Given below are two statements: Statement I: DIKSHA, SWAYAM and SWAYAMPRABHA…

CONCEPT

When a question presents two independent statements, each statement must be checked separately against the governing source. The answer is the truth-value combination produced by those two checks.

For a policy question, the decisive evidence is the policy’s exact description of the initiatives and the agencies assigned to an action, not a general impression of their roles.

APPLICATION

1. Statement I: NEP 2020, section 24.4(c), calls SWAYAM and DIKSHA existing e-learning platforms. Section 24.4(f) also names DIKSHA, SWAYAM and SWAYAMPRABHA together as existing e-learning platforms that will be leveraged for virtual laboratories. Thus the platform description in Statement I follows the policy text.

2. Statement II: NEP 2020, section 24.4(a), says that appropriate agencies such as NETF, CIET, NIOS, IGNOU, IITs and NITs will be identified to conduct pilot studies for online education. Thus the role assigned to NETF in Statement II also follows the policy text.

CONTRAST

• “Both statements are false” conflicts with both policy passages.

• “Statement I is true but Statement II is false” agrees with the platform passage but conflicts with the pilot-study passage.

• “Statement I is false but Statement II is true” conflicts with the platform passage while agreeing with the pilot-study passage.

RESULT

Therefore, both Statement I and Statement II are true.