Match the following items. List I → List II i. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme — a. 1994 ii. Mid-Day Meal Scheme — b. 2004 iii. The National Accreditation Assessment Council — c. 1945 iv. All India Council for Technical Education — d. 1995

Correct — C. The figure sets four education bodies and schemes against four years, and the pairing has to be known outright — nothing here can be worked out.

i. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme goes to b, 2004
ii. Mid-Day Meal Scheme goes to d, 1995
iii. The National Accreditation Assessment Council (NAAC) goes to a, 1994
iv. All India Council for Technical Education goes to c, 1945

That reads i (b), ii (d), iii (a), iv (c) → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  i (d), ii (a), iii (b), iv (c) — This pairs KGBV with 1995 and the Mid-Day Meal Scheme with 1994. Both are misplaced: 1995 is the Mid-Day Meal Scheme's year and KGBV belongs to 2004.
• (b)
  i (c), ii (d), iii (b), iv (a) — This sends 1945 to KGBV and 1994 to AICTE. 1945 is AICTE's own year, so the oldest date has been handed to the newest scheme.
• (d)
  i (b), ii (c), iii (d), iv (a) — Only i (b) is right here. The Mid-Day Meal Scheme goes to 1945, NAAC to 1995 and AICTE to 1994 — three of the four pairs misplaced.

The item is a founding-year match across two very different eras of Indian education policy.

The All India Council for Technical Education is the outlier at 1945 — set up before Independence as an advisory body for technical education, and made statutory only by an Act of Parliament in 1987.

The other three are post-1990 and cluster tightly. NAAC was set up in 1994 to assess and accredit higher-education institutions, the national Mid-Day Meal programme was launched on 15 August 1995, and KGBV followed in 2004 to run residential schools for girls in educationally backward blocks.

Key facts

• AICTE was set up in November 1945 as an advisory body and became statutory under the AICTE Act, 1987.
• NAAC was established in 1994 and is headquartered at Bengaluru.
• The centrally sponsored Mid-Day Meal Scheme was launched on 15 August 1995 as the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education.
• The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme began in 2004 for girls from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class, minority and below-poverty-line families.

Common traps

• Dating the Mid-Day Meal Scheme from Tamil Nadu's much earlier school-lunch programme instead of the 1995 national launch.
• Treating NAAC and AICTE as the same kind of body. NAAC accredits higher-education institutions broadly, AICTE deals with technical education.
• Stopping at the first pair that matches. Each wrong option here gets exactly one pair right, so a single match settles nothing.

No directly related past PYQ was found.