You Are On Multi Choice Question Bank SET 3742
187112.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions: In every religion, culture and civilization feeding the poor and hungry is considered one of the most noble deeds. However such large scale feeding will require huge investment both in resources and time. A better alternative is to create conditions by which proper wholesome food is available to all the rural poor at affordable price. Getting this done will be the biggest charity.Our work with the rural poor in villages of Western Maharashtra has shown that most of these people are landless laborers. After working the whole day in the fields in scorching sun they come home in the evening and have to cook for the whole family. The cooking is done on the most primitive chulha (wood stove) which results in tremendous indoor air pollution. Many of them also have no electricity so they use primitive and polluting kerosene lamps. World Health Organization (WHO) data has shown that about 300,000 deaths/ year in India can be directly attributed to indoor air pollution in such -nuts. At the same time this pollution results in many respiratory ailments and these people spend close Rs. 200-400 per month on medical bills. Besides the pollution, rural poor also eat very poor diet. They eat whatever is available daily at Public Distribution System (PDS) shops and most of the times these shops are out of rations. Thus they cook whatever is available. The hard work together with poor eating takes a heavy toll on their health. Besides this malnutrition also affects the physical and mental health of their children and may lead to creation of a whole generation of mentally challenged citizens. So I feel that the best way to provide adequate food for rural poor is by setting up rural restaurants on large scale. These restaurants will be similar to regular ones but for people below poverty line (BPL) they will provide meals at subsidized rates. These citizens will pay only Rs. 10 per meal and the rest, which is expected to be quite small, will come as a part of Government subsidy. With existing open market prices of vegetables and groceries average cost of simple meal for a family of four comes to Rs. 50 per meal or Rs. 12.50 per person per meal. If the PDS prices are taken for the groceries then the average cost will be Rs. 7.50 per person per meal. This makes the subsidy approximately Rs. 2.50 per person per meal only and hence quite small. The buying of meals could be by the use of UID (Aadhar) card by rural poor. The total cost should be Rs. 30 per day for three vegetarian meals of breakfast, lunch and dinner. The rural poor will get better nutrition and tasty food by eating in these restaurants. Besides the time saved can be used for resting and other gainful activities like teaching children. Since the food will not be cooked in huts, this strategy will result in less pollution in rural households. This will be beneficial for their health. Besides, women's chores will be reduced drastically. Another advantage of eating in these restaurants will be increased social interaction of rural poor since this could also become a meeting place. Eating in restaurants will also require fewer utensils in house and hence less expenditure. For other things like hot water for bath, making tea, boiling milk and cooking on holidays some utensils and fuel will be required. Our Institute NARI has developed an extremely efficient and environment-friendly stove which provides simultaneously both light and heat for cooking and hence may provide the necessary functions. Providing reasonably priced wholesome food is the basic aim and program of Government of India (GOI). This is the basis of their much touted food security program.However in 65years they have not been able to do so. Thus I feel a public private partnership can help in this. To help the restaurant owners the GOI or state Governments should provide them with soft loans and other line of credit for setting up such facilities. Corporate world can take this up as a part of their corporate social responsibility activity. Their participation will help ensure good quality restaurants and services. Besides the charitable work, this will also make good business sense. McDonald's-type restaurant systems for rural areas can be a good model to be set up for quality control both in terms of hygiene and in terms of quality of food material. However focus will be on availability of wholesome simple vegetarian food in these restaurants.More clientele (volumes) will make these restaurants economical. Existing models of dhabas, udipi type restaurants etc. can be used in this scheme. These restaurants may also be able to provide midday meals in rural schools. At present the midday meal program is faltering due to various reasons. Food coupons in western countries provide cheap food for poor. However quite a number of fast food restaurants in US do not accept them. Besides these coupons are most of the times used for non-food items, it will be mandatory for rural restaurants to accept payment via UID cards for BPL citizens. Existing soup kitchens, lagers and temple food are based on charity. For large scale rural use it should be based on good social enterprise business model. Cooking food in these restaurants will also result in much more efficient use of energy since energy/ kg of food cooked in households is greater than that in restaurants. The main thing however will be to reduce drastically the food wastage In these restaurants. Rural restaurants can also be forced to use clean fuels like LPG or locally produced biomass-based liquid fuels. This strategy is very difficult to enforce for individual households. Large scale employment generation in rural areas may result because of this activity. With an average norm of 30 people employed/ 100-chair restaurant, this program has the potential of generating about 20 million jobs permanently in rural areas. Besides the infrastructure development in setting up restaurants and establishing the food chain etc will help the local farmers and will create huge wealth generation in these areas. In the long run this strategy may provide better food security for rural poor than the existing one which is based on cheap food availability in PDS - a system which is prone to corruption and leakage.In accordance with the view expressed by the writer of this article, what is the biggest charity ?
187115. Which of the following is/are correct in regard to advantage (s) of setting up rural restaurants on large scale as cited in the passage?
187118. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in MEANING to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.Facilitate
187119. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in MEANING to the word printed in bold as used in the passage. Gainful
187120. Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in MEANING to the word printed in bold as used in the passage. FALTERING
187121. Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in MEANING to the word printed in bold as used in the passage. PRIMITIVE
187123.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is e. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).The Supreme Court (1)/ directed the Centre (2)/ to disclosing all the informations (3) regarding blackmoney.(4)/ No error (5).
187124. Police conducted the (1)/ raids by a (2)/ supervision of (3)/ government chief secretary. (40/ No error (5).
187125. Even if (1)/ robust economic growth(2)/ existing energy infrastructure (3)/ is a brake on progress.( 4)/ No error (5).
187126. More than 300 million (1)/ people in country (2)/ has no excess (3)/ to electricity. (4)/ No error (5).
187127. Apart for serious and widespread problems (1)/ of water pollution, the air pollution (2)/ in several parts of (3)/country is alarming. (4)/ No error (5).
187130. Researchers have creating electronically devices that becomes soft when implanted inside the body.
187132. Airlines has been directed to pay compensation to a customer which was offload from a flight due to overloading.
187133. The pair_____ a bronze medal in the women's double ____ at the Asian badminton championship.
187134.
Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.Many bright engineers_____no interest whatsoever in_______a leadership position.
187135.
Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.The civic body has removed_______shops, commercial vehicles from the_______of the hospital.
187136.
Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.________30 tonnes of elephant ivory was_______from smugglers at coastal port.
187137.
Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.The______of arctic ice sheet is_____ and is already underway.
187139. The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest for a period of 2 years at the rate of 10% per annum is Rs. 50. Find the principal.
187140. An article is sold at a loss of 10%. Its cost price is Rs.800. A discount of 20% was offered on the labelled price while selling. What is the loss per cent at the labelled price ?
187141. The average age of some males and 15 females is 18 years. The sum of the ages of 15 females is 240 years and average age of males is 20 years. Find the number of males.
187142. If sum of smaller number x and two times the other number is equal to the sum of two times the smaller number and 16. The difference between the numbers is 6. Find the smaller number.
187143. The area of a right angled triangle is 80 sq. cm. The ratio of the base and the height of the triangle is 4 : 5. Find the length of hypotenuse.
187144. If A's salary is Rs. 10,000 less than B's salary, B's salary is 15,000 less than C's salary and the sum of A, B and C's salary Is Rs. 65,000, find the salary of A.
187145. What will come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series? 20 23 30 43 64 ?
187146. What will come in place of thequestion mark (?) in the following number series? 33 16.5 ? 24.75 49.5 123.75
187147. What will come in place of thequestion mark (?) in the following number series? 44 ? 99 148.5 222.75 334.125
187148. What will come in place of thequestion mark (?) in the following number series? 121 238 472 ? 1876 3748
187149. What will come in place of the question mark (?) in the following number series? 9 10 39 220 ? 14382
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