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Latest Lecturette Topics for SSB 2025 With Answers

The SSB Interview plays a very paramount step in the shortlisting of a candidate to join the Indian Armed forces as an Officer. Be it the Indian Army, the Indian Navy or the Indian Air Force, a candidate needs to ace the SSB Interview process to get selected into the prestigious Indian Armed Forces.

What is Lecturette?

The Lecturette is one of the GTO Tasks organized by the selection center boards of the Indian Armed Forces. The Lecturette is performed with a group of other candidates. All candidates must select any one topic from the three chits picked by them from the bowl that has multiple chits. Each chit has a topic on it and the candidate must pick a chit and give a lecturette on that topic by preparing it impromptu. All Candidates are given time to prepare for the selected topic.

SSB Interview Lecturette Topics For 2025

The selected candidates must undergo a set of procedures set by the Recruitment Board. The lecturette is usually held on the Third or Fourth Day of the SSB Interview depending on the chest number of the candidates. The topics in the Lecturette are often related to the National and International News and Events, or the Evergreen Topics. We have provided a few recent topics and major highlights that could be asked by the SSB in the SSB Interview going to be conducted in 2025. The following topics are the same for the Army SSB, Air Force AFSB, and Navy.

E-commerce

Ans– E-commerce (electronic commerce) refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce is the largest sector of the electronics industry and is in turn driven by the technological advances of the semiconductor industry.

2. Israel Hamas War

Ans– An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. It is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and has sparked an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis.

3. One Nation One Election

Ans– One Nation, One Election is a proposal under consideration by the Government of India to synchronise all elections in the country either on a single day or within a specific time frame, with an objective of cutting election cost. One of its most notable proposals is to simultaneously conduct elections to the Lok Sabha & state legislative assemblies of all 28 states & 8 union territories. The Bill was Introduced in Indian Parliament’s Lower house, Lok Sabha on 17th December 2024.

4. Sex Education

Ans– Sex education, also known as comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), is a curriculum-based process that teaches children and young people about sexuality. It aims to help them make healthy choices, develop respectful relationships, and understand their rights.

5. Financial Literacy

Ans– Financial literacy is the cognitive understanding of financial components and skills such as budgeting, investing, borrowing, taxation, and personal financial management. The absence of such skills is referred to as being financially illiterate.

6. India social media

Ans– Indian social media is an important tool for learning and interaction, but unregulated usage can have serious impacts on mental health, academic performance, and emotional well-being. These have to be offset by the welfare of India’s younger generations.

7. Marketing

Ans– Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers. It is one of the primary components of business management and commerce. Marketing is typically conducted by the seller, typically a retailer or manufacturer. Products can be marketed to other businesses (B2B) or directly to consumers (B2C). Sometimes tasks are contracted to dedicated marketing firms, like a media, market research, or advertising agency.

8. UCC Implementation Problems

Ans– Opponents contend that implementing a UCC could infringe upon religious freedom and cultural practices, potentially alienating minority communities. They argue that personal laws are deeply rooted in religious traditions and should be preserved as part of the unique fabric of Indian society. Could lead to resistance and resentment from various communities. Seen as an infringement on the constitutional right to practice religion freely.22 May 2024.

9. Diversity

Ans– Diversity is the presence of a variety of people, ideas, or things. It can also refer to the practice of including people from different backgrounds. It is made of Color, caste, creed, sex, financial stability, age, gender, education, religion, race, etc.

10. Conscious Consumerism

Ans– Conscious consumerism is a way of buying and using products that is mindful of the environment, society, and economy. It involves making choices that are sustainable, ethical, and reduce consumption.

What it involves

  • Buying sustainable products
  • Choosing products that are reusable, long-lasting, and made from recyclable or bio-based materials
  • Supporting ethical companies
  • Choosing brands that share your values and support fair trade, cruelty-free practices, and sustainable production
  • Reducing consumption
  • Making a conscious effort to consume less and repair things instead of replacing them
  • Being aware of the impact of your choices
  • Considering the impact of your choices on the environment, human rights, and economic systems.

11. Make in India

Ans– Make in India is an initiative by the Government of India to create and encourage companies to develop, manufacture and assemble products in India and incentivize dedicated investments into manufacturing. The policy approach was to create a conducive environment for investments, develop a modern and efficient infrastructure, and open up new sectors for foreign capital.

12. Bio Fertilizer

Ans– A biofertilizer is a substance containing living microorganisms which, when applied to seeds, plant surfaces, or soil, colonize the rhizosphere or the interior of the plant and promotes growth by increasing the supply or availability of primary nutrients to the host plant. Biofertilizers add nutrients through the natural processes of nitrogen fixation, solubilizing phosphorus, and stimulating plant growth through the synthesis of growth-promoting substances. The micro-organisms in biofertilizers restore the soil’s natural nutrient cycle and build soil organic matter. Through the use of biofertilizers, healthy plants can be grown, while enhancing the sustainability and the health of the soil. Biofertilizers can be expected to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, but they are not yet able to replace their use. As of 2024, more than 340 biofertilizer products have been approved for commercial use in the US.

13. Russia-Ukraine War

Ans– The Russo-Ukrainian War[d] began in February 2014. Following Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War. These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began occupying more of the country, starting the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has resulted in a refugee crisis and tens of thousands of deaths.

14. Law and Order

Ans– Law and order in India is the responsibility of state governments, with the central government providing support. The Constitution of India states that law and order is a state subject.

State-level law and order

  • State police forces: Responsible for routine policing, including apprehending criminals
  • Home departments: Responsible for maintaining law and order in the state
  • District police: The main unit for maintaining law and order in a district, headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)

Central-level law and order

  • Ministry of Home Affairs- Responsible for controlling federal police and supporting state law enforcement
  • National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)- Collects, compiles, and analyses crime statistics to help states develop strategies to prevent and control crime
  • Central Security and Intelligence Agencies- Share intelligence inputs with state law enforcement agencies to prevent crime

15. Rafale Deal

Ans– The Rafale deal controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 Rafale multirole fighter aircraft for a price estimated at €7.87 billion (₹58,891 Crore) by the Defence Ministry of India from France’s Dassault Aviation. The origin of the deal lies in the Indian MMRCA competition, a multi-billion-dollar contract to supply 126 multi-role combat aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) with a transfer of technology.

16. NITI Aayog

Ans– The NITI Aayog abbreviation for National Institution for Transforming India) serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of the Republic of India and the nodal agency tasked with catalysing economic development, and fostering cooperative federalism and moving away from bargaining federalism through the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach. Its initiatives include “15-year road map”, “7-year vision, strategy, and action plan”, AMRUT, Digital India, Atal Innovation Mission, Medical Education Reform, agriculture reforms (Model Land Leasing Law, Reforms of the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act, Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index for ranking states), Indices Measuring States’ Performance in Health, Education and Water Management, Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Skill Development, Task Forces on Agriculture and up of Poverty, and Transforming India Lecture Series.

17. Monsoon

Ans– A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seasonally changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase. The term is also sometimes used to describe locally heavy but short-term rains.

18. Reverse Engineering

Ans– Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so. Depending on the system under consideration and the technologies employed, the knowledge gained during reverse engineering can help with repurposing obsolete objects, doing security analysis, or learning how something works.

19 CDS (Chief of Defence Staff)

Ans– The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is the principal military authority and senior-most appointment of the Indian Armed Forces. Deemed the overall professional head of India’s three armed services, namely, the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force, the CDS is the highest-ranking military officer in service, responsible for overseeing inter-service jointness across all disciplines related to military functioning. Primarily, the office operates on a status of primus inter pares i.e., first among equals with the chiefs of the three services, and functions as the Permanent-Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) – the inter-service syndicate responsible for ensuring the establishment and preservation of military integration.

20 Border Disputes of India

Ans– India has border disputes with China, Pakistan, and Nepal.

India-China border dispute

  • China claims areas south of the McMahon Line, which is the effective boundary between the two countries.
  • India believes that China’s proposed boundaries in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh have no written basis.
  • The dispute also involves the Republic of China based in Taiwan.

India-Pakistan border dispute

  • The dispute is centered around Jammu and Kashmir, which shares borders with India, China, and Pakistan.
  • India controls the Siachen Glacier, which is the longest glacier in the Karakoram.
  • India and Pakistan also dispute the Saltoro Mountains, which are located in the Karakoram.

India-Nepal border dispute

India and Nepal have disputes over the Kalapani territory and Susta.

  • Kalapani is a 35-square-kilometre area in North West Nepal.
  • Susta is a 20–140-square-kilometre area in Southern Nepal.

21. Child Labour

Ans– Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation worldwide, although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, and some forms of work undertaken by Amish children, as well as by Indigenous children in the Americas

22. CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor)

Ans– China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a 3,000 km Chinese infrastructure network project currently under construction in Pakistan. This sea-and-land-based corridor aims to secure and shorten the route for China’s energy imports from the Middle East, avoiding the existing path through the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia, which could be blockaded in case of war, thereby threatening China’s energy-dependent economy. Developing a deep-water port at Gwadar in the Arabian Sea and establishing a robust road and rail network from this port to the Xinjiang region in western China would serve as a shortcut, enhancing trade between Europe and China. In Pakistan, the project aims to address electricity shortages, develop infrastructure, and modernize transportation networks, while also transitioning the economy from an agriculture-based structure to an industrial one.

23 False Impacts of Social Media

Ans– Social media can have a false impact by spreading misinformation and fake news, which can lead to real-world consequences. Social media can also create a false reality by prioritizing content that confirms our biases.

  • Misinformation and fake news
  • Social media can expose users to misinformation and fake news, which can undermine scientific expertise and evidence-based interventions.
  • Misinformation can lead people to take actions with disastrous consequences.
  • People may be confident they can judge what’s real or fake, but in practice they may not be able to.
  • Creating a false reality
  • Social media algorithms can prioritize content from people who share similar perspectives.
  • This can create a false reality by intensifying the effects of our choices, which may not reflect our true preferences.
  • Our subconscious biases and rushed decisions can also contribute to a false reality.

24. Vaccination Drive in India

Ans– India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive has been a major effort to protect the country from the pandemic. As of July 2022, India had administered over 200 crore COVID-19 vaccines.

What has happened?

  • The Government of India has implemented a vaccination drive to protect the country from COVID-19
  • India has achieved a major milestone of administering over 200 crore COVID-19 vaccines
  • The government has devised public health strategies to ensure mass vaccination

25. Border Road Organisation (BRO)

Ans– The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is a government agency in India that builds and maintains roads in border areas and neighbouring countries. It is a statutory body that is under the Ministry of Defence.

What does the BRO do?

  • Builds and maintains roads in border areas and neighboring countries
  • Supports the Indian Armed Forces
  • Develop road infrastructure in India
  • Executes Agency Works for other Central government ministries and departments.

26. NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation)

Ans– Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for Navigation with Indian Constellation; also, nāvik ‘sailor’ or ‘navigator’ in Indian languages), is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing services. It covers India and a region extending 1,500 km (930 mi) around it, with plans for further extension up to 3,000 km (1,900 mi). An extended service area lies between the primary service area and a rectangle area enclosed by the 30th parallel south to the 50th parallel north and the 30th meridian east to the 130th meridian east, 1,500–6,000 km (930–3,730 mi) beyond borders where some of the NavIC satellites are visible but the position is not always computable with assured accuracy. The system currently consists of a constellation of eight satellites, with two additional satellites on ground as stand-by.

27. SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization)

Ans– The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, international security, and defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001. It is the world’s largest regional organization in terms of geographic scope and population, covering approximately 24% of the area of world (65% of Eurasia) and 42% of the world population. As of 2024, its combined nominal GDP accounts for around 23%, while its GDP based on PPP comprises approximately 36% of the world’s total.

28. NRC (National Register of Citizens)

Ans– The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is meant to be a register of all Indian citizens whose creation was mandated by the 2003 amendment of the Citizenship Act, 1955. Its purpose is to document all the legal citizens of India so that the illegal immigrants can be identified and deported. It has been implemented for the state of Assam starting in 2013–2014. The Government of India announced plans to implement it for the rest of the country in 2021, but it has not yet been implemented.

In 2019, the Government passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (also referred to as “CAA 2019” or “CAA”), which promised an accelerated naturalisation process for immigrants of persecuted Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Parsi and Jain religious minority communities of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was widely seen as a way to exempt non-Muslims that might fail the criteria for inclusion in NRC, though Jews and Baha’is also falls in to this category.

29. Refugee Crisis in India

Ans– Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other Bangladeshi refugees in 1965 and 1971, Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from the 1980s and most recently Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. In 1992, India was seen to be hosting 400,000 refugees from eight countries. According to records with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, as on January 1,2021, there were 58,843 Sri Lankan refugees staying in 108 refugee camps in Tamil Nadu and 54 in Odisha and 72,312 Tibetan refugees have been living in India.

30. India-Maldives Relations

Ans– India and the Maldives have close relations that include strategic, economic, military, and cultural ties. The two countries share a history of close ties, and have supported each other in multilateral organizations.

Current relations-

  • India and the Maldives have agreed to a “Comprehensive Economic and Maritime Security Partnership”.
  • The two countries have agreed to work together on development cooperation, trade, and digital initiatives.
  • India has supported the Maldives’ Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) “Ekatha” harbour project.
  • India has supported the Maldives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • India and the Maldives have signed a Currency Swap Agreement (CSA) to help the Maldives manage its foreign exchange reserves.

Future relations

  • India and the Maldives are working on a Bilateral Free Trade Agreement.

The two countries are working on operationalizing the settlement of trade transactions in local currencies.

How to Prepare for SSB lecturette?

Candidates should not take the Lecturette lightly at all. Even though it is conducted as a group activity still individual traits of a candidate are assessed during it. A candidate can easily prepare for the SSB Interview by following these steps-

  • Read Books Aloud: By reading books, you will learn how to frame sentences. By Reading the Book aloud, you will get clear sentence speech, your way of pronunciation will improve and you will be able to adjust the pitch of your sound according to the requirement of the sentence.
  • Read Newspaper: – Every Defence Aspirant should make a habit of reading the newspaper on a daily basis. Reading Newspapers keeps updated on the surroundings on both national and international levels.
  • Watch YouTube videos: – Candidates should make full use of the technology. Hundreds of YouTubers create content related to the Current and trending topics. Candidates should watch the YouTube videos to get a clear understanding of the topic. However, It is important that the source you are following should not be biased.
  • Speak in front of the Mirror: Many times candidates fear because of lack of exposure to public speaking. To overcome the fear of public speaking, Aspirants should prepare a topic and speak that aloud in front of the mirror. By doing this, you will believe in yourself and will also be able to know the areas in which you need to improve.

Other Important Lecturette Topics

Apart from the Topics mentioned above, The SSBs also ask about common topics that are related to the normal day-to-day life of the Candidates. Here are a few lecturette topics previously asked in the SSBs.

  1. My Mother
  2. My Father
  3. My Grandfather
  4. My Grandmother
  5. My Favourite Teacher
  6. My Best Friend.

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