8th PM Mementos Auction Lists 16 Chhattisgarh Works

The correct answer is Dhokra metal casting. It is a lost-wax casting tradition whose history in the country runs back more than four thousand years, and several works in the collection show its range, among them an Elephant Head Nandi, a Standing Nandi and a bust of a Madia-Madin tribal couple. Option A refers to a metal craft associated with another region and was not the craft highlighted here. Option C is a scroll painting tradition of eastern India and does not feature in this description. Option D again names an inlay craft from elsewhere. For the examination, keep the rest of the collection in mind as well: a ceremonial headgear of peacock feathers, cowrie shells, metallic discs and brass bells, a Ramnami Samaj chanting stole inscribed with the words of devotion, depictions of landmarks such as Hatkeshwar Mahadev and Madheshwar Mahadev, and contemporary pieces on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana and the silver jubilee of the State legislature.

The correct answer is the Namami Gange Project. The auction of the mementos is live, has been extended to the end of October, and whatever it earns goes to that project, with bids placed online through the official memento e-auction portal. Option B names a sanitation mission that was not identified as the beneficiary. Option C is a heritage adoption scheme and is not the destination of these funds. Option D relates to wildlife conservation and is likewise not the named recipient. Alongside this, remember the scale and shape of the collection: sixteen works from a single State, built around a metal-casting tradition more than four thousand years old, with devotional, tribal and contemporary strands. The practice of auctioning gifts and mementos received by the Prime Minister recurs edition after edition, and each round is themed, which is why this one reads as a portrait of Chhattisgarh.

The correct answer is a woodcut panel on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana. The collection places this piece alongside a memento marking the silver jubilee, or Rajat Jayanti, of the State legislative assembly and models representing institutions in the new capital area, so that the State’s present sits next to its older traditions. Option B is wrong because no model of the national legislature was listed among these works. Option C is wrong as well, since no panel on that water scheme was named. Option D is wrong because no replica of that monument appears in the description. The wider point the collection makes is one of continuity, with traditions shaped over generations still finding form in new objects. Note also the sixteen works in all, the lost-wax Dhokra craft older than four thousand years, the extension of bidding to the end of October and the use of the proceeds for cleaning the Ganga.