Saraswati was a successful IT professional in USA. Moved by the patriotic sense of doing something for the country she returned to India. Together with some other like-minded friends, she formed an NGO to build a school for a poor rural community. The objective of the school was to provide the best quality modern education at a nominal cost. She soon discovered that she has to seek permission from a number of Governments agencies. The rules and procedures were quite confusing and cumbersome. What frustrated her most was the delays, callous attitude of officials and constant demand of bribes. Her experience and the experience of many others like her has deterred people from taking up social service projects. A measure of Government control over voluntary social work is necessary. But it should not be exercised in a coercive or corrupt manner. What measures can you suggest to ensure that due control is exercised but well meaning, honest NGO efforts are not thwarted?
This question is available to read here. The practice button generates a fresh question from the same paper. Here, practise an answer plan in keywords. Choose your timer on the next screen. Feedback uses our common 15-point practice rubric, rather than the paper’s original mark allocation.
In September 2026, political leader Aaditya Thackeray urged the Maharashtra government to defer the Maharashtra Public Service Commission State Service Mains examination until the reform committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary V. Radha submits its report and recommendations are implemented. The demand highlights systemic concerns regarding exam scheduling, transparency, and candidate grievances in public service recruitment.
At the seventy-second National Film Awards ceremony held at Ekta Nagar near the Statue of Unity, President Droupadi Murmu commended the Indian cinema industry for its expansive cultural reach while issuing a sharp caution against endorsing harmful health products. Emphasizing that a true star spreads light rather than darkness, the President highlighted the profound moral and social responsibilities borne by public figures whose commercial choices directly shape public health, impressionable youth, and societal values.
The Kerala High Court recently intervened to protect a CPI(M) member from coercive legal action by state authorities following a social media post that compared media coverage of political leaders foreign trips across different tenures. The petitioner argued that the post constituted a legitimate political observation rather than defamation against the Home Minister. This judicial intervention highlights ongoing tensions surrounding the threshold for criminal defamation, police overreach, and the protection of dissenting or comparative political discourse in democratic spaces.