How many rural youth are the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes expected to train in the current year?
- A.3.35 lakh
- B.4.50 lakh
- C.6.35 lakh
- D.8.75 lakh
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Explanation
The correct answer is 6.35 lakh. This is the training target given to the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes for the current year, and it is larger than the target that had been fixed for the previous year, 2025-26. The target is not meant for rural youth in general alone: it specifically takes in women, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, which is why the agreement with the National Academy of RUDSETI stresses uniform standards and quality administration across the institutes. Options A, B and D give figures that were not set as the target for the year. Aspirants should hold the number together with the date of the agreement, 12 October 2026, and with the ministry that owns the institutes, the Ministry of Rural Development.
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Practice Questions
With which body did the Ministry of Rural Development exchange an MoU in October 2026 to strengthen the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes?
- A.National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
- B.National Academy of RUDSETI
- C.National Skill Development Corporation
- D.National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
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The correct answer is the National Academy of RUDSETI, written in short as NAR. The agreement signed on 12 October 2026 covers uniform training standards, quality administration and systematic capacity building at the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes, and extends to the settlement of trained candidates, their credit linkage and the monitoring of both. The document was exchanged between the Joint Secretary for Rural Skills in the Department of Rural Development and the Director General of the academy. Options A, C and D name bodies that were not party to this agreement. The institutes will now register candidates through Kaushal Panjee, verify attendance by Aadhaar-based face authentication under AEBAS, run courses aligned to the National Skills Qualifications Framework, and certify trainees and trainers through the ministry’s Unified Portal while following the notified Common Norms.
Under the new agreement, candidates for RSETI training will be registered through which platform?
- A.Kaushal Panjee
- B.Udyam Panjee
- C.Skill Setu
- D.Gram Kaushal Portal
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Explanation
The correct answer is Kaushal Panjee. A key aim of the partnership is better candidate registration through this platform, together with Aadhaar-based face authentication under the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System, so that enrolment and attendance at the institutes are both verifiable. Alongside this digital layer, the agreement brings in new-age courses aligned to the National Skills Qualifications Framework, training aids and equipment benchmarked against industry, and the core Entrepreneurship Development Programme courses notified by the Ministry of Rural Development. Training of Trainers is to be strengthened, and both trainees and trainers are to be assessed and certified through the ministry’s Unified Portal in line with the notified Common Norms. Options B, C and D name platforms that do not figure in this arrangement for registering rural candidates.
What is the name of the sixteen-foot signature installation at the National SARAS Mela 2026?
- A.SHAKTI - The Spirit of Lakhpati Didi
- B.SARAS - The Pride of Rural India
- C.NARI - The Strength of Bharat
- D.AAJEEVIKA - The Path to Prosperity
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The correct answer is SHAKTI - The Spirit of Lakhpati Didi. Standing sixteen feet tall at the fair, the installation is meant to represent the collective strength of the women who keep traditional craftsmanship alive while turning their skills into livelihoods and independence. The fair also has four pavilions: the Lakhpati Didi Pavilion on the journey from skills to enterprise, the Knowledge Pavilion on branding, marketing, packaging and business development, the Convergence Pavilion linking women to government departments, and the Demo Pavilion with live craft demonstrations. Options B, C and D give invented names that do not appear in connection with the fair. Aspirants should link the installation's name with its height and with the Lakhpati Didi theme running through the event.
The National SARAS Mela is aligned with which mission of the Ministry of Rural Development?
- A.Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission
- B.Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin
- C.Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
- D.Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
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The correct answer is the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission, shortened to DAY-NRLM. The fair is held in line with that mission and with the declared goal of creating six crore Lakhpati Didis, and it works alongside the SARAS Aajeevika Gallery and the eSARAS digital platform to connect self-help group products to wider markets. Option B names the rural housing scheme, option C a rural skill development scheme and option D the rural employment guarantee law; all three are rural programmes, but none of them is the mission the fair is aligned with. Candidates should remember the full expansion of DAY-NRLM, the Lakhpati Didi target and the target year together, since questions often combine the scheme with its numerical goal.
Who will inaugurate the National SARAS Mela 2026 at Vijayawada?
- A.The Prime Minister
- B.The President of India
- C.The Vice-President
- D.The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
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The correct answer is the President of India. Droupadi Murmu, who holds that office, will inaugurate the fair on the fifteenth of October. The ceremony is to be attended by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, S. Abdul Nazeer, the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Deputy Chief Minister, Konidela Pawan Kalyan, and the Union Minister for Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Rural Development, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, along with other Union and state ministers. Option A and option C name the Prime Minister and the Vice-President, neither of whom is listed as inaugurating the fair. Option D names the Chief Minister, who will attend the ceremony but is not the one opening it. The distinction between attending and inaugurating is worth care in such questions.