SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 12 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 15 of 99

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In August 2022, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment launched the ________ scheme, with an aim to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services to people engaged in begging in 75 municipalities.

(a)SMILE-75
(b)BEAM-75
(c)TWINKLE-75
(d)RISE-75

Answer

Why

Correct — A. SMILE stands for Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise, and the SMILE-75 Initiative was launched on 12 August 2022 by the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.

It named 75 Municipal Corporations — the stem calls them municipalities — for comprehensive rehabilitation of persons engaged in begging: identification, shelter, medical care, counselling, education and skill training.

The ministry, the month and the number 75 in the stem all point to option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
BEAM-75 — BEAM-75 is not a Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment scheme. The option works only by borrowing the -75 suffix from the real initiative.
(c)
TWINKLE-75 — TWINKLE-75 is a manufactured name. No central rehabilitation scheme for persons engaged in begging runs under it.
(d)
RISE-75 — RISE-75 is not this ministry's scheme either. The 75 in the real name comes from the 75 Municipal Corporations identified, not from the acronym.

Concept

SMILE is the ministry's umbrella scheme for two groups it treats together: transgender persons and persons engaged in begging.

SMILE-75 is the begging-rehabilitation arm, taken to 75 Municipal Corporations identified by the ministry, and it covers rescue, shelter, medical help, counselling and skilling towards a job or self-employment.

Scheme questions are a three-way match — the acronym, the ministry that owns it and the year. Learn all three together, because the paper gives you two and asks for the third.

The acronym is doing the teaching here: reading SMILE as Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise tells you which ministry it must belong to.

Key facts

SMILE expands to Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise.
The SMILE-75 Initiative was launched on 12 August 2022 by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
SMILE-75 covers 75 Municipal Corporations and aims at comprehensive rehabilitation of persons engaged in begging.
The SMILE scheme also carries the ministry's rehabilitation programme for transgender persons.

Study next

The two components of SMILE — transgender persons and persons engaged in beggingMinistry-to-scheme mapping for social-sector schemes such as PM DakshReading a scheme acronym for its expansion, which is often the whole answer

Common traps

All four options share the -75 suffix, so this is recognition rather than elimination.
The stem says municipalities while the initiative names Municipal Corporations, and the number 75 is the part worth holding.

This one is scheme-to-ministry, and the same ministry is the answer to which ministry launched PM Daksh, asked on 23 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.18.

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