CDS II English II Ordering of Sentences II 23-09-2019

S1: National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)

S6: to the erstwhile Company Law Board.

P: It was established under the Companies Act, 2013

Q: is a quasi-judicial body that will govern the companies in India.

R: and is a successor body of the Company Law Board.

S: NCLT will have the same powers as assigned

S1: AFSPA gives armed forces the power to maintain public order in ―disturbed areas.
S6: enter or search a premises without a warrant; and ban the possession of firearms.
P: can use force or even open fire after giving due warning if they feel a person is in contravention of the law
Q: They have the authority to prohibit a gathering of five or more persons in an area.
R: If reasonable suspicion exists,
S: the army can also arrest a person without a warrant;

S1: Union Cabinet approved additional changes to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

S6: remove grey areas, a step that’s expected to reduce disputes, people aware of the amendments said.

P: It also seeks to streamline bidding eligibility provisions to

Q: stronger say in the resolution plan for developers.

R: for their companies and giving homebuyers a

S: through an ordinance, easing rules to enable promoters of micro, small and medium enterprises to bid

S1: A new website and a mobile app have been launched for the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.

S6: and also to provide redressal of their grievances.

P: for Safai Karamcharis as an autonomous organisation

Q: It seeks to study, evaluate and monitor the implementation of various schemes

R: It aims to promote and safeguard the interests and rights of Safai Karamcharis 

S: National Commission for Safai Karamcharis is an Indian statutory body was established through National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Act, 1993.

S1: The government has asked all departments to enable electronic payment options.

S6: to enable digital payments through UPI.

P: Bhim (Bharat Interface for Money) is a mobile application

Q: developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) — the umbrella organisation for

R: all retail payments systems in the country —

S: such as Bhim-UPI QR code at their cash counters as part of plans to boost digital transactions.

S1: Fitness has many dimensions; strength, speed, stamina and suppleness are all integral parts of it.

S6: They, therefore, developed strong hearts, lungs and a robust vascular system. These genes are still in us all, in spite of the passage of millions of years; it only needs to be rekindled by taking to running.

P: This important function is carried out by the heart, lungs and blood vessels.

Q: But the most important part is cardio-vascular fitness. That is the ability of the heart to pump purified blood to all parts of the body.

R: Our pre-historic ancestors had to run many times a day, every day, to either hunt for food or to escape from danger.

S: And using the big muscles of the leg is the best way to achieve this kind of fitness.

S1: Our next visit to Kanyakumari was after 30 years!

S6: After one hour or so my three-year-old daughter called in great excitement, “amma, appa wake up; look, the water is still there in the sea!” My brother-in-law woke up and said she probably thought it was a wash basin and the water was still stored in the basin!

P: We decided to go to our room and relax, seated in the open verandah enjoying the cool breeze and gossiping.

Q: We spent the whole day roaming around, visiting temples, stalls selling curios and eateries, and going back to the sea to see the setting sun, and by late evening we were tired.

R: We went for a short holiday to Kanyakumari in 1970. We had booked one room at a guest house facing the sea.

S: Then we went to sleep so that we could get up early to watch the famed sunrise.

S1: It was the summer of 1990. As Indian Railway (Traffic) Service probationers, my friend and I travelled by train from Lucknow to Delhi.

S6: It was a harrowing night in the company of an unruly battalion; we were on edge, on the thin line between honour and dishonour.

P: We cowered in fright and squirmed with rage.

Q: Two MPs were also travelling in the same bogie.

R: They forced us to vacate our reserved berths and sit on the luggage, and passed obscene and abusive comments.

S: That was fine, but the behaviour of some 12 people who were travelling with them without reservation was terrifying.

S1: We are often tempted to think that our rights and freedoms depend upon the Constitution’s fundamental rights chapter,

S6: The surest dam against totalitarianism is to guarantee that no one stream of authority becomes powerful enough to sweep away everything else in the time of a flood.

P: and to ensure that these different organs act as checks and balances upon each other.

Q: There are other important ways, however, in which a Constitution guarantees freedom.

R: It does so, also, by dividing and distributing political power between state organs in order to avoid concentration of authority,

S: and the judiciary’s willingness to enforce it against the state.

S1: In a rapidly changing world, when the ground can shift suddenly, the parable of the fox and the hedgehog acquires significance.

S6: In that lies an opportunity to sensibly disrupt the narrative in education

P: What could be some possible hedgehog principles India can embrace? The world today worships creativity, lateral solutions and disruption.

Q: He curls up into a ball in the face of danger of any kind. And the fox is foiled in all theatres of war.

R: The fox uses all manner of clever devices to catch the hedgehog, at every turn of the road, at ground and on the slope, by day and by night, by strategy and deceit.

S: And the hedgehog, the lowly creature who has no speed, no strategy, knows only one thing.