Which one of the following is best implied in the passage?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) Increased social sector spending is imperative for large-scale job creation.
The passage is about closing a jobs gap of about 24 million. E-commerce can fill at best half of it, and the author says only demand-driving sectors such as health and education can fill the rest — so spending on these social sectors is what large-scale job creation needs.
- ✗ (a) The passage notes labour leaving agriculture but never calls for curbing rural-to-urban migration.
- ✗ (b) Construction and unregistered manufacturing are called 'not markedly better jobs', but improving their conditions is not the passage's concern; its concern is where new jobs will come from.
- ✗ (c) This reverses the passage: services 'are not generating the additional jobs the country needs'.
- ✓ (d) Health and education are the sectors that 'can comfortably fill the other half' of the jobs gap; that makes more spending on them necessary for jobs on this scale.
Remember · For 'best implied', find where the passage lands (its last line or its solution) and pick the option that restates it.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2020, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·