PASSAGE
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things. There are many reasons for this. Nothing becomes truly one’s own except on the basis of some genuine effort or sacrifice. A gift of material goods can be appropriated by the recipient without effort or sacrifice; it therefore rarely becomes his own and is all too frequently and easily treated as a mere windfall. A gift of intellectual goods, a gift of knowledge, is a very different matter. Without a genuine effort of appropriation on the part of the recipient there is no gift. To appropriate the gift and to make it one’s own is the same thing, and ‘neither moth nor rust doth corrupt’. The gift of material goods makes people dependent, but the gift of knowledge makes them free. The gift of knowledge also has far more lasting effects and is far more closely relevant to the concept of ‘development.’ Give a man a fish, as the saying goes, and you are helping him a little bit for a very short time, teach him the act of fishing, and he can help himself all his life. further, if you teach him to make his own fishing net, you have helped him to become not only self-supporting, but also self-reliant and independent, man and businessman. This, then should become the ever-increasing preoccupation of aid-programmes to make men self-reliant and independent by the generous supply of the appropriate intellectual gifts, gifts of relevant knowledge on the methods of self-help. This approach, incidentally, has also the advantage of being relatively cheap, of making money go a long way. For POUNDS 100/ - you may be able to equip one man with certain means of production, hut for the same money you may well be able to teach and hundred men to equip themselves. Perhaps a little ‘pumppriming’ by way of material goods will in some cases, be helpful to speed the process of development.(E. F. Schumacher)


PRECIS
Title: Worth of intellectual gift
A material gift is acquired without toiling is less esteemed. An intellectual gift, on the other hand is acquired by rendering efforts and is highly valued. A material gift results in dependence and an intellectual gift makes one free from dependent fetters. As one cannot make a fisherman self-reliant until he is taught the act of fishing, one cannot become intellectual until he realizes the value of intellectual gift. More a man is given a gift of knowledge, more he is able to be self-reliant. The cost of intellectual gift is verily cheaper than the cost of material gift and which in turn makes more intellectual men if it is proposed. The worth of intellectual gift has long-lasting effects than that of material gift.

kindly share your views on the above precis promptly.

Original:-

I know that some people say the idea of a law of nature or decent behavior know to all men is unsound because different civilization and different ages have had quit different moralities. But they haven't.They have only had slightly different moralities. Just thick what a quit different morality would mean. Think of a country where people were admired for running from battle, or where a men felt proud for double crossing all the people who had been kindest to him.You might just as well try to image a country where two and two made five.Men have differed as regards what people you ought to be selfish to--whether it was your own family,or your fellow countrymen or everyone. But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selflessness has never been admired.we believe in the law of nature.If we don't believe indecent behavior,why should we so anxious to make excuses for not having behaved decently? The truth is we believe in decency so much we feel the rule of law pressing on us so that we can't bear to face the fact, that we are breaking it and consequently we try to shift the responsibility. For you notice that it is only for our bad behavior that we find all these explanations.we put our bad temper down to being tired, worries, hungry ; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Precis:-

Moralities vary to civilizations and eras. Consider a civilization in which negative attitude is appreciated and people betray their own fellows.This type of ill manner has no page in the book of decent moralities. Contrary to this, if we believe in good manners then we should apologize for our wrong deeds. But the truth is that under stress of Rules we blame others with lame explanations for breaking laws and associate our bad temper to worries, hunger and all that jazz.

Original Words:- 250
Required words:- about 83
Precis words:- 82

Please have a look and evaluate.

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A valiant effort. You indeed have taken all the points of the original passage and conveyed them successfully in the precis.

However my negatives would be that you:

1) Mentioned the fish metaphor in a manner whereby I thought you did not get the crux of it.

2) Could've explained yourself better and therefore explained to me that you understood the passage better yourself.

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@MrKhansaab

did u comment on mine?

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“Weak men wait for opportunities,strong men make them.” - Orison Swett Marden

You can not give examples in precis.examples from your precis should be removed from you precis.

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Don't lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.

@abid khan whom are you saying? there are two precis above, one is mine. about which you have commented?

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“Weak men wait for opportunities,strong men make them.” - Orison Swett Marden

There is an option of a quote. better to use it so it could be known whom you are talking to.

Original:-

Rural development lies at the heart of any meaningful development strategy. This is the only
mechanism to carry the message to the majority of the people and to obtain their involvement in
measures designed to improve productivity levels. Rural population exceeds 70 percent of the
total population of the country, despite a rapid rate of urbanization. Average rural income is 34
percent less than per capita urban income. A large part of under employment is still concealed in
various rural activities particularly in the less developed parts of the country. For centuries, the
true magnitude of poverty has been concealed from view by pushing a large part of it to the rural
areas. This set in motion a self-perpetuating mechanism. The more enterprising and talented in
the rural society migrated to the cities in search of dreams which were seldom realized. Such
migrants added to urban squalor. The relatively more prosperous in the rural society opted for
urban residence for different reasons. The rural society itself has in this way systematically been
denuded of its more enterprising elements, as rural areas developed the character of a huge and
sprawling slum. Development in the past has touched rural scene mainly via agricultural
development programmes. These are essential and would have to be intensified. Much more
important is a large scale expansion of physical and social infrastructure on the village scene.
These included rural roads, rural water supply and village electrification as a part of the change
in the physical environment and primary education and primary health care as the agents of
social change. The task is to provide modern amenities as an aid for bringing into motion the
internal dynamics of the rural society on a path leading to increase in productivity and self-help,
changing the overall surrounding, while preserving coherence, integrated structure and the rich
cultural heritage of the rural society.

Precis:-

To enhance production developments in rural society are need of the hour. Comparing with urbanization, rural population increasing but they lag in earning bread and butter. Brain drain has seen from the past many decades but they were less in number who succeeded and this increased urban population. Urban residence attracts towards rural society to enhance the scale of business. Agricultural developments have increased the significance of rural society, added to this advance infrastructure has facilitate rural areas with social change. Reasons behind all these developments is to increase productivity by giving strength to rural individuals and keeping in secure their traditions.

Original words:- 311
Required words:- about 103
Precis words:- 102

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“Weak men wait for opportunities,strong men make them.” - Orison Swett Marden

That's a good effort, try to use phrases and make it to the point. You are doing extremely good job. Title is more or less less perfect but make your write up more concise. Rest, you have done it good.

where is the title?