send mail to support@abhimanu.com mentioning your email id and mobileno registered with us! if details not recieved
Resend Opt after 60 Sec.
By Loging in you agree to Terms of Services and Privacy Policy
Claim your free MCQ
Please specify
Sorry for the inconvenience but we’re performing some maintenance at the moment. Website can be slow during this phase..
Please verify your mobile number
Login not allowed, Please logout from existing browser
Please update your name
Subscribe to Notifications
Stay updated with the latest Current affairs and other important updates regarding video Lectures, Test Schedules, live sessions etc..
Your Free user account at abhipedia has been created.
Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Stay motivated and keep moving forward!
Refer & Earn
Enquire Now
My Abhipedia Earning
Kindly Login to view your earning
Support
Type your modal answer and submitt for approval
Read the passage below and answer the following questions
Moving forward, India has to achieve a skilful balancing act. While fiscal prudence is important, development policies that aim at bringing the economy back on a higher growth trajectory and at the same time ensuring adequate spending on the social sector especially education, health care, and employment generation are equally important. Since India is behind not only China but also Sri Lanka and many others neighbouring countries in terms of human development, any additional fiscal space available ought to be utilized for human development through growth-oriented social sector programmes. This will help achieve the twin objectives of maintaining the growth trajectory and achieving more inclusive development.
It is also high time that we bring in effective measures to improve the efficiency, especially in the delivery mechanism, of all social-sector programmes in the fields of education, health, and employment, while taking note of region- specific successes and failures in the past so that these interventions yield desired outcomes. All programmes and legislations have laid stress on developing planning and implementation strategy in a bottom-up approach which can be achieved only by developing and strengthening grassroots level institutions like the PRIs and making them vibrant.
What should be done to make social sector programmes more effective?
Grassroots level institutions such as PRIs should be encouraged and strengthened.
Any additional financial resources available should be used towards the betterment of these programmes.
More schemes focusing on the development of education, health care and employment generation must be introduced.
An area specific evaluation of the performance of these programmes must be conducted.
According to the passage, “..effective measures to improve the efficiency, especially in the delivery mechanism, of all social-sector programmes...taking note of region-specific successes and failures in the past so that these interventions yield desired outcomes.”. This validates option (d) as the correct answer. Although the passage mentions options (a) and (b) as important factors to be considered as far as social-sector programmes are concerned, they have not been mentioned in the context of making them more effective. Option (c) finds absolutely no mention in the passage. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).
By: Kritika Kaushal ProfileResourcesReport error
Access to prime resources
New Courses