Saubhagya, a Government of India Scheme, relates to which of the following areas?
- A.Achieving universal household electrification
- B.Providing clean cooking fuel to poor households
- C.Rationalizing subsidies on LPG
- D.Stopping female foeticide
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Achieving universal household electrification. Saubhagya, the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, was launched in 2017 to give an electricity connection to every household in India.
The scheme was run by the Ministry of Power through the Rural Electrification Corporation. It gave free connections to poor households identified in the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 and connections on easy instalments to others, in both villages and towns. Where the grid could not reach, households received solar power packs with lights and a fan. It built on the earlier Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, which had taken the grid to every village.
B is wrong because clean cooking fuel for poor households is the aim of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana of 2016, which gives LPG connections. C is wrong because LPG subsidy reform is the work of PAHAL, the direct benefit transfer of LPG subsidy. D is wrong because stopping female foeticide is addressed by Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and the PC-PNDT Act.
Exam tip: Saubhagya means a power connection for every home; Ujjwala means an LPG connection.
Practice Questions
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- A.Decrease in inflation
- B.Strengthening of the rupee
- C.Higher input costs and inflation pressure
- D.Increase in exports
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- A.1 and 2 only
- B.2 and 3 only
- C.1 and 3 only
- D.1,2 and 3
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All three statements about the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme are correct.
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- A.2 only
- B.2 and 3
- C.1,3 and 4
- D.2 and 4
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All details are right only in rows 2 and 4. The L.C.
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- A.Central Statistics Office
- B.Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
- C.Labour Bureau
- D.National Technical Manpower Information System
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- A.bringing the small entrepreneurs into formal financial system
- B.providing loans to poor farmers for cultivating particular crops
- C.providing pensions to old and destitute persons
- D.funding the voluntary organizations involved in the promotion of skill development and employment generation
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