Economy MCQ solved from UPSC CDS-2026-I - Difficulty, Source Mapping & Roadmap for next exam

0. 💾 Download PYQs (but wait for 1 day for page to refresh) https://unacademy.com/content/upsc/cds-exam/ 1. 🔠🏆 Full Length Mock Test https://unacademy.com/scholarship/UAIPMT2026 2. 👩🏻‍🏫 Join Unacademy for UPSC Prep https://unacademy.com/goal/upsc-civil-services-examination-ias-preparation/KSCGY/subscribe?plan_type=plus&referral_code=mrunal.org TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro & paper overview 02:52 Lecture agenda 03:34 Pillar 1 Money Banking Finance 08:31 Pillar 2 Budget Taxation 10:07 Pillar 3 International Trade 13:40 Pillar 4 Sectors of Economy 20:33 Pillar 5 Infrastructure 25:35 Pillar 6 Human Resource Dev 31:53 Coaching mukt strategy 33:42 Other GS subjects strategy 36:40 Overall revision plan ### DESCRIPTION: Dr. Mrunal Patel — UPSC Educator and Economy Subject Expert — solves all Economy questions from the UPSC CDS April 2026 exam pillar-wise and outlines a coaching-free strategy for the next CDS. Paper: Out of 120 GS questions, ~20 covered Economy (12 theory, 8 current affairs). Difficulty: 7 easy, 7 medium, 6 random. Concern: 4 questions lifted from obscure December 2025 PIB press releases. Pillar 1 — Money, Banking, Finance: Green Bonds, PM SVANidhi for street vendors, PM Fasal Bima Yojana — initially mandatory for farm credit, later made optional. Pillar 2 — Budget: Interest payments on past loans (~Rs. 14 lakh crore) are the largest revenue expenditure — ahead of defence, subsidies, and pensions. Pillar 3 — Trade: India-New Zealand FTA (December 2025) — AYUSH work visas, horticulture, audio-visual cooperation, reduced apple tariffs. Pillar 4 — Agriculture, Manufacturing, Services: MSP guarantee for pulses (Tur, Urad, Masoor), PM MITRA Textile Parks, RoDTEP and RCTL schemes, Sujalaam Bharat drinking water scheme. Pillar 5 — Infrastructure: Singareni Collieries (oldest govt coal company, Telangana), Visakhapatnam landlocked port, New Pamban Bridge (vertical lift), Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana under Rural Development Ministry. Pillar 6 — HRD: Infant Mortality Rate, Multidimensional Poverty Index (health, education, standard of living), Deen Dayal Antyodaya NRLM, UNDP Gender Inequality Index (reproductive health, empowerment, labour market). No Microeconomics question this year. Coaching-Free Strategy: Maharashtra Board Class 12 for Microeconomics; free India Book 2026 summary from Unacademy; Dr. Mrunal free Budget and Economic Survey series here. Course at Mrunal.org. For Polity: Laxmikanth with factual articles and amendments appendix. Useful for: UPSC CDS, CAPF, UPSC CSE Prelims, SSC-CGL, State PSC, IBPS, RBI Grade B, ACIO, APFC. ### TAGS: CDS 2026 paper solved, CDS April 2026 economy, UPSC CDS economy, CDS GS paper analysis, CDS economy strategy, UPSC CDS preparation, coaching free CDS, Mrunal economy CDS, UPSC economy lecture, economy for CDS, economy for CAPF, economy for SSC CGL, RBI Grade B economy, IBPS economy, UPSC prelims economy, Indian economy UPSC, government schemes UPSC, Mrunal Patel economy, free economy lecture, CDS paper review