Who heads the National Executive Committee of the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana?

The correct answer is 100. The scheme works in 100 Aspirational Agricultural Districts, and these were identified using three indicators: low productivity, low cropping intensity and low disbursement of agricultural credit. The share of net cropped area and of operational holdings in each State and Union Territory was also taken into account, and the design ensures that every State has at least one district in the list. All 100 districts have prepared District Action Plans, all of them submitted output indicator data up to August 2026, and all submitted outcome indicator data for 2025-26. Option A, 75, option C, 150, and option D, 250, do not match the number of districts named for the scheme. Candidates should also recall that progress across these districts is ranked every month on the PM-DDKY dashboard, and that the average score across the six objectives improved from 18.85 in April 2026 to 46.89 in August 2026.

The correct answer is 46.89. The average score of the 100 districts across the six objectives of the scheme stood at 18.85 in April 2026 and reached 46.89 in August 2026, which is an improvement of 28.04 points over those months. Option A, 18.85, is the April 2026 figure and not the August one, so it tests whether a candidate has read the direction of the change. Option B, 28.04, is the size of the improvement rather than the score itself, a classic trap in data questions. Option D does not appear in the review at all. The objective-wise gains over the same period are worth noting as well: productivity moved from 1.50 to 8.08, crop diversification from 4.08 to 10.18, post-harvest storage from 2.14 to 5.19, irrigation from 1.38 to 4.91, credit access from 2.40 to 6.53, and governance and service delivery from 7.41 to 12.05.

The correct answer is low productivity, low cropping intensity and low agricultural credit disbursement. These three measures were used to pick the districts, after which the share of net cropped area and of operational holdings in each State and Union Territory was also considered so that the spread remained fair, with at least one district per State. Option B names rainfall, soil quality and farm size, which are familiar agricultural variables but not the selection criteria here. Option C lists general development indicators of the kind used for other aspirational programmes, not for this scheme. Option D names market and trade measures that the scheme seeks to improve rather than measures used for selection. Candidates should link the criteria to the scheme design: because the chosen districts were weak in yield, cropping intensity and credit, the plans converge 36 Central schemes of 11 Ministries and Departments to close exactly those gaps.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Both MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme function under this ministry, and the Yuva Sanwad Mela of 9 October 2026 was organised through them across 15 NSS Regional Directorates. Option A, the Ministry of Education, is a reasonable guess because the activities were held in educational institutions, but the NSS is administered by the youth affairs ministry. Option B is tempting because the theme of the month concerned health and the subject was substance abuse, yet the campaign is a youth-led awareness drive rather than a health department programme. Option D handles social welfare subjects including de-addiction work in other schemes, but not this campaign. Remember the chain for the exam: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, then MY Bharat and NSS, then the Nasha Mukt Yuva Abhiyan and its 100-Week Sankalp Abhiyan.

The correct answer is ‘My Health, My Pride’. The first month of the 100-Week Sankalp Abhiyan ran under this theme and concluded with the nationwide Yuva Sanwad Mela on 9 October 2026, organised by MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Option A is the theme of Month 2, which will focus on physical fitness and sports and encourage young people to treat regular activity as part of preventing substance abuse; mixing up the two months is the commonest mistake in questions of this kind, so the order matters. Options C and D are plausible-sounding slogans but neither has been used for these months of the campaign. The month’s work was built on three components: youth dialogue, awareness stalls and cultural performances such as street plays and musical presentations.