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1-10. 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.
If governments paid serious attention to the economic geography of India’s cities, they would be doing a lot more to prepare for annual weather events like the monsoon. UN Habitat estimates that by 2030 India will have 14 major clusters of cities accounting for 40 per cent of its GDP. Other assessments indicate that nearly 80 per cent of economic production will be in urban areas by that year. What this underscores is the extremely vulnerable condition of cities as economic assets. Proof of this is available from catastrophic events such as unprecedented flooding in Chennai in 2015 and in Mumbai some years ago. Even with weak insurance cover for the general population, the volume of claims in Chennai crossed Rs.5, 000 crore, highlighting the avoidable losses arising out of infrastructure deficits. Much of the total loss was borne by individuals. On the other hand, cities devote vast amounts of their revenue merely to repair roads after the monsoon rather than create new assets. This is a colossal planning failure, and governments should at least now draw up integrated plans to make cities and growing towns resilient to weather events and disasters. This should begin with the creation of information systems that tell administrators about weather patterns, anomalies, flooding data and population impacts.
The Chennai floods exposed the mindless permissions for construction in floodplains, and the high tolerance to commercial encroachment of wetlands. They also highlighted the indifference among policymakers over providing decent housing for migrants. This approach is eroding the economic gains of urban India. If megacities that face seasonal storms are to be strengthened, they should be provided with more water harvesting facilities in the form of urban wetlands with connected drains. Suburban lakes have to be revived. Natural ecological structures are readily available to achieve this. City managers should not commit the mistake of building engineered systems to transfer precious rain flows to the sea, ignoring water security for growing populations. A transparent building code that alerts buyers to hazard-free property is vital. Equally, governments need to ensure that during the monsoon, basic requirements of urban living such as transport, safe water supply, energy and health systems are not severely disrupted. On the positive side, city residents have a higher degree of education, capability and financial wherewithal, and these should help administrations find durable solutions. Much of urbanising India is yet to be built, and it can be designed to withstand the vagaries of monsoons and other weather events.
1 According to the author where do the cities devote their vast amount of revenue?
01. Energy and health system
02. To repair roads
03. Providing housing for migrants
04. To provide insurance cover for the general population
05. All of the above
2 Which of the following options is the most similar in meaning to the word ‘catastrophic’ as given in the passage?
01. Fortune
02. Prosperity
03. Spearheaded
04. Disastrous
05. Advantage
3 Which of the following options is the most similar to the word ‘anomalies’ as given in the passage?
01. Uniformity
02. Agreement
03. Stagnation
04. Convention
05. Deviation
4 Which of the following options is the most opposite to the word ‘vagaries’ as given in the passage?
01. Changeable
02. Impulses
03. Distraction
04. Consistencies
05. Turn
5 Which of the following options is the most opposite to the word ‘resilient’ as given in the passage?
01. Inflexible
02. Versatile
03. Recover
04. Volatile
05. Adjustable
6 What should be the suitable title of the given passage?
01. Problems of the city residents
02. Monsoons a big tragedy
03. Preparing cities for monsoons
04. Economic production
05. Seasonal storm is to be strengthened
7 What will happen if the government pays serious attention to the economic geography of Indian cities?
01. There will be creation of information system
02. The government will highlight the indifference among policymakers over providing decent housings for migrants
03. City residents will have a higher degree of education
04. Cities will do lot more to prepare for annual weather events like the monsoons
05. Not mentioned in the passage
8 According to the UN Habitat estimates, how much would the major cities of India account for by 2030 ?
01. 17% of its GDP
02. 23% of its GDP
03. 36% of its GDP
04. 40% of its GDP
05. 51% of its GDP
9 What are the basic requirements for urban people during the monsoons?
01. Transport
02. Safe water supply
03. Energy and health supply
04. Both 1 and 2
05. All of the above
10 Which of the following is/are NOT TRUE in context to the given passage?
01. Government needs to ensure that basic requirement of urban living should be severely disrupted.
02. Cities devote vast amount of their revenue to repair road rather than building new assets
03. City residents have a higher degree of education
04. Cities should be provided with more water harvesting facilities in the form of urban wetlands with connected drains.
05. All are true
Answers:-
Q.1 (2)
Q.2 (4)
Q.3 (5)
Q.4 (4)
Q.5 (1)
Q.6 (3)
Q.7 (4)
Q.8 (4)
Q.9 (5)
Q.10 (1)
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