PM-RKVY: Rs 1200 Crore Sanctioned to 10 States at Rabi Meet

The correct answer is more than Rs 1200 crore. At the conference the Union Agriculture Minister handed financial sanction letters under PM-RKVY to the agriculture ministers of ten states, and the total came to more than Rs 1200 crore. The individual shares add up to that figure: West Bengal Rs 290 crore, Haryana Rs 198 crore, Chhattisgarh Rs 181 crore, Arunachal Pradesh Rs 154 crore, Bihar Rs 114 crore, Karnataka Rs 104 crore, Mizoram Rs 75 crore, Himachal Pradesh Rs 64 crore, Jharkhand Rs 58 crore and Punjab Rs 43 crore. Option A is too low and does not match the sum of the state shares. Option C and option D are both far above what was actually distributed and correspond to no announcement made at the conference. Candidates should also note that the money was released so that states could begin work on the ground at once rather than wait for funds after the season had started.

The correct answer is West Bengal, which was sanctioned Rs 290 crore, the biggest single share of the more than Rs 1200 crore distributed under PM-RKVY. Punjab in option A stands at the other end of the list with Rs 43 crore, the smallest of the ten sanctions announced. Bihar in option B received Rs 114 crore, well behind West Bengal, and Haryana in option D came second with Rs 198 crore. The full list also covered Chhattisgarh with Rs 181 crore, Arunachal Pradesh with Rs 154 crore, Karnataka with Rs 104 crore, Mizoram with Rs 75 crore, Himachal Pradesh with Rs 64 crore and Jharkhand with Rs 58 crore. Learning the top three and the bottom of this list is enough for most objective papers, because examiners usually ask for the highest or the lowest recipient rather than the whole table.

The correct answer is 22 October to 30 November. The campaign was announced to protect soil health and the environment, and scientists together with other stakeholders are to take part in it. Working from Soil Health Cards, it promotes balanced use of fertiliser so that soil fertility and beneficial insects are not damaged, and it encourages pulse cultivation in the rice fallow fields of eastern India, especially Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal, once paddy has been harvested. Option B names a window that belongs to a different government cleanliness campaign, not to this one. Option C repeats the dates fixed for the rabi interface meetings at district and state level, which are a separate announcement from the same conference. Option D is not a period mentioned at all. Note the pairing carefully, since the same conference produced several date-based announcements.