Which of the following ministries launched the PM Daksh scheme?

Correct — C. PM-DAKSH is run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Its full name is Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi Yojana, a Central Sector scheme launched in 2020-21 to give short-term, NSQF-compliant skill training through empanelled training institutes.

The beneficiary list is what settles the ministry: Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, De-notified Tribes and Safai Karamcharis including waste pickers.

Those are precisely the constituencies that ministry exists to serve, which puts the scheme at option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology — MeitY's skilling work is digital literacy and the electronics industry, not the caste-and-occupation-targeted vocational training that defines PM-DAKSH.
• (b)
  Ministry of Education — Education owns the school and higher-education schemes — NIPUN Bharat, for instance — rather than a beneficiary-targeted skilling programme for SC, OBC, EWS, De-notified Tribe and Safai Karamchari groups.
• (d)
  Ministry of Food Processing Industries — Food Processing Industries runs infrastructure and value-chain schemes for the food industry. It has no mandate over the social-justice beneficiary categories PM-DAKSH is built around.

Central schemes are identified most reliably by who the beneficiary is, not by what the scheme does.

Skilling in India is spread across ministries. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship runs the general programme, while ministries with a defined constituency run their own version for it.

PM-DAKSH is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment's version.

It trains Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, De-notified Tribes and Safai Karamcharis in NSQF-compliant short courses, with a dedicated PM-DAKSH portal for enrolment.

Key facts

• PM-DAKSH stands for Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi Yojana.
• It is a Central Sector scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, launched in 2020-21.
• Its target groups are Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, De-notified Tribes and Safai Karamcharis including waste pickers.
• Training under the scheme is given in NSQF-compliant courses run by empanelled training institutes.

Common traps

• Choosing the Ministry of Skill Development because the scheme is about skills.
• Assuming a Hindi-acronym scheme belongs to whichever ministry the acronym describes. Here the acronym describes the beneficiary, not the department.
• Confusing PM-DAKSH with the e-Shram portal, which registers unorganised-sector workers under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

No directly related past PYQ was found.