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Reading Passage
Net profits are only 2.2% of their total assets for central public sector undertakings, lower than for the private corporate sector. While the public sector or the State-led entrepreneurship played an important role in triggering India's industrialization, our evolving development needs, comparatively less-than-satisfactory performance of the public sector enterprises, the maturing of our private sector, a much larger social base now available for expanding entrepreneurship and the growing institutional capabilities to enforce competition policies would suggest that the time has come to review the role of public sector...

According to the passage, rural roads should be in the domain of public sector only. Why?

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A.Rural development work is the domain of government only.
B.Private sector cannot have monetary gains in this.Correct
C.Government takes money from tax payers and hence it is the responsibility of government only.
D.Private sector need not have any social responsibility.
Explanation & Solution

Correct Option: (B) Private sector cannot have monetary gains in this.

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पठित परिच्छेद
Net profits are only 2.2% of their total assets for central public sector undertakings, lower than for the private corporate sector. While the public sector or the State-led entrepreneurship played an important role in triggering India's industrialization, our evolving development needs, comparatively less-than-satisfactory performance of the public sector enterprises, the maturing of our private sector, a much larger social base now available for expanding entrepreneurship and the growing institutional capabilities to enforce competition policies would suggest that the time has come to review the role of public sector...

According to the passage, rural roads should be in the domain of public sector only. Why?

A.Rural development work is the domain of government only.
B.Private sector cannot have monetary gains in this.सही
C.Government takes money from tax payers and hence it is the responsibility of government only.
D.Private sector need not have any social responsibility.

सही उत्तर: (B) Private sector cannot have monetary gains in this.

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