A passage is given below with blanks labelled (A)-(J). Below the passage, five options are given for each blank. Choose the word that fits each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage, and mark the corresponding answer.

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which came___(A)___effect in April this year, is meant to transform the education sector and take India closer to the goal of universal schooling. But with admissions to the new academic sessions just___(B)___the corner, it is fast becoming clear that___(C)___well-intentioned ideas into___(D)___will take some doing. For a start, the guidelines for admissions under the RTE prohibits schools from conducting any sort of student profiling. The stress on a random yet justifiable admission process means that schools will have to resort to something as quirky as a lottery system.However, leaving admission to a good school to pure___(E)___ will only incentivise manipulations, defeating the very essence of RTE.

The main problem facing the education sector is that of a resource crunch.The provisions for ensuring universal access to education are all very well ___(F)___, we have the infrastructure in place first. Brick and mortar schools need to precede open admission and not the ___(G)___ way around. In that sense, legislators' assessment of ground realities is ___(H)___ target when they endorse the closure of tens of thousands of low-cost private schools for not meeting the minimum standards of land plot, building specifications and playground area as laid out in the RTE act. Instead of bearing down ___(I)___ on private schools for failing to conform to abstract bureaucratic criteria, efforts to bring about universal education should focus on upgrading and expand the existing government school infrastructure to accommodate all. Only then can we ensure the much-needed supply-demand ___(J)___ in the education sector.