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Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer

Identify the Naxal-affected areas in India and discuss their socio-economic problems.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Political Aspects

The Red Corridor is one continuous arc of dissected, forested, mineral-bearing upland some 1,000 km long, not an administrative roll-call — the Eastern Ghats–Bastar–Chota Nagpur plateau belt, running north-eastward from the Andhra–Odisha tract across Dandakaranya into southern Bihar, with a western salient in Gadchiroli and an eastern one in the Jangalmahal of West Bengal.

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  • Identifying the Belt — a Physiographic Region, Not a List of States
  • The Current Arithmetic
  • Socio-Economic Problems of the Belt
  • Judgement

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