Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. The two main…
2024
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. The two main reasons of this chronic and unmanageable problem is rapidly ever increasing population and defective education system. Such a huge population, India finds it difficult to make any significant success in the areas of employment, alleviation of poverty and backwardness. Every sixth person in the world is an Indian. In other words, we are adding an Australia to our population every year or to Japan every ten years. There are about 31 new babies every minute or 45,000 new people daily. Thus, every year there are about 16 million more people to feed, cloth, educate and give employment. This prevailing trend of population growth is quite disturbing. Unemployment rate in India is showing an increasing trend since 2011 when it was 3.5 percent. The same rose to 3.6 percent in 2012 and climbed to 3.7 percent last year.
Q. According to the passage, which of these problems cannot be successfully tackled due to a large population?
I. Unemployment
II. Poverty
III. Backwardness
- A.
Only I
- B.
Only III
- C.
Only II and III
- D.
I, II and III
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Correct answer: D
To determine which problems cannot be successfully tackled due to a large population, we need to refer directly to the passage's stated challenges.
Passage Analysis
The passage explicitly states: "Such a huge population, India finds it difficult to make any significant success in the areas of employment [Unemployment], alleviation of poverty [Poverty], and backwardness [Backwardness]."
By directly comparing this list to the options provided:
Unemployment (I): Explicitly mentioned as an area where success is difficult.
Poverty (II): Explicitly mentioned as an area where success is difficult.
Backwardness (III): Explicitly mentioned as an area where success is difficult.