MPPSC 2026 Prelims Paper-I · Question 86 of 100

Correct — B, 10. The Madhya Pradesh Industrial Promotion Policy 2025 was cleared by the state cabinet on 11 February 2025 and notified later the same month, deliberately timed for the Global Investors Summit held at Bhopal on 24-25 February 2025. Section 9 of the policy document, headed 'Sector Specific Policies', runs from sub-section 9.1 to 9.10 — ten strategies in all: agriculture, dairy and food processing; textiles; garment and apparel, footwear, toys and accessories; aerospace and defence production; pharmaceuticals; biotechnology; medical devices; electric-vehicle manufacturing; renewable-energy equipment manufacturing; and high value-added manufacturing. Each strategy carries its own tailored package of capital subsidy, operating-cost support, R&D assistance and export/freight help, instead of a single incentive menu for all industries.

• (a)9 — One short of the notified count. Nine is the answer you land on if you drop any single sector from the list — most often 'high value-added manufacturing', which sounds like a description rather than a named strategy, or 'medical devices', which is easily merged with pharmaceuticals.
• (c)11 — Over-counts by one. Eleven is what you get by counting the chapter that follows Section 9 — financial assistance for private industrial park developers — as though it were a sector strategy. It is a general enabler open to all sectors, not one of the ten.
• (d)12 — Over-counts by two, typically by adding both of the chapters that follow the sector section — private industrial park developers, and plug-and-play facilities for manufacturing and services. The sector list itself stops at 9.10.

Indian states now write industrial policy in two layers. The top layer is an umbrella policy that fixes the growth targets, the ease-of-doing-business machinery and the general incentives; under it sit sector-specific strategies that tune the incentive design to what a particular industry actually needs — a food-processing unit needs cold-chain and freight support, a pharmaceutical unit needs R&D and regulatory support, an EV plant needs plant-and-machinery subsidy. Madhya Pradesh's Industrial Promotion Policy 2025 follows exactly this shape, with ten such sector strategies. It also replaces multi-department approvals with single-window permissions, and sets headline economic goals: about 20 lakh jobs over five years, a GSDP of USD 305 billion by 2028-29 and a USD 2 trillion state economy by 2047.

This is pure recall of a number, so the safe way to hold it is by the list rather than the digit: ten strategies, and you should be able to name at least five of them (food processing, textiles, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, EV manufacturing). Anchor the whole package to one date-and-place pair — cabinet approval on 11 February 2025, Global Investors Summit at Bhopal on 24-25 February 2025 — because MPPSC asks the venue and the date of the same event in other years.

• Approved by the Madhya Pradesh cabinet on 11 February 2025 and notified the same month, ahead of the Global Investors Summit
• Global Investors Summit 2025 was held at Bhopal on 24-25 February 2025 (the 2023 edition was at Indore)
• Ten sector-specific strategies sit in Section 9 of the policy (sub-sections 9.1 to 9.10): agriculture/dairy & food processing, textiles, garment & apparel-footwear-toys-accessories, aerospace & defence production, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, EV manufacturing, renewable-energy equipment manufacturing, high value-add manufacturing
• Stated targets: about 20 lakh jobs over five years, GSDP of USD 305 billion by 2028-29, and a USD 2 trillion state economy by 2047
• Design feature: single-window permissions in place of approvals from multiple departments

• Confusing the Industrial Promotion Policy 2025 (the umbrella policy) with the Investment Promotion Scheme 2025 (the incentives)
• Assuming the policy was launched at the summit itself — the cabinet approved it on 11 February, before the 24-25 February summit
• Mixing up the summit venues: GIS 2023 was at Indore, GIS 2025 at Bhopal

MPPSC asks the count, the launch date or the venue of the newest state policy; UPSC takes the same territory and asks what such a policy is meant to do — incentive design, single-window clearance, and how states compete for investment.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Global Investors Summit 2025 of Madhya Pradesh was held in which city?

  • (a)Indore
  • (b)Bhopal
  • (c)Jabalpur
  • (d)Gwalior

  Answer(b) Bhopal — held on 24-25 February 2025; the 2023 edition had been held at Indore.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Madhya Pradesh Industrial Promotion Policy 2025 sets the target of making the state an economy of what size by 2047?

  • (a)USD 1 trillion
  • (b)USD 2 trillion
  • (c)USD 3 trillion
  • (d)USD 5 trillion

  Answer(b) USD 2 trillion by 2047, with an intermediate GSDP target of USD 305 billion by 2028-29.