Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): As per the National Policy on Education 2020, the General Education Council (GEC), an organ of the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), shall be responsible for accreditation of higher education institutions.
Statement (II): As per the National Policy on Education 2020, the objective of all higher institutions will be to become independent self-governing institutions by an appropriate system of graded accreditation and graded autonomous over a period of 15 years.
In the light of the above statement, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1
Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
2
Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3
Statement I is true, but Statement II is false
4
Statement I is false, but Statement II is true