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Logical Reasoning(Insurance) Statement - Arguments

8. Statement: “There seems to be no end to train accidents – almost one major or minor incident taking place every alternate day. The track safety of Indian Railways has reached its nadir. Right from routine maintenance to the replacement of age-old tracks or making new hiring, nothing is happening," a former Railway Board chairman sarcastically remarked. From the given statement, these train accidents could be the reason of which of the following reasons?

(i) Replacement of railway minister Suresh Prabhu by Piyush Goyal, Railway Board chairman AK Mittal by Ashwini Lohani and suspension of a few railway officials happened consequently after these accidents.

(ii) There’s acute shortage of staff members in the safety category. Broadly, as on date, there are 1.80 lakh posts lying vacant in various departments across the railways.

(iii)Neglect of infrastructure maintenance and carelessness waas also one of the reasons for the accidents.

All except (iii)

Only (ii)

Only (iii)

Both (ii) and (iii)

None of these

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Explanation:

In this question we have to choose an option which could be the reason for these train accidents. Option (i) is not a correct choice as this happened after the train accidents so this could not have resulted in the accidents. Option (ii) could be the reason as it is mentioned in the statement that new hiring is not happening. Option (iii) could also be the reason as it is given in the statement that maintenance and replacement (which is linked to infrastructure) of track is not happening