Geography optional Mains 2019 discussion | Lessons Learnt

@132_SIDi wrote general from syllabus
1.Rural area muti level planning
2.drought prone area development
3.island area
4.hill area
5.also used some industries which were envisaged as growth pole but failed due to linkages problem
Dont remb exactly

@SUMANSAURABH201296904I used
...REGIONAL DEV PROGRAMME (dpp,tribal area ,hill ,desert ), aspirational district ,VGF , special status ...Etc

@SUMANSAURABH201296904I used broder area prog, drought area, backward area Dev prog, watershed area dev. I included recent program such aspirational district, health programs such icds, Mnegra etc. Analysis was asked so I mentioned pros and cons of such incentive based prog. Mentioned fund crunch, corruption, decentralisation is inefficient etc. Way ahead was use of technology such as Aadhar linkage etc

@Hartshornehmm.same ..I also wrote +ive and lacuna and way forward...

@132_SIDyup everybody has written on more or less the same lines. Such ques would be awarded avg marks imo. Differences will arise in pap1.

@132_SIDBAISED MEDIA WALE ESSAY .........Mine .
Maine democracy ke basics and importance of each puller se start kia .....1.)media ka importance(kitabi gyan + real
2.) Media is not impartial
3.)impact
3(when media is baised in favour of govt . (Satta paksh), than when media in favour of vipaksha, I expand dimension to hindi vs non hindi language ,north vs south vs north east , development vs environment,tribal vs industry , etc ..

4)why media become biased ... Advertisement, trp, competition , influence
                 5 ) positive side not all based some are good

... 6 ) what to do for make them impartial...
7) conclusion.....

Kitne ki ummid kru ....( 2016,17,18 ......Marks were 124,135,139

@132_SIDcontent wise is ok but it depends on linkages, flow, did you substantiate well with examples etc.

@Hartshorneyeah ...Example were there .....Arab spring , some good examples of medias role in democracy (nirbhya kand , .....24×7 ram mandir , ati-rastrvad, ,1975 emergency, recent economic slowdown , sri devi incident , odisha m niamgiri matter , .......Etc not fully remember.....## I was tried to be impartial while taking examples ....

@132_SIDthen expect upward of 70.

@Hartshorneexample to bahut the but risk tha and aalochna ke time pe use different trike se likha gya ...Like विद्वानो का एक वर्ग मानता ह की मीडिया जम्मू कश्मीर की ग्राउंड रियलिटी को छुपा रहा ह ।।।like

@132_SID

1(b) Used groundwater provinces, North India agricultural practices related depletion, South India peninsula poor recharge potential and aquifer collapse, coastal region saltwater seepage from ocean due to reverse hydrostatic pressure. Quality depletion in bengal(arsenic) and nalconda(flouride).

1(c) Yin jet stream theory, kooteshwaran Tibetan plateau theory, El nino and Indian ocean dipole, related diagrams.

1(d) Used agroclimatic planning in drought prone regions, watershed initiatives, role of ICAR in drought resistant seeds etc.

2(a) Both agroclimatic zones of Randhawa and agroecological regions of nbsslup and correlated with diagram.

2(b) Used growth pole reference, and strategies for removing regional imbalances.

2(c) Defined watershed concept with diagram, then 4E strategy in watershed development.

4(a) Used cultural races specific to himalayan region, role of topography etc. Missed rimland theory here.

4(c) Census data of all 3 age categories, age pyramid, dependancy ratio. Demographic dividend, data and government initiatives.

5(a) Dividied West flowing rivers into northern himalayan, central ephemeral and Southern with diagram.

5(b) principles of wildlife conservation like coarse and filter approach, contagious zone principle and local level participation.

5(c) Von thunen distance decay in land rent, Concentric zonation model, post modernism and multiple nuclei model, 3 congested diagrams.

5(d) Defined footloose industries then used forward and backward linkages, role in agriculture with examples.

5(e) Diagram of corrie lake and how its responsible for glof, global warming, earthquake and neglect of land use zonation leading to settlements in river flood prone area.

7(a) Empowered action group and non EAG states relation in migration and migration flow map. All 3 sectors comparison between in migrating and out migrating states. BGREI and growth poles in backward regions. Missed migration core theories as well as core periphery mention in answer.

7(b) Major 3 types of pollution, map of specific regions affected by particular type, comparison with south

7(c)Defined incentive based programmes, then explained roles of such programmes by exemplifying like mgnrega for employment and creation of durable assets, pmay for shelter and employment, skill development mission for better remuneration in quality jobs, health by pm ayush etc.

@Arrah_JilaConcentric donation model is applicable to Western Europe mainly, not to India. Maybe Bazaar or port model could have been mentioned. I didn't mention any more and wrote general answers with Delhi and Mumbai maps.

@132_SIDHow are ram Mandir, rashtravad, Sri Devi death good examples of media reporting.

@hirockyrocks7101Nice write-up esp in environment. I didn't know any of these wildlife related theories.

@hirockyrocks7101bro u will get gud marks.

@vvvikas0078212bad examples h not good

@vvvikas0078212I too wasn't aware of these but 500+ helped in this aspect, 1 question covered major wildlife principles, so just mentioned that in India these aren't followed.

@hirockyrocks7101i used in situ and ex situ in wildlife

@Scorpion888everyone gets good marks in paper 2 bro because we think anything above 140 is good. Difference comes when some topper gets 179 or 173 in paper 2 then these are exceptional marks. Baaki I've witnessed brijesh jyoti Upadhyay after 2017 mains and expected that he'll get really good marks but he got even less than me that year. So upsc is really unpredictable.

@hirockyrocks7101i think brijesh jyoti was from hindi medium...
Isn't it?
He scored well in gs