Comphrensive Passage 139

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The most striking feature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on the decision to scrap Articles 370 and 35A was its temporal focus: the future. This served to both fill the narrative with hope and skirt the messy political discord preceding and accompanying the decision to remove Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.

He also held out the promise that J&K would make the transition from Union territory to full statehood, without setting a deadline for that change. He also made it clear that Ladakh’s separation from what once was a kingdom of disparate regions would be permanent.

The speech carries forward the project of integrating the troubled state into the Indian mainstream by laying out before them an array of opportunities for building a new future for themselves and for the country as a whole.

The prime minister held out carrots aplenty, juicy ones. Better salaries and service conditions for civil servants and J&K policemen, an immediate flurry of jobs as the government moved to fill all vacancies, new scholarships and educational opportunities, new rights as full-fledged citizens of India and new jobs that Indian enterprises, State-owned and private, would create.

If a leader holds out a carrot, a stick cannot but be part of the package. But if the prime minister wielded one, it was not on display. He did refer to separatism and terror, but implicitly treated them as nothing more than bumps along the road to normalisation and return to statehood.

The detailed list of benefits and legal entitlements that the people of Jammu and Kashmir now stand to gain, governed as they would be by the Constitution and legal system of India, is likely to have the desired impact of shifting the spotlight on the benefits of the political change, from the costs that have been most obvious.

The prime minister did well to announce relaxation, as early as next Monday, when Eid would be celebrated, on the lockdown in place in the state. His call to the rest of India to join in rebuilding the state should rein in lumping temptation to target Kashmiris outside Kashmir.

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1. Comphrensive Passage :

2. Which of following statements is author most likely to agree with?

Separatism and terror are acting as invisible sticks.

3. If a leader holds out a carrot, a stick cannot but be part of package What is a carrot and stick policy?

Offering reward and threatening with punishment

4. Which of following is/are not incentive(s) referred to in passage ?

Maternity leave for working women

5. Which of following can be inferred from passage?I. Benefits given to J&K residents have stolen limelight from cost.II. India is no longer under any threat from Pakistani terrorists.III. There was a lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir.

Only I and III

Only II and III

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2.
Which of following statements is author most likely to agree with?

3.
If a leader holds out a carrot, a stick cannot but be part of package What is a carrot and stick policy?

4.
Which of following is/are not incentive(s) referred to in passage ?

5.
Which of following can be inferred from passage?
I. Benefits given to J&K residents have stolen limelight from cost.
II. India is no longer under any threat from Pakistani terrorists.
III. There was a lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir.