What is the total outlay of the Khelo India Sports Goods Manufacturing Scheme approved by the Union Cabinet?
- A.Rs 1,130 crore
- B.Rs 1,500 crore
- C.Rs 1,856.67 crore
- D.Rs 2,500 crore
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Explanation
The correct answer is Rs 1,856.67 crore. The Cabinet decision fixes this amount as the total outlay of the scheme and sets its life from the year 2026 to the financial year 2033-34. Option A names Rs 1,130 crore, which is a real figure in the same decision but a smaller one: it is the combined provision for only two components, Anchor Investment Support and Turnover Linked Support, and not the whole scheme. Option B and option D are not part of the approval at all, and an aspirant who picks either has confused the sports goods scheme with some other manufacturing package. The safest way to hold the number is to keep the pair together: the scheme as a whole carries Rs 1,856.67 crore, of which the investment support components account for Rs 1,130 crore, while a much smaller window of Rs 105 crore goes to international certification of products.
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Practice Questions
The Sports Goods Manufacturing Zones under the new scheme will be developed by convergence with which of the following?
- A.The BHAVYA Scheme and NICDC Industrial Parks
- B.The PM Gati Shakti corridors only
- C.Special Economic Zones alone
- D.Khelo India stadium projects
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The scheme avoids building industrial land afresh and instead plugs the proposed Sports Goods Manufacturing Zones into infrastructure that these two already provide, so that makers, suppliers, testing facilities, design and prototyping centres and ancillary enterprises can sit in one place.
Read the full explanation →Which budget announced the Khelo India Sports Goods Manufacturing Scheme?
- A.Union Budget 2023-24
- B.Union Budget 2024-25
- C.Union Budget 2025-26
- D.Union Budget 2026-27
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The announcement came in that budget and the Cabinet approval that followed gave the scheme its outlay, its components and its life span, which runs from 2026 to the financial year 2033-34.
Read the full explanation →Under the scheme, support for obtaining and renewing certification from International Sports Federations carries an outlay of:
- A.Rs 55 crore
- B.Rs 105 crore
- C.Rs 250 crore
- D.Rs 410 crore
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The scheme treats international quality and performance standards as the gate through which Indian equipment reaches foreign buyers, so it sets aside this amount to help manufacturers secure certification from International Sports Federations and to renew it when it lapses.
Read the full explanation →On which portal does PM VGSY support the annual preparation of holistic Gram Panchayat Development Plans?
- A.eGramSwaraj
- B.AuditOnline
- C.PANCHAM
- D.PRAGATI
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The scheme supports the preparation of about 2.55 lakh holistic Gram Panchayat Development Plans every year on that portal, bringing village priorities, departmental interventions and available resources onto one platform for participatory planning.
Read the full explanation →In how many Indian languages is the PANCHAM communication platform available?
- A.11
- B.13
- C.17
- D.22
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PANCHAM is described in the Cabinet decision as an artificial-intelligence enabled, multilingual, two-way communication platform working in seventeen Indian languages, and the scheme will use it to explain central programmes to villagers in language they actually speak.
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