On the basis of 'one district one product' programme in Uttar Pradesh, which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ?

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Correct — B, Baghpat – Wooden Toys. Under Uttar Pradesh's One District One Product programme, Baghpat's notified product is HOME FURNISHING — the district's handloom units make bed sheets, table covers and runners, curtains, kitchen towels and cushion covers, and it is that cluster the scheme supports. Wooden toys belong to a different district: CHITRAKOOT, a forested Bundelkhand district with a large toy-carving artisan base, is the ODOP wooden-toys district. The other three pairs are all correctly matched — Amethi with moonj (moonz) products, Gautam Buddh Nagar with readymade garments and Agra with leather products — so (b) is the only mismatch and the answer to a 'NOT correctly matched' stem.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched, so it cannot be the answer. Moonj (spelt 'moonz' in the paper) is coiled basketry worked from wild moonj grass, and Amethi is one of the districts for which it is the notified ODOP product — Sultanpur is the other. UPPSC set exactly this pairing again in its 2025 paper.  (c) Correctly matched, so it cannot be the answer. Gautam Buddh Nagar — the Noida and Greater Noida district — carries readymade garments as its ODOP product, resting on the large apparel-export cluster that grew there from the 1980s.  (d) Correctly matched, so it cannot be the answer. Agra is one of India's largest footwear and leather-goods clusters and leather products is its notified ODOP item. This is the pair most candidates are sure of, which is precisely why the examiner puts it in the set.

Concept: One District One Product is a Uttar Pradesh government programme, launched in January 2018, that identifies a single traditional or dominant product for every district of the State and concentrates support on it — common facility centres, design and marketing help, margin-money and toolkit assistance to artisans, and a branded push into e-commerce and export markets. The idea is that a district's craft is already a cluster, with skills, supply chains and a labour pool in place, so public money spent on one product goes further than the same money spread thin. The model was later picked up nationally: the Centre folded an ODOP approach into the Districts as Export Hubs initiative and into the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises scheme, which selects one food product per district.

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