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Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct most appropriate options.
Cases of flight abroad caused by political persecution apart, people emigrate mostly for economic betterment. Even many asylum seekers who wash up on western shores are in fact economic migrants. Pundits predict that with the advance towards a globalised economy, this sort of migration will become unnecessary. Yet, of this plant's six billion people, more than four billion still live in less than one hundred rupees a day, of which more than one billion live on less than seventy-five rupees a day. The rewards of globalisation have spread unevenly. And where they have spread, they have whetted the appetite for a better life so much that salaries from jobs in the Bengaluru back offices or call centres of international companies may not be able to meet. Most illegal Indian immigrants seem to be from Punjab, one of the most prosperous states in the country.
Illegal immigration cannot be stopped. It can only be checked. For this, without doubt, border control regimes in the developed world that seek to keep out foreigners have to first loosen up. In any case, these laws go against the right to work, the right to free choice of employment and protection against unemployment enshrined in Article 23 of universal Declaration of Human Rights. More than this, the realisation that they could be stranded without an adequate work force in the years to come has already spurred an awareness in many host countries that their immigration laws need to be relaxed. Here, India could learn a lesson from Sri Lanka which plays an active facilitating role in economic emigration. It assesses demand for labour abroad, provides basic training, even language skills to potential emigrants and runs a large-scale awareness campaign about the risks of illegal immigration abroad.
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct most appropriate options.
Cases of flight abroad caused by political persecution apart, people emigrate mostly for economic betterment. Even many asylum seekers who wash up on western shores are in fact economic migrants. Pundits predict that with the advance towards a globalised economy, this sort of migration will become unnecessary. Yet, of this plant's six billion people, more than four billion still live in less than one hundred rupees a day, of which more than one billion live on less than seventy-five rupees a day. The rewards of globalisation have spread unevenly. And where they have spread, they have whetted the appetite for a better life so much that salaries from jobs in the Bengaluru back offices or call centres of international companies may not be able to meet. Most illegal Indian immigrants seem to be from Punjab, one of the most prosperous states in the country.
Illegal immigration cannot be stopped. It can only be checked. For this, without doubt, border control regimes in the developed world that seek to keep out foreigners have to first loosen up. In any case, these laws go against the right to work, the right to free choice of employment and protection against unemployment enshrined in Article 23 of universal Declaration of Human Rights. More than this, the realisation that they could be stranded without an adequate work force in the years to come has already spurred an awareness in many host countries that their immigration laws need to be relaxed. Here, India could learn a lesson from Sri Lanka which plays an active facilitating role in economic emigration. It assesses demand for labour abroad, provides basic training, even language skills to potential emigrants and runs a large-scale awareness campaign about the risks of illegal immigration abroad.
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