Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Knowledge has many forms and it is available at many places. It is acquired through education, information, intelligence and experience. It is available in academic institutions, with teachers, in libraries, in research papers, seminar proceedings and in various organizations and workplaces with workers, managers, in drawings, in process sheets and on the shop floors. Knowledge, though closely linked to education, comes equally from learning skills such as those possessed by our artists, craftsmen, hakims, vaidyas, philosophers and saints, as also our housewives. Knowledge plays a very important role in their performance and output too. Our heritage and history, the rituals, epics and traditions that form part our consciousness are also vast resources of knowledge as are our libraries and universities. There is an abundance of unorthodox, earthy wisdom in our villages. There are hidden treasures of knowledge in our environment, in the oceans, bioreserves and deserts, in the plant and animal life. Every state in our country has a unique core competence for a knowledge society.
Why is every state in India unique?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Because each state has its own core competence for a knowledge society
The last line of the passage says: "Every state in our country has a unique core competence for a knowledge society." A core competence is a special strength or ability in which one excels. Each state is unique because of the particular strength it brings to a knowledge society.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Because people who live there are unique — Incorrect. Not mentioned: the passage does not speak of the people of each state as unique.
Option 2: Because law and order situation is different in each state — Incorrect. Not mentioned: law and order has no place in the passage.
Option 4: Because some states are given priority over others — Incorrect. Not mentioned: nothing is said about priority; every state is said to have its own strength.