Under which initiative did Ruthu of Ippatam village receive short-term training in mushroom production?
- A.Skill Training for Rural Youth
- B.Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
- C.Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
- D.Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
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Explanation
The correct answer is Skill Training for Rural Youth, usually shortened to STRY. Ruthu of Ippatam village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, was a waste picker at the age of 20 when she joined a short course under this initiative at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Guntur. The training covered composting, spawning, casing, pinning, cropping and harvesting, and was run with the State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute of Andhra Pradesh and the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management at Hyderabad. She took up milky mushrooms, reached a daily output of about 8 kg and a monthly income of roughly Rs 35,000, and drew three or four neighbours into the same work. The other three options name schemes that do not figure in this account of her training at all.
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Practice Questions
Which village in Nalanda district of Bihar was declared a Mushroom Village by the State Agriculture Department?
- A.Anantpur
- B.Harnaut
- C.Madhopur
- D.Ippatam
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Mushroom growing in that village began with Anita Devi, who took guidance from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Harnaut block in 2010 and raised oyster and milky white mushrooms on farm waste.
Read the full explanation →Anita Devi set up her spawn production laboratory with a subsidy from which mission?
- A.National Horticulture Mission
- B.National Food Security Mission
- C.National Livestock Mission
- D.National Bamboo Mission
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Good quality spawn had become the binding constraint as mushroom growing spread from Anantpur to the villages around it, so the laboratory addressed a critical input rather than production itself.
Read the full explanation →The Scheduled Caste scholar from Tamil Nadu described in the Ministry's account is pursuing his doctorate at which university?
- A.Tampere University, Finland
- B.Uppsala University, Sweden
- C.Aarhus University, Denmark
- D.University of Oslo, Norway
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He comes from Tamil Nadu, completed an M.Tech before taking up doctoral work, and his research is in experimental cancer biology, covering animal model development, molecular signalling and therapeutic approaches to glioblastoma and other disorders related to brain cancer.
Read the full explanation →On being upgraded from Junior Research Fellow to Senior Research Fellow in 2024, approximately how much additional government assistance did the beneficiary receive?
- A.Rs 25,000
- B.Rs 50,000
- C.Rs 75,000
- D.Rs 1,00,000
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That upgradation is the point at which support under the fellowship rises, and the extra amount strengthened his financial position so that he could carry on with his academic work.
Read the full explanation →Which Union Ministry administers the National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students?
- A.Ministry of Education
- B.Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- C.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- D.Ministry of Science and Technology
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The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs this fellowship and which published both the accounts of supported scholars.
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