By which date must States and Union Territories allot targets to Project Implementation Agencies so that DDU-GKY 2.0 training can commence?

The correct answer is about 70,000. The Ministry of Rural Development has said that roughly that many rural young people, organised into 2,015 batches across 24 States and Union Territories, are expected to start their training in the opening month of the rollout. Option A is simply a smaller figure with nothing in the announcement to support it. Option D confuses two different numbers: the larger figure refers to the targets that 24 States and Union Territories have already allotted to Project Implementation Agencies over more than 1,200 projects, which is a target for allocation and not the count of trainees walking into a classroom in the first month. Option C is likewise unsupported by anything in the ministry's statement. The distinction between a target allotted on paper and a batch actually commencing is exactly the sort of fine point that examiners like to test, so keep the trainee figure, the batch count and the number of States and Union Territories together in memory as one set.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Rural Development. The announcement on the rollout of DDU-GKY 2.0 came from that ministry, which is also the body pressing States and Union Territories to allot targets to their implementing agencies and holding review meetings with them in phases. DDU-GKY is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme offering placement-linked skill training to poor rural youth, and its rural focus is the reason it sits with the rural development ministry rather than elsewhere. Option A is a plausible distractor because skilling is that ministry's broad remit, but this particular scheme is not run by it. Option B is wrong because employment policy and labour welfare, not the delivery of this training programme, fall to that ministry. Option D is wrong because school and higher education are outside the scope of a placement-linked vocational scheme of this kind. Candidates should also note the course length of 3 months to 12 months and the requirement that courses be aligned with the National Skill Qualification Framework.

The correct answer is 7,620 rupees, at 1,270 rupees a month for six months. The support is deliberately paid month by month over the same six months that now make up the minimum placement period, so that the money helps a candidate stay in a new job and a new city rather than arriving as one lump sum. Option A is wrong because the assistance is not a single grant on joining. Option C invents both the total and the monthly rate. Option D is wrong because post-placement support is one of the features that the upgraded framework strengthened: besides the monthly assistance, a candidate who remains employed for 365 days, with an employment break of no more than 60 days, receives a retention amount of 5,000 rupees, and upskilling opportunities follow twelve months of placement.

The correct answer is 25 September 2014, under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. The Ministry of Rural Development started the scheme on that date to give placement-linked skill training to youth of 15 to 35 years from poor rural households, and the scheme is marking its twelfth anniversary this year. Option B moves the launch a year later and attaches the scheme to a different skilling programme, which the ministry does not name as its parent. Option C picks a date associated with cleanliness and rural employment programmes rather than with this scheme, and MGNREGA is a wage employment law, not the mission under which rural skilling sits. Option D names neither the right date nor the right parent mission. The pairing to remember is DDU-GKY with the National Rural Livelihoods Mission, also written as DAY-NRLM.

The correct answer is six months. Under the earlier design of the scheme a placement counted only when the trained candidate held continuous employment for at least three months, so option A states the old rule and not the present one. The upgraded guidelines that the Government notified in May 2025 doubled that floor, so that training is judged by work that lasts rather than by a short spell of employment, and the revised rules recognise continuous as well as non-continuous employment, including wage work, self-employment and gig work. Option C names a period the guidelines do not use at any stage. Option D is the period for which a placed candidate is tracked after joining, and also the point at which upskilling and reskilling opportunities open up, but tracking is not the same thing as the placement test itself, so it does not answer the question.