What is the key product under the "One District One Product" initiative for Chhatarpur ?
- (a)Tomato
- (b)Cotton
- (c)Wooden furniture
- (d)Handloom textiles
Correct — C, wooden furniture. Under Madhya Pradesh's One District One Product (ODOP) mapping, the product notified for Chhatarpur district is wooden furniture. ODOP works by picking one signature product per district — a crop, a craft or a manufactured item that already carries the district's economic identity — and then concentrating branding, skilling, credit, packaging and market/export support on it. For Chhatarpur, in the Bundelkhand region, that pick is the district's wood-working and furniture cluster rather than any agricultural produce.
- (a)Tomato — Not Chhatarpur's notified product. Chhatarpur lies in the semi-arid Bundelkhand belt of northern Madhya Pradesh and is not one of the state's tomato-growing clusters; its ODOP pick is a manufactured wood product, not a horticultural crop.
- (b)Cotton — Cotton belongs to a different agro-climatic zone of Madhya Pradesh — the Nimar belt in the south-west, where Khargone led the state in cotton production (a fact MPPSC itself keyed in 2023). Bundelkhand is not cotton country.
- (d)Handloom textiles — Madhya Pradesh's handloom identity sits with other districts — Chanderi sarees with Ashoknagar and Maheshwari sarees with Khargone, both of which MPPSC keyed as those districts' distinctive products in 2024. Handloom is a genuine MP district-product tag, just not Chhatarpur's.
One District One Product identifies a single signature product for every district and channels promotion behind it — branding, skill training, common facility centres, credit linkage, packaging and export facilitation. It is run in convergence with DPIIT's 'Districts as Export Hubs' initiative, and for food products with the Ministry of Food Processing Industries' PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) scheme. Madhya Pradesh has notified an ODOP product for each of its districts, and the list deliberately mixes farm produce, handicrafts and handlooms.
ODOP questions are pure recall, but they are partly guessable, because the commissions pick products that are already a district's known economic identity — and because MP's most famous product tags are firmly attached to other districts. Cotton is Nimar (Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani); handloom is Chanderi (Ashoknagar) and Maheshwar (Khargone). Eliminating those two leaves a crop-versus-craft choice for a Bundelkhand district, and the key is the craft.
- ODOP selects one signature product per district and concentrates branding, skilling, credit and export support on it.
- It runs in convergence with DPIIT's 'Districts as Export Hubs' initiative and, for food products, the MoFPI PMFME scheme.
- Chhatarpur district (Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh) — ODOP product: wooden furniture.
- Other well-known MP district-product tags include Chanderi sarees (Ashoknagar), Maheshwari sarees (Khargone) and garlic (Mandsaur) — all keyed by MPPSC in 2024.
- ODOP lists are revised from time to time — answer from the state's current notified list, not from an old handout.
- Do not reason from a district's tourism fame to its ODOP product; Chhatarpur is famous for Khajuraho, but its ODOP is wooden furniture.
- Chanderi and Maheshwari are the handloom tags of Ashoknagar and Khargone respectively, not of Chhatarpur.
MPPSC asks district ↔ product either as a one-line recall question (as here in 2025) or as a four-pair matching set (2024). UPSC does not test state ODOP lists, so treat this strictly as state-specific recall for the MP paper.
Match the following districts of Madhya Pradesh with their unique product and choose the correct option: (1) Ashoknagar – (i) Bananas (2) Khargone – (ii) Maheshwari Sarees and Tiger Print (3) Burhanpur – (iii) Chanderi Sarees (4) Mandsaur – (iv) Garlic
- (a) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
- (b) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
- (c) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
- (d) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Answer(b) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
The same MP district ↔ signature product concept, asked one year earlier as a four-pair match; three of its four pairs are the elimination evidence used here.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The One District One Product approach is used for micro food-processing enterprises under which central scheme?
- (a)PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME)
- (b)PMEGP
- (c)PMKVY
- (d)PMAY-Gramin
Answer(a) PMFME — the Ministry of Food Processing Industries scheme that adopts the ODOP approach for micro food enterprises.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Chanderi sarees, one of Madhya Pradesh's best-known handloom products, are associated with which district?
- (a)Ashoknagar
- (b)Chhatarpur
- (c)Shahdol
- (d)Balaghat
Answer(a) Ashoknagar — Chanderi town in Ashoknagar district; Maheshwari sarees belong to Khargone.