National Coastal Mission 2.0 Guidelines Out, Rs 767 Crore Outlay

The correct answer is Rs 767 crore. The mission is a Central Sector Scheme, so the whole of that amount comes from the Centre, and it is to be spent up to the year 2030-31 across nine coastal states and four Union Territories. Option A, Rs 367 crore, is wrong because no such figure is attached to the mission; the sanctioned outlay is larger. Option C, Rs 1,767 crore, and option D, Rs 2,767 crore, are wrong for the same reason and are the kind of inflated figures a paper setter adds to test whether a candidate remembers the exact number rather than the order of magnitude. For the examination hall the safest way to hold this fact is as a set: the scheme is National Coastal Mission 2.0, the money is Rs 767 crore, the type is Central Sector, and the closing year is 2030-31.

The correct answer is nine coastal states and four Union Territories. That is the geography named for the mission, and it matches the shape of the Indian coastline, where the shore runs through nine states and a set of island and coastal Union Territories. Option A understates both halves of the count. Option C is wrong on both numbers as well: the coastal state count is not eleven, and the Union Territory count is not two. Option D is the furthest from the fact and points to a coastline spread over thirteen states, which India does not have. Candidates should hold the pair together with the money and the timeline, because a question on this mission usually asks for one of the three: the outlay of Rs 767 crore, the closing year 2030-31, or this coverage of nine states and four Union Territories.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the guidelines were released by its minister, Bhupender Yadav, in New Delhi. Option A, the Ministry of Jal Shakti, handles rivers, irrigation and drinking water, not the coastal zone programme. Option B, the Ministry of Earth Sciences, runs ocean research and forecasting services and is a natural distractor for anything to do with the sea, but the mission is not its scheme. Option D, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, looks after ports and shipping rather than coastal ecosystems. The mission sits with the environment ministry because its subject matter is coastal resilience: vulnerability assessment, ecosystem restoration, pollution management and biodiversity conservation, with sustainable tourism and spatial planning alongside them, and the blue economy as the wider goal.