Which three bodies are named as supporting the National SARAS Mela 2026 along with the Andhra Pradesh government?
- A.SIDBI, NIFT and Khadi and Village Industries Commission
- B.NABARD, NIRDPR and Kudumbashree
- C.NITI Aayog, NSDC and SEWA
- D.RBI, NABARD and TRIFED
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Explanation
The correct answer is NABARD, NIRDPR and Kudumbashree. The Mela is an initiative of the Ministry of Rural Development in collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, with these three lending support. The combination is a telling one: NABARD brings rural credit, the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj brings training and research, and Kudumbashree, Kerala's long-running women's poverty eradication mission, brings experience of running community enterprises at scale. Option A names a development bank, a design institute and the khadi commission, none of which is credited here. Option C names a policy think tank, a skilling corporation and a trade union of self-employed women, again not the partners of this edition. Option D is wrong because the central bank and the tribal marketing federation are not listed, though NABARD within that option is correct. Candidates should learn the trio together with the organising ministry.
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Practice Questions
The first National SARAS Mela to be held outside Delhi-NCR is taking place at which venue?
- A.Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
- B.Punnami Ghat, Vijayawada
- C.Marina Beach, Chennai
- D.Sabarmati Riverfront, Ahmedabad
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The Ministry of Rural Development is holding the Mela there with the State government and with support from NABARD, NIRDPR and Kudumbashree, and this is the first National SARAS Mela to move out of Delhi-NCR.
Read the full explanation →Who is defined as a Lakhpati Didi?
- A.A woman who has taken a bank loan of at least Rs 1 lakh
- B.A woman of an SHG household with a sustainable annual household income of at least Rs 1 lakh
- C.A woman who has saved Rs 1 lakh in a self-help group account
- D.A woman whose enterprise has an annual turnover above Rs 1 crore
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The test is household income that lasts, not a single windfall, and the Prime Minister's stated goal is six crore such women by 2029, reached through the skills, credit and market access that the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission provides.
Read the full explanation →What do the 3Cs of the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative stand for?
- A.Community, CSR and Cost
- B.Catchment, Conservation and Convergence
- C.Citizen, Credit and Capacity
- D.Canal, Check dam and Culvert
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Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari 1.0, which ran from 1 April 2024 to 31 May 2025, followed these three principles while strengthening public participation in water conservation, and it also mobilised convergence with running government schemes to speed the work up.
Read the full explanation →Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain was launched on 22 March 2021, which is observed as which day?
- A.World Environment Day
- B.World Water Day
- C.World Wetlands Day
- D.World Earth Day
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Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain was launched on 22 March 2021, which falls on World Water Day, and its guiding slogan was 'Catch the Rain, Where It Falls, When It Falls'.
Read the full explanation →How many artificial recharge and storage structures have been constructed under the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative?
- A.Over 55 lakh
- B.Over 1.55 crore
- C.Over 2.43 crore
- D.Over 3.55 crore
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That is the total number of artificial recharge and storage structures built under the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative taken as a whole.
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