Lamenting the gradual sidelining of the arts in school curricula, a goup of prominent artists wrote to the Chief Minister last year, asking him to allocate more funds to support arts education in schools. However, no such increase has been announced in this year`s Budget. The artists expressed their deep anguish at their request not being approved, but many of them remain optimistic about funding in the future. Which of the statement(s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above statements? (i) The artists expected funding for the arts to increase this year. (ii) The Chief Minister was receptive to the idea of increasing funding for the arts. (iii) The Chief Minister is a prominent artist. (iv) Schools are giving less importance to arts education nowadays,
Lamenting the gradual sidelining of the arts in school curricula, a goup of prominent artists wrote to the Chief Minister last year, asking him to allocate more funds to support arts education in schools. However, no such increase has been announced in this year`s Budget. The artists expressed their deep anguish at their request not being approved, but many of them remain optimistic about funding in the future. Which of the statement(s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above statements? (i) The artists expected funding for the arts to increase this year. (ii) The Chief Minister was receptive to the idea of increasing funding for the arts. (iii) The Chief Minister is a prominent artist. (iv) Schools are giving less importance to arts education nowadays, Correct Answer (i) and (iv)
Statement (iv) is clearly valid as the reason the group of prominent artists wrote to CM was a gradual sidelining of the arts in school curricula. Also, (i) is valid as the last line of the passage suggests that the students are still optimistic about the funding in the future. Statement (iii) is completely out of context and hence is invalid. Statement (ii) does not have any reference from the passage to be true as already the request of the artists has been rejected once which does not support the CM to be a ‘receptive’ one. Hence, option B is the correct one.