‘Adi Karmyogi Beta Version – A Responsive Governance Initiative’ was launched by which of the following ministry in June 2025 ?
1. Ministry of AYUSH
2. Ministry of Women and Child Development
3. Minis

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‘Adi Karmyogi Beta Version – A Responsive Governance Initiative’ was launched by which of the following ministry in June 2025 ?
1. Ministry of AYUSH
2. Ministry of Women and Child Development
3. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
4. Ministry of Tribal Affairs
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Correct — C, Only 4 — the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. 'Adi Karmyogi Beta Version — A Responsive Governance Initiative' was launched by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs at 'Adi Anveshan', a two-day national conference held in New Delhi on 26 and 27 June 2025. The programme's logic follows directly from the ministry's own diagnosis of tribal development: the shortfall in tribal areas is not a shortage of schemes but a shortage of delivery and motivation on the ground. Adi Karmyogi therefore targets the field-level machinery rather than the beneficiary — the ministry set out to sensitise and train a cadre of more than twenty lakh functionaries working across roughly one lakh tribal villages and habitations, supported by a digital platform for two-way communication, tracking of benefits, grievance redressal and data-driven decisions. The 'Adi' prefix is itself the tell: it is the Ministry of Tribal Affairs' signature, running through Adi Karmyogi, Adi Anveshan, Adi Vaani and Adi Sanskriti. As of the October 2025 exam the platform was, as its name says, at the beta stage.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Neither ministry is involved. The Ministry of AYUSH administers Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy, and has no mandate over tribal governance. The Ministry of Women and Child Development runs Mission Poshan 2.0, Mission Shakti and Mission Vatsalya. There is also a structural signal: the stem asks which ministry launched the initiative, in the singular, so any option naming two ministries is already at odds with the question.  (b) This is the real trap of the question, because the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment looks plausible. But its charge is Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, senior citizens, persons with disabilities and de-notified and nomadic communities. Scheduled Tribes were carved out of its portfolio in 1999, when the Ministry of Tribal Affairs was created as a separate ministry precisely to give tribal development a dedicated home. Anything addressed to tribal villages and tribal functionaries therefore belongs to Tribal Affairs, not Social Justice.  (d) The Ministry of AYUSH alone, which is further from the mark than any other option here. AYUSH deals with the traditional systems of medicine; it has no role in tribal governance, in training field functionaries, or in the digital delivery platform that Adi Karmyogi is built around.

Concept: The Ministry of Tribal Affairs was created in 1999 by bifurcating the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, and is the nodal ministry of the Union Government for the overall policy, planning and coordination of programmes for Scheduled Tribes. It is also the nodal ministry for the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. Its recent work has shifted from launching fresh schemes to making existing ones actually reach tribal habitations, and Adi Karmyogi, launched in June 2025, is the clearest expression of that shift: it is a capacity-building and responsive-governance programme aimed at the officials and field workers who deliver, not at a new entitlement.

State PCS 2025 Q114 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2025 Q114 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer