Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Assertion (A): The 73rd Amendment of the Constitution is considered to be a watershed in the history of local self government in India. Reason (R): The 73rd Constitution Amendment conferred the much coveted Constitutional status on Panchayats. Select the correct answer from the code given below: Code:

• (a)(A) is false but (R) is true
• (b)(A) is true but (R) is false
• (c)Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
• (d)Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)