Syllabus: GS 1 – Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
| Critically examine whether a growing population is the cause of poverty OR poverty is the mains cause of population increase in India | 2015 |
| An essential condition to eradicate poverty is to liberate the poor from the process of deprivation.” Substantiate this statement with suitable examples. | 2016 |
| Despite the implementation of various programmes for eradication of poverty by the government in India, poverty is still existing’. Explain by giving reasons | 2019 |
| COVID-19 pandemic accelerated class inequalities and poverty in India. Comment. | 2020 |
| Why did human development fail to keep pace with economic development in India? | 2023 |