How many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH between 2020-21 and 2023-24?
- A.96,162
- B.1,87,305
- C.2,76,470
- D.3,09,500
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Explanation
The correct answer is 1,87,305. That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24. Option A, 96,162, is the number actually placed in wage work or self-employment over the same period, so it is the placement figure rather than the training figure, and the two are routinely swapped in question papers. Options C and D, 2,76,470 and 3,09,500, are shaped to look like the money figures of the scheme rather than head counts, and neither is a count of trainees. Reading the pair together is the useful habit here: a little over half of those trained were placed, while an empanelled institute was separately required to place at least 70 per cent of its own batch or forfeit the third instalment of its payment.
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Practice Questions
PM-DAKSH, now subsumed under PMKVY, was a scheme of which ministry?
- A.Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- B.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- C.Ministry of Rural Development
- D.Ministry of Labour and Employment
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PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.
Read the full explanation →Under PM-DAKSH, what minimum share of trained candidates had an institute to place, failing which its third instalment was forfeited?
- A.50 per cent
- B.60 per cent
- C.70 per cent
- D.80 per cent
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After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.
Read the full explanation →Why was PM-DAKSH subsumed under PMKVY from 2024-25?
- A.Its allotted funds had been exhausted
- B.Its job roles, drawn from the Skill India Digital Hub, duplicated those of PMKVY
- C.The three implementing corporations were wound up
- D.Its target groups were transferred to state governments
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PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed.
Read the full explanation →Under which theme did ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, observe Swachh Bharat Diwas during the campaign?
- A.Swachhata Hi Seva
- B.Swachhta Mein Sahbhag - Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat
- C.Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam
- D.Waste to Wealth, Waste to Art
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ICAR-IARI in New Delhi observed Swachh Bharat Diwas on 2 October 2026 on this theme, with a series of cleanliness activities across the institute and a call for sustained participation in keeping the campus clean and healthy.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of ICAR, who addressed the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme at ICAR-IARI?
- A.Dr. Mangi Lal Jat
- B.Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- C.Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra
- D.Pralhad Joshi
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Speaking at the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme of ICAR-IARI in New Delhi, he appreciated the cleanliness drive, asked for Swachhata to be treated as a year-round and team-based activity, and said a better workplace environment supports the well-being of employees as well as the advancement of science.
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