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This is a community resource for Interview candidates of UPSC CSE, IFoS and other exams.

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Gs-3 : Environment- Pollution

🅾️he problem revolves around air pollution caused by thermal power plants, primarily due to sulphur dioxide (SO₂) emissions, which have severe environmental and health consequences.

🅾️What does the study by the International Energy Agency’s Clean Coal Centre (IEACCC) say?-
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🅾️The regulatory goal: To reduce these emissions through enforceable standards, like the mandatory installation of Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) technology- we discussed that here-
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⚜️Environmental regulations exist to correct the “market failure” where industries externalize pollution costs onto society.

⚜️Why regulations fail? Weak enforcement, regulatory capture (influence of power companies)



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Gs-3 : Environment- COP summits - the problems that we have to deal with in the future- 2nd part of IPCC report- India's transition to a net-zero economy

🔰Imp aspects :

⚜️1. Transitioning to a low-carbon economy through sustainable infrastructure and policies.
⚜️2. The role of taxes, subsidies, and externalities in driving this transition.
⚜️3. Challenges like resource security, fiscal constraints, and governance.
⚜️4. Advocating for differentiated climate action based on historical responsibility and promoting climate justice.
⚜️5. Encouraging reforms in public finance, renewable energy, and green infrastructure to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth.


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Gs3- Climate change- Carbon markets- in Agriculture- Agri-carbon market

🅾️What are carbon markets and mechanisms under Kyoto protocol?- Read them from environment basic textbooks - also read this -
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☝️This topic comes under the broader umbrella term of Climate finance-
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⚠️Articles like these are rare because they are backed by field studies and are written by experts!

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Gs-3 : Environment- Plastic treaty

⚜️Context : Plastic waste ban- significance and other dimensions like urbanization-
impact of climate change

⚠️The treaty, being negotiated since March 2022, aims to create a legally binding framework to address plastic pollution.

🅾️Many countries, including India, opposed including a production cap on plastics, instead focusing on managing plastic waste.

🚫India’s Position: India did NOT support limits on production


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🔰Forest Governance, Policy & Law - Important for IFos Interviews ( Folks preparing for IFos Prelims may also do some extra work here by reading the nuances)

⚜️Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (latest amendments)- Click here

⚜️Compensatory Afforestation (CAMPA) fund usage-
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⚜️FRA, 2006 – forest rights, tribal issues-
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⚜️Role of MoEFCC, Forest Survey of India, NTCA, NBWL, SBBs-
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Why the “shepherd’s son” UPSC success headline is misunderstood!? Beerappa IPS - Inspirational story
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UPSC Prelims 2025- Key.pdf
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How Relevant was VK IAS in prelims 2025?- ☝️Check this document. 🙂

This is also the official key from my end

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⚠️ALERT : For candidates preparing for 2025 Personality test!

Watch these videos- Issues of High importance- they are designed to structure your arguments for MAINS and Interview- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHWHNQUHjwPIPZlMmZcj_BEbTYlK8OLM&si=buYjtys54UPByuzC
Gs- 3 : Indian economy- sectors of economy - service sector- AI and IT jobs- learn the skill of structuring your argument

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Previous mentees-Includes-both full length programs and interview mentorship programs

⚜️1. Chetana- Score 206-
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⚜️2. Sai chaitanya jadhav- Score 206-
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🌟3. Swathika - Interview score - 200-
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⚜️4. Aditya- Interview score- 193-
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Chess hobby

🅾️China’s chess model is essentially a state-capacity lesson: Strong institutions + continuous pipelines + high-density ecosystems + predictable support = scalable excellence.

🅾️India’s model shows a Sociology of agency: Individual struggle + family support + volunteer mentors + uneven infrastructure = sporadic excellence


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Gs-2 : Judiciary - Role of Judiciary - advisory jurisdiction

🅾️Already discussed in detail- this article is like a summary of the discussion -
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⚠️Note : A judgment is formally overruled only by a decision of the Supreme Court in its Adjudicatory Jurisdiction (i.e., in a regular case), typically by a larger bench than the one that passed the original judgment- adjudicatory Judgment (Articles 132-136, 142). The judgment with the "deemed assent" is likely considered negated in its operative part, but the precedent is generally not considered formally overruled by the advisory opinion alone

⚜️But the Opinion/Report to the President (Consultative)- Advisory Opinion (Article 143) Negates the Judgment's Operative Effect


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Gs-2 : Federalism - States reorganization- Do small states work?- Watch this video!

⚠️V. IMP for candidates having Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh in their DAF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmn7Cjwj-NE
⚠️Issues relevant to candidates with respect to uttarakhand :

⚜️1. 25 years of statehood for Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand-
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⚜️2. Uttarakhand is an ecologically fragile region- uttarakashi disaster-
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⚜️3. Glacial lake outburst flood(GLOF)-
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⚜️4. Himalayan model of development-Uttarakhand- Bageshwar district-
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⚜️5. Joshimath-
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⚜️6. Supreme Court Judgment on Jim Corbett National Park-
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⚜️7. Uttarakhand's - Uniform Civil Code (UCC)-
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⚜️8. Uttarakhand chardham devasthanam management board act, 2019 UK HC upheld its validity-
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Framework to think in Interview :

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