UPSC syllabus, with the current affairs for every topic
The official UPSC Civil Services syllabus, line by line, with the news stories and previous-year questions mapped to each topic.
GS Paper 1
- Art, literature and architecture 3 stories
- Modern Indian history 0 stories
- Freedom struggle 0 stories
- Post-independence consolidation 1 story
- World history 0 stories
- Indian society and diversity 4 stories
- Women, population, poverty, urbanisation 16 stories
- Globalisation and society 0 stories
- Empowerment, communalism, regionalism, secularism 2 stories
- Physical geography of the world 5 stories
- Resources and industrial location 4 stories
- Geophysical phenomena and changes 8 stories
GS Paper 2
- Constitution: evolution, features, basic structure 31 stories
- Federalism and devolution 22 stories
- Separation of powers, dispute redressal 9 stories
- Comparing constitutions 0 stories
- Parliament and State legislatures 5 stories
- Executive, judiciary, pressure groups 14 stories
- Representation of the People Act 7 stories
- Constitutional posts and bodies 7 stories
- Statutory, regulatory, quasi-judicial bodies 12 stories
- Government policies and interventions 17 stories
- NGOs, SHGs and the development industry 2 stories
- Welfare of vulnerable sections 20 stories
- Health, education, human resources 16 stories
- Poverty and hunger 3 stories
- Governance, transparency, e-governance 11 stories
- Civil services in a democracy 1 story
- India and its neighbourhood 8 stories
- Groupings and agreements 28 stories
- Other countries' policies, diaspora 16 stories
- International institutions 17 stories
GS Paper 3
- Planning, growth, employment 30 stories
- Inclusive growth 5 stories
- Government budgeting 4 stories
- Crops, irrigation, farm marketing 10 stories
- Farm subsidies, MSP, PDS, food security 4 stories
- Food processing 1 story
- Land reforms 1 story
- Liberalisation and industrial policy 10 stories
- Infrastructure 14 stories
- Investment models 4 stories
- Science and technology in everyday life 3 stories
- Indian achievements, indigenisation 11 stories
- IT, space, biotech, IPR 11 stories
- Conservation, pollution, EIA 26 stories
- Disaster management 7 stories
- Development and extremism 0 stories
- External actors and internal security 0 stories
- Communication networks, cyber security, money laundering 8 stories
- Border security, organised crime and terrorism 10 stories
- Security forces and agencies 3 stories
GS Paper 4
- Ethics and human interface; human values 0 stories
- Attitude 0 stories
- Aptitude and civil service values 0 stories
- Emotional intelligence 0 stories
- Moral thinkers and philosophers 0 stories
- Ethics in public administration 2 stories
- Probity in governance 1 story
- Case studies 0 stories
Prelims
- Current events 43 stories
- History of India and the national movement 3 stories
- Indian and world geography 16 stories
- Polity and governance 76 stories
- Economic and social development 73 stories
- Environment, biodiversity, climate change 34 stories
- General science 16 stories