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based on the passage: The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-GRAM G), 2025, has been replaced by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).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 does the author's discussion of lack of funding primarily indicate?
Administrative inefficiencies and implementation challenges due to a shortage of funding.
The question asks what the discussion of funding is meant to indicate, so we look at how the passage uses the funding point.
The text says the program "faced implementation challenges, mainly due to inadequate funding, as acknowledged by the Ministry of Finance", an official concession that money is the root problem.
It then traces the consequences directly: this lack of funds produced delayed wage payments and fewer work opportunities on the ground.
So the funding shortage is presented as the driver of practical delivery failures, i.e. administrative and implementation weaknesses caused by too little money, which is option (2).
Option (1) claims local administrations deliberately limit work to control finances, an intent the passage never assigns. Option (3) calls resource allocation "highly effective", contradicting the admitted shortfall.
Option (4) blames decentralised authority for cutting job guarantees, but the passage names funding, not decentralisation, as the cause.
The funding discussion primarily indicates Administrative inefficiencies and implementation challenges due to a shortage of funding.
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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'?
