Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Policy intervention without knowledge of the ground realities often ends up as an exercise in self-gratification for those in authority and results in little or no benefit for the ___(1)___ target group. Wanting to do good must be matched by knowing the ___(2)___ thing to do in the circumstance, and in the case of children, be guided by child-centric policies. Whether the recent recommendation of a parliamentary panel to bring more abandoned children into the ___(3)___ process will fulfill these parameters is an issue that warrants further discussion. A recent report, “Review of Guardianship and Adoption Laws”, by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Law and Justice has pointed to the huge mismatch between the number of people wanting to adopt children and the number of children legally available for adoption, and suggested that the way to remedy that would be to ensure that “orphan and abandoned children found begging on the streets… are made available for adoption at the earliest”. To do so, it has suggested periodic district surveys to ___(4)___ children who are orphaned/abandoned. The report argued that in a country with millions of orphans, only 2,430 children were ___(5)___ for adoption. It is true that there are always more people ___(6)___ to adopt children than the number of children actually available for adoption; it has been so historically, but the increasing ___(7)___, as the report indicates, will undoubtedly have to be addressed. According to the report, there were 27,939 ___(8)___ parents registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) as of December 2021, from nearly 18,000 in 2017. There were 6,996 orphaned, abandoned, and surrendered children ___(9)___ in childcare institutions considered adoptable, but only 2,430 were declared legally free for adoption by Child Welfare Committees. It claimed that the waiting time for adoption had ___(10)___ to three years from one year, in the past five years. The total number of children adopted in 2021-22 was only 3,175.