Which of the following (Scheme - Year) is not correctly matched?

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Correct — C, "Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission - 2015" is the wrongly matched pair. The Union Cabinet approved the SPMRM (National Rurban Mission) on 16 September 2015, but it was formally launched by the Prime Minister on 21 February 2016 (at the Kurubhata/Murmunda cluster, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh). Its launch year is therefore 2016, not 2015, which makes this the odd pair out. The other three are correctly dated.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched, so it is NOT the answer. The Rural Housing Interest Subsidy Scheme (RHISS) was launched in 2017 to give an interest subsidy on housing loans for rural households outside the PMAY-Gramin/Indira Awaas beneficiary list.  (b) Correctly matched, so it is NOT the answer. Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) was launched on 11 October 2014 (birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan), under which each Member of Parliament develops model villages (Adarsh Grams).  (d) Correctly matched, so it is NOT the answer. DDU-GKY, the rural placement-linked skilling programme of the Ministry of Rural Development, was launched on 25 September 2014 (birth anniversary of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya).

Concept: The question tests the launch years of Ministry of Rural Development programmes. SAGY (2014, MP-led model villages), DDU-GKY (2014, rural skilling) and RHISS (2017, rural home-loan interest subsidy) are correctly paired. The Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission — which develops 'Rurban' clusters of villages with urban-like amenities while retaining the rural essence — was Cabinet-approved in 2015 but launched in 2016.

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