UPSC Mains 2023 GS2 Q6 — Human Resource Development
The crucial aspect of development process has been the inadequate attention paid to Human Resource Development in India. Suggest measures that can address this inadequacy. (Answer in 150 words)
Question Decoded — examiner's intent
- Directive verbs
- Suggest
- Scope keywords
- development processinadequate attentionHuman Resource Developmentmeasures that can address this inadequacy
- Implicit sub-parts
- Identify specific indicators of the current inadequacy in India's HRD (e.g., skill gap, health-education outcomes).
- Explain the underlying reasons why HRD has been neglected in the broader development process.
- Propose a multi-sectoral roadmap (Institutional, Financial, and Policy-driven) to rectify these gaps.
- Common pitfalls
- Defining Human Resource Development too narrowly as just 'education' while ignoring health, nutrition, and vocational skilling.
- Spending 100+ words describing problems without leaving room for the core directive: suggesting measures.
- Providing generic suggestions like 'more funding' without specifying mechanisms like Public-Private Partnerships or Outcome-based budgeting.
- Failing to link HRD to economic growth or the 'demographic dividend' context.
- Dimensions required
- Educational (Primary to Higher Ed)Public Health & NutritionVocational & Skill DevelopmentEconomic (Labor productivity)Policy & Governance (Implementation frameworks)
- Marks allocation hint
Devote 40-50 words to a brief diagnosis of the 'inadequacy' to set the context. Use the remaining 100 words to provide structured, bulleted measures across education, health, and skill development, ensuring a forward-looking conclusion on achieving the demographic dividend.
Unlock the full analysis for this question
You've seen the question and its examiner-intent decoding. Subscribers also get:
- 🔗 Similar Previous Year Questions — cross-year, cross-paper matches so you study the topic, not the question
- 📚 Source Map — verified citations from Laxmikanth, NCERT, PRS, Yojana, Economic Survey, Spectrum
- 🌱 How this topic is evolving — current-affairs bridge anchored to live TARS news clustering
- 🧭 Examiner's Pattern — how the topic has been framed across every year UPSC has tested it
- ✍️ Answer Skeleton — a structured outline (intro → body → conclusion) you can flesh out
- 🎯 AI evaluation — write your answer, get rubric-based scoring from gs-eval
Or browse 132+ free preview questions across all years and papers — the first 3 questions of every paper are unlocked.
Ready to practice?
Subscribers can attempt this question in 150 words and get an instant, rubric-based evaluation showing where they stand.
Subscribe to evaluate your answer →