Call to order the August 10, 2015 meeting of the Arlington Redevelopment Board being recorded by ACMI. First on our agenda this evening is our input to the Board of Selectments regarding a response to mass housing as far as the Oak Tree Bureau proposal. The letter that's been prepared to go to the Board of Selectments had their meeting on August 12 to start with you, Bruce, and see whether you've had any comments here. So I've quickly scanned through the red line that Andrew has prepared and they look like good edits. I think they make a lot of sense. I haven't had a chance yet to read through what we just received, which is the redrafting of Section 8, I guess, of the letter. So I'll read that while other people mention. I also distributed a little bit of, I don't know if it's preamble or if it can find a home someplace else in the letter, if the Board sees fit. I wanted to give a little bit of historical overview of the site because I think it's important to understand what L.Y. floodplain once was. And to show how impacted it's been over the last, not really during the industrial phase of our history and how much of a wetlands area has been reduced. Since I think that really speaks to the issue about the area for flood control. It's also a habitat area. And I also wove in, although it's already in the letter, a little bit more comment about combined sewer overflows and Cambridge, which handle runoff in periods of high rainfall, which unfortunately combines rainwater runoff and the single pipe with sewage and wastewater, which would flow into L.Y. broken further impact the area. So if the Board feels that that's relevant, it could find a home in the letter. But I think otherwise it's a very good letter. I did have one sort of fact checking thing I wanted to ask about, and that is in item section 5, the last sentence where it says the Arlington Housing Authority owns 716 buildings. That's the one. I think it should be units. Is that units? Well, I don't know. It seems like a large number of buildings, so I just wanted to make sure that we're correct on that. I'll have to check. I'm excited to see units. It's standing up for, yeah. I got a feeling it's units simply because also if you look at the total number of affordable units, it's about eight. We're up to about 1121. I thought it was subsidized affordable. It was like 800 and something. I think we were trying to say number of units in X number of buildings. So we'll correct that. I saw the exact same. There are some minor little wordsmithing clerical things on the summary of Arlington's affordable housing accomplishments. And just in the first paragraph about the fifth line down, which begins unexperienced housing or would be experienced housing professional if you're in this position. And that's in the first paragraph? First paragraph about the fifth line. Nice. Thank you. And then to increase the effectiveness of the CDC. And I didn't know if we had previously defined that term. We're noticing that too. That's one of my pet peeves. When there's an acronym and it hasn't been explained. Well, yeah, I try to keep up with all those acronyms, but those are the Center for Disease Control. Ten strong record? That's also on affordable housing accomplishments. That's under... Item three. Are you under item three? So, no, it's in this one that has the heading, Arlington's affordable housing accomplishments. Oh, the accomplishments. It's an appendix or an addendum to the letter. Oh, yes, yes, the very end. It should say community development cooperation. Yeah. And my last comment on that was, I think, you know, when we talk about inclusionary zoning, it might be helpful to mention that the town's inclusionary zoning bylaw follows the same criteria or an approved criteria of the Commonwealth's Department of Housing and Development, THCD, Department of Housing and Community Development. So in other words, the portion of median income for qualifying renters and what their rents would be. I don't think it's critical, but it might be helpful just to point out that our inclusionary zoning bylaw is accomplishing the same type of goals that Fort V is designed to help meet. And I think that's just in my comments of Paul quickly read and his rewrite section eight. Yeah, no, I thought the edits looked good. And the one I was scanning for was the 716 buildings, so I had the exact same notion on that. The inclusionary zoning, the one sentence in 2001 town meeting adopted inclusionary zoning. That was a two-step process, wasn't it? Wasn't it that I know the development on Mill Street and Mass Ave did something that we had done in inclusionary zoning bylaw. And then I thought we tweaked it after that to make sure. There was an adjustment to it after that. I wonder whether that adjustment makes us look a little bit better as well because... So your point would be if it was another policy step that the community took. Exactly, to make sure that development included affordability. I'll look into that. But I'm pretty sure, because I remember from... It would have been the year following that development, right? Yeah, yeah, whenever that development was. In fact, I wonder whether... Because that development may have been after 2001. I wonder whether it wasn't a six or more units at that point, whether it went down to... It may have been 10. They divided the 12 units into six each. Sims has the inclusionary zoning. Oh yeah, yeah. Does that include it in the 53? That's something kind of like... How many units are there? I mean, this town might. Town might. 300. Yeah, that's probably right. Total for the town. Yeah, because 15... No, we get in Sims. 20... 20... 20 minutes. So 15% of the 25... It's a total count of the Sims. 174. So we got like 20, yeah. Yeah, we got more. I think that's a little more than 20. 25. 25, yeah. 25 and then Brigham's was another... 19. Something like that. Yeah, that would be 11 plus... I don't know, maybe. Another five. Yeah, so between the two of those, it's 40. I would say 40-ish. Yeah. Just back from the envelope. 15 everywhere else? Probably. It's probably about right. Yeah, we'll check it in 264. Yeah, directionally right, though. So that's the one thing I just checked. Because it seems to... I just remember that everyone at town meeting was fairly outraged, that the developer kind of slipped one by, I think is how everyone thought of it then, because they split... That's actually two condo associations, as far as I know, in that middle street, Mass Ave. Because to avoid the inclusionary zoning, they split the... Cutter in place? No. No, the one at the... On Mass Ave. On Mass Ave. The... Oh, oh, oh. The big town homes. The more, like, beacon-hullish types. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that after that, we took another run at it to make sure that it stuck. So I guess I'd look at that as kind of more of our desire to get affordability in our developments. Just in reading this quickly, I think you just need a projected 2B at the very end. 2B-1800. No, it's on the emailed portion here. Carol. Oh, yeah, 2B-1800. Or not 2B. Oh, not exactly 2B or not 2B, exactly. But those were my comments. I got this a little bit good, so thank you. Okay. Andy. So just from my education, the comprehensive permit law, is that the same as what it did? Yes. If that's not clear, we should... I mean, I think it'll be clear. To everybody else, for me, it was clear, but I didn't know that it was also called the comprehensive permit law, so if that's the right terminology, that's great. Just that sentence that begins all though right at the beginning, you might want to consider just making it two sentences. So Arlington developed densely prior to the adoption of the 4B stuff. And as a result, less than 10% of this housing is subsidized, if that's a correct statement. Period. However, the IR believes the town will demonstrate that 1.5% of the town's land is used for subsidizing affordable housing. Good. And the item one, I would just to avoid the apostrophe S after planning, just say the policies of the Commonwealth's own Department of Conservation, Recreation, Planning, identify that just together with the second policies. See what I mean? The policies of the Commonwealth's own Department of Conservation, Recreation, Planning, Identify. Okay, either way you want to do it, I think it's just better to... Policies, Identify. Either way. That's a minor one. Okay. That's a minor one. Policies, Identify. Either way. That's a minor one. I'd like to use one. Put it up front. What I'm saying is put policies of the Commonwealth's own instead of putting it down here, but that's up to you. That's a good word for it. Should we strike planning? I don't know if that's part of the title, Department of Conservation and Recreation Planning. No. No. So you're supposed to be planning policies. Planning policies. I think you would... I agree with Andy. I mean, I think it's stronger if you say the planning policies. Yeah, sorry. Or the planning policies. The planning policies of the Commonwealth's own Department of Conservation, Recreation, Identify. Identify the meeting. It just... That definitely hits it home better. Yeah. Good. And then the second... The A of that same one. Part of the model is almost entirely a... The Department of Conservation and Recreation ranks the Mugar land as among the highest priority parcels for protection. That's the only... The only other one I have is... I think it's probably okay with on item five. It works its way down. And then it says the Arlington Housing Authority owns seven years ago. Arlington has multi-family... Also has multi-family... So it's kind of making a case. Is there a therefore in there? No. No, it's maybe just a major house. It's got to be a better way of handling this. What this is trying to do is point out that there are a lot of municipalities that actually don't allow apartments. Mm-hmm. That don't allow multi-family housing. It seems kind of no brainer to us. Okay. So the town zone allows, and the town has permitted major housing developments. Okay. So what you're trying to say is... I get it. In addition to the housing corporation stuff... There's the third most dense or fourth most dense. Okay. I'm not sure where we are. We're in top ten. Yeah, we're in top ten. Yeah, Arlington also has multi-family zoning districts. Maybe that could say in addition, the Arlington Housing Authority owns 716 units or whatever that's going to turn out to be factually. See, this is big because you're trying to establish that there are additional housing stock that other towns may not have. Right? Mm-hmm. So, yeah, and maybe we alluded to it, but we're probably like top five dense... Denses... Depending on how we measure it, whether it's per capita or other metrics, we are right up at the top in terms of certain measures of density. Okay. Does it make sense to point that out, too, or...? I think so. Because one of the things about one of the density... You're not linking with two-eager, you know. That's right. Density is the foe in a lot of municipalities that are afraid of density, whereas Arlington has density and has historically had density. Can't be afraid of it. So... Wouldn't do us any good. Historically, Arlington has been among the densest communities, period. In addition to the units, I mean, something like that. Or maybe it's at the end. Well, I think that's maybe what I'm thinking, is that you could say... I like what you just said. Or what did you just... You just said over... I wish I listened better, but not over the course of history, but Arlington has been one of the densest populations. Traditionally, Arlington has been one of the most densely populated communities in the Commonwealth and has many multifamily zoning districts. Perfect. Perfect. Hit home that point. And actually, I think I might start the whole thing with that. Start that whole paragraph with it and then say... And I don't think you need the... In addition to the units owned by the Housing Corporation of Arlington, I think... Well, unless you're saying... In addition to these housing developments, you've already mentioned this somewhere else, right? Right. So I think you say... You do that traditionally in Arlington and has several multifamily zoning districts. The town has approved and permitted two market rate multifamilies in 2013 and 2014, producing one inch of zoning respectively. Inclusionary zoning produced 40... I mean, why don't you put the number that you've actually reviewed? Because that's a lot. Inclusionary zoning produced X number... 40 affordable units at the two projects. I would say it would name the number of units that's been produced at each project. And is there anything that... Note this is in addition to... Yes. The aforementioned inclusionary... That's true. In addition to those... Yeah, so affordable. Actually, because it's in addition to both AHA and HCA, right? That would be the last sentence. Okay. So it will start with the town approved and permitted. No. Traditionally. Arlington. It's one of the most densely populated municipalities. The Commonwealth has several multifamily zoning districts. The town approved and permitted two market rate multifamily developments in 2013 and 2014, producing 116 and 117 units respectively. Inclusionary zoning produced X number of affordable units at these projects. In addition, the Arlington Housing Authority owns 716 units. How about switching it around and saying these units are in addition to the 716 units owned by the Arlington Housing Authority and X number of units owned or managed by the Housing Corporation of Arlington? Right. Good. That way you're trying to say what's new about this paragraph. And then I think you've really hit home that, you know, we've got three very... Well, four, if you count the CDVGT, well, I guess that goes into HCI to some extent in NHI. But you've got three pronged attack here that's being very successful. Correct. Good. That's a big deal. These units are in addition to the... and that closes that paragraph. And then the only other one I have is, and this is a question for you, under your parking, the egress proposed to access an egress, not parking, traffic, I mean, traffic, do you want, do we want to put something about no additional new developments planned in Belmont, we'll also... This is... Yeah. That's okay. Sorry. Yeah. Carol sent the... But yes, we do. It's out. Just after she says the original letter. Okay. Then I'm all set. Oh, I didn't see this. Oh, yeah, good. Oh, he's just forgettable. Yeah. I was writing up an edit to that section when she emailed this out to all of us. That's all... Just to make sure. So do we have a spot for Bruce's... We could. We haven't talked about it yet. I like it. I hope to draw attention to the fact that it's called the Great Swamp. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Do you want to put... You've got... The Mugar land is considered... Maybe a top conservative priority there. And then the town is stronger in supporting production. New deed restricted affordable units. I'm wondering if five should be where four is. So you follow right with affordable units, then you're saying they're also... Yeah, I like that. And then you put alternative development locations for previous development proposals. So just switch five and four for those two positions? I agree. Okay. Because five also... It makes sense to have that come right after three. Right? Because those are sort of... Yeah, there you have. Well, actually, I wonder... So then I think I'd actually move four down two where you've got previous development proposals. Yeah. I think I might... So that's where maybe we should add Bruce's... We could add Bruce's history there to kind of like be the first three paragraphs and instead of previous development proposals, you know, brief history of... Okay. History of these. Of the parcel. It's the history of the parcel. Brief history of the parcel. It's the history of the parcel, not of the development proposals. It's a little different, I think. So I would think maybe we could put it on its own. You could add a new section. Well, that's what I would say. Well, I was just going to include this last paragraph as the... I'm sorry, this paragraph here is the last paragraph of something that said brief history of the parcel. Oh, I see what you're saying. So that would be the fourth paragraph since the 1980s. Then rename it. Several. That's what I'm saying. So the new name would be brief history of the parcel instead of previous development proposals. So then you incorporate at the end the development proposals paragraph. Right. Right. You incorporate that at the end. And then you could have... So then it would... Yeah, I think that works. Four alternative development locations suggested should go after that. Yeah. That works because the town led to withdraw the proposals because of flood elevations. You saw the Mugar site history outline. Yeah. Were you going to include that or how are you going to do that? I was going to include that. Well... I mean the other thing you could do too is add this as an attachment. I think it's fine to have Bruce's history in the letter itself and add this as... An attachment. An attachment along with... So let me review for me. We would be moving... So... Four? Yeah, you'd have one, two, three. And then five is now four. Okay. Six is five. And six also changes its name to Brief History of the Parcel. Right here. So six is becoming five. Five. And the new five is Brief History of the Parcel. And Bruce's history would be the first three paragraphs of that new five. And then the current paragraph would be the last paragraph, the fourth paragraph of that. Okay. Does it work? Yeah. The only other thing I was just going to suggest is that last paragraph we were talking about the CSOs. We do already have a section on that. Ten. Okay. So we might want to, you know, get rid of the third paragraph of my insert. It's a little technical maybe. Yeah. But maybe take a sentence out of that and just explains what CSOs actually do. Because I think, I mean, it is technical, but I think it's worth explaining that it does combine rainwater runoff and sewage and industrial wastewater. So people get an idea as to what is going to be actually spilling over into the ALY floodplain. So what I'm suggesting is what Mike said, Mike's idea with the first two paragraphs going into the new item five. And then, where do you want to put that third one? And then just take, I mean, we may already have most of that in ten, you know. Maybe, why don't we play around with ten to make sure it does all of what you've got in your, just to add a little bit of context as to what a CSO is. Into ten. Into ten. Fuse this paragraph with item ten. That's right, but first two paragraphs go into the new five. The current paragraph is the third paragraph, which is now called Reef History of the Parcel. And then the current four is now six. Darn Roman numerals. Yeah, exactly. Four is now six. Yeah, four is six. So you've got alternative development locations suggested to Oak Tree Refuse, and then you get into proposals contrary to smart growth. Yeah, that's good. This existing paragraph under the old six, which is now five, will actually be paragraph three. Yes, three. Exactly right. Paragraph three. Okay, so on the page, the new numbering is six. Yep. Four. Four. Five. Okay, got it. Yep, I think that looks good. I'm sure that the Conservation Commission is submitting a good letter too. Yeah, good. So you won't have to have your letters do all that work of CSO's floodplain. It's good for the Board to mention it, because all of that comes under planning. And I think it's also sort of great to have more than one voice kind of mentioning these factors. So, you know, when you hear it from one source and it's being picked up from another source, there's a little greater emphasis to it. That's right. I agree. Thank you folks for putting that together. Thank you, Carol. You're very welcome. So this little paragraph eight, you can ignore. Right, so you're going to do new paragraph eight from the email, right? Right. So I'll take the best parts of the more technical description of CSO's and make sure that's blended in to Item 10. And the Affordable Housing Accomplishments will be an attachment to your letter as well as the timeline. So I will make all those changes and provide those to Board of Selection for the Board tomorrow morning. So may I sign with the Board like to consider having me sign for the chair unless it's convenient for you to come in? I don't know. You don't. Is it necessary for you to make this for that? You can tell me. Okay. So do we want to motion to or are we going to vote on it? I don't know what the vote is. I don't know whether we want to vote on it or not. Well, it's only a letter. Right. I think we've gone through it. I don't think it's necessary. I think that's fine. Moving on to an update on the central school lease proposal. Okay. So a proposal was submitted to the Commonwealth for leasing to the two mental health agencies that have long called the central school their home. And Bruce, thank you very much for your help on the lease proposal, the breath proposal. We went with an approach that would have about 10, 10 grand committed. And it's, it helps them because they get some additional improvements, though certainly not all of the improvements they saw in the proposal. It's just beyond our, I think it's beyond recent as well because it contemplates, it's a boilerplate right proposal. But it gives them some opportunity to get some improvements in their office space. And it also is kicks up the rent for the town. It's slightly below market, but that's, I think justifiable by the fact that you're in a building with a lot of other users. So it's not the type of office environment that you would get you would expect for market rate. So I think overall it's a good proposal. I have faith in it, and I'll keep you informed the deadline is the 12th. So we're in well under the deadline. Good. I wanted to get it in before the last minute. So we will hear from them and I'll let the board know what the response is. You recall last time we worked on the proposal and then without any communication we got a lease for two years. Signed price. There's no telling what we'll get. But it's been working for the town for a while and I'm optimistic that we'll be able to get it. I don't know what our competition will be but I think we're in good shape. Okay. Committee appointments status. Okay. You know that a lot of the current committee openings kind of depend on getting the full board appointed. In the meantime I can report on a couple items of progress. Laura, we are distributed I would call it a slate of candidates for the housing plan advisory committee which is a temporary committee to assist and advise with the housing plan update. Housing production plan is really called. So I think you have that in mind. So you can contemplate that and consider acting on that tonight. Also Andrew and I will be scheduling interviews with the redevelopment board candidates and then make recommendations to the town manager for his consideration. He may, I think it's likely that he'll want to interview the finalists once the board is appointed. We will be able to have the board consider who will serve on community preservation act committee and master plan advisory, excuse me master plan implementation committee. So do you have questions on the housing plan staff recommendations? Did Laura speak to each of the candidates or was this your review of resumes? She spoke with a good number of them. A couple of these people, she's already familiar with, certainly she's familiar with Panhaled. She didn't know everyone so she did speak with the ones she was unfamiliar and based the recommendations to the board on those conversations. And I'm sorry, once we make the recommendation what's the notion that that's the committee at that point? Correct. From my perspective, if this is what staff wants then I'm okay with that. I would say the same. So I'll move that the recommended applicants appointed to the housing plan advisory committee has stated in the assistant director of planning's August 6, 2015 memorandum. I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Anything else under that agenda item, Carol? No. Moving on to Google of the minutes from our last meeting. I had only one item and that's the first senate's second paragraph that reads Mr. Vanell turned to the next agenda item of the AOB's input to the board of selectmen and I just thought it needed a little more definition there so I was going to add regarding the proposed 40B development of the Mugar property adjoining Route 2 in East Arlington. I was still writing. Which paragraph please? Second paragraph? Okay. First senate's second paragraph. I'm going to remind what that next agenda item was. And after instead of the period after board of selectmen turned that into I guess a comma and say regarding the proposed 40B development of the Mugar property adjoining Route 2 in East Arlington. I think the only thing I have is on the second page the first paragraph does not be the town moderators appointing actually I think I was talking about Ann LaRoyer who was a town meeting member and I think I said could be the town moderators appointing. Could be the town moderators appointing. Because I think we were going for two furs because I think we were thinking about okay who on the master plan advisory committee you know may not take up one of the more at large seats I think is what I was thinking. You're right. That's my recollection as well. That was what I had. Andy you weren't here but okay I have nothing else. I'll move to approve the minutes of the July 20th meeting as amended. Second. All in favor. Aye. I'm staying if I'm not in that position. Right. Any new business. The next meeting is next Monday right? Yes. We have a formal design review for a large house addition that butts the bike path. Have we got all the plans and everything? We do. You should be getting those should be going out to you when actually Friday. Okay. I believe it can Friday afternoon and it will include a directors report. I think it's pretty it will be pretty straightforward. At least my information can be pretty straightforward. Are we expecting any other agenda? I have to look at my I think there might be something else looking at you because I can't. That's fine. I was more curious than anything. I just kind of add things to it on my calendar. I'll look calendar on and it tells me there was another small item but I don't anticipate that it will be a lengthy meeting. Do you want to talk about the ULI? Yes, thank you. The Urban Land Institute is they will come into a community and do a charrette around an area. A charrette meeting almost like a very kind of a hit and run master plan. They bring in some top experts who will meet with stakeholders, will look at maps of the area, work with the staff on input, and we've been talking to them about possibly doing one of these for Arlington Center. Mostly focus it started out focusing on Broadway Plaza but I think we in they thought that it would make more sense to expand it to a larger area to think about circulation and other possible redevelopment opportunities. Yes. The third rail of Arlington. What I need to try to ask the board is whether you think you have some availability in September it would entail some daytime and at least an evening meeting. It would probably entail getting a joint meeting of the redevelopment board, board of selectmen and possibly the master plan implementation committee together. So we're talking about September possibly October but I think September is better. So that means that we've got to plan this quickly. Do you know whether your September schedules would preclude your participation or it wouldn't it would still be viable and valuable if it weren't the entire board but Andrew indicated that he would most likely be available to participate for the board. Do you think it's something we should proceed with doesn't sound like September is a busy month I recognize but do you think that you want to take this on recognizing that staff would do a lot of the administrative work? And do you use grant money for it? It's pro bono. Actually we might have to put a little bit of money in for materials and emotion and that kind of thing but it's not And we'll have a very focused outcome a very focused. Yes they would make recommendations whether there's a product a hold in your hand map or sketches I can't really say but there would be recommendations But in the context of the master plan too I guess I wouldn't want to after going through that whole process I'd hate for someone new to come in and frankly change it up you know some of the I wanted to coalesce I think that's one of the things they don't have to do would be to look at the vision statement in the master plan and look at the goals for economic development and transportation all of the things that bear on Arlington center from the master plan I would just hate for there to be content you know to be kind of rubbing them on the way after the effort especially if it's just kind of like a SWAT team in and SWAT team out without all the context and many hundreds of meetings so many dozens and I should also say that Mike Rodmacher has in the capital budget this year a huge amount but some money to have kind of a planning effort around it would basically be from Pond Lane to I think Jason Street just includes the area that we identified that Urban Land Institute would pursue if you want a little more information I can get that to you and you can discuss it further because we're meeting next week let's do that I would recommend doing that I'd like to know what it is and then be sensitive to what Mike is saying but if that's all solved to our satisfaction then it sounds like it might be a good idea agreed I think we can use that as a change what Mike is saying you don't want it to go completely you know 90 degrees exactly sorry okay so we'll get some information into how does it work how do they normally do it what's their scope process it's a great institution it's a great thing so that I will either provide by email or at a minimum it will be in your packets for the weekend great that's all I have anything else move to adjourn second all in favor aye thank you


So like this is a PSAR demo. Okay so this session I'll give you an introduction about PSAR and how we are going to approach PSAR, how the classes will be conducted, why we should choose PSAR as an optional for UPSC preparation, what is the benefits of actually choosing PSAR as an optional for the UPSC. Okay so there are a lot of benefits one by one we'll discuss everything. Okay so the purpose is first I'll tell what is PSAR, I'll tell about my approach to PSAR then I'll tell you how to cover PSAR, then what is the difference between other optionals and PSAR with respect to UPSC preparation, this is what we are going to discuss in this session. So the session will give you a broad outlook about PSAR and also like whether to choose PSAR or not, whether PSAR is a good optional for UPSC preparation, whether it is a scoring optional or not, so like how it is overlapping with the GS subjects. Okay so what are all the benefits you will get by choosing PSAR as an optional, okay whether it is scoring or not, whether it is easy to cover or not all the things we will be discussing in this session. Okay so online students are slowly getting joined, so first I'll introduce myself, my name is Prem Anand, so I am in this teaching provision for around six years, I am handling Indian polity for general studies and political science for optional, so I'm also the branch manager for Shankara's academy Bangalore. 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after 2013 only this new trend of four GS studies papers came into picture, okay after this four GS studies paper was introduced in UPSC, so then if you see the papers that is the optional papers listed in UPSC, PSAR has a maximum overlapping, maximum overlapping from GS paper 1, GS paper 2, GS paper 3 and GS paper 4, so because of this benefit lot of time is being saved in your UPSC preparation, okay for example if anyway you are going to study GS, so while studying GS itself most of the parts of PSAR will be covered, so that is the added advantage, so what are all, what is a very important advantage here is that by studying PSAR your GS score will be enriched like anything, if you see the GS marks of the people who have actually cleared the examination with PSAR as an optional they are GS 1, GS 2, GS 3 scores will be very high especially ethics because we will be studying thinkers here also and thinkers will be coming in ethics also, okay and essay nowadays philosophical essays are being asked, so previously before 3-4 years and all very straightforward essays will be asked, women empowerment, international issue related things, nowadays philosophical things are being asked, for example a Gandhi sport will be given and you will be asked to write an essay, so such type of philosophical things will be covered in PSAR also, so the most important benefit of choosing PSAR is that maximum overlapping which none other optional is having, which none other optional is having, so I will give you a broad outlook about the overlapping also in my presentation, okay, so another benefit is that see there will be a season, there will be a season some optionals will be doing it, if you go before 10 years and all Pubbad was doing really good, okay after 2010-11 then it does not doing good, okay then at a point of time geography was doing good and this is the golden era for PSAR, PSAR is really doing good, okay probably Narendra Modi's degrees MA political science I don't know a random connect, but I don't know, so if you take the last 3 years top 10, 3-4 candidates will be there, top 50, 20-30 candidates will be there and again top 100, again around 20 candidates will be there, so how this much people are clearing things, the main thing is that overlapping with the GS subjects and rather than all these things PSAR is one of the most interesting subjects to actually study, so how it is very interesting we'll deal with it, okay, we'll go very slowly, one by one I'll give you a very broad outlook about PSAR, then at last I'll tell you how we are going to deal with PSAR, how our classes will be, our assessment test will be, okay how we are going to join the GS preparation and optional preparation and we are going to prepare, all these things will be discussing in this session, first I think the slide is visible clearly for online students, right, online students you can respond me in the chat box, is my voice clear, is the presentation visible, yes, no, response, yes, unmold, who are all there, clear, okay, okay, okay, so first what, why and how, this is the first slide, so what is PSAR, so what is the study, what is the study about which we are going to discuss in PSAR, okay, so what is the broad outlook of this subject, see PSAR that is political science and international relation deals with the evolution of the present government systems, okay, so now we have a government system, democratic system we have, before that autocratic systems were there, aristocratic systems were there, at one point of time monarchy, kings only were ruling the countries, okay, how this system evolved, so that's what we are going to study in PSAR, but in different formats, okay, how this system, for example, see earlier if you go before 10,000 years or 20,000 years or something like that, people were there but governments were not there, okay, so at one point of time governments have got established, right, rulers have got established, right, so how this has been coming into picture, okay, we are not going, we are not going back to 10,000 or 20,000 years, we are going to start our study from the times of Socrates and Plato, so why there should be a government, okay, why there should be a ruler, how a ruler should be, what is the role of the ruler, what are all the things he need to do, what are all the things he should not do, okay, so this and all will be studying in the first part, okay, then slowly we will go into the Indian government system, okay, then we will be going into the international government system, then the international relations, so at most what we are going to discuss as a whole in PSAR is that about the state, in polity we have studied state mean the country, so how the state got established slowly, okay, how people established a government, okay, what Plato says about state, state means here it is the rule, the ruling or the ruler or the people who are all governed and people who are ruling, right, so how this is being established, how it was running and how it is running, so this is what is the broad outlook about political science, okay, then yeah, what exactly PSAR about, it is going to deal with the theoretical part of state, how the state has got evolved, okay, what are all the problems in the state, then the present relationship between the state is nothing but the international relation part, that is the relationship between India and Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, India and US, see anyway all these things you want to study in GS also, okay, international relations, second paper GS you want to study, you cannot skip it, yes or no, yes, okay, so you can overlap, this is called overlapping, okay, and again Indian polity can you skip in general studies means no, you cannot skip, it has been given maximum weightage, see, I will show you one thing, this is the part two of PSAR, paper one part two and see the syllabus over here, sorry, see this, this is nothing but your quality syllabus, so whatever is mentioned here is completely discovered in quality, so and apart from quality you will also be studying history, you will be getting some two, three questions freedom, struggle, all these things, so anyway you need to cover all these things in your GS, you cannot skip this, so only thing what we are going to do in this part is that we are just going to add something related to political science, that's it, okay, so if you are reading all these things, see this part fully it is totally covered in GS, so if you study in a political science point of view, automatically your GS2 score in GS will be very high, okay, comparing to the people who have taken Kannada literature or history or geography, okay, so you will be getting very high score in GS paper two, comparatively 10 to 15 marks higher than the candidates who have taken other subjects as an optional, so this is a very much added advantage in political science, okay, so coming back to our presentation, okay, yeah, see why do you want to choose PSAR as an optional, first thing is that overlapping with the general study syllabus, so helpful in essay, so how it is helpful in essay, yes, so how it is going to be helpful in essay, see just take the last two years or three years of essay equations in the UPSC examination, you can see that most of the essays will be philosophical in character, philosophical in the sense, it will not be a direct question, they will be giving lot of quotations, they will be asking you to write essays based on that quotation and all these things, how this writing skill will come to you means, you want to write lot of philosophical things, okay, so in our PSAR syllabus the first part that is paper one, part A is full of philosophies, what is democracy, what is liberty, what is secularism, what is the thought process of plateau, Aristotle, okay, what are all the thinking of Karl Marx, so all these things will be there, so this study will give a broad outlook or philosophical outlook about whatever topics you study, okay, so that is one thing and PSAR is somewhat dynamic subject, okay, so you should be daily you will be like seeing your newspapers, reading the international issues which is being like followed in the newspapers etc, right, so that will be very much helpful for your PSAR preparation because the last part that is paper two, part B is fully international relations, there is a relationship of India with other countries, anyway that will be again covered in your GS in GS paper two, okay, then helpful in interview, how would this helpful in interview, any idea, any idea, how it is helpful in interview, how it is helpful in interview means see here whatever might be your subjects, whatever might be even if you are optional is Canada literature, 20 to 30 percentage of the questions in interview will be from India's relation with other countries, okay, so at that point of time which international issue is going on, for example if you would have attended the interview last year definitely Russian crisis that is Ukraine crisis, questions will be asked to many of the people, so what difference you will make in the interviews that you can give a very fine answer to these questions comparing to other candidates who have chosen other subjects as the optional, so if you chose PSAR as an optional or any other subject as an optional that is not going to change the interview, happenings in the interview, so anyhow you are going to get 20 to 30 percentage of the questions from international happenings, okay, so you as a student who has studied PSAR as an optional will have a very good insight about these international issues, so you can handle the interview well, okay, then dynamic paper, so it is a dynamic paper, not the entire paper is dynamic paper, the part B of paper one, so paper one has two parts, party and part B, paper two has two parts, party and part B, right, so part B of the paper two is dynamic, that is nothing but international relations, so inevitably in UPSC preparation you should be very dynamic, yes or no you should be following all the current events, okay, so for example you take a very static subject as an optional, okay, you take a very static subject as an optional, so you will be relying mostly on that subject to score good marks, that is optional you need to score good marks then only you can get into the service, right, you have taken a very static subject in your optional, so you are not showing good interest towards dynamic part of your preparation means, you will score very good marks in your optional but your score in GS will not be good, so which is having more weightage comparing in the marks means GS is having more weightage, so SCA plus four papers it is 1250 marks, 500 marks for optional, so your 500 marks preparation for optional will benefit you for 1250 marks, so that is the benefit what you are getting out of PSIR, okay, then very interesting, very interesting, okay, so how it is very interesting, even all the subjects are very interesting it depends upon the candidates but to my perspective how PSIR is very interesting means you will see a lot of things which is happening today in the politics but before 2500 years or 3000 years Plato would have given us a theory, you might wonder is Plato a god but Plato does not believe in God, okay, Karl Marx would have then said something before 150 years but that things will be happening now, okay, Aristotle would have said something before 1500-2000 years but those things will be happening right now, so to explore things in the politics, so how the theory is connected with the politics that is very very important, right, see for example I will tell you Plato gives a concept called philosopher king, I don't know how many of you know about it, there's a concept called philosopher king, Plato believes that only an educated person a scholar only can give a very good rule to a country, he believes in it, so mediocre so the people who are not very well educated are not fit to rule the country, this is Plato's thinking, so for that he is giving a concept called philosopher king and he is also giving a theory how to produce this philosopher king, how to make a philosopher king he is giving a theory, okay and at last Plato himself refuted it but by studying this concept of philosopher king you will understand how Plato has actually imagined the king, okay, for example Plato says that only an intelligent knowledgeable person should rule a country, is it actually applicable every time means no, okay, sometime even a very highly educated person can be a bad ruler at the same time, yeah, a person who have not even gone to school can give a very good rule, okay, so that is how we are going to analyze, for that he is giving a system of education also, 50 years you want to study for that from first year to 50 years, so how it will be very interesting, okay, then coming back to Karl Marx, for example everyone know about Karl Marx, so at the time of 1940s to 1990s the whole world is divided into two blocks, communist block and capitalist block, so the ideological God for the communist block of the government is Karl Marx who has given the concept of communism, okay, so Karl Marx says that for example Karl Marx says that throughout the history there will be only two divisions in the society called haves and have nots and without something happening in the society you cannot see it but inevitably there will be a struggle between these two groups of people, this struggle only spies the history, moves the history, for example if you take before 2000 years there will be slaves and masters, always there will be a tussle between slaves and masters, then before 300-400 years there will be a feudal society, there will be very big landlords and the people who are working in that forms, there will be always a struggle between a landlord and the person who is working as a slave or a bonded labour in the system and now in the capitalist society he is saying that there will be a tussle between the capitalist and the workers, so this division that is haves and have nots, there will be a struggle between these haves and have nots and thus this struggle will be moving the history and the struggle will be going on happening at one point of time, these have nots will come to power and suppress the haves with that that struggle will end, understanding what I am saying, so these are all very interesting things you can explore, now also struggle is there between haves and have nots, yes or no, every time it will be there and he is telling that this is called hysterical materialism, hysterical materialism is material only is the main aspect, what is material that is the money or the products or the main motive for this struggle for which they are struggling to earn money, to earn food, to earn some products whatever it is, so without this material nothing is there in politics he is saying, so something which is actually very interesting to study about the theoretical aspects given by these people and understand what they thought and what is actually happening in the reality, this is a link between theory and the reality, so this is how it is very interesting, so how we are going to approach PSIR in our classes means, see apart from teaching PSIR as an optional it will also give you a lot of insights about how we are going to prepare GS also connecting with PSIR, so ultimately you want to get into service, only by getting 320 marks in optional you cannot get into service, you need to get a decent mark in GS also, so our approach will be how we are going to join the preparation of GS and the PSIR and how we are going to holistically score a very high marks in the main examination and get into service, this is our strategy, so we are not going to separate PSIR from our GS preparation except certain topics which are exclusively for the PSIR, suppose if I am talking about if I am teaching PLATO, I will teach the political science point of view of PLATO and I will also tell you about how this PLATO can be used as a thinker in ethics paper, understanding what I am saying as a moral thinker, there is a topic called moral thinkers in ethics, so there how you can use your knowledge in political science and score extra one or two marks in a question than the other candidate, that trick also I will be teaching you in the classes, so coming to the syllabus of PSIR, so if you see the syllabus of PSIR, so you have two papers that is paper one is political theory and Indian politics, paper two is comparative politics and international relations, see here these two parts actually from this part 125 marks will come from part B 125 marks will come, so 250 marks totally 125 plus 125, 250 marks anyhow you need to study in GS whether you study political science or not, you choose some other optional not an issue but anyhow you want to study 250 marks of political science in other subjects also in GS, you cannot omit this if you choose political science, you will study it here and also in the GS, if you are not choosing political science for example you are choosing some other optional B, for example optional B you are choosing, you will be studying the entire optional separately for optional subject and anyhow you are going to study the portions of political science in GS, but if you are choosing political science, you will study this in political science itself, in GS you will have time to spend in other parts, you can spend lot of time in answer writing, you can spend lot of time in strengthening your subject etcetera, your volume will be reduced to half, instead of studying 100 papers you will be studying only 50 papers in GS, for example I am telling you, because Indian polity already it is a highest weighted subject in GS, you will be getting 125 marks in GS paper 2 from Indian polity, so entirely you are going to study it here and again you are going to get around 80 marks in international relations parts in the GS paper 2 in GS, in general studies already ok. So, so total in GS from these two parts you will be getting 125 plus 80 marks, so 205 marks of GS paper 2 is already covered in PSAR ok. So, coming to the paper 1, paper 1 part here that is moral thinkers and political theory, so first you will study what is political science, what is political theory, then you will study about liberal, neoliberal, Marxist all these things ok. First we will start our classes with political ideologies, no sorry western political thoughts, the last chapter of this first how we are going to start the political science in our classes means to start with western political thoughts, this is the base of political science, you know one thing this one chapter alone in GS paper 1 you will get around 50 marks this is that much important chapter ok. I can even tell you which question will come in which year because again and again the same questions only will be coming ok. This one chapter alone around 50 marks you will get in your PSAR paper 1 PSAR paper 1 ok that is optional paper 1. So, in 10 marks you will get at least two questions 20 marks from this chapter and in 15 mark question at least one you will get 35 and 20 mark question at least one you will get. So, 50 marks minimum you will get from this chapter this is that much weightage is given. So, here we are going to study about Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, John Locke, Mill, Marx, Gramsci and Anna Hadron. So, who are all these people ok. As I already said the theory of political science starts with Socrates. So, Socrates disciple is Plato, Plato's disciple is Aristotle. So, what they tell about state how a state should be how a king should be how he should rule how he should not rule. So, to give a good governance what system they are telling all these things we will be studying in these thinkers. So, so for example, I will tell.   So, this is a famous saying of Aristotle who says that you can leave politics, but politics will never leave you. And he says another thing if someone says that if someone says that I am out of state out of state I don't want state. State means your citizenship is called state. I don't want state he should be a beast or an angel. Beast is not a human being. Angel means God. So, only these two people does not need the help of the state all the other human beings need the help of the state yes or no without state you cannot live. For example, a baby is getting born you need to get a birth certificate for that you want a state you want to go to the government.  So, in between how many places you want to visit the government see the government without the benefit of government or the support of the government no human being can live in this world ok. And this for example, I am telling you no one can live without the support of the state right. So, here you can connect this with the recent happenings of statelessness have you heard about this concept called statelessness? So, recent issues like Rohingya issues ok, Sri Lankan migrants issue ok all these things. So, people who are not having any country how they are treated ok they will not be treated rightly. For example, you are going to other country you will have the passport of India. Suppose you do not have the passport of India you can be called as a terrorist you can be called as an illegal migrant you will be given n number of names yes or no because state only protects you ok. So, this is called statelessness. So, Aristotle says this before 2000 years that no one can live without the support of state that time the present present state system is not there India was not there even US was not there no one no state itself is not Athens was only there that is Greece these are all the people who was from Greece who are from Greece right. So, no they do not know whether India is here America is here Europe is here nothing ok. So, that time itself Aristotle says that without the support of state no one can live in the world. So, present system also same ok without the support of state we cannot live ok. So, then Machiavelli. So, this person is somewhat very interesting ok. So, for example, you know you all know about Gandhi right Gandhi. So, how will be Gandhi's thinking very moral ok very ethical ok non-violence against truth all these things. So, you want the right answer about for answer to a Machiavelli related question means you should write all these thing opposite that is it. Machiavelli says that there is no ethics in politics you want to cast the power do whatever you want ok. So, Machiavelli is called as devil's tutor devil's tutor ok he says his only aim is to his politics if someone who wants to enter into politics right the first book we want to study is Machiavelli's The Prince the book he says how to catch the power don't think about ethics and all don't don't think about loyalty you want to catch the power do whatever you want that is in politics and love there is no ethics it's a famous quote of whom can you tell me Alauddin Kilchi ok Alauddin Kilchi says that in politics and love there is no ethics you know from where Alauddin Kilchi like inspired it from Machiavelli only ok. So, Machiavelli is such a kind of person so Machiavelli is a person who was actually separated ethics and politics ok.  So, totally a realistic approach to politics is given by Machiavelli then these three people Hobbes, Locke and Mill they are called social contract theorists. So, from here only this model concept of democratic system comes into picture. So, what is democracy? It is a contract between the people and the ruler yes or no for example every five years election is happening. So, many parties will be contesting Congress will be contesting BJP will be contesting in Indian scenario ok they will tell after winning in election I will do this I will do that so whichever you feel that which is actually like which is feasible which party will do it or not to that party you are voting and giving them a five years contract to do certain things to you yes or no yes. So, this is called social contract this system of social contract was actually introduced by these three people only ok, but Hobbes gives a certain ways to establish the social contract Mill gives a certain ways to establish this contract Locke gives a certain ways to establish a contract. So, this is one thing then there comes the hero of the political thoughts that is the Karl Marx every year there will be around 15 to 20 Marx from this single chapter Karl Karl Marx and you know one thing this Karl Marx with if you understand the thinker as a Karl Marx so how many places it will repeat I will show you see here Marxist here if you understand Marx then you will understand liberal and neo-niberal ok again see here Marxism in each and every part of the political science syllabus this word Marx will again and again again and again so why Marx is that much respected in political science syllabus by UPSC is that he is the one who has given an alternative to capitalism so for example 20 people are sitting everyone are saying the same thing one person is giving an alternative means you will call him a hero yes if one person is giving a solution to the problems of this 20 people you will call him a hero of course he has not shined in politics so communism is no more available in India except in Kerala ok everywhere it has got defeated but still communism is needed why if communism is not there capitalism will eat you will eat and will will digest you like anything yes or no there should be always a counterweight for a weight the counterweight is not there this weight will grow on and it will eat the entire system yes or no yes so the problem what what Marx says is that very simple why you are poor because he is rich simple ok why you are poor ask a question to Marx he says that because he is rich ok how he is rich how to how to actually de-establish this establishment how to de-establish this establishment so to a class struggle through a class struggle ok see usually if you see the rich people will be a handful of people poor people will be very huge numbers how this handful of people control this huge people through the power ok if the power comes to this needy people then whatever this people say that should be followed by the handful of rich people so it is called as class struggle this calls a called as a class struggle he says that one day the workers will overthrow the system and they will establish a government where the workers will dictate things to the capitalist ok so after Marxism came into picture why Marxism came into picture means after industrial revolution the system of capitalism establish like anything throughout the world ok after industrial revolution in industrial revolution people were exploited like anything so they were forced to work for 16 hours 18 hours 20 hours without giving proper wages food etc ok this is the time where in the city slums got established because people will go from villages and they will settle in the cities to work in the factories they will not have home to live there so they that's how the concept of slums came into picture so their health got deteriorated they were not given proper wages ok so by seeing all these things Marx wrote a book called Das Capital ok in this he is giving a solution to the plights of the workers how to overcome this problem how to overcome only way to overcome the problem is that to get the political power and now Marx is saying that to get the political power only you can overcome from your problem the same Ambedkar says in different way what is the solution for all your sins to come out of all your sins the only one solution is that cast the political power for Dalits he says in India so how you can get a respect establish your own government establish certain thing that without you they cannot form the government then you will get the power then change the entire system so the time frames were different ok the connotation was different but the solution is same between Marx and Ambedkar cast the political power like this lot of interesting aspects what bit what is the difference between Gandhi and Machiavelli what is the similarity between Marx and Ambedkar what is similarity between Gandhi and Marx you know so Gandhi and Marx are extreme poles they don't have any connections Gandhi is a capitalist you know that Gandhi is a hardcore capitalist Marx is an hardcore communist or socialist ok and there is a similarity between Marx and Gandhi how many of you know about it online students any idea and this question was asked this question was asked before three years in your UPAC problems you you may wonder except political science students no one would have answered this question yes or no because no one will study Karl Marx in their subject this question was asked if you want you can take 2017 or 18 GS prelims question paper and you can see this this was the question asked what is the similarity between the ideologies of Gandhi and Ambedkar four options was given you know yes there is a similarity both of them want a stateless society both of them want a stateless society so what is the state state is nothing but government why a government is needed why a government is needed any idea why a government is needed to solve the problems of the people to maintain law and order ok to give to give something to the people for their demands ok suppose Marx says that Marx says that once the workers establish their government ok so everything will be equally divided between everyone for example 10 people are there in a country ok ok so 10 kg of resources are there and this 10 gauge of resources will be equally divided and given to this 10 people so everyone will be having everything equally and they can produce their own so where is the need for a government where is the need for a government there will be no need for a government this is called stateless society and Gandhi also wants a stateless society but not through this class struggle and Marx says that through class struggle this stateless society will be established but Gandhi says that through panjayatraj this this stateless society can be established in polity will be setting panjayatraj in article 40 in dpsp panjayatraj has been mentioned it was established by 73rd and 74th constitutional amendment what is the main objective of panjayatraj is that to establish a stateless society self-governance but the approach to establish this differs from Marx and Gandhi understanding so then Grams and Anna Hadran they are somewhat specialist if I tell you will not understand it now so this is how you will study the western political thoughts so after studying western political thoughts we will be going to sorry we will be going to this sorry we will be studying about this concept of political ideologies liberalism socialism marxism fascism Gandhianism feminism fascism and all you would have heard about it so Mussolini has established in Italy and it's it's another variant is Nazism in Germany okay and feminism feminism very interesting concept nowadays lot of questions are being asked in the feminism concept why because a lot of things are discussed in feminism nowadays okay so a lot of judgments are coming you know what is feminism what is feminism two women are here in offline yeah online many women are there yeah any idea about what is feminism huh you know one thing if you want to understand one thing you want if you want to understand feminism you want to first understand what is the difference between sex and gender these things and all we'll study here very interesting actually see sex is a biological entity you cannot change it gender is a social entity okay gender was established in order to control the female by the male okay so feminist says that personal is political what is this personal is political very famous quotation given by the feminist scholars okay so why feminist are not shining in the political life because they are suppressed in the personal life this is the ideology they are suppressed inside the home so they cannot shine outside the home why female leaders are very less in this world because in house there is no equality between men and women so women are not given equality women are not treated equally even though if they have a lot of even though they have a lot of courage to do certain things they are not allowed to do certain things okay all these things will come into picture there are three ways in feminism first wave second wave and third wave first wave feminism has for equal political rights what is equal political rights means before 200 years and all men only will have voting rights women will not be having voting rights you know one thing we will be saying example of us for many things yes or no so us is that us is that very much developed you know one thing you has got independence in 1700s 1776 I guess okay oh but it gave voting rights to women only after 100 years of its independence how many of you know about it huh so first wave feminism talks about equal political rights give me voting rights I will also contest in the election etc second wave feminism talks about social and economic rights okay I should also study I should also walk freely in the society I also have equal rights like women like for example recently before three years before two years the Sabarimala judgment came these are all social rights women also can enter the Sabarimala temple and third wave feminism is called radical feminism which says that we don't want men support itself even to give birth to the baby we can go for IVF very radical feminism very radical feminism no support of men is needed in any walks of life we will not be projecting ourselves like men but we will be independently we will be living our life without the support of men even for marriages even for giving birth to babies etc very radical feminism okay and also talks about environmental feminism etc one of the famous thinker there's a thinker called Vandana Shiva she says that global warming is because of men you know that she says this she says that global warming is because of men how if women would have ruled the country for the last 2000 years global warming would not have occurred because men always see the politics as a power struggle because men means masculine in nature okay so if women would have ruled the world for last 200 years these many world war would have not occurred global warming would have not occurred ozone layer depletion would have not occurred all these things she says I am not telling it actually very interesting this idea right so all these things are called feminism of course it might be true also yes for example what is the main or what is the maximum global warming happened at the time of industrial revolution you know one thing at the time of industrial revolution not even a single country was ruled by women might be women would have ruled the country they would have seen industrial revolution in a different sense they would have not gone for this much depletion of resources I don't know it is all like our own understanding about the world only and even there are also some women rulers who have actually given a lot of things for example margaret tracher she was also a women ruler only yeah but she has also exploited the resource but vandana she was says that the main culprits for this global warming is men okay something very interesting to study okay so so after this we will be studying about all the topics what is justice what is equality rights democracy concept of power okay all these things we will be studying you know one thing the beauty of these topic is that you will acquire a very good writing skill you will acquire a very good writing skill okay especially essay writing we will be acquiring very good writing skills okay this is the base of political sense you know one thing 50 percentage of our classroom timing will be spent in this single part alone remaining 50 part all the three other parts we can complete because this is the base this is the base everything every other chapters are connected with this first part only okay this is paper one part b as they have already said this entire part is nothing but you are general studies nothing special fully general studies so first freedom struggle satyagraha non-cooperation civil distribution movement revolutionary mass movement peasants and workers movement okay then what are all the prospectors in the national movement then legacy of british rule then coming to the quality part salient features of indian constitution preamble fundamental rights fundamental duties directive principles parliamentary system amendment procedure judicial review basic structure doctrine then principles of union government executive legislature supreme court then coming to the state organs then panchayatras statutory organizations like election commission phd everything you will be studying in your gs okay you know one thing gs with your gs knowledge alone with the gs knowledge alone one print remarks is assured in psir paper one only thing is that we want to manipulate certain things in your writing you cannot write like a gs answer we want to write like a political science answer but knowledge is same so we we cannot change our preamble or fundamental right yes or no part you're studying in gs only here also we are going to study but we're going to study in a different sense that's it okay understanding what i am saying online students are you following online students okay so this is about part b then this is paper two this is paper two part a so this first two chapters alone it is pure political science it is pure political science this two chapters okay so comparative politics and state in comparative perspective but see here this chapter it talks about political parties pressure groups social movements and all these things this will be again there in your gs paper two in your general studies okay then globalization it is a general topic you want to study for your gs also okay globalization okay then approached international relations again here the same marxist system will be coming and this and all these two chapters or yeah this chapter is pure political science and come here balance of power deterrence world capitalist economy all these things you want to study in your world history world is free world is also covered in our psir like world war we will be studying cold war we will be studying what is the political situations at the time of cold war we will be studying here it is rise of superpower non-alignment movement collapse of soviet union all these things anyway you want to study in your world history again we will be studying it here okay then evolution of international organization that is a subject called international organizations in your gs wto united nations all these things again you will be studying here also okay united nations uh wto and this organizations again you want to study in international relations uh eu asian apex arc everything in gs again we'll be studying and global concerns this chapter is very very important in this paper here from this chapter alone we'll be getting around 40 marks in contemporary global concerns so democracy human rights related issue environmental issues gender justice terrorism nuclear proliferation again all these things daily you will see all these news in your newspaper so i'll i'll also teach you at the time of classes how to approach the newspaper for psir india and the world this is the last part of our syllabus this is nothing but again your general studies international relations only they're just going to modify your answers for political science that's it they're not going to do anything with respect to our content content is same like our gs content only see here india's foreign policy all these things will be there in your gs paper to syllabus if you take the syllabus you can see the same wordings more or less in your syllabus okay so all the four parts maximum overlapping is there only in this optional so that is why why people with the psir is clearing more means the only thing is that it is not a magic under nothing but they have a lot of overlapping in the general studies that is the main reason why psir is actually shining well for the last four five years okay and one more thing is that the average score so usually when we are choosing an optional we will also look for last three years how much is the average score we are getting in a subject okay you know 275 on average if you write a very very average answers also 265 to 275 guarantee you can get in this optional but some other optional it is very hard to even get 250 or 260 so nowadays literature subjects are not shining good before three four years and all people used to get around 300 350 in literature subject nowadays it is not doing good okay so average 275 you can get so you can push your mark up to 320 in psir lot of evidences we can show so the people who have cleared with psir easily they have crossed 270 if you're scoring 270 plus in optional your chances of getting into the servers are very bright okay because if you are studying psir as an optional automatically your gs answers will be reasonably good comparing to the other candidates but you should study otherwise it will not happen okay that we cannot do anything if people really take psir automatically will clear the exam no it is not like that again you want to study attend the classes write the test regularly okay so all these things need to be done then automatically you will clear this paper in a very fine manner okay reference books so these are all the reference books so I'll give you a proper notes proper notes will be given so I'll tell you before itself in my class I want each and every students to write the notes I don't want people to sit and only listen and go to the home no not allowed okay the what is the benefit of writing in the classroom is that first thing is that your handwriting will improve your speed of writing will improve and your writing skills will improve okay so even though these are all the reference books okay my notes should be your basic reference material I'll cover each and every word in the syllabus and I'll give you the notes approximately find it 400 to 500 pages of notes I'll give you okay in four months okay daily I will explain because psir is all about how you write the answer okay plateau I can explain in 10 15 minutes but how you are going to relate plateau with the current events and write an answer that is very very important okay so gs topics not like gs for example Indian polity is there so we are not going to cover Indian polity again like gs I'm going to tell you how to write answers for gs for the quality part and I'll give you some for example in fundamental rights fundamental rights is there we would have studied about articles in fundamental rights in our gs okay people who have not studied gs with me I'll give my gs notes also because I would have given for our gs students I'll be teaching polity so they'll be having around 200 pages of notes actually so that is more than sufficient in that what need to be added is that so people will be telling commenting on that okay so how preamble is very important something because we'll be telling something okay so how fundamental right is very important so the beauty of answer writing in psir is that you want to quote these people in your answers so for that I'll guide you but if I take like gs again what is article 12 article 13 it'll take one year to complete the entire psir nowhere it will be completely studied but I'll make sure that you write a good answer in the polity part of the psir okay international relations I'll cover fully even though because even though it in gs it is covered also I will again take the international relations part polity alone I'll teach you in a different manner how it is actually for psir not like an general studies point of view understanding okay so this is the reference book list so this first part alone more books will be there second paper and all books will be very less okay so the entire second paper only two bits is more than enough my notes itself will do it okay first part is first part is very important why because it is the base of the political thing okay second part is full of polity already you would have covered laxmikanth already you would have covered bippin chandra n crt for freedom struggle that is more than sufficient okay this book if you want you can buy otherwise not needed dd basu most of the people will be having first hundred pages of dd basu you can have a read it'll give you a lot of good understanding about fundamental rights dpsp etc the writings will be very good okay so this four books only it is very very important for your preparation other books and all with my notes itself you can manage the paper okay one minute so this is the main part these are all the overlapping parts with the gs so in prelims indian polity fully it will be overlapping indian freedom struggle will be overlapping okay bilateral relations will be overlapping international organizations will be overlapping environment current clause and current evens partially not fully okay we will not be we will not be actually dealing with what is ecosystem what is biodiversity not that but international part unscc paris accord kiotop protocol all these things you will be studying here and current evens this is very dynamic so more or less i think except science and technology geography everything is covered here in your prelims coming to main in gs paper one again freedom struggle and some parts of world history and social issues are getting covered how social issues means i'll again show you this social issues how social issues means i'll just show you yeah yeah here it is this chapter is nothing but social issues caste religion ethnicity issues that's what you will be studying it in the social issues in paper one so these are all the topics covered in gs paper one means and gs paper two constitution polity social justice international relations full paper is covered nothing is left governance only minimum weight age is there around 40 months you will be getting from governance that too with the knowledge and polity you can manage it okay in gs paper three security related issues and environment again not the theoretical pressure here not the basics of environment we'll be studying about unscc kiotop protocol all these protocol kind of things you'll be studying then gs four model thinkers and philosophical part will be covered and essay nowadays fully philosophical essay is only being asked you will have a very good writing skill if you start writing political science okay so yeah so this i want to show you how a political science question paper will look like whether it will be very tough questions or something like that or it will be very simple like a gs question see here this is the question from last year upsc question paper of political science paper one part two see this questions there all will look like gs questions only constitution of india is a product of historical process which with constitutional antecedents the constitution makers phase is a great task of forging a common national identity in the face of unparalleled social and cultural diversity in india mentioned the founding principles that define indian constitution analyze this is a political science question underline significance of first constitutional amendment already i have given this notes in your gs itself first constitutional amendment as champakam durai rajan case all these things will come into picture all will look like gs questions only see the sixth question constitutionally reconciling the fundamental rights with directive principles of state policy as lead as lead to frequent amendments to the constitution and judicial intervention this is nothing but you are going to start with the like shankari prasad case golak nath case then you are going to explain keshwan and the parthi case that's it okay this is 20 mark question 15 mark question role of the president of india becomes more significant during a minority government and the coalition government this is what current event and president anyhow you will be sitting in your gs do you think that despite having significant limitations the panchayatara systems have strengthened the process of democratic decentralization again a gs answer indian party system is saved by a complex interaction of the country's federal structure electoral system and social cleavages do you think that there has been a gradual shift in the basis on which the demands for the creation of new states have been raised in different regions of the country or india what explains india's modest improvements in social development outcomes even as a rate of growth has accelerated since the initiation of the economic reforms this is somewhat political in nature this access of electoral democracy can partly be attributed to the status and the role of election commission of india examine the evolution of due to sections of supreme court of india as a constitutional court constitutional cases again minerva mill case cash one of the bar the case put the swami cases all these things you can write explain how caste as a social category is also becoming a political category in the democratic politics of india so if you start reading gs answers itself this 125 marks it is guaranteed for you we have choices here okay you can choose your questions whichever is comfortable to you okay this is in paper one so without touching any political science oriented topics itself you can answer this many questions this is a last year question paper okay yeah this is paper to part b that is international relations part okay see here discuss about the implications of lukey's policy again this is there in your general studies lukey's policy you will be studying okay so then explain the philosophical foundations of india's foreign policy how india's foreign policy are framed again this is gs kind of thing intellectual property and quad it is again and again coming in news about this quad afghanistan taliban issue again it is coming in the news non-alignment again you will be studying in your general studies about what is non-alignment why india adopted non-alignment everything we will study in world history okay india china relations you can write n number of pages about india china relation current trend okay india bangladesh border issues again it's like a gs answer only but you cannot write like a gs answer that is different okay you should write like a political thing that you will be getting that ability once you start attending the classes okay south asia is considered as world's political and economically least integrator this question is nothing but they are asking about what one minute this question is nothing about they are asking about what they are asking about sark they are asking about sark sark is not working properly it is very least integrated why it is very least integrated why because there is no there is lot of problems between the south asian neighbors india and pakistan enemies bangladesh and india we have border issues okay napal now shifting towards china okay stilanka is in crisis maldivis is in crisis okay that's why india the south asian countries are not getting integrated failure of sark the question is nothing but failure of sark that's it so then how do the constituent states influence the foreign policy making in india constituent states how states influence foreign policy example west bengal will actually play a very major role in the foreign policy of india with respect to bangladesh okay keshmir will play a very deep rooted influence on the pakistan foreign policy okay tamil nadu will play a very deep rooted influence on stilanka foreign policy so that is what is the question is so see here how to how the constituent states influence the foreign policy making in india okay current events you can write the answer examine the evolution of india's role in global nuclear order so how india has actually made a influence or given an influence in the nuclear order of the world india has not signed npt india has not signed ctbt india is the very clear cut idea that if nuclear weapons need to be abolished everyone should abolish but the p5 countries permanent permanent powers are there right p5 countries in the un the superpowers they are saying that v5 will have the nuclear powers but you should not have it so india is not with that policy okay so why india is actually going with this policy why india is a nuclear state india is a nuclear state because china is a nuclear state very simple okay so nearby one person is sitting with a knife you will have a fear right you will also have a knife means he will fear to actually assault you because you are also having a knife very simple why india gone for a nuclear weapon means china a credibility issue so china was a nuclear power in order to safeguard its credibility because already in 1962 india lost the war with china so india had a moral fear again if a war comes we will be in a very positive situation if you are not having a nuclear weapon so automatically india gone for a nuclear so why pakistan got a nuclear weapon means india was a nuclear power very simple okay so all these things okay then see the eight question relations between india and russia are rooted in history mutual trust and mutual beneficial cooperation so this is actually as because of the recent crisis in russia and ukraine how india is siding with russia even though many western powers are actually against it there was a very beautiful interview given by our external affairs minister there was an western newspaper western media was asking questions to our external affairs minister jai shankar about why india is siding with russia why india is still purchasing oil and gas from russia so very simple statement jai shankar will be telling honorable external affairs minister will be telling this you know if you calculate the amount of oil india is purchasing from russia it will not be equal to a single afternoon's purchase of the west from russia that's it they will not never open them out because it is being projected that india is getting oil from russia india is still having uh like connections with russia even after ukraine issue you know the reality still the western countries are purchasing oil and gas from russia but it is projected that india is only getting oil and gas many european countries are still getting because european countries only source for natural gas and oil is none other than russia only okay if they want to get it from south arabia the distance is very high so nearby a huge producer is there why are you going to get it from south arabia understanding and south arabia is producing only oil not the gas but russia is producing both natural gas and oil understanding so this is actually with respect to the current political situations around the world discuss the sustainable development code set by the united nations identify the drivers of india's new interest in africa so all this anyhow you study it in political sense or not you take political sense and optional or not you're going to study in general studies you're not going to escape from all these things okay so this is how political science is very helpful for the students to crack the civil service examination because of its syllabus getting overlapped with each and every paper of the general studies and another thing is that it'll be enjoying political science why because it's very interesting and very dynamic so the first part is full of theoretical part even though it looks like a theoretical part so plateau is dead before 2500 years but still his ideologies are alive still plateau so people who want to approach politics in a scientific way the first book they'll be studying is plateau's republic okay for example it's not like in in india politics is something different so whomever can enter into politics without knowing what is politics but properly a person want to be a politician he wants to be a trained politician not a seasoned politician you want to be a trained politician so what book first reference is the republic by plateau okay when the last reference will be the prince by mackie valley so only an ideal person cannot win in politics you will be a you should be a pragmatist you should be a realist so that thing will be given to you through mackie valley so indian scenario how you will learn indian scenario i'm i'm telling about western thinkers only there's another chapter you know that indian political thoughts here is the chapter so here we'll study about dharma shastra artha shastra so india's mackie valley is none other than kautilya or chanakya so artha shastra you'll be studying so want to know about some noble things about india buddhist tradition you want to study you want to study about minority thoughts minority's perspective saith akhmad khan you want to study about the the person who started as a revolutionary and ended as a saint who is it arvindo you you have visited pondicherry arvindo ashram or it is nothing but arvindos arvindo started as a revolutionary okay he threw bombs on the british people suddenly he changed it into a saint so a connect between a revolutionary and a saint mindset how it will be there it's a thinking of arvindo then obviously we'll study about gandhi's thought then ambedkar then emman roy so gandhi's thought we will not be studying like a general studies and all gandhi has given a lot of theories has given a theory of satyagraha theory of bread labour theory of trusteeship concept okay all these things we'll be studying here and all these gandhi's thoughts will be helpful in your essay writing without gandhi you cannot write any essay in india because you are writing union public service commission exam not going to write pakistan service commission exam so you should quote gandhi to show your patriotism because nowadays it is expected to show your patriotism rather than hiding right so you want to show it in the paper so you want to write about gandhi okay so with gandhi's quotes itself you can write four or five quotes in an essay which will impress the examiner okay so this is how we are going to this is about an actual about political science is an optional to UPSC preparation so how we are going to deal with UPSIR okay so we will start with the first chapter that is western political thoughts then we'll one by one cover the entire syllabus of paper one part a then we will move to paper two part b okay then we will complete full paper two at last we will go to the quality part because it is already covered in your gs okay so what is the system of study daily you will be having two halves of class from 5 30 to 7 30 weekly thrice or four days classes will be there mostly four days classes will be there monday tuesday thursday and friday you will be having classes so after a particular portion is completed assessment test will be done it will be evaluated and personally the paper feedback will be given to you so around 15 to 10 to 15 tests will be conducted for the entire syllabus coverage okay and i'll be open to clear your doubts at any time we'll be having a separate telegram group for our psar students okay you can reach me at any time through the telegram group i'll be here only in bangalore i am like seated in bangalore only so you can come to my cabin at any time and get your doubts clarified with respect to psir okay so the classes are will be very interactive it is not a one-side process i'm not going to teach any rocket science or something like that because all the parts of psir are very much like discussion oriented topics only so i want you people to be discuss a lot in the class and make use of the session so feel free to actually ask any doubts and utilize me as much as possible okay because like the thing is that what is the problem with the freshers is that they start with a very good force slowly the force will get reduced so i i'll make sure that the force is not getting reduced during my sessions for the same time you should be following the classes regularly should not skip the classes should attend the test regularly and definitely i give you a surety that i can push you to a very high levels in psir optional okay that uh that responsibility i'll take but that responsibility should not be a one-sided responsibility you know you should not be like believing me you can believe me completely but you should not rely on me completely because the exam i cannot come and write for you you only should write for that whatever assistance that can be given from my side it will be done for sure okay so this is about the demo class for psir we'll have one more demo after 10 days okay the classes will be starting in the month end or in the first week of september mostly in the first week of september we'll start the classes so like yeah people who wants to register you can start registering or you can register whatever dates you wish before the starting of the class that is not an issue so it is the time for clearing your doubts uh any doubts so like after i'm stopping it looks like a rain has stopped right oh is it so yeah online students any doubts no doubts so any doubts online students can type in the chat box and more says no guru prasad barat pdisha raghu ranjita shakti summer any doubts anand then here no doubts you won't ask anything you can ask no shall we wind up the session i hope the session was useful with respect to psir as an optional uh uh i believe that i have covered all the aspects for choosing an optional yes very silent crowd okay so have a nice day okay so after one week or so we'll have one more demo okay if you wish you can attend that also that is for the people who have not attended today okay if you wish you can also attend that demo uh the classes will be starting at the first week of september okay thank you thank you all thank you thank you online students for attending the session