MPPSC 2026 Prelims Paper-I · Question 45 of 100

Correct — C, Dhar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide 'Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan' — a women's health campaign — from Dhar in Madhya Pradesh on 17 September 2025, the day the fortnight-long Seva Pakhwada began. On the same Dhar visit he laid the foundation stone of the PM MITRA mega textile park at Bhainsola, which is why the district was in the news twice over that day.

• (a)Bhopal — The state capital is the default guess for any MP launch, but this campaign was launched from Dhar, not Bhopal.
• (b)Indore — Indore is MP's commercial capital and repeated Swachh Survekshan topper; it was not the venue for this campaign's launch.
• (d)Ujjain — Ujjain is associated with the Mahakal Lok corridor the Prime Minister inaugurated in October 2022 — a different event and a different year.

'Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan' (Healthy Woman, Empowered Family) is a nationwide women's health campaign led by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with the Ministry of Women and Child Development. It runs health check-up camps for women and adolescent girls at Ayushman Arogya Mandirs and other health facilities, with screening for anaemia, non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, and the common cancers, alongside nutrition and awareness activity. Its premise is preventive: a woman's health status shapes the health of the whole household.

Scheme-launch questions have three answerable axes — the date, the launch venue and the implementing ministry. For this one the venue is the axis, and the memory hook is that the same day's Dhar visit also carried the PM MITRA textile-park foundation stone, tying 'Dhar' to 17 September 2025 twice. Do not let 'a big MP announcement must be from Bhopal' override the actual venue.

• Launched on 17 September 2025 from Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, by the Prime Minister
• Launched at the start of the Seva Pakhwada, the fortnight running up to 2 October
• Focus: health check-ups and screening for women and adolescent girls, including anaemia, NCDs and common cancers, at Ayushman Arogya Mandirs and camps
• Led by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare along with the Ministry of Women and Child Development
• On the same Dhar visit, the PM laid the foundation stone of the PM MITRA mega textile park at Bhainsola, Dhar

• Guessing Bhopal because it is the state capital
• Confusing this campaign with Beti Bachao Beti Padhao or Mission Shakti — this one is a health-screening drive, not an education or safety scheme
• Mixing up the launch date with 2 October, which is when the Seva Pakhwada ends, not when the campaign began

MPPSC asks the launch place/date of the newest central campaigns; UPSC instead asks what the scheme covers — the ministry, target group and the components — so learn both faces.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The PM MITRA mega textile park in Madhya Pradesh is being set up in which district?

  • (a)Ujjain
  • (b)Dhar
  • (c)Ratlam
  • (d)Sagar

  Answer(b) Dhar — the park is coming up at Bhainsola in Dhar district, whose foundation stone was laid in September 2025.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  'Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan' is primarily a campaign for:

  • (a)Health check-ups and screening of women and adolescent girls
  • (b)Cash incentives for the girl child's education
  • (c)Credit linkage for women's self-help groups
  • (d)Maternity benefit for the first live birth

  Answer(a) Health check-ups and screening of women and adolescent girls — a preventive women's health drive run through the health system.