QUESTION 20
GS1
15 marks
“The growth of cities as I.T. hubs has opened up new avenues of employment, but has also created new problems.” Substantiate this statement with examples.
WRITE IN
11 min
250 words
What the examiner wants
Use examples to show how IT-led city growth created both jobs and new urban problems.
SubstantiateBack the statement with facts, data and examples.
Demand-wise check
- 1Opportunities: direct IT jobs, startups, allied services (transport, food, security), rise of women's employment, real estate≈50 words
- 2Examples: Bengaluru, Hyderabad (HITEC City), Pune, Gurugram, Chennai≈50 words
- 3Problems: traffic, water scarcity, lake encroachment and urban floods, high housing costs, slums, waste, inequality, local–migrant tensions≈50 words
- 4Way forward: planned satellite towns, transit, lake restoration, tier-2 city growth≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
IT hubsOpportunities with examplesProblems with examplesSolutionsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Only Bengaluru examples
- General urbanisation problems not tied to IT growth
Draw this
- Two-column table: opportunities vs problems with city examples
Value addition
- DataIndia's IT-BPM industry earned about US$254 billion and employed about 5.4 million people in FY2024.NASSCOM, 2024
- ExampleBengaluru's 2022 floods in the Outer Ring Road IT corridor and the 2024 water crisis.Media reports, 2022 and 2024
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 13 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Akansh Dhull · AIR 3 · Page 38 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 29 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Akansh Dhull · AIR 3 · Page 13 ↗Same syllabus reference
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