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QUESTION PYQ 20
GS2
10 marks

Reforming the government delivery system through the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme is a progressive step, but it has its limitations too. Comment.

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What the examiner wants

For Direct Benefit Transfer, the core task is to comment the exact proposition ‘Reforming the government delivery system through the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme is a progressive step, but it has its limitations too. Comment.’. Organise the answer around its qualifier and evidence burden, not around a generic syllabus note.

CommentGive your own view on the statement and back it with facts and examples.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1Reforming the government delivery system through the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme is a progressive step, but it has its limitations too. Comment≈55 words
  2. 2For Direct Benefit Transfer, move from formal entitlement to actual access/outcomes for the affected group and identify the delivery gap≈55 words

Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.

Answer plan

Rights/problem frameAffected groupAccess/delivery gapOfficial evidenceTargeted institutional/community response for Direct Benefit Transfer

Where marks usually go

  • Turning this into a broad note on Direct Benefit Transfer instead of answering the question’s critical balance: ‘Reforming the government delivery system through the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme is a progressive…’
  • Giving only one side on Direct Benefit Transfer; the directive requires a limitation, counter-view or implementation test before the final judgment

Value addition

  • Direct Benefit Transfer: legal/institutional flow — basis → actor/process → friction/delivery gap → safeguard/outcome
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

Official source anchors

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