Directions for the following 4 (Four) items :
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answer to these
items should be based on the passages only.
Passage-1
One of the dismal realities of the agricultural sector in independent India has been that it never experienced a high-growth phase, unlike the non-agricultural economy. The highest decadal growth (compound annual growth rate or CAGR) for agriculture has been just 3.5% in the 1980s. Also, after experiencing a spurt in decadal growth during the 1980s, agricultural growth suffered relative
stagnation thereafter. This is in sharp contrast to non-agricultural growth, which consistently increased from the 1980s to 2000s.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the corollary to the above passage?
A.
The benefit of economic reforms percolates down more slowly to the agriculture sector than in other sectors of the economy.
B.
For India, the green revolution was not as useful as it was expected to be.
C.
India lagged behind other countries in adapting mechanized and modern farming.
D.
Rural-to-urban migration resulted in the stagnant agriculture sector.
A. The benefit of economic reforms percolates down more slowly to the agriculture sector than in other sectors of the economy.
12.
With reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made: The growing divergence between the fortunes of the agricultural and non-agricultural economy in India could have been reduced/contained by:
I. adapting large-scale cultivation of commercial crops and viable corporate farming.
II. providing free insurance for all crops and heavily subsidizing seeds, fertilizers, electricity and farm machinery at par with developed countries.
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
Passage-2
In our country, handlooms are equated with a culture that ensures a continuity of tradition. This idea has become part of the public policy-framing and provides a legitimate basis for the State to support the sector. But the notion of tradition as a single, linear entity is being strongly contested today. The narratives dominant in defining culture/tradition in a particular way are seen to have emerged as the identities and histories of large sections. The discounted and, at times, forcibly stifled identities are fighting for their rightful place in history. Against this backdrop, when we promote handloom as a traditional industry, it is not surprising that large sections of our population choose to ignore it.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the most logical and rational message conveyed by the author of the passage?
A.
We need to free the handloom industry from the limited narrative linked to preserving cultural heritage.
B.
Continued State support to the handloom industry ensures the preservation of some of our glorious art forms and old traditions.
C.
Household units of the handloom sector should be modernized and made an economically viable organized industry.
D.
Handloom products need to be converted to machine-made designer products so as to make them more popular.
A. We need to free the handloom industry from the limited narrative linked to preserving cultural heritage.
14.
With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
I. There is no need for the State to be involved in any manner in the handloom sector.
II. Handloom products are no longer appealing and attractive in the rapidly changing modern world.
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
Let PQR be a 3-digit number, PPT be a 3-digit number and PS be a 2-digit number, where P, Q, R, S, T are distinct non-zero digits. Further, PQR ā PS = PPT. If Q = 3 and T < 6, then what is the number of possible values of (R, S)?
