Which one among the following is not identified as one of the 'Engines of Development' in the Union Budget, 2025–26?

Correct — A, Textiles. The Union Budget 2025-26 set out its framework in a single sentence — "our four powerful engines are: Agriculture, MSME, Investment, and Exports" — with reforms as the fuel, inclusivity as the guiding spirit and Viksit Bharat as the destination. Textiles is not among the four. The Budget did carry textile measures, including a cotton productivity mission and customs relief on some textile machinery, but those sit inside the engines rather than beside them. Agriculture, investment and exports are each named in the list, so the item that does not belong is textiles.

• (b)Agriculture — Agriculture is the first of the four engines and the Budget grouped its rural and farm announcements under it.
• (c)Investment — Investment is the third engine, covering investment in people, in the economy and in innovation.
• (d)Export — Exports is the fourth engine, carrying the export promotion mission and trade facilitation measures.

The engines-of-development framing is how the Union Budget 2025-26 organised its own proposals: four engines — agriculture, micro small and medium enterprises, investment and exports — powered by reforms and aimed at a developed India by 2047. The Budget also listed ten broad areas for transformative action, including manufacturing, employment-led development, energy security and innovation, and six domains for reform beginning with taxation and the power sector.

Framework questions are pure recall, but the recall is made easier by noticing what kind of things the four engines are. Each is a broad sector or macroeconomic driver — a whole segment of the economy or a demand component — while textiles is a single industry. A list that mixes agriculture, small enterprise, investment and exports with one named industry is announcing its odd item. The same test disposes of similar questions on the Budget's ten focus areas: any option that is narrower in kind than the rest is usually the intruder.

• The Union Budget 2025-26 named four engines of development: agriculture, MSME, investment and exports.
• Reforms were described as the fuel, inclusivity as the guiding spirit and Viksit Bharat as the destination.
• Textiles received specific measures in the Budget but was not one of the four engines.
• The Budget also listed ten broad areas for transformative action, including manufacturing and employment-led development.
• Six domains were identified for reform, beginning with taxation and the power sector.

• Marking a sector that received Budget attention as though attention made it an engine.
• Confusing the four engines with the ten broad areas of transformative action.
• Assuming manufacturing is one of the engines because the Budget also announced a manufacturing mission.

Asked as an odd-one-out on a named Budget framework, where three options are economy-wide drivers and the fourth is a single industry.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  In the Union Budget 2025-26 framing, what was described as the fuel for the four engines of development?

  • (a)Reforms
  • (b)Capital expenditure
  • (c)Foreign investment
  • (d)Digital public infrastructure

  Answer(a) Reforms — with inclusivity as the guiding spirit and Viksit Bharat as the destination.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Which of these is one of the four engines of development named in the Union Budget 2025-26?

  • (a)Tourism
  • (b)MSME
  • (c)Mining
  • (d)Health

  Answer(b) MSME — alongside agriculture, investment and exports.