Q8 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2019 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 2 min read

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Resource management in India.

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 2019 and National and international events.

Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A sand mafia and a dry handpump in the same district. India is not poor in every resource. It is poor in a management that is honest. The topic is that craft: extract, share, save, restore. A resource is not only a stock. It is a decision about who takes the sand, the coal, the spectrum, and who drinks the leftover.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

  • Water, land, a mineral, a air, a human skill as a resource. Federal: Centre-state, a panchayat. Write SDG 12 lightly.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Management: allocation, a price, a regulation, a restoration.
  • India: diversity of endowments; a common failure of leak and capture.

Sectors

  • Groundwater. A coal/sand. A forest right vs a plantation.

The counter

A freeze that keeps the poor from a minor mineral livelihood without an alternative. Management is not only a lock.

Who decides the sand

  • Land, water, mine, data — name one UP scene.
  • Auction, a royalty, a gram sabha — process as management.
  • Conservation is management; theft in a night truck is the failure.
  • Future generations are a claimant already in Article 48A / 21.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • Art. 39(b)(c) Material resources; anti-concentration.
  • Groundwater / CGWA A silent resource war.
  • MMDR / sand Mineral as a loot-file.
  • FRA / CAMPA Forest as people plus a fund.
  • Finance Commission Sharing the resource rupee.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

Resource management in India is a politics of the leftover. Forests, sand, coal, spectrum, a river — each has a file and a night truck. Management is an auction that is real, a royalty that arrives, a gram sabha that was not a play, a replenishment that matches the take. A slogan of ‘national wealth’ that skips who drinks the leftover is a loot with a flag. Conservation is not a freeze that starves; theft is not growth. Name who decides the sand in a UP riverbed, and who cannot. Close on a decision that can be audited. That is management, not a brochure of minerals.

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