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Here is a fact inference judgement question

Directions
The question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
- Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘F’).
- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known, (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘I’).
- Judgments, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘J’)

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

Question

(1) In its 15th report, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice has recommended creation of an all India judicial service (AIJS) on the pattern of the All India Civil Services and directed the Law Ministry to take immediate steps for setting up such a service.
(2) As of now, while most government departments have all India service recruits, selected after an all India competitive examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission every year, the judiciary is the only set-up that does not have an all India selection process.
(3) In this scheme of things, the measure of uniformity in the standards for selection will improve the quality of personnel in different High Courts.
(4) The quality of dispensation of justice will also improve considerably right from the bottom to the top.

(1) FIJI (2) FFJJ (3) FIIJ (4) IFJI (5) JIIJ

Is the answer to the FIJ question choice (2)?

Both statement 1 and statement 2 are facts.

The only choice to have it is choice (2).