Reading Comprehension – Test 158

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> By 2019, it has become clear that India's policy-makers must find a way for economic growth to produce more income-generating opportunities for Indian citizens. Employment and incomes are the most pressing issues for Indian citizens according to all pre-election surveys of what citizens expect from the next government. All parties are responding in panic with schemes for showering various versions of unearned 'universal basic incomes' on people who are not able to earn enough. This approach is unlikely to be economically sustainable. Therefore, an ambitious 'Employment and Incomes Policy' must be the highest priority for the next government. <br><br> While India seeks to capture larger shares of global markets, India's own billion-plus citizens' economy can become a stimulus for growth of millions of enterprises. If citizens earn more, they can spend more. The 'Employment and Incomes Policy' should guide the Industrial Policy to where investments are required, and also what is expected from those investments to produce more income-generating opportunities for young Indians. <br><br> The scope of 'industry' must be broadened to include all sectors that can build on India's competitive advantages. For example, the tourism and hospitality industry, taking advantage of India's remarkable diversity of cultures and natural beauty, has the potential to support millions of small enterprises in all parts of the country. By building on India's competitive advantage of large numbers of trainable youth, and with digital technologies to increase the reach of small enterprises, manufacturing and services can provide many domestic and export opportunities that India has so far not seized. <br><br> There are lessons India can learn from its own history. With the government's insistence in the pre-liberalisation era that production and technology must be indigenised in phased manufacturing programmes, India's automobile sector was able to provide Indian consumers with good products. It now provides millions of people with employment and incomes in widespread domestic supply chains. Moreover, Indian auto-component producers and commercial vehicle producers export to the world's most competitive markets.

What should be the highest priority of the upcoming government?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> By 2019, it has become clear that India's policy-makers must find a way for economic growth to produce more income-generating opportunities for Indian citizens. Employment and incomes are the most pressing issues for Indian citizens according to all pre-election surveys of what citizens expect from the next government. All parties are responding in panic with schemes for showering various versions of unearned 'universal basic incomes' on people who are not able to earn enough. This approach is unlikely to be economically sustainable. Therefore, an ambitious 'Employment and Incomes Policy' must be the highest priority for the next government. <br><br> While India seeks to capture larger shares of global markets, India's own billion-plus citizens' economy can become a stimulus for growth of millions of enterprises. If citizens earn more, they can spend more. The 'Employment and Incomes Policy' should guide the Industrial Policy to where investments are required, and also what is expected from those investments to produce more income-generating opportunities for young Indians. <br><br> The scope of 'industry' must be broadened to include all sectors that can build on India's competitive advantages. For example, the tourism and hospitality industry, taking advantage of India's remarkable diversity of cultures and natural beauty, has the potential to support millions of small enterprises in all parts of the country. By building on India's competitive advantage of large numbers of trainable youth, and with digital technologies to increase the reach of small enterprises, manufacturing and services can provide many domestic and export opportunities that India has so far not seized. <br><br> There are lessons India can learn from its own history. With the government's insistence in the pre-liberalisation era that production and technology must be indigenised in phased manufacturing programmes, India's automobile sector was able to provide Indian consumers with good products. It now provides millions of people with employment and incomes in widespread domestic supply chains. Moreover, Indian auto-component producers and commercial vehicle producers export to the world's most competitive markets.

Which sector have flourished remarkably in pre-independence era?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives. <br><br> By 2019, it has become clear that India's policy-makers must find a way for economic growth to produce more income-generating opportunities for Indian citizens. Employment and incomes are the most pressing issues for Indian citizens according to all pre-election surveys of what citizens expect from the next government. All parties are responding in panic with schemes for showering various versions of unearned 'universal basic incomes' on people who are not able to earn enough. This approach is unlikely to be economically sustainable. Therefore, an ambitious 'Employment and Incomes Policy' must be the highest priority for the next government. <br><br> While India seeks to capture larger shares of global markets, India's own billion-plus citizens' economy can become a stimulus for growth of millions of enterprises. If citizens earn more, they can spend more. The 'Employment and Incomes Policy' should guide the Industrial Policy to where investments are required, and also what is expected from those investments to produce more income-generating opportunities for young Indians. <br><br> The scope of 'industry' must be broadened to include all sectors that can build on India's competitive advantages. For example, the tourism and hospitality industry, taking advantage of India's remarkable diversity of cultures and natural beauty, has the potential to support millions of small enterprises in all parts of the country. By building on India's competitive advantage of large numbers of trainable youth, and with digital technologies to increase the reach of small enterprises, manufacturing and services can provide many domestic and export opportunities that India has so far not seized. <br><br> There are lessons India can learn from its own history. With the government's insistence in the pre-liberalisation era that production and technology must be indigenised in phased manufacturing programmes, India's automobile sector was able to provide Indian consumers with good products. It now provides millions of people with employment and incomes in widespread domestic supply chains. Moreover, Indian auto-component producers and commercial vehicle producers export to the world's most competitive markets.

How can we know where the investments are required?