UPPCS 2024 GS-III · 8 marks · 125 words
Discuss the potential of the Purvanchal and Bundelkhand Expressways as growth corridors for Uttar Pradesh's economy.
उत्तर प्रदेश की अर्थव्यवस्था के विकास-गलियारों के रूप में पूर्वांचल एवं बुंदेलखंड एक्सप्रेसवे की संभावनाओं की विवेचना कीजिए।
What “Discuss” demands
present several distinct facets of the issue and connect them into an argument, giving the competing views real weight rather than one line each.
The characteristic failure: a list of points with no argument running through them.
What a top answer must contain
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- Purvanchal (341 km, 2021) and Bundelkhand (296 km, 2022) — connecting UP's poorest regions to the NCR-Lucknow axis
- Corridor instruments: industrial clusters notified along both under UPEIDA; defence corridor nodes (Jhansi, Chitrakoot)
- Evidence to weigh: land-bank acquisition progress vs actual plant commitments
- Critique: an expressway is necessary, not sufficient — power, credit and skilling gaps in Purvanchal/Bundelkhand
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