UPSC CSE Mains General Studies Paper III Syllabus
Paper IV – General Studies III covers Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management. The paper examines a candidate’s understanding of economic development, agriculture, science and technology, environmental issues, disaster management and internal security.
Marks: 250
Official Syllabus
- Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
- Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
- Government Budgeting.
- Major crops—cropping patterns in various parts of the country; different types of irrigation and irrigation systems; storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers.
- Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System—objectives, functioning, limitations and revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; technology missions; economics of animal-rearing.
- Food processing and related industries in India—scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, and supply chain management.
- Land reforms in India.
- Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
- Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways, etc.
- Investment models.
- Science and Technology—developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
- Achievements of Indians in science and technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
- Awareness in the fields of Information Technology, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.
- Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
- Disaster and disaster management.
- Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
- Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.
- Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money laundering and its prevention.
- Security challenges and their management in border areas—linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
- Various security forces and agencies and their mandate.