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Question 1
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Which of the following statements is/are true according to the passage?
I. The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to set up a Cauvery Management Board whose primary responsibility would be to ensure that the Karnataka government releases the 2tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on a regular basis.
II. The Karnataka polls are the main reason behind the Centre’s extreme apathy towards the farmers of Tamil Nadu.
III. The Centre definitely has no plans of setting up the Cauvery Management Board any time before the Supreme Court closes down for summer vacations.
I. The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to set up a Cauvery Management Board whose primary responsibility would be to ensure that the Karnataka government releases the 2tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on a regular basis.
II. The Karnataka polls are the main reason behind the Centre’s extreme apathy towards the farmers of Tamil Nadu.
III. The Centre definitely has no plans of setting up the Cauvery Management Board any time before the Supreme Court closes down for summer vacations.
Question 2
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage correctly?
Question 3
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
The author is most likely to agree with which of the following statements?
Question 4
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Which of the following correctly describes the tone of the passage?
Question 5
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s order on Thursday to the Karnataka government to release a minimum of two thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to meet the urgent water needs for the summer months of April and May, farmers in Tamil Nadu said that they do not have any hope of receiving the allotted Cauvery water for the shorter cultivation season beginning in June.
Incensed by the delay in the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) by the Centre, farmers alleged that campaigning in the Karnataka elections seemed to hold much higher priority than the constitution of the board, “The matter will be delayed until the court has to close for the summer break, until which the focus will continue to be on the May 12th election. A mockery has been made of the law,” said SKG Giridharan, a farmer from Nagapattinam district. The Supreme Court will be closed from May 20 for summer vacation.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the Centre, requested the Supreme Court on Thursday to defer the hearing on the setting up of the scheme, under which the Cauvery Management Board is to be constituted, by 10 days as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues were busy with campaigning work for the Karnataka polls. The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra however directed the Centre to appraise the court on May 8 on the steps taken to set up the board.
Farmers in various parts of Tamil Nadu keen to prepare for the ‘kuruvai’ or the ‘short term’ season, meanwhile, suggest that they are bracing themselves for disappointment again due to the lack of water availability.
“We don’t expect the board to be formed or the 2tmcft water to reach us this summer. Yet again the kuruvai season will be a disappointment for the farming community in the state,” said another farmer from Erode.
Various farmer associations and political parties in the state said they would hold demonstrations after May 8 at Central government establishments to express their displeasure on the delay in setting up a scheme for water sharing.
While the ruling AIADMK’s ministers stated that the centre had failed the state in its duty to implement the water sharing mechanism, leaders of opposition parties including the DMK, PMK and CPI(M) said that they would organise massive protests across the state until the centre acted on the formation of the CMB.
DMK working president MK Stalin said that the state had failed to act despite the deadline ending on May 3 and threatened to organise widespread protests, “We have no other option but to launch a massive and longer agitation in the state. If the Centre continues this attitude, Tamil Nadu will become the centre stage of massive protests,” said Stalin.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
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