Statement: Women's organisations in India have welcomed the amendment of the…
2025
Statement: Women's organisations in India have welcomed the amendment of the Industrial Employment Rules 1946 to curb sexual harassment at the work place.
Conclusions: I. Sexual harassment of women at work place is more prevalent in India as compared to other developed countries.
II. Many organisations in India will stop recruiting women to avoid such problems.
- A.
Only conclusion I follows
- B.
Only conclusion II follows
- C.
Either I or II follows
- D.
Neither I nor II follows
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Correct answer: D
A conclusion follows from a statement only if it can be deduced purely from what is stated, without importing outside comparisons, assumptions, or predictions about future action. If a conclusion needs information not given in the statement, it does not follow.
The statement only says that women's organisations welcomed an amendment to curb workplace sexual harassment. It gives no data comparing India's harassment prevalence with other countries, so the first conclusion introduces a comparison the statement never makes. It also gives no basis to predict that organisations will react by avoiding hiring women — welcoming a safety amendment signals support for a safer workplace, not an intention to reduce female recruitment, so the second conclusion is an unsupported assumption too.
Checking each option against the statement:
"Only conclusion I follows" assumes a valid statistical comparison with other countries, which the statement never makes.
"Only conclusion II follows" assumes organisations will curtail hiring women, which does not logically follow from welcoming a protective rule.
"Either I or II follows" would require at least one conclusion to be a valid deduction, but neither can be derived from the statement alone.
Since neither conclusion can be deduced purely from the statement, the correct choice is the option stating that neither conclusion follows.