Given below are two statements:

Assertion (A): "Shiksha-Mitra Yojna" provides opportunity to rural youth to serve their own villages by providing education.
Reason (R): Its objective is to maintain teacher taught radio as preforms. In the context of the above, which one of the following is correct?

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 2009 (GS Paper I)