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Directions for questions : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
For at least the past one year in India, much has been made of the ―Gujarat model of development, and the media have widely projected the idea that the State of Gujarat and its citizens have flourished because of effective and decisive governance, particularly in the realm of economic policies.
This public perception probably played an important role in the Bharatiya Janata Party‘s (BJP) general election victory. Unfortunately, much of the recent literature on the State, even by reputed economic analysts, has been uncritical and verging on the hagiographic, and so has not provided a sober assessment of actual trends. Thus, GDP growth tends to be lauded without looking at its composition or its impact on mass consumption. Poverty reduction in Gujarat is highlighted as a big success when the evidence suggests that it has been sluggish than most other States despite higher growth and generally confined to rural areas, with almost stagnant levels of urban poverty.
The genuine progress in electrification and some other infrastructure is certainly to be welcomed, but, typically, it is lauded without noting that this has worked largely for the benefit of the corporate sector, with little improvement in infrastructure for the masses. Gujarat, like many other States, has a proliferation of supposedly innovative ―schemes and ―programs but most positive accounts simply list these in glowing terms without assessing how they can work with very limited funds and very small numbers of staff. Sebastian Morris notes that the recent good growth performance of Gujarat has been strongly related to electricity generation and the demand-side effects of higher agricultural growth (which in turn can be linked to good rainfall over this period as well as the effects of the Narmada project), but the easy availability of land and subsidized infrastructural facilities have also been major factors in determining investment. Indeed, Sunil Parekh shows that in the last decade, the State has seen an exceptionally large inflow of private industrial investment, attracted by good power supply to industry, good-quality roads, small and large all-weather ports and shore jetties and the expansion of industrial parks and special economic zones (SEZs). However, large investments have focused on resource extraction, so Gujarat produces important raw materials, many of which are exported outside for further processing into value-added finished products. Because of this, the State‘s economy does not enjoy the full benefits of industrial growth, even as it suffers environmental degradation.
There is also a contentious issue of subsidies provided to large businesses in Gujarat. Earlier policy objectives of promoting small-scale industries and balanced growth have been jettisoned in favour of promoting increasingly larger industrial units and mega-projects, without adequate attention to the employment generation effects of such projects. The strategies of incentives and subsidies have promoted cronycapitalism, with a few favoured industrialists becoming major national players through State patronage. Data from the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) indicate that while Gujarat‘s per capita income is around 20 per cent higher than the per capita income for the country as a whole, rural wages are about 20 per cent lower and urban wages are 15 per cent lower! Clearly, the bargaining position of workers in Gujarat, in both towns and villages, is very weak, not just absolutely but also when compared with the rest of India.

1. As per passage, what perception of BJP in the minds of public led to its victory in general elections?
a. Influence of the ―Modi Wave
b. Huge campaigning by BJP
c. A Vibrant Gujarat
d. Big promises by BJP

2. The progress in electrification and other infrastructure in Gujarat has largely benefitted whom?
a. Government
b. Unemployed population
c. Corporate sector
d. Poor people

3. The recent performance of Gujarat has been strongly attributed to which among the following factor/s?
a. Electricity Generation
b. High Agricultural Growth
c. Good vision by Modi
d. Both a and b
e. Both b and c.

4. What among the following gets a major chunk of subsidies in Gujarat?
a.Small scale sector
b.Large companies
c.Agricultural sector
d.Power sector
e.None of these

5. Which of the following fact is true regarding per capita income of Gujarat?
a.Gujarat‘s per capita income is 15% less than the world‘s per capita
b.Gujarat‘s per capita income is equal to nation‘s per capita
c.Gujarat‘s per capita is 20% of nation‘s per capita
d.Gujarat‘s per capita is 15 times of nation‘s per capita
e.Gujarat‘s per capita is 20% higher than nation‘s per capita

6. Which of the following is closest in meaning to ‘Flourished’ as used in the passage?
a.Profligate
b.Yield
c.Squander
d.Thrive
e.Process

7. Which of the following is closest in meaning to Proliferation as used in the passage?
a.Incentive
b.Shrink
c.Augmented
d.Abated
e.Diminished

8. Which of the following is closest in meaning to ‘Contentious’ as used in the passage?
a.Amenable
b.Benign
c.Argumentative
d.Sociable
e.Tranquil

9. Which of the following is farthest in meaning to ‘Decisive’ as used in the passage?
a.Fatal
b.Cooperative
c.Dithery
d.Judging
e.Resolute

10. Which of the following is farthest in meaning to ‘Jettisoned’ as used in the passage?

a. Cast off
b. Customise
c. Adopt
d. Fabricate
e. Sabotage

Read the following passage and each blank which has been numbered.Find out a suitable word from the given options for these numbers.The numbers must be replaced with one appropriate word which suits the blank appropriately from the below suggested options
In both U.P. and Uttarakhand, the BJP‘s vote share dipped only …..1……, from 43.6% in 2014 to 41.4% in the former, and from 55.9% to 46.5% in Uttarakhand. In the absence of a united opposition, as in Bihar in 2015, the elections in both States were a ……2…… in the park. Any gains the Samajwadi Party and the Congress made through an alliance were lost because of the infighting in the SP, and owing to a slightly improved performance by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which at 22.2% …….3……… 2.4% more total votes in 2017 than 2014 despite finishing a poor third. The SP leader and outgoing Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, did try to shed some of the antiincumbency baggage by ……4…… himself from the old guard in the party, but in the process his party came across as a divided house. Voters quite rightly refused to buy into the narrative that the failures on the law and order front and the shortcomings in governance were entirely on ……..5……. of an earlier generation of leaders. If he was attempting to appeal to the youth, projecting himself and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi as the face of the campaign, he did not quite succeed in it. A grand alliance of the kind that saw the BJP lose in Bihar would have had to include the BSP, unthinkable though it is given the caste …….6……. at play. But BSP supremo Mayawati did herself no favours by continuing to be …….7……. to a pre-poll tie-up, while displaying an unseemly readiness to align after the election without any ideological ……8………. The BSP, which has allied with the SP and the BJP at different points, needs to reconsider this strategy if it wants to expand beyond its core Dalit constituency. The party may not have held much appeal for minorities, despite …….9……..Muslims candidates in about one-fourth of the total seats. In the present political climate, in the absence of a Bihar-type grand alliance it would appear that the BJP‘s rivals can do little but hope that Prime Minister Modi ……..10….. his goodwill over the next two years in a series of political missteps and administrative failures in delivering on promises.

11. 1.regularly
2.visibly
3.marginally
4.significantly
5.hardly

12. 1.stroll
2.jump
3.run
4.grass
5.leisure

13.1.decided
2.polled
3.corrected
4.encroached
5.justified

14.1.aligning
2.distancing
3.joining
4.incorporating
5.removing

15.1.account
2.behalf
3.exposure
4.rendition
5.narration

16.1.proposals
2.diversion
3.preferences
4.authorities
5.dynamics

17.1.reverse
2.averse
3.reverse
4.diverse
5.converse

18.1.differences
2.indifference
3.compunction
4.dialogue
5.divergence

19.1.honouring
2.standing
3.defining
4.fielding
5.supporting

20.1.lavishes
2.implies
3.squanders
4.declines
5.forces
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