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Q6 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2023 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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English Hindi

Globalization and cottage industry.

Topic: Science, environment, economy and agriculture. Syllabus: Section B — Science, Environment and Technology; Economic sphere; Agriculture, Industry and Trade. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2023 and Science, environment, economy and agriculture.

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Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A Chinese plastic in a village fair and a weaver in the next lane without a warp. Globalization arrived as a price. Cottage industry is a household time. The topic is that collision in a UP cluster. Globalization can sell a costume. Cottage industry needs a GI plus a wage — a hand that is not only a tourist photograph.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

  • WTO-era goods, a e-market, a GI. Cottage: handloom, a leather, a brass. GST/compliance as a last-mile pain.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Globalization: trade, a taste, a tourist.
  • Cottage: small, often women, often informal.

Kill / brand

  • Dumping. A Amazon that skips the weaver.
  • A GI that actually paid.

The counter

Closing the border as a romance. The young may not want the loom without a wage and a design school.

GI plus wage

  • A weaver, a cluster, a platform that takes a cut.
  • GI, a design theft, a cheap import.
  • Globalization as a market and as a dump.
  • Dignity: a young person who stays because the wage stayed.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • GI / handloom A brand that can pay.
  • WTO / dumping The kill-file.
  • MUDRA / cluster Credit as a oxygen.
  • GST / informal Compliance pain.
  • Art. 43 Living wage as the cottage ought.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

Globalization and cottage industry is a hand and a ship. The ship can carry a Banarasi and a cheap copy that kills the hand. A GI is a legal fence; a wage is the life inside it. Platforms can open a market; they can also take a cut that leaves a costume without a person. Do not write a museum of crafts. Close on a GI plus a wage, not a costume. That is how a cottage remains an industry in a global wind.

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