TGPSC Group 2 Syllabus

Paper I — General Studies and General Abilities

Current affairs of regional, national and international importance; international relations and events; general science and everyday applications, with developments in science and technology and in information technology; environmental issues and disaster management; world geography, Indian geography and the geography of Telangana; the history and cultural heritage of India; society, the Constitution and governance; logical reasoning, analytical ability and data interpretation; and basic English at a general level.

Paper II — History, Polity and Society

The socio-cultural history of India and of Telangana; the Indian Constitution and the political system, including the structure of government, rights and duties, and the machinery of governance; and social structure, social issues and public policy. Telangana-specific content runs through all three parts rather than sitting in a separate section.

Paper III — Economy and Development

The Indian economy and development — national income, agriculture, industry and services, planning and public finance, money and banking; and the economy of Telangana, including its resources, agriculture, irrigation, power, industrial policy and development programmes. Also covers issues of development and change, poverty, employment and welfare policy.

Paper IV — Telangana Movement and State Formation

The idea of Telangana under Hyderabad state, the merger of 1956 and the Gentlemen’s Agreement, the 1969 agitation and its aftermath, the Six-Point Formula, the revival of the movement from the 1990s, the mobilisation of the 2000s across political, cultural and student organisations, and the formation of the state. Documents, commissions, agreements and named actors are all examinable.

Read that list for its proportions. Telangana content appears in every paper and occupies the whole of one, which puts the state layer at somewhere close to a third of the total examination. A candidate preparing from national competitive material alone is preparing for roughly two-thirds of the paper.

The Group 2 syllabus is best read as three bodies of material that behave completely differently under preparation. General studies is broad and shallow and rewards coverage. The Telangana movement material is narrow and deep and rewards a single well-built file. Economy, society and governance sit between them and reward being able to connect a national policy to its state implementation. Splitting study time by those three behaviours works considerably better than splitting it evenly by paper.