Maharashtra HSC General Knowledge case studies
Maharashtra HSC General Knowledge · Put your knowledge to work in context.
General Knowledge is a subject offered under the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) Higher Secondary Certificate (Std XII) programme, and it also appears as a component of competitive and qualifying assessments taken by HSC students in the state. It suits students who want a broad, cross-disciplinary paper rather than a single-stream specialisation, and it is often chosen by candidates building a base for later competitive examinations. The Maharashtra HSC General Knowledge case studies are 5 cases and about 4,046 words.
1A Drinking-Water Pipeline Through 12 Hectares of Reserved Forest
The rural water supply department has sanctioned a ₹310-crore scheme to supply drinking water to 118 villages in a Vidarbha taluka where groundwater fluoride exceeds 4.0 mg per litre, roughly four times the permissible limit; children in three villages already show dental fluorosis, and the scheme was first announced six years ago. The cheapest alignment is a 42-km pipeline cutting through 12 hectares of reserved forest and felling about 3,200 trees, including 60 mature teak.
890 words, about 4 min2Gairan, Sugarcane and a Solar Park: Choosing a Land Use in a Drought Taluka
In a drought-prone taluka of the Maharashtra sugar belt, a 4.8 TMC dam releases 62% of its irrigation quota to sugarcane grown on 14,000 hectares. Cane contributes about ₹180 crore to the taluka's output and gives 900 people four months of work a year.
823 words, about 4 min3Reading a Dying Urban Lake: Oxygen, Algae and a Fish-Stocking Proposal
A 46-hectare lake on the edge of a class-B city receives about 12 million litres a day of untreated sewage from three nullahs. In the third week of May, monitoring records dissolved oxygen at 2.1 mg per litre, biochemical oxygen demand at 18 mg per litre, and a dense green surface scum dominated by Microcystis .
784 words, about 4 min4A Ploughed-Up Hoard Near Kolhapur: Title, Dating and Display
A farmer deep-ploughing a field near Kolhapur turns up four copper plates strung on a ring, inscribed in Sanskrit in a southern Brahmi-derived script, together with 38 silver coins and the broken lower half of a standing stone deity. A Pune dealer inspects photographs and offers ₹9 lakh, saying the set will 'sit safely in a private collection abroad'.
807 words, about 4 min5Twelve Awards, Seven Members and a Conflict of Interest
A state government's sports awards committee has seven members, ₹25 lakh in total, and must finalise twelve awards of ₹1 lakh each plus one lifetime achievement award of ₹5 lakh within ten days. Its shortlist of fourteen includes the nephew of one committee member, a wrestler with an adverse analytical finding from an out-of-competition test eight weeks ago, a middle-distance runner with three whereabouts failures in eleven months, and a shooter whose national bronze came in an event with only three entries.
742 words, about 4 min