Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
On June 29, 2016, Guwahati became the first city in the country to undergo a major drill to tackle floods in an urban setting. The drill was part of the Narendra Modi government's National Disaster Management Plan. The disaster management agencies were back in action in less than a fortnight, and this time it was no mock drill. Guwahati has been experiencing floods since the first week of July. Three districts as well as the Majuli Island - Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's constituency have been inundated and the government has called in the army in relief and rescue operations. The story seems strikingly similar to the past several years. And not just in Guwahati. The recent cases of urban floods - especially in Chennai and Srinagar ? show that there has been little attempt to deal with floods beyond providing relief. Floods have rarely been taken up at the level of urban planning and the government has scarcely tried to understand them as the fallout of changes to a city's topography and drainage system. |
A fundamental principle of hydrology says that during heavy rains, natural water-bodies and interlinked drainage systems hold back some water, use that to replenish groundwater and release excess water into larger water bodies - oceans and big rivers. Most urban planners in the country have ignored this axiom. In Guwahati, natural and artificial drains are choked with garbage; they get clogged during heavy rains and water spills on to the roads. The Bharalu, the only river which flows through Guwahati and carries rainwater to the Brahmaputra, is a terrible garbage dump today. The river is critical to the city's hydrology because the level of the Brahmaputra is about 6 metres below Guwahati; the city requires the Bharalu to carry the run-off to the mighty river. Wetlands that could have soaked up the rainwater have also become garbage dumps. In these respects, Guwahati's story is strikingly similar to Srinagar and Chennai - and Mumbai a little more than a decade earlier. The Dal Lake in Srinagar is today a third of what it was about a hundred years ago. After the floods in Chennai in November 2015, the National Institute of Disaster Management pointed out that the number of water bodies in Chennai had come down to 30 from more than 650 in less than two decades. In most cases, the water bodies have been victims of real estate development. Such disregard for hydrology seems unfortunate when the government has been talking of urban renewal, especially through its smart cities programme. |
According to the passage which of the following is a major drawback in the Indian urban planning? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
On June 29, 2016, Guwahati became the first city in the country to undergo a major drill to tackle floods in an urban setting. The drill was part of the Narendra Modi government's National Disaster Management Plan. The disaster management agencies were back in action in less than a fortnight, and this time it was no mock drill. Guwahati has been experiencing floods since the first week of July. Three districts as well as the Majuli Island - Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's constituency have been inundated and the government has called in the army in relief and rescue operations. The story seems strikingly similar to the past several years. And not just in Guwahati. The recent cases of urban floods - especially in Chennai and Srinagar ? show that there has been little attempt to deal with floods beyond providing relief. Floods have rarely been taken up at the level of urban planning and the government has scarcely tried to understand them as the fallout of changes to a city's topography and drainage system. |
A fundamental principle of hydrology says that during heavy rains, natural water-bodies and interlinked drainage systems hold back some water, use that to replenish groundwater and release excess water into larger water bodies - oceans and big rivers. Most urban planners in the country have ignored this axiom. In Guwahati, natural and artificial drains are choked with garbage; they get clogged during heavy rains and water spills on to the roads. The Bharalu, the only river which flows through Guwahati and carries rainwater to the Brahmaputra, is a terrible garbage dump today. The river is critical to the city's hydrology because the level of the Brahmaputra is about 6 metres below Guwahati; the city requires the Bharalu to carry the run-off to the mighty river. Wetlands that could have soaked up the rainwater have also become garbage dumps. In these respects, Guwahati's story is strikingly similar to Srinagar and Chennai - and Mumbai a little more than a decade earlier. The Dal Lake in Srinagar is today a third of what it was about a hundred years ago. After the floods in Chennai in November 2015, the National Institute of Disaster Management pointed out that the number of water bodies in Chennai had come down to 30 from more than 650 in less than two decades. In most cases, the water bodies have been victims of real estate development. Such disregard for hydrology seems unfortunate when the government has been talking of urban renewal, especially through its smart cities programme. |
Urban floods of Chennai, Sri Nagar, Guwahati etc. clearly point out: |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
On June 29, 2016, Guwahati became the first city in the country to undergo a major drill to tackle floods in an urban setting. The drill was part of the Narendra Modi government's National Disaster Management Plan. The disaster management agencies were back in action in less than a fortnight, and this time it was no mock drill. Guwahati has been experiencing floods since the first week of July. Three districts as well as the Majuli Island - Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's constituency have been inundated and the government has called in the army in relief and rescue operations. The story seems strikingly similar to the past several years. And not just in Guwahati. The recent cases of urban floods - especially in Chennai and Srinagar ? show that there has been little attempt to deal with floods beyond providing relief. Floods have rarely been taken up at the level of urban planning and the government has scarcely tried to understand them as the fallout of changes to a city's topography and drainage system. |
A fundamental principle of hydrology says that during heavy rains, natural water-bodies and interlinked drainage systems hold back some water, use that to replenish groundwater and release excess water into larger water bodies - oceans and big rivers. Most urban planners in the country have ignored this axiom. In Guwahati, natural and artificial drains are choked with garbage; they get clogged during heavy rains and water spills on to the roads. The Bharalu, the only river which flows through Guwahati and carries rainwater to the Brahmaputra, is a terrible garbage dump today. The river is critical to the city's hydrology because the level of the Brahmaputra is about 6 metres below Guwahati; the city requires the Bharalu to carry the run-off to the mighty river. Wetlands that could have soaked up the rainwater have also become garbage dumps. In these respects, Guwahati's story is strikingly similar to Srinagar and Chennai - and Mumbai a little more than a decade earlier. The Dal Lake in Srinagar is today a third of what it was about a hundred years ago. After the floods in Chennai in November 2015, the National Institute of Disaster Management pointed out that the number of water bodies in Chennai had come down to 30 from more than 650 in less than two decades. In most cases, the water bodies have been victims of real estate development. Such disregard for hydrology seems unfortunate when the government has been talking of urban renewal, especially through its smart cities programme. |
If you are asked to sum up in one or two words the main culprit behind the regular flooding of |
Guwahati, which of the following would be your answer? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
On June 29, 2016, Guwahati became the first city in the country to undergo a major drill to tackle floods in an urban setting. The drill was part of the Narendra Modi government's National Disaster Management Plan. The disaster management agencies were back in action in less than a fortnight, and this time it was no mock drill. Guwahati has been experiencing floods since the first week of July. Three districts as well as the Majuli Island - Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's constituency have been inundated and the government has called in the army in relief and rescue operations. The story seems strikingly similar to the past several years. And not just in Guwahati. The recent cases of urban floods - especially in Chennai and Srinagar ? show that there has been little attempt to deal with floods beyond providing relief. Floods have rarely been taken up at the level of urban planning and the government has scarcely tried to understand them as the fallout of changes to a city's topography and drainage system. |
A fundamental principle of hydrology says that during heavy rains, natural water-bodies and interlinked drainage systems hold back some water, use that to replenish groundwater and release excess water into larger water bodies - oceans and big rivers. Most urban planners in the country have ignored this axiom. In Guwahati, natural and artificial drains are choked with garbage; they get clogged during heavy rains and water spills on to the roads. The Bharalu, the only river which flows through Guwahati and carries rainwater to the Brahmaputra, is a terrible garbage dump today. The river is critical to the city's hydrology because the level of the Brahmaputra is about 6 metres below Guwahati; the city requires the Bharalu to carry the run-off to the mighty river. Wetlands that could have soaked up the rainwater have also become garbage dumps. In these respects, Guwahati's story is strikingly similar to Srinagar and Chennai - and Mumbai a little more than a decade earlier. The Dal Lake in Srinagar is today a third of what it was about a hundred years ago. After the floods in Chennai in November 2015, the National Institute of Disaster Management pointed out that the number of water bodies in Chennai had come down to 30 from more than 650 in less than two decades. In most cases, the water bodies have been victims of real estate development. Such disregard for hydrology seems unfortunate when the government has been talking of urban renewal, especially through its smart cities programme. |
The mock drill of June 29 in Guwahati was a part of: |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
On June 29, 2016, Guwahati became the first city in the country to undergo a major drill to tackle floods in an urban setting. The drill was part of the Narendra Modi government's National Disaster Management Plan. The disaster management agencies were back in action in less than a fortnight, and this time it was no mock drill. Guwahati has been experiencing floods since the first week of July. Three districts as well as the Majuli Island - Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's constituency have been inundated and the government has called in the army in relief and rescue operations. The story seems strikingly similar to the past several years. And not just in Guwahati. The recent cases of urban floods - especially in Chennai and Srinagar ? show that there has been little attempt to deal with floods beyond providing relief. Floods have rarely been taken up at the level of urban planning and the government has scarcely tried to understand them as the fallout of changes to a city's topography and drainage system. |
A fundamental principle of hydrology says that during heavy rains, natural water-bodies and interlinked drainage systems hold back some water, use that to replenish groundwater and release excess water into larger water bodies - oceans and big rivers. Most urban planners in the country have ignored this axiom. In Guwahati, natural and artificial drains are choked with garbage; they get clogged during heavy rains and water spills on to the roads. The Bharalu, the only river which flows through Guwahati and carries rainwater to the Brahmaputra, is a terrible garbage dump today. The river is critical to the city's hydrology because the level of the Brahmaputra is about 6 metres below Guwahati; the city requires the Bharalu to carry the run-off to the mighty river. Wetlands that could have soaked up the rainwater have also become garbage dumps. In these respects, Guwahati's story is strikingly similar to Srinagar and Chennai - and Mumbai a little more than a decade earlier. The Dal Lake in Srinagar is today a third of what it was about a hundred years ago. After the floods in Chennai in November 2015, the National Institute of Disaster Management pointed out that the number of water bodies in Chennai had come down to 30 from more than 650 in less than two decades. In most cases, the water bodies have been victims of real estate development. Such disregard for hydrology seems unfortunate when the government has been talking of urban renewal, especially through its smart cities programme. |
Why the river Bharalu is so important to Guwahati? |
Given below is a report with four blanks marked |
I, II, III, & IV. Fill those blanks with the options provided in P, Q, R, & S to make it a sensible one. |
Scared off by_____(I)______during the Emergency, |
India's political and social leadership abandoned the subject of population growth decades ago. The 10-year_____ (II) ______were mostly neglected. So when Shanta Kumar, the Himachal Pradesh's for Chief Minister, ______ (III)____, it came as a surprise. His fears are genuine but his idea of an all-party meeting is off-track. The problem does not need a political solution. It_____ (IV) _____the attainment of a goal that 24 states have al-ready realised: Reducing fertility rates to replacement level. |
P: resurrected this long forgotten issue and even sought the Prime Minister's intervention |
Q: needs the dedicated attention of the chief ministers of three states ? Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh ? in whose hands lie |
R: the popular backlash to family planning excesses |
S: goals set out in the Population Policy 2000 |
Arrange P, Q, R, S to make a correct sentence. |
P: who had studied in India |
Q: in my visits to various African countries, |
R: and had fond memories of their stay here |
S: I felt delighted when I met high ranking politicians and officials |
Improve the sentence given below by changing its underlined portion. |
The officer whom I went reported that my case was pending. |
Direction: Carefully read the information given below and answer the questions that follow. |
I. Many consider it wrong to blight youngsters by recruiting them into armed forces at a young age. |
II. It is very difficult to have an agreement on an issue when emotions run high. |
III. The debate has again come up whether this is right or wrong. |
IV. In many countries military service is compulsory for all. |
V. Some of these detractors of compulsory draft are even very angry. |
Which sentence should come fourth in the paragraph? |
Direction: Carefully read the information given below and answer the questions that follow. |
I. Many consider it wrong to blight youngsters by recruiting them into armed forces at a young age. |
II. It is very difficult to have an agreement on an issue when emotions run high. |
III. The debate has again come up whether this is right or wrong. |
IV. In many countries military service is compulsory for all. |
V. Some of these detractors of compulsory draft are even very angry. |
Which sentence should come last in the paragraph? |
Identify the type of the sentence given below. |
Except for the hurt to his hand, he was lucky. |
Give an appropriate filler. |
Every person must learn______ |
Change the voice. |
A stone struck me on the head. |
Arrange the sentences between and to give the correct sequence of the following story. |
: A man handed a pair of trousers to a departmental store clerk and said, "I'd like to have these altered, please." |
P: The clerk said that free alteration is not possible without a receipt. |
Q: The man said, "Okay, I'd like to return the trousers." The clerk took them back and re-turned the money. |
R: The man pushed the money and said, "Now I want to buy them". The clerk put the trousers in a bag, issued a receipt and handed him both. |
S: The clerk asked for the sales receipt but after searching his pockets the man replied that he had lost it. |
: Triumphantly he put the trousers and the receipt on the counter and said "I'd like to have these altered, please." |
Change the narration. |
The manager said, "Well, what can I do for you?" |
Give the type of clause for the underlined part of the sentence given below. |
It all ended as I expected. |
Identify the tense of the sentence given below. |
When I saw him he was playing cricket. |
In a certain code TEACHING is written as VGCEJKPI. |
What word does JGCV stand for? |
Fill in the blank with the appropriate article. |
My father is in ___bad mood today. |
Identify the mood of the verb underlined in the given sentence. |
Have mercy upon us. |
Direction: Give the antonym of the words written in capital letters below. |
ANTIPATHY |
Direction: Give the antonym of the words written in capital letters below. |
ASCETICISM |
Fill in the blanks with the correct order of adjectives. |
He sat behind a_____ desk. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
They came ___a taxi. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
There is still no cure ___ cancer. |
Identify the form of pronoun of the word underlined in the given sentence. |
The town itself is not very large. |
Direction: Give the synonym of the words written in capital letters below. |
BADGER |
Direction: Give the synonym of the words written in capital letters below. |
PLUSH |
Give the part of speech for the word underlined in the sentence below. |
Careful, the tiger is hungry. |
Find the meaning of the phrase/idiom given below. |
To talk shop |
Judge the right word. |
The criminal seems to have acted in _____ with three others. |
Direction: Give one word substitutions to the following. |
A book or picture produced merely to bring in money |
Direction: Give one word substitutions to the following. |
Something which can be taken for granted |
Arrange the following words in a meaningful order. |
1. Jharkhand |
2. Universe |
3. Ranchi |
4. World |
5. India |
Fill in the blank with the correct modal. |
____ you meet my son in the market, ask him to come home at once. |
Fill in the blank with the correct determiner. |
No ____than fifty CRPF personnel were killed in the explosion. |
Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
There is a group of five girls, Vahini, Ravali, Mohini, Pavani and Nalini. |
(i) Vahini is second in height but younger than Ravali. |
(ii) Pavani is taller than Mohini but younger in age. |
(iii) Ravali and Mohini are of same age, but Ravali is taller of the two. |
(iv) Nalini is taller than Pavani and elder to Ravali. |
(v) Vahini is not the youngest in the group._____ |
If the girls are arranged in the ascending order of heights, who will be on the third position? |
Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
There is a group of five girls, Vahini, Ravali, Mohini, Pavani and Nalini. |
(i) Vahini is second in height but younger than Ravali. |
(ii) Pavani is taller than Mohini but younger in age. |
(iii) Ravali and Mohini are of same age, but Ravali is taller of the two. |
(iv) Nalini is taller than Pavani and elder to Ravali. |
(v) Vahini is not the youngest in the group._____ |
To find out the eldest girl in the group which of the given statements is NOT necessary? |
Fill in the blank as per the subject-verb agreement. |
It is fifteen years since I _______him. |
Express the meaning of the following assertive sentence as question. |
Nowhere in the world will you find a fairer building than the Taj Mahal. |
Identify the relationship of words. |
Heat, Boiling |
A fact is followed by two opinions. You have to identify which of the options follows the give fact. |
Fact: Since inequality is built in wherever there is development, there is little that can be done to ar-rest it except at the cost of development itself. |
Opinion: |
I: To achieve development, inequality should be allowed to continue. |
II: Equality and development do not go together. |
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