SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 24 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 22 of 100

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 10 September 2026.

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The 'Make in India' initiative primarily focuses on which sector?

(a)Agriculture
(b)Import
(c)Service
(d)Manufacturing

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Make in India was launched on 25 September 2014 with one stated purpose: to make India a global hub for manufacturing, design and innovation.

Its instruments all point the same way — foreign investment rules, industrial licensing and the ease of doing business for producers. That is secondary-sector work, and the sector the launch named is option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Agriculture — Agriculture is the primary sector and has its own programme family. Make in India's investment and licensing reforms are aimed at factories, not at farms.
(b)
Import — Import is the opposite of the intent. The initiative exists to have goods produced at home that the country would otherwise buy from abroad.
(c)
Service — Services already form the largest part of India's output. The gap the initiative was written to close is in manufacturing, which is the sector it names.

Concept

An economy is read in three sectors: primary (agriculture, mining), secondary (manufacturing, construction) and tertiary (services). India's unusual path is that services grew large before manufacturing did.

Make in India, launched in September 2014, is the policy answer to that gap. It gathers reforms on investment rules, licensing, infrastructure and ease of doing business behind the goal of making the country a manufacturing destination.

The nodal department is the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Read the verb in the stem. 'Primarily focuses on' asks for the sector the initiative was written for, not every sector it touches — Make in India reaches services and infrastructure as well, but manufacturing is the purpose the launch stated.

Key facts

Make in India was launched on 25 September 2014.
Its stated aim is to make India a global hub for manufacturing, design and innovation.
Manufacturing is the secondary sector, agriculture the primary and services the tertiary.
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is the nodal department for the initiative.

Study next

Make in India: the sectors it covers and the reforms it gathers togetherPrimary, secondary and tertiary sectors and India's share of output in eachStartup India, Stand Up India and Digital India: what each one is actually for

Common traps

Answering services because services are the largest part of India's economy.
Treating Make in India as a scheme that disburses money, when it is a policy and promotion umbrella.
Reading the initiative as an export programme rather than a production one.

SSC asks the government's flagship initiatives by launch year and by purpose — 12 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.3 asks the year the Digital India mission was launched, and 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.8 asks the primary objective of the 'Standup India' initiative, as that paper spells it.

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