Our attitudes towards life, work, other people and society are often shaped unconsciously by family and social surroundings; some acquired attitudes and values are undesirable in a modern democratic and egalitarian society.(a) Discuss such undesirable attitudes and values prevalent among today's educated Indians.(b) How can they be changed and socio-ethical values cultivated in aspiring and serving civil servants?
What the examiner wants
Identify undesirable attitudes among educated Indians and suggest ways to cultivate better values in civil servants.
Demand-wise check
- 1(a) Attitudes: caste and communal prejudice, patriarchy and dowry, VIP culture, disregard for rules, intolerance, materialism≈35 words
- 2(b) Change: training and sensitisation, role models, field exposure, codes and accountability, value education, reflection≈35 words
- 3Institutions: Mission Karmayogi, foundation course≈35 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Only listing attitudes without methods
- Not focusing on educated Indians
Draw this
- Table: undesirable attitude → remedy
Value addition
- ThinkerAmbedkar: 'Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated.'.Constituent Assembly, 1948
- PolicyUse of red beacons on official vehicles was banned from May 2017 to end VIP culture.Union Cabinet, 2017
Mapped topper copies
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- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 23 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 3 ↗Same syllabus reference
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