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Maharashtra Public Service Commission
State Service Main Examination - 2014
Exam Date : 30 /05 /2014
Subject : English

         Sandard : H.S.C.                                                                    Maximum Marks : 100
         Nature of Paper : Conventional type                                    Time Allowed : 3 Hours

1. All questions are Compulsory.
2. Figure to the RIGHT indicates marks of the respective question.
3. Credit will be given to correct spelling, punctuation, good handwriting and neatnesss,
4. Irrelevant and rambling answers will be penalised SUITABLY.
5. Candidates should not write roll number, any name (including his/her own),signature, address or any indication of his/her identity anywhere inside the answer book otherwise he/she will be penalised.
6. Candidates are expected to answer all the sunquestions of a question together. If subquestion of a question is attempted elsewhere (after leaving a few pages or after attempting another question) the later subquestion shall be overlooked.

1. Write an essay in about 1000 words on the following topic:
Hailstorm : A Natural Calamity on Maharahtra State.
2. Translate the following Marathi passage into English:

3. Make a precis of the following passage in your own words in about 1/3rd original length and suggest a suitable title :

(N.B.: Appropriate marks will be deducted if your precis is longer or shoter than the prescribed length)

The sole aim journalism shoule be service. The newspaper press is agreat power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole country side and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled press serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. how many of the journals in the world sand the test ? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil, go on together, and man must make his choice.
The superficialit, the one-sidedness, the inaccuracy and often even dishonesty that have crept into modern journalism, continuously mislead honest men who wnt to see nothing nut justice done.
I have before me extracts from journals contining some gruesome things. There is communal incitememt, grpss misrepresentation and incitement to political violence bordering on murder. It is of course easy enough for the government to launch out prosecutions or to pass repressive ordinances. These fail to serve the purpose intended except very temporarily, and in no case do they convert the writers, who often take to secret propaganda, when the open forum of the press is denied to them.
I hold that it is wrong to conduct newspapers by the aid of immoral advertisements. I do believe that if advertisements should be taken at all there should be a rigid censorship instituted by nwespaper proprietors and editors themselves and that only healthy advertisement should be taken. The evil of immoral advertisements is overtaking even what are known as the most respectable newspapers proprietors and editors. That refinement can come not through the influence of an amateur editor like myself but it will come when their own conscience is roused to recognition of the growing evil or when it is superimposed upon them by a Government representing the people and caring for the people's morals.