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2. Read the passage given below. 
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The trouble with ageing is that it is inevitable. The truth about ageing in India is that we have 
not yet bullt an adequate knowledge base to respond to its multifarious challenges. So says 
the United Nations Population Fund in its recently released Report on the Status of Elderly in 
Select States of India. The focus of the study is on the seven states where the aged population 
is larger than the national average. These are Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, 
Paschim Banga, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Three-fourths of the elderly in India live in 
rural areas and bear the brunt of poverty, illiteracy, income insecurity and inadequate 
healthcare. 609% of them are currently married and over 75% live with at least one of their 
children. But widowhood is over 50% among women, reflecting greater longevity among 
females and gender-specific concerns that arise on account of ageing. 
The survey also reports high levels of substance abuse, with no significant variations 
between rural and urban areas. On average, there is equal reliance on public and private 
healthcare facilities, while in Odisha and Punjab, there is noticeably greater dependence on 
public and private care respectively. The economic burden incurred by the elderly to make 
provision for healthcare is compounded by the fact that most of them have to work to make 
ends meet and enjoy no social protection to speak of. 
There are major lessons from the survey for the rest of India. After all, the proportion of the 
segment aged 60 years and above is projected to grow by 360% by 2050, compared with a 
mere 60% rate of increase in the overall population-a product of the decline in fertility rates 
and the increase in longevity. 
A rapid rise in the numbers of the elderly would impose additional responsibilities on an 
ever-shrinking population in the working age and raise fresh social challenges in the context 
of the ongoing nuclearisation of India's traditional joint family. 
In Western countries, oconomic duvaupmant and accompanying socio-political 
advancement preceded population ageing, enabling better planning. India, as with other 
developing countries, finds itself having to balance the concerns of the elderly into current 
growth imperatives. Conversely, investments in sound social protection and public health 
and welfare policies for the country's predominant population under 35 years would prove a 
most effective strategy to prepare communities to meet the unfolding transition in the 
coming decades. 
Short of such a proactive approach, there is a real risk of allowing today's demographic 
advantage to turn into tomorrow's adversity. 
2.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, make notes on it using headings and 
sub-headings. Also use recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary (minimum 4 
and a format you consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate title to it. 
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2.2 Write a summary of the given passage in about 100 words. 
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Answered by Rahmaankhan

Answer:

first right the important points of parra snd analysis it is onmy about proative apprach neans established

Answered by ItzKrinna

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