Q9 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2024 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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Indian Economy and 'Make 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 2024 and National and international events.

Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A factory gate in a UP node and a warehouse that still only labels an import. Make in India is a industrial-policy sentence. The Indian economy is a farm, a gig, a service export. The ‘and’ in the topic is the essay: how the slogan meets the structure. Make in India is a gate that hires. A warehouse of labels is not manufacturing. Make what employs; import what we must, honestly.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

PLI, a logistics, a skill. 2014-brand as a peg, then 2024 evidence without a party. China-plus-one as a maybe.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Indian economy: size, a job, a external.
  • Make in India: manufacturing share, a FDI, a defence cousin.

Fit / leak

  • Electronics that still import a chip. A textile cluster that could make.

The counter

Services-only destiny. And a protection that raises a consumer price without a job.

What hires

  • PLI, a component, a logistics — tools.
  • Import dependence that is a truth, not a shame if named.
  • Wage and a skill in a district, not only a logo.
  • Protection that raises a price without a job is another slogan.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • Make in India / PLI The policy tools.
  • Manufacturing share / PLFS Whether the economy made.
  • China-plus-one A maybe — one line.
  • Art. 41 / 43 Work as the test of ‘make’.
  • Logistics / Gati A rail of making — peg once.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

Indian economy and Make in India meet at a gate that hires. A warehouse of stickers is not a factory. Make the component that employs a district; import what we cannot yet, without a lie in the brochure. PLI is a tool; a logistics that actually moves is a tool; a skill that matches a shift is a tool. China-plus-one is a maybe — one line, not a hymn. Close on making what hires and importing what we must, honestly. That is an economy, not a logo on a carton.

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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?

    Industrial policy, cool. One gate, one warehouse. Not a ministry ad.

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