GOBARdhan Scheme Launched for Compressed Biogas Sector

The correct answer is Rs 23,731 crore. The Union Cabinet cleared GOBARdhan on 6 August 2026 with this outlay, and the scheme gives the compressed biogas sector a ten-year framework running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36. Option A is wrong because no figure of that size appears anywhere in the scheme architecture; the smaller amounts named in the scheme are per-project limits, such as capital assistance of up to Rs 2 crore for each TPD of installed capacity. Option C is wrong for the same reason, and candidates often confuse an outlay with the expected gain to the economy, which the government puts at over Rs 75,000 crore added to GDP. Option D is wrong as well, and it is close to the expected foreign-exchange saving of more than Rs 40,000 crore rather than to the money the scheme spends. Only Rs 23,731 crore is the sanctioned outlay, so B is the answer a paper setter wants here.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. One of the main changes GOBARdhan brings is that a single ministry now anchors compressed biogas instead of the fragmented support the sector had before, and that ministry is Petroleum and Natural Gas. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launched the scheme and Secretary Neeraj Mittal addressed the gathering, which further fixes the ministry in place. Option A is a tempting distractor because biogas is a clean fuel, but renewable energy is not the nodal ministry here. Option B is wrong even though farmers, cooperatives and gaushalas supply feedstock such as crop residue and cattle dung; supplying feedstock does not make agriculture the nodal ministry. Option D is wrong because Jal Shakti deals with water resources and sanitation, not gas offtake or pricing. So C is correct.

The correct answer is Rs 2,110 per MMBtu. The scheme sets this administered price so that producers can see their revenue in advance, which was one of the sector’s long-standing complaints along with fragmented support and poor access to finance. Options A, C and D are invented figures and none of them belongs to the pricing framework; mixing them up usually happens because the scheme carries several other numbers close in form, such as the guarantee cap of Rs 20 crore for a general MSME project and Rs 25 crore for a project led by women. Remember that the pricing framework is only one of the six interventions, the others being offtake assurance, capital assistance, pipeline infrastructure development, credit guarantee support and the CBG Ecosystem Challenge Fund. Keeping the price separate from the guarantee caps and the capital assistance of up to Rs 2 crore per TPD is what makes B the right choice.