- AThe approach road would take about fourteen months to build
- BThe pond fund stands at 22 lakh rupees, of which the road would take 19 lakh
- CTwo other blocks of the district have built approach roads to their markets in the past five years
- DThe pond fund is made up wholly of the lease money paid by the block's fishing families, who keep no shop and carry nothing to the grain market, while the trade the road would bring would go almost entirely to the market's forty grain dealers
Step-by-Step Solution
The panchayat's case is that the block gains more than it loses, and the option shows that the block is two parties, not one: the fishing families pay for the road and the grain dealers collect on it. Once the payer and the gainer come apart, a larger total gain no longer shows that the transfer is warranted, and the panchayat's single reason is left unable to justify the source it has chosen. How long the road takes to build bears on when the gain arrives. The size of the fund and the share the road would swallow tell us the scheme is affordable, which helps the panchayat rather than hurting it. And what two other blocks have done shows the road is a usual sort of work without saying a word about whose money should build it.
Answer: D) The pond fund is made up wholly of the lease money paid by the block's fishing families, who keep no shop and carry nothing to the grain market, while the trade the road would bring would go almost entirely to the market's forty grain dealers