Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Credit facilities for fisherwomen need to be increased through cooperatives and SHGs.
Reason (R): Fisherwomen need this credit mainly to buy boats and nets for active fishing.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) is true but (R) is false.
Assertion (A): Credit facilities for fisherwomen need to be increased through cooperatives and SHGs. — True. Many women work in fish marketing and need money to run this work.
Reason (R): Fisherwomen need this credit mainly to buy boats and nets for active fishing. — False. Women are not involved in active fishing. The credit is needed to meet the working capital requirements for marketing. About 60 per cent of the workforce in export marketing and 40 per cent in internal marketing are women.
NCERT (2026-27): “Fisheries: … A large share of fishworker families are poor. Rampant underemployment, low per capita earnings, absence of mobility of labour to other sectors and a high rate of illiteracy and indebtedness are some of the major problems fishing community face today. Even though women are not involved in active fishing, about 60 per cent of the workforce in export marketing and 40 per cent in internal marketing are women. There is a need to increase credit facilities through cooperatives and SHGs for fisherwomen to meet the working capital requirements for marketing. …” |