QUESTION PYQ 06
GS3
10 marks
Explain the role of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India.
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
For Millets & Nutritional Security, the core task is to explain the exact proposition ‘Explain the role of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India.’. Organise the answer around its qualifier and evidence burden, not around a generic syllabus note.
ExplainMake clear how and why it happens: causes, process, and an example for each point.
Demand-wise check
- 1Explain the role of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India≈55 words
- 2For Millets & Nutritional Security, connect the farm/value-chain constraint to farmer incentives, risk, markets and the policy/technology lever that changes the outcome≈55 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Farm/value-chain contextSpecific constraints/driversIncentive/technology/policy linkageFarmer/market outcomeEnabling conditions for Millets & Nutritional Security
Where marks usually go
- Turning this into a broad note on Millets & Nutritional Security instead of answering the question’s operative wording: ‘Explain the role of millets for ensuring health and nutritional security in India.’
- Adding correct but adjacent facts on Millets & Nutritional Security that do not advance the exact causal, comparative or evaluative task in this PYQ
Value addition
- Millets & Nutritional Security: mechanism/value-chain diagram — input/constraint → transmission → outcome → policy lever
→ 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.
Next: plan for one minute, write it in 7 minutes, then get it checked.