निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा कथन, इस परिच्छेद द्वारा संप्रेषित केन्द्रीय विचार को सर्वोत्तम रूप से दर्शाता है?
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Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea conveyed by the passage?
(a) Total eradication of poverty in the country will resolve the issue of under-performance of our schoolchildren. · (b) Monetary incentives to parents and teachers is a strategy to improve the children’s academic performance. · (c) Public policy should ensure that competencies and achievements of young people are aligned with their expectations. · (d) India is not going to take advantage of the demographic dividend unless some school pass-outs go back to agriculture.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (c) सार्वजनिक नीति से यह सुनिश्चित होना चाहिए कि युवाजनों के सामर्थ्य और उपलब्धियाँ उनकी अपेक्षाओं के अनुरूप हों।
The passage sets high expectations (high school, college, no return to farming) against low actual competencies. Its central concern is closing that gap, which is what option (c) says.
- ✗ (a) Poverty is not discussed, and ‘total eradication … will resolve’ is an extreme claim the passage never makes.
- ✗ (b) Monetary incentives to parents or teachers are not mentioned anywhere.
- ✓ (c) Parents and children expect the ‘graduates’ to go on to high school and college, yet ‘abilities in terms of academic competencies are far lower than they should be’. Aligning competencies with expectations is the point the passage builds towards.
- ✗ (d) The passage notes that hardly anyone wants to go back to agriculture, but it never says pass-outs should do so, and the demographic dividend is not mentioned.
Remember · The central idea usually joins the passage’s two halves; here, high expectations versus low competencies.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2024, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·