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Write an essay in about 600 words on any one of the following topics:  \n(a)Social Media:A Challenge to Societal Harmony  \n(b)The Role of NGOs in Social Change  \n(c)Education as a Means to Serve Humanity  \n(d)The Crying Need for Embracing Minimalism  \n2.Read the passage given below carefully and write your answers to the questionsthat follow in clear,correct and concise language:15×5=75  \nLife on planet earth has been possible for millions of years largely because of certainbasic services associated with the biosphere.Important among these are:Climateand radiation regulation;Microbial transformations and decomposition;Biologicaldiversity;and Opportunities for sustainable advances in biological productivity.  \nWe now find ourselves in a state where these essential services are in jeopardy,largely as a result of human induced damage to the basic life support systems ofland,water,flora,fauna and the atmosphere.Symptoms of an impending and generalbreakdown of the life support and ecological systems are already here.Some of theseare mounting population growth;vanishing source of drinking water;vanishingforests,plants and animal biodiversity;intensifying drought and floods;loss ofgrazing lands;growing degradation of fertile land and desertification;deteriorationof the quality of air and water;accumulation of toxic and non-biodegradable wastesin the biosphere;explosive growth of rural and urban unemployment andmushrooming of urban slums.It is the poor and the marginalized urban and ruralpeople who are suffering most from such environmental breakdown.  \nThe threats to climate change and radiation regulation are receiving the mostprominent public attention largely because of all-pervasive nature of their potentialharmful impact.“Our Common Future”the report of the World Commission ofEnvironment and Development by the United Nations is indicative that ecologicallythe fates of people whether rich or poor everywhere are interwined.Recent reportson the state of the world paint a frightening picture of the rapid depletion of theworld's natural resources coupled with rising social and economic problems.Theyreflect the widespread frustration about the inability of current approaches to solvethe interlinked problems of environment and development and call for majorchanges in the way people think,use the finite resources of earth and programmetheir development.Developing countries like ours are faced with the urgent need foraccelerating economic growth in a manner that the poor become the mainbeneficiaries and not the rich.We should also avoid proceeding on thosedevelopmental paths where environmental costs are high and the developmental  \nactivities cannot be sustained for long.The new paradigm of development shouldpromote economic activities and life-styles based on the concept of “man withnature”and not “man against nature”.  \nToday,we are passing through an era of global change whether it is in politics oreconomics.Inequity in the resource distribution and consumption between thedeveloped and the developing nations of world has become most apparent.The earthis undergoing drastic climatic changes.The last few years have been the warmestones ever recorded.The heat trap works differently in different latitudes andaltitudes having a tremendous effect on major crops like wheat.The protective ozonelayer is","cbCaijYPvdDywqDi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijYPvdDywqDi","pdf",3797187,"English","# Question Paper Specific Instructions\n## Essay (About 600 words)\n## Passage-based Questions\n## Précis","[{\"question\":\"What instructions govern answering this question paper?\",\"answer\":\"All questions must be attempted. 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