In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The blockade of the national highways leading to the Manipur valley, called by the United Naga Council (UNC), has been in place since 1 November. This has severely affected life in the State, with shortages and (1)__________ costs of essential supplies such as fuel and food, even as demonetisation has (2)__________ problems. Blockades like this are not new to Manipur. In 2011, there was initially a hundred-day- plus blockade enforced by Kuki-led groups, and countered later by Naga groups, which together had a (3)__________ effect on life in Manipur. This time the blockade is in place to oppose the creation of new districts by the OkramIbobi Singh government. On 9 December it issued a (4) __________ notification for the creation of seven new districts by bifurcating seven (of a total of nine) districts. This decision had as much to do with long-pending demands — in particular, for a new Kuki-majority district to be carved out of the larger Senapati hill district — as with easing administrative access to (5)__________ areas from the district headquarters.