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[2]. Passage: A river in a city is often treated as a drain, yet its revival changes far more than water quality. When banks are reclaimed from encroachment, floodplains regain room to absorb monsoon surges, groundwater recharges, and birds return to reed beds that had vanished. Restoration fails when it is reduced to beautification: concrete embankments and ornamental lawns may look tidy but they destroy the shallow edges where fish breed and where floodwater spreads safely. Successful projects therefore protect the river's natural gradient, reconnect old channels, involve riverside communities in monitoring, and judge success by ecological indicators rather than by photographs of a promenade. Which inference is best supported by the passage?

1.
Communities and users have no useful role in monitoring or regulation.
2.
Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.
3.
What cannot be measured in a photograph is unimportant for policy.
4.
A single strict ban solves every problem described in the passage.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 2 : Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.

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सही उत्तर Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone. है।

Key Points

This inference follows from the passage's repeated contrast between cosmetic or punitive measures and deeper, participatory measures.

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[2]. Passage: A river in a city is often treated as a drain, yet its revival changes far more than water quality. When banks are reclaimed from encroachment, floodplains regain room to absorb monsoon surges, groundwater recharges, and birds return to reed beds that had vanished. Restoration fails when it is reduced to beautification: concrete embankments and ornamental lawns may look tidy but they destroy the shallow edges where fish breed and where floodwater spreads safely. Successful projects therefore protect the river's natural gradient, reconnect old channels, involve riverside communities in monitoring, and judge success by ecological indicators rather than by photographs of a promenade. Which inference is best supported by the passage?

1.
Communities and users have no useful role in monitoring or regulation.
2.
Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.
3.
What cannot be measured in a photograph is unimportant for policy.
4.
A single strict ban solves every problem described in the passage.

Correct Answer: Outcomes improve when rules or protections are combined with understanding, participation and measurable indicators, not by appearance or punishment alone.

This inference follows from the passage's repeated contrast between cosmetic or punitive measures and deeper, participatory measures.

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