GS-4 [ Year- 2022 ]
Q1
Explain the major determinants of ethical actions with suitable example.
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Explain specific ethical practices in the personal, organizational and public spheres and practices that are binding to all spheres by citing examples of great administrators.
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Q2
Integrity is all-inclusive. Elaborate on it, mentioning all types of integrity and their constituents as relevant to civil servants, Provide appropriate examples as required.
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Normative ethics is universal and prescriptive ethics is contextual. In this context, explain how the former acts as principles of the latter, with suitable instantiation.
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Q3
Discuss ten major aptitudes indispensable for a good civil servant with suitable examples.
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Explain how a proper and balanced blend of attitude and aptitude can make one a successful administrator.
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Q4
India has diverse cultures and people and many live under terrible conditions. To deal with their situation and progress, sketch out a model of empathetic and compassionate governance.
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Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das was a social reformist who personified morality, tradition and modernity with emotional intelligence. Explain.
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Q5
Kant has given three formulations of the categorical imperative as the following :
(a) Act so that the maxim of your action should become a universal law;
(b) Treat humanity in every case as an end in themselves, never as a means only;
(c) Every rational person is both subject and ruler of the kingdom of ends.
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(a) Act so that the maxim of your action should become a universal law;
(b) Treat humanity in every case as an end in themselves, never as a means only;
(c) Every rational person is both subject and ruler of the kingdom of ends.
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With suitable examples, elucidate both positive and negative sides of consequentialist ethics, if exclusively followed for governance.
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Q6
Discuss Aristotle's notion of virtue ethics and how it is conducive to private, organizational and public transactions.
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Q8
Why are transparency and the Right to Information adopted for the administration? Explain.
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Q9
It is often found that some of the constructions at public places, like bridges and flyovers, break down at the stage of half-construction or immediate completion. These are obviously due to corruption. In this context, analyze the lack of moral integrity, improper attitude and constraints that lead to corruption and simultaneously suggest the preventive steps involving accountability and transparency.
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Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truthfulness), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (regard for the divinity over lust) and Aparigraha (avoiding excess possession) are five virtues accepted by many systems and they are regarded as common moral virtues. How can a public administrator adopt them, furthering his service to the public? Explain.
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12
Sometimes, due to empathy, a humanistic attitude and dedication to public service, an administrator is likely to think to bend the rules and become lenient a little, which could legally help a person. However, to be humanistic, adopting empathy and dedication to public interests are moral, but bending the rules and being lenient is illegal. Explain this dilemma arising here and try to resolve it.
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13
Evaluate the reformative administration of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of Independent India, highlighting his moral integrity, attitudes and aptitudes with suitable instances.
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14
Protocols and Codes of Conduct are prescriptive. However, most of these are based upon some cultural and moral values and norms. Explicate these values and norms with appropriate instances.
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15
How can a subordinate district-level civil servant maintain impartiality and dutifulness by adopting perfect attitude and aptitude while working with hostile political and administrative super-ordinates and misinformed public? Explain with suitable examples of situations.
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16
The administration, politics and public life were expected to be satisfying in Post-Independent India. However, the situation is worsening in some States. Find the moral and attitudinal explanations thereof and suggest how the situation will improve.
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'There was a young civil servant named Wangchu. He was virtuous and just. He has the right attitude and aptitude, but the only thing is that he never bends to illegal and immoral people and their actions. He faced them as he used to take action against them, directly or indirectly. For this, he suffered from the atrocities of them and their appointed hooligans, corrupt politicians and officers and misinformed people. He was harassed and emotionally tortured, physically assaulted, offended, degraded, many times and transferred with intermediary suspensions all over his life. All these happened because he could not go with corruption and corrupt people and he adopted Gandhian simplicity, silent suffering and prayers. After retirement, he got some time to read about the Krishna of the Mahabharata. He came over the passages describing Krishna's valor, tactics, diplomacy, love, dutifulness, etc., in all peace or conflict situations. In the light of Krishna's actions, he analyzed his moral uprightness and actions and all his misfortunes. At last, he found only two things that he could not adopt, as Krishna did in similar situations. Then he thought to give a trial in adopting the same. For this, he contested the elections, adopting these two things that he missed out on and got success not only in the elections, but all through his life, secured prominent positions and removed the corruption as far as he could. His lifelong suffering and morals also paid off, making his image brighter for the public. Based on the Story, recognize the strategy and the two things that Krishna adopted, but Wangchu missed out on all the previous situations as he was an administrator. Imagine the situations of each of his atrocities and suggest what course of action Wangchu could better adopt in those situations.
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