Statement: A state skill mission reports that its Jaipur centre placed 74 in every hundred of its trainees in work against 39 in every hundred at its Kota centre, and proposes to close the Kota centre. At Jaipur a trainee is counted placed if he says, at a telephone call made six months after the course, that he is earning; at Kota only if the employer sends the mission a copy of the appointment letter. Which of the following courses of action follows from the statement?

A trainee's own word on the telephone and an employer's appointment letter are tests of very unequal severity, and the looser test is at the centre that shows better. Until both centres are measured the same way, the mission does not know whether Kota places fewer trainees or merely proves its placements more strictly, and a closure on that footing may shut the better of the two. The first option acts on the very figures whose meaning is in doubt. The second acts on the same doubtful figures in the opposite direction, spending money to cure a shortfall that has not been shown to exist. And the third throws away the aim the mission exists to serve — placement — in favour of admissions, a measure a centre can raise without placing anybody at all.