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Direction: In each of the given sentences, select the sentence which would cither follow or precede the given sentence in grammatically and conceptually appropriate manner. The instruction is given at the end of every statement.

Importantly, 63 per cent of these households are in rural areas. Which of the following sentence would immediately precede the above sentence?

A)  Going by the 2011 census data, 102 million households out of a total of 247 million in India are not covered by the banking system.

B)  The coverage of urban household by banks, according to the Census data, is more compared to rural households.

C)  It is noteworthy, however, that between 2001 and 2011, there was a 23 per cent increase in the number of households serviced by banks.

D)  The increment was more pronounced in the rural areas, where the share of such households rose from 30 per cent to 54 per cent.

E)  None of these