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📘 UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination Syllabus 2025
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Direction for the following four items:
Read the following two passages and answer the items that following the passages your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
PASSAGE-1
Each state in India faces a distinctive set of challenges recording the impact of warming, but also offers it's own set of opportunities for reducing emissions depending on its natural resources. For example coastal States need to take action to protect their shores from sea level rise, districts that are drier need to prepare for variable monsoon precipitation. Himalayan regions have their own unique challenges ,and selected parts of peninsular India and offshore areas offer great opportunities for harnessing wind power. This various aspects need to be considered for developing clear and sustainable goals for the future.
1. Which one of the following statement best reflects the most logical, rational and pragmatic message conveyed by the author of the passage?
(a) The mitigation and adaptation strategies to address / tackle the climate change is essentially the responsibility of each state.
(b) India is too diverse to implement any effective strategy or program to address/tackle the climate change.
(c) It is basically the responsibility of the union government to implement the climate action plans and ensure net zero emissions.
(d) India needs to formulate effective climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies at the state/ region level.
Answer: (D)
2. with reference to the passage,following assumptions have been made:
I. Green energy production can be linked to integrated with the climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.
II. Effects of climate change are much more severe in coastal and mountainous regions.
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
A) I only
B)II only
C)Both I and II
D) Neither I nor II
Answer:( C )
PASSAGE-2
If the social inequality is the most acutely felt social problem in India ,in security ,more than poverty, is the most acutely felt economic problem. Besides those below the official poverty line even those just over the poverty line are subject to multiple economic insecurities of various kind (due to wealth and /or health risks, market fluctuations, job related uncertainties). Many government
Policies arebactually intended towards mitigating this insecurities.
3. Which one of the following statements best reflects the critical message conveyed by the passage?
(a). India's political executive should be aware that poverty and social inequality and the consequent sense of insecurity is the main social problem.
(b). In India, poverty is the primary reason for social in equality and insecurity.
(c). Poverty and social inequality are so intricately linked that they pose and un manageable crisis for India.
(d). Insecurity, more than poverty, is the main economic issue that government policies must address.
Answer:( d )
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