Question

In each question below is given statement followed by two assumption numbered I and II . An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted . You have to consider the statement and the following assumption and decide which of the assumption is implicit in the statement mark answer:
Statement : As poor people in India prefer and use jiggery rather than sugar, the government has decided to decontrol and scrap sugar distribution through Public Distribution System (PDS).
Argument I: Jaggery is freely available at reasonable price to all poor people
Assumption II: PDS has lost its utility.

• A. If only I assumption is implicit
• B. If only assumption II is implicit
• C. If neither I nor II is implicit
• D. If both I and II are implicit

Answer 1

The correct option is D If both I and II are implicit

Government's decision to scrap sugar distribution through PDS assumes that jaggery is available to the poor at reasonable prices. If it were not true, The government's decision would have been illogical. Thus, assumption I is implicit in the given statement. 1 Assumption II, if taken in the context of sugar distribution only, is also implicit in the given statement. This is so because the PDS, which earlier helped in distribution of goods to the poor, is no longer useful because the poor now have cheaper substitutes to those goods. Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.