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Directions (Q. 61 – 65) : Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
For Abid Surti, Sunday is no day of rest. He is busy going door to door volunteering with an assistant and a plumber. They are in an apartment building in Mumbai’s densely populated suburb filled with high rise buildings. He rings doorbells and asks residents the same question, ‘Any leaky taps? We are providing a free service.
’ Surti is a multifaceted 79 year old man. A national award winning author, he has written some 80 books-novels, plays and collection of short stories and poems. He is also an artist and a cartoonist. In 2007, Surti started Drop Deal Foundation, his own water conservation NGO that caters to buildings in Mira Road, fixing leaky plumbing for free. With water shortages and the prospects of taps running dry in Mumbai, Surti’s work is vital. ‘Massive’ is how he describes water wastage in Mumbai. ‘In poor families, they can’t afford to pay a plumber but in most middle-class families, the problem is one of sheer indifference. ‘Indeed it was the apathy of a friend that first spurred Surti into action. While visiting a friend’s house, Surti saw a leaking tap and asked why it wasn’t fixed. His friend casually dismissed the query, saying it was hard to get a plumber ‘for something so trivial.’
For Abid Surti, Sunday is no day of rest. He is busy going door to door volunteering with an assistant and a plumber. They are in an apartment building in Mumbai’s densely populated suburb filled with high rise buildings. He rings doorbells and asks residents the same question, ‘Any leaky taps? We are providing a free service.
’ Surti is a multifaceted 79 year old man. A national award winning author, he has written some 80 books-novels, plays and collection of short stories and poems. He is also an artist and a cartoonist. In 2007, Surti started Drop Deal Foundation, his own water conservation NGO that caters to buildings in Mira Road, fixing leaky plumbing for free. With water shortages and the prospects of taps running dry in Mumbai, Surti’s work is vital. ‘Massive’ is how he describes water wastage in Mumbai. ‘In poor families, they can’t afford to pay a plumber but in most middle-class families, the problem is one of sheer indifference. ‘Indeed it was the apathy of a friend that first spurred Surti into action. While visiting a friend’s house, Surti saw a leaking tap and asked why it wasn’t fixed. His friend casually dismissed the query, saying it was hard to get a plumber ‘for something so trivial.’
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