Question

Choose the correct option based on the following statements.

Assertion [A]: A ban on arrack was imposed in 1993 in Nellore and it was totally prohibited in the state in 1995.

Reason [R]: The anti-arrack agitation was an example of the power of education and empowered women.

• A. [A] and [R] are true but [R] is not the correct justification for [A].
• B. [A] and [R] are false.
• C. [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct justification for [A].
• D. [A] and [R] are true.

Answer 1

The correct option is C [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct justification for [A].

Sale of arrack was a problem because the women in this village worked in the fields to earn money for their families, but their husbands would spend all the household savings to buy a local liquor called arrack or toddy. The women would also often become victims of domestic violence by the menfolk. Some of the women belonged to the Dalit community.

The only good thing for women in the village was adult education classes. These were organised under the government's schemes like the National Literacy Campaign (NLC) that was launched in Nellore in 1990.
As a result of the mission mass-literacy campaigns being organised in the state, women often discussed their problems. They found that all of them had a common problem at home- alcoholism. Together, they decided to stand against all those who sold the liquor that ruined their families' lives.