In Madhya Pradesh, the self-employment scheme for tribals is run in the name of:
- (a)Dalpat Shah
- (b)Tantya Bhil
- (c)Birsa Munda
- (d)Raghunath Shah
Correct — both B (Tantya Bhil) AND C (Birsa Munda) were accepted (grace). Madhya Pradesh runs two distinct tribal self-employment loan schemes named after tribal freedom fighters: the Tantya Bhil (Tantya Mama) Swarojgar Yojana and the Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self-Employment Scheme (launched 6 September 2022) — both provide subsidised loans to Scheduled Tribe youth to start their own businesses. Since the option set offered two genuinely-existing scheme names without specifying which one was intended, MPPSC accepted either answer.
- (a)Dalpat Shah — A historical Gond king — husband of Rani Durgavati of Garha-Katanga — not the namesake of any MP tribal self-employment scheme.
- (d)Raghunath Shah — A Gond leader martyred in the 1857 revolt at Jabalpur, honoured through a literary/cultural award (see Q28 in this set), not a self-employment loan scheme.
Madhya Pradesh names several of its tribal welfare schemes after tribal icons. For Scheduled Tribe self-employment specifically, TWO parallel loan schemes exist — one after Tantya Bhil (a Nimar-region Bhil rebel known as 'Tantya Mama', hanged by the British in 1889) and one after Bhagwan Birsa Munda (the Chotanagpur Munda leader of the 1899-1900 'Ulgulan' revolt, whose birth anniversary, 15 November, is observed nationally as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas).
The trap here is assuming only one such scheme exists; MP genuinely runs both in parallel for the same ST self-employment purpose — exactly why an option set offering both names forced MPPSC to grant credit for either.
- Tantya Bhil Swarojgar Yojana — MP loan scheme for ST youth, named after the Bhil rebel Tantya Bhil ('Tantya Mama').
- Bhagwan Birsa Munda Self-Employment Scheme — launched 6 September 2022, providing loans to ST youth with a state-borne interest subsidy.
- Birsa Munda led the 'Ulgulan' (Great Tumult) revolt of 1899-1900 in the Chotanagpur region against British rule.
- Tantya Bhil is NOT the same person as Tantia Tope, the 1857-revolt general — similarly-sounding names, but different eras and identities.
MPPSC's official key accepted BOTH Tantya Bhil and Birsa Munda — two real, parallel ST self-employment schemes.
- Confusing Tantya Bhil (MP Bhil rebel, self-employment scheme namesake) with Tantia Tope (1857 revolt general) — similar names, different people.
- Assuming only one MP tribal self-employment scheme exists, when two run in parallel.
MPPSC asks 'the scheme is named after whom' style questions on MP's tribal welfare schemes — know that some schemes intentionally share a purpose but differ in namesake, which can force a grace answer.
With reference to the history of India, "Ulgulan" or the Great Tumult is the description of which of the following events?
- (a) The Revolt of 1857
- (b) The Mappila Rebellion of 1921
- (c) The Indigo Revolt of 1859–60
- (d) Birsa Munda's Revolt of 1899–1900
Answer(d) Birsa Munda's Revolt of 1899–1900
Same core figure — Birsa Munda, whose 1899-1900 'Ulgulan' revolt against British rule is the same tribal leader after whom Madhya Pradesh's self-employment scheme (one of the two grace-accepted answers here) is named.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Janjatiya Gaurav Divas' is observed on 15 November each year to mark the birth anniversary of which tribal leader?
- (a)Tantya Bhil
- (b)Birsa Munda
- (c)Raghunath Shah
- (d)Dalpat Shah
Answer(b) Birsa Munda — his birth anniversary, 15 November, is observed nationally as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Birsa Munda's revolt of 1899-1900 against British authority in the Chotanagpur region is remembered by the name:
- (a)Ulgulan (the Great Tumult)
- (b)Santhal Hool
- (c)Rampa Rebellion
- (d)Bhil Uprising
Answer(a) Ulgulan (the Great Tumult).