoughts
    • Rowlatt act and Non-cooperation movements, Emergence of communists
    • Simon commission and Nehru report
    • Peasant movement and revolutionary terrorism
    • Lahore session and purna swaraj, Civil disobedience movements
    • First and second Round Table conference
    • Growth of socialists forces
    • Muslim league and communalism
    • Congress crisis and Formation of Forward Bloc
    • Quit India Movement
    • Indian National Army and Netaji
    • Developments under Wavell and Simla comference
    • The Eve of Independence
    • Independence and Partition (1945-1947)

Detailed Syllabus of Indian Polity and Governance

  1. Constitution Development
    • Evolution of the constitution : British in India
    • Making of Indian constitution
    • Territory
    • Citizenship
    • Amendment Process and Basic structure Doctrine
  2. Fundamental Rights
    • Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties
    • Directive Principles of State policy
    • Right Issues
  3. Political System in India
    • Government at union level
    • Union Executive: The president of India
    • The Vice president of India
    • The Prime Minister and the council of ministers
    • Cabinet committees, cabinet secretariat, and central secretariat
  4. The Parliament
    • Lok Sabha
    • Rajya sabha
    • Categories and passage of bills in parliament
    • Budget
    • Parliamentary Committees
    • Types of Motions
    • Disqualification of members of Parliament
    • Anti-defection Law
  5. The state executive and state legislature
    • The Governor
    • Chief Minister
    • Advocate general and State Legislature
    • Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly
  6. Judiciary of India
    • The Supreme Court of India
    • The High Courts of India
    • Judicial Review and Judicial Activism
    • Subordinate Courts and Administrative Tribunals
    • Lok Adalat
    • Free Legal Aid and Public Interest Litigation(PIL)
    • Judicial Reforms
  7. Union Territories
  8. Federalism in India: Union – State Relations
  9. Civil Service under the Union and the States
  10. Commissions
    • Comptroller and auditor general of India
    • Attorney General of India
    • Election Commission
    • Finance Commission
    • Planning Commission
    • National Development Council
    • Central Vigilance Commission
    • Central Information Commission
    • Provisions for Minorities , Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Anglo-Indians
    • Rights Commissions
    • Election and Election Commission
  11. Jammu and Kashmir
  12. Emergency Provisions
  13. Consolidated and Contingency Fund of India
  14. Local government and state administration
    • Municipal Administration and Panchayat Raj Systems
    • District and Metropolitan Planning
  15. Schedules of the Constitutions
  16. Indian Foreign Policy
  17. Public Policy Making
  18. Heads of Important Offices

UPSC – Prelims Detailed Syllabus on Bio-diversity, Environment and Climate change

  1. General Issues on Environmental Ecology
    • Ecological terms like Ecotone, Ecological niche ecosystem, effects of environmental deterioration, how it affects human being.
    • Food chain in the ecosystem.
    • Depletion of Natural Resources
    • Anoxic water
    • Solid and Hazardous Waste
    • Over population
    • Conservation of Natural Resources
    • Pollution, pollution control regulation and measures
  2. Bio-diversity
    • Bio-deiversity (which also overlaps with topics from Geography)-
    • why biodiversity is important for human survival,
    • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) – Red Data Book, Biodiversity Hotspots.
  3. Conservation
    • Conservation of natural resources
    • National Parks, Wildlife conservations , Wetlands and Biosphere Reserves
    • Internationally recognized Wetlands and Biosphere Reserves of India.
  4. Sustainable Development
    • Energy Resources and Environmental Degradation
    • Biotechnology (bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides),
    • Biomass gasification
  5. Ecologically sensitive areas – Western Ghats, Himalayas.
  6. Climate Change
    • Climate change and its cycles
    • Theories of Climate change
    • Global Warming and Ozone layer Protection
    • Mitigation measures taken at National and International Levels
    • Recent climate change summits held, objectives of the summits.
  7. Laws, Regulatory Bodies and Policies at national and international level
    • Environment Protection Act
    • Forest Right Act
    • National Biodiversity Authority
    • Protocols and Summits
  8. Intergovernmental Organizations, Treaties and Conventions related to climate change, biodiversity
    • Ramsar Convention
    • Montreux Record
    • he three Rio Conventions—Convention on Biological Diversity(CoB)
    • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
    • United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification – from the 1992 Earth Summit) etc.
    • Organisations like UNEP, FAO, UNESCO etc.

UPSC – Prelims Detailed Syllabus on General Science

  1. Physics
    • Physical Quantities, standards and units
    • Mechanics and properties of matter
    • Heat and Wave motion
    • Electro Magnetic Radiation
    • Light, Sound and Magnetism
    • Static Electricity and Current Electricity
    • Atomic Physics
    • Nuclear Physics
    • Astronomy and Space Science
  2. Biosciences: Botany and Zoology
    • Study of Life and Cell-The basic unit of Life
    • Classification of living organisms and organisation of Living Body
    • Nutrition and Respiration
    • The Transport System
    • Excretion of metabolic waste
    • Biocommunication
    • Muscle movement and Skeletal System
    • Reproduction – Perpetuation of species
    • Plant growth and development
    • Genetics – The science of Heredity
    • Plant and Human diseases and defense mechanism
    • Environmental biology – organisms in relation to their surroundings
    • Origin and Evolution of Life
    • Drug Abuse and Alcoholism
    • Animal Husbandry
    • Plant and Human Welfare
  3. Chemistry
    • Introduction, Matter and its Nature
    • Kinetic theory of matter
    • Chemical reaction and chemical equation
    • Structure of the Atom
    • Periodic tables of Elements
    • Chemical Bonding
    • Oxidation and Reduction Reaction
    • Oxygen and Air
    • Hydrogen and Water
    • Carbon and its components
    • Nitrogen and its components
    • Acids, Bases and Salts
    • Occurrence of Metals
    • Petroleum and Natural Gas
    • Iron and Steel
    • Colloids, Micelles and Nanotechnology
    • Agricultural, Medicinal and Food Chemistry
    • Biochemistry and Life processes
    • Polymers and plastics
    • Electrochemistry and Dyes
    • Biotechnology
    • International Symbols for units
    • Carbohydrates and Proteins
    • Nucleoproteins and Nucleic Acids
    • Important Bioactive compounds
    • Fats
    • Important laws governing gases, liquids and solutions
    • Bioterrorism
    • Thermodynamics
    • Important Concepts and Topics

UPSC – Prelims Detailed syllabus for Current Affairs

Current Events plays a key role in all the three stages of UPSC preparation, especially in the Mains and Interview. It covers a wide range of topics which overlaps with the CORE subjects like Geography, Polity, Economics, History and Dynamic subjects like environment, science and technology. Henceforth, it is hard to classify questions under a specific heading/topic.

We have listed few Possibilities of questions can be asked under the below topics. And Aspirants can expect questions from other topics as well. If you want to become an Civil Servant you must aware of Daily News, updates happening in and around the World in all the field of specialization which means even if you don’t like Sports or Automobile field you should not skip the news and updates related to it. If you done it you may miss your score.

  1. National Events
  2. Economic Affairs
  3. India and the World
  4. International Events
  5. Science and Technology
  6. Recent Awards and Prices
  7. Persons in News
  8. Places in News
  9. Latest books and authors
  10. Sports and Games
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