Consider the following statements:

Assertion (A): The Delhi Govt is going to ban burning of leaves. This was announced when the Government declared certain areas as ‘traffic free zones’.
Reason (R): Burning of leaves contributes to more pollution than that caused by vehicular exhausts in Delhi.

Select the correct answer from the code given below:

A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

C) A is true but R is false

D) A is false but R is true

This MCQ is part of the UP PSC Previous Year Questions (PYQs) series, focusing on UPPSC Prelims 1999 (GS Paper I)