Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Women in the Farm Women’s Groups under TANWA take up small-scale household activities such as soap manufacture and doll making.
Reason (R): TANWA trained women in latest agricultural techniques and in organic farming.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): Women in the Farm Women’s Groups under TANWA take up small-scale household activities such as soap manufacture and doll making. — True. The groups promote small household activities.
Reason (R): TANWA trained women in latest agricultural techniques and in organic farming. — True. This was TANWA’s training aim.
Why R does not explain A?
R is about farm training. Soap and doll making are not farm work, so the training does not explain them.
The real explanation of A is the groups’ savings. They work like mini banks, and with the accumulated savings they fund these activities.
NCERT (2026-27): “Box 5.2: Tamil Nadu Women in Agriculture (TANWA) Tamil Nadu Women in Agriculture (TANWA) was a project initiated in the late 1980s in Tamil Nadu to train women in latest agricultural techniques and in organic farming. It encouraged women to actively participate in raising agricultural productivity and family income. At a Farm Women’s Group in Thiruchirapalli, run by Anthoniammal, trained women are successfully making and selling vermicompost and earning money from this venture. Many other Farm Women’s Groups are creating savings in their group by functioning like mini banks through a micro-credit system. With the accumulated savings, they promote small-scale household activities like mushroom cultivation, soap manufacture, doll making or other income-generating activities. …” |