Ministry of environment and forest has granted environmental clearance to the Karkatla open-cast expansion project of the Central Coal Fields Ltd. in Bihar that envisages exploitation of non-coking coal reserves. The present production level of 0.8 million tonnes is proposed to be expanded to 1.5 million tonnes per annum at an estimated cost of 67.82 crores under the project. The total land area requirement for the proposed mining activities is about 651 hectares which includes about one-sixth of it as foreign Land
Environmental concern gets less priority over the need of the coal.

Options

A. If the inference is definite.", true! i.e. it properly follows from the statement of facts given.
B. if the inference is probably true' though not definitely true in the light of the facts given
C. If the 'data are inadequate, i.e. from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false
D. If the inference is probably false, though not 'definitely false in the light of the facts given.

Answer

C

Explanation

According to the passage, the given fact is neither mentioned in nor can be derived from the given passage.
Therefore, the given data are inadequate.