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English ( Master) Paragraph Completion

Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

Labour is restive today. It is apprehensive about what the future bodes for itself. But it’s not as if labour militancy has gone up in recent years. _________________________________. These figures are considerably lower than those in the 1970s and 1980s. However, there is little doubt that organised labour in India, as in the rest of the world, sees itself as a loser in the changes unleashed by liberalisation and globalisation. It fears that if the government goes ahead with some of its proposed “reforms”, its losses will begin to mount.

Besides, Indian businesspeople as well as many economists have long clamoured for greater “flexibility” in labour laws, a euphemism for freedom to hire and fire.

One of the principal demands of the unions was an increase in the daily minimum wage for unskilled workers from Rs.246 to Rs.692.

However, this argument may have well been overtaken by events in the global economy.

An estimated 120 million workers took part.

On the contrary, man-days lost due to industrial disputes came down from 23.7 million in 2001 to 13 million in 2012 before rising to 19 million in 2013.

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Explanation:

The sentence preceding the blank talks about the rise of ‘labour militancy’ The sentence following the blank starts with the phrase ‘These figures’ that refers to some kind of data or the other.
If read the sentences given as options, we can observe that the only sentence that presents data as well takes the discussion forward is the sentence E. Here the phrase ‘labour militancy’ links to ‘industrial disputes’.
No other option fits in the context of the paragraph.
Option E is hence the correct answer.