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On August 16, 1947, Lord Louis Mountbatten announced the Boundary Commission Award. The Chittagong Hill Tracts, a deeply forested, mountainous, area bordering Tripura, Mizoram and Myanmar, with a majority Buddhist population (about 97 per cent), was awarded to Pakistan, with the logic that the area was (1) to India and would provide a rural (2) to Chittagong. In 1962, the Pakistani government imposed further misery on the Chakmas by building the Kaptai dam. Approximately 40,000 Chakma tribals, who had lost their homes and farmland due to flooding, emigrated to India as refugees. India, facing its own war in 1962 on the north-eastern border, offered 2,902 Chakma refugee families resettlement in Arunachal Pradesh. By the 1980s, anti-immigrant stirs in nearby Assam, along with local fears about demographic change, led to (3) notices appearing. Soon, houses started burning — in 1983 and 1995, 130 houses were burnt down in Papum Pare district of Arunachal Pradesh. Only in 1996, with the Supreme Court pushing the State government to protect the Chakmas, did the harassment (4) . The long journey continued — only in September 2015 when the Supreme Court directed the Centre and State government to complete the process of citizenship did the original 7,000 surviving Chakmas and Hajongs gain access to Indian citizenship. Despite (5) for India during the Partition, the Chakmas were routinely ignored, then and now.
The Rohingyas, an (6) group from the Rakhine state in Myanmar, are one of the most (7) groups in the world. Over 13,000 Rohingya refugees are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, with about 600-700 living in Kalindi Kunj, JJ Colony and Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. They live in (8) huts with plastic tarps and straw roofs in Nangli camp in Mewat district, Haryana. They have no access to safe water or sanitation, while any waste is simply thrown away into the streets. Open defecation is (9) as sanitation is found lacking, while their children cannot get admitted in schools due to lack of (10) documentation. Most men serve as daily wage labourers.
- 1) inaccessible
2) dawdling
3) stagnant
4) supine
5) torpidAnswer – 1)
Explanation : inaccessible - 1) shortened
2) hinterland
3) sporadic
4) uncommon
5) seldomAnswer – 2)
Explanation : hinterland - 1) dimy
2) limited
3) unusual
4) sparse
5) defamatoryAnswer – 5)
Explanation : defamatory - 1) apathetic
2) creeping
3) ponderous
4) decline
5) tardyAnswer – 4)
Explanation : decline - 1) inert
2) dreamy
3) opting
4) ignore
5) improvementAnswer – 3)
Explanation : opting - 1) crawling
2) vote out
3) betterment
4) ethnic
5) increaseAnswer – 4)
Explanation : ethnic - 1) short
2) persecuted
3) occasional
4) affluent
5) deficientAnswer – 2)
Explanation : persecuted - 1) truncated
2) scanty
3) seldom
4) wealthy
5) thatchedAnswer – 5)
Explanation : thatched - 1) wanting
2) rife
3) failing
4) semioccasional
5) scantAnswer – 2)
Explanation : rife - 1) support
2) uphold
3) promote
4) requisite
5) approvalAnswer – 4)
Explanation : requisite
