With reference to the Partnerships for Accelerated Innovation and Research (PAIR) programme, consider the following statements: 1. It operates under the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) which subsumed the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). 2. The funding distribution mandates that the hub institution receives 70 percent of the network budget while the spoke institutions share the remaining 30 percent. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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A. 1 only — Statement 1 is correct as ANRF replaced SERB and launched the PAIR programme to boost university research. Statement 2 is incorrect because the budget distribution ratio is exactly the opposite: 30 percent is allocated to the hub institution and 70 percent goes to the spoke institutions.

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