Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on the passage: The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-GRAM G), 2025, has been replaced by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The goal of this modification is to improve Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, which protects the right to life. MGNREGA has improved socioeconomic conditions by facilitating wage payments, providing unemployment benefits, and promoting equal earnings. There has been sustainable development, and research has confirmed the impact of this program to raise earnings, alleviate poverty, and encourage school enrollment. In the past five years, women have comprised 58% of the workforce, significantly contributing to rural development, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given these factors, it is important to assess both the benefits and current challenges of the system. Despite MGNREGA's successes, the program has faced implementation challenges, mainly due to inadequate funding, as acknowledged by the Ministry of Finance. Delays in wage payments and fewer work opportunities have resulted from this lack of funds. Recent rules, such as introducing an attendance application that uses photos, have created new problems and made corruption easier. Due to these issues, the VB-GRAM G Act has introduced important changes, including sections 5(1) and 4(5), which give the Union Government greater control over the public works program.
The author's tone regarding new rules (e.g., photo-based attendance) is best described as?
Cautiously critical, admitting the benefits of innovation while pointing out the dangers of abuse in bureaucracies
Tone questions ask how the author feels, judged only from the words on the page. Here the writer's attitude toward the new digital measures is the target.
The passage grants that the reforms are innovations with intended value, describing the photo-based attendance application as a recent rule meant to modernise the system, so the author is not anti-technology in principle.
Yet in the same breath the writer records a clear negative: the app "created new problems and made corruption easier", which is disapproval of how the innovation actually works in practice.
Holding both of these together, acknowledging the benefit of innovation while warning of misuse inside the bureaucracy, is precisely a cautious, measured criticism rather than a blanket verdict.
Option (2) is an unsupported extreme; the passage never calls officials illiterate or says tech simply "does not work". Option (3), "detachedly descriptive", ignores the evident disapproval in the word "corruption".
Option (4) is openly optimistic that digital tools will resolve governance issues, which directly contradicts the text's warning.
The tone is best described as Cautiously critical, admitting the benefits of innovation while pointing out the dangers of abuse in bureaucracies.
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Important Questions from Reading Comprehension
Why, according to the writer can't people be motivated to use a resource prudently?
1. They feel that others may overuse the resource
2. It is possible to substitute the resource
3. Abundance of the resource availability
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
When do people use resources exhaustively?
The self-interest of people affects the use of renewable resources
People rooted in a locality
Which among the following is closest in meaning with the word 'deplete'?
