UPSC Civil Services Mains GS-3 (Mains Paper-IV) Syllabus

• UPSC Civil Services Mains General Studies III (GS-III) Syllabus consists of the following major areas: Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management.

UPSC Civil Services Mains General Studies III (GS-III) Detailed Syllabus

Indian Economy

• Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
• Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
• Government Budgeting.

Indian Agriculture; Food processing Industry

• Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country.
• Different types of irrigation and irrigation systems.
• Storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints.
• E-technology in the aid of farmers.
• Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices.
• Public Distribution System – objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security.
• Technology missions.
• Economics of animal-rearing.
• Food processing and related industries in India – scope and significance, location, upstream and
  downstream requirements, supply chain management.

Reforms

• Land reforms in India.
• Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial
  growth.

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.
• Investment models.

Science and Technology

• Science and Technology – developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
• Achievements of Indians in science & technology.
• Indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
• Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and
  issues relating to intellectual property rights.

Environment

• Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

Disaster management

• Disaster and disaster management.

Internal Security

• Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
• Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.
• Challenges to internal security through communication networks, the role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cybersecurity; money-laundering and its prevention.
• Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with
  terrorism.
• Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.