“India's GDP is expected to expand 7.5% in 2019-20: World Bank” - The Economic Times .
Does the given statement mean that welfare of people of India increase at the same rate? Comment with reason.

Read the following information and five statements given below it carefully and answer the question which follow : Excerpt from a research report - 'Average life expectancy in southern part of India is far more than that in Western India. While the average life of a native of South India is 82 years, the average life of a native of Western India is only 74 years.' Based on the above fact, the proposal that the above study makes is that if an individual moves from Western India to South India, his/her life life expectancy would immediately increase by eight years. Which of the following statement would weaken the above-mentioned studies proposal that people belonging to Western parts of India should move to South India to increase their life expectancy ? 1) The average life expectancy of population living in Eastern part of the country is also less than the population living in South India. 2) Nearly 80% of the population in Southern India has a minimum age of 83 years 3) Higher life expectancy in Southern India can be ascribed to the genetic makeup of the population belonging to that area. 4) The average life expectancy of South India is comparable to the best averages in the world. 5) Higher life expectancy in the Southern India can be attributed to better environmental conditions and better healthcare facilities.

The question given below consists of a statement, followed by three arguments numbered I, II and III. You have to decide which of the given arguments is/are ‘strong’ arguments and which is/are ‘weak’ arguments and accordingly choose your answer from the alternatives given below each question. Statement: A shortage of bank branches and ATMs across India’s hinterland is holding back Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s financial inclusion efforts and risks angering rural voters ahead of elections next year. After taking office in 2014, Modi set an ambitious target to open a bank account for every household to ensure welfare funds flow directly to India’s poor, while improving access to credit and insurance programs. He pushed policies that helped bring 310 million people into the formal banking system in just four years, according to the World Bank. Based on the arguments stated below and the information stated above, which of the following arguments state the reason for the problem, ‘But many of India’s villages still lack bank branches or ATMs to help service new customers, while the pace of building new financial infrastructure has actually slowed’. Arguments: I. Because Modi’s government effectively forced poor citizens into the banking system by linking some welfare benefits to bank accounts, villagers have ended up stuck in long queues and struggling with ATMs that often run out of cash or break down. II. With an election due next year, the mismatch between the government’s policies and the rural banking system is generating frustration among a key slice of India’s electorate. III. The banking system struggled to keep up, while some gains proved temporary. Nearly half of the Indian bank accounts were inactive in 2017, meaning they weren’t used at all in the last 12 months

Representatives from eight different Banks viz.. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them is from a different Banks viz. UCO Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Bank of Maharashtra, Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India and Dena Bank. F sits second to right of the representative from Canara Bank. Representative from Bank of India is an immediate neighbor of the representative from Canara Bank. Two people sit between the representative of Bank of India and B. Cand E are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither C nor E is an immediate neighbor of either B or the representative from Canara Bank. Representative from Bank of Maharashtra sits second to right of D. Dis neither the representative of Canara Bank nor Bank of India. G and the representative from UCO Bank are immediate neighbours of each other. B is not the representative of UCO Bank. Only one person sits between C and the representative from Oriental Bank of Commerce. H sits third to left of the representative from Dena Bank. Representative from Punjab National Bank sits second to left of the representative from Syndicate Bank. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group ? Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a group . Which is the one that does not belong to that group ?