SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 23 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 15 of 97

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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The government of which of the following states allocated ₹11,728 crore for the Aasara pension scheme in its annual budget for the fiscal year 2022-23?

(a)Telangana
(b)Odisha
(c)Chhattisgarh
(d)Gujarat

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Aasara is Telangana's social security pension scheme, paying a monthly pension to categories such as old-age persons, widows and persons with disability.

The scheme name carries the answer. Aasara is a Telangana programme, so the ₹11,728 crore the question quotes for 2022-23 is a Telangana budget allocation. You are being asked to place a scheme, not to remember a figure.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Odisha — Odisha's state pension line is the Madhu Babu Pension Yojana. Odisha runs no scheme called Aasara, and the scheme name is the whole identifier here.
(c)
Chhattisgarh — Chhattisgarh runs no scheme of this name. Aasara is a Telugu word for support, which itself points at a Telugu-speaking state rather than at Chhattisgarh.
(d)
Gujarat — Gujarat is a distractor by budget size, not by scheme. Gujarat's welfare pensions carry different names, and Aasara is not one of them.

Concept

State budget questions are set on welfare schemes because each state attaches a distinctive name to a familiar function — old-age and widow pensions, farm support, girl-child incentives.

You are not expected to carry the rupee figure in your head. You are expected to map the name to its home state, which is why the item works whichever year's allocation is quoted in the stem.

This card does not verify the ₹11,728 crore independently — it is the figure the question supplies. The item turns on the state behind the scheme, and that is what the key marks.

Key facts

Aasara is Telangana's social security pension scheme, paying monthly pensions to categories such as old-age persons, widows and persons with disability.
Odisha's comparable state pension programme is called the Madhu Babu Pension Yojana.
Aasara is a Telugu word meaning support or shelter.

Study next

State welfare schemes and the states that run themCentral old-age support under the National Social Assistance ProgrammeTelangana's flagship schemes such as Rythu Bandhu

Common traps

Guessing by the size of a state's budget instead of by the scheme's name
Assuming a Hindi-belt state when the scheme name is a Telugu word

Welfare schemes are asked in both directions — name the state behind a scheme, or name the scheme behind a purpose.

The second form appears at 23 Sep 2024, 12:30, General Awareness Q.10, keyed to Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan for old-age protection of unorganised workers.

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