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Q1-10 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some questions.
The Aadhaar scheme of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is to provide India’s billion-plus people with a unique identification number. Enrolment is not mandatory, though it was mentioned that it would be difficult for people to access public services if not done. The scheme requires individuals to provide their photograph, fingerprints and iris scan along with documentary personal information for data capture by outsourced operators. It is meant to bypass the corrupt bureaucratic system and deliver government subsidies and grants to the poor, and bring them into the banking system. Sceptics argue that it is an effort to capture the funds of hundreds of millions of micro- and nano-investors who are today outside the banking system, to bring them into the credit economy.
The scheme was introduced as a pilot project in Karnataka’s Mysore district. The poor and those who survive on daily wages were not enthusiastic about enrolment, because it meant losing four or five days wages, to stand in queues, to fill up forms, to produce documents, to provide biometrics, etc., and, later, to open bank accounts. The UIDAI overcame the initial reluctance by wide advertisement of the benefits of enrolment. When this too did not achieve the target set, the local administration informed the public that PDS ration and LPG supply would not be available without the Aadhaar number. This resulted in serpentine queues right through the day at enrolment centres, at the end of which the UIDAI could claim that 95 per cent of Mysore district’s population had enrolled itself into the scheme.
Media reports indicate that commencing January 1, 2013, MGNREGA, the Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana (RGAY), the Ashraya housing scheme, Bhagyalakshmi and the social security and pension scheme will be linked with Aadhaar in Mysore district. This linking, with rights like salary and pension, and important entitled benefits and services, has raised some hackles because enrolment is not mandatory.
It has led to questions on whether salary and pension rights, and benefits like PDS ration and LPG supply can be denied just because an individual does not possess a unique Aadhaar number. Today, teachers in Maharashtra and government employees in Jharkhand cannot draw their salaries. Apart from pro-poor projects like MGNREGA and RGAY, even jobs, housing, provident funds and registering a marriage now require enrolment. From being not mandatory, the “poor-inclusive” .Aadhaar scheme appears to have quietly metamorphosed into becoming exclusionary and non-optional.
The UIDAI’s own Biometrics Standards Committee stated that retaining biometric efficiency for a database of more than one billion people “has not been adequately analysed” and the problem of fingerprint quality in India “has not been studied in depth.” Thus the technological basis of the project remains doubtful.
Q1 Which of the following are required for enrolment for ‘Aadhar scheme’?
A. Personal information
B. Iris scan
C. Photograph
D. Fingerprints
01. Only A and C
02. Only B and D
03. Only B and C
04. All except A
05. All of the above
Q2 Why, according to the author, are the poor not interested in ‘Aadhar scheme’?
01. They are not willing to provide their biometric measures
02. They do not possess the required documents which are needed to be produced at the time of enrolment
03. They do not perceive it as a benefit to them
04. It involves a number of procedures which are to be completed and they will have to sacrifice their daily work schedule.
05. The poor are interested in enrolling into ‘Aadhar scheme’
Q3 What is meant by ‘Biometric efficiency’ as mentioned in the passage?
01. Correct biometric measurement
02. Biometric analysis
03. Personal efficiency
04. Biometric system
05. Biological specifications
Q4 Which scheme is NOT linked with Aadhar scheme in Mysore district?
01. Rajiv Gandhi Swarna Jayanti Swarojgar Yojna
02. Ashraya Housing Scheme
03. Social Security and Pension Scheme
04. MGNREGA
05. All of the above
Q5 Elucidate the prelominary declaration concerned with the scheme related to Aadhar.
01. One can get enrolled into ‘Aadhar’ online and Aadhar card would be uploaded on the website
02. One can draw pension or salary only when one has Aadhar card
03. Aadhar card would serve to prove one’s identity and is nontransferable
04. One would not get access to public services if he does not get enrolled into ‘Aadhar scheme’
05. Not mentioned in the passage
Q6 What led UIDAI to claim that 95 per cent of Mysore district’s population had enrolled itself into the scheme?
01. When teachers and government employees could not draw their salaries
02. When benefits of Aadhar were publicized widely
03. When it was declared that PDS ration and LPG supply would be available to only Aadhar card holders
04. When the queues at enrolment centres became longer
05. All of the above
Q7 Choose the word most similar in meaning to the word given in bold, as used in the passage.
Serpentine
01. Indirect
02. Cunning
03. Long
04. Complex
05. Distorted
Q8 Choose the word most similar in meaning to the word given in bold, as used in the passage.
Possess
01. Control
02. Maintain
03. Grab
04. Allure
05. Have
Q9 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
Reluctance
01. Objection
02. Pity
03. Enthusiasm
04. Questioning
05. Hatred
Q10 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.
Doubtful
01. Unquestionable
02. Hazardous
03. Debatable
04. Unstable
05. Cryptic
Answers
Q.1 (5)
Q.2 (4)
Q.3 (1)
Q.4 (4)
Q.5 (4)
Q.6 (3)
Q.7 (3)
Q.8 (5)
Q.9 (3)
Q.10 (1)
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