Being a part of Misfits Day -3

  Hello Everyone ,

This is the third day of me posting a key learning which i am able to derive out of a classes of Misfits. I took two sessions today i.e Geography and History . My key learnings are ;

Geography :

In previous blog , we have discussed about the relevance of geography in a syllabus of UPSC . Today we will learn about one of the most important branch of geography i.e. Physical Geography . Generally, Physical means something which can be learned by just looking at external features and this applies in physical geography as well . Whenever you praise Himalayas ,talk about the nature of oceans and sea or maybe wondering about the beauty of Western Ghats , you are doing nothing but looking at the examples of physical geography.  

But now the question arises, why physical geography is important for effective governance ?

From my point of view , the reasons could be as follows :

• Physical geography is something which gives insights of the structure, relief , climate and terrain of a place so it becomes crucial for a civil servant to know about it all in order to deal with problems which may happen in future , and preventing them by founding the suitable solution.
• As a civil servant , we have to serve the people and we must know to do it in a best possible way by making suitable policies which can be effectively implemented. For eg : Dry region of Rajasthan faces lack of rainfall and hence water shortage so we can set up and implement the policies or method of water conservation in action OR a region which is prone to floods or any other climatic conditions could be helped by setting up of dynamic disaster management plan .

History:

 

This was the first session of history which i took , it was more of an orientation but an awakening session in which we discussed how static portion can be linked up with dynamic one by reading standard books and forming analytical conjectures . 

Then ,we proceeded toward the idea of why history is relevant ?

• When we try to understand the meaning of history , one word quickly comes in our mind which is the past and past or we can say history teaches us backgrounds of the civilisations , leaders , common people , policies which directly helps us in understanding the current scenario in respect with past events . It also helps in understanding the geological , political , cultural and economic aspect of an area.

That's all from my side today ! 

Thank you !