Discussion
Read the following statements in reference to agricultural labourers :
Statement A : Employment guarantee programmes in rural areas can decrease migration from rural to urban areas.
Statement B : One of the main reasons for rural to urban migration has been the higher income jobs available in urban areas.
Choose the correct option.
Answer: D
Both A and B are true but B is not the reason for A.
Statement A is true. Employment guarantee programmes, such as the scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, give rural households a set number of days of paid work near home, so fewer labourers have to leave their villages in search of work when there is none on the farms.
Statement B is also true: higher-income jobs in towns and cities have long pulled people from villages. But B does not explain A. A works because it offers work in the village where there was none; B describes why people migrate in general. So the option making B the reason for A is wrong, as are the options calling either statement false.
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