Paper 1 · Higher Education
Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason (R). Choose the correct option.
Assertion (A): For General Development Assistance, assistance will be provided only to Government and Government-aided private colleges included under Section 2(f) and declared eligible under Section 12B of the UGC Act, 1956.
Reason (R): The development of colleges is profoundly influenced by three objectives, which are Access, Equity and Expansion.
ABoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A) ✓ Correct
BBoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not a correct explanation of Assertion (A)
CAssertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false
DAssertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true
Correct answer: (A) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A) — Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) correctly explains (A), so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) correctly explains (A), so that is the answer.
★The assertion says development assistance goes only to eligible Government and aided colleges under the UGC Act.
★The reason says college development is guided by access, equity and expansion.
★These guiding objectives are exactly why the assistance is targeted to such colleges.
★So the reason explains why the assertion holds.
★So both are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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