PSS Buying of Rs 5,547.99 Crore Cleared for Kharif 2026-27

The correct answer is Rs 5,547.99 crore. This is the full amount sanctioned for buying pulses and oilseeds at minimum support price in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana together for the kharif marketing season of 2026-27. Option A, Rs 3,992.57 crore, is only the share set aside for Uttar Pradesh; it is the largest of the three state shares, which makes it a tempting but partial answer. Option D, Rs 1,107 crore, is likewise only the Karnataka share, covering soybean, moong and sunflower in that state. Option C is simply a higher figure with no basis in the approval. Adding the three state shares of Rs 3,992.57 crore, Rs 1,107 crore and Rs 448.42 crore gives the sanctioned total, so only option B names the whole approval rather than a part of it.

The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh. It was allotted Rs 3,992.57 crore of the sanction, the largest of the three state shares, almost all of it for tur: 4,66,000 metric tonnes worth Rs 3,937.70 crore, along with 6,250 metric tonnes of moong worth Rs 54.87 crore. Option A, Karnataka, stands second with Rs 1,107 crore, spread across soybean, moong and sunflower, so it is covered by the approval but is not the largest. Option B, Telangana, is third with Rs 448.42 crore for soybean and moong. Option D, Madhya Pradesh, is a large producer of pulses and oilseeds and therefore a plausible guess, but it is not among the three states named in this particular sanction. Only Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana are covered.

The correct answer is paddy. The sanction covers pulses and oilseeds only, and paddy is a cereal bought through a separate central pool arrangement rather than through the Price Support Scheme. Option A, tur or arhar, is very much covered: the single biggest item in the approval is tur in Uttar Pradesh. Option D, soybean, is covered twice over, in Karnataka and again in Telangana, and is the main oilseed in the sanction. Option B, sunflower, is covered in Karnataka alone, the smallest of the three Karnataka items. Moong is the fourth crop named and appears in all three states. So the odd one out is paddy, which is not part of this pulses-and-oilseeds approval at all, and a candidate who remembers that the scheme handles pulses, oilseeds and copra can rule it out at once.