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QUESTION 14
GS4
25 marks

Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low-cost school for a poor rural community. She faces confusing permissions, delays, callous officials and repeated bribe demands, discouraging genuine social-service efforts. Government control over voluntary work is necessary but should not be coercive or corrupt. What measures would ensure due control without thwarting well-meaning, honest NGO efforts?

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300 words

What the examiner wants

For the case beginning ‘Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low-cost scho’, resolve the Case Study dilemma by identifying its specific stakeholders and competing duties, comparing feasible options, and choosing a legally defensible, ethically reasoned course with safeguards.

Explain/AnalyseAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1From the exact case cue ‘Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low-cost’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈80 words
  2. 2For ‘Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low-cost’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈80 words
  3. 3For ‘Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low-cost’, justify a preferred course with due process, transparency/accountability safeguards and concrete follow-up measures≈80 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

FactsStakeholdersEthical/legal issuesOptions with consequencesReasoned choiceSafeguards/follow-up

Where marks usually go

  • For the case cue ‘Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
  • For the case cue ‘Saraswati, a successful IT professional who returned from the USA, forms an NGO with friends to build a high-quality low’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards

Value addition

  • Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

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