Apart from the controversy about the use of the 2011 A population instead of 1971 which may result ...........

English ( Master) Adjective

Directions: In the questions given below, a statement has been divided into 5 parts with one or more parts containing an error (grammatical and contextual). You are required to choose the part/parts which do NOT have an error and are contextually and grammatically correct.

Apart from the controversy about the use of the 2011 (A)/ population instead of 1971, which may result (B)/ in smaller shares of the common pool of revenues for (C)/ some states, the Terms of Reference of the fifteenth Finance (D)/ Commission are heavily loaded in favour of the union government. (E)

Only A

Only B and C

Only A, D and E

Only A, B, D and E

No error

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Explanation:

The error lies in fragment C- use of of instead of for. The statement tries to say that using 2011 figures would result in some states getting a smaller share from the common pool of resources.

Correct statement: Apart from the controversy about the use of the 2011 population instead of 1971, which may result in smaller shares from the common pool of revenues for some states, the Terms of Reference of the fifteenth Finance Commission are heavily loaded in favour of the union government.

Hence, option D is correct.