| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Examination | UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination |
| Year | 2021 |
| Conducting Body | UPSC |
| Paper | English (Compulsory) |
| Subject | English |
| Duration | Three Hours |
| Maximum Marks | 300 |
| Question Type | Mixed |
This is the official question paper for the English (Compulsory) paper of the UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination held in 2021. The paper, conducted by the UPSC, allows three hours to complete and is worth a maximum of 300 marks. It tests candidates' proficiency in English through essay writing, reading comprehension, and grammar. Aspirants preparing for the Civil Services Exam can use this paper to understand the question format, difficulty level, and important topics covered, aiding their preparation strategy.
(a) Social Media : A Challenge to Societal Harmony
(b) The Role of NGOs in Social Change
(c) Education as a Means to Serve Humanity
(d) The Crying Need for Embracing Minimalism
(1) Life on planet earth has been possible for millions of years largely because of certain basic services associated with the biosphere. Important among these are : Climate and radiation regulation; Microbial transformations and decomposition; Biological diversity; and Opportunities for sustainable advances in biological productivity. We now find ourselves in a state where these essential services are in jeopardy, largely as a result of human induced damage to the basic life support systems of land, water, flora, fauna and the atmosphere. Symptoms of an impending and general breakdown of the life support and ecological systems are already here. Some of these are mounting population growth; vanishing source of drinking water; vanishing forests, plants and animal biodiversity; intensifying drought and floods; loss of grazing lands; growing degradation of fertile land and desertification; deterioration of the quality of air and water; accumulation of toxic and non-biodegradable wastes in the biosphere; explosive growth of rural and urban unemployment and mushrooming of urban slums. It is the poor and the marginalized urban and rural people who are suffering most from such environmental breakdown. The threats to climate change and radiation regulation are receiving the most prominent public attention largely because of all-pervasive nature of their potential harmful impact. "Our Common Future" the report of the World Commission of Environment and Development by the United Nations is indicative that ecologically the fates of people whether rich or poor everywhere are interwined. Recent reports on the state of the world paint a frightening picture of the rapid depletion of the world's natural resources coupled with rising social and economic problems. They reflect the widespread frustration about the inability of current approaches to solve the interlinked problems of environment and development and call for major changes in the way people think, use the finite resources of earth and programme their development. Developing countries like ours are faced with the urgent need for accelerating economic growth in a manner that the poor become the main beneficiaries and not the rich. We should also avoid proceeding on those developmental paths where environmental costs are high and the developmental
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The exam is the UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination.
This question paper is from the 2021 examination.
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the Civil Services Examination.
The paper name is English (Compulsory).
The maximum marks for the English (Compulsory) paper is 300.
The time allowed for the paper is Three Hours.