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Sequence No.
ENG-105
My acquaintance with the barefoot ragpickers leads me to Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.
Those who live here are squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971. Saheb's family is among them. Seemapuri was then a wilderness. It still is, but it is no longer empty.
In structures of mud, with roofs of tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage, drainage or running water, live 10,000 ragpickers.
They have lived here for more than thirty years without an identity, without permits but with ration cards that get their names on voters' lists and enable them to buy grain.
Food is more important for survival than an identity. "If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach,
we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain," say a group of women in tattered saris when I ask them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.
1. Who live in Seemapuri?
2. What are the living conditions in Seemapuri?
3. What enables them to buy grain?
4. What is more important for them and why?
5. Find the word from the passage which means 'outskirts'.
6. Find the word from the passage which is opposite to �death�.
Answer:
1. Squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971 live in Seemapuri.
2. Seemapuri has structures of mud, with roofs of tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage, drainage or running water.
3. Ration cards that get their names on voters' lists enable them to buy grain.
4. Food is more important for them to survive than an identity.
5. periphery.
6. survival.
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ENG-105
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