TOPICS FOR GROUP DISCUSSION

1.

Which is better, life of a boarder or a day scholar?

2.

Should capital punishment be abolished or allowed to stay in our country?

3.

Should co-education be encouraged in India or not ? If so at what stage?

4.

Should love marriages be encouraged in our country or not ?

5.

Should corporal punishment be permitted in our educational institutions or

not ?

6.

Should examinations be abolished or allowed to stay in the method of

selection of candidates for defence services?

7.

Should compulsory military training be introduced in our educational

institutions?

8.

Should prohibition be enforced in India or not ?

9.

Has science proved a boon or a curse to humanity ?

10.

Has UNO proved a success or a failure ?

11.

Should industries be nationalised or not ?

12.

Who serves the country better ? A soldier, a doctor, a scientist or a

politician?

13.

What is the most helpful for a man ,s success in life ? Knowledge, power
or wealth?

14.

What quality would you prefer in a wife-beauty, health, wealth,

educational or character?

15.

Should India remain nonaligned ?

16.

Our five year plans have they improved the lot of the common man or
not ? How would the Rolling Plan system help our economy ?

17.

The best place for the women is hearth and home and not office.

18.

What helps a soldier most-brain, brawn or faith?

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19.

Should Indian students be allowed to take part in politics ?

20.

Should compulsory family planning he introduced in our country?

21.

Is war desirable or inevitable ?

22.

Are early or late marriage desirable ?

23.

Which one would your prefer-health, riches or social status ?

24.

Which is worst of the vices-gambling, drinking, smoking or stealing ?

25.

Should religious and moral instructions be imparted in our educational

institutions?

26.

Should sex education be introduced in our schools or college education ?

27.

What decides a mans future- fate or his own efforts ?

28.

The Economic Liberalization has only served to widen the gap between
the rich and the poor.

29.

Should promotion be based on seniority or merit ?

30.

Who is a greater culprit-the man who accepts bribe or the man who offers
bride ?

31.

Should India prepare nuclear weapons in view of Pakistans decision to

prepare Nuclear Bomb ?

32.

Should there be reservation of the seats in Parliament for women ?

33.

Are the nuclear blasts by India justified ?

34.

Should the basic frame work or our Constitution be changed ?

35.

Is the role of the opposition parties in India justified ?

36.

A plea for introducing Presidential form of Government in India.

37.

Can the present scenario of rampant political corruption be rectified ?

38.

Should there be a uniform civil code in Inida ?

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39.

Is the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) a success or a failure ?

40.

Has the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) been
able to make any significant contribution to the South Asian region ?

41.

Do you think that reservation of seats in the public sector for backward
classes should be abolished ?

42.

Is the Atomic Power a curse to the humanity ?

LIST OF TOPICS FOR PRACTICE IN LECTURETTES

A. Educational Topics
1.

Sex education At what stage should it be introduced in our educational

institutions?

2.

Student in discipline, its causes and remedies.

3.

Compulsory Military Training in our educational institutions.

4.

Your favourite author/leader.

5.

Future of English language in India.

6.

Students should not be allowed to take part in politics.

7.

Will CD- ROMS replace books in the near future ?

8.

Patriotism.

9.

Importance of games in schools and colleges.

10.

Who influences the life of a child most-parents, teachers or friends.

11.

Travelling as a means of education.

B. Scientific Topics
1.

Are computers a boon or a curse ?

2.

Horrors of war.

3.

Science in the service of humanity.

4.

Space fights or journey to the moon.

5.

Is the atom bomb a curse or a blessing to humanity.

6.

Cyberspace and the Information Super highway.

7.

E-Learning. Internet in.

C. Economic and Social Topics

1.

Indias population problem, and how to control it.

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2.

Indias food problem.

3.

The problem of unemployment.

4.

Indias five year plans, with special reference to concept of rolling plan.

5.

Family Planning in India.

6.

Which is worse, drinking or gambling ?

7.

General economic crisis.

8.

E-Commerce.

9.

Indias economic liberalization programme.

10.

Rising prices in India and Governments efforts to bring them down.

11.

Trade unionism in a democracy.

12.

Strikes and demonstrations in our country.

13.

Nationalisation of grain trade in our country.

14.

Position of women in our society.

15.

The oil crisis in India and the world.

16.

Inflation and its effects on our economy.

D. Current and General Topics

1.

The Kashmir issue will always remain an obstacle for cordial relations
between India and Pakistan.

2.

The demand for a Constitutional/Amendment giving more power to the

States.

3.

Power of the Press.

4.

Should we have conscription in our country ?

5.

Indias refusal to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty.

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6.

Should India review her policy of nonalignment in view of the attitude of

her neighbours ie.China and Pakistan ?

7.

Your favourite leader/Military Commander.

8.

Your ambition in life.

9.

Our gallantry awards.

10.

How can bribery and corruption be lessened in our country ?

11.

United Nations Organisation.

12.

National integration.

13.

Who is supreme, the judiciary or the Parliament.

14.

Censorship and the Freedom of Speech.

15.

Pokhran II (Nuclear blasts by India)

16.

Brain drain.

17.

Indias testing of the short-range ballistic missile, the Prithvi.

18.

Garland Canal.

19.

Insurgency in North East.

20.

Militancy in J&K.

21.

Naga Peace Talks.

22.

India Vision 2020.

E. International
1.

The Indo-Afghanistan relations.

2.

Sino-Indian relations.

3.

Indo-Sri Lanka relations.

4.

Indo-Bangladesh relations.

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5.

Indo US relations.

6.

Indo Russia relations.

7.

Indo Pakistan relaltions.

8.

Indo Mynamar relations.

9.

Indo Nepal relaltions.

10.

India a regional power in South Asia.

11.

Sri Lankan Peace Talks.

12.

US- Iraq conflicts.