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Mains Prelims

Q9 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2018 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 2 min read

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English हिंदी

The Border Security Forces are the main factor of our National sovereignty.

Topic: National and international events. Syllabus: Section C — National and International Events; Natural Calamities; National Development programmes and projects. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2018 and National and international events.

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Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A BSF jawan walks a riverine belt in a night that maps argue about. Sovereignty is that walk — and also a passport desk, a trade, a Constitution. The topic names the force as a main factor. Write main, not only. A night walk on a river border is sovereignty you can see. A civilian file is sovereignty you must not lose.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

  • Main factor: land, a smuggling, a infiltration. National sovereignty: a legal person among states. Include Coast Guard/ITBP as cousins if you must, but keep BSF as the stem.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • BSF: a Central Armed Police Force on specified borders.
  • Main factor: necessary, highly visible.
  • National sovereignty: monopoly of legitimate force plus recognition.

Task

  • Fence, a river, a cattle, a drone-era smuggling.

The rest of sovereignty

  • MEA, a court, a census of the border person.

The counter

Sovereignty that is only khaki forgets the villager who lives in two weathers. A force starved of equipment is a slogan. Civil control remains the republic’s mark.

Force and file

  • BSF, a sister force, a drone — name the work, not a recruitment ad.
  • Villages with two seasons of a river are also the border.
  • Civil control is the republic’s mark; khaki is the instrument.
  • A haat, a fence, a humane patrol — sovereignty as a people, not only a line.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • BSF Act / MHA The legal house of the force.
  • Art. 1 / 53 Union and executive — sovereignty’s civilian roof.
  • Border haat / visa People as a sovereignty practice too.
  • Coast / ITBP Sisters — one line if you name them.
  • Drone / smuggling A new task — peg once.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

Border forces are a main factor of sovereignty because someone walks the night when a river shifts and a drone does not sleep. Honour that walk. They are not the whole republic. A fence without a civilian file becomes a rumour of force; a file without a patrol becomes a map that nobody kept. Villages that farm a changing bank are sovereignty too — a haat, a school, a right that still reaches. Civil control is not a slight on khaki; it is how a union stays a union. Close with respect for the night and a reminder that the Constitution sits above the badge. That is national sovereignty, not a poster of a boot.

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Students also ask

  • Full 700-word essay?

    No. Map only. In the hall, grow each heading; write in English or Hindi, not both.

  • Tone?

    Respectful, civilian. One patrol, one village. Not a recruitment ad.

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