(Download) Model Test Paper For UPSC Pre CSAT 2011: (Paper-2) - SET - 2

Directions (Qs. 1 to 5) : Below is given a passage followed by several possible inferences which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passage. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity. Mark answer as.

(a) if the inference is ‘definitely true’, i.e., properly follows from the statement of facts given.
(b) if the inference is ‘probably false’, though not ‘definitely false’ in the light of the facts given.
(c) if the ‘data is inadequate’, i.e., from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false.
(d) if the inference is ‘definitely false’, i.e., it cannot possibly be drawn from the facts given or it contradicts the given facts.

India’s economic and social progress is forever undermined by constant onslaught of drought followed by devastating floods. There is no denying that the country has registered growth in putting water to productive uses — for irrigation to realize the objectives of food security, of water conservation for crops requiring a considerable amount of water or even underground water for industrial and agricultural purposes. Despite this, the demand for water is visibly more than the supply of available and sustainable water. This is because water resources are not integrated in a systematic way to provide for varied uses.

1. The need of the hour is to manage water resources by integrated method.

2. Unavailability of sufficient water has had an adverse effect on India’s economic progress.

3. India does not lack in the supply of sustainable water for various purposes.

4. India has achieved the maximum level possible in the channelling of its water resources.

5. The trend of conservation of water in India is a recent one.