{"id":3411,"date":"2020-08-14T23:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2020-08-15T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:30:49","slug":"general-studies-paper-2-syllabus-upsc-cse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/general-studies-paper-2-syllabus-upsc-cse\/","title":{"rendered":"General Studies Paper 2 Syllabus for UPSC CSE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations)<\/p>\n

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    • Indian Constitution\u2014Historical Underpinnings, Evolution, Features, Amendments, Significant Provisions\u00a0and\u00a0Basic Structure.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Functions and Responsibilities of the Union and the States, Issues and Challenges Pertaining to the Federal Structure, Devolution of\u00a0Powers and Finances up to Local Levels and Challenges Therein.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Separation of Powers between various organs Dispute Redressal Mechanisms and Institutions.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Comparison of the Indian Constitutional Scheme with that of Other Countries.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Parliament and State Legislatures\u2014Structure, Functioning, Conduct of Business, Powers & Privileges and Issues Arising out of these.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Structure, Organization\u00a0and\u00a0Functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary\u2014Ministries and Departments of the Government; Pressure Groups and Formal\/Informal Associations and their Role in the Polity.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Salient Features of the Representation of People\u2019s Act.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Appointment to various Constitutional Posts, Powers, Functions\u00a0and\u00a0Responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Statutory, Regulatory and various Quasi-judicial Bodies.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
      \nDevelopment Processes and the Development Industry \u2014 the Role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections of the population by the Centre and States and the Performance of these Schemes; Mechanisms, Laws, Institutions\u00a0and\u00a0Bodies constituted for the Protection and Betterment of these Vulnerable Sections.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Issues relating to Poverty and Hunger.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Important Aspects of Governance, Transparency\u00a0and\u00a0Accountability, E-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; Citizens Charters, Transparency & Accountability and institutional and other measures.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Role of Civil Services in a Democracy.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • India and its Neighborhood- Relations.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Bilateral, Regional and Global Groupings and Agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India\u2019s interests, Indian Diaspora.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Important International Institutions, agencies\u00a0and\u00a0fora – their Structure, Mandate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations) Indian Constitution\u2014Historical Underpinnings, Evolution, Features, Amendments, Significant Provisions\u00a0and\u00a0Basic Structure. Functions and Responsibilities of the Union and the States, Issues and Challenges Pertaining to the Federal Structure, Devolution of\u00a0Powers and Finances up to Local Levels and Challenges Therein. Separation of Powers between various organs Dispute Redressal Mechanisms and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}