Writing the Gujarat and Contemporary Themes Essay — Practice

Question 1

Name the six parts of the essay structure.

Accepted Answer

Opening, definition and scope, causes, effects, responses and their limits, and way forward with a close.

Question 2

How should you split the time for each essay?

Accepted Answer

About 10 minutes to plan, 40 to write and 10 to review.

Question 3

Write a one-sentence opening for an essay on cooperatives and rural livelihood.

Accepted Answer

Every morning and evening, in thousands of Gujarat villages, farmers queue at a dairy society with a can of milk, and that daily habit built one of India's best-known brands.

Question 4

Give two Gujarat examples and one limit for an essay on water.

Accepted Answer

The Sardar Sarovar project and the community-funded check dams. A limit is that groundwater is still over-drawn and displacement under the dam was not fully resolved.

Question 5

Why must an essay name the limit of a scheme?

Accepted Answer

Because it shows balanced judgement. Every scheme has a weakness, and naming it lets the essay move to a better way forward instead of repeating praise.

Question 6

Outline an essay on the Gujarat model of development.

Accepted Answer

Open with a port or industrial cluster. Define the model as industry, ports and strong institutions. Causes: trading tradition, infrastructure, policy continuity. Effects: jobs and growth, but gaps in nutrition and regional balance. Responses: GIDC, summits and GIFT City, with the limit that investment commitments are not realised investment. Close with spending on health and nutrition and a return to the opening image.

Question 7

Outline an essay on trusteeship in modern public life.

Accepted Answer

Open with a case of a public asset misused. Define trusteeship as holding office and wealth in trust for society. Causes of failure: weak accountability and temptation. Effects: loss of trust and waste. Responses: asset declarations, audit and the Right to Information, with the limit that rules need the right culture. Close with the talisman and a practical step.

Question 8

How should you quote a figure in an essay?

Accepted Answer

With its source and year, or write that it is as reported.

Practice — Writing the Gujarat and Contemporary Themes Essay

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