Which of the following statements with regard to the 'National Manufacturing Mission' is/are correct? 1. It covers small, medium and large industries. 2. It will support cleantech manufacturing. 3. It will facilitate promotion of employment opportunities in labour-intensive sectors. Select the answer using the code given below.

Correct — C, 1 and 2 only. Statements 1 and 2 are the Budget's own words. The Union Budget 2025-26 said the government "will set up a National Manufacturing Mission covering small, medium and large industries for furthering 'Make in India'", which is statement 1 exactly, and the very next paragraph said the Mission "will also support Clean Tech manufacturing", building the domestic ecosystem for solar photovoltaic cells, electric-vehicle batteries, motors and controllers, electrolysers, wind turbines and grid-scale batteries — statement 2. Statement 3 belongs to a different announcement. The Mission's mandate, set out in the Budget's own annexure and repeated in the official Budget highlights, has five focus areas: ease and cost of doing business, a future-ready workforce for in-demand jobs, a vibrant and dynamic MSME sector, availability of technology, and quality products. Employment in labour-intensive sectors is a separate head in the same Budget — "Measures for Labour-Intensive Sectors", with the footwear and leather focus product scheme and the toy sector scheme under it — and not part of the Mission's mandate.

• (a)1 only — Drops statement 2, but clean-tech manufacturing is stated in the Budget as something the Mission itself will support, and it appears in the official list of the Mission's focus areas.
• (b)2 only — Drops statement 1, which is the Budget's opening sentence on the Mission and the one attribute nobody disputes.
• (d)1, 2 and 3 — Adds statement 3. Employment promotion in labour-intensive sectors is real and is in the same Budget, but under its own heading with the footwear, leather and toy schemes — not inside the Manufacturing Mission's five-point mandate.

The National Manufacturing Mission was announced in the Union Budget 2025-26 as the instrument for taking 'Make in India' forward. It is designed as a coordinating mission rather than a spending scheme: it supplies policy support, execution roadmaps and a governance and monitoring framework for central ministries and states. Its published mandate runs to five focus areas, with clean-tech manufacturing added as a sixth strand in the official summary of the Budget, aimed at building domestic capacity in solar cells, batteries, electrolysers and wind turbines.

The trap here is proximity. The Budget speech puts a paragraph on labour-intensive sectors a few lines above the Manufacturing Mission paragraphs, and the two read as if they belong together. They do not: the Budget gives each its own heading, and only the Mission has a published mandate you can check statement by statement. When a statement-set item is drawn from a Budget, the discipline is to ask which heading each statement sits under, not whether the sentence is true of the Budget as a whole. The option pattern is a further hint — a set offering 1 only, 2 only, 1 and 2 only, and all three is usually asking you to test the third statement, because otherwise two of the four options do no work.

• The National Manufacturing Mission was announced in the Union Budget 2025-26 to further 'Make in India'.
• It covers small, medium and large industries and works through policy support, roadmaps and monitoring.
• Its mandate has five focus areas: ease and cost of doing business, a future-ready workforce, a vibrant MSME sector, availability of technology and quality products.
• The Mission also supports clean-tech manufacturing — solar cells, EV batteries, electrolysers, wind turbines and grid-scale batteries.
• Employment promotion in labour-intensive sectors is a separate Budget head carrying the footwear, leather and toy schemes.

• Reading an adjacent Budget paragraph as part of the scheme under discussion.
• Assuming a manufacturing mission must, by definition, carry the Budget's employment announcements.
• Forgetting that the Mission is a coordination framework rather than an outlay-backed scheme.

Asked as a three-statement code item built from a single Budget, where two statements are verbatim from the scheme's own paragraphs and the third is lifted from a neighbouring heading.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The National Manufacturing Mission announced in the Union Budget 2025-26 covers which industries?

  • (a)Micro enterprises only
  • (b)Small and medium industries only
  • (c)Small, medium and large industries
  • (d)Public sector undertakings only

  Answer(c) Small, medium and large industries — the Budget's own description of the Mission's coverage.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Which of these is part of the clean-tech manufacturing ecosystem the National Manufacturing Mission is to build?

  • (a)Solar photovoltaic cells and electrolysers
  • (b)Refinery catalytic crackers
  • (c)Thermal power boilers
  • (d)Nuclear fuel assemblies

  Answer(a) Solar photovoltaic cells and electrolysers — listed with EV batteries, wind turbines and grid-scale batteries.