In Madhya Pradesh, the self-employment scheme for tribals is run in the name of:

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UnlockIAS · Accepted Answer

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.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) A historical Gond king — husband of Rani Durgavati of Garha-Katanga — not the namesake of any MP tribal self-employment scheme.  (d) 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.

Concept: 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).

State PCS 2024 Q29 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2024 Q29 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer