IBPS GK Questions 2026

The fifteen themes identified under Swadesh Darshan are tied to faith, nature, culture and landscape, and industry is not among them.

Dekho Apna Desh was launched by the Ministry of Tourism in January 2020 to persuade Indian travellers to see their own country first, and it became better known through a long series of webinars on Indian destinations, crafts and cuisines that were held when travel was restricted.

Seva Bhoj Yojana was begun in 2018 by the Ministry of Culture to lighten the burden on temples, gurudwaras, dargahs, churches, monasteries and other charitable religious institutions that distribute free food, known as prasad, langar or bhandara, by reimbursing the central share of the goods and services tax paid on…

National Tourism Day is observed in India on 25 January every year to spread awareness of the importance of tourism for the economy and for employment, and the Ministry of Tourism marks it with a theme and with events at destinations.

The original Swadesh Darshan spread its money along fifteen themed circuits, each linking several places and often several states, and experience showed that the spending became thin and scattered.

Incredible India was launched by the Ministry of Tourism in 2002 as an international marketing campaign, and its advertisements in foreign magazines and on television turned Indian tourism into a recognised brand, with the exclamation mark in the logo forming the letter I. The campaign has since had further editions.

Adopt a Heritage was announced on World Tourism Day in 2017 by the Ministry of Tourism along with the Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Survey of India, and it allows a company, trust or individual to take up a monument and pay for its drinking water, toilets, signage, lighting…

HRIDAY covered twelve heritage cities with an outlay of five hundred crore rupees, namely Ajmer, Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwarka, Gaya, Kanchipuram, Mathura, Puri, Varanasi, Velankanni and Warangal.

The scheme began in 2014-15 as PRASAD, the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive, and was renamed in 2017 as the National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive.

HRIDAY, the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana, was launched on 21 January 2015 to develop the old core of twelve heritage cities, dealing with water supply, sanitation, drainage, roads, street furniture and the conservation of heritage buildings in the same area.

Swadesh Darshan was launched in 2014-15 as a central sector scheme of the Ministry of Tourism, which means the entire expenditure is borne by the central government, and its purpose is the integrated development of tourist circuits built around a theme such as Buddhism, the Ramayana or the coast.

Its weaknesses led to the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee of 1957, whose recommendation of democratic decentralisation gave India panchayati raj.

It organises poor rural women into self help groups, federates them at the village and block level, and supports them with a revolving fund, a community investment fund and interest subvention on bank loans.

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched on 25 December 2000 to connect unconnected habitations with all weather roads, generally those with a population above five hundred in the plains and above two hundred and fifty in hill, tribal and desert areas, and it later added the upgradation of…

At least sixty per cent of the cost of the works must go on wages and not more than forty per cent on material, so that the scheme remains an employment programme rather than a construction programme.

The correct answer is C, Section 17, which makes the Gram Sabha responsible for monitoring the execution of works within the panchayat and for conducting a regular social audit of all the projects taken up under the scheme, with every record open to public inspection.

Priority has to be given to women in such a way that at least one third of the beneficiaries are women who have registered and asked for work, and the Act also requires equal wages for women and men for the same work.

The Act requires that work be provided ordinarily within five kilometres of the village of the applicant, and if the worksite is farther away, the worker is paid an extra ten per cent of the wage rate to meet the cost of travel and living.

If employment is not provided within fifteen days of the application, or of the date from which work is sought, whichever is later, the applicant becomes entitled to an unemployment allowance, which the State Government pays from its own funds.

The Act was renamed on Gandhi Jayanti in 2009, and from then it has been known as MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.