100 B English Passage 15 Feb
Passage I
Read below given Statement
I. When children are denied education, adult society does not act on behalf of them.
II . Right to Education as a law can not be enforced in the country.
Read below given Passage
1.Now India's children have a right to receive at least fourteen years of education, the gnawing question is whether it will remain on paper or become a reality.
2.One hardly needs a reminder that this right is different from the others enshrined in the Constitution, that the beneficiary - a six year old child cannot demand it, nor can she or he fight a legal battle when the right is denied or violated.
3. In all cases, it is the adult society which must act on behalf of the child.
4. In another peculiarity, where a child's right to education is denied, no compensation offered later can be adequate or relevant.
5.This is so because childhood does not last
6.If a legal battle fought on behalf of a child is eventually won, it may be of little use to the boy or girl because the opportunity missed at school during childhood cannot serve the same purpose later in life.
7. This may be painfully true for girls because our society permits them only a short childhood, if at all.
8. The Right to Education (RTE) has become law at a point in India's history when the ghastly practice of female infanticide has resurfaced in the form of feticide.
9.This is "symptomatic of a deeper turmoil" in society which is compounding the traditional obstacles to the education of girls.
10.Tenacious prejudice against the intellectual potential of girls runs across our cultural diversity and the system of education has not been able to address it.
With reference to the passage, consider the following statements :
I. When children are denied education, adult society does not act on behalf of them.
II . Right to Education as a law can not be enforced in the country.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A. I only
B. II. only
C. Both I and II
D. Neither I nor II
Ans A
Explanation
It is correct to say that when children are denied education, adult society does not act on behalf of them because of the belief that childhood does not last.
If a child's right to education is denied, no compensation offered later can be adequate or relevant.
Right to education as a law can be enforced in the country.
Hence, statement (2) is wrong.
Passage II
Read below given Statement
1. The objective of inclusive growth was laid down by the founding fathers of the nation
2. Need of the hour is to have an enabling government.
3. The government should engage in maximum interference in market processes.
4. There is a need to change the size of the government.
Read below given Passage
1.For achieving 'inclusive growth there is a critical need to rethink the role of the State.
2.The early debate among economists about the size of the Government can be misleading.
3.The need of the hour is to have an enabling Government.
4. India is too large and complex a nation for the State to be able to deliver all that is needed.
5. Asking the Government to produce all the essential goods, create all the necessary jobs, and keep a curb on the prices of all goods is to lead to a large cumbersome bureaucracy and widespread corruption.
6.The aim must be to stay with the objective of inclusive growth that was laid down by the founding fathers of the nation and also to take a more modern view of what the State can realistically deliver.
7.This is what leads to the idea of an enabling State, that is, a Government that does not try to directly deliver to the citizens everything that they need.
8.Instead, it (1) creates an enabling ethos for the market so that individual enterprise can flourish and citizens can, for the most part, provide for the needs of one another,
9. and (2) steps in to help those who do not manage to do well for themselves, for there will always be individuals, no matter what the system, who need support and help.
10. Hence we need a Government that, when it comes to the market, sets effective, incentive - compatible rules and remains on the sidelines with minimal interference, and, at the same time, plays an important role in directly helping the poor by ensuring that they get basic education and health services and receive adequate nutrition and food.
According to the passage
1. The objective of inclusive growth was laid down by the founding fathers of the nation
2. Need of the hour is to have an enabling government.
3. The government should engage in maximum interference in market processes.
4. There is a need to change the size of the government.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Ans A
Explanation
Referring to the lines, "The early debate among economists can be misleading", it is clear that there is no need to change the size of the Government.
But the need of the hour is to have an enabling Government.
Hence, statement 4 is wrong. Today, when it comes to the market, we need a government that sets effective, incentive-compatible rules and remains on the sidelines with minimal interference.
Hence, statement 3 is not correct.