Question Paper from: SBI PO PRE 2018

(a) India’s IT sector must make Digital India programme its pivot for India-focused opportunities, whose solutions could be profitably deployed in a large number of developing countries.

(b) With around 16 lakh graduates entering the job market every year amid slow job creation due to global protectionism and automation threats, the urgent issue for the Indian government is to redesign its job creation strategy.

(c) As former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan once said, it’s time for the government and Indian industry to focus on “Make for India”, rather than the export-driven “Make in India”.

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