Science & Technology
• Science and Technology-developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
• Achievements of Indians in science & technology; Indigenisation of technology and developing new technology.
• Awareness in the fields of IT, Space,Computers, Robotics,Nanotechnology, Bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.
Economic Development
• Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
• Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
• Government Budgeting – India and Odisha.
• Land reforms in India & Odisha.
• Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
• Infrastructure: Energy, Posts, Roads, Airports, Railways in the Country and Odisha.
• Industrialisation in Odisha – Issues and prospects.
Agriculture
• Major cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers in India & Odisha.
• Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing in India & Odisha – Doubling of Farmers’ Income.
• Food processing and related industries in India & Odisha – scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management.
Biodiversity and Environment
• Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
• Disaster and Disaster Management in the Country and in Odisha – State institutions and policies on Disaster Management.
• Linkages between development and spread of extremism. Left wing extremism in Odisha.
Security and Disaster Management
• Challenges to internal security though communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention – Arts & policies relating to Cyber Security and Money laundering.
• Security challenges and their management in border areas – linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
• Various Security forces and agencies of the Country and Odisha and their mandate.