Directions: Given below is a set of statements viz, (I), (II), (III), (IV) &…
2017
Directions: Given below is a set of statements viz, (I), (II), (III), (IV) & (V). Read them to answer the question that follow without changing the tone of the paragraph.
(I) Although there is a thick alphabet soup of new organisations meant to fight terrorism, most are chronically under-resourced.
(II) India’s intelligence services remain desperately short of resources, running some 30 per cent below officially-sanctioned staffing levels that were decided on before 26/11.
(III) There are chronic shortages of everything, from language and area specialists, to personnel with specialist technology skills.
(IV) India has been unable to fulfil its commitment to modernise basic policing and emergency services — the first responders at the time of a crisis.
(V) Forensics, investigation and intelligence capabilities are abysmal
Which one of the following statements can be a suitable choice that FOLLOWS statement (V)?
- A.
In March, Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh told Parliament that the IB had 18,795 personnel on its rolls, against a sanctioned strength of 26,867
- B.
The organisation is short of some 130 management-level staff, the sources said, particularly cutting-edge under-secretaries and deputy secretaries.
- C.
Put simply, the systematic nuts-and-bolts work needed to defend India has not been done.
- D.
Long years of neglect, intelligence officials said, had contributed to the staffing crisis at the RAW and the IB.
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: C
Statement V says forensics, investigation and intelligence capabilities are abysmal. The best following sentence summarizes the result: the systematic nuts-and-bolts work needed to defend India has not been done.