Select the correct statements from the following about PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana.
(a) The Union Cabinet approved the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana on 16th July, 2025.
(b) The scheme identifies 100

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Select the correct statements from the following about PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana.
(a) The Union Cabinet approved the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana on 16th July, 2025.
(b) The scheme identifies 100 districts based on low productivity, low cropping intensity and less credit disbursement.
(c) The scheme will be governed through a four-tier implementation structure.

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Correct — option (1), 'Only (a), (b)'. Two of the three statements are straight from the scheme's announcement, and the third misstates its governance structure. Statement (a) is correct. The Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana was announced in the Union Budget for 2025-26 and approved by the Union Cabinet on 16 July 2025, as an umbrella programme running for six years from 2025-26. Statement (b) is correct and reproduces the selection criteria exactly. The scheme covers 100 districts, chosen on three indicators: low productivity, low cropping intensity and low credit disbursement. The design borrows openly from the Aspirational Districts Programme — instead of a new stream of money for a new activity, it identifies the places performing worst on measurable agricultural indicators and concentrates existing effort there, converging 36 existing schemes across 11 departments and also drawing on State schemes and private partnerships. Statement (c) is the false one, and it settles the question by itself. The governance architecture announced with the scheme is a three-level committee structure, not four: a committee at the national level, a nodal committee at the State level, and in each selected district a District Dhan-Dhaanya Samiti chaired by the District Collector and including progressive farmers alongside departmental officers. It is that district committee that prepares the District Agriculture and Allied Activities Plan around which the converging schemes are coordinated, with progress tracked on 117 key performance indicators reviewed monthly on a central dashboard. Because statement (c) fails, option (2) 'Only (b), (c)', option (3) 'Only (a), (c)' and option (4) 'All of the above' all fall with it. This is worth noting as a general habit for scheme questions: when a statement offers a number attached to an administrative structure — three-tier, four-tier, five-member, two-stage — that number is the falsifiable element, and it is where the examiner will usually have made the change.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) This accepts the false four-tier claim in statement (c) and additionally throws away statement (a), the approval date, which is correct — the Union Cabinet cleared the scheme on 16 July 2025. A candidate reaching this option has usually recognised the district-selection criteria, been unsure of the date, and treated the structural claim as the safer of the two.  (c) This keeps the false statement (c) and discards statement (b), the district-selection criteria, which is accurate: 100 districts identified on low productivity, low cropping intensity and low credit disbursement. Those three indicators are the core of the scheme's design, and any option that rejects them is rejecting the part of the announcement most likely to be examined.  (d) 'All of the above' is offered eleven times in this booklet, and the discipline for it never changes: it is correct only when every named statement survives inspection, and wrong the moment one fails. Here statement (c) fails, because the scheme's announced governance runs through committees at the national, State and district levels — three levels, not four — so the blanket option cannot stand however sound the other two statements are.

Concept: The Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana is a convergence scheme rather than a new subsidy. Its premise is that India's agricultural weakness is concentrated geographically: a set of districts persistently records low yields, grows fewer crops per year on the same land, and receives less institutional credit than the national average. Rather than launch fresh programmes, the scheme identifies 100 such districts on those three indicators and pulls 36 existing central schemes across 11 departments into a single district plan, adding State schemes and private partnerships where they fit. Its declared aims are to raise productivity, promote crop diversification and sustainable practices, strengthen post-harvest storage at the panchayat and block level, improve irrigation, and widen access to both long-term and short-term credit. The approach is directly modelled on the Aspirational Districts Programme, which established the method of ranking laggard districts on measurable indicators and publishing the comparison.

State PCS 2026 Q88 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

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