Which portal is used for redressal of central government pension grievances under Special Campaign 3?

The correct answer is 2,306. The release states that the coordinated efforts of forty ministries and departments culminated in the successful resolution of this many cases, and that the redressal rate works out to seventy-two per cent. Every wrong option here is a genuine figure from the same release, which is what makes this question a good test of careful reading. Option A is the count of target cases identified by ministries and departments during the preparatory phase. Option B is the count of grievance cases that had been pending on the CPENGRAMS portal for more than one month and were taken up in the same phase. Option D is the total number of cases taken up, and the correct answer is the part of that total which was actually resolved. The cleanest way to hold this is as a fraction with a percentage attached: cases resolved out of cases taken up, giving seventy-two per cent. Active follow-up continues on the rest.

The correct answer is 7 July 2026 to 31 August 2026. The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare started Special Campaign 3 on the earlier of those dates, for the timely and qualitative redressal of long-pending pension grievances, claims and issues, and the campaign concluded on the later one. It had a preparatory phase, in which pending cases were identified, and an execution phase, in which the department coordinated with ministries and held two mid-campaign review meetings. Option A and option C offer neat round periods of the kind that campaigns often use, which is why they feel plausible to a student recalling only the season. Option D stretches the start back to the beginning of the financial year while keeping the correct end date, and is the trap for anyone who remembers only one of the two dates. Note that annual campaigns of this kind have been organised since 2024, and this was the third edition.

The correct answer is 1 per cent. The Plan uses NABARD's special refinance facility to lighten the burden on participating cooperatives, and when that is combined with the 3 per cent interest subvention available under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, the effective loan interest rate for a PACS comes down to 1 per cent. Option B is the strongest distractor, since 3 per cent is the subvention itself rather than the rate the society finally pays. Options C and D do not appear in the document. Two related financial measures are worth remembering with this: the subsidy under the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure scheme was raised from 25 per cent to 33.33 per cent, and the margin money requirement was reduced to 10 per cent, while cost norms for godown construction were revised. Together these steps were taken to improve the viability of storage projects and draw more societies in.

The correct answer is 313. The backgrounder reports that as of July 2026 godown construction had been completed in that many PACS across the country, creating more than 1.80 lakh metric tonnes of storage capacity. Option D is the trap most candidates fall into, because 1012 is also a July 2026 figure, but it counts the PACS or cooperative societies identified under the Plan, not those where construction was finished. Option A belongs to the pilot phase, in which godowns were completed in 11 PACS across 11 states with 9,750 MT of capacity, the pilot being rolled out on 31 May 2023. Option C is invented. The distinction between identified and completed is exactly the sort of thing an examiner tests, so keep the three figures in order: 11 in the pilot, 1012 identified, 313 completed.

The correct answer is the National Cooperative Development Corporation. The backgrounder names it as the implementing agency, supported by coordination at the national, state and district levels through an Inter-Ministerial Committee, a National Level Coordination Committee, and State and District Cooperative Development Committees. The other three options all appear in the same document with different roles, which is what makes them good distractors. The Food Corporation of India has been authorised to provide assured hiring of eligible godowns created under the Plan. NABARD is the subsidy-channelizing agency under the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure scheme and provides a special refinance facility. The Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority supplies the norms that storage structures must comply with. Candidates should learn the role attached to each name, since questions are set both ways round.