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Directions 32-34: Given below is a set of statements viz. (I), (II), (III), (IV) and (V). Read them to answer the question that follows 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 among the following sentences can REPLACE Statement (II) IN CONTEXT completely?

1. Time enough, perhaps, to ask if India, as a state and civil society, has learned anything from it other than to mourn.
2. For all the fighting words 26/11 gave rise to, though, neither of these issues can be said to have been addressed in any meaningful way.
3. It led to a distillation of public frustration with police and intelligence services, which seemed unable to protect India’s citizens.
4. The arrival of various fronts with their anti terrorism agenda can never undermine the fact that the government agencies responsible for the security of the nation are well below requirement, quantitatively and qualitatively.

Correct answer: The arrival of various fronts with their anti terrorism agenda can never undermine the fact that the government agencies responsible for the security of the nation are well below requirement, quantitatively and qualitatively.

Solution

Statement (II) says intelligence services are under-resourced and below staffing levels. Option D conveys the same idea in a more formal way, stating that security agencies are below requirement both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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