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QUESTION 5
GS3
12.5 marks

How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government taken in this regard?

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What the examiner wants

Explain/Analyse the exact proposition in the PYQ — “How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government taken in this regard?” — using concept/chronology or mechanism, evidence on both sides where relevant, and a conclusion that answers the directive rather than merely describing Digital Agriculture.

Explain/AnalyseAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1For the prompt cue ‘How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government taken in t’, directly answer: How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income?≈45 words
  2. 2For the prompt cue ‘How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government taken in t’, directly answer: What steps has the Government taken in this regard?≈45 words
  3. 3For the prompt cue ‘How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the G’, add one verified official-source anchor and a limitation/counterpoint specific to Digital Agriculture≈45 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

Define/contextualise Digital AgricultureExplain mechanism/chronologyQuestion-specific evidence/examplesImplicationsConcise conclusion

Where marks usually go

  • For the prompt cue ‘How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government’, avoid a generic note on Digital Agriculture; answer the actual wording/directive and the Digital Agriculture proposition
  • For the prompt cue ‘How can the Digital India programme help farmers to improve farm productivity and income? What steps has the Government’, do not add examples around Digital Agriculture unless they prove, qualify or rebut the proposition asked

Value addition

  • 3-box flow: concept/context → core argument/evidence → implication/way forward
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

Official source anchors

These are authoritative sources selected for this exact PYQ. Where a card is an official-domain anchor rather than a fact-level citation, verify the precise provision, definition or data point on the linked source before using it.