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Educational and Press policies.

Important Governor Generals andthe significant measures initiated bythem.

It is expected that this section willaccount for 70-80 marks.Post-independent India: This will havequestions relating to the following areas: Integration of Indian States. Linguistic Reorganisation of States. Task of nation building. Secularism, communalism, back-

ward classes and affirmative action.Suggested Readings: Tarachand : History of Freedom

Movement in India, Vol- I to IV,(Publications Division).

Surendernath Sen: 1857 (PublicationsDivision)

Ancient India-Collection of Article(Publications Division)

NCERT-Modern India. NBT- Freedom Struggle. Bipan Chandra-Indias Struggle for

Independence. Bipan Chandra-Post Independent India. Sumit Sarkar-Modern India. Gazetteer of India- Volume II.World History: One can conceptualizeand systematize the syllabus of the WorldHistory as follows: Industrial Revolution and its impact. The two world wars: causes and effects. The League of Nations and the UNO. The process of decolonization. Major ideologies : communism,

socialism, capitalism. The Cold War. Policy of Non-Alignment. Globalization.Suggested Readings: NCERT: The Story of Civilization

(2 Volumes) NCERT: Contemporary World

History. L.Mukherji : A History of the World.Geography of the World: Appliedaspects have been emphasized in bothIndian and World Geography syllabus.NCERT books on Indian and worldGeography continue to remain extremelyrelevant to the new syllabus. The follow-ing books can help in covering the newgeography syllabus: Physical Geography: Savindra Singh Geomorphology :Savindra Singh Oceanography: Sharma and Vatal

(NCERT)Economics and Social Geography:Rupa Publications

Environmental Geography: Savindra

Singh Survey of Indian Agriculture : TheHindu Publications.

Survey of Indian Economy: TheHindu Publications

India-2013: Publications DivisionGS Paper II: Governance, Constitution,Polity, Social Justice and InternationalRelations.This paper is likely to find utmost favourwith the aspirants because it containsinteresting areas like Polity, Constitutionand International Relations. The new poli-ty syllabus is very well outlined this timeand it emphasizes on the following: Structure of our polity i.e. the

Constitutional framework of our polit-ical system.

Operational aspects of our polity. Issues relating to governance. Public Administration.The following source-material can beconsulted on polity: D.D.Basu: Indian Constitution. P.M.Bakshi: Indian Constitution S.C. Kashyap : Citizens and the

Constitution (Publications Division) B.S. Baviskar & Ash Narain Roy :

Local Governance - AGlobalPerspective (Publications Division)

S.C.Kashyap: Our Parliament (NBT) S.C.Kashyap: Our Constitution (NBT) S.C.Kashyap: Our Political System (NBT) M.P.Singh: Indian Federalism (NBT) Kuldeep Mathur: From Government

to Governance (NBT)

International Relations: It covers threeareas: Indian Foreign Policy, Internationalaffairs, and International Organizations.Since very contemporary issues will beasked in this section . one has to keep aclose watch on day to day happenings oninternational affairs specially those whichhave a bearing on India. The followingsources can be consulted: Rajiv Sikri: Challenge and Strategy-

Understanding Indias foreign policy C.Rajamohan: Crossing the Rubicon World Focus (Magazine) The Economist (Magazine)

The best way to cover these areas is toread relevant articles in leading newspa-pers. Doordarshan News, Lok Sabha andRajya Sabha TV presents excellent panel

discussions on international issues.This gives a proper perspective and

balanced approach and understanding ofa particular issue.GS Paper III: Technology, EconomicDevelopment, Bio-Diversity, Environment,

Security and Disaster Management.Technology: Technology, questions willbe framed on latest developments on thefront of technology such as nano-technol-ogy, robotics, IT, space etc. Emphasiswould be on Indias advances and futureprogrammes on Science and Technology.There is no single book available toinclude the vast theme under this section.An effort has to be made to collect mate-rial from a variety of sources.Suggested Readings: India Yearbook-2013, brought out by

Publications Division : Chapter onScience and Technology

Annual Reports of the department ofSpace, Atomic Energy, Ministry ofEnvironment etc.

Down to Earth (Magazine)Indian Economy: The current syllabusunder this section can be covered byreferring to the following source materials. Mishra and Puri: Indian Economy NCERT: Indias Economic

Development Relevant Economic Survey 12th Five Year Plan Document Bimal Jalan: Indias Economic Policy Bimal J alan: Emerging India-

Economics, Politics and Reforms. Any one Economic Newspaper like

The Economic Times, BusinessStandard, Financial Express.

Yojana which comes every month inHindi, English, Assamese, Bangali,Gujarathi, Kannada, Malayalam,

Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Teluguand Urdu.

Kurukshetra in Hindi/English.Environment and Bio-diversity: NCERT: Indias Physical

Environment Together, Towards a Safer India:

CBSE Publication Encyclopedia of Disaster

Management: S.L.Goel (Deep andDeep Publications)

Security: Since internal security is thegreatest threat to our country, a goodnumber of questions can be expectedfrom this section of the syllabus. TheHome Ministry is responsible for internalsecurity. Its website contains vital infor-mation on the internal security architec-

ture including agencies, plans, mecha-nism. Therefore, one must visit this site

and extract highly useful material relatingto internal security.Suggested Readings: Annual Reports of Ministry of Home

Affairs, Defence and External Affairs.GS Paper-IV: Ethics, Integrity andAptit ude: This GS paper is a completedark zone for the Civil Services aspirantsbecause it has been introduced for thefirst time by UPSC. This paper aims toevaluate the candidates attitude andapproach to issues relating to integrity,probity in public life. Further, it also seeksto test his solving approach to variousissues and conflicts while dealing withsociety as a civil servant.Ethics and Integrity: These two con-cepts have been borrowed from publicadministration. They deal with adminis-trative ethics and integrity in public life. Aregular study of Newspapers with focuson issues before society and issuesraised by Civic Society groups will help.These two areas can be covered from thefollowing sources .1. Mohit Bhattacharya- New Horizons ofPublic Administration.2. Nicholas Henry- Public Administrationand Public Affairs.3. S.R.Maheshwari and Awasthi -PublicAdministration.

Aptit ude:This topic belongs to the realmof psychology. Its theoretical aspects canbe comprehended by referring to anygood text book of psychology. A candi-date also has to inculcate the valueswhich would orient his aptitude towardssociety. These values are: integrity,impartiality and non-partisanship, objec-

tivity, dedication to public service, empa-thy, tolerance and compassion towardsthe weaker sections.The new GS syllabus indeed poses aformidable challenge before aspirants.But there is always a way out. The twomain challenges are viz; collection ofstudy material from a diverse range ofsources and secondly, to use thesematerials to suit the needs of thesyllabus. This requires maturity of mindand very high quality guidance. Acandidate has to prepare for the new GSsyllabus for at least one year in advancein order to command it. (Concluded)(The author is an academician and

writes on civic issues including civil

services and other competitive exams.email: sb_singh2003@yahoo.com)

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STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION

Grade C Stenographers Limited Departmental Competitive Examination,2012 Declaration of f inal result for all cadres (except CSSS)

Staff Selection Commission conducted the Grade C Stenographers Limited Departmental CompetitiveExamination, 2012 on 15.07.2012 for making additions to the Select list for Grade Cof the following serv-ices/cadres :-(i) Central Secretariat Stenographers Service Grade C;(ii) Stenographers Cadre of Indian Foreign Service (B) Grade-II;(iii) Armed Forces Headquarters Stenographers Service Grade C;(iv) Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service Grade C;(v) Election Commission of India Stenographers Service Grade C;(vi) Central Vigilance Commission Stenographers Service Grade C;(vii) Central Administrative Tribunal;

2. The result of Written part and Skill Test in Stenography (Hindi/English) has already been declared andplaced on the Commissions website on 24.08.2012 & 09.11.2012, respectively, for information of the candi-dates. Following are the category-wise details of candidates recommended against the vacancies, receivedfrom the user departments, for inclusion in the Select List of Steno Grade C of 2012 on the basis of GradeC Stenographers Limited Departmental Competitive Examination, 2012:--

I.F.S.B.

SC ST UR TOTAL

VACANCIES 02 01 07 10

CANDIDATES RECOMMENDED -- -- 02 02

A.F.H.Q.

SC ST UR TOTAL

VACANCIES 01 01 05 07

CANDIDATES RECOMMENDED -- -- 03 03

E.C.I.

SC ST UR TOTAL

VACANCIES 01 -- 02 03CANDIDATES RECOMMENDED -- -- 01 01

3. No candidate from Railway Board and Central Vigilance Commission had qualified for evaluation ofACRs. The result of the candidates belonging to CSSS cadre will be declared as and when vacancies arecommunicated by the cadre authority.4. The above said lists are purely provisional and subject to the recommended candidates fulfilling all theeligibility conditions prescribed in the Notice of the Examination and also subject to thorough verification oftheir identity with reference to their photograph, signatures, handwritings, etc. on the Application Forms,admission Certificates, etc..5. The lists of these candidates(except CSSS) is available on SSCs website: http://ssc.nic.in. Marks ofcandidates(except CSSS) are also available on the website. (Nityananda Ray),Under Secretary(C.1/2)

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