GS4 · UPSC Mains

As the administrator in-charge of your area, you are witness to the widespread food wastage in lavish parties as well as in restaurants and eateries, on one hand and people starving due to inability to ensure one square-meal a day, on the other. Realizing that it is not the scarcity of resources, but the habit of people that is causing paucity in availability of food, you decide that certain measures are needed to be taken in order to deal with the issue of starvation at the grassroot level. 20 Given the situation, answer the following questions: (a) Identify the ethical issues involved in this case. (b) What measures would you take to deal with wastage of food in your area? (c) What explains this co-existence of affluence and hunger in developing countries like India?

20 marks · 250 words · 26 toppers answered this

GS4 · Case studies on the above issues

Topper	Rank	Source	Copy
Ashima Mittal	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Rohan Joshi	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Keerthi Vasan	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Atirag Chaplot	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Fatima	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Prateek Jain	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Shivani Goyal	—	VisionIAS	p.27
Ketan Garg	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Sangh Priy	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Shreshth	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Chahat Bajpai	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Manish Kumar	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Vikramaditya Malik	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Sameer Saurabh	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Mukul Jamloki	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Rahul Jain	—	VisionIAS	p.29
RAMYA	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Maithreyi Naidu	—	VisionIAS	p.26
Sagar Kumar	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Abhinav Choudhary	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Abhishek Saraf	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Chirag Jain	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Girdhar	—	VisionIAS	p.29
Junaid Ahmad	—	Vision	p.29
Keerthi Vasan V	—	Vision	p.29