Comprehensive Reading - Unseen Passage 1

Read the passage carefully and do the activities.

It is obvious from the visible garbage around us that solid wastes are not being managed properly.However, housing colonies are the most disorganized sector as far as the garbage is concerned.As a result,the legal garbage dumps are overflowing and the number of illegal dumps in the by lanes , parks and roadsides are  on the increase in the most colonies of Delhi and for that matter in all Indian cities.

At present give per cent of Delhi's land mass is being choked by the garbage.This five percent has become a wasteland and it's utility is steadily declining and soil quality is deteriorating.Besides being eyesores, these garbage dumps pose health and environment hazard for the ten million people who live in Delhi. They are breeding grounds for the germs of infectious disease like plague, tuberculosis, dynasty, diarrhoea, eye infections and numerous skin ailments.

Scientific management of garbage this is one of the most important services that need to be regularized in all resedential colonies. After exploring all viable solutions to this problem, I have successfully launched an indigenous scheme cleaning brigades in many colonies of Delhi. The cleaning brigades are managing solid wastes for at least 25 thousand Delhites.A year and a half back the first cleaning brigade were launched during the Asiad. Since then it has been constantly expanding.

A1) Read the following g statement from           the passage and write whether                   Agree         or Disagree.

i)    Solid waste in Delhi is being managed         properly.

Ans. Disagree

ii)   There is no any kind of breeding of             infectious disease from the garbage           ground  at  Delhi.

Ans. Disagree

iii)  At present five percent of Delhi's land         mass  is being choked by the garbage.

Ans. Agree

iv)   The cleaning brigades are managing         solid wastes for at least 25 thousand         Delhites.

Ans. Agree

A2) Complete :-

Ans.       Four effects of garbage -

i)      The landmass of metropoly Delhi                 has  been converted into a                             wasteland.

ii)     The quality of the soil is being                      deteriorated.

iii)     It has caused health and                                environment  hazard.

iv)     The garbage grounds are becoming             breeding grounds of infectious                     diseases.

A3)  Write the part of speech of the                    words as each of them has been                  used  in the passage -

Ans i)      during      -  preposition

       ii)    infectious -  adjective

      iii)   infections -   noun

      iv)   launched  -    verb

A4) Do as directed.

i)    The garbage dumps pose health and           environment hazard for the ten                     million people living in Delhi.

       (Rewrite using "not only but also"...)

Ans. The garbage dumps pose not only               health but also environment hazard            for the ten million people living in                Delhi.

ii)    Scientific management of garbage is          one of the most important services           in all resedential colonies.

       (Rewrite the sentence beginning with          Very few services..............)

Ans. Very few managements of garbage            are as important services as the                  scientific management of garbage in          all residential colonies.

A5) How is the garbage management                  done in your city / village?

        ( Personal response)

Ans. Nashik Municipal Corporation has               been trying to keep the city garbage          free.The garbage vans ( ghanta gadi)          collect the garbage regularly from all          resedential colonies and suburban              areas.All the garbage is carried to              NMC's Manure Project.It is                            processed there and quality manure            is being produced.