The government has decided to make all the information related to primary…

Concept: In a 'cause and effect' statement-reasoning item, two statements describe a pair of facts, and the task is to work out how they are logically linked: does one describe a pre-existing condition that explains why the other came about (cause leading to effect), are they two separate outcomes of unrelated causes, or are they independent causes with no explanatory link between them? A cause must be capable of explaining the effect and must exist before it; an effect can never precede or explain its own cause.

Application: The statement about the general public having no access to primary-education information in the past describes a pre-existing condition. The statement about the government deciding to make that same information available describes a subsequent action. That decision directly targets and reverses the exact deficiency described in the other statement, so the earlier lack of access supplies the reason the later decision was taken — the past condition is the cause, and the government's move to open up the information is the effect that remedies it.

Cross-check: Reversing the direction fails the timing test: the decision to release the information now cannot have caused the public's lack of access in the past, because that state of affairs already existed before the decision was made — a cause cannot occur after the effect it produces. The two statements are also not independent, unrelated causes, nor are they independent, unrelated effects, since the decision is explicitly a direct response to the condition described in the other statement, not a separate, unconnected event.

Result: The past lack of access is the cause, and the government's decision to make the information available is its effect.