Multiple choice

Directions: Read the passage and complete the sentence.

The socialists oppose the private sector because

Directions: In this Section you have six short passages. After each passage you will find several questions based pm the passage. First, read Passage- I, and answer the questions based on it then go on the other passages.
PASSAGE-V
The Private sector has today reached a stage of development and expertise where it can make a massive contribution to the country’s further economic development. The majority of India’s entrepreneurs, large and small, are not not patriotic men who do not ask for special favors or large profits, nor do they seek monopolies or any concentration of wealth and power. What they want are the opportunities to exercise their initiative, their skills and their resources for the benefit of their stakeholders and above all, to be allowed to get on with the job. Yet, mistrust of the private sector, particularly in large scale industry, has been such as seriously to impede economic growth in the sixties and it now threatens to make it impossible for it to meet its targets in the correct Plan.

           

If we, in private enterprise, are to play our legitimate role in the decade to come, it is clear to me that we must prove to Government, to Parliament and do the public in general that we deserve to be trusted. There is also the opposition from socialists in our country who, though opposed to violence and regimentation of mistaken belief that private enterprise is incompatible with the achievements of socialist goals and that even if it were, Indian businessmen and industrialists do not believe in those goals or are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices.

  1. it exploits the workers

  2. they think that entrepreneurs cannot achieve the socialist goals

  3. they believe in Marxist ideology

  4. they think that private sector should not be trusted

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The passage states socialists have 'the mistaken belief that private enterprise is incompatible with the achievements of socialist goals.' Option B accurately reflects this - they think entrepreneurs cannot achieve socialist goals because they view private enterprise as fundamentally incompatible with those goals. Option A (exploits workers) and C (Marxist ideology) are not mentioned, while D is a consequence, not the primary reason.