Dear Aspirant Officers, the idea of this chapter is not to provide you with some kind of question bank on various topics. The aim of this chapter is to illustrate that how an exhaustive data base of questions should be prepared for the topics that we are preparing . The questions should cover the full domain and should be of all the types like factual, analytical, conceptual, historical, critical, hypothetical, imaginative etc.
Also, all the possible dimensions of a particular topic should be covered. When a topic is prepared from different dimensions it leads to the conceptual clarity.
QUESTION DATABASE ON THE MEDIA
1. What do you understand by the term media and what all are its constituents?
2. Comment on the importance of free and impartial media in a country.
3. Can we say that the media in India has been free and impartial?
4. Which one of the two -print or the electronic media- impacts the society more?
5. What are the problems plaguing the media today?
6. What be your suggestions to solve this?
7. Do you feel that like the newspapers and magazines, the TV channels should also have an editorial?
8. What do you understand by the "paid-news"? What steps should be taken to control this?
9. Don't you feel that the time has come now that the government should set a All India Media Tribunal where the people's media related grievances can be heard?
10. Do you think that the journalists should be active politics?
11. Do you think that the media owners should be active in politics?
12. Many corporate and politicians have stakes in a media house which might hamper the position of that media house to take a free position on an issue. How you think should we tackle this problem?
13. Do you think that the allegation of "trial by media" is just another way adopted to tame the media?
14. Where should the media draw a line in the context of "trial by media”?
15. Do you that the problem of corruption has percolated deep Into the media as well?
16. What are your views regarding the allegation against the media that they through their shows they propagate the superstition?
17. Is it right to say that the Indian media is not very careful about the feelings and emotions of the people and infact very often plays with that?
18. Do you think that the TV channels many times promote the sensational ism?
19. Do you think that the sting operations are right?
20. Is it justified for the media to breach somebody's Right to Privacy during their sting operations?
21. If during some sting operation, the person on whom the sting is being carried out, comes to know about the operation and sues the journalist, what do you think should happen in that scenario?
22. Though as far as quantity is concerned the Indian media is placed well, but don't you think that the quality of our media is not that good.
23. Do you think that it is correct for the government to do modifications in the news content when public good is involved?
24. Do you think that government should bar the media or allow broadcasting only after approval in certain cases? Answer In the context of media coverage of 26/11.
25. Do you think that the government should come out with some kind of law to regulate media?
26. Do you think that the self-regulation of the media is really fruitful?
27. Do you think that if a newspaper or a mog01ln& or o TV channel carries a news item which may be termed as h like terrorism, naxalism, secessionism, the government should ban it or stop it?
28. Do you agree with the view that the general standard of the English media-both in print as well as the electronic-is better than that of the Hindi or the other regional media? What do you think are the reasons for that?
29. What do you understand by social media?
30. What is the impact of the social media on the society?
31. What is the impact of the social media on the conventional media?
32. What are the challenges to the social media?
33. What are the advantages of the social media?
34 What are the limitations of the social media?
QUESTION DATABASE ON STATE REORGANISATION
1. Tell us in brief how the states in India have evolved so far?
2. Do you feel that the present evolution is correct?
3. How do you evaluate the creation of three states in 2000? Has it been a success or a failure?
4. What are your views about reorganization of Punjab?
5. What are your views about reorganization of North East?
6. Suggest various ways for a better reorganization of the North East.
7. What are the demands for more states? Please tell the reasons for them as well.
8. In principle, what do you think serves best the purpose: big states or the small states?
9. Don't you feel that when the people are demanding the states, in a democracy it is the duty of the govt. to accept their demand?
10. Give an account of the advantages and disadvantages of the big states.
11. Give an account of the advantages and disadvantages of the small states.
12. What should be the criteria for the state formation?
13. Don't you feel when we give the argument of the economic and administrative viability for not creating more small states; we are implicitly ignoring the concerns of the minorities.
14. What are your views about Telengana statehood?
15. What are your views about trifurcation of J&K?
16. Do you justify the demand of the Gorkhaland?
17. Do you think that the entire north-eastern region be converted into one big state?
18. Is there a need for a Second State Reorganization Commission?
19. Don't you feel that the smaller states suffer with political instability?
20. Do you think that giving functional autonomy to the different regions within a state is a better alternative than to create a smaller state?
QUESTION DATABASE ON PADMA AWARDS
1. Should there be State Awards at all? There are certain scholars who suggest that they State should not be in his business at all. On the contrary, there should be sector and subject specific awards being awarded by their respective fields.
2. Is it right to award these awards to the people who may be great in their fields of professions, but have not contributed directly to the nation? (eg. actors etc.)
3. In the wake of the controversies the Padma Awards come into virtually every year; do you think it's better to do away with them?
4. Please suggest some modifications to make this process more transparent and less ontroversial.
5. The people rejecting these awards, is an embarrassment to the govt. What steps can be taken to control this?
6. Do the politicians be awarded these awards?
7. Is it fair that the government of the day awards to its own political leaders?
8. Should the government be out of this process?
9. There is a school of thought that a person who at one
10. There is a school of thought that a person who at one point of time had something against him should not be considered for these awards? What are your views?
QUESTION DATABASE ON NAXALISM
1. What do you mean by Naxalism?
2. Give a brief account of the Naxal movement.
3. Differentiate between the Naxalism & Maoism.
4. Is Naxalism also terrorism? If yes, why? If not. why not?
5. Do you agree with the statement that Naxalism is the biggest threat to our internal security?
6. Why you think that the Naxalism has the support of the people?
7. What should be our strategy to control Naxalism?
8. Should operations by the army be treated as one of the options?
9. Should we care for the human rights of the Naxals?
10. Should the agencies like the Red Cross etc. be allowed to visit the Naxals and help them with aid?
11. Do you think that the people who support the Naxal ideologically but are not directly supporting them be also considered as some sort of Naxals only?
12. Do you think that the people who support the naxals ideologically and through the non-lethal material but are not directly involved in violent activities be also considered as some sort of naxa1s only?
13. Your views about Mr. Binayak Sen's case.
14. Do you feel that we need some special laws to deal with this problem?
15. Should our approach to contain the Naxalism be state specific or one unified approach?
16. Do you think that the Naxalism in recent years, has turned itself into a crime syndicate, sans any ideology?
17. In the wake of the increasing and bloodier attacks on Indian forces, which has created personal hatred for Naxals among the forces, how do you propose to maintain the peace at ground level?
18. Do you think that the government should move with a peace initiative to naxals?
19. Is the ideology sustaining the Naxalism OR it is the coercive practices adopted by the Naxals that is keeping it alive?
Dear Aspirant Officers, here I am providing you a list of over 300 expected questions. I am labeling them as 'expected' because of the following reasons:
- They are evergreen in the sense that they are being asked since a long time and are going to be among the favourites of the Board for the foreseeable future.
- They don't require you to be an expert of that field to answer these questions. A person having good general awareness should be able to answer these questions.
- Generally it is expected from you to answer these questions; failing which can send a wrong signal.
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