Q1-10 In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Environmental disasters highlight the efficacy of good rules and regulations in (A) harm to people, and loss of economic assets. The tsunami of 2004highlighted the (B) of coastal zones to a catastrophic event, and the need to keep communities safe through scientific planning. Clearly, any set of rules regulating human activity along India’s 7,500 km coastline has to ensure the long-term welfare of the millions of people who live in harmony with a (C) ecosystem. That must be the guiding principle for the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, as it considers the suggestions made by the Shailesh Nayak Committee after its review of the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2011. The exercise has begun badly, given that the Ministry had to be ordered to release the Committee report under the Right to Information Act. Now that it is in the public realm, questions relating to the lifting of development restrictions in designated sections of the coastal zone — notably those that already contain (D) — have to be discussed (E).
The Committee acknowledges, for instance, the (F) that exist in key baseline data, including the (G) of high and low tide lines and the coastal zone boundary, which has affected the preparation of Coastal Zone Management Plans. Such plans are central to the (H) of any new CRZ notification. Transferring control of development in the CRZ-II zone, the existing built-up area close to the shoreline, from the Environment Department to State Town Planning authorities, as proposed, would mark a (I) shift in governance. Also, the suggestion that construction and other activities could be taken up in CRZ-III zones just 50 m from the high tide line in densely populated rural areas under State norms (with the responsibility to rescue and rehabilitate during natural calamities left to local authorities) could be based on an over- (J) of the capacity in such bodies. Proposing new, lightly regulated tourism in “no development zones” is extraordinary in such circumstances. The proper course would be to identify specific areas for such activity, assess its environmental impact, demarcate the area under the State’s management plans, and fix responsibility for enforcement, particularly for pollution control. Changes to the CRZ notification should also mark an end to the half-hearted attempts made over the years at participatory governance involving local communities. Ensuring economic development and a better quality of life for them is unexceptionable as a goal, but it must pass the test of sustainability.
Q1 Choose the correct option for (A)
01. Enhancing
02. Managing
03. Minimising
04. Evacuate
05. Enumerate
Q2 Choose the correct option for (B)
01. Culpability
02. Irresponsibility
03. Encourage
04. Lunacy
05. Vulnerability
Q3 Choose the correct option for (C)
01. Fragile
02. Mandate
03. Fable
04. Virile
05. Fracas
Q4 Choose the correct option for (D)
01. Indubitably
02. Vaguely
03. Transparently
04. Viciously
05. Patently
Q5 Choose the correct option for (E)
01. Habitation
02. Locale
03. Urbane
04. Humane
05. Condominium
Q6 Choose the correct option for (F)
01. Lucidity
02. Exclusive
03. Mediocre
04. Ambiguities
05. Vindictive
Q7 Choose the correct option for (G)
01. Annotation
02. Demarcation
03. Segregation
04. Rupture
05. Union
Q8 Choose the correct option for (H)
01. Implementation
02. ExecutIve
03. Accomplishment
04. Gratification
05. Utilization
Q9 Choose the correct option for (I)
01. Conservative
02. Modern
03. Radical
04. Exceptional
05. Progressive
Q10 Choose the correct option for (J)
01. Under estimation
02. Exaggeration
03. Compassion
04. Shrinkage
05. Over estimation
Answers
Q.1 (3)
Q.2 (5)
Q.3 (1)
Q.4 (3)
Q.5 (1)
Q.6 (4)
Q.7 (2)
Q.8 (1)
Q.9 (3)
Q.10 (5)
