Why was PM-DAKSH subsumed under PMKVY from 2024-25?
- A.Its allotted funds had been exhausted
- B.Its job roles, drawn from the Skill India Digital Hub, duplicated those of PMKVY
- C.The three implementing corporations were wound up
- D.Its target groups were transferred to state governments
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Explanation
The correct answer is that its job roles duplicated those of PMKVY. PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed. Running two schemes over the same ground served no purpose, so the scheme was merged. Option A is wrong, and the figures show why: spending exceeded the allotment rather than falling short of it. Option C is wrong because NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC continue as corporations of the department, lending to and hand-holding eligible youth. Option D invents a transfer of the target groups that never happened; the beneficiaries of the scheme were Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, the Economically Weaker Sections, De-notified Tribes and Safai Karamcharis.
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Practice Questions
PM-DAKSH, now subsumed under PMKVY, was a scheme of which ministry?
- A.Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- B.Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- C.Ministry of Rural Development
- D.Ministry of Labour and Employment
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PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.
Read the full explanation →How many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH between 2020-21 and 2023-24?
- A.96,162
- B.1,87,305
- C.2,76,470
- D.3,09,500
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That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.
Read the full explanation →Under PM-DAKSH, what minimum share of trained candidates had an institute to place, failing which its third instalment was forfeited?
- A.50 per cent
- B.60 per cent
- C.70 per cent
- D.80 per cent
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After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.
Read the full explanation →The renamed social assistance programme gives effect to which Article of the Constitution?
- A.Article 21
- B.Article 39
- C.Article 41
- D.Article 47
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The programme, launched on 15 August 1995 and now renamed the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, gives effect to Article 41, which directs the State to provide public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.
Read the full explanation →Under the revised disability pension, what benchmark of disability now decides eligibility?
- A.40 per cent, under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016
- B.80 per cent, under the National Trust Act 1999
- C.50 per cent, under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016
- D.60 per cent, under the National Trust Act 1999
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Section 2(r) of that Act defines a person with benchmark disability as one with not less than 40 per cent of a specified disability, as certified by the certifying authority, and the Cabinet decision of 14 October 2026 brings the pension on to that measure.
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