Question

1) Read the following extract (Source-2)
NCERT textbook page 7 and answer the questions that follow:
"Not fit for human consumption"
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Newspapers provide accounts of the movements in different parts of the country. Here is a
report of a police strike in 1946.
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More than 2000 policemen in Delhi refused to take their food on Thursday morning as a
protest against their low salaries and the bad quality of food supplied to them from the
Police Lines kitchen.
As the news spread to the other police stations, the men there also refused to take food...one
of the strikers said: The food supplied to us from the Police Lines kitchen is not fit for
human consumption. Even cattle would not eat the chappattis and dal which we have to
eat.'
Hindustan Times, 22 March, 1946
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Questions:
1. Why did the policemen in Delhi refuse to take eir food on Thursday morning?
2. How did the men in other police stations react when they came to know about the protest?
3. What was the comment of one of the strikers on the food supplied to them?
4. Where and when was this report publicdhed?
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