What should be the SECOND sentence of the final sequence ........

English language (insurance) Parajumbles

Directions : Given below are six sentences (A) (B) (C) (D) and (E). Answer the following questions after rearranging the following sentences into a coherent paragraph.

(A) “Haryana is well on target but Punjab (which has the largest wheat acreage) is lagging behind,” the official said.

(B) States have been provided nearly Rs.650 crores — courtesy the Union Agriculture Ministry — to help farmers buy subsidised equipment such as Happy Seeder, Paddy Straw Chopper/Cutter, Mulcher, RMB Plough etc.

(C) Earlier this week, a committee headed by the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Nripendra Misra, took stock of preparations by Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to combat pollution from the burning of stubble.

(D) All of this equipment is expected to be disbursed by October 15.

(E) A key focus of the meeting was ascertaining the extent to which States had distributed agricultural equipment to prevent such burning, according to an official privy to the proceedings, but he didn’t want to be identified.

What should be the SECOND sentence of the final sequence?

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Explanation:

The final sequence is C-E-A-B-D. The reason is:

(C) introduces the theme of the paragraph which is the ‘meeting of a committee to take stock of preparations by Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to combat pollution from the burning of stubble.’ Statement (B) introduces information about ‘providing financial help to states to buy subsidized equipment’, and the statement (D) provides additional information about when equipment is expected to be disbursed by October 15. It would be more coherent if the statement (D) would immediately follow the statement (B) to give a sub-sequence B-D.

(E) introduces ‘an official’ about which (A) provides additional information. It makes more sense if (A) would follow (E). So, we get another sub-sequence, which is E-A.

Now, among the sub-sequences B-D and E-A, which one should immediately follow the first sentence of the sequence i.e., (C). Kindly note, that E-A further limits the theme of the paragraph by providing information ‘a key focus of the meeting was ascertaining the extent to which States had distributed agricultural equipment…’ So, it would be more coherent if E-A would immediately follow (C). Hence, we get the sub-sequence C-E-A as the initial sub-sequence of the final coherent paragraph. Now, the remaining sub-sequence B-D should be the trailing sub-sequence of the final coherent paragraph. Hence, we get the final sequence as C-E-AB-D.

So, the SECOND sentence of the final sequence is (E). Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.