Text taken verbatim from the commission's published question paper. Transcribed from UPSC’s question paper, CS(M) 2025 (English and Hindi). Source

Syllabus

Society · Women & Social Issues

Role of women and women's organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.

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