Direction: Two statements are labelled as Assertion and Reason. Assume both statements are true. In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct? Assertion: The unemployment…

Taking both statements as true, the large number of new jobs created by the government's policies during that quarter directly accounts for the significant fall in unemployment, so the reason correctly explains the assertion. The reason is not an unrelated fact: it describes the same quarter and the very mechanism, job creation, by which unemployment falls.