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High Work Ethic: Accountability, Professional Excellence, Overcoming Inertia

All UPSC Mains previous year questions mapped for High Work Ethic: Accountability, Professional Excellence, Overcoming Inertia under Dedication to Public Service and Fortitude.

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GS-12025 • Q34

The ethos of civil service in India stand for the combination of professionalism with nationalistic consciousness – Elucidate.

GS-42021 • Q26

Besides domain knowledge, a public official needs innovativeness and creativity of a high order as well, while resolving ethical dilemmas. Discuss with a suitable example. The Rules and Regulations provided to all the civil servants are

GS-42022 • Q27

same, yet there is difference in the performance. Positive minded officers are able to interpret the Rules and Regulations in favour of the case and achieve success, whereas negative minded officers are unable to achieve goals by interpreting the same Rules and Regulations against the case. Discuss with

GS-42025 • Q31

"For any kind of social re-engineering by successfully implementing welfare schemes, a civil servant must use reason Reason & Critical and critical thinking in an ethical framework." Justify this statement with suitable examples.

GS-42022 • Q8

overlook. An officer being engrossed with the periphery, ignoring the core issues before him, is no rare in the bureaucracy. Do you Good Governance vs agree that such preoccupation of an administrator leads to travesty of justice to the cause of effective service delivery and

GS-42024 • Q14

Mission Karmayogi is aiming for maintaining a very high standard of conduct and behaviour to ensure efficiency for serving citizens and in turn developing oneself. How will this scheme empower Mission Karmayogi the civil servants in enhancing productive efficiency and delivering the services at the grassroots level?

GS-42019 • Q8

“Non-performance of duty by a public servant is a form of Non-performance of corruption” Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer

GS-42018 • Q15

chemicals on a large scale. It proposes to set upon the additional unit. Many states rejected its proposal due to the detrimental effect on the environment. But one state government acceded to the request and permitted the unit close to a city, brushing aside all opposition. The unit was set up 10 years ago and was in full swing till recently. The pollution caused by the industrial effluents was affecting the land, water and crops in the area. It was also causing serious health problems to human beings and animals. This gave rise to a series of agitation thousands of people took part, creating a law and order problem necessitating stern police action. Following the public outcry, the State government ordered the closure of the factory. The closure of the factory resulted in the unemployment of not only those workers who were engaged in the factory but also those who were working in the ancillary units. It also very badly affected those industry which depended on the chemicals manufactured by it. As a senior officer entrusted with the responsibility of

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