Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society.

• Indian culture will cover the striking parts of Art Forms, writing and Architecture from old to present day times.
• Current Indian history from about the center of the eighteenth century until the present-noteworthy occasions, characters, issues.
• The Freedom Struggle — its different stages and significant donors/commitments from various pieces of the nation.
• Post-freedom union and revamping inside the nation.
• History of the world will incorporate occasions from eighteenth century, for example, modern transformation, universal wars, re-drawal of national limits, colonization, decolonization, political methods of reasoning like socialism, free enterprise, communism and so forth.— their structures and impact on the general public.
• Remarkable highlights of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
• Job of ladies and ladies’ association, populace and related issues, destitution and formative issues, urbanization, their issues and their cures.
• Impacts of globalization on Indian culture.
• Social strengthening, communalism, regionalism and secularism.
• Notable highlights of the world’s physical topography.
• Dispersion of key common assets over the world (counting South Asia and the Indian sub-mainland); factors answerable for the area of essential, auxiliary, and tertiary division enterprises in different pieces of the world (counting India).
• Significant Geophysical marvels, for example, seismic tremors, Tsunami, Volcanic movement, tornado and so on., geological highlights and their area changes in basic land highlights (counting water-bodies and ice-tops) and in widely varied vegetation and the impacts of such changes.

Administration, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations.

• Indian Constitution—verifiable underpinnings, advancement, highlights, corrections, critical arrangements and essential structure.
• Capacities and duties of the Union and the States, issues and challenges relating to the government structure, devolution of forces and funds up to nearby levels and challenges in that.
• Division of forces between different organs, contest redressal instruments and foundations.
• Government endeavors to have a workforce which reflects sexual orientation equalization and ladies up-and-comers are urged to apply.
• Correlation of the Indian protected plan with that of different nations.
• Parliament and State governing bodies—structure, working, lead of business, powers and benefits and issues emerging out of these.
• Structure, association and working of the Executive and the Judiciary—Ministries and Departments of the Government; pressure gatherings and formal/casual affiliations and their job in the Polity.
• Remarkable highlights of the Representation of People’s Act.
• Arrangement to different Constitutional posts, forces, capacities and obligations of different Constitutional Bodies. Statutory, administrative and different semi legal bodies.
• Government approaches and intercessions for improvement in different areas and issues emerging out of their plan and execution.
• Advancement forms and the improvement business — the job of NGOs, SHGs, different gatherings and affiliations, benefactors, noble cause, institutional and different partners.
• Government assistance plans for powerless areas of the populace by the Center and States and the presentation of these plans; systems, laws, foundations and Bodies comprised for the insurance and advancement of these helpless segments.
• Issues identifying with the improvement and the board of Social Sector/Services identifying with Health, Education, Human Resources.
• Issues identifying with destitution and appetite.
• Significant parts of administration, straightforwardness and responsibility, e-administration applications, models, triumphs, restrictions, and potential; residents contracts, straightforwardness and responsibility and institutional and different measures.
• Job of civil services in a majority rule government.
• India and its neighborhood-relations.
• Two-sided, provincial and worldwide groupings and understandings including India and additionally influencing India’s inclinations.
• Impact of approaches and legislative issues of created and creating nations on India’s inclinations, Indian diaspora.
• Significant International foundations, offices and fora-their structure, command.

Innovation, Economic Development, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management

• Indian Economy and issues identifying with arranging, assembly, of assets, development, improvement and work.
• Comprehensive development and issues emerging from it.
• Government Budgeting.
• Significant harvests trimming designs in different pieces of the nation, – various kinds of water system and water system frameworks stockpiling, transport and showcasing of rural produce and issues and related imperatives; e-innovation in the guide of ranchers.
• Issues identified with immediate and roundabout homestead sponsorships and least help costs; Public Distribution System-targets, working, impediments, patching up; issues of cushion stocks and nourishment security; Technology missions; financial aspects of creature raising.
• Nourishment preparing and related enterprises in India-extension’ and criticalness, area, upstream and downstream necessities, production network the executives.
• Land changes in India.
• Impacts of advancement on the economy, changes in mechanical arrangement and their consequences for modern development.
• Framework: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways and so on.
• Venture models.
• Science and Technology-advancements and their applications and impacts in regular day to day existence.
• Accomplishments of Indians in science and innovation; indigenization of innovation and growing new innovation.
• Mindfulness in its fields, Space, Computers, mechanical autonomy, nano-innovation, bio-innovation and issues identifying with licensed innovation rights.
• Preservation, ecological contamination and corruption, natural effect evaluation.
• Calamity and debacle the executives.
• Linkages among improvement and spread of radicalism.
• Job of outer state and non-state on-screen characters in making challenges to inward security.
• Challenges to inward security through correspondence systems, job of media and person to person communication locales in interior security challenges, nuts and bolts of cybersecurity; illegal tax avoidance and its counteraction.
• Security challenges and their administration in fringe zones – linkages of composed wrongdoing with psychological oppression.
• Different Security powers and offices and their command.

Morals, Integrity and Aptitude

This paper will incorporate inquiries to test the applicants’ disposition and way to deal with issues identifying with respectability, integrity in public life and his critical thinking way to deal with different issues and clashes looked by him in managing society. Questions may use the contextual investigation way to deal with decide these viewpoints. The accompanying expansive regions will be secured :

• Morals and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and outcomes of Ethics in-human activities; measurements of morals; morals – in private and public connections. Human Values – exercises from the lives and lessons of extraordinary pioneers, reformers and directors; job of family society and instructive foundations in instilling esteems.
• Mentality: content, structure, work; its impact and connection with thought and conduct; good and political perspectives; social impact and influence.
• Bent and fundamental qualities for Civil Service, uprightness, unprejudiced nature and nonpartisanship, objectivity, commitment to public help, sympathy, resilience and empathy towards the more vulnerable segments.
• Enthusiastic knowledge ideas, and their utilities and application in organization and administration.
• Commitments of good scholars and thinkers from India and the world.
• Public/Civil help esteems and Ethics in Public organization: Status and issues; moral concerns and difficulties in government and private foundations; laws, rules, guidelines and still, small voice as wellsprings of moral direction; responsibility and moral administration; fortifying of moral and virtues in administration; moral issues in global relations and financing; corporate administration.
• Integrity in Governance: Concept of public assistance; Philosophical premise of administration and honesty; Information sharing and straightforwardness in government, Right to Information, Codes of
• Morals, Codes of Conduct, Citizen’s Charters, Work culture, Quality of administration conveyance, Utilization of public assets, challenges of defilement.
• Contextual investigations on the above issues.

The following is the official list of IAS main optional subjects. The candidates can choose any one subject as the optional subject.

1. Agriculture
2. Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
3. Anthropology
4. Botany                 
5. Chemistry    
6. Civil Engineering
7. Commerce and Accountancy
8. Economics
9. Electrical Engineering
10. Geography
11. Geology
12. History
13. Law
14. Management
15. Mathematics
16. Mechanical Engineering
17. Medical Science
18. Philosophy
19. Physics
20. Political Science and International Relations
21. Psychology
22. Public Administration
23. Sociology
24. Statistics
25. Zoology

The candidates can choose the Literature of any one of the following languages as their optional subject: