2024 GS Paper I, all questions

UPSC Prelims 2024 · GS Paper I

Question 98: Polity and Governance

With reference to the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, consider the following statements :

  1. 1.To implement the scheme, the Central Government provides 100% funding.
  2. 2.Under the Scheme, Cadastral Maps are digitised.
  3. 3.An initiative has been undertaken to transliterate the Records of Rights from local language to any of the languages recognized by the Constitution of India.

Which of the statements given above are correct ?

a1 and 2 only
b2 and 3 only
c1 and 3 only
d1, 2 and 3

AnswerUPSC’s answer is (d).

All three statements are correct. The Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme is a Central Sector scheme with 100 per cent funding by the Centre. It digitises cadastral (village) maps and computerises the record of rights, and it transliterates records from the local language into any of the languages in the Eighth Schedule, so that citizens can read them. Remember: DILRMP aims at modern, transparent land records.

  • 1. The Centre funds the scheme fully.
  • 2. Cadastral maps are digitised under the scheme.
  • 3. Records of rights are being transliterated into Eighth Schedule languages.

How you could have got this

  1. If you were sure statement 1 is correct, (b) goes: it leaves 1 out.

    What you needed to know: The Centre funds the scheme fully.

  2. Then, if you were sure statement 2 is correct, (c) goes: it leaves 2 out.

    What you needed to know: Cadastral maps are digitised under the scheme.

  3. Then, if you were sure statement 3 is correct, (a) goes: it leaves 3 out.

    What you needed to know: Records of rights are being transliterated into Eighth Schedule languages.

Only (d) is left. This one needs every statement.

Which options go is worked out from UPSC’s key and the options, not by a model.

Why each option is right or wrong
  • (a) Wrong: statement 3 on transliteration is also correct.
  • (b) Wrong: statement 1 on 100 per cent funding is also correct.
  • (c) Wrong: statement 2 on digitising cadastral maps is also correct.
  • (d) Right: all three statements are correct.

Answer: UPSC’s key. Explanation: written by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.

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Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2024, General Studies Paper I, Series A. The paper on upsc.gov.in.