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Q1.READ PASSAGE CAREFULLY AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1. The revolution in information technology (IT), far from helping India to leapfrog to a post-industrial society, threatens to rupture the social fabric by enriching a few at the cost of many. 2. In a very short time and quite unexpectedly, India has risen to considerable eminence in the world of information technology. This year, software products are expected to account for $ 5.7 billion in exports and will account for a quarter of the growth in the economy, which is expected to grow nearly seven per cent. Within eight years, predicts a recent study by McKinsey & Co. and the National Association of Software & Service Companies (Nasscom), India’s annual IT exports could hit $ 50 billion about 33 per cent of global software exports. Such a surge is expected to generate 2.2 million jobs—and push our growth rate near the double digits that many East Asian Tigers enjoyed before the 1997 crash. 3. For the rapidly growing middle class, which was desperate to make its presence felt but remained mired in the great Indian outback of the global economy and regretfully watched the industrial revolution pass it by, this is the moment they have been waiting for. When countries like Japan and Germany, the objects of Indian admiration, should come knocking on our doors to solicit our talent to invigorate their industry, it is indeed redemption of sorts. And IT is the cause of it all. 4. The big question is, will IT do an encore for India as a nation, and not just for a wafer thin percentage of IT-literate Indians, mostly the poster boys of the IITs? 5. IT has, as yet, failed to touch the lives of the average citizen and India is nowhere close to being a knowledge economy or society. As per the International Data Corporation (IDC), in a survey of 55 countries, India ranks 54th on its Information Society Index. 6. The fact is, it is a straightforward reflection of the deep inequality of our education system which breeds a few ‘geniuses’ at the cost of the entire nation. A study by former director of the National Centre for Software Technology, R. Narasimhan, points out that nowhere is the digital divide more glaring than in IT education. The report warns that India’s ‘obsession’ with the software industry and its exports orientation is leading to the churning out of unemployable students on one hand and bright whiz-kids on the other. While the latter are lured away by overseas employers, the former remain unemployable. Narasimhan cautions against the ‘hype’ associated with the phenomenal growth of India’s software industry defying rational explanations and built up into a ‘mystique of sort’ which breeds false hopes. 7. India’s software industry is a poor employment generator. In the mid-Nineties, some 20,000 people were actively employed in software export services. In contrast, there were three million registered unemployed graduates in the Nineties. While the ‘Narasimhan study doesn’t mention number of hobs lost due to computerisation, one could comfortably add a million to the number. 1. The revolution in IT threatens to break apart the social fabric because………………………… (a) the stocks of software companies have risen at BSE (b) it has helped India to rise beyond the industrial society (c) it is enriching a few at the cost of many (d) it has created a gulf between the rural and urban sector 2. Growth in export of Indian software products and national economy have been achieved because of………………………… (a) global recession (b) liberalised economy (c) public private cooperation (d) eminence of Information Technology 3. It is a time of pride for the middle classes in India because………………………… (a) developed industrial nations will require Indian software professionals to invigorate their industry (b) they are desperate to make their presence felt (c) they have remained stuck in the mud of global economy (d) they have regretfully watched the industrial revolution pass by them 4. The digital divide is clearly visible in IT revolution because………………………… (a) it has improved a lot of average Indian citizen (b) it has benefitted only the products of IITs or some IT-literates (c) it has made India a knowledge economy or society (d) non-IT trained students run the IT institutes 5. Narasimhan’s report cautions against ‘hype’ around IT software industry because………………………… (a) it is rational (b) it breeds false hopes (c) all look for foreign assignments (d) it attracts even the dullards 6. The word ‘redemption’ in para 3 means………………………… (a) recoupment (b) recumbent (c) recovery (d) redeeming B. Answer the following questions in brief: 7. Why is the digital divide clearly visible in IT revolution? 8. Why is IT not beneficial for average Indians?9. What does Narasimhan’s report highlight on IT software industry? 10. How is it lucrative for the middle classes in India? 11. Find the words from the passage which are similar in meaning. (a) Recovery (para 3) (b) Very easily seen (para 6)​

Answer 1

For the given passage

1.(b) 2.(d) 3.(a) 4.(b) 5.(b) 6.(c)

Explanation:

1. (b) it has helped the India to rise beyond the industrial society

2. (d) eminence of the Information Technology

3. (a) developed industrial nations will require Indian software professionals to invigorate their industry

4. (b) it has benefitted only the products of IITs or some IT-literates

5. (b) it breeds false hopes

6. (c) recovery

7. Digital divide is clearly visible in IT revolution because will it only take the IIT graduates or the IT field graduates this will create the digital divide which is clearly visible.

8. The IT not beneficial for average Indians as they are not having that much of IT knowledge which a IT graduate is having and their is not so many people who are literate in the country.

9. Narasimhan says that there is much digital divide in IT education. The report says that the software industry is only taking the bright students in their companies not the unemployable ones.

10. It is lucrative for middle class in India as they are not having much knowledge of IT sector and they only wants bright students to be a part of their company.

11. (a)presence felt  (b) glaring

Answer 2

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