Given below are two statements, marked Assertion (A) and Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) was designed as a forward-looking initiative to increase investment between FY20 and FY25.
Reason (R): The NIP includes over 9,766 projects across 37 sub-sectors, which are tracked through the India Investment Grid portal.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- ABoth A and R are true, but R does not correctly explain A
- BA is false, but R is true
- CBoth A and R are true, and R correctly explains A
- DA is true, but R is false
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Correct answers: (a) Both A and R are true, but R does not correctly explain A or (c) Both A and R are true, and R correctly explains A
Explanation
The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP), launched in December 2019, planned infrastructure investment of about ₹111 lakh crore from FY2020 to FY2025, shared by the Centre, the states and the private sector. Its projects are tracked on the online India Investment Grid.
- A is true: the NIP was meant to raise and organise investment in infrastructure over those years.
- R is true: it lists thousands of projects across many sub-sectors, tracked on the India Investment Grid.
R describes the size of the pipeline and how it is tracked; it does not give the reason why the NIP was set up.
The key gives (c). R states facts about the NIP but does not explain why it was designed, so (a) is also accepted.