Directions: In the question below, the 1st and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Chose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.
- A serious power crisis is certain to envelop the country if the government does not sort out the issues concerning coal supply to power plants.P. While this may help to tide over some difficulties of the moment, there is a huge uncertainty looming if any cancellation takes place, considering the fact that power is a commodity that is perpetually in deficit. Q. Things can be set right through re-bidding but that will take time and will not leave any scope for compensating the companies that have invested in developing the blocks they had been allocated, adding to the problems of a sector that is highly debt-laden. R. On its part, the government has done a sensible thing by requesting the Supreme Court not to cancel the allocation of 46 blocks that have started production or are about to do so. S. In a meeting with private power producers recently, Piyush Goyal, who is in charge of both the power and coal ministries, assured them that he would sort out the coal problem.
- The idea of giving a single minister these two portfolios was to bring about synergy between the two.
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