Correct option is A
The correct indirect form is (a) "Rani informed her boss that she was going to visit Kashmir and Ladakh the following month." This maintains the correct tense and pronoun shift.
Rules for converting direct speech to indirect speech-
· When the reporting verb of direct speech is in past tense then all the present tenses are changed to the corresponding past tense in indirect speech.
· Reporting verbs such as ‘said/ said to’ changes to said, told, informed as per the context of the sentence.
· Comma inverted comma will be replaced with conjunction “That”.
· The
first person in direct speech
changes as per the subject of the speech.
· The
second person of direct speech
changes as per the object of reporting speech.
· The
third person of direct speech
doesn’t change.