Directions for the following 4 (four) items:
Read the following two passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
passage-1
"In simple matters like shoe-making, we think only a specially trained person will serve our purpose, but in politics, we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a State. When we are ill, we call for a trained physician, whose degree is a guarantee of specific preparation and technical competence-we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one: well then, when the whole State is ill should we not look for the service and guidance of the wisest and the best?"
Which one of the following statements best reflects the message of the author of the passage?
We assume that in a democracy, any politician is qualified to administer a State.
Politicians should be selected from those trained in administration.
We need to devise a method of barring incompetence from public office.
As voters select their adminis-trators, the eligibility of politicians to administer a State cannot be questioned.
Passage-2
The poverty line is quite unsatisfactory when it comes to grasping the extent of poverty in India. It is not only because of its extremely narrow definition of who is poor and the debatable methodology used to count the poor, but also because of a more fundamental assumption underlying it. It exclusively relies on the notion of poverty as insufficient income or insufficient purchasing power. One can better categorize it by calling it income poverty. If poverty is ultimately about deprivations affecting human well-being, then income poverty is only one aspect of it. Poverty of a life, in our view, lies not merely in the impoverished state in which the person actually lives, but also in the lack of real opportunity given by social constraints as well as personal circumstances to choose other types of living Even the relevance of low incomes, meager possessions, and other aspects of what are standardly seen as economic poverty relate ultimately to their role in curtailing capabilities, i.e., their role in severely restricting the choices people have to lead variable and valued lives.
Why is the methodology adopted in India to count the 'poor' debatable?
There is some confusion regarding what should constitute the poverty line'.
There are wide diversities in the condition of the rural and urban poor.
There is no uniform global standard for measuring income poverty.
It is based on the proposition of poverty as meagre income or buying capacity.
Consider the Question and two Statements given below:
Question: Is x an integer?
Statement-1: x/3 is not an integer.
Statement-2: 3x is an integer.
Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Question and the Statements?
Statement-1 alone is sufficient to answer the Question
Statement-2 alone is sufficient to answer the Question
Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are sufficient to answer the Question
Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are not sufficient to answer the Question
