How many Khadi design collections has the Centre of Excellence for Khadi at NIFT, Delhi developed?

The correct answer is about 80 per cent. The ministry said that women make up roughly four fifths of the approximately half a million Khadi artisans, and that their participation has been especially strong in agarbatti, handmade paper, the Honey Mission and the service industries, giving them a route to financial independence. Options A, B and C all understate the share and match no figure in the account. Candidates should not confuse this share with the separate finding of the evaluation study by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India at Ahmedabad, which reported that more than 75 per cent of artisans across the schemes saw a measurable increase in income after the interventions. One number describes who the artisans are, the other what happened to their earnings.

The correct answer is Chittadurga in Karnataka and Kuttur in Kerala. The ministry said the Central Sliver Plants of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission are being modernised and that these two have completed the work and become operational, with the Chittadurga plant meeting half of its energy requirement from solar power while wind power is under study. Option B mixes up two places that figure in the account for other reasons, since Ponduru is the Khadi variety that received a GI tag and Agra hosted the first BRICS MSME Forum. Options C and D name industrial towns that do not appear at all. The examination hook here is the link between the two plant locations, the solar share at Chittadurga and the commission that owns them.

The correct answer is the Open Network for Digital Commerce. The Ministry of Cooperation is examining a proposal for a common cooperative digital platform to market cooperative products and farm produce more effectively, and the Secretary informed participants that the Open Network for Digital Commerce had offered its support for the initiative. The Ministry intends to seek suggestions and guidance from the States before taking the design further, so that the mechanism actually connects cooperative institutions with wider markets. Option B, Government e Marketplace, is the public procurement platform through which government buyers purchase goods and services, a different purpose altogether. Option C, the National Payments Corporation of India, builds and runs retail payment systems. Option D, the Unique Identification Authority of India, issues Aadhaar. Only the first is an open digital commerce network of the kind a cooperative marketing platform would be built on.

The correct answer is financial assistance to institutions that are not cooperatives themselves but promote cooperative development. The Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperation explained that the recent amendment to the National Cooperative Development Corporation Act has paved the way for extending assistance to such bodies, which opens a direct route for various State-level institutions to draw funds from the Corporation, and he urged States to make effective use of the opening. Option A is wrong because the Corporation works through institutions rather than lending to individual farmers. Option C describes nothing in the amendment; the workshop instead discussed a model cooperative banking framework and better supervision of cooperative banks while keeping their autonomy. Option D is also incorrect, since the Ministry is coordinating with the Reserve Bank of India to strengthen the resource-raising capacity of cooperative banks, not transferring the Corporation to it.

The correct answer is NCEL, NCOL and BBSSL, that is National Cooperative Exports Limited, National Cooperative Organics Limited and Bharatiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited. The workshop gave special attention to building stronger value chains in exports, organic products and seeds through these three national cooperative institutions, and to empowering primary cooperative institutions through them. The mapping is easy to hold if each name is tied to its field, with exports going to the first, organics to the second and seeds to the third. Option C mixes two financing bodies with a fertiliser cooperative: NABARD took part in the workshop through its team and the National Cooperative Development Corporation had a dedicated session, but both deal with finance rather than these value chains. Options A and D name well-known cooperative and marketing organisations that were not the three bodies cited for this purpose.