SBI PO Prelims Model Paper 17

Question : 24 of 100

Marks: +1, -0

Directions (Q. 24-25): Read the following passage and then answer the question that follows.
Two recent World Bank studies on India's rapidly depleting water resources have caused quite a stir. More interesting is how water seems to have become the new focus area for the Bank's assistance: at $3.2 billion in 2005-08 from a mere $700 million in 1999-04.Within water also, more money is going to rural water, large hydro power projects, and water resource management in poorer states. Which of the following statements generates the most appropriate inference of the above paragraph?

The World Bank assistance to India for developing water resources has increased more than 4 times for 2005-08 as compared tothe prior period.
India's water resources are depleting.
Poorer states of India require a larger fund for water resource management projects such as rural water, large hydropowerprojects.
The two World Bank studies on India have caused a stir.
Water conservation and water management processes have stirred the greater demand in allocation of fund in the recent past.

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