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based on the passage: The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-GRAM G), 2025, has been replaced by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).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.
What can be reasonably inferred about the relationship between women's participation and rural resilience during the pandemic?
Their significant involvement contributed to the continuation of the community through the maintenance of the local economy in spite of the general economic disruptions that were happening.
This is an inference question about what the passage implies regarding women's role during the pandemic, so the answer must stay within what the lines support.
The passage states that over the past five years women comprised 58% of the workforce and were "significantly contributing to rural development, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic".
Pairing a majority share of the workforce with a positive contribution during a crisis points to a stabilising economic role: their participation helped keep rural livelihoods and the local economy going when the wider economy was disrupted.
That reasoning matches option (2), which reads their involvement as sustaining the community by maintaining the local economy despite general economic disruption.
Option (1) claims they accelerated the community's fiscal problems, and option (3) claims caregiving cut program productivity, but the passage attaches no such negative outcome to their work.
Option (4), that their presence worsened failing support structures, again reads a harm the text never states; the only cue given is a positive contribution.
The supported inference is that Their significant involvement contributed to the continuation of the community through the maintenance of the local economy in spite of the general economic disruptions that were happening.
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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'?
