How did Madhya Pradesh perform in the assessment of states for Business Reforms Action Plan 2020?
- (a)Madhya Pradesh was rated as 'Under Achievers'.
- (b)Madhya Pradesh was rated as 'Top Achievers'.
- (c)Madhya Pradesh was not rated in the assessment.
- (d)Madhya Pradesh was rated as 'Achievers'.
Correct — D, Madhya Pradesh was rated as 'Achievers'. The Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) is DPIIT's (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) periodic assessment of how far Indian states have implemented a prescribed set of ease-of-doing-business reforms. In the BRAP 2020 round, Madhya Pradesh was placed in the 'Achievers' performance category.
- (a)Madhya Pradesh was rated as 'Under Achievers'. — Wrong direction — MP was grouped among the stronger-performing reform states, not a weaker 'under achiever' bracket.
- (b)Madhya Pradesh was rated as 'Top Achievers'. — Close, but MP's recorded BRAP 2020 category was 'Achievers', not a separate 'Top Achievers' label.
- (c)Madhya Pradesh was not rated in the assessment. — MP was in fact assessed and placed in a category — it was not excluded from the BRAP 2020 exercise.
BRAP is run by DPIIT (Ministry of Commerce & Industry) to benchmark state-level ease-of-doing-business reforms — covering areas like land administration, labour regulation, environment clearances and single-window systems. It groups states into performance tiers (such as 'Top Achievers', 'Achievers', 'Aspirers') based on how much of the prescribed reform checklist each state has implemented, and is distinct from the World Bank's now-discontinued global 'Doing Business' country ranking.
The options test whether the student knows BRAP is a distinct, DPIIT-run, state-level exercise and can recall the specific category MP fell into for the 2020 round, rather than just knowing 'MP did well' in general.
- BRAP = Business Reforms Action Plan, conducted by DPIIT
- Distinct from the World Bank's global 'Ease of Doing Business' country ranking
- States are grouped into reform-performance categories (e.g. Achievers) based on implementation scores
- Madhya Pradesh was placed in the 'Achievers' category for BRAP 2020
MPPSC tested exact recall of MP's BRAP 2020 category — 'Achievers', not 'Top Achievers' or 'Under Achievers'.
- Confusing DPIIT's state-level BRAP with the World Bank's country-level Doing Business Report
- Assuming 'Achievers' is a weak rating — it is one of the stronger performance categories
MPPSC likes precise recall of MP's category/rank in national assessments (BRAP, NITI Aayog indices) — expect the exact label tested, not just 'MP did well'.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP), used to assess ease-of-doing-business reforms across Indian states, is conducted by which central body?
- (a)NITI Aayog
- (b)DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)
- (c)Ministry of Finance
- (d)Reserve Bank of India
Answer(b) DPIIT — the nodal department for the Business Reforms Action Plan.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The World Bank's global 'Ease of Doing Business' country ranking, once widely cited alongside India's BRAP state rankings, was discontinued in which year?
- (a)2019
- (b)2020
- (c)2021
- (d)2022
Answer(c) 2021 — the World Bank discontinued the Doing Business report after an internal review found data irregularities.