SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 11 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 11 of 95

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In which year was the PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission launched?

(a)2022
(b)2020
(c)2023
(d)2021

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission was announced in the Union Budget for 2021-22, presented in February 2021, and launched by the Prime Minister at Varanasi on 25 October of the same year.

It is a health systems mission — district public health laboratories, critical care blocks, surveillance and public health units — and not an insurance scheme → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
2022 — 2022 is a year late. By then the mission was already being implemented under the outlay announced in the 2021-22 Budget, so nothing was launched that year.
(b)
2020 — 2020 predates the mission entirely — it had not been announced. Central health spending that year ran through the COVID-19 emergency response package, a separate measure.
(c)
2023 — 2023 is two years after the launch and marks nothing in this mission's timeline. It is picked by candidates who date a scheme from when they first heard of it.

Concept

Ayushman Bharat is a family of programmes, not one scheme, and SSC tests whether you can keep them apart.

The health and wellness centres and PM-JAY, the insurance arm, both date from 2018. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, which builds health IDs and records, was rolled out nationally in 2021.

PM-ABHIM, also of 2021, is the infrastructure arm: it pays for laboratories, critical care blocks and disease surveillance capacity rather than for treatment. Same brand, different instrument.

The mission was announced in the Budget under the name PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana and renamed before launch, so both names refer to the same 2021 programme.

Key facts

PM-ABHIM was announced in the Union Budget for 2021-22 as the PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, with an outlay of about Rs 64,180 crore over six years.
It was launched at Varanasi on 25 October 2021.
PM-JAY, the insurance arm of Ayushman Bharat, was launched at Ranchi on 23 September 2018.
PM-ABHIM funds health infrastructure such as integrated public health laboratories in districts and critical care hospital blocks.

Study next

The Ayushman Bharat family: health and wellness centres, PM-JAY, the Digital Mission and PM-ABHIMThe National Health Mission and the Fifteenth Finance Commission's health grantsBudget announcements that later became named central missions

Common traps

Answering with 2018, the year of PM-JAY, because both carry the Ayushman Bharat name.
Dating a scheme from the year it was in the news rather than from its launch.

Launch-year recall is a standing SSC pattern, and the schemes rotate. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana is dated on 18 Sep 2024, 09:00, General Awareness Q.15, the Atal Innovation Mission on 25 Sep 2024, 09:00, General Awareness Q.7.

Digital India is dated on 12 Sep 2024, 12:30, General Awareness Q.3. Carry a dated list of the major central missions rather than revising them one at a time.

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