What should India learn from Europe to conserve our cultural heritage? (i)…
2013
What should India learn from Europe to conserve our cultural heritage? (i) There should be significant budget provision to conserve our cultural heritage. (ii) Establish dedicated labs and training institutions. (iii) Force the government to provide sufficient funds. (iv) Conservation should be made part of mainstream research and engineering institutes. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
Answer: B. (i), (ii), (iv) — A “choose the correct code” comprehension question is settled by textual warrant, not by plausibility. A numbered statement may be admitted only when the…
- A.
(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
- B.
(i), (ii), (iv)
- C.
(i), (ii)
- D.
(i), (iii), (iv)
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Correct answer: B
A “choose the correct code” comprehension question is settled by textual warrant, not by plausibility. A numbered statement may be admitted only when the passage itself asserts it, and asserts it in the role the stem asks about; a statement the passage never makes, or makes only in a weaker or different form, is rejected however sensible it sounds on its own.
The reliable method therefore runs statement by statement first and code by code only afterwards: verify each numbered item against the text, then keep the single code that contains every admitted statement and no rejected one. Judging whole codes at sight is slower and invites guessing.
Applying that method to the four numbered statements:
Statement | What the passage actually says | Textual warrant |
|---|---|---|
(i) Significant budget provision for conserving cultural heritage | “Countries such as Italy have demonstrated that prioritising heritage with significant budget provision pays”, and “Consistent investment” opens the list of “positive lessons to imbibe”. | Stated in the passage |
(ii) Dedicated conservation labs and training institutions | Against a base of only about 150 trained conservation professionals, “the emphasis has been on setting up dedicated labs and training institutions”, and “dedicated research and dissemination” is itself named among the positive lessons to imbibe. | Stated in the passage |
(iii) Forcing the government to provide sufficient funds | The passage nowhere asks for coercion. It calls increasing funding and building institutions “the relatively easy part” and places the real challenge in redefining international approaches for local contexts. | Not stated in the passage |
(iv) Conservation inside mainstream research and engineering institutes | “It would make much better sense for conservation to be made part of mainstream research and engineering institutes, as has been done in Europe.” This is the measure the passage credits to Europe in so many words. | Stated in the passage |
Statement (ii) is less direct than (iv): the passage describes dedicated labs and training institutions as the response to India’s severe shortage, while its assessment of international practices names dedicated research and dissemination among the lessons to imbibe. The updated official UGC key for this PYQ treats these linked capacity-building ideas as warrant for (ii); the later preference for mainstreaming does not cancel them.
Now eliminate the codes:
Any code carrying (iii) falls with (iii), which removes “(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)” and “(i), (iii), (iv)”.
“(i), (ii)” falls because it drops (iv), the one measure the passage explicitly attributes to Europe.
One code survives: it keeps (i), (ii) and (iv) and excludes (iii).
Hence the correct code is (i), (ii), (iv).