ibps-so 2016 · Question 156 of 394

How many of the agents are seated between the agent who canvasses the Kisan Vikas Patra and the agent who canvasses the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme, when the count is taken from the left of the agent who canvasses the Kisan Vikas Patra?

1. ANone, for the two of them are immediate neighbours
2. BOne
3. CThree
4. DFour
5. ETwo Directions (Q158–Q167) : In the passage given below certain words have been left out, and the place of each is marked with a number printed in bold. Against each number ve words are o ered beneath the passage, of which one alone ts the blank both in sense and in construction. Mark the letter of that word as your answer. A word which is of roughly the right meaning, but which the words about the blank will not carry, is to be rejected. The rule that a bank must satisfy itself of the identity of the person with whom it deals is a good deal older than any of the circulars which now (158) it. What has changed is the (159) with which the obligation is enforced, and the quantity of paper it generates. A century ago identi cation was a matter of introduction: an applicant was vouched for by an existing customer, and the bank (160) upon a chain of acquaintance which ran through the town. The method was cheap and it was tolerably e ective, but it carried one (161) defect. It admitted only such persons as were already known to somebody the bank knew, and it therefore (162) precisely those whom a later generation would learn to call the unbanked. The documentary system which replaced it (163) the opposite fault. It is impartial in principle, since a paper is a paper whoever presents it; but it is (164) upon the applicant's having papers at all. A migrant who left his village without a rent receipt, a widow upon whose every document in the house her husband's name and not her own appears, a labourer whose address changes with the season – each of them is (165) by a requirement framed with none of them in mind. Where the price of admission is a le, it is the poorest applicant who pays the most for it. Nothing in this argues for (166) the requirement, which exists for reasons that have little enough to do with the applicant before the counter and a great deal to do with what is done through accounts opened in other people's names. It argues rather for proportion: that the proof demanded should answer to the risk the account actually carries, and that a small account, opened for small sums and capped at them, should not be asked to (167) a burden of proof which was designed for a large one.Correct