Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. The two main…
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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.
Through this passage, the author's main idea is to bring to your notice the ________.
- A.
population growth of Japan and Australia
- B.
low population growth and its benefits
- C.
rate of poverty in India and its cause
- D.
population explosion in India and the resulting problems
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Correct answer: D
To determine the author's main idea, we must look at the central theme that ties together all the statistics and arguments presented in the passage.
Passage Analysis
Core Subject: India's rapidly increasing population and its "defective education system."
Supporting Evidence: The author provides alarming statistics (adding an Australia's worth of people yearly, 31 babies per minute) to illustrate the scale of this growth.
Consequences: The author explicitly lists the negative impacts: difficulty in providing employment, poverty alleviation, backwardness, and rising unemployment rates.
By synthesizing these points, it becomes clear that the passage is not just about one issue (like poverty) or other countries (like Japan/Australia), but about the systemic problem of population explosion and its far-reaching, detrimental effects on India's development.