Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Statement I:SWAYAM, an initiative of the Government of India, aims at promoting self-help groups in rural areas.

Statement II:E-Tantra is an initiative to spread education in Embedded Systems and Robotics by IIT Mumbai through MHRD-NMEICT.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false ✓ Correct

CStatement I is true but Statement II is false

DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Correct answer: (B) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

Explanation

SWAYAM is an online education platform offering free MOOC courses, not a scheme for rural self-help groups.

Statement 1 is false because SWAYAM aims to deliver quality education online, having nothing to do with self-help groups.

Statement 2 is false because the robotics and embedded systems initiative by IIT Bombay is named e-Yantra, not e-Tantra.

e-Yantra trains students in embedded systems and robotics through project-based learning under MHRD-NMEICT.

SWAYAM instead hosts interactive courses from school to postgraduate level for anyone with Internet access.

Both programmes fall under the National Mission on Education through ICT.

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