GS-2Specific Microtheme

Top-Down Planning vs. Bottom-Up Needs & Target Identification

Mapped under Cross Cutting Implementation Deficits → Topic 12 Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections

📝 2 Questions (Sorted Recent First 2025–2013)

Other Microthemes in Cross Cutting Implementation Deficits:

Top-Down Planning vs. Bottom-Up Needs & Target Identification Rights-Based Approach vs. Entitlement/Welfare Approach Leakages, Administrative Red Tape, Diversion of Funds Role of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), Aadhaar, JAM Trinity Social Audits, Community Monitoring, Transparency Mechanisms Scheme Overlap, Multiplicity of Programs, Rationalization

UPSC Mains Questions on "Top-Down Planning vs. Bottom-Up Needs & Target Identification" (2)

2014 marks

backward communities byprotecting required social resources Welfare schemes for them, lead to their exclusion in establishingbusinesses in (Urban Exclusion) urban economics?

Q4No match yet

2013 marks

The basis of providing urban amenities in rural areas (PURA) is rooted in establishing connectivity. Comment. Do government’s schemes for up-lifting vulnerable and

Q3No match yet

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