Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

NEP 2020 does envision Research-Intensive Universities as one of three broad types of higher education institutions, alongside teaching-intensive universities and autonomous degree-granting colleges.

It also defines a university as a place giving equal emphasis to high-quality teaching and to research, which is exactly the character of a research-intensive university.

Both statements are factually accurate as descriptions of the NEP vision.

The reason directly accounts for the assertion, because equal weight to teaching and research is the very basis for naming such universities research-intensive.

The other two types shift the balance, with teaching-intensive universities weighting teaching more and colleges focusing on undergraduate education.

All these types are meant to be large multidisciplinary institutions with thousands of students.