Direction for Q. 1-5: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. A leading Indian industrialist in a recent article on ways to strengthen India's economy has drawn attention to the problems of inflation and industrial sickness among other things. One of the main reasons for industrial sickness in our country has been the fact that business and industrial managers have not been able to look beyond the immediate future. They have been too preoccupied with their attempts to report favourable results for the current year, higher profits and larger dividends to the shareholders. The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five years. Investments have been inadequate for new plants and towards diversification and expansions. Modernisation and asset creation has seriously lagged behind. In business, growth is needed for survival; one has to grow if one does not want to be wiped out. This is particularly true today with liberalization of imports and increasing competition. Moreover, growth and higher productivity create employment and higher employment creates larger markets both for industrial and consumer products. It was Henry Ford who brought home the need for the creation of a larger and a more stable middle class, that is, a larger number of people who can afford more and more of goods and services. Even after seventy years of independence our industrialists have not been able to shed the petty shop keeper's mentality and our highly educated management has tagged along merrily and without concern.
Which of the following short comings of Indian industrialists has been highlighted by the author?
A)
They are more concerned for immediate gains than for development activities.
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B)
They are reluctant to maintain the shopkeeper mentality.
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C)
They are less concerned for payment of dividends to the shareholders.
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D)
They invest reasonably high amount on diversification and expansion.
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. A leading Indian industrialist in a recent article on ways to strengthen India's economy has drawn attention to the problems of inflation and industrial sickness among other things. One of the main reasons for industrial sickness in our country has been the fact that business and industrial managers have not been able to look beyond the immediate future. They have been too preoccupied with their attempts to report favourable results for the current year, higher profits and larger dividends to the shareholders. The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five years. Investments have been inadequate for new plants and towards diversification and expansions. Modernisation and asset creation has seriously lagged behind. In business, growth is needed for survival; one has to grow if one does not want to be wiped out. This is particularly true today with liberalization of imports and increasing competition. Moreover, growth and higher productivity create employment and higher employment creates larger markets both for industrial and consumer products. It was Henry Ford who brought home the need for the creation of a larger and a more stable middle class, that is, a larger number of people who can afford more and more of goods and services. Even after seventy years of independence our industrialists have not been able to shed the petty shop keeper's mentality and our highly educated management has tagged along merrily and without concern.
'The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five Years.' The statement given above implies:
A)
Planning should not be for a period of less than five years.
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B)
The planning process is very time consuming.
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C)
The planners are not inclined to think of future.
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D)
Five-year period is too short for successful implementation of plans.
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. A leading Indian industrialist in a recent article on ways to strengthen India's economy has drawn attention to the problems of inflation and industrial sickness among other things. One of the main reasons for industrial sickness in our country has been the fact that business and industrial managers have not been able to look beyond the immediate future. They have been too preoccupied with their attempts to report favourable results for the current year, higher profits and larger dividends to the shareholders. The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five years. Investments have been inadequate for new plants and towards diversification and expansions. Modernisation and asset creation has seriously lagged behind. In business, growth is needed for survival; one has to grow if one does not want to be wiped out. This is particularly true today with liberalization of imports and increasing competition. Moreover, growth and higher productivity create employment and higher employment creates larger markets both for industrial and consumer products. It was Henry Ford who brought home the need for the creation of a larger and a more stable middle class, that is, a larger number of people who can afford more and more of goods and services. Even after seventy years of independence our industrialists have not been able to shed the petty shop keeper's mentality and our highly educated management has tagged along merrily and without concern.
According to the passage, growth and increasing productivity lead to
A)
imposition of restrictions on imports
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B)
disproportionate surplus of commodities
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C)
employment and thus provide an outlet to industrial and consumer products
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. A leading Indian industrialist in a recent article on ways to strengthen India's economy has drawn attention to the problems of inflation and industrial sickness among other things. One of the main reasons for industrial sickness in our country has been the fact that business and industrial managers have not been able to look beyond the immediate future. They have been too preoccupied with their attempts to report favourable results for the current year, higher profits and larger dividends to the shareholders. The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five years. Investments have been inadequate for new plants and towards diversification and expansions. Modernisation and asset creation has seriously lagged behind. In business, growth is needed for survival; one has to grow if one does not want to be wiped out. This is particularly true today with liberalization of imports and increasing competition. Moreover, growth and higher productivity create employment and higher employment creates larger markets both for industrial and consumer products. It was Henry Ford who brought home the need for the creation of a larger and a more stable middle class, that is, a larger number of people who can afford more and more of goods and services. Even after seventy years of independence our industrialists have not been able to shed the petty shop keeper's mentality and our highly educated management has tagged along merrily and without concern.
According to the passage, the net gains pursued by managers are at the cost of
A)
diversification, modernization and asset creation
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B)
higher profits and larger dividends to shareholders
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C)
inflation and industrial sickness
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D)
availability of markets for industrial and consumer products
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. A leading Indian industrialist in a recent article on ways to strengthen India's economy has drawn attention to the problems of inflation and industrial sickness among other things. One of the main reasons for industrial sickness in our country has been the fact that business and industrial managers have not been able to look beyond the immediate future. They have been too preoccupied with their attempts to report favourable results for the current year, higher profits and larger dividends to the shareholders. The planning horizon has hardly ever exceeded five years. Investments have been inadequate for new plants and towards diversification and expansions. Modernisation and asset creation has seriously lagged behind. In business, growth is needed for survival; one has to grow if one does not want to be wiped out. This is particularly true today with liberalization of imports and increasing competition. Moreover, growth and higher productivity create employment and higher employment creates larger markets both for industrial and consumer products. It was Henry Ford who brought home the need for the creation of a larger and a more stable middle class, that is, a larger number of people who can afford more and more of goods and services. Even after seventy years of independence our industrialists have not been able to shed the petty shop keeper's mentality and our highly educated management has tagged along merrily and without concern.
In order to improve the condition of Indian industries, the industrialists should do all of the following, except i. giving up the narrow mentality which very small shopkeepers generally have. ii. striving to earn long term profit. iii. encouraging competition from industrialists within the country and from abroad iv. resorting to long term planning for industrial growth and expansion in diverse field v. adopting strategies for diversification and modernisation
The question given below is on blood relation. Read it carefully and pick your option. If P + Q means P is the mother of Q, means P is the sister of Q, P % Q. means P is the brother of Q, and means P is the father of Q, then in the expression B + D x M % N, how is M related to B?
Identify the type of the sentence given below. After a parrot fish eats algae-covered coral, the coral travels through the fish's digestive system, and then it is deposited in the reef as white coral sand.
A sentence is given below in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the part. The future is (i)/ yet to come (ii)/ but you have a (iii)/right to shape it. (iv)
Given below is a report with four blanks, numbered I, II, III, and IV. Fill those blanks with the option provided in P, Q, R, S in correct order to make the passage meaningfully readable.
Chinese President XI Jinping I with India, telling Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the two nuclear-armed neighbours II according to China's state media.
The exchange occurred on the sidelines of the just-ended summit of BRICS emerging economies hosted by Xi in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen.
"China III which were put forward by both countries to improve political mutual trust, promote mutually beneficial cooperation, and push Sino-Indian ties along a right track" the report quoted him as saying.
An Indian foreign ministry spokesman also tweeted that the two leaders IV talk.
P: on Tuesday sought to move past a tense border dispute
Q: had a "constructive and forward-looking"
R: is willing to work with India on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
Given below is an article in jumbled form. Arrange P, Q, R, S between A and B to give its correct sequence. A: In Salmon Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Khattamshud, the enemy of imagination and the ruler of the Land of Chup, tells us what he knows about stifling stories. P: The honour of Gounder women was invoked in a campaign against Perumal Murugan's novel, Mathorubhagan, in Namakkal two years ago. Just recently, the Jharkhand government has banned Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's the Adivasi Will Not Dance, a collection of stories published in 2015, on the charge that it dishonours Santhal women. In doing so, the government legitimised an old and vicious online campaign by a section of people in Jharkhand - both tribal and non-tribal - which railed at Shekhar for writing "porn". The Santhal writer, who is also accused of misrepresenting his own indigenous people, has also been suspended from his job as a government doctor in Pakur. Q: The wise men and women who sit in angry judgement over books have not been known to read before reaching for the gun. Still, it might surprise you to know that the story for which Shekhar was pilloried on Facebook - "Semen, Saliva, Sweat, Blood" - was written for a 2012 anthology of erotic stories. It is not even a part of the book that has been banned. It might surprise you further to know that six of the 10 stories in The Adivasi Will Not Dance feature women protagonists, some of them unforgettable characters. R: "To ruin a happy story, you must make it sad. To ruin an action drama, you must make it move too slowly. To ruin a mystery, you must make the criminal's identity obvious even to the most stupid audience. To ruin a love story, you must turn it into a tale of hate, "he says. In today's India, where pockets of Chup proliferate everywhere, we could add one more ingredient: To ruin a story, you must turn it into a matter of honour. S: One of the most striking works of Indian fiction in English in recent times, The Adivasi Will Not Dance is not an anthropological study of dancing noble savages. Shekhar would rather tell the story of the inhabitants of a mineral-rich land, left powerless by state and big capital. His characters are flesh-and-blood people, following their desires and compulsions against the indifference of a coal-blackened landscape. B: The year-round celebration of literature and writers might make you think otherwise, but the backlash against Shekhar and Murugan underlines the essential loneliness of the writer, especially who lives away from metropolitan literary salons and networks. When I spoke briefly to Shekhar, on the day his effigy was burnt in Pakur and before the government swung into action, he had just returned from treating patients with dengue haemorrhagic fever in Sangrampur village, 5 km away. " I am not afraid, and I cannot afford to be afraid," he had said.
Fill in the blank with correct determiners. Even though the mountain is very steep and the climb is dangerous, _______ adventurous and strong- willed people have made it to the top.
Direction for Q. 29-30: Give the meaning of the phrases/ idioms used in the sentences below. It has been first time in this office that a peon wiped the nose of the boss.
Direction: Give the meaning of the phrases/ idioms used in the sentences below. It has been first time in this office that a peon wiped the nose of the boss.
By foregoing your claim for damages done by Rajiv Kalita, you have done the handsome thing by him.
Direction: Fill in the blanks as per subject verb agreement. When we consider all the factors, which____ many, the number of school dropouts ____ quite disturbing.
How many such pairs of letters are there in the word OVERWHELM wherein each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?
Two sentences with homonyms are given below. You are to find the sentence(s) with the correct use of homonyms. I: The fasting affects of demonetization are impossible to overstate. Not only did it take lakhs of jobs, but it also reshaped our spending habits. II: You can yourself imagine the effect this news has had on me, and your silence increases my astonishment.
Three statements followed by four conclusions are given in question. You are to identify the conclusions that logically follow from the given statements. Statements: [a] Some oranges are apples. [b] All apples are guavas. [c] No guavas are bananas. Conclusions: I: Some guavas are oranges. II: No apples are bananas. Ill: Some oranges are bananas. IV: Some apples are bananas.
Direction for Q. 49-50: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow. Arko and Abir are good in hockey and volleyball. Aneek and Arko are good in hockey and baseball. Arpan and Abir are good in cricket and volleyball. Aneek, Arpan and Alam are good in football and baseball.
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow. Arko and Abir are good in hockey and volleyball. Aneek and Arko are good in hockey and baseball. Arpan and Abir are good in cricket and volleyball. Aneek, Arpan and Alam are good in football and baseball.