The journey of the First Phase of Sagar Parikrama Yatra, an initiative of the Government of India, was started from:

Correct — D, Gujarat. Sagar Parikrama is a coastal outreach programme of the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, in which the minister and departmental officials travel along the coast meeting fishing communities, explaining the schemes available to them and hearing their difficulties at first hand. The first phase was flagged off on 5 March 2022 from Mandvi in Kutch, at the memorial to Shyamji Krishna Varma, and ran along the Gujarat coast to Porbandar the following day. Later phases continued southward from Gujarat into Maharashtra and beyond, but the journey began in Gujarat.

• (a)Andaman and Nicobar Islands — The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are important in Indian fisheries and in the blue-economy discussion, but the programme is a coastal road journey and it did not start there.
• (b)Maharashtra — Maharashtra featured in later phases of the programme, once it had moved south along the western seaboard, but not in the first.
• (c)Karnataka — Karnataka lies further down the same coast and belongs to a later stage of the same sequence.

Sagar Parikrama was conceived as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav commemorations and is aimed at the fishing communities of the coastal States and Union Territories. Its stated purposes are to carry information about departmental schemes, particularly the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana and the Kisan Credit Card as extended to fishers, directly to the people meant to use them, to show solidarity with fishers and fish farmers, and to promote responsible and sustainable marine fishing alongside the protection of marine ecosystems.

A name collision is worth flagging, because it catches candidates every year and this very paper exploits it elsewhere. Sagar Parikrama is a fisheries outreach programme along India's own coast. Navika Sagar Parikrama is something else entirely — the Indian Navy's circumnavigation of the globe by women officers aboard the sailing vessel Tarini, first in 2017 and 2018 and again in 2024 and 2025. Both names translate as a circuit of the sea, both are Government of India initiatives, and they belong to different ministries and different worlds. Read the full name before answering.

• Sagar Parikrama is run by the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
• Phase I was launched on 5 March 2022 from Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, and concluded at Porbandar on 6 March.
• The programme carries information on the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana and on the extension of Kisan Credit Card facilities to fishers.
• Later phases moved down the western seaboard through Gujarat into Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.
• Navika Sagar Parikrama is a separate and unrelated initiative — the Indian Navy's global circumnavigation by women officers.

• Confusing Sagar Parikrama with Navika Sagar Parikrama, which belongs to the Navy.
• Assuming a maritime programme must have begun from a naval station rather than a fishing harbour.
• Attaching the programme to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; fisheries is a separate ministry.

As a straight location question about the launch of a named government initiative, where the real work is separating two similarly named programmes.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Sagar Parikrama is an initiative of which ministry?

  • (a)Ministry of Defence
  • (b)Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
  • (c)Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
  • (d)Ministry of Earth Sciences

  Answer(b) Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying — through its Department of Fisheries.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana is concerned with

  • (a)fisheries and aquaculture development
  • (b)coastal shipping
  • (c)port modernisation
  • (d)offshore wind energy

  Answer(a) fisheries and aquaculture development.