The National Programme launched on October 10, 2019 by the Indian Government to encourage talented children to enrich their skills is

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Correct — C, DHRUV. Formally the Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme (PMILP), DHRUV was launched by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (renamed the Ministry of Education in 2020) in October 2019 to identify exceptionally talented school children and mentor them so that they can reach their full potential. The first batch had 60 students drawn from classes 9 to 12 in both government and private schools — 30 in Science and 30 in Performing Arts — attached to expert mentors. The programme is named after the Pole Star (Dhruv tara), and the selected children are called 'Dhruv Taras'.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) 'Lakshya' means goal or target and is a name the government has used for other initiatives, but it is not the talent-nurturing programme launched in October 2019 — that one is DHRUV.  (b) The most tempting option, because 'pratibha' literally means talent and the question is about talented children. But the acronym-style name actually given to the Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme is DHRUV, after the Pole Star — not PRATIBHA.  (d) 'Parivartan' means change or transformation; it is not the name of the October 2019 school-talent programme.

Concept: DHRUV belongs to the 'gifted-child' strand of Indian education policy — programmes that do not build schools or pay fees but instead give already-outstanding students structured mentorship. The design is deliberately narrow: a very small cohort (60 in the first batch), a two-stream split between Science and Performing Arts, and pairing with accomplished mentors rather than classroom teaching. The name is the teaching device — Dhruv is the Pole Star, the fixed point by which others navigate, and the students are 'Dhruv Taras'.

State PCS 2019 Q2 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

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