Given below are two statements-statement one is labeled as Assertion (A) and the other is labeled as Reason (R).Assertion (A): There have been conscious efforts to brings together all teacher education programmes, at various stages, leading to stage-specific and programme specific different forms of knowledge base.Reason (R): NCTE acquired statutory status and brought a discussion document on teacher EducationIn the light of the above to statements choose the correct option:

• A. Both (A) and (B) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
• B. Both (A) and (B) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
• C. (A) is true, (R) is false
• D. (A) is false, but (R) is true