Which state Chief Minister launched the 'Kaushalya Matritva Yojana' in 2022, which provides financial assistance of ₹5,000 to women giving birth to a second girl child for safe motherhood?

Correct — C. Kaushalya Matritva Yojana is a Chhattisgarh government scheme launched in 2022, paying ₹5,000 to a mother on the birth of a second girl child.

The stated purpose is safe motherhood and nourishment after the birth, so the money follows the delivery rather than the pregnancy, and it is aimed squarely at families that already have one daughter.

Bhupesh Baghel was Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh through 2022 → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Rajasthan — Rajasthan did not launch this scheme. Neither its name nor its second-daughter design points there, and the announcement came from the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister.
• (b)
  Uttar Pradesh — Uttar Pradesh has no Kaushalya Matritva Yojana. It is a plausible substitute only because it is the state most often in the news, which is what the option trades on.
• (d)
  Gujarat — Gujarat did not launch it either. The name honours Mata Kaushalya, an identity Chhattisgarh has built on deliberately, and that link is the clue rather than the size of the state.

State governments run their own maternity and girl-child transfers alongside central ones, and SSC asks them as scheme-to-state matching.

The usable method is to read the scheme's name for a regional signal before guessing. Kaushalya is the mother of Rama, and Chhattisgarh presents itself as Rama's maternal home, developing the Mata Kaushalya temple at Chandkhuri near Raipur.

The second feature to read is the condition attached to the money: this one pays on the birth of a second girl child, which is a specific design choice about sex ratio, not a general maternity benefit.

Key facts

• Kaushalya Matritva Yojana is a Chhattisgarh scheme paying ₹5,000 to a mother on the birth of a second girl child.
• It was launched in 2022, when Bhupesh Baghel was Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
• Chhattisgarh has developed the Mata Kaushalya temple at Chandkhuri near Raipur as part of its Rama-related tourism circuit.

Common traps

• Confusing this with the central Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, which pays ₹5,000 for the first living child.
• Reading Kaushalya as a generic Sanskrit name with no regional anchor and then guessing the largest state.
• Mistaking a one-time birth grant for a girl-child education transfer paid in instalments over years.

No directly related past PYQ was found.