The 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah will be launched from which city?

The correct answer is Hamari Anganwadi Hamari Jimmedari. This is the central theme of the nutrition month that begins on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh centre in Varanasi, and it calls upon every citizen to take shared ownership of the Anganwadi centre, described as part of the largest childcare network in the world. Option A is a slogan long associated with nutrition campaigns in the country and is therefore the most attractive distractor, but it is not the theme of this edition. Option C names the approach that links nutrition with early learning at Anganwadi centres; cognitive development is indeed one of the five priorities of this edition, yet it is a priority and not the theme. Option D is a general phrase of the kind used in government messaging and does not appear as the theme here. In the examination hall, tie the edition number, the year and the theme together, because the question is usually set on that pairing.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Mission Poshan 2.0 is the unified national nutrition mission of the country, brought together in the Union Budget of 2021-22 under that ministry, and it merges POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi Services or the Integrated Child Development Services, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls into one framework. Option A is a natural guess because malnutrition is a public health problem, and the health ministry does run nutrition related health services, but the mission itself sits elsewhere. Option B is wrong because rural development handles livelihoods and rural infrastructure rather than this mission. Option D is wrong although the link between nutrition and early learning is stressed in this edition, since school education is not the anchor of Poshan 2.0. Also remember the starting point of the whole effort: POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched in March 2018 as a multi-ministerial convergence mission.

The correct answer is more than Rs 21,000 crore to over 4.65 crore mothers, paid through direct benefit transfer. The Union Minister announced the figure while noting that the scheme has completed ten years of implementation, and a film marking the decade was screened at the launch in Varanasi. Options A, C and D move both numbers up or down in step, which is how such questions are usually built, because a candidate who remembers only the rough scale cannot separate them. Anchor the pair by remembering that the rupee figure in thousands of crore is roughly four to five times the number of crore of beneficiaries. Two more figures from the same speech are worth carrying with it: more than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres are working, and 2 lakh of them are being upgraded into Saksham Anganwadis, of which about 24,000 have been approved in Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari, which places the responsibility for the Anganwadi Centre on the community itself. The month-long campaign built around it asks households to work on dietary diversity, adequate protein intake and fresh hot cooked meals, along with sanitation and early childhood development. Option B borrows two real slogans of the nutrition effort, since a well nourished and capable India is the stated goal, and that makes it the closest wrong answer. Option C names a real component of the wider Poshan programme that links nutrition with early learning at Anganwadi Centres, so it is easy to mistake for the theme. Option D is a familiar nutrition slogan from earlier campaigns. For the examination, always pair the edition number, the year and the theme of Poshan Maah, because a question usually supplies two of the three and asks for the last.

The correct answer is Varanasi, where the Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the campaign at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, the Minister of State in that ministry and the state minister for women welfare were all present. Option A, New Delhi, is the natural guess for any national campaign launch and therefore the strongest distractor. Option B, Lucknow, is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, so a candidate who correctly recalls the state but not the city will choose it. Option D, Prayagraj, is another well known city of the same state. The safest anchor is the venue itself, the Rudraksh centre, which is in Varanasi, and questions on this campaign very often ask for the venue together with the theme.