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QUESTION 9
GS4
20 marks

Rampura is a remote, extremely backward tribal district with subsistence agriculture, weak welfare delivery and youth migration. Labour contractors persuade families to send minor girls to Bt cotton farms in another state, where poor living and working conditions create serious health problems; NGOs appear compromised. You are appointed District Collector. Identify the ethical issues and specify steps to protect the minor girls and improve the district’s overall economic situation.

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What the examiner wants

Identify: answer the exact PYQ as framed — “Rampura is a remote, extremely backward tribal district with subsistence agriculture, weak welfare delivery and youth migration. Labour contractors persuade families to send minor girls to Bt cotton farms in another state, where poor living and working condit…” Treat each scoring limb separately instead of writing a general note on Child Labour & Inter-State Exploitation.

IdentifyAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1Map the stakeholders, facts, competing obligations and the ethical/public-interest conflict embedded in the case≈65 words
  2. 2Answer each explicit sub-question in the case and compare feasible options using legality, consequences, rights, fairness and integrity≈65 words
  3. 3Choose and justify an implementable course of action, including safeguards, accountability and follow-through≈65 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

Key facts and stakeholdersEthical/legal issuesRealistic options with consequencesReasoned choiceImplementation safeguards and accountability

Where marks usually go

  • Writing generally about Child Labour & Inter-State Exploitation without directly resolving: “Rampura is a remote, extremely backward tribal district with subsistence agriculture, weak welfare delivery and youth migration.”
  • Under-developing the second scoring limb: “Labour contractors persuade families to send minor girls to Bt cotton farms in another state, where poor living and working conditions create serious health problems”

Value addition

  • Stakeholder map + options-versus-values decision matrix
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

Official source anchors

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