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2 2 Essay WritingEssay Writingssay Writing

An essay is a short form of literacy composition based on a single subject matter and
often gives personal opinion of an author.

Few essay writing tips are:
1. Unity – A good essay must be developing one theme with a definite purpose. The
subject should be clearly defined in the mind. It may be treated in different ways and

from different point of views.
2. Order – An essay should follow a certain ordered line of thought and should come to
a definite conclusion at the end.

3. Brevity – Although the length of the content of the essay depends upon the topic yet
it should not be very long. Whatever may be the theme or the topic, the essay should
be a brief exercise, concisely expressed.

4. Style – The language and sentence construction in an essay should be simple, direct
and natural.

Read the essay on the following topics.

1. Demonetization in India

Demonetization is the withdrawal of a particular form of currency from circulation.
Through demonetization, the old currency is replaced by the new currency or a currency

circulation is blocked. There are multiple reasons why a country demonetizes its
currency. Some reasons include to check the inflation, to curb the corruption and to
promote the cashless transactions.

Recently the Indian Government decided to demonetize the biggest denomination notes
i.e. ` 500 and ` 1000 notes, this step has been declared as a master stroke for the Indian
economy by various experts. This is not the first time that India has demonetized its
currency, earlier it was done in 1946 with the complete ban of ` 1000 notes to deal with
the unaccounted money i.e., black money. Earlier, once it was done in 1978 by the

government headed by Morarji Desai, when ` 1000, ` 5000, and ` 10000 notes were
demonetized. The main objective of this step is to unearth the black money, to curb
corruption, counterfeit currency as well as terror financing. This step is considered as the
biggest cleanliness drive against the black money in the history of Indian economy. As per
RBI, 87% transactions in India are cash transactions and this loophole is used by
corrupted people to build a parallel economy with unaccounted money. This parallel

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