9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2026 Launched at Varanasi

The correct answer is Varanasi, where the Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the campaign at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, the Minister of State in that ministry and the state minister for women welfare were all present. Option A, New Delhi, is the natural guess for any national campaign launch and therefore the strongest distractor. Option B, Lucknow, is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, so a candidate who correctly recalls the state but not the city will choose it. Option D, Prayagraj, is another well known city of the same state. The safest anchor is the venue itself, the Rudraksh centre, which is in Varanasi, and questions on this campaign very often ask for the venue together with the theme.

The correct answer is Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari, which places the responsibility for the Anganwadi Centre on the community itself. The month-long campaign built around it asks households to work on dietary diversity, adequate protein intake and fresh hot cooked meals, along with sanitation and early childhood development. Option B borrows two real slogans of the nutrition effort, since a well nourished and capable India is the stated goal, and that makes it the closest wrong answer. Option C names a real component of the wider Poshan programme that links nutrition with early learning at Anganwadi Centres, so it is easy to mistake for the theme. Option D is a familiar nutrition slogan from earlier campaigns. For the examination, always pair the edition number, the year and the theme of Poshan Maah, because a question usually supplies two of the three and asks for the last.

The correct answer is more than Rs 21,000 crore to over 4.65 crore mothers, paid through direct benefit transfer. The Union Minister announced the figure while noting that the scheme has completed ten years of implementation, and a film marking the decade was screened at the launch in Varanasi. Options A, C and D move both numbers up or down in step, which is how such questions are usually built, because a candidate who remembers only the rough scale cannot separate them. Anchor the pair by remembering that the rupee figure in thousands of crore is roughly four to five times the number of crore of beneficiaries. Two more figures from the same speech are worth carrying with it: more than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres are working, and 2 lakh of them are being upgraded into Saksham Anganwadis, of which about 24,000 have been approved in Uttar Pradesh.