English Language Quiz For IBPS | RBI | SBI | NABARD | LIC | 20-08-2023

 

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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.

Unemployment in India statistics has traditionally been collected, compiled and disseminated once every five years by the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MLE), primarily from sample studies conducted by the National Sample Survey Office. Other than these 5-year sample studies, India has – except since 2017 – never routinely collected monthly, quarterly or yearly nationwide employment and unemployment statistics. In 2016, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy – a non-government entity based in Mumbai, started sampling and publishing monthly unemployment in India statistics.

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has been the key governmental agency in India at the national and state levels to study employment, unemployment and unemployment rates through sample surveys. It does not report employment or unemployment results every quarter nor every year, but generally only once every 5 years. According to ILO, the NSSO surveys are India's most comprehensive as they cover small villages in remote corners and islands of India. However, this survey uses unconventional and India-specific terminology. It estimates the activity status of a person by different approaches, i.e. "usual status" unemployment and "current status" unemployment.

Unemployment and under-employment have been a long-standing problem in the Indian economy. According to a 2013 report by Pravin Sinha, the Indian labour force has been officially classified by the Indian government into three categories: Rural sector, which includes farm labour, Urban formal sector, which includes factory and service industry labour with periodic salaries and coverage per Indian labour laws, Urban informal sector, which includes self-employment and casual wage workers, the rural and informal sectors of the Indian labour market accounted for 93% of the employment in 2011, and these jobs were not covered by the then existing Indian labour laws. According to the 2010 World Bank report, The informal sector dominates India’s labour markets and will continue to do so in the medium term, states the World Bank.

According to Alakh Sharma, the causes of high unemployment and under-employment in India are the subject of intense debate among scholars. A group of scholars state that it is a consequence of "restrictive labour laws that create inflexibility in the labour market", while organized labour unions and another group of scholars contest this proposed rationale.

According to The Economist, the Indian labour laws are inflexible and restrictive, and this in "low-paying, relatively bootless, informal sector jobs continue to dominate the [Indian] labour market." In combination with its poor infrastructure, it is a cause of its unemployment situation. Unemployment is a major social issue in India. As of September 2018, according to the Indian government, India had 31 million jobless people. The numbers are widely disputed.

The Government of India has taken several steps to decrease the unemployment rates, like launching the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which guarantees 100-day employment to an unemployed person in a year. It has implemented it in 200 of the districts and further will be expanded to 600 districts. In exchange for working under this scheme, the person is paid 150 per day.

Apart from Employment Exchange, the Government of India publishes a weekly newspaper titled Employment News. It comes out every Saturday evening and gives detailed information about vacancies for government jobs across India. Along with the list of vacancies, it also has notifications for various government exams and recruitment procedures for government jobs.

The answer is to be answered by understanding the gist of the passage.

Q.1. Which of the following sentences is/are TRUE according to the passage?

I. NSSO has been the key governmental agency in India at the national and state levels to study employment.

II. According to ILO, the NSSO surveys are India's most comprehensive as they cover small villages.

III. The survey of NSSO uses unconventional and India-specific terminology.

1. Only I

2. II & III

3. Only II

4. I & III

5. All of the above

Q.2. What message can be derived from the following sentence?

“Unemployment and under-employment have been a long-standing problem in the Indian economy.”

1. Employment is the best possible solution to poverty in India.

2. Unemployment plays a vital role in our nation.

3. The problem of unemployment is equivalent to global warming.

4. Unemployment helps to improve the economy of our nation.

5. Under-employment and unemployment are the same things.

Q.3. What, according to The Economist's assumptions, is the cause of unemployment?

1. Lack of awareness among the public

2. Lack of satisfying job as per the qualifications

3. No big companies investing in our nation

4. Inflexible Indian labour law and poor infrastructure

5. None of the above

Q.4. The following sentence is in which part of the passage?

"low-paying, relatively unproductive, informal sector jobs continue to dominate the [Indian] labour market."

1. 3rd paragraph

2. 5th paragraph

3. 2nd paragraph

4. 4th paragraph

5. 1st paragraph

Q.5. What is/are the importance of the weekly newspaper “Employment News”?

I. It creates awareness about recent job vacancies

II. It improves the vocabulary of the job seekers

III. It releases notifications for various government exams and recruitment procedures


1. Only I

2. II & III

3. Only II

4. I & III

5. All of the above

Q.6. What among the following could be the best suitable title for the passage?

1. Unemployment: the world over

2. Unemployment and its impact

3. Employment issues in India

4. Importance of labour force

5. The sinking economy

Q.7. Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

COMPREHENSIVE

1. Circumscribed

2. Thorough

3. Novice

4. Conspicuous

5. Adjourning

Q.8. Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning to the word given in bold as used in the passage.

BOOTLESS

1. Effectual

2. Virtuous

3. Unproductive

4. Feasible

5. Profitable

Q.9. Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

RATIONALE

1. Principle

2. Solace

3. Pertinent

4. Illogical

5. Thesis

Q.10. Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning to the word given in bold as used in the passage.

IMPLEMENTED

1. Rendered

2. Executed

3. Dodged

4. Promulgated

5. Disregarded

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