SSC Selection Post 2024 Matriculation Level Question Paper (25-Ju..

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A potential flashpoint in the long-running boundary dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka was averted when the scheduled visit of two ministers in the Maharashtra government to Belgavi was called off. Unfortunately, this will not end the disruption endured by people in the area. Prohibitory orders have been imposed, public transport disrupted, and the atmosphere remains charged. The immediate trigger for this round of flare-ups is the conduct of senior functionaries in both governments and organisations with a stake in the issue.

The dispute goes back to reorganisation of states on linguistic lines in the 1950s. Multilingual regions were demarcated and Maharasthtra's governments have been unsatisfied with the allocation of Belgavi to Karnataka. A joint effort by governments in the two states in the 1960s to find a solution did not fructify. The dispute currently is in the Supreme Court. In other words, no amount of grandstanding by politicians on both sides is going to result in redrawing borders. However, that hasn't prevented them from periodically raking it up with the consequences borne by people in the region. As is the case with border areas, many inhabitants speak both languages even as politicians are ostensibly fighting the cause of speakers of one language.

India does need a more active national interstate council to manage tensions that arise out of disagreements over maps. However, an inactive council cannot condone the conduct of senior politicians as heated rhetoric causes collateral damage. India's painstaking transition to dismantling interstate fiscal barriers through the roll-out of GST is undermined when physical movement of goods and people get disrupted by escalating tension. The political class that set aside differences to arrive at a grand bargain and created a common market in India should not undo their achievement. One of India's strengths is the extent of multilingualism even when internal borders have been determined largely on linguistic basis. Politicians need to learn from common Indians.

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Reorganisation of states in the 1950s was done based on ________.

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What is the apple of discord (subject of dispute) mentioned in the passage?

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