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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s desire to double the income of farmers by the year 2022, that he..(1).. while addressing a farmers’ rally in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, on February 28, 2016, has..(2)..strong responses from various analysts, experts and the media. The goal has been dubbed as impossible and..(3).. . On the very next day, the finance minister repeated what the PM had said, in his budget speech. This invited an even stronger reaction and criticism. Some..(4)..have produced calculations that agriculture will require an annual growth of 14.86 per cent per year for the next five years to double the income of farmers, and pointed out that this growth level hasn’t been achieved even for a single year in Indian agriculture. Most commentators..(5)..the possibility of doubling farmers’ income. It seems that critics and..(6)..focused more on five years and ignored substantive aspects of the desire expressed by the PM and the intention of the FM.
The substantive points involve the following questions. Which is the..(7)..year for doubling farmer income? What is to be doubled — is it output, value added or income..(8)..by farmers from agricultural activities? Is it nominal income or real income that has to be doubled? Does the targeted income include only income..(9)..from agricultural activities or would it also include income from other sources? Clarity on all these points is important to assess the possibility of doubling the income of farmers as..(10)..by the PM.
- 1) lectured
2) expressed
3) imprecise
4) obscuredAnswer – 2)
Explanation : expressed - 1) exchanged
2) stifled
3) evoked
4) repressedAnswer – 3)
Explanation : evoked - 1) countenance
2) frontispiece
3) grimace
4) kafkaesqueAnswer – 4)
Explanation : kafkaesque – unrealistic, अवास्तविक - 1) equals
2) introverts
3) commentators
4) extrovertAnswer – 3)
Explanation : commentators - 1) ridiculed
2) complimented
3) flattered
4) praisedAnswer – 1)
Explanation : ridiculed – make fun, उपहास उड़ाना - 1) credulous
2) trusting
3) sceptics
4) trustfulAnswer – 3)
Explanation : sceptics – doubter, संशयवादी - 1) targeted
2) purposelessness
3) thoughtlessness
4) believedAnswer – 1)
Explanation : targeted - 1) organised
2) misunderstand
3) misinterpret
4) earnedAnswer – 4)
Explanation : earned - 1) organised
2) invented
3) created
4) derivedAnswer – 4)
Explanation : derived - 1) envisioned
2) ignored
3) evaded
4) overlookedAnswer – 1)
Explanation : envisioned – visualised, विचारना
