9th National Review Workshop on Cooperation Opens in Bastar

The correct answer is Bastar in Chhattisgarh, where the Ministry of Cooperation is holding its 9th National Review Workshop on 8 and 9 October 2026. The Secretary of the Ministry told the inaugural session that the suggestion to hold a workshop on cooperative development in Bastar, a district long affected by Left Wing Extremism, had come from Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah, which is precisely what makes the venue worth remembering rather than incidental. Option A, Raipur, is the State capital and the obvious guess for anyone who recalls only the State. Option C, Bhubaneswar, belongs to Odisha, which does appear in the workshop discussions, since one thematic session covered Left Wing Extremism-affected districts of both Chhattisgarh and Odisha, but it is not the venue. Option D, New Delhi, is where many such reviews are usually held, which is why holding this one in Bastar was itself the point.

The correct answer is NCEL, NCOL and BBSSL, that is National Cooperative Exports Limited, National Cooperative Organics Limited and Bharatiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited. The workshop gave special attention to building stronger value chains in exports, organic products and seeds through these three national cooperative institutions, and to empowering primary cooperative institutions through them. The mapping is easy to hold if each name is tied to its field, with exports going to the first, organics to the second and seeds to the third. Option C mixes two financing bodies with a fertiliser cooperative: NABARD took part in the workshop through its team and the National Cooperative Development Corporation had a dedicated session, but both deal with finance rather than these value chains. Options A and D name well-known cooperative and marketing organisations that were not the three bodies cited for this purpose.

The correct answer is financial assistance to institutions that are not cooperatives themselves but promote cooperative development. The Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperation explained that the recent amendment to the National Cooperative Development Corporation Act has paved the way for extending assistance to such bodies, which opens a direct route for various State-level institutions to draw funds from the Corporation, and he urged States to make effective use of the opening. Option A is wrong because the Corporation works through institutions rather than lending to individual farmers. Option C describes nothing in the amendment; the workshop instead discussed a model cooperative banking framework and better supervision of cooperative banks while keeping their autonomy. Option D is also incorrect, since the Ministry is coordinating with the Reserve Bank of India to strengthen the resource-raising capacity of cooperative banks, not transferring the Corporation to it.

The correct answer is the Open Network for Digital Commerce. The Ministry of Cooperation is examining a proposal for a common cooperative digital platform to market cooperative products and farm produce more effectively, and the Secretary informed participants that the Open Network for Digital Commerce had offered its support for the initiative. The Ministry intends to seek suggestions and guidance from the States before taking the design further, so that the mechanism actually connects cooperative institutions with wider markets. Option B, Government e Marketplace, is the public procurement platform through which government buyers purchase goods and services, a different purpose altogether. Option C, the National Payments Corporation of India, builds and runs retail payment systems. Option D, the Unique Identification Authority of India, issues Aadhaar. Only the first is an open digital commerce network of the kind a cooperative marketing platform would be built on.