As reported at the review meeting, what was India's pulses production in 2025-26?

The correct answer is more than 10.77 crore. The agriculture ministry's first comprehensive monthly review was told that unique digital Farmer IDs have so far been made for that many farmers under the Digital Agriculture Mission. Option A is wrong because that figure does not match the progress reported at the meeting. Option C is wrong because 14 crore farmers is the national target for digital integration and not the number of identities already created; progress is measured against that target. Option D is wrong because that is the number of fields covered by the digital crop survey in the current kharif season, a different measure altogether. The importance of the Farmer ID is that subsidy, Kisan Credit Card loans, procurement at minimum support price, crop insurance and disaster relief reach a farmer's bank account directly through it, cutting out paperwork and intermediaries.

The correct answer is Khet Bachao Abhiyan. At the review meeting the Union Agriculture Minister said this intensive campaign will begin across the country on the 22nd of this month to save farmland from declining soil health, poor stubble and residue management and the unbalanced use of chemical fertilisers. Option B is wrong because the Makhana Development Mission is a separate programme that works on better prices for makhana growers. Option C is wrong because the National Natural Farming Mission is an existing mission under which 27.32 lakh farmers and 12.85 lakh hectares have been covered so far. Option D is wrong because the digital crop survey is a process for collecting accurate crop data and not an awareness campaign. Under the campaign, agricultural scientists and field staff will go to the fields to teach soil testing and balanced nutrient management.

The correct answer is the NSFDC Electric Auto-Rickshaw Subsidy Scheme, 2024. A resident of Junardev in Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh, was selected under it and received financial assistance of Rs 1,85,000, which let him acquire an auto-rickshaw and earn a living where he had no steady income before. The scheme is run by the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, which offers credit-linked subsidy support for self-employment. Option A funds mechanised sanitation equipment and option B pays for doctoral research, both named in the same set of beneficiary accounts but for different purposes. Option D is a separate national credit scheme not involved here. Candidates should tie each amount to its scheme, since all three cases were issued on the same day.

The correct answer is fellowship, house rent allowance and contingency. These are the three components named in the beneficiary account of a scholar from Faridabad in Haryana whose assistance began in September 2019 and came to about Rs 18 lakh, funding her doctorate. She afterwards joined a project at the CSIR-National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi at Rs 43,000 a month for a year. The National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste exists to pay for doctoral research by Scheduled Caste scholars, which is why its heads cover living costs rather than school-level expenses. Options B, C and D list components that belong to other kinds of scholarship or are simply invented, so a candidate who remembers only the word fellowship could be led astray by them.

The correct answer is the purchase of mechanised sanitation equipment for self-employment. The case released by the ministry shows how it works: a two-member group project under the scheme financed a tractor-mounted Open Nallah Cleaner at a total cost of Rs 16,99,952, with a loan of Rs 10,24,964 and a capital subsidy of Rs 6,74,988. The beneficiary, who had picked waste for about twelve years in Guntur, moved to an organised livelihood with the machine and saw her monthly income rise from about Rs 8,000 to around Rs 18,000. Option C belongs to a different sanitation programme altogether, while options A and D describe kinds of support not covered by this scheme. The structure to remember is a loan plus a capital subsidy for equipment ownership.