Read each of the short passages given below and answer the questions that follow it.
Aspiration is nothing new. Neither is the debate over what the Indian middle class is, what it wants and what it buys. Since the mid- $80$s, that has been the focus of the economic policy papers, so called pro and anti-poor budgets and marketing strategies that have successfully broken the barrier to urban selling and reached deeper into rural India with increasing income levels and aspirations. Based on the above passage it can be inferred that
- The Indian middle class has been the focus of economic policies for a long time.
- The Indian middle class has graduated from being the ‘deprived’ middle class to the ‘pampered’ middle class.
- Both a and b.
- Neither a nor b.