Any incremental spending focus should shift to the construction sector mdash rural housing and infra...........

English ( Master) Paragraph Completion

Any incremental spending focus should shift to the construction sector — rural housing and infrastructure. _________________________. Even with a lower share in GDP, it employs more workers than manufacturing.

In addition, the labour force used in construction is largely unskilled or semi-skilled.

Higher allocation and steps to boost this sector are needed as it is likeliest to absorb labour after agriculture.

This is a key characteristic of the rural labour force.

These measures will make good economic and political sense.

None of the above

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Explanation:

Correct Answer is (b).The original passage talks about spending more on the construction sector. The statement after the blank continues in terms of the positive tone and states a reason for spending more on this sector. Thus, we need a statement that justifies spending more on construction.
Option A is incorrect as the phrase in addition implies a reason has already been given before but this is not the case here.
Option C is incorrect as the ‘this’ being referred to here is not mentioned before.
Option D is incorrect as ‘these’ implies multiple and there are no such measures mentioned anywhere.
Option B is correct. It connects with the previous sentence due to use of the words ’this sector’ and also matches well with the following sentence.
Hence, option B is correct.