What is the name of the sixteen-foot signature installation at the National SARAS Mela 2026?

The correct answer is Vijayawada. The Ministry of Rural Development is holding the fair at Punnami Ghat in that city, working with the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty of Andhra Pradesh, and this is the first time the National SARAS Mela has been staged outside Delhi and the National Capital Region. The fair runs through the second half of October and draws more than fifteen hundred women from self-help groups across more than thirty states and union territories. Option A, Visakhapatnam, and option D, Tirupati, are cities of Andhra Pradesh but are not the venue. Option C, Hyderabad, is in Telangana and is also incorrect. Aspirants should remember the city, the exact venue and the fact that this edition marks a first for the fair.

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.

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.

The correct answer is promoting soil health through balanced use of fertilisers. The campaign is to be organised across all states from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the minister asked state governments and the authorities concerned to take part actively so that it reaches farmers. The stated purpose is the balanced and judicious use of fertilisers, together with sustainable farming practices that keep soil fertile, protect the environment and conserve natural resources for later generations. Option B is wrong because no export target of that kind was set out at the event; the emphasis was on outcomes in the districts rather than on trade. Option C describes a power-sector benefit and does not belong to this campaign. Option D is wrong because the scheme works through existing institutions, including Krishi Vigyan Kendra scientists and district administrations, instead of creating new universities.

The correct answer is 100. The scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit. Because the districts are chosen on need rather than on population or area, the number is fixed, and the stated ambition is to make every one of these hundred districts truly rich in grain and in prosperity. Options A, C and D are plausible-looking round numbers of the kind used in other central programmes, but none of them is the figure for this scheme. What makes the coverage distinctive is the method rather than the count: each district writes its own action plan around its soil, rainfall, cropping pattern, water availability and infrastructure, a District Dhan-Dhaanya Samiti coordinates the work, and 36 central schemes of 11 ministries and departments are converged with state schemes in that single plan.