Q9 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2023 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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P.M. Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan.

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 2023 and National and international events.

Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A scheme poster at a kisan mela and a mustard pile that still went at a distress rate. Annadata income protection is a political promise. The mission is a set of tools (PSS, PDPS, a private procurement cousin). The essay is whether the tool touched the pile. A scheme is a poster until a cheque matches it. PM-AASHA is income protection if the procurement walked.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

Name the components without a dump. Oilseeds/pulses as the usual gap vs wheat-rice. UP as a case if you know a crop.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • A named Abhiyan. Income protection as the aim.

Tool / gap

  • Procurement where MSP exists. Deficiency where it does not bite.
  • Delay, a quality cut, a awareness.

The counter

MSP as a universal magic. And trashing every scheme when one e-NAM invoice worked.

Cheque and poster

  • Price support, a deficiency, a private procurement — name the arm that moved.
  • Farmer as a citizen of a glut, not only of a drought.
  • Leakage, a mill, a quality rejection that is a trick.
  • Protection that skips a woman on the title is half a scheme.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • PM-AASHA PSS/PDPS as the toolkit.
  • MSP / FCI The older floor for some grains.
  • Oilseed / pulse Where protection is the test.
  • eNAM / FPO A market cousin.
  • C2 / Swaminathan cousin Income debate — one line, no war.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

PM Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan is a name for a floor under a glut. It is protection if a cheque matched the poster — a procurement that walked, a deficiency that arrived, a quality test that was not a trick. A farmer’s pride without a passbook is a speech. Do not dump ten scheme aliases. Close on a cheque that matched the poster. That is income protection as a file, not as a banner on a tractor.

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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?

    Price policy, exact. One pile. Not a ministry brochure.

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