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UPSC CAPF Assistant Commandant — Paper II — Answer Writing

Paper I is objective and Paper II is not, and the gap between the two is where selections are decided. The essay may be written in Hindi or English; the precis and comprehension components are answered in English only.

CENTRAL ARMED POLICE FORCES (AC) EXAMINATION
PAPER — II : GENERAL STUDIES, ESSAY AND COMPREHENSION
Time Allowed: Three HoursMaximum Marks: 200

Part-A questions may be answered in Hindi or English. Part-B questions must be answered in English only.

  1. 1.Internal security cannot be delivered by force alone. Discuss with reference to India's experience with left-wing extremism.80Essay
  2. 2.Write a precis of the passage given above in about one-third of its length and suggest a suitable title.40
  3. 3.Answer the following questions based on the passage, in your own words.30
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Internal security cannot be delivered by force alone. Discuss with reference to India's experience with left-wing extremism.

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Left wing extremism has been a big challenge for India for many decades. Security forces like CRPF have conducted many operations. But development is also needed in these areas. Roads, schools and hospitals should be built. Tribal people should be given their rights. If development happens, extremism will end automatically. Left wing extremism started from Naxalbari in West Bengal in 1967 and later spread to the tribal belt of central India. The affected districts are among the poorest in the country and many of them have very little administrative presence. Land alienation, displacement because of mining projects and the failure to deliver basic services created anger among tribal people, and the extremists used this anger to build a base. Security forces have improved through better intelligence, joint operations, specialised training and modern equipment, and the number of violent incidents has come down over the last few years. Surrender and rehabilitation policies have brought many cadres back into the mainstream. But if the same conditions remain, recruitment will continue and the problem will return in another form after some years. Police stations, mobile towers, banks and fair price shops have to reach these areas along with the forces. Local youth should be taken into the police so that the administration is not seen as an outsider, and cases against innocent villagers should be reviewed.
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Left wing extremism has been a big challenge for India for many decades. Security forces like CRPF have conducted many operations.? But development is also needed in these areas. Roads, schools and hospitals should be built. Tribal people should be given their rights. If development happens, extremism will end automatically. Left wing extremism started from Naxalbari in West Bengal in 1967 and later spread to the tribal belt of central India. The affected districts are among the poorest in the country and many of them have very little administrative presence. Land alienation, displacement because of mining projects and the failure to deliver basic services created anger among tribal people, and the extremists used this anger to build a base. Security forces have improved through better intelligence, joint operations, specialised training and modern equipment, and the number of violent incidents has come down over the last few years. Surrender and rehabilitation policies have brought many cadres back into the mainstream. But if the same conditions remain, recruitment will continue and the problem will return in another form after some years. Police stations, mobile towers, banks and fair price shops have to reach these areas along with the forces. Local youth should be taken into the police so that the administration is not seen as an outsider, and cases against innocent villagers should be reviewed.

SAMADHAN doctrine and the two-pronged security-plus-development framingForest Rights Act and PESA as the rights half of the answer
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WrongToo strong a claim, and it collapses the argument you were building. Development changes incentives; it does not automatically dissolve an armed movement.
VagueName the framework — SAMADHAN, the Greyhounds model, district action plans.
What the examiner wanted and did not find
  • SAMADHAN doctrine and the two-pronged security-plus-development framing
  • Forest Rights Act and PESA as the rights half of the answer
  • The Andhra Pradesh experience as evidence that both halves are needed
Model answer for this question

Open with the thesis, not the background: force creates the space in which governance can return, and governance is what makes the space permanent. Then three developed sections — the security instrument and its limits, the governance deficit that sustains recruitment, and the sequencing question. Close on the Andhra experience, where surrender-and-rehabilitation plus policing worked together.

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Position taken and sustained12/20

A position is implied rather than stated in the opening.

Structure and paragraphing12/20

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Evidence and specificity9/20

No scheme, committee, district or datum is named anywhere.

Language, tone and control14/20

Clear and correct, but plain; the overstatement in the conclusion costs credibility.

Total 47/80Below averageAI estimate — not an official score

CAPF AC Paper II at a glance

Conducting bodyUnion Public Service Commission
ModeHandwritten in an answer booklet
Papers2
Total200 for Paper II (Paper I carries 250)
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1Paper II — Essay component80 marks

May be written in Hindi or English.

2Paper II — Precis, comprehension and communication skills120 marks

English only.

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