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UPSC CSE Mains 2017 · GS3

The North-Eastern region of India has been infested with insurgency for a very long time. Analyze the major reasons for the survival of armed insurgency in this region.

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Theme

T162 North-East insurgency & peace accords

What UPSC asks in this theme

UPSC asks why insurgency survived in the North-East and the peace accords of the last decade.

What to cover

Causes: ethnicity, geography, porous borders
Accords: Bodo, Karbi, NLFT, Naga framework
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Writing the answer

Map accords

These notes are for the whole theme, built from all 2 of its PYQs. UPSC does not publish model answers.

On the map

Map module 2: Drainage & water bodies Map module 9: Society & polity on the map Map module 10: Neighbourhood & sea routes Map module 11: Borders & internal security

More PYQs from this theme

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What are the major challenges to internal security and peace process in the North-Eastern States? Map the various peace accords and agreements initiated by the government in the past decade.

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