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Q1. Read the following passage carefully.
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In 1990, I visited MGR Nagar near Pichavaram in Tamil Nadu to study mangrove forests. The
people of the village were extremely poor and did not get the benefits of government schemes
as they had not been classified either as a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe. The Collector
mentioned that the matter was under study. The children had no opportunity for education and
the men caught fish using their hands. They were not sending children to school; the schools
were far away and they were unable to get admissions there because of the delay in their being
classified as S.C. or S.T. I told my colleagues, "Saving mangrove forests without saving the
children for whose well-being these forests are being saved makes no sense.
With the help of few donors, we started a primary school there and got all children to join. A
few years later, the State government took it over and expanded it. Following the 2004
tsunami, the huts were replaced by brick buildings and MGR Nagar changed. Recently, the
village head meet me and said the villagers would like the school to be made a higher
secondary school. He said they now knew the value of mangroves: the root excludes from the
mangroves enriches the water with nutrients and promotes sustainable fisheries. During the
tsunami, mangroves served as speed-breakers and saved people from the waves. He said
everyone in the village now understood the symbiotic relationship between mangroves and
coastal communities. The mangroves are now in safe hands.
In Tamil Nadu's Kolli Hills, tribal families had been cultivating and conserving a wide range of
millets and medicinal plants. However, there was no market for traditional foods and they
shifted to crops such as tapioca and pineapple. The millets they had cultivated and consumed
for centuries were rich in proteins and micronutrients and climate resilient: mixed cropping of
millets and legumes minimized risks arising from unfavourable rainfall. Such risk distribution
agronomy can ensure food security in an era of climate change.
Choose the most appropriate options out of the following:
The author and his colleagues were concerned about .....
(a) Wildlife
(b) The children's education​

Answer 1

Answer:

Wildlife

Explanation:

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