Cloze Test – Test 55

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a (21) to "identify the socially or educationally backward." It was (22) by Indian parliamentarian B.P. Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to (23) caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to (24) backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of backward castes (known as Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) were given exclusive (25) to a certain portion of government Jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, by 27% Mobilization on caste lines had followed the political empowerment of ordinary citizens by the constitution of free India that allowed common people to politically assert themselves through the right to vote.

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a (21) to "identify the socially or educationally backward." It was (22) by Indian parliamentarian B.P. Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to (23) caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to (24) backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of backward castes (known as Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) were given exclusive (25) to a certain portion of government Jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, by 27% Mobilization on caste lines had followed the political empowerment of ordinary citizens by the constitution of free India that allowed common people to politically assert themselves through the right to vote.

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a (21) to "identify the socially or educationally backward." It was (22) by Indian parliamentarian B.P. Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to (23) caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to (24) backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of backward castes (known as Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) were given exclusive (25) to a certain portion of government Jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, by 27% Mobilization on caste lines had followed the political empowerment of ordinary citizens by the constitution of free India that allowed common people to politically assert themselves through the right to vote.